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So this is not exact, but it is inspired by a movie I traveled to ye olde theatre to see – You’re Next. It’s a slashery/home invasion horror movie and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Most of it, anyway. It’s got a pretty decent set of well-rounded characters, some humor and a healthy dose of nastiness, but mostly it’s got A.J. Bowen in it, of whom I am a fan. He’s not a super well-known actor, but I’ve really liked him in the movies I’ve seen him in. But yeah, it’s just a solid, dark piece of horror that I would certainly recommend and sit through a few more times.

Hopefully, though, your experience won’t involve a group of 10 middle-aged, loud and obnoxious women who I had to yell at to get them to shut up.

Before that though, I saw The World’s End – Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s new movie to round out the “Cornetto Trilogy”. A few months ago, I spent the weekend watching Wright’s filmography. I still think Shaun of the Dead is the world’s most perfectly written movie. There’s not a flaw in it. Hot Fuzz is close, but falls short. It’s still a great movie. And The World’s End is definitely the weakest of the three but is also still a fantastically great movie. I wish I hadn’t known anything about this movie going in, though. I think I would have enjoyed it more. As it was though, I think I was the only person in my theater that enjoyed it at all. It seemed like I was the only person laughing. Can’t recommend it enough, though. It also has some of the best fight scenes I’ve seen in quite awhile.

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He smiles to hide his pain, just like me. It has not been a good day, yet also so uneventful that it hurts.

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The past couple days I’ve almost forgotten to upload new drawings. I don’t know what’s happening to me. It’s gonna get worse when I have to get a second job.

202. Helena


“If I cut off your arms and I cut off your legs, would you still love me anyway?” Just because I listened to the Misfits song Helena – based on the Jennifer Lynch movie “Boxing Helena” – on repeat during my entire drive home from work tonight doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with me. At all. Why would you think that?

201. Mr. Sinister


Just cuz

200. Hulkamania

199. Captain Marvel


Doodled this at the radio station the other day.

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Caught Elysium this morning, Neill Blomkamp’s follow-up to District 9, a movie that I declared my favorite movie of the year it came out. Because when I declare things, it is important. So, I was looking forward to this one. I liked it a lot, but definitely not my favorite movie of the year, or even the best I’ve seen this year or even the summer. But it was good, solid sci-fi. William Fichtner is great reprising his role as Master Chang from the movie Wrong. Matt Damon is pretty good and Jodie Foster is also pretty strong in it as well. I enjoyed the world they created and the cultures and how most everyone has some indistinguishable hodge-podge accent. If you’re looking for a well-thought through sci-fi action movie, you really can’t go wrong with it.

After that was over, I casually mosied on over to the theater where Kick-Ass 2 was playing, after stopping by the concesh stand to refill my beverage. I have not read the comics that Kick-Ass 1 or 2 are based on. I prefer not to. Mark Millar is a terrible writer and from all accounts, probably a terrible person. Which is a shame, because I did used to be a pretty big fan of his. It seems that once he became successful and popular, and in addition to severing his ties to his friend and writing partner Grant Morrison, that the quality of his work took a severe nosedive into the realm of absolute shit. I still count his Swamp Thing run as equal to that of Alan Moore’s and his work on The Authority was pretty great. Superman: Red Son is also pretty fantastic, but since those, I haven’t read a thing of his that I’ve enjoyed. So, by the time Kick-Ass was published, I was just done with his work. That said, I saw the first movie and I dug it a ton, but I have to give credit to Matthew Vaughn for that one. He hasn’t made a bad film yet.

But Kick-Ass 2 isn’t directed or written by Vaughn or his writing partner Jane Goldman.

And otherwise, I can’t really define why I did not like Kick-Ass 2 at all. I did feel it was very boring. I kept checking the time, and only a few minutes had passed since the previous check. I just… I don’t know. It was just… not good. The charm – if that’s a thing the first movie had? – was just gone. This just seemed to rely on easy, Millar-esque jokes, offensiveness and unnatural dialogue that all fall flat. The action is fine. There are some good moments, but it was not a good movie. At under two hours, it felt like three. Plus, no Nicholas Cage doing his Adam West Batman impression. I feel like maybe it needed something like that. Even Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl felt neutered in this.
At least no one got my money for this.

Just go re-watch the first Kick-Ass.

197. Moondragon


More like BOOBdragon, amirite?

I worked at the movie theater when Starship Troopers originally came out, and all the times that I could have seen it for free, I never did. So now, 16 years later, I paid 13 bucks to watch some guys talk over it. Last night my friends and I went to the Rifftrax live event for Starship Troopers. It was amazing. It was also a super noisy movie and it was hard to hear some of the jokes. But still, I love going to these things, despite the fact that it’s usually super crowded (some of them anyway). I was also kind of amazed at the movie itself and how the CG effects kind of hold up. In fact, They’re better than some other major movies I’ve seen in the past few years. What’s up, Hollyweird?

196. Jaunty Flash


So, I’m not sure that I have mentioned this anywhere, but last night I was interviewed on the radio.

It was a great, fun, super-cool experience and I’m glad I finally got a chance to have a sorta for realsie conversation with Juliet Fromholt for once, even if it was all about me (especially since it was all about me). As soon as the downloadable clip of the show becomes available, I think you can trust me to point you toward it – that is, if you didn’t listen. And why the hell didn’t you?

The segment was the last portion of the show, and so I was in the conferencey waiting area for most of the program. Luckily my friend Joe G. came along with me as transportation and support, as well as our other friend Matt Brassfield. So as we sat around listening to the show and bands, we also goofed around like the idiots we are. And we also drew a little bit. Joe and I drew jaunty Flashes, walking happily. His is below. Mine is supposed to be waiving to Axl Rose. We are dumb. There is a backstory, but I’m not gonna tell it.