The principal photography of Days of Future Past has wrapped and just to keeps us on the edge of our seats this satisfyingly 70’s promo image has been released on tumblr . Featuring a trio of well known X-Men – Charles Xavier aka Professor X (James McAvoy), Logan better known as Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Hank McCoy aka Beast (Nicolas Hoult), the picture is a awash with beige as is appropriate for the era and just look at Prof. X’s shirt! Anyone else excited about what is set to be an epic film?
X-Men: Days Of Future Past is due for a UK release on 22 May 2014.
Mega-City One is the scene of bitter and brutal vengeance as Yevgeny Borisenko, survivor of East Meg One (destroyed years ago by Judge Dredd at the culmination of the Apocalypse War) unleashes his long festering wrath. The Chaos Bug has been released, the inhabitants of Big Meg are turning on each other, block wars and rioting are rife and the Justice Department is stretched to the limit as the looting and mayhem continues.
The second half of John Wagner’s mega-epic story is broken down into several chapters: ‘The Assassination List’, ‘Eve of Destruction’, ‘Tea for Two’, ‘Wot I did during the worst dissaster in Mega-City history’, ‘Chaos Day’ and ‘The Days After’.
Anarchy in the streets of Mega-City One.
The first story has Dredd and the Justice Department, along with precog cadet Hennessey, trying to track down the elusive Borisenko and Yurges, the scientist who was kidnapped along with his family. Hennessey has a precog sister, who is being bombarded by visions- to the point of shutting down into a catatonic state, being unresponsive to anyone but her sister.
The opening scenes waste no time in establishing just how inherently sociopathic Borisenko is, motivating Yurges to finish work on the deadly pathogen by threatening to have his family mutilated in front of him. The scattershot visions from Hennessey’s sister become the driving force of the narrative as more and more of them turn out to be true: one features an unknown traitor Judge handing over a hit list to an unknown individual. Dredd’s clipped response: ‘Guess I should feel honoured to be on top’.
‘Eve of Destruction’ makes up the majority of the story here, taken from no fewer than 19 issues or ‘progs’ of 2000AD.
One of the things that is apparent here is that, unlike the previous volume, the bizarre humorous aspect is largely absent. There’s a grim tone that permeates the story, as Borisenko utilises agents already in Mega-City One to put the next phase of his plan into motion, against the backdrop of the mayoral election.
As deadly gas attacks are unleashed on various blocks under the guise of the ‘Rage Against the Megs’ gang, Borisenko’s agents -infected with Yurges’ deadly pathogen- are at large in the streets. As anarchy quickly overtakes the streets, Dredd, Beeny and the Justice Department witness a bad situation get worse… and even worse still.
One of the grim but all too real problems that faces the Judges is what to do with those infected with the pathogen; with no known cure and being highly infectious, they are shepherded into detention centres for quarantine. The numbers keep mounting and there’s no sign of anything slowing it down.
Borisenko’s wrath takes a heavy toll on Dredd.
Just when things seem like they can’t possibly get any worse, the Dark Judges are released from their prison.
After the anarchy and carnage, ‘Tea for Two’ is a welcome diversion- Dredd checks up on his niece Vienna, as Mega-City One still burns. This adds a human element to Dredd, and also shows how bad things are that Dredd surmises ‘What difference did one more man make, the way things were?’
‘Wot I did during the worst dissaster in Mega-City history’ features elusive mass murderer P.J Maybe, and is a more humorous tale as Maybe and his robotic butler Monty try to fend off the gangers and the infected, and also deal with the Dark Judges.
In ‘Chaos Day’ the Academy of Law comes under siege from three separate factions, united by the on-going chaos within the city walls. It’s this which features some of the most disturbing images in this story with a number of Judges impaled on what is dubbed a ‘Judge Tree’.
‘The Days After’ serves as an epilogue to events, as Dredd and the remnants of the Justice Department take stock of the carnage that Borisenko has unleashed.
Day of Chaos is without doubt one of the most important Dredd stories in years; not only is the story itself an engrossing narrative, but the aftermath leaves the landscape of Mega-City One changed and brings Dredd to his lowest point yet.
