August 4
Brightest Day #7
Losers Book 2
Red Robin #15
Secret Six #23
Captain America #607
Doom Patrol #13
SHIELD #3
August 8
Revenge of the Nerds -
Harvey Pekar: What movie could be worth driving 260 miles round trip for?
Toby Radloff: It’s a new film called Revenge of the Nerds. It’s about a group of nerd college students who are being picked on all the time by the jocks. So they decide to take revenge.
Harvey Pekar: So what you’re saying is, you identify with those nerds.
Toby Radloff: Yes. I consider myself a nerd. And this movie has uplifted me. There’s this one scene, where a nerd grabs the microphone during a pep rally and announces that he is a nerd and that he is proud of it and stands up for the rights of other nerds.
Harvey Pekar: Right on.
Toby Radloff: Then he asks all the kids at the pep rally who think they are nerds to come forward, so nearly everybody in the place does. That’s the way the movie ends.
What hardcore nee-urd Toby Radloff neglects to mention is the uberfantasy of the nerd raping the campus queen bee and having her fall head over heels because of his sexual prowess. “Jock only think about sports, nerds are always thinking about sex”. It’s a film steeped in 80’s excess, with wildly exaggerated characters and your typical college comedy scenarios. Prototypical actually, and, to a certain degree, enjoyably so… but nothing I ever need to see again.
August 11
Batgirl #13
Birds of Prey #4
Booster Gold #35
Justice League: Generation Lost #7
The Mighty Crusaders #2
Unwritten #16
Super-Soldier #2
August 13
Mad Monkey Kung Fu - an old Shaw Brothers film shown dubbed, on a faded, spliced 35mm print in a classic large cinema, so the experience was highly enjoyable, and the film itself is entertaining with clever maneuvers, and a ridiculous plot, however the death of the monkey, which you just know wasn’t faked, was an audience stunner. The film did win the audience back but it took a good 20 minutes to do so.
August 18
Ex Machina #50
Authority: Lost Year #12
Brightest Day #8
GI Joe/Cobra II #7
Chew #13
Sixth Gun #3
August 24
Lost Season Six Blu-Ray
August 25
Superman/Batman #75
Captain America #609
X-Factor #208
Batman #702
Legion of Super-Heroes #4
Justice League:Generation Lost #8
August 27 - 29
DC Comics Presents - (35 issues)
Doom Patrol 3rd Series #1-4
Trencher X-Mas special
Warlord of Io tpb
The Anchor Vol 1 tpb
Ultimate Vision tpb
Terror Inc tpb
Fido (tv) - As far as zombie films go, this one was different enough to be palatable amidst the slew of regurgitated horror tropes. Actually more of a light period comedy that owes more to the 50’s boy-and-his-dog stories (ala Lassie or Old Yeller) than to its horror brethren. Set in the 1950’s after the end of the zombie wars (which I assume followed WWII), idyllic communities are contained from the zombie menace by a fence and patrolling security teams from the omnipresent ZomCon, who have also developed a control collar which domesticate zombies, the latest technology in suburbanite handwashing of menial labour. There’s a lot of humour to be had in the world-building, the slight asides like television commercials or the various jobs held by zombies in the backgrounds. The main plot is aimless however, stuck simply on the homage to Lassie, and doesn’t really have much to say about the human condition, except, oddly, that the undead are human too…or, rather, still. It’s a visually crisp and pristine movie and well acted, and it would be a really charming film if it weren’t so disappointing purposeless.