The Truth About Zombies
My name is Erin and I am not a zombie, though my boyfriend, the gangster, Ryu, and the ghoul, Clément, tried to make one of me. They nearly succeeded, too, but Clément blew it—as he usually does—and although I no longer speak, appear to be totally apathetic, and exhibit other zombie-like behaviors, I was not really “made” in the traditional sense. I still have my will. If you read the official accounts, you’ll find that Erin Orison, the talented and rebellious only daughter of American ambassador,...
All Day Anime
Erin Orison, zombie press. That’s right, I’m reporting from WonderCon at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, April 2-4, 2010. It’s a giant sci-fi/fantasy/comics prowl. Major comic publishers like DC Comics, Dark Horse, IDW, Image, and Oni Press, will be there. Our pal,...Clapping Mohawks
When it’s this crazy, it just has to be shared. Don’t let the fact that it’s in Japanese stop you. Some things transcend language—like this ad for Mandom Gatsby Moving Rubber Spiky Edge to keep your mohawk stiff. Yeah, love that Gatsby wax. That’s it for the Slice...
Butchering Baudelaire
Clément loves Baudelaire and wrestled his translation of “Lethe” into the daily slice. A collection of Baudelaire’s poems, Les Fleurs du mal, was first published in 1857 by the poet’s friend Auguste Poulet-Malassis. It created a sensation. Eleven hundred copies...
High Voltage Voltaire
Out, out damned hypocrisy! Trust us, every supernatural being loves Voltaire. No, not the dead satirist … the ultra-dark and daring artist-musician. Are you in the 21st Century? Check out his music. It says it all. Folk, goth, darkwave, dark cabaret, new wave, whatever …...
4. The Pachinko Palace
Ryu’s Tokyo was exciting. It was Shibuya[1] with its game rooms, pachinko parlors, love hotels and its boys and girls with torn clothes and bleached hair. His Tokyo was Shinjuku with its high-end western restaurants, Roppongi’s smoking jazz clubs and Ikebukuro with its sleazy hostess...
Crazy Chemicals
Don’t drink the water! The good people of small town (Ogden Marsh) Iowa have plenty to worry about in The Crazies, a remake of the 1973 George A. Romero cult classic of the same name, when a government plane carrying a biochemical weapon does what planes sometimes do; it crashes … into a...WonderCon 2010
WONDERCON 2010 April 2-4, 2010 WonderCon, one of the country’s best comics conventions returns to Moscone Center South in San Francisco April 2–4, 2010. An amazing roster of special guests from the worlds of comics and science fiction/fantasy will be a major highlight for fans at...