The art team of Leigh Gallagher, Henry Flint, Ben Willsher, Colin MacNeil and Edmund Bagwell deliver in an impressive manner: some of the detail packed into scenes throughout is stunning, and everything is brought to life by Chris Blythe’s well-handled colours.
These cute cupcakes may not be quite as spectacular as some of my other creations, but they’re simple to make and are full of nomm. I’ve been rather short on time so I’ve even used cheat’s frosting to make them nice and quick to make.
1. Using a wooden spoon, beat the butter or margarine in a bowl until soft. Then, add the caster sugar and combine until the mixture is fluffy and light in colour.
2. Lightly beat the eggs in a separate bowl before adding to the butter and sugar mixture. When combined, add the vanilla extract.
3. Sift the flour and combine with the other ingredients. Once thoroughly mixed, add the milk.
4. Place the mixture into 12 cupcake cases, preferably cupcake cases rather than generic cake ones as they’re a better size. Once divided, place in a muffin or cake tin (muffin tins are ideal for a good shape) and cook in the oven at 180 degrees for approximately 15 minutes or until golden and spongy. Once cooked, leave them to cool until completely cold.
5. Using the cheat’s frosting, or your own if you prefer, ice the cupcakes. Now, it’s completely up to you which method you use for putting the frosting on. Personally, I think properly piping the frosting on gives the best effect, but it does make the cakes rather sickly. If you’re not as confident with piping or don’t have the patience, I nice messy look also works.
6. Whack out a little regal-ice and your food colouring. I’d advise using gloves at the point as it gets very messy. Add some green food colouring to a chunk and work the icing in your hands until you reach an even and desirable colour. The icing can become a little warm here, in which case you should set it aside in the fridge for about ten minutes. Do the same with yellow to create your second colour.
7. Either dust a chopping board or surface with icing sugar, or use some greaseproof paper to roll our your icings. Using a knife with a flat edge, cut a large triangle out of the green icing and set aside.
8. Now cut a square out of the yellow icing, then split it into four equal triangles and place three of them on top of the large green one. I’m sure if you’re making these you’re a Zelda fan and familiar with the triforce formation.
9. The yellow triangles but not be quite the right shape, but they are fairly easy to mould with the use of a small knife once in place.
10. As Regal-ice can get soft very easily, place the finished Triforce in the fridge for ten minutes.
11. Finally, add the Triforce to the top of the cupcake and you’re done!
For this installment of Cabinet of Curiosities I’ve focused on World Cinema. I’ve long held the belief that those that ‘don’t do subtitles’ really are missing out on some of the best that cinema has to offer. There are numerous foreign-language films that have been remade for a Western audience, with The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, numerous J-horror films, and the upcoming Old Boy, among many others. The vast majority of these American remakes are sanitised by clueless film studios often completely misunderstanding thematic elements, especially in the case of foreign horror, where cultural mythology can play a major part in the very fabric of the story. One pertinent example being 2004’s Shutter, with a story largely influenced by Thai mythology, where a ghost hangs on to the back of a person; however for the 2008 American remake this cultural mythology was completely omitted, and they even changed the location to Japan rather than Thailand.
So for the people that embrace world cinema here are a few overlooked gems. Shinobi
After more than four hundred years of war between the Shinobi warriors of the secretive Manjidani Koga and Tsubagakure Iga clans, the Lord of the Shinobi Hattori Hanzo (Yutaka Matsushige) decrees that they must live in peace. The Lord of Lords Tokugawa Ieyasu (Kazuo Kitamura) however is convinced that the clans are dangerous threat to the newly established peace throughout the land and his advisor plots a Machiavellian plan to destroy their best warriors in a contest.
Meanwhile, the young Oboro (Yukie Nakama) of the Iga clan and Gennesuke (Jô Odagiri) of the Koga clan fall in love .
Shinobi is a fusion of romance/action/drama and fantasy based on the novel Kouga Ninpouchou by Futaro Yamada. Essentially a series of duels between the opposing clans as the rebellious Gennesuke and his clan try to reach The Lord of Lords to question the meaning of the contest.
