Shoot by Warren Ellis

This is amazing and this is fantastic and if dc at the time had it's way never to see the light of day. This is why the amazing Warren Ellis walked away from this amazing series. This is the hammer of doom on what would have been an amazing run on one of my favorite comics of all time.  So here we go let us dive into this amazing work. Here is what goes down in the first page there is a shooting at a school and then we go into the world making looking and peeking into the world to find why.  The answer is a mind blowing and it leads to the name of the comic.

Now the reason I want to talk about this amazing comic is it got published a little awhile ago and I had read it. But I want to use it to show censorship of the smallest thing is a fuck you even if it is a movie or a comic. Now with this comic the point is even more fucking amazing honestly this is the point we don't think or feel. That it leads to our deep set desire to make the world simple and safe. But in doing so it means we can't think anymore and that we can barely think. We need to remember to feel both the bad and the good and not doing so is a distant hate coming up the driveway with it's apathetic ways. This is a warning to all of us to remember to help and talk to our kids about how they feel and think.

BoJack Horseman

Well well well what do we have here a drunk horse. That was my first thought as I saw this on my netflix  queue. I passed it a few times before I pushed play I mean honestly I like Will Arnett a lot but it just did not grab me from the cover. Well I feel like a tool and having watched it I'm impressed with the amount of No No place content. So let us start with a little bit on the cast of amazing show,

To start with we have BoJack Horseman this is the main character and well he is a drunk horrible horseman.  He is well honestly I wanna say a truly horrible person that is the bad guy in this show. But everyone else is just as plain fucked up like him and this is the heart of the story. I mean honestly from him banging his old co star that was playing his kiddo. I mean to the selfishness of him demanding everything he wants.

The fucked up thing is every episode is another giant fuck you to the world and yourself. This show is hate fueled and it makes me smile like a crazed drunk man on the streets with a warm brandy. This show is amazing and I don't wish to spoil anything at all. Go watch it now on Netflix you will truly enjoy this amazing show!

Stake Land

Buy It or Rent It

A few years ago I tried to read twilight and well I did it read them all in one god awful sitting. I did it because the world well to be honest I work in sales and need to talk about things to my customers. So yeah it finished off my love for vampires for awhile. I swear to not care about vampires again till the hype died down and that's when Stake Land came out rich when I need to revitalized my lovers for vampires. Well it did just that and I'am now going to explain what makes this one of the best vampire films I have seen in a very very long time.  

To start with I truly love the way the camera moves in this flick and the cuts are quick but annoyingly so.  Giving you the feel of paranoia and fear making it as jarring to you as the people on the run. Now that is not normally something we discuss on here so that is he last I shall mention it. I want to let the world know I love the style and editing and the script of this film. Now the reasons it's on this blog is of course about the content of said script. GOD DAMN this movie has a lot of really nasty bits in it that truly show the desperation of the human soul in pain and without hope. The world is truly over in this film and so far up shit creek that even a paddle and a boat engine can't save you. 

Also I love the fact they get into how vampires work in this world with a a lot of talk from Mister. Such as calling kid vampires Scamps. That is a very powerful word for a evil vampire child that just wants to feast on your blood.

 Side characters are a Nun they call Sister.  Who is sexually assaulted  in her first scene in this movie and they save her and she has to live with the guilt that the men claimed to be upstanding pious believers. 

The Crow Skinning the wolves

The Crow Skinning the wolves is going to be today's comic discussion. Well I picked this up at random being an old school crow fan. I grow up on the first graphic and even read it before the movie. So yeah I was shocked to see James O'Barr's name on this comic and pumped like a mad man. I figured it would let me down and not be fitting in the style of the crow. I was right and then I was impressed with the content of this comic.

