One Zombie in a Billion

Trying out a colouring technique, line art by the amazing Hawk of Applegeeks fame.

Okay I’ve been listening to the Crow soundtrack again, some new arts to go with.

Think I’ve abused that brush pen with a fill-in for the last time.

So after a great movie night of Casino Royale and Pulse, tonight I’m gonna hit the books.

Of the movies in question Royale was the strongest, Craig makes a fine Bond with a far more fleshed out character (who owes more than his blond hair to Jack Bauer) the story was fantastic and a welcome departure from the doomsday mcguffin that weighed down the later James Bond movies.
It was a little strange to hear Eva Green with an English accent, but I thought she did a wonderful job as Vesper Lynd and between her and Craig, they really sold the horror of Bond’s work. I really look forward to seeing where this series goes.

Pulse was alright, Kristen Bell is always lovely to look at, but story wise it fell flat. Like a lot of the Japanese to American horror films — this one was Kairo in Japan — they eschew the social subtext and bring shock after shock, which are telegraphed to the point that I wonder when blank space and foreboding music ever led to a viewer being shocked. There’s some excellent cg work though that really pops, so that helps.

Now onto the stock pile of books, in my current pile:

• Layout — Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris
• Nemesis The warlock
• Strontium Dog
• Lunar Park — Bret Easton Ellis
• Geometry of Design — Kimberley Elam

Somewhere between all that I need to design this place…

Another busy week with the ever hectic workplace and after hours projects, all of which are going pretty well.
So when I’m not doing that, what am I up to? Reading fantastic comics, you nosey buggers (who I love for reading this), right now my comics of choice are the 2000ad collected Judge Dredd Archives.

These magnificent, well designed volumes collect the adventures of Dredd from day one, with fantastic art work from the likes of Mick McMahon, Brian Bolland and of course the legend that is Carlos Ezquerra the co-creator of Dredd.

I adore the use of black humour, one such instance is Dredd sentencing his own droid Walter to cube time because he attacked a human to save Dredd breaking robot law by harming a human (he only threw Dredd’s lunch at the perp), so British and wonderful. I can’t recommend these volumes enough folks!