What a nutty week...My Daughter Emily Renee is born on Thursday 05/18 @ 4:20pm (Yo' Pot Smokers!), The Mets kick the crap outta the Yankees, and I'm addicted to THE WALKING DEAD.
Horror Comics have come a long way from the EC Comics of the 1950's and the Marvel TOMB OF DRACULA and WEREWOLF series in the 1970's. DC had THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY but I always thought that they sucked. Tomb of Dracula could always tap into Dracula vs. The SIlver Surfer if things got lame (which was seldom in that series) and it also introduced us to BLADE, although back the 70's he was a lot funkier than he is in his current streamlined model.
Jon Gebhart mentioned a Comic Book called THE WALKING DEAD which is out in a trade paper back; it's currently at the 4th volume and it's probably the scariest comic I've ever read.
The premise is simple; a Cop in the South named Rick gets shot, ends up in a coma and when he awakens the world's full of Zombies. He teams up with a band of survivors as they try to survive day to day in a world gone wild. It's part 28 Days Later, George Romero's Night/Dawn/Day/Land of the Dead series and a dash of LOST thrown in for good measure. Furthermore if you know the Zombie genre then you know that every character is expendible at any time. Good stuff. I read it to Emily @ 5:30 am last Friday during a feeding. Needless to say I got freaked out.
The second book that I'm a junkie for is Y THE LAST MAN which is published by VERTIGO comics (the grown up/pretentious version of DC Comics who also owns it) Vertigo gave us CONSTATINE.
The story revolves around a "Gendercide" - a virus of some sort that killed off every male species on Earth, except a dude named Yorick and his monkey buddy named Ampersand.
Last dude on Earth? I guess you'd think that fuckorama would be in order 24/7. Unfortunately the writers aren't from Penthouse Forum. This book plays off like The Fugitive where foreign governments are after our hero as well as Psycho Amazon bitches from hell who want to eradicate men from the planet for good. Another Post Apocalyptic tale this one kind of in the tradition of Stephen King's THE STAND. As was the case with The Walking Dead, Yorick has to team up with a small band of people for his survival. One of whom is a badass government agent named Agent 355, who beats the shit outta people with a retractable metal rod....Cooool.
I started Vol 1 in January and just finished Vol.7 on Saturday. Now I have to wait another 4 months or so for the next trade. Ugh.
At least Superman will be out to keep me occupied, and I hope it's good.
ON another note-
Congratulations to Chris and Bethany as they are to be married this weekend.
More Congratulations to Jason Warnesky on his new job at THE SIMPSONS! Way to go buddy...it's about fuckin' time bro!
Final congratulations to the LA Clippers who lost in the second round to The Phoenix Suns but had pushed to a game 7, and had their best season ever...Finally a Basketball team I can root for here....
2 months and 2 weeks until SNAKES ON A PLANE !!!
