Catching Some Z’s.

Latest panel from issue 2. Kind of feels wrong to post a titty shot on a Sunday… Oh well.

You know that feeling when you spot a film you might like, so you hunt it down on DVD for a decent price and hopefully get a decent copy. You wait forever for it to turn up (getting something in the post takes a bit longer in these dark days.) It finally turns up and you’re all excited. Then on the weekend when you were going to watch it, you’re looking about on the net and notice one of your favourite sites has just put up that same film… for free…

Yeah, I got my copy of Street Trash this week, and last night I noticed they just put a copy up on Blinkbox in their free movie section. Talk about bad timing. I was gutted. If I had just waited one more week. Still… it’s not all doom and gloom. For a start the DVD has a two hour documentary on it. Came with a poster of that awesome cover. Also I noticed mine has a five minute longer running time and says it’s “Fully Uncut.” In fact I noticed they had a lot of those cool, wacky, gory, horror flicks that have been coming out of Japan over the last few years like Tokyo Gore Police and Vampire Girl Vs Frankenstein Girl too. As well as a copy of Night Of The Living Dead 3D in 3D. It’s crazy how many good films they’ve just put up. If you like this blog, then you’ll probably like those types of films. So I’d recommend checking it out.

For Once, You Eat The Zombies.

I don’t know how many Brides would go for it, but this is the best wedding cake ever. It‘s the only time I’ve ever looked at a cake and thought it’s too good to eat.

The couple that slays together, stays together.

There’s Always A Snake In The Garden Of Eden.

I don’t usually do this. In fact I think this is the first time I’ve done it (I think.) But this shot is cropped from a bigger shot, so as to not give too much away. Maybe if you actually saw the rest of the shot, you’d be grateful it was cropped. That’s all I’m saying.

Been buying way too many horror movies on DVD in the last couple of weeks. I tell myself it’s research as I’m doing a horror comic, but really maybe it’s something to do with the long nights creeping in and Halloween’s not far off. The one I really want to get lately is an 80’s film called Street Trash. It almost worth getting for the cover alone. So glad Arrow Films have started using the original posters on their latest releases. They look so much cooler then some bollocks knocked up on photoshop.

“It Is Tattoo Of Two Dogs Doing It.”

I think this is one of my favourite sketches of all time. Christopher Walken in The Continental. I laugh every time I watch this. It is seven minutes and sixteen seconds of pure comedy gold.

Christopher Walken - The Continental @ Yahoo! Video

Bed Sit.

Well, here we go again. I am well and truly underway with issue 2, and it’s time I started posting shots from it. Let’s start with this one.

Why I Won’t Be Doing Much Work In 2011.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m a very happy bunny that they’re finally putting Duke Nukem Forever out next year. But I’m asking myself the same as everyone else, can any game live up to a fourteen year wait? And even if this game is a massive hit, first this game would have to claw back the cost of being in development hell for that massive period.

Above all, I’m just hoping they keep that sense of humour that Duke Nukem 3D had. When you’re putting that much time and money into a game, you’re going to want people to take it seriously. I just hope it’s still a bit trashy.

Speaking of trashy but glorious games. I forgot Dead Rising 2 is out at the end of the month. I may hold off on buying this straight away (if I have that much willpower in my body) so I can get as much as I can of issue 2 done before 2011. But to be honest, I’ve found my finger hovering over the pre-order button so many times lately. Doesn’t help with Play.com having an offer to have your Zombie face put on the box. I guess the main thing will be if anyone else I know gets a copy. If it’s got a two player online co-op mode, it’d be rude not to get a copy.

Last Shot.

Well… here it is. The last shot I’ll be posting from issue one. I hope you’ve been enjoying the artwork from this comic. I’m well underway on issue 2 (I’m over a quarter of the way through it, but just under a third.) I’ll probably start posting stuff from issue 2 next week, hopefully. I’ve got a fair amount of scanning ahead of me in the coming days.

I like this shot. It got a hell of a tilt on it, but I like it. I was happy with the design of it.

Quick Question: why does your phone’s battery always go dead at 4am in the morning when you’re asleep? I’m always woke up in the early hours of a Sunday morning by my bloody phone beeping. Why always Saturday night\Sunday morning time as well?

Been trying to get into watching artist draw on ’Live Stream’ lately. If anyone knows any good sites or videos? I wish I was less of a n00b when it came to these thing.

Living In The Past.

Like Peter Kay, I’m pretty much living in the past these days.

I just got an RF Cable through the post today that I bought online. I got it so I can hook up my 80’s NES to my modern, widescreen, HD telly (like it’s going to make the 8bits any less 8bit-ish.) I’m glad retro-gaming is big at the moment. I’ll feel a little less loser like, playing away on my old-timey-NES tonight. I wish I’d kept a lot of my old consoles. Why didn’t it ever dawn on me that I may want to play them at a later date?

Also got the first issue of CLiNT today. Last time I got to walk into town and buy a British anthology that wasn‘t 2000ad, I was probably a teenager, maybe even just a kid. I remember while growing up there always seemed to be a new comic around the corner. Comics based on video games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Comics based on the latest toy. I really loved that one they put out which was loads of Dark Horse reprints (I think it was called Total Carnage or something like that.) But then around the mid-90‘s… nothing. I hope this new comic sells and some more UK comics start to pop up. Like Doctor Who and my old dusty NES before it, it’s time for resurgence. If only to help people of my generation avoid the horrors of adult life and pretend they’re eight again.