Monthly Archives: July 2010

Ally’s Weekly Pull: ‘American Vampire’ No. 5

By TAG What do you get when you take one part Young Guns, one part The Untouchables, and two parts John Carpenter’s Vampires?  I really don’t know, but it’s not American Vampire.  I only mentioned Young Guns because one character

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Ally’s Weekly Pull: ‘Neonomicon’ No. 1, ‘Marvelman’ and Moore

By TAG Everyone should read Moore comics.  See what I did there? The more interviews with Alan Moore I come across, the more I realize he’s just a crotchety old man who hates comics more than I enjoy them.  He

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What If Classic Games Had Had a Super Easy Mode?

What would a Super Easy Mode have entailed in classic NES and coin-op games?  College Humor invites you to imagine land of lower difficulty casino deutschland settings, a Sonic with no Dr. Robotnik, a Q*bert with only two levels to

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Remembering Harvey Pekar: A Secondhand Perspective

While most got to know Harvey Pekar by reading autobiographical comic books or watching David Letterman guest-spots, it was a movie that gave me the opportunity to vicariously experience a glimpse of what I believe to be the hidden Harvey

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Ally’s Weekly Pull: ‘Hack/Slash: My First Maniac’ No. 2

By TAG What would happen if one of your parents were a serial killing monster?  That may have been answered in Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare, but Elm Street, cheesy 3-D , and Alice Cooper aside we get a slightly

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Watch Quickly: Ennis and Conner's 'The Pro' Animated Short!

Garth Ennis and Amanda Conner”s The Pro has been one of my favorite comic books since its release in 2002.  I dare say it”s almost inhuman to not love an amazingly written/drawn parody about a superhero hooker with a raging

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2010 Comic-Con Exclusives: Lion-Os and Ponies and Predators, Oh My!

In two weeks the lucky few (hundred-thousand) will have first crack at some pretty spiffy San Diego Comic-Con International exclusive toys, action figures, statues, and collectibles.  We who can’t afford the trip this year are left to peruse the Comic-Con

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Ally’s Weekly Pull: ‘I, Zombie,’ ‘Shadowland,’ and Absolute ‘Planetary’

By TAG What would Murder She Wrote have been like if Angela Lansbury were undead (yes, she was fairly old to begin with, but I’m talking zombie-type undead)? We get the answer to that question with Vertigo’s new series I,

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Official ‘Grindhouse’ Theatrical Cut Finally Coming to DVD

It warms my exploitation-loving heart to know I’m not the only one who thought Grindhouse‘s original theatrical running time was perfectly fine. Earlier today Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright tweeted that he is scheduled to do commentary for

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Three Phases of Owning a Computer

Since robots are still a long way off from affordably helping me do myself things for myself, I look forward to the next time I can purchase a sexy new computer. As an obsessed buyer of new tech junk, I

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