Shinobi brings to mind Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s classic anime Ninja Scroll with it’s ninja with varying techniques and weapons. All of which are imaginative and portrayed with a combination of live action choreography, wire work and seamlessly integrated digital FX work from Gennesuke’s lightning fast speed (a scene where he takes out an entire team of Tokugawa ninja on his own is stunning) to Oboro’s feared Eyes of Destruction technique which is akin to something from Buronson’s Fist of the North Star, which are a contrast to the more widely used blunt in your face approach to digital imagery.
La Habitación de Fermat
Four mathematicians, Hilbert (Lluis Homar), Galois (Alejo Sauras), Olivia (Elena Ballesteros) and Pascal (Santi Millan), who have never previously met, are invited to solve an enigma by a mysterious host.
La Habitación de Fermat or Fermat’s Room is an interesting Spanish curio- the idea of the group of strangers having to co-operate in a bewildering environment is by no means a new idea (Cube and Exam being two good examples) however it’s the way that writer/director duo Rodrigo Sopeña and Luis Piedrahita have crafted this intriguing tale that really makes it worthy of attention. With the exception of Darren Aronofsky’s Π it’s also the only film with mathematics at its core, with Galois having just prepared a presentation on Goldbach’s conjecture before being caught up in the web of events.
Clearly influenced by Saw -but interestingly and refreshingly, not by its penchant for blood and viscera- the four, who all have pseudonyms (having been given the names of great mathematicians by their mysterious host) quickly find out that they are trapped after their host apparent Fermat (Federicco Luppi) has to leave. After a search of the room, a PDA is found and an enigma promptly appears on the screen with a time limit. Upon solving this another appears, and one of the group realises what happens if they don’t enter the correct answer in time: the walls of the room are slowly moving inwards.
A combination of excellent use of sound and a surprisingly solid cast make for an interesting and pretty unique thriller.
Mientras Duermes
Cesar (Luis Tosar), the concierge of an appartment building, is miserable and believes he is incapable of being happy. His coping mechanism for his miserable life is to make the lives of the tenants miserable too. He takes a particular interest in one tenant, the attractive Clara (Marta Etura), and things get even more twisted when her boyfriend Marcos (Alberto San Juan) comes to stay.
The opening scene is a brilliant example of the subtlety in Jaume Balagueró’s psycho-thriller. We see Cesar waking up next to his girlfriend early in the morning, and see his morning ritual before he goes downstairs and starts his shift as the building’s concierge. His girlfriend appears sometime after- only from their exchange of greetings it’s pretty obvious they aren’t a couple and the girlfriend , actually Clara, is oblivious to the fact that Cesar was lying next to her in bed. In fact nobody knows what’s going on, with the exception of the daughter of Clara’s neighbour across the hall Ursula (Iris Almeida Molina) who, rather than telling Clara what’s going on, is extorting money out of Cesar.
The perspective shift of Mientras Duermes or Sleep Tight has the viewer following Cesar as he goes about his routine of making others miserable. Feeding an older tenant’s dog the wrong food on purpose so it gets sick, watering another tenant’s plants at the wrong time so they wither and die, and his numerous transgressions against the oblivious and upbeat Clara- including sending her numerous anonymous text messages and letters, which he pins on the son of the building’s cleaner.
There’s a vicarious and voyeuristic feeling in watching Cesar go about his routine, especially in one sequence where Cesar gets caught out in Clara’s apartment after her boyfriend unexpectedly comes to visit. Thanks to the acrobatics of the amorous couple Cesar, waiting under the bed, ends up accidentally doping himself with the drugs he usually uses on Clara, and we see him struggle against the effects as he attempts to get out of the apartment before he is spotted.
Sleep Tight is a skin-crawlingly disturbing but undeniably impressive affair with a gutpunch of an ending.
