The Living Dead

My friend has brought to my attention a book that he thought I might be interested in. It's called 'The Living Dead' and is a collection of Zombie short stories from some of the top writers in scifi, fantasy and horror including Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Neil Gaiman. One particular story that he said I would be interested in reading is 'Bobby Conroy Comes Back from the Dead' by Joe Hill. It doesn't feature any real zombies, but is a love story about two former lovers who are extras during the making of the original Dawn of the Dead. Obviously this one in particular is a must read for me. I haven't picked up the book yet, but I did seek out this story to read online. It wasn't anything really great but it did have a big cool factor for me. I've been pretty bad when it comes to reading novels latly. I tend to start them and it takes me too long to finish but these are short enough that I think I'll have to pick it up. If your interesting in reading the Joe Hill story here is the link.

John Connor

After doing some walking in the park today for Relay for Life I decided to stop by Walmart. While in Walmart I decide to stop in the toy isle (Maybe the inner child isn't dead inside me. I guess that means that 'Up' really did suck). There on the shelf is toys for Terminator Salvation. Usually when a toy line comes out for a movie they really don't share a resemblance to the actors. Unless of course they are made by Mezco, Neca, or McFarlane, however in that case those toys are more for the collectors anyways and not little kids. So I pick up the Marcus character and no surprise doesn't really look anything like Sam Worthington. I check out the back of the box just to see what else they released for the toy line and all there were was different types of Terminators. Then I see on the self they actually made a John Connor figure, but they don't promote it on the box. When I saw the figure I just had to laugh. They didn't even try with this one. I'm included a pic here to show you what I mean. I guess their though process was place an army guy in a box and slap the name John Conner on the box and it will sell. Well it worked b/c I picked it up...haha j/k. I don't even recall a moment in the film where his face is even covered.

The Surrogates

Attached to the beginning of The Hangover there was a trailer for Bruce Willis' new film called The Surrogates. It's set in the future where humans live in isolation from one another and only interact through robotic bodies that serve as surrogates. Several humans are murdered when there surrogates are destroyed and it's up to a cop to investigate the murders with his own surrogate. However his surrogate gets destroyed forcing him to come out of his isolation to investigate the crimes. I think that sounds pretty cool and the trailer looks sweet. Turns out it was based on a graphic novel, and a sequel is coming out this year. I might have to pick this one up in comic form before seeing the movie. The movie comes out September 25th, here is a link to the trailer.