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New Comic Book Day: Horror Comics 10/14/2015

Hey Horror Comic fans! It’s me, Shane AKA Deadman, your comic reading and reviewing fiend here at ZADF.ORG ! Every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day, the day when all the new comics come out each week. This week 10/14/15 there are plenty of Horror Comics coming out to suit your need to read. Here is my list of what I think you should pick up or add to your pull lists DC Comics – Constantine: The Hellblazer #5 Image Comics – The Walking Dead #147 Marvel Comics – Marvel Zombies #4 BOOM! Studios – Sleepy Hollow: Providence #3 Dark Horse Comics– Harrow County #6 , Abe Sapien #27 , The Goon in Theatre Bizarre #1 Dynamite Comics – Vampirella/Army of Darkness #4 , Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #1 Action Lab Comics – Zombie Tramp Halloween Special #1 Antarctic Press – House of Ax #1 , Tales From the Creep #2 Oni Press – Blood Feud #1 So head

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Capt McNeely

Oct 13, 2015

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Cynema: Based On A True Story (Sort Of)

Inspired By True Events “Based On A True Story” “Based On True Events” “Most Of What You Are About to See Is True” “Some Of This Is Bullshit” “The Names Have Been Changed, Certain Dialogue Has Been Made Up” “We Have An Agenda And We Want to Entertain You” “You’ve Become So Ignorant to Real Events, You Wouldn’t Know What Was Real Anyway. Just Go With It” The Los Angeles Times recently ran a disturbing article on an equally disturbing trend quietly seeping into filmmaking. It’s been for some time, but as the general population falls into a deeper sleep, it’s almost imperceptible. The article is found HERE. The focus was the acclaimed “biopic” on Steve Jobs and is the latest film to take swipes at a dead man unable to defend himself. History is told by the winner. Or the one’s who control the information. Columbus Day has come under revisionist fire, seen as the celebration of a man

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Oct 13, 2015

Reviews

Guns and Puzzles, Scouts vs. Zombies

If you’re looking forward to the latest Zombedy to hit theatres later this month, you should check out a neat little mobile game put out by Paramount Digital Entertainment – Scouts vs. Zombies. Usually movie games get a bad rep – mostly for good reasons. However, this one varies by not relying on the storyline of the film, but rather the ability to kill zombies with the swipe of a finger. If you ever played games like Crush the Castle on ArmorGames, then you will get a kick out of SvZ. There are 5 locations, each with 20 levels, that you must think and shoot your way through. Taking aim with your finger of choice, your bullets rebound off walls until it doesn’t want to, or all zombies in the level are dead. And it does a nifty slow-mo close up on the final kill of the level. Certain levels allow you to collect power-ups, like extended laser sight, rubber

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Capt McNeely

Oct 12, 2015

Reviews

Goosebumps for Goosebumps: The Game

If you were between the ages of 7-15 in the mid-90’s, you’ll no doubt have fond memories of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series. It started with Welcome to Dead House back in ’92, a television series from ’95-’98, and has now made it’s way as a feature film due out in just over a week. On top of all that, WayForward has developed a game based on the series to coincide with the movie’s release. While most of WayForward’s games have been platformers, Goosebumps will be a Point-and-Click horror mystery – which reminds me a lot of the Choose Your Own Adventure style Goosebumps books. It seems like it will take you all over the Goosebumps world, encountering all our favourite creatures of the past. It’s got a cool cartoon art style, which is excellent for such a franchise. Rated E, it fits in nicely somewhere between fun and cartoony while still achieving the creepiness and scares Goosebumps is known for.

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Oct 9, 2015

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An Open Letter to New Line “Cynema”: Take A Stab At Something Different

To: New Line Cinema From: B Harrison Smith Re: Friday the 13th: Tommy Jarvis vs. Jason Vorhees Make Tommy vs. Jason. You’re sitting a goldmine. I am told the rights to Friday the 13th are a mess. Paramount owns some, you own some. Some are parceled out to TV while the films retain others and the characters. I’ve heard one tale that both studios share custody over the franchise like a divorced couple. I have no idea if this is true. What I do know is that the ownership of rights has become so convoluted that no one seems to have a definitive answer. The legal octopus is strangling you from making another killing and I’m willing to bet it could be straightened out. At the risk of shooting myself in the foot and giving away my thoughts for someone to steal, here is a proposal to get Jason out of development hell. I attended two meetings in Los Angeles

