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It's Halloween, and I'm celebrating with a special Cast Party featuring Marvel's spooky supergroup, the Legion of Monsters. While the original team was created in the '70s by Bill Mantlo, Frank Robbins, and Steve Gan, I'm mainly drawing inspiration from the more recent Franken-Castle story written by Rick Remender, with art by Tony Moore, Dan Brereton, and more.

If there's one thing we've learned from our years on the Internet, it's that there's no aspect of comics that can't be broken down and quantified in a single definitive list, preferably in amounts of five or ten. And since there's no more definitive authority than ComicsAlliance, we're taking it upon ourselves to compile lists of everything you could ever want to know about comics. This week, we're taking a look at the House of Ideas and the people who dedicate their superheroic careers to battling against the supernatural as we bring you Marvel's Top Five Horror Heroes!

If our weekly Ask Chris column isn't enough of definitive comic book (and pro wrestling) opinions for you, good news: ComicsAlliance is proud to present Here's The Thing, a series of videos where you can join our own extremely opinionated senior writer, Chris Sims, as he sits in his living room under a framed portrait of Destro, drinking a cup of coffee and sharing his opinion on comic books. On this week's show, Chris revisits a previous episode to examine why FrankenCastle, the story where the Punisher became a grumpy Frankenstein monster with a giant metal arm, works much better than Angel Punisher, the story where the Punisher became a grumpy angel with a coat full of heaven guns. Believe it or not, there is a difference.

Marvel's Welcome to the X-Men panel at New York Comic Con discussed "X-Men: Serve & Protect," the newest "X-Men" storyline from Victor Gischler and Chris Bachalo, and Editor Axel Alonso revealed that the fallout from the "Curse of the Mutants" storyline will be a miniseries called "Wolverine and Jubilee."Ka...

If you thought FrankenCastle was bad, wait until you get a load of FrankenRocketGroin. Fail Blog has graciously provided information that the comic book community has long suspected but never had proof of - like Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Frank Castle is a sexual tyrannosaurus...

To say that the arrival of FrankenCastle was met with some fan skepticism is certainly an understatement. How can Marvel ever realistically hope to win over a fan base that's rooting for this nitty-gritty street-level killer of killers by turning him into a freakish hashed-together sewer-dwelling monster...

Before Don Cheadle donned the War Machine armor seen in the recently released "Iron Man 2" movie poster, there was Iron Man Punisher, a cosplayer that would fit in the "Core Marvel Universe" just as well as FrankenCastle in my humble opinion, especially after the Civil-War ear Iron Spider-Man, Norman Osborn's Iron Patriot persona and the action figure of Iron Man with Captain A

Remember when Wolverine's son Daken ripped Punisher to shreds a little while back? Well, the first part of Marvel's "Frankencastle" storyline, out this week, unveils Punisher's grisly new look. And while it is sure to alienate fans who like their Punisher straight up, we have to admit to being intrigued...

Marvel super-heroes undergoing strange transformations isn't really a new idea: Captain America's been a werewolf, Storm and Wolverine have been vampires in "What If," and heck, there's an entire universe where the Marvel Super-Heroes have been turned into zombies, and one where they're all apes, some of whom are also vampires...

When they announced the "Frankencastle" series where Punisher (a.k.a. Frank Castle, ba-dump) becomes some kind of monster, I wasn't expecting the tagline "Rest In Pieces," to be quite so literal. If you've been sitting out on the Dark Reign titles because nothing seems to happen in them, you may have missed the rather startling events of "Dark Reign: The List: Punisher&qu