Author Archives: JD DeLuzio

Werewolf versus Vampire Women

aka Werewolf versus Vampire Woman aka Shadow of the Werewolf aka The Werewolf’s Shadow
(Original title: La Noche de Walpurgis)

Dr Harwig! Look at this scar! It’s pentagonal!

Kids these days…. Why, in my day, if you were out of elementary school, you didn’t go begging for candy door-to-door. Dangnabit, if you’re old enough to shave any culturally acceptable part of your body, you shouldn’t be trick-or-treating. If you’re old enough to drive, you shouldn’t be trick-or-treating. If you’re sexually active, you definitely shouldn’t be trick-or-treating. Hrumph. Leave it for the kids. Older folk should be going to parties, or handing out candy, or scaring little kids, or watching horror movies. Yeah… And for our second day of Halloween Film Reviews, we’re looking at some really bad late-night horrors, well worth your own Mystery Science Theater 3000 night. Oooh! Scary!

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Robot Monster

aka Monsters from Mars, Monsters from the Moon

Phil Tucker has achieved a reputation second only to the great Ed Wood as a creator of really bad drive-in era films.

The title character of Robot Monster, Tucker’s most infamous flick, has achieved pop-icon status.

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Super-Cheesecake

–Oh my–! Dad, did you know there’s a frozen monkey on the couch? And a hooker?
–She’s not a hooker.
–She’s dressed like one.
–I think that’s supposed to be some sort of superhero costume.
Day of Vengeance #4

It’s no secret that women in comix generally get drawn and clothed to appeal to prurient male readers, and it’s inevitable that someone would have a site dedicated to cheesecake shots of women in super-garb. No nudity per se, but not for all tastes.

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Infinite Crisis #1

I’d finished with comics by the end of elementary school, and ignored them through secondary. In university, I found a copy of Marvel’s The Avengers on David Letterman in a bus station and read it. Then I started hearing about things called graphic novels. A nerdy acquaintance kept telling me to read something called The Dark Knight Returns.

As the regular university pressure mounted, I wandered into something called a “comic shop” and picked up Crisis on Infinite Earths #11. DC had been publishing a 12-issue mini-series, you see, that would forever alter their continuity and re-establish their pre-eminence in the comic-book world. Supergirl and the Flash died, along with an apparently infinite number of universes. The series freed DC of past continuity, and paved the way for some pretty good comics.

Twenty years later, DC is dramatically altering their universe once more.

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Star Wreck released

Anonymous Coward writes, Star Wreck, the feature-length Fan-made Star Trek parody is available. The 100 minute DVD combines professional grade special effects, Star Trek and Babylon 5 into one efficient package. It is also freely available from the authors on Bittorrent.

Novel Review: Pattern Recognition

Cayce’s first footage had been waiting for her as she emerged from the flooded all-genders toilet at a NoLiTa gallery party, that previous November. Wondering what she could do to sterilize the soles of her shoes, and reminding herself never to touch them again, she’d noticed two people huddled on either side of a third, a turtlenecked man with a portable DVD player, held before him in the way that crèche figures of the Three Kings hold their gifts.

And passing these three she’d seen a face there, on the screen of his ciborium. She’d stopped without thinking and done that stupid duck dance, trying to better align retina to pixel.

“What is that?” she’d asked. A sideways look from a girl with hooded eyes, a sharp and avian nose, round steel labret stud gleaming from beneath her lower lip. “Footage,” this one had said, and for Cayce it had started there.

Published in 2003, William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition has been called his best novel since the original cyberpunk trilogy. Does it live up to its reputation?

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