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Game Review: X-Men: Destiny

X-Men: Destiny Release Date: September 27, 2011 Platforms: Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS Publisher: Activision Developer: Silicon Knights Genre: Action RPG X-Men: Destiny follows the story of one of three mutants new to the hero business. Aimi Yoshida is a mutant refugee from Japan. Adrian Luca is the son of a anti-mutant advocate, and he must therefore keep …

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Comic Review: Hellblazer – Issue 283

Issue: Hellblazer #283 Writer: PETER MILLIGAN Artist: GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI and STEFANO LANDINI Publisher: Vertigo Release Date: September 2011 Pages: 32 Price: $2.99 “New storyline: “The Devil’s Trenchcoat.” When Gemma Masters punishes her uncle by auctioning off his trench coat, she ignites a horrific chain of events. Now Constantine must adjust to life without his smelly old coat, while its new …

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Horror Author Lia Scott Price’s Vampire Novel Becomes Free Online Comic

Horror Author Lia Scott Price’s Vampire Novel Becomes Free Online Comic Book Los Angeles, CA. October 2011. Horror Author and indie Film Producer Lia Scott Price has turned her Vampire Trilogy novel “The Guardian, Revenant, and Dominion” (amazon.com) into a free online comic book at http://liascottpricecomics.blogspot.com. She and her co-artist Wendell Nelson are the illustrators. It’s part comic book, part …

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Book Review: The Crow Special Edition – Author James O’Barr

Many of us became familiar with “The Crow” thru the glory of Hollywood. That controversial Brandon Lee incident and that wonderful gothy movie. However, it was the early graphic novels of James O’Barr that captured the original essence of the Crow legacy introducing to us a rather haunted, tortured soul who was bent on vengeance for being wronged by the …

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Politics of the Dead

Growing up as a horror fan living in New Jersey meant that I was inundated by Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma films, a ridiculous amount of zombie films and, of course, Jersey Devil films. Since I had long ago adopted the typical horror fan’s code of skepticism (that is, many of us have a tendency to reject mainstream thinking and authority figures – …

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Horrors of Humanity: Dick and Jane’s Belly

Anthropophagy is a practice traced back to the earliest of man sitting inside of a cave staring at their clansman thinking, “What’s that taste like?” Oh wait, allow me to enlighten you with some fancy stuff to make me sound smart. “Anthropophagy” is a ten-dollar word originating from some Greek squiggly things meaning “human being” and “to eat”. For those …

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