The Return of Stickman #1202

Maybe if I cleaned my office I could then take over the world.

The Comic Critic reviews "Zombiez"

The movie Zombiez has all the fineness of a high school film project, minus the high school students. I was terribly disappointed. At first I thought the plastic weapons, repainted to look even more like metal, were a joke, but there is nothing funny in this project. Okay, the guy in the chicken suit is funny. But you die of old age before you get that far in the story. Wait, did I use the word real quote marks “story”? My apologies. No story here. And for the love of all that is gruesome, if you are going to produce a horror film, own up and invest in several gallons of stage blood and not cheap out and buy what I can only assume was a discounted off-brand bottle of ketchup. In a zombie movie, guts should fall “out” of people, not “off’” them. Hello! Prop Master? House keys don’t open handcuffs! You would think that all of these obvious low production disasters might bring a few laughs, but it’s just too boring. If you decide to pull this one off the bargain shelf good luck staying awake.

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After viewing this stickman, my good friend John Schmelzer could not resist in sending me a follow-up guest strip. Thanks, John! And for those of you who were about to ask... No. J.P. Schmelzer is not J.P. Patches, that is a different clown all together.

The Comic Critic Reviews "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World"

The theater was packed at the midnight show I attended. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was extremely clever in its interpretation of this graphic novel. The visuals and references were so wonderfully over the top that I was thrilled all the way through. My movie afterglow took a long time to fade away, but my inner curmudgeon finally escaped from the closet that my enthusiasm had locked him in while I was enjoying the film; he finally had his say. Still, the part of me that still thinks playing Space Invaders is a hoot wants to give this film a ten.

Back Off! I have a carrot!

Back Off! I have a carrot!, originally uploaded by markmonlux.

I had no idea what to draw at this week's Tacoma Frost Park Chalk-Off, so I drew this.