* Programming note: As I mentioned in my (alas!) delayed LOVE AND ROCKTOBER review of Heartbreak Soup earlier today, I am experiencing computer problems for which I do not anticipate a timely resolution. So you can probably expect my regular blogging to be a bit erratic, linkblogging to be slightly behind the curve, comment spam to linger a bit longer, and accidentally deleted comments to remain in limbo for longer too. For once this has nothing to do with my blogging platform–it’s laptop-related. Thank you for your patience!
* Today on Robot 666: Whoa, Walking Dead prints from Jordan Crane, Lisa Hanawalt, Johnny Ryan, and Jon Vermilyea;
* last chance to buy rad Johnny Ryan horror/monster/etc. prints (Whammies not encluded);
* and here’s that Dan Zettwoch church haunted house strip I thought went up earlier in the week;
* Today on Robot 6: Dammit, the great Josh Cotter was involved in an apartment fire, though fortunately the physical and financial impact on him and his loved ones could have been much much worse;
* Here’s a trio of Strange Tales II sneak previews by David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, and Sheldon Vella;
* Grant Morrison invented LOLcats in We3;
* How big a deal to New Zealand is The Hobbit? They’re rewriting laws to make it easier for the movies to shoot there, that’s how big.
* Caprica is cancelled. Oddly, now I feel more incentivized to catch up with the dreary overwrought thing.
* Zom of the Mindless Ones didn’t like the pilot episode for The Walking Dead, and his specific complaint makes me nervous.
* I enjoyed my pal TJ Dietsch’s take on Charles Burns’s masterpiece Black Hole, particularly the way he keys in on the disorienting physical impact of the artwork.
* Jason Stackhouse from True Blood as Charles Manson? You know, I can see it. It’s in the eyes–that evil little fuck has beady, mischievous eyes.
* “One of the greatest sequences in modern horror, period.” Seconded.
* Speaking of Jason Adams, whose quote I just quoted, he caught something I missed: Cinefamily’s 100 Most Outrageous Kills screening tonight First Kramers Ergot, now this–what will the Harkhams contribute to society next???
100 Kills trailer! from Hadrian Belove on Vimeo.
* Happy 1st Birthday, “Bad Romance”! (Via Chris Conroy.)
Thirded.
Asking the rest of the movie to keep that up was a tall order.
That trailer for the 100 most outrageous kills was…AWESOME!
I keep hoping that I managed to spectacularly misread a number of scenes, because there’s some very good stuff in there and the material has bags of potential, but I don’t think so.
A chap in our comments said that he stopped reading Walking Dead after a few volumes because of what he saw as it’s anti-progressive (politically progressive, that is) stance. The death knell being, in his words: “The women [of a community] essentially decide that they don
I’m keen to read what women think about the show.
Zom–I barely remember that plot point, if at all, but to me the whole series is about people wanting to shirk unpleasant, awful shit they now have to do, and the damage that doing it does to the doer. In that light, I could see the women characters reverting to the old gender roles as a convenient method of psychological self-preservation.