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The Great Wall – The Official Movie Novelization

March 23, 2017 by Stephen Jang Leave a Comment

One of the “Wonders of the World” is the Great Wall in China. Why was this gigantic wall built? It was to keep out evil monsters that appear every 60 years. This is the big budget East/West production by Legendary Pictures directed by award-winning Zhang Yimou. “The Great Wall” stars Matt Damon as the mercenary William Garin.

In search for fame and riches, mercenary William Garin and his men find themselves in remote China. His remaining men are tired and hungry after days of being hunted down by bandits in the region. As they rest for the night, they encounter a mysterious creature. William is able to fend off the beast by cutting its talon off. William and fellow survivor Pero Tovar stumble upon the amazing gigantic structure – the Great Wall.

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Filed Under: Books, Featured, Movies, Reviews, Series Tagged With: China, dragons, fantasy, Legendary Pictures, Matt Damon, monsters, The Great Wall, Zhang Yimou

“Hear Me Spirit” by Zachary Sweet

January 14, 2017 by Stephen Jang Leave a Comment

Oaktown artist Zachary Sweet showcases his “Hear Me Spirit” Collection at Woot Bear. It’s a mix of weirdos, monsters and ghosts from his dreams, nightmares and his artsy brain. The “Hear Me Spirit” Collection features new paintings, mixed media pieces and resin figures. If you like dark humor, then check this art at Woot Bear.

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Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Hear Me Spirit, monsters, nightmares, paintings, resin figures, Supernatural, Woot Bear, Zachary Sweet

Sleepy Hollow: Creating Heroes, Demons & Monsters

November 12, 2015 by Stephen Jang Leave a Comment

With an explosive and fun second season, the FOX tv series Sleepy Hollow has just launched its 3rd season this past October 2015. If you don’t know, Sleepy Hollow is a supernatural mystery TV drama takes a “DC Elseworld’s version” of Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” with new twists and turns. Ichabod Crane died defeating the Horseman in 1781, but then finds himself resurrected and trying to adjust to 21st century. He collaborates with police office Abbie Mills and dig deeper into the supernatural and demonic forces attacking the town. Now go behind-the-scenes with Sleepy Hollow: Creating Heroes, Demons & Monsters by Tara Bennett and Paul Terry.

Google Doodle Tribute to Eiji Tsubaraya

July 7, 2015 by Stephen Jang Leave a Comment

If you remember watching Ultraman or those badly dubbed Godzilla flicks from Japan back in the day, well, today’s Google Doodle is a tribute to the sci-fi monster maker Eiji Tsubaraya. The famous director passed away in the 1970s and today would be his 114th birthday. Google Doodles honors the man with neat little video on monster making.

A1 Presents The Weirding Willows

September 3, 2014 by Stephen Jang Leave a Comment

Comic book creator Dave Elliot creates a new Alice in Wonderland universe and re-imagining of famous literary characters from the 19th century. Like ABC/Disney’s TV show Once Upon A Time, “The Weirding Willows” is where the worlds of Wonderland, Oz, Neverland, Olympus, Mars and Earth collide. This trade collects issues #1-6 of The Weirding Willows with bonus commentary and artwork.

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Filed Under: Books, Comics, Geeky, Reviews Tagged With: action, adventure, Alice, Alice in Wonderland, Dave Elliot, fairy tales, Grimm, monsters, Oz, rabbits, Titan Comics

Sharky! by Dave Elliot & Alex Horley

September 24, 2013 by Stephen Jang Leave a Comment

I got a glimpse of the off-beat muscle-bound Sharky and his friends in the graphic novel anthology Monster Massacre Vol. 1, and now we get a full Sharky graphic novel from writer Dave Elliot and artist Alex Horley. Why does Tank Girl have to get all the crazy fun? Sharky gets in on the action too. If you’re looking for Shazam!, well this isn’t it bitches! This is Sharky!

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Filed Under: Books, Comics, Reviews Tagged With: Alex Horley, Asgard, Atomeka, Dave Elliot, monsters, Sharky!, Thor, Titan Comics, zombies

Monster Massacre Vol. 1

September 12, 2013 by Stephen Jang 1 Comment

Are you tired of the regular ho-hum superhero comics? How about something with big muscles, big guns, sexy babes, scary monsters and dark humor? Titan Comics’ Monster Massacre Vol 1. is a anthology collection of sci-fi/fantasy stories from the top writers and comic book artists in the industry.

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Filed Under: Books, Comics, Reviews Tagged With: anthology, graphic novel, Kirby, Monster Masscare, monsters, Ron Marz, Simon, Titan Comics, Tom Raney

Pacific Rim – The Official Movie Novelization by Alex Irvine

July 22, 2013 by Stephen Jang Leave a Comment

Gundam (insert Jaegers) vs Godzilla (insert Kajijus)

It’s already July and the summer multiplexes are heating up with Hollywood blockbusters with big explosions and incredible special effects. This is director Guillermo del Toro’s tour-de-force special effects extravaganza summer flick.

When two tectonic plates collide in the Pacific Ocean, it creates The Breach, a dimensional portal is opened where mysterious monsters known as Kajiu attack the earth. The world unites together and put their technology and knowledge together to create gigantic robots called Jaegers. We fast forward to the year 2020, seven years into the Kaiju war, brothers Raleigh and Yancy Becket as kids dreamed of piloting these gigantic robots and battling monsters. Hotshot pilot Raleigh and his brother Yancy are veteran operators now with 4 Kaiju kills under their belt. During a Kaiju mission in the Alaskan region, the battle goes awfully wrong.

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Filed Under: Books, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Guillermo Del Toro, Jaegers, Kaiju, monsters, ocean, Pacific Rim, robots

Supernatural: Carved in Flesh

May 1, 2013 by Stephen Jang Leave a Comment

The award winning sci-fi drama Supernatural has been following the Winchester brothers – Dean & Sam for 8 seasons on the CW as they hunt down demons, ghosts, and monsters. And with the CW picking up the series for the 9th season there will be more thrilling adventures for Dean & Sam. The young Winchester brothers lost their mother from a demonic figure and from that point on their father groomed them to fight supernatural evil. Titan Books has released a series of novels with different authors in expanding the Supernatural universe and in “Carved in Flesh” by Tim Waggoner, this novel takes place during Season 7 of Supernatural.

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Filed Under: Books, Reviews Tagged With: CW, Dean & Sam, demons, ghosts, horror, monsters, satan, sci-fi, Supernatural, Tim Waggoner, tv series, Winchester

Excel spreadsheet turned into a video game RPG: Arena.Xlsm

April 23, 2013 by Stephen Jang 1 Comment

Image via Ars Technica

Accountant by day and game developer at night – Cary Walkin had the idea of making his boring Excel spreadsheet into an RPG – Arena.Xlsm. The requirements are you will need a PC and Excel versions 2007, 2010 or 2013 to run this turn-base RPG game. And you will need to enable Macros for the game to work.

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