Rammbock
Austrian Michael (Michael Fuith) has decided to go to Berlin to win back his his ex-girlfriend Gabbi (Anka Graczyk), only upon arriving at her apartment he finds she is not there, and is instead greeted by two plumbers working on the property. Minutes after meeting the pair, one of them goes crazy and tries to attack both his apprentice Harper (Theo Trebs) and the bewildered Michael. It suddenly dawns on them after barricading themselves in the apartment that this isn’t an isolated incident, as they discover via a radio broadcast that a virulent pathogen is affecting the inhabitants of Berlin. Michael teams up with Harper, determined to find Gabbi, and befriends fellow resident Anita (Emily Cox) in the process.
Director Marvin Kren and writer Benjamin Kressler’s Rammbock is a profoundly lo-fi affair. There’s no sweeping crane shots of Berlin succumbing to a frenzied horde of the infected here. The focus is on Michael and the apartment complex he finds himself in. Barricaded inside, he is reduced to watching the chaos unfold in the courtyard below with Harper and his fellow residents. Communicating via subdued voices across the courtyard, one resident points out they need to close the gate to the courtyard but isn’t volunteering to do it, saying “the big man with the tattoos should do it”. One of the more gung-ho alpha-male residents volunteers and promptly regrets it.
There’s an inherently realistic vibe as things unfold more as a slice of life drama than an in-your-face horror film. The world may have gone to hell, but Michael is still determined to find Gabbi despite the chances of her survival being somewhat minimal. There’s plenty of neat touches, like Michael and Harper debating about going to get Michael’s phone (which he left on the stairwell in the earlier chaos) hearing it ringing through the thin door and knowing that the battery is running down with every ring.
It’s well-written and the cast is impressive, and it’s not content to merely settle for the horror genre- there’s an unobtrusive love story here too which is quite poignant.
Things wrap up in just over an hour, making this seem more like a well-executed and impressive TV special rather than a feature film, but this isn’t a particularly bad thing as there’s nothing more annoying than a story which is stretched out. I can see how they could’ve added to it, but as it stands it works.
Cyborg She
Jiro (Keisuke Koide) is a lonely student who meets his dream girl in the form of Haruka Ayase’s beautiful cyborg. As he gets to know her, Jiro discovers that she is from the future and was sent back in time by his future self, but she can’t tell him why; she isn’t allowed to talk about the future as this will affect the time line.
Cyborg She is a brilliant example of why foreign cinema is so much better than the flotsam and jetsam that Western studios churn out ad nauseum: a hybrid mix of romantic comedy and science fiction, the likes of which would no doubt be an utter mess in the hands of a hamfisted Western studio. The development of Jiro’s relationship with his new girlfriend/bodyguard is at turns funny and moving. The FX are excellently done with numerous examples of Ayase’s super strength, speed and other abilities, most of which are done with impressive comedic style.
To coincide with the release of Pokémon X and Y on October 12th, there is to be a one-off special based on the original games on it’s way. That’s right folks, Pokémon: The Origin is set to air on October 2nd, ahead of the new releases for 3DS.
The one-off will be based around Pokémon Red and Green (Red and Blue elsewhere) which were the first games of the series to be released back in 1996 in Japan.
The new anime will follow Pokémon trainer Red on his journey and follow the original storyline of the game, challenging gym leader Brock and competing with his main rival, Green.
Along with the trailer for Pokémon: The Origin, another mystery clip has been circulating the web. The clip appeared after the trailer was shown at an event and features what appears to be game footage for another console. This has sparked rumours of a Wii U game. Do people actually own those? Anyway, there’s a bit of a buzz about it on the interweb.
Possible Wii U game aside, I can’t wait for the anime special. It may be not be considered to be quite as cool as it used to be (Pokémon fans were the coolest people, obv) but I’m still a huge Pokémon fan. I haven’t really been big on the recent additions to the series, but I adored the games back in the 90s. Hopefully the new anime will be a nice homage to the original games and a real treat for fans old and new. Now, I have a sudden urge to whack out Pokémon Stadium, so I’ll leave the trailer with you.
Obviously we have Magneto’s helmet and part of Havok’s costume and it’s assumed that the coin is the one used to kill Sebatian Shawn in First Class. Also included is something I find disturbing (mostly because I have a thing about insects) it appears to be one of Angel Salvadore’s wings.
Singer offer nothing more than the word ‘Artifacts’ which leaves me wondering exactly who would be gather such a morbid collection.
