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I Luv Halloween #2
I Luv Halloween vol. 2
All your twisted favorites return, but this time they've brought along a few friends! The ghoulish Halloween adventures continue -- but what's this? The town has been overrun with zombies! Will the undead take a bite out of trick-or-treating forever?!
192 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2006
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Keith Giffen
1,941 books217 followersKeith Ian Giffen was an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is possibly best-known for his long runs illustrating, and later writing the Legion of Super-Heroes title in the 1980s and 1990s. He also created the alien mercenary character Lobo (with Roger Slifer), and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug. Giffen is known for having an unorthodox writing style, often using characters in ways not seen before. His dialogue is usually characterized by a biting wit that is seen as much less zany than dialogue provided by longtime collaborators DeMatteis and Robert Loren Fleming. That approach has brought him both criticism and admiration, as perhaps best illustrated by the mixed (although commercially successful) response to his work in DC Comics' Justice League International (1987-1992). He also plotted and was breakdown artist for an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with writer Robert Loren Fleming and artist Curt Swan for DC Comics.
Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom.
He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.
He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics's Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.
Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom.
He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.
He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics's Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.
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August 16, 2011
What on earth was that?!!
Sounds like something you would say to your husband when you pass through the den as he's watching tv, right?
This book is exactly the same way.
Just like the one before this volume of "I Luv Halloween" is definitely targeted to those who love kids cutting up zombies, blowing up things, and killing people just to get out of sticky situations. (there's also a great deal of poo poo in this book, too)
While I enjoyed the first book more than this one, in this volume the zombies really have taken over and have now taken Halloween away and Finch and gang just won't stand for that. There's also a couple of new characters that are quite interesting and of course Moochie, Finch's little sister is back. This time she has traded in her toothfairy outfit for a surgeon costume. (I have to admit what she does is disgusting!)
Older kids (and buy that I mean AT LEAST 15) would do fine with this book... and I'm sure kids as old as 13 would too but icks.... that's up to you if you want to let them read this. I for one am still a bit leary on letting my 9th grader read this series.
THere aren't any sexual exploits in this book but e-gads... MOOCHIE!! What Moochie does is what will make or break it for you in the decission on whether or not to let junior read this book.
(Moochie is convinced that there are Chonklit Monkeys eating poo pies in the zombies bums and she needs to cut out the pootie parts because they are -Unclean - )
Like I said... kinda gross... but still a great guilty pleasure.
I BE SPIKE!
Sounds like something you would say to your husband when you pass through the den as he's watching tv, right?
This book is exactly the same way.
Just like the one before this volume of "I Luv Halloween" is definitely targeted to those who love kids cutting up zombies, blowing up things, and killing people just to get out of sticky situations. (there's also a great deal of poo poo in this book, too)
While I enjoyed the first book more than this one, in this volume the zombies really have taken over and have now taken Halloween away and Finch and gang just won't stand for that. There's also a couple of new characters that are quite interesting and of course Moochie, Finch's little sister is back. This time she has traded in her toothfairy outfit for a surgeon costume. (I have to admit what she does is disgusting!)
Older kids (and buy that I mean AT LEAST 15) would do fine with this book... and I'm sure kids as old as 13 would too but icks.... that's up to you if you want to let them read this. I for one am still a bit leary on letting my 9th grader read this series.
THere aren't any sexual exploits in this book but e-gads... MOOCHIE!! What Moochie does is what will make or break it for you in the decission on whether or not to let junior read this book.
(Moochie is convinced that there are Chonklit Monkeys eating poo pies in the zombies bums and she needs to cut out the pootie parts because they are -Unclean - )
Like I said... kinda gross... but still a great guilty pleasure.
I BE SPIKE!
April 24, 2020
Still just really gross, so much just what the heck. Like how is there litterly no fallout from any of this stuff?? I keep thinking it will be revealed it's really hell, or something like that... The dialogue is also really repetitive in this one.
November 6, 2020
Like I have no clue how to even describe this fuc**d train ride into Trick or treat town lol. All the usual suspects are here along with some new and unusual friends. Zombies have taken over and ruined Trick or treating, so mayhem ensues and people get eaten...So now onto the next book lol 😂
October 27, 2022
I loved this book so much. If you haven't been able to read it you must and at Halloween would be better. I wish Mr Roman & Mr Giffen would put out more stories. This one is so twisted it a must read.🧡🖤🪦☠️👻💀⚰️
September 19, 2018
Not as great as the first one.
June 12, 2023
Again, the art is amazing in this book but the story is horrendous.
October 29, 2024
Like a 3.5
October 28, 2025
Considerably worse than the first and just not any fun at all.
June 17, 2015
I hated everything about this book. It was literally just gross humor and misogyny over and over again. And I usually love gross humor!
