Welcome back, boils and ghouls, to a very special edition of PAUL’S HORROR FLIX!  This week, you won’t have to venture to your local video store, or Amazon (or try to import something) to find the movies we’ll be chatting about – you just need to go to your local cinema!  That’s right, we’re discussing theatrical horror this week, with two very different, but still very horrific, movies!

• The Wolfman
• The Crazies

Check out the reviews after the jump, and start saving up money for the matinee!

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“…was able to control the route between Asia and Europe, as well as the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euxinos Pontus. Don’t you think?”

It would seem that only a moment had passed since Casey’s journey into Other Memory began. Camille had not noticed her absence.

Falco had. There was a disapproving glint in his eye.

“Um,” Casey replied uncertainly to Camille, while blushing scarlet under Falco’s stern gaze. “The, ah, Euxinos….” As Usi’s presence dissolved from her mind like a fading dream, her ability to think began to rally back into working order. She gave Camille a soft, abashed laugh to go with the blush. “Mr. Falco always says if I spent more time studying I might actually learn something. I’m afraid I expended pretty much my entire knowledge of the late Roman Empire with that one comment about Byzantine religious art. It sounds very interesting, though.” She smiled sheepishly at the girl, then darted a guiltily apologetic glance at Falco.

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Call it an oversight on my part that I’ve yet to mention the Sea Dogges here. For those of you who listen to RPG podcasts you might already be familiar with Springfrield’s own Capt’n Black’s Sea Dogges. Former podcasters, Chuck and Lonnie, of the Dragon’s Landing Inn are members and it was that connection that brought the Sea Dogges to my attention. Now, you might not know why I consider this a gross oversight. Let me explain.

In January there is a small con here in Springfield called VisionCon. It was at VisionCon that I interviewed C&L for the Bear Swarm! and went on to bootleg a Sea Dogges impromptu show. That entire show was released on the Bear Swarm! site free of charge over a month ago. Yet I forgot that I have a music blog to write about it. Oh well, better late then never.

Aside from having an hour worth of free music already linked to in this article, here’s a video for one of their original songs. I hope you all enjoy it.

And his writer, Daniel Way!  Apparently, this sign also announces that, somehow, Hit-Monkey will also be there.  How will this occur?  F*ck if I know, but you know what?  I’m going to find out!

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That’s right folks!  Next Wednesday, even more exciting than Daniel Way, Deadpool, and Hit-Monkey combined, no other than I, PAUL, will be in Florida, and you can be damn sure I can be seen at the event being held as A Comic Shop in Winter Park, Fl!  Planning on being in the area?  Let me know in the comments section below!  And check out my last visit to A Comic Shop here!

I know…I really wish I had something snarky to say about this.  I almost always do.  But the only thing I really don’t like about these Iron Man 2 trailers is their use of the Black Sabbath son.  I really kind of hate that song.

Lots of awesome fanboy moments – I wish they’d focus on Black Widow a little more (cuz she’s hot), but really, the appearance of the briefcase armor, the War Machine appearance…it’s all pretty kick ass.  The appearance of a ton of Iron Man-type bots has me hopeful that they’re building up to us seeing some Hulkbuster armor in the eventual Avengers movie.

Iron Man is due out in theaters (and IMAX) on May 7.  But not in 3D.  Thank god.

This week, Aron provides marital advice while Jonathan, Wayne and Paul take notes.

• Siege Update
  • Invincible Iron Man #24
  • The Mighty Avengers #34
• Justice League: Cry for Justice #7
• Fall of the Hulks Update
  • Savage She Hulks #1
• Green Hornet #1
• Ultimate Avengers #5
• New Ultimates #1
• What if were writing the Ultimate Universe?

At GenCon 2009, Aron was on a panel about the work which goes on behind the podcast.  With folks from TrapCast and The Brilliant Gameologists, social networking and community building are discussed.  Check it out!

Also, Kicked in the Dicebags’ fiftieth episodes was released this weekend!  It’s awesome because Chris and Jonathan aren’t on it and Aron is!  Enjoy a cultured, sophisticated Kicked in the Dicebags.

Stay tuned to the site in the coming week for lots of Fear The Con coverage.

