Also on www.starburst.com Fanboys vs. Zombies issue 1 (out now) Writer: Sam Humphries Illustrator: Jerry Gaylord Publisher: Boom! Riding the zombie wave (or rather the waves of zombies), Fanboys vs. Zombies is the latest addition to the comic undead genre. As you might have guessed from the title, it’s aimed at the fanboys (and girls). [...]
As kid I loved a lot of crappy Eurodance, such as 2 Unlimited, but I had an excuse – I was a kid. These days I am more into rock and ‘quality’ dance music (i.e Prodigy, Daft Punk), although I’ve found myself liking more and more music that I really should hate. Everyone at some [...]
CROSSED PSYCHOPATH (Mature readers) Written by David Lapham, Drawn by Raulo Caceres Published by Avatar In 2008 Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows gave us ’Crossed,’ a horror comic about a plague that turns humans into raping, murdering maniacs, distinguishable by the ‘cross’ that marks their face. Reading like a more extreme version of The Road [...]
A song doesn’t always have to have great lyrics to be a good song, but it helps. Sometimes just a sentence or two stand out, and sometimes the entire song is filled with incredible writing. This is one of them, although ”I’ll squeeze into heaven and Valentine” is a contender for a tattoo if I [...]
PAYING FOR IT by Chester Brown Written and drawn by Chester Brown (foreword by Robert Crumb) Published by Drawn and Quarterly Paying for it is an autobiographical indie strip book, about ‘being a john’, i.e. paying for sex. As if this premise isn’t interesting enough, it’s from Chester Brown, one of the Drawn and Quarterly [...]
There are two songs in the world that bring a tear to my eye. One I posted a while back, which is ‘Yesterday’ by The Beatles. The other is this. It is literally one of the most beautiful and heartbroken songs ever written. Before leaving for Australia I was going to post the last line [...]
by Jon on December 1, 2011
An article I wrote for Empire film magazine last month during my work experience, which has not been published to date (and is unlikely to be). I did email the editor who okayed the article asking for feedback on it, and got no reply, so figured I might as well publish it on here.. Two [...]
by Jon on October 20, 2011
Know Thy Enemy, a brilliant poem by Christopher Logue (not the edited version used by many left-wing parties and in 1960s Paris); He does not care what colour you are provided you work for him. He does not care how much you earn provided you earn more for him. He does not care who lives [...]
BBM Live Articles; FUNNY NEWS – MAYOR APOLOGISES FOR 3 DAY DRINKING BINGE FUNNY NEWS – WHITE HOUSE RICKROLLS FUNNY NEWS – HITLER CAT FAILS TO FIND HOME FUNNY NEWS – FISH ADDICTED TO CHOCOLATE FUNNY NEWS – 94 YEAR OLD GRAN ATTACKED BY KANGAROO FUNNY NEWS – ONE MILLION YEARS WITHOUT SEX FUNNY NEWS [...]
Creative Writing piece for university, 2007. I don’t remember much after getting off the plane, my memory seems to start walking around Heathrow, which was both exciting and scary at the same time. My Uncle Dave had come to pick us up, a man I remembered vaguely, and the first official thing I can remember [...]