Piranha Quasar comic book distro

Ordered a bunch of these comics a couple weeks ago. They're all pretty diverting. And very well drawn, of course.

The real memorable stand-out titles were Pain Pig's Progress, The Spazmos of Mojo County and New World Disorder. The alien planets with the Amazons and the two-legged-dinosaur-hot-babe hybrid got kind of repetitive and old after a while. You have to wonder if the artists don't have some kind of fetish for grotesquely aggressive women. Also, they seem to really have it in for Feminists. Feminists must be a particularly virulent breed down under. They're barely on the radar here in the states.

Also, I was disappointed that there wasn't more sex. There was more than enough gore, that's for sure. Get kind of tired of seeing ultra-bloody decapitations, dismemberments and disembowelments.

Pain Pig was a real treat, though. Loved the artwork, the tale spinning and the word play.

I first saw these guy's artwork in Robin Bougie's wonderful Sleazy Slice comics. The story was Deep Strife In Mastodon Valley, an excellent story.

Resistance Magazine #3, Winter 2010

Morally justified, morally superior, messianic microbe-sized Davids versus the Mega-Machine Goliath. I don't like those odds.

Also got a lot of Leftist style crap in it. I'm not reading this shit anymore.

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Just another dyke hangout. Dykestorm.

Asheville Arthaus Hostel

The entry in the Moon Handbooks: North Carolina for the Asheville Arthaus Hostel should be updated: bare bones amenities, lunatic proprietor, $50-$150.

"Out of Control: A Journal of Abiotic Vampirism #1" zine by David Drexler

A real tour de force. Really captures the madness that pervades our techno sodden world. Also contains one of Francis E. Dec's mind-blowing rants as an appendix.

Viz #190

Has a fair amount of small laughs, better than usual. But the real treat here is the panel in Felix and his Amazing Underpants when he goes trick-or-treating and pulls his underpants over his head and strikes a mock-threatening pose, naked from the waist down, at the door of Mr. Gratoli. Her reaction: "Jesus Christ", had me laughing like a loon. Beautiful.

Karl "Blood on the Saddle" Benedec

Probably hemorrhoid blood.