Halloween Hospital Horrors ALIEN WORLDS "Wasteland"

To Some Patients, the Most Terrifying Thing About Their Hospital Stay...

...is the poor choice of TV programming the hospital provides!

But when Fate offers some "alternative viewing"...

Scripted by Bruce Jones, and penciled/inked by Tom Yeates, this tale from Pacific Comics' Alien Worlds #5 (1983) combines a nightmare suffered by way too many hospital patients (myself included, during a recent stay) with the classic time travel trope of "don't change anything in the past, no matter how inconsequential, because..."
And if you have to ask "Does this really qualify as a Halloween Hospital Horror?"..well, it takes place in a hospital...and it's horrifying!

Besides, it's my blog!

Behind the Operating Theatre AMERICAN SPLENDOR: ON THE JOB! "Veterans' Rights"

We presented an X-Mas-themed tale from this one-shot title HERE...

...and here's another story of one man's crusade against the Veterans' Administration's bureaucratic incompetence!

There's a lot more to medicine than the stories about doctors, nurses, techs, and ambulance drivers handling life-or-death situations!

There are the stories about how the whole hospital/doctor's practice is kept operating by the people the patient doesn't see...or even know about...like file clerks!

Written by Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Frank Stack, this story from Dark Horse's one-shot American Splendor: On the Job (1997) is part of Pekar's multiple award-winning, long-running, autobiographical underground comic series American Splendor.

After doing a stint in the Navy, Harvey spent most of his adult life as a file clerk at the Veterans Administration Hospital in his native Cleveland, working there (even while, beginning in 1976, writing American Splendor) until his retirement in 2001, at which point, the slice-of-life comic series and related projects became his full-time gig.
He passed away in 2010 from an accidental overdose of antidepressants while dealing with a third diagnosis of cancer.
(He had already successfully-overcome the disease twice.)

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Xmas in the Emergency Room AMERICAN SPLENDOR: ON THE JOB! "Why Won't They Let Us Out?"

For those who work in support services in medical facilities...

...one tedious day is much like the other, even during the Yuletide season!

Written by Harvey Pekar and illustrated by Frank Stack, this story from Dark Horse's one-shot American Splendor: On the Job (1997) is part of Pekar's multiple award-winning, long-running, autobiographical underground comic series American Splendor.

After doing a stint in the Navy, Harvey spent most of his adult life as a file clerk at the Veterans Administration Hospital in his native Cleveland, working there (even while, beginning in 1976, writing American Splendor) until his retirement in 2001, at which point, the slice-of-life comic series and related projects became his full-time gig.
He passed away in 2010 from an accidental overdose of antidepressants while dealing with a third diagnosis of cancer.
(He had already successfully-overcome the disease twice.)

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HAPPY NEW YEAR