X-Men: Days of Future past if due for release on the 23rd of May 2014 and stars an epic cast including James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry, Peter Dinklage, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Daniel Cudmore, Lucas Till, Omar Sy, Booboo Stewart, Fan Bingbing, Adan Canto and Josh Helman.
I am writing this two drinks down, I didn’t really think this through…
Right so, this Sunday on the Geek Pride podcast it was my first appearance, and the delectable Mike Orvis enlightened us all with the existance of this website, where they create cocktails based on various geeky characters. Not one to be outdone by another website I decided it was high time I got silly and made one of my own.
Inspired by my cosplay this year at Manchester MCM Expo I decided that my first geek themed cocktail would be a Kaylee Frye. As everyone who is a fan of the show Firefly knows, Kaylee has a thing for strawberries… so it absolutely HAD to be strawberry based. I also picked some raspberries to enhance the overall flavour, and mint to represent, well, her overalls. The ice cream and whipped cream are just a tasty bonus.
Here’s my “recipe” for a Kaylee Frye.
What you will need:
White Rum Lemonade Whipped Cream Vanilla Ice Cream Mint Strawberries Raspberries Various glasses to see what works best
Firstly, put half a punnet of strawberries into your mixer:
Don’t forget to remove the leafy bits and chop ’em in half to make it easier for your blender.
Next, add about half a punnet of raspberries:
Don’t worry about chopping these up, it’s harder than it seems!
The raspberries make it a little bit less sweet than it otherwise would be, so are an important part.
Next, blend it all up!:
Urgh, too healthy!
Then add your ice cream and blend again, I used about 4 spoonfuls:
Ah, that’s better!
Blend that in and then add a few sprigs of mint, again an important step as without this it would be far too sweet and wouldn’t have that extra zazziness that Kaylee is renowned for:
Then blend those bad boys in with the rest.
Now comes the fun part. I added about a third of the bottle of rum to this in the end, and about a quarter of the bottle of lemonade. This was the perfect combination for me but you could quite easily reduce the amount of rum and it would still be heavenly.
I did make a rookie error and use super fizzy lemonade, I would recommend anyone making this lets the lemonade go a bit flat before you pour it in or it’ll end up like this:
I craftily removed the lemonade fuzz. It was like an alchoholic cream soda!
Oh but man was it worth it. This drink is cute, yummy, and kinda-sorta-healthy if you pretend there’s no ice cream or whipped cream involved. I used diet lemonade, that has to count for something right?
For the pièce de résistance I added this whipped cream topping and garnished it with a teeny tiny adorable strawberry and a sprig of mint leaves.
Ooh, Grandpa.
Tune in next time for more silly drunken shenanigans, where I’m going to make my own version of The Hulk!
In which a Skrull-hunt turns into an end-of-the-world scenario for the Avengers • An agent of death risks life and limb to discover a secret • A tribute is claimed • An apocalypse is constructed • Thanos eyes a deadly prize •
Another year and the beginning of another Marvel Event, but this time we’re promised more than the traditional cross-over punch-up. Infinity#1represents the culmination of writer Jonathan Hickman’s work at Marvel since the NOW! initiative began back in October last year and continues plotlines that have germinated in his comics as well as elsewhere throughout the modern Marvel universe. In this issue, the first of six, we are reintroduced to a whole host of new concepts and characters that need a fair bit of background reading to get up to speed. If you’re not entirely au fait with his work on Avengers and New Avengers then things such as the Builders (an ancient alien race of evolutionary perfectionists), the incursions of other-dimensional Earths into our reality (and the Illuminati’s attempts to stop them) and new additions to the Avengers rosta, Ex Nihilo and his sister Abyss, for whom there is not room in this review or words in my brain to explain, might see you playing catch up. Elsewhere we are treated to the reappearance of some older Marvel properties like the unfathomable Captain Universe, Squadron Supreme refugee Hyperion, and characters powered by the White Event from New Universal, properties that haven’t seen much wear in recent years but are more than welcome strings to Hickman’s epic bow. And if that all seems a bit much then know that I have only scratched the surface of the story that Hickman is trying to tell.
