Feeling crappy!

Sorry I haven't been posting lately.

I've been busy jamming with the band and otherwise sleeping much of the time due to flu and generally feeling crap. I try not to just stick any old thing up here for the sake of it, so when this happens I tend not to post at all. Perhaps December will find me imbued with new energies?

***If you written me lately: please note some recent emails to my gmail address have been ending up in my spam folder. I am trying to do something about this, but, if you haven't heard back from me, please try again.***

Top 100 Cult Nude Scenes!

Inspired by Mr. Skin's rather meh Top 100 Nude Scenes of All Time, Mike McPadden (aka McBeardo) has compiled his own Top 100 Cult Movie Nude Scenes, and they are actually pretty darn great.

Here we see one of my all-time faves, and No. 95 on Mr. Skin's list: Betsy Russell in 1983's Private School.

Batman 290!

Ever find something again after decades that really freaked the hell out of you at the time?

Something you'd forgotten about completely, probably from way back in your childhood - and then, decades later, it just re-appears out of nowhere, with no warning, no context, and a big shudder goes up your spine, you flash cold, and there's that spasm of dumb fear where your brain recognizes the thing, but before it's figured out what it is or why it knows the thing - and it's sort of like the vertigo spins now, everything crashing inwardly for a frozen long minute, and then you think OH - MY - GOD!!!?

I love those moments.

For me, the Jack Chick comicbooks (stuff like Exorcists or Chaos, not the tracts) were like that.

And Batman 290 was like that.

Originally published in August 1977, which means I would have been almost five years old at the time. I just happened upon this picture the other day while surfing, and I almost collapsed in my chair with the gibbering horrors.

I've since read up on the storyline, and frankly it sounds pretty dumb to me now (Skull Dugger's Killjoy Capers!?); at the time though, as a little kid back in '77, whoo -- that story, and most particularly this cover by Mike Grell, seemed really, really scary.

I guess it was the one-two punch of Batman, powerless and held back by demons he's not even aware of, while at the same time you've got the creepy-looking Skull Dugger killing this guy (who is obviously in great pain) by projecting a skull onto his forehead.

Crazy stuff.

If you've got a I-saw-this-thing-and-it-freaked-me-out similar story, I'd love to hear it!

Strip Clubs in the daytime

Even more than regular nightclubs, strip clubs (and other erotic businesses) look strangely seedy by day.



















All the better.

No No Zero in The Nobody!

Jeff Lemire - who you may recall did the wonderful artwork for No No Zero's Rough Stuff album - recently released his first comic for DC/Vertigo, The Nobody. Here we have a couple of early work-in-progress pages from that same title.

The artwork features a poster of none other than No No Zero (!!) adorning the door of a young lady's bedroom (for some reason, featuring the rose from the cover of Depeche Mode's Violator album?!?). We also see that she has a poster for Catl on her wall, and still another for C'Mon taking pride of place above her headboard.


What are we to make of this? Are we to believe this girl has a thing for Toronto-based bands getting a bit long in the tooth? Has such a person ever existed? Is this no less fanciful than the idea of an invisible man, walking around doing things no one sees?

Regardless, it's very flattering if you're one of these bands and I knew I had to mention it here. When Jeff first sent it to Johnny LaRue, The Nobody had yet to come out, so I was asked not to post about it. This is also why the lettering has yet to be done in the speech bubbles.

Now Mr. Lemire is on to his next title, a series called Sweet Tooth about a boy with antlers on his head!

What will this guy think of next?

Canadian Design!

I may be that rarest of Canadians, someone happier with the hockey game off - but even I love the 70s-era goalie masks of Greg Harrison (my fave is probably his 78/79 Atlanta Flames mask for Yves Belanger).

It was while looking into these masterpieces that I happened upon The Canadian Design Resource. If you like Canadiana and/or design, it's a no-brainer. More than 453.592 kg of pictures to please the eye!