Sweet Tooth: Post Apocalyptic Comic by Jeff Lemire

Posted by on Sep 01 2009

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Whilst I don’t collect comic books, I do think there are heaps of really good Post Apocalyptic comic books out there. One called ‘Sweet Tooth‘ seems to be getting alot of acclaim from DC Comics. Heres a blurb:

From out of the deep woods and the mind of acclaimed indie cartoonist Jeff Lemire (THE NOBODY, The Essex County Trilogy) comes a new Vertigo monthly ongoing series like no other! After being raised in total isolation, Gus – a boy born with deer-like antlers – is left to survive in an American landscape devastated a decade earlier by an inexplicable pandemic. Even more remarkable is that Gus is part of a rare new breed of human/animal hybrid children who have emerged in its wake, all apparently immune to the infection.

Enter Jepperd, a violent, hulking drifter who soon takes in Gus and promises to lead him to “The Preserve,” a fabled safe-haven for hybrid children. Along the way they’ll have to contend with science militias, deadly scavengers, rival bounty hunters, and hybrid worshipping cultists as they fight to make it to safety and solve the mysteries of this deadly new frontier.

This bizarre and haunting new series is boldly written and illustrated by Eisner-nominated creator Jeff Lemire and elegantly colored by fellow Eisner nominee Jose Villarubia. A little boy with antlers, a big man with guns, a world without hope – SWEET TOOTH #1 ships in September for only $1.00! Plus, don’t miss a free preview of this title in August’s JACK OF FABLES #37!

Check out Jeff Lemire’s Blog Here.

Also coming soon:

Sweet Tooth #2
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Sweet Tooth #3

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Post Apocalyptic High School Movie

Posted by on Aug 29 2009

Post Apocalyptic High School Movie. From Youtube:

Part 1 & 2 of 6 of a Super 8 movie that I shot during High School in Eugene, Oregon. Sort of a comedy homage to the Road Warrior, but my real inspiration was a low budget Road Warrior knock-off movie called “Metalstorm”.

Part 3 of 6 of a Super 8 movie that I shot during High School in Eugene, Oregon. I used to read a filmmaking/ special effects magazine called “Cinemagic” and I learned how to do bleach lasers from that. The same as scratching on film but looks slightly better.

The end credits to the Super 8 movie that I shot during High School in Eugene, Oregon. If you watched the whole thing, I hope you enjoyed it. Every amateur moviemaker makes an endless chase movie, this was mine. I wanted to make a sequel where Doctor Death was entirely an animated stop-motion skeleton, but haven’t got around to it yet.

Exit Mundi – A whole heap of Post Apocalptic Scenarios for your reading pleasure

Posted by on Aug 29 2009

Exit Mundi has some great reading on how the world ends. Here’s a blurb from the site:

Isn’t life a bitch? The world is going to end. You don’t even have to be a religious fundamentalist to see that’s true.
Some people collect postal stamps; Exit Mundi collects scenarios of what could go wrong with the world. Sure, our planet could get hit by an asteroid. But hey, that’s nothing. Did you know we could all be munched away by hungry molecules? Or that our physicists could unintentionally wipe us all out while tinkering with particles? `Oops, sorry…’
Exit Mundi isn’t in it for doom preaching, but strictly for fun. It’s a fascinating thought: if that &*%#-comet didn’t wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, we wouldn’t be here pondering about apocalypses and armageddons in the first place. The dinosaurs roamed our planet millions of years longer than we did. If it wasn’t for the comet, they still would.
That’s why this site is a tribute to floods, quantum explosions and awfully big chunks of space rock falling out of the sky. If there’s a lesson to be learnt, it should be that within every end looms the dawn of a new beginning. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

Post Nuke Comics

Posted by on Aug 29 2009

Just a quick post here. Not sure how I missed this, but check out this Post Apocalyptic Comics from Post Nuke. Its mainly sketched black and white. Click on the banner to go to the website:

Post Apocalyptic Sport: Jugger

Posted by on Aug 28 2009

Need a bit sporting activity for after the apocalypse? why not try Jugger – a sport that was invented for the Post Apocalyptic Rutger Hauer movie Blood of Heroes. From the wikipedia page:

What little entertainment is available in these times comes primarily from a brutal sport known only as The Game, and the merriment that follows after the day’s play. It is played by bands of roving teams known collectively as juggers, who challenge local town teams. They pass for what might be considered professional athletes, as they make their living through the tribute paid by the people of the town, should they defeat the local team. Their trophy is the dog skull from the town. The Game involves two armed and armoured teams of five attempting to score by placing a decorated dog skull on the opposing team’s goalpost. One unarmed player, “the Quick”, runs with the skull, protected by the team’s other members.

Need more guidance how to play Jugger? Wikipedia to rescue again. Apparently, its especially popular in Germany

From the movie:

Here’s a quick video history