Time to update your definition of “epic”
There is an elegance to Hickman’s work that, in his creator-owned material, can come across as over-stylised but, with a Marvel artist keeping him grounded, is nothing short of magnificent. In Infinity #1, as usual, Hickman is taking you down multiple paths at once, teasing you with glimpses of larger mysteries, goading you to keep up with him as he runs one stride faster than you can follow. New ideas are built upon old ones like cities rising throughout time, futuristic architecture melding with the modern and here and there a familiar arch or buttress, a nod to that which went before.
All of this is perfectly complemented by Jim Cheung’s artwork, depicting the busy hubbub of a SHIELD Helicarrier or the grand desolation of a mad Titan’s asteroid -throneroom with equal aplomb. Due to this issue and his work on New Avengers: Illuminati and Avengers: The Childrens Crusade, Cheung is fast becoming my second favourite artist (sorry Jim, Frank Quitely will always rule the roost in this poor fanboy’s heart) – I’m particularly a fan of the way he imbues his non-combatant characters with a gentle, very human innocence; something that causes the heart strings to be plucked all the harder when they’re smooshed into a fine paste.
From the first page, Infinity #1 is not a comic for the casual reader and, really the only criticism I can lay at the creators’ door, the experience of reading it is akin to watching the first ten minutes of Star Wars or The Ring Of The Nibelung and then waiting a week for the next ten minutes – you know that the finished article will be mind-blowing but the wait in between is an exercise in utter frustration. Fill the gap with some more of Jonathan’s Marvel work – you can’t go wrong.
BONUS! If Marvel’s Infinite Comics doo-dah is your bag, check out the Silver Surfer flavoured extra entitled “Against The Tide” for all the dead Skrulls you can eat.
For the past two weeks I have been creating a blog which is hopefully not only of great interest to film geeks, but also of great service. To that end I have been focusing on films which would appeal to fans of trivia, important cinematic milestones from long ago whose influence still resonates today. As yet, though, I feel as though I have not quite lived up to what Geek Pride is all about. Sure, the films I have discussed so far have geeky significance , but now that Free Film Friday is truly up and running I think we should look at a picture that can incite a real geek-out. Something containing enough fascinating factors to blow my previous reviews right out of the water, and I believe I have found just the film…
It’s all down to this man.
As you are no doubt aware, The Thick of It star Peter Capaldi has recently been announced as the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the iconic BBC science fiction series Doctor Who. Since the news broke, all manner of interesting information has come out about the veteran actor, perhaps the most surprising of which is that he is in fact an Academy Award winner. That’s right, the Doctor has an Oscar.
In 1995, when Forrest Gump was winning Best Picture, two films tied for the Best Live Action short film Academy Award. Franz Kafka’s It’s A Wonderful Life was made by Capaldi and starred Richard E. Grant, who not only played the villainous Great Intelligence in Doctor Who recently, but also took on the role of the eponymous Time Lord in the 2003 audio drama Scream of the Shalka. To round off the list of connections, this short film also features Crispin Letts, son of the late Doctor Who producer Barry Letts.
For the sheer awe that all of this geeky trivia must surely inspire, this short must be checked out. But leaving aside all of that, and looking at it from a purely cinematic perspective, what is the film like?
The plot follows Kafka (Grant) as he attempts to write his great work TheMetamorphosis. The atmosphere is eerie but very much tongue-in-cheek as he sits in his Gothic home atop a set reminiscent of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. For his part Grant, his wide eyes sunken on a gaunt and troubled face, reminds me somewhat of Max Schreck in Nosferatu. Plagued by writers block, Kafka repeatedly attempts to start writing but is constantly interrupted by increasingly bizarre people and circumstances.
Humour comes from Kafka’s various attempts to turn his distractions into inspiration, as well as an unexpected reference to a Disney classic. But the real hilarity comes in the absurd and completely twisted way that this film parodies its namesake, Frank Capra’s classic Christmas tale It’s a Wonderful Life. It is perhaps the most outlandish spoof I’ve ever seen, but also one of the cleverest. The way that all the plot points are able to combine into one gloriously silly send up makes this an infectiously entertaining piece of work.