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Capt McNeely

Oct 6, 2015

News

Calendula – A Game That Doesn’t Want You To Play It

Alright, I can understand if that’s hard to grasp, but it’s exactly what it sounds like. Developed by Blooming Buds studios, Calendula is a horror puzzle game purposefully wrought with bugs and glitches to challenge you along the way. I’m not entirely sure what the end goal is, but this game is surrounded in so much mystery before it’s even released that I’m sure it will be a new experience for gamers of all shapes and sizes. Heck, even the main game page is built in a somewhat jarring manner, and the trailer shows just exactly what your in for without spoiling anything major – so basically exactly what a game trailer should be. While the homepage for the game claims it’s on Steam Greenlight, a quick search on Steam finds no record of the game. Is this because it truly doesn’t exist? Or is this all part of their viral marketing scheme – because being a game that doesn’t

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Capt McNeely

Oct 4, 2015

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Psycho II…The Slasher Dodges a Bullet

Norman Bates Is Coming Home… Summer, 1983. No Internet. No DVD extras. No “sneak peaks.” There were a handful of magazines to get your entertainment and especially your horror news and Fangoria was mine. I got my first subscription in 1980 and kept it through most of high school. At one point my mother asked me, “Are you sure you don’t want Playboy or something?” Unlike Norman Bates, I had plenty of girlfriends. Boobs I could see any time, but horror? That was serious shit and it came in the mail addressed to me. The slasher film dominated 80s horror. Carpenter’s Halloween hit in 1978 and the original Friday the 13th was ripping off at its heels, and both birthed franchises that spanned an entire decade and beyond. Psychopaths with knives and a variety of tools populated movie houses and late night cable. Most horror scholars will acknowledge the sub genre was peaking around 1983. Friday the 13th was winding

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Oct 1, 2015

ProductReviews

Video Game Review: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

“V has come to” is how the game begins. Such a simple phrase and yet has so much behind it. Minutes after “V has come to” the game ascends and shows us what we have in store. Big Boss, our main protagonist awakens from a 9 year coma in a hospital in Cyprus missing an arm and having a large chunk of shrapnel lodged in his head, Big Boss’ awakening is only cut short when the hospital is invaded by a covert military force dubbed “XOF” on the hunt to kill him. With the help of a mysterious man named “Ishmal” Big Boss is able to escape a narrow death. Soon later the halls of the hospital begin to fill with smoke and fire when suddenly a man covered in head to toe in fire arrives in the hospital and begins searching for Big Boss. The Man on Fire has Big Boss in his clutches until the “XOF” force returns

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Capt McNeely

Oct 1, 2015

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The Escapist “The Walking Dead” game available now

A little while back a small indie game called “The Escapists” was released onto next-gen consoles and PC and was a pretty big success. The game was a “Shawshank Redemption”-esque game, where you played a character trying to escape from a prison. Well now the developers of the game Team 17 have now taken their gameplay and 8 bit pixel style graphics and mixed it with “The Walking Dead”. The game places you in control of Rick Grimes and has you creating safe escape routes to help and secure survivors from large areas. You have to fend off zombies and rescue as many survivors as you can. The unique aspect of the game though is how it takes most of its source material not from the TV show but from the comics, so you’ll see some very similar locations as well as new places not yet seen in the show. “The Escapist: The Walking Dead” is avalible now on Xbox

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Capt McNeely

Sep 30, 2015

Reviews

Romero’s Aftermath Has A Shaky Start

George C. Romero, son of the man that brought the living dead to our screen 47 years ago, has teamed up with Free Reign Entertainment for a free-to-play zombie survival MMO – but don’t get your hopes up. I am not one to ever disparage anyone for doing something they love, but with mostly negative Steam reviews, and as far as I can tell a developer with no official site, it’s hard to put a lot of trust into it. While it’s still only just come out of Beta testing, reviews state that it’s essentially a rehash of Infestation: Survivor Stories – a game that went through multiple name changes and was critically panned for being chock full of micro transactions and bugs. Which makes a bit of sense considering the development teams are made up of mostly the same people, and lead by Sergey Titov. While Aftermath does have it’s share of bugs and micro transactions, it also adds

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Sep 29, 2015

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