To start with the shock first was the art more traditional comic book then the first crow which felt like a painting. But that went away after a few pages of this great graphic novel. The next thing that hit me was truly the lack of love or care just that this man throw himself into his work with great zeal. Now that would normally bother me given that the crow is almost a love song normally. But this is Nazi Germany and well that calls for a different style of crow. I LOVED the way they handle this matter with gusto and balls and touching on the horrors of this time period in a way that was still fun to read. Now I'am not saying that this was not a horrible and great awful thing but if I wanted that feel I would re-watch Schindler's List or read Night or Maus. There is enough story that tells us the horror this is the story with hope in a weird kinda of way. It was a victim striking back at one of the truly most horrible events in human kind and well it made me do a sick chuckle at times. I truly think this is a great comic. Only three issues meaning it fits nicely into one trade paper back and a great intro by James O'Barr leading into this comic. GO BUY IT if you like over the time action and a great time!

Hack/Slash

I was debating if I wanted to do this comic book. I use to read it monthly and then I got broke and then I forget about it. Last week I picked up all five Omnibuses from amazon. Book 1,Book 2,Book 3,Book 4,Book 5 there you go in case you wish to pick it up like always. So moving on the concept which is the reason I truly love this great comic.

 The concept is Miss Hack there is a hunter of what is know to her at least Slasher aka killers that come back from the dead. Meaning horror movie villains what a great fun concept. Too bad it's not written great and fun and that is why it is here. Not saying there is not fun moments in this wonderful comic. But the characters are humanized first and comic second. The great thin is they hurt and you feel their pain and their desires and their wants. This is groundbreaking stuff in a horror comic when it's truly not monster of the week. Other horror comics have done it and I'am sure I'll have some classic up soon to illustrate the growth of the horror comic as a medium. But this is the best modern horror comic I have read since the first 30 days of night.

The characters get  damaged both emotionally and physical and don't get magically healed in two issues. They have to learn to live with what has happened to them and what has been done to them forcefully sometimes. Also it is great about keeping it's cannon in a row meaning I'am halfway through the 4 book and have yet to notice anything that does not mesh with what has come before. This comic yeah it goes to the No No Place but it's a horror comic and if I was going to start listing why we would be here all day. JUST BUY it or READ IT or GET IT, ENJOY IT. I truly love this comic and I shall now go finish it up. No spoilers or even hints at them in this one.

Live Freaky! Die Freaky!

Well this movie is full of mind fuck. It crawls in the brain and scratches the walls according to the person I was watching this with. She could not finish it. But I truly loves this film and think anyone that likes to be "Disturbed" or "Laugh" or "Musical" or "Punk rock" Should totally watch it. I have to say this is the best Charles Manson musical ever!

Now jokes asides this is a very strange movie and should be watched by the morbid. The plot is about a man in the post-apocalyptic world that finds a copy of  Helter Skelter and the film is a claymation  version of the things inside. Now because he has no idea about who Charles Manson is this leads to a very open interruption of these events in this book. It's a very odd movie.

The One

Now the intro by Alan Moore rocks it truly rocks. He dates the comic book and sets the tone perfectly. He even let's the dirty secret slip before the comic goes on that this came out before Watchmen and Dark Knight. The two comics given credit to changing the superhero world forever but this is the same type of comic. I have read this once before and don't remember it well so join me as we journey into The One.

The comic starts with an article explaining why A-bomb will save the world by helping us re-wire our brains. That is truly a strong place to start and has a lot of room for growth.  This is the story of war and how it is being used by companies to abuse the all mighty money of this world and control us. This event is caused by a man that makes weapons causing WW III always a great place to start.

Then it gets weird and in pops they strange geeky looking man with glasses and this awesome look. He is The One and fights The Other. The classic tale of good and evil done in only the way Vetich could do it with style and flair.

Now to the creepy and weird it's about government made superheroes the American one in hidden by the government and the Russian one made by a Joseef Mangele if you don't know who that is he is one of the worst of the Nazi war criminals. Truly a evil man and this is of course why this comic made this list.

Next up Incest  two of the superheroes are only attracted to each other due to hating normal people.  Any other version of this story they would not be brother and sister but we don't cover normal stories here so yeah that happened.

Then it turned into a tale about clones and then a debate between good and evil and the nature of gods and society. This damn book hit everything I like to think about and talk about in my personal life. This was one of the best comics I have ever had the pleasure of reading and needs to be a staple in every comic book fans library.  The reason for the super brief overview this time is well this needs to be read without much know about it to have the desired effect. Two comics entries in one day I feel good and the next one well that will be a surprise.