Don’t breathe…

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Tonight I’m watching MR VAMPIRE (1985) while writing. It’s one of the movies that I’ve seen so many times that I can multitask why it plays, but I have to be careful as its very easy to drop everything and just watch the bouncing and the kicking and the punching and the biting.

The British television station Channel Four in the 80s was a godsend to a young bookish kid growing up in Lancashire, but desperate for a different window to gaze out of. It introduced me to both Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung and a bunch of genre movies that I still rewatch some thirty odd years later.

A few years ago Jess and I went to Hong Kong and thanks to these movies and a later love of Heroic Bloodshed it felt like coming home in many ways. If you haven’t seen a Jiangshi movie then you’re in for a real treat and this is the one that launched an entirely new genre of comedy Kung-fu horror films that are a delight to discover.

If you’re already a fan of the genre then you should also check out RIGOR MORTIS (2013).  Juno Mack’s movie updates the concept and gives it a little more bite.

Slowly but surely…

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I’m putting my first crime comic book to bed so of course I’ve now decided that this is the best time to start working on my website again. There’s a difference between procrastination and PROcrastination. I’ve got about 40 pages of the crime thing left, but the coda is written and I know how the finale plays out. Looking forward to getting it finished so I can start another kids’ book.

Fetch: The Rescue is out in just over a month I think. Dave is inking issue 2 of our return to horror books. Then the crime thing and then (hopefully – I haven’t pitched it yet) the sci-fi kids’ thing. That should take me to the half year mark and keep Dave and the team busy until Christmas I guess.

Got a lot of other stuff to fit in this year so of course I’ve also just booked the first family holiday of the year with another planned for the summer. 2024 started busy and looks like its going to speed up some yet.

Miles and miles to go and all that…

Kicking the tyres

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I haven’t used this WP template before so I’m just generating a few posts to see how the thing hangs together. It’s gonna be a while before this is up and running properly.

You should definitely go watch THE GUEST (2014) though.

The Notebook

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I’m trying to keep this simple. Every time I build a website I get distracted by all the extra bells and whistles and then spend far too much time under the hood trying to fix all the things I inevitably break. So this time the main page of the site will be a blog that I’m simply calling The Notebook. I’ll use it to keep thoughts and ideas online that either don’t fit elsewhere or will eventually get developed into something meatier.

Maybe eventually it’ll develop into a thing that can stand up by itself. We’ll see.