There is an entire bit where one character repeatedly refers to a side character as "damaged goods" all because she was medically infertile. This goes on for almost an entire chapter and actually made me want to cry. Thanks for labeling the worth of a woman by her ability to pump out babies. I'm sure your altar to the Duggar mother is almost complete.
One character is frequently referred to as "a retard", which is offensive on multiple levels. She's young and has odd ideas, but I really don't see why that merits the use of a word that is almost entirely seen as a slur now.
The art was boring, the storyline confusing, and the writing just plain bad. Between the literary failings and the utterly offensive content, I wish I could rate it lower. And then burn the book. I can literally think of nothing more fitting for this pile of absolute garbage.
There is an entire bit where one character repeatedly refers to a side character as "damaged goods" all because she was medically infertile. This goes on for almost an entire chapter and actually made me want to cry. Thanks for labeling the worth of a woman by her ability to pump out babies. I'm sure your altar to the Duggar mother is almost complete.
One character is frequently referred to as "a retard", which is offensive on multiple levels. She's young and has odd ideas, but I really don't see why that merits the use of a word that is almost entirely seen as a slur now.
The art was boring, the storyline confusing, and the writing just plain bad. Between the literary failings and the utterly offensive content, I wish I could rate it lower. And then burn the book. I can literally think of nothing more fitting for this pile of absolute garbage.
June 6, 2016
I actually finished with this book a whole lot faster than the first one. I think a lot of that had to do with the fact that almost half the fricken book is just written sounds. I like the idea that they decided to add a zombie apocalypse bit to it, but I don't know that it really helped the plot any. To me, the books seem kind of boring after a while. Like...On one hand, yes, they are kind of funny, but on the other hand, the plot doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. Honestly it just seems like it's a group of kids walking around aimlessly doing whatever they feel like for no reason whatsoever. I stand by what I said about the last book though, that the books do seem slightly like a crackaholic version of anything "Invader Zim" and "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac"
October 27, 2014
Worse than the first in a few ways. The fact that 60% of the dialog was replaced with ... is just plain lazy. It didn't feel like an inventive story device. It felt like the artist did his job and the writer got drunk and said fuck it. The new characters were throwaway cannon fodder and they even made the little sister less interesting. She only repeats stuff and it is immature nonsense about poop. I'm still going to read the third one, but I honestly hope the writer actually does something on it.
August 27, 2012
An offhand pick turned into one of my favorite graphic novels of all time. The detailed and grotesque artwork really adds to the morbid, slapstick humor found throughout the entire series, but the greatest achievement of these stories is the writing for the boys. The reader can clearly hear their personalities and they all feel as if they were trapped inside this violent world their entire lives and have simply adjusted to the horrors that surround them every day.
July 10, 2012
Yaay! More I Luv Halloween! I'm sure if you read the first, you wanted to grab the second immediately. Well, the first is the best of the three, if you ask me, but that's not to say the other two aren't half bad. Zombies in this one. They dare to interfere with the trick-or-treating. Big mistake. Lots of laughs. Very bizarre.
December 4, 2012
after i saw that a 7th grader checked this out i decided i should read it since the back cover said 16+. yeah - it should be 16+ it is totally inappropriate for most students. i wasted my time and read all three that we have - they are all rude, crude and disgusting. very inappropriate and will not recommend them. the art was even confusing and difficult to understand.
May 6, 2009
A little more confusing to me than the first book, and a little more disturbing I think as well, but the artwork is still awesome and I still love the characters. I have a very strange relationship with this one.
July 11, 2012
This could have been a lot better. After being blown away by vol. 1 of this series, this book was a total let down. All the delightfully morbid antics present in the first book have been replaced by a very weak story about zombies.
November 5, 2015
This one isn't as good as the first. Moochie is less diabolical and just obnoxious, and I was not a fan of the three sisters. I like the four boys together best of all, and Pig Pig was out of the game before it even started!
March 24, 2015
Couldn't even finish this one. The dialog is just unbearable and lost the anarchic chaos of the first one. This volume has zombies and the most interesting thing about that is they can say "trick or treat"... save yourself the time and skip this.
December 17, 2010
It gets more bizarre with each volume, yet I can't stop reading them. I keep thinking the next one will clear up things.
September 13, 2016
The kids go trick or treating even though there's well, a zombie invasion going on. Again, like the first volume, things get weird, random and dark.
May 3, 2016
I like the first one, this one not so much. It was just way too out there. A real pity.
June 4, 2016
Good, gory fun, just like the first book! Moochie makes me laugh because she is so psychotic! "Is the power of Christ compels you!"
December 8, 2024
What the fuck even did I just read. So disappointed. Couldn't even understand half the dialogue.
February 11, 2009
Gross and Awesome all in one. Not for the faint of heart!
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