MONSTER MASHUPS #74

There are fourteen English-language collections of the manga series NURSE HITOMI'S MONSTER INFIRMARY, but reading the first didn't fill me with the desire to check out any more. The titular Hitomi is a cyclops who works as a high school nurse-attendant, in a world where various monsters just pop up every once in a while and all the norms just accept their presence. The stories in Volume 1 are all about the same: a teenager is at odds with his or her developing monster-nature-- invisibility, an elastic tongue, turning into a giantess or a Thomasina Thumb-- and Nurse makes it all better with reassuring words. Not much humor or horror.

MONSTER MASHUPS #73

Just reviewed this Mexican monster-mash, mentioning that it includes "not only such usual suspects as a nummy, a wolfman, a tophatted vampire and a "Franquenstein Monster," but also a human-sized Cyclops. There are also a couple of female vampires running around, one of whom tries to seduce Santo, but they're excluded from the fight-scenes."