In the end this is a surprisingly fun movie combining all manner of literary and cinematic references with outright silliness in a tremendous blend of dark comedy. All of the Doctor Who trivia that accompanies this film is a happy bonus, and when you sit down to watch Peter Capaldi take on the role this Christmas it will be worth remembering just how talented the man truly is.
As my co-writer and Grover loving pal Ben Fee will attest, one of the best things the internet can offer the lowly surfer are webcomics. Last time we looked a selection of the best of what teh webz had to offer. But my esteemed colleague overlooked some absolute goliaths of the webcomic world. I am here today to correct this.
LIST, ASSEMBLE!!!!!!!
Dr Cat
Creator: Sarah Sobole
Category: Hospital Drama
Gimme the Gist
It’s a hospital drama about a doctor, who is a cat. His best friend is Human Nurse. There’s really not much to say about it other than that. Look for it here http://doctorcatmd.com/2011-01-10/doctor-cat
Sounds Good But Why Should I Care?
Because, in the words of every fifteen year old girl on the internet Dr Cat is “totes adorbs!!!!” Being dead inside and thus immune to cute (unless you show me a Weiner dog or an Italian Greyhound) I can’t comment on his cuteness, but it is funny Dr Cat says “thank mew” and I love puns.
Freak Angels
Creator: Warren Ellis, Paul Duffield
Category: Steampunk/ post-apocalypse
Gimme the Gist
I can’t describe it better than the Legendary Warren Ellis did at the start of this incredible story, so I’ll let him do it:
“22 years ago, twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. 6 years ago, the world ended. This is the story of what happened next.”
You mean apart from its written by the guy who wrote Transmetrofuckingpolitan? It’s clever, it’s dramatic and it’s drawn beautifully. Warren Ellis has once again created a comic that makes you care about who you’re reading. It’s witty and sexy and should be made into a TV show.
Bearmageddon
Creator: Ethan Nicolle, Noah Maas
Category: The apocalypse
Gimme the Gist
Joel Morely is a twenty something gamer with no real aspirations. Every night he comes home to play videogames with his little brother. After Joel misses rent payments his father kicks him out, Joel and his friends Jeremy, Burton and Nigel decide to live as hippies in the woods. Everything was fine, until the Bears came.
Firstly, if you don’t know Ethan Nicolle’s work, go and Look at Axecop. It’s just been made into a TV show and it’s fabulous. So yeah. You need to get involved with this project because a) it’s paying for Ethan’s wedding and B) Octobear. Yeah. If you though bears could be any more awesome, Ethan takes your dreams and gives them cocaine.
Ratfist
Creator: Doug Tennapel
Category: Super Hero
Gimme the Gist
Ricky is a masked hero known as Ratfist who fights crime with his rat pal Milt. He wants to pop the question to his girlfriend (who is deathly afraid of rats) while simultaneously investigating a key he found in a lab he had infiltrated as Ratfist. Also in said lab he is bitten by a radioactive rat and begins to turn into one.Hilarity ensues. Find out here: http://ratfist.com/
Sounds Good But Why Should I Care?
Yes. I know it’s only a teaser for a book, but it’s on the web and it’s a comic, so fuck you. Read this for a taste of what’s to come and enjoy what Doug did after Earthworm Jim.
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things
Creator: Kelly Turnbull
Category: BEARDS AND MUSCLES AND RAAAAAAAARGH. Also game parody.
Gimme the Gist
A weekly strip about an employment agency for out of work manly men. Headed up by a man named Commander Badass – a time travelling space marine, each strip looks at a cornucopia of characters from games and movies, such as Kratos, Dante, Marv, Leonidas and a Garydos named Mr Fishy.
Because it’s written by a girl. And apparently that’s shocking. It’s hilarious, and gives the reader a sense of pride when spotting a character they know.
And did I mention Mr Fishy?
I realise that the descriptions have been brief, but I’m a firm believer that these titles will speak for themselves. So get reading and let us know in the comments if you think I’ve left anything out.
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