Hillstomp

Saw these guys in Salt Lake City the other night. A kick-ass two man band, and yeah, that drum kit consists of a bass drum and a bunch of plastic buckets held together with duct tape. And trust me, that dude plays the fuck out of those buckets.

Hello, Utah!

My Heroes: Michael O'Donghue

Michael O'Donoghue was one of the most brutally hilarious men who ever lived, the man who gave us "Children's Letters to the Gestapo" and "Mr. Mike's Least-Loved Bedtime Stories: The Little Engine That Died" and of course the famous impression of Elvis Presley with eighteen inch steel needles plunged into his eyes. No one else was better at making people laugh at things that weren't supposed to be funny.

Here he is with John Belushi in the opening skit of the very first episode of "Saturday Night Live."

Transcript of his Elvis impression

FYI...

The first issue of my WOLVERINE: MANIFEST DESTINY mini-series comes out in a couple weeks, and when it was initially solicited, you may have noticed a signed edition available from Dynamic Forces. That was a mix-up on their part. Just so you know, those copies won't be signed by me. If you wanna get my sloppy signature on your book, just come see me at Black Cat Comics in Utah this weekend.

Box o' SCALPED

Box o' SCALPED, originally uploaded by Jason Aaron.

SCALPED Vol. 3 is coming.

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Preview of WOLVERINE: MANIFEST DESTINY #1

Wolverine + Chinatown + kung fu = me having a lot of fun.






WOLVERINE: MANIFEST DESTINY #1 (of 4) (AUG082411)
Written by JASON AARON
Penciled by STEPHEN SEGOVIA
Cover by DAVE WILKINS
Parental Advisory …$2.99
FOC—10/02/08, On-Sale—10/22/08

Say it with me now...

The Tide is back! Oh happy day.

We lost one of our finest actors and gentlemen this week

CISCO PIKE

Here's a movie that's just dying to be remade. And I would sure love to write it. Thanks to Jason Latour for turning me on to this flick.

Kris Kristofferson plays a struggling musician who's been busted for selling weed but is trying to go straight. Gene Hackman is the narc who busted him. When Hackman needs some cash, he steals a metric fuck-ton of weed and gives it to Kristofferson to sell, putting a gun to his head and telling him he needs to make ten thousand dollars in two days or he's dead. The movie kind of falls apart at the end (I kept waiting for the guys Hackman ripped off to show up, gunning to get their weed back, but they never did), but how great a set-up is that?

On another note, how cool is Kris Kristofferson? If I was to come up with five people, living or dead, I'd want to invite over for dinner, you better believe he'd make the list.

Adieu, T'Challa

I bid goodbye to the country of Wakanda today as my last issue of BLACK PANTHER ships. It was a fun three issues, and I don't regret for a second that so many Skrulls had to die during the making of this series. Adieu, King T'Challa. Adieu. Perhaps we'll meet again some day.