Malfunction junction / Check out Dusk by David Doub

Well, I was hoping to post a review on Richard Laymon's book The Traveling Vampire Show, but my computer now has a cold (they're still checking to see if it's swine flu), so in the meantime, I thought I'd give an update as to what's going down.

Remember how I mentioned a while back my growing excitement for Halloween '09? Well, I want to gather a post on the movies that are being released for the season pretty soon. I'll be doing research and killing my brain cells in an effort to compile a good list of movies for your spooky October nights.

Also, I should be receiving Experiments in Terror 3 from Provacateur Pictures, which is a group of short horror films. Expect a review shortly.

I have the film Atonement waiting to be watched on my bookshelf right now. It's not a horror movie, but it's something, amiright?

I'm in the process of finishing the book Games of Terror: Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the Films of the Stalker Cycle by Vera Dika, which the title explains very thoroughly. This is probably next on the list of things I have to review.

Also, I will be popping Devil May Cry 4 into my Xbox 360 and playing through that, so expect a close look at Dante and Nero and all of their monster battles in a review that will get posted here sometime in the summer of '09.

Other than that, I'll let fate decide what else is in store for me, but since I've been meaning to do this for a while, I'll leave you with a promo for a new comic series that has recently been coming out.

The author, David Doub, emailed me about his new vampire graphic novel, Dusk, which can be ordered from Amazon here.

The comic's plot is described as follows:

As a battered wife, Eve's only concern was to keep her marriage together. But
when she is kidnapped into the sordid supernatural world of vampires and foul
magic, Eve finds she doesn't want to leave. Her mysterious benefactor, the
Vampire Lord Ash, wish her to have a normal life but Eve chooses to stay in the
service of Ash. Dusk is the stories about Eve and her challenges living in the darkness.
Dusk is a supernatural action/drama story done in a dynamic blending
of the sequential art styles of American Comics and Japanese Manga. Several
artists help tell these stark noir tales of Vampires and Unrequited Love.

It sounds like an interesting premise, especially its combination of manga and
American comics, and would be worth checking out. If you're interested, you
can view chapter 1 on Doub's ComicSpace site and other little treats as well.

Here are some sketches from Doub's site: