Tuesday, July 27, 2010

WTF Picture part 2


Seriously though WTF !!!!!.

I am sure there is a perfectly logical reason for this epic mind blowing pic of a heroic evil clown shirt wearing Demon cat riding Hero facing off against A Orc against a generic Mordor background..............

Actually not so much a good reason as a good cause and the details can be found at Science Fiction Author's John Scalzi's website.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Bayou Review








If they ever pitch the idea for Bayou to be made into a Movie it will be hard to resist the temptation of describing it as “Coraline with a black girl” or “Alice in Wonderland down South.” The Southern Gothic Tale in which the lynching of a young black kid and the possible lynching of one of the main characters makes any such comparison pale in understanding how dark and adventurous this story is.

Bayou is a Online Comic by James Love and the main character Lee unlike Alice, does not need to go through the looking glass to encounter a dangerous world, both side of the looking glass in this story are frightening places.

James Love does a great job of balancing child like wonder and magic, with the harsh realities of a racist South, a ever present fact that informs the entire story.

Once we leave the not so Genteel South we go into the swamp, a heartland of Southern mythos. Pollywogs, Brer Rabbits, Jim Crows, and a very scary Cotton Eye Joe and other creatures of Southern mythology including Bayou a huge man child like swamp creature that aides Lee.
Lee after being established as a sassy defiant kid in a world where being sassy and defiant can get you killed, must rescue a young white girl whose disappearance is being blamed on her father.

To say she has to risk life and limb in entering the mystical swamp to rescue her friend and prevent her father from being lynched is not a cliche. There are literally quite a few panels where you think Lee will not make it to the next page with either life or limbs missing.

I'm hoping to check out the rest of this series ASAP the world of Bayou is definitely worth another trip through the looking glass.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzimiya Carlford Wadley

K so there was this one summer where in the course of 48 hours I :

Got Dumped (Rejected is more appropriate but lets be kind to me its my story)

Lost Computer

TV Broken.

Bill Collectors using my name like it was going out of style and riding me like a Camel.

And lets not get into the dietary choices that poverty forces you to make.

All of this marked one of the worst times in my life This Summer is shaping up to be a sequel. And hopefully without sounding too Emo here is the update on my life aka Misery 2” More Misery.


Due to a situation involving a scumbag of a former roommate, I'm back to being the guy on the couch, which is a punch line to a few friends but a line that always feels like a punch to me. Despite a few years of responsibility and paying rent on time, fortune has placed me back into punchline status.

As Always my love life will be making a Guest appearance Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster, things they say might exist but most people are highly doubtful.

Cannot figure out what wrong with me. Allegedly I'm supposed to be attractive, a allegation that my mantra of “I'm alone not lonely” while clicking red sneakers together a la Dorothy does nothing to support.

I hate getting that bored dispassionate look across my face and nowadays that is becoming more and more difficult.

So here is to another summer of salt for me. Hopefully the Taste won't last long.