Are Eebs the Ood?

Yep they both have two vowels and one consonant and are both slave races. Check out Eebs at Spacetrawler at http://spacetrawler.com/new_readers/.

Lovecraft gets everywhere

Jon Rosenberg is like unto a Webcomic Demi-God. He was the pensman of the now seemingly defunct 'Goats' webcomic. The Goats multiverse is inhabited by satanic chickens, cyborg goldfish assassins and is well worth losing a large part of your life to at www.goats.com.

However Jon has branched out into his nearly daily 'Scenes from a Multiverse' and this little gem turned up http://amultiverse.com/2011/01/03/hot-chocolate/

The short series continues with

http://amultiverse.com/2011/01/17/a-cocoa-conspiracy/

http://amultiverse.com/2011/01/31/go-ask-your-father/

http://amultiverse.com/2011/02/07/polterguest/

http://amultiverse.com/2011/02/11/best-friends-forever/

http://amultiverse.com/2011/02/18/in-the-afterlife/

ENJOY!

Webcomics, Moutains of Madness & Cult of the Claw

It's a long time since I've posted since I'm a "lazy blogger" and I'm finishing up a 300 page technical translation from German to English. If you ever want anything to take over your life I can recommend something similar. NOT!

Two brilliant webcomics, that recently appeared on my horizon are Bird Boy and Watcher of Yaathagggu.

Bird Boy has the most perfect drawing style/art that I have the pleasure to come across in a long time. Part Mayan, part Amerindian, part the artist's own style. I love it, so take a look here Bird Boy

We 'heart' Lovecraft here and a new (to me anyway) Lovecraftian webcomic is a thing of joy. Another individual drawing style and perhaps a little too much colour for this topic but try it yourself at Watcher.

While we 'heart' Lovecraft, we don't take well to people and dumb studio execs messing with the Master's works. The rumour is that Del Toro’s "At the Mountains of Madness" is binned again. The studio wanted a PG rating and Del Toro rightly insisted on an 18. Hopefully it won't die now as it's got some traction and the same dumb studio execs realise that pretty boy Tom (Cruise)is no good for the part and it should be given to Ron. We like Ron Perlman here too!

You may have seen the Cult of the Claw post on the Monsters thread. At the moment the jury is out on 'real or hoax' but if there is a Purbeck Historic Film Society then they'll be flushed out by your intrepid blogger as soon as the poxy translation is finished.

INCOMING !

First up is Skyline. Seems to be a combination of Cloverfield and Independence Day. Debuts in the UK 12/11/2010.






Second is Paul with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. This doesn't come out until February 2011 but the trailer is a hoot. Think Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead meets Roswell.

Incoming and worth a watch?

First up is #4 in the Resident Evil franchise, 'Resident Evil: Afterlife' filmed in 'the worlds' most advanced 3-D system'. Let's hope it's not all hype but it does have Milla so that's one thumb up already :-)



but the big one for me is the announcement of 'Priest' in May 2011. See the trailer and can you spot the 'Man with No Name'? Sorry it's not embedded but IMDb doesn't like me :-(

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1116145945/

The Particle Physicists Song

Hmmmmmm; nerds or what?

Is that Sheldon Cooper I see in the back row?

Books - don'tcherluv 'em

There's something about the feel/smell/ownership of a new book. You just don't get any of those sensations with an e-reader. You can fall asleep and your book will fall on the floor; it's still readable in the morning. You can drop your book in the bath while stretching for the cold beer and once you've finished cursing and dried it out it will be still readable. E-readers don't hack it but we are going to be forced that way because it's in the interests of the publishers. Look at the number of bookshops gone due to the efforts of Amazon who coincidentally sell their own e-reader. The future is digital, my friends, and we will all be poorer for it.

Q. Why am I waxing lyrical on books?

A. Because there is a new Pratchett out tomorrow and I love Pratchett! Well, the 50% that are actually on song. This time, having temporarily forsaken the world of mercantilism, we will have a 'Witches' story. But not only witches but also the Nac Mac Feegle and as his last effort of 'Wintersmith' was a bit of a bust we are expecting great things from this one on the 50% rule. Well, it's not so much of a rule as a general observation but it seems to work.

The book's called 'I Shall Wear Midnight" and is out in the UK tomorrow 2nd Sept 2010.

The blurb on Amazon reads

A man with no eyes. No eyes at all. Two tunnels in his head ...It's not easy being a witch, and it's certainly not all whizzing about on broomsticks, but Tiffany Aching - teen witch - is doing her best. Until something evil wakes up, something that stirs up all the old stories about nasty old witches, so that just wearing a pointy hat suddenly seems a very bad idea. Worse still, this evil ghost from the past is hunting down one witch in particular. He's hunting for Tiffany. And he's found her..."I Shall Wear Midnight" is the fourth Discworld title to feature Tiffany and her tiny, fightin', boozin' pictsie friends, the Nac Mac Feegle (aka The Wee Free Men).

The Wee Free Men also have a film coming out sometime in 2010 directed by Sam Raimi. Let's hope Hollywood does not do it's usual studio hatchet job on a much loved novel.