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Man, I am super excited about the upcoming Johns/Manapul relaunch of The Flash¸starting this April.  And it looks like DC is too – they’re sending out tons of awesome preview art that really make this book look like a Flash we’ve never seen before.  One thing we’ve been complaining about in books like Flash: Rebirth is that we don’t get that sense of speed that we should from a character like ol’ Barry Allen.  Well, as the sketches below illustrate, Manapul’s looking very hard into correcting that.

Preview images:

Flash Fact: Some of the preview art above actually comes from The Flash: Secret Files and Origins, which is due out 3/24, and will feature Flash art by Manapul and Scott Kolins!

Also coming is a chance, from DC, to win a signed copy of the first issue, if you’re a Twitter follower!

Starting 4/7 and continuing during the week leading up to the release of THE FLASH #1, DC NATION’s Twitter account will be asking one Flash-related question a day. The first five Flash fans who correctly answer the question will be eligible to win a signed copy of one of DC’s biggest new launches of 2010. Think you’re an expert in all things Flash? Well, get ready to have your Scarlet Speedster knowledge tested, pal. Not only will I be bringing my years of Flash fandom to the task at hand, but I’ve enlisted the writer of THE FLASH himself, Mr. Geoff Johns to help me in crafting questions that will be far from simple.

We’ll announce all the legal goodies and rules on 4/7, the day before the contest actually launches. In the meantime, you can prep for the fun by signing up for a Twitter account if you don’t have one. Once that’s done, take a moment to start following DC NATION, THE FLASH writer Geoff Johns and artist Francis Manapul.

CUE: OCD Old Man Rant

I’m not much on the all you can eat buffet.

Sure, when I was 20 years old nothing excited me more than a pizza buffet.  I remember once, when complaining to Mama at Mama’s Pizza that more pizza was needed on the hot table, she told me I’d had enough.  I had to emphasize to her that it was not all she could eat.  Rather, it was all I could eat.

But those days are long gone.

Unless you’re visiting some uptown Sunday morning brunch, most of the food on a buffet is quantity over quality.  Not so at Sweet Tomatoes (aka Soup Plantation). I love the selection.  Fresh salads, wide variety of soup, potato bar, fresh breads… Yummy, healthy choices!

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Hello there boils and ghouls!  It’s time for another wild and wacky version of PAUL’S MOTHER FRAKIN HORROR FLICKS!  Hell to the yes!  The excitement is boiling over isn’t it?  You’re just sitting there, laptop on the sink as you wait for the body in your bathtub to be eaten away by the battery acid, just DYING to know what movies we’re going to talk about this week.  Well, horror hounds, wonder no more, for today you get THREE horror reviews, of classic (coughmostlyshittycough) 80’s horror madness!

• Madman
• The Funhouse
• Happy Birthday to Me!

What are you waiting for?  A demonic incantation?  Continue reading after the jump!

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Casey resisted the urge to jerk around and look behind her; instead she let her eyes unfocus as she sipped her tea, reaching out with her psi senses toward the area behind her, searching for minds that felt dangerous or out of place.

She sensed the usual jumble of humanity that she had learned to screen out…

…and then something LEAPT out at her in the crowd… a sense of living hatred… powerful and deadly.

Her eyes widened for a moment, then she carefully schooled her features back into an expression of friendly interest for Camille’s benefit. Leaning back in her chair, she turned slightly and scanned the crowd with what she hoped was a casual gaze. “Yeah, Austin does have more than its share of weirdos, doesn’t it?”

“That it does,” she heard the girl respond.

Casey zeroed in on the chilling, hateful entity, trying to identify its physical presence. A small crowd of darkly clad men and women were milling about across the street. In the center of them was a man wearing a black trench coat. The garment seemed less like a coat than a cloak. The color was not black, but death. His dark hair was long, flowing about his head like a mane.

A lion, she realized. He was not at all unlike a predator, proud in his viciousness — self assured in the knowledge that he was the deadliest most dangerous animal of all.

Casey frowned slightly, taking in the death-cloaked predator and his entourage with an uneasy mix of wariness and fascination. “Some weirder than others,” she commented absently to Camille. And to Falco, **Who is that?**
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