Issue Issue 125 August 2012 (2024)

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DEPARTMENTSNOTE FROM UNDERGROUNDOne of Ray Bradbury’s most famous quotes reads, “I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.” There’s a nice double meaning to those words. There’s the more obvious one within the context of genre, in which the author is using fantasy (or in the case of Fahrenheit 451, science fiction – he was specific about the terms) to show us what might wait at the end of the dangerous road we’re travelling, as he did with The Martian Chronicles. Published in 1950, as the Cold War was ramping up, the short story collection concerns humans attempting to colonize Mars after ruining Earth via a nuclear holocaust, and the conflict between them and the Martians whose planet they invade. When he says “I try to prevent it”…4 min

DEPARTMENTSPOST-MORTEMI’VE BEEN A SUBSCRIBER and reader since 2005 and I have to say, what’s up with Dave Alexander trying his best to constantly discount any type of “spirituality?” His Note From Underground on The Entity (RM#124) was unreal. He turns it into some typical modern indie diatribe on rape and feels the need to not mention any of the “veracity of that claim” about the real woman that story is based on. All of his Notes are like this. Isn’t horror the genre that deals with concepts of good and evil, our mortality, and the supernatural? I love how Dave always gets his little bites in by contrasting the supernatural with “real life.” I even notice your very intentional ways of never capitalizing “God” but instead capitalizing “Devil.” Weird and…4 min

DEPARTMENTSWOULD YOU RATHER WEDNESDAY?WOULD YOU RATHER go skinny dipping with the quiet new girl at Sleepaway Camp, or take young Jason Voorhees out canoeing at Camp Crystal Lake?New girl. I might get some from her.JÖSHTOPUS REX QUIETQuiet new girl who also has a penis. Yes, a penis.SAMUEL ROBERT SCHROEDERBahahaha! I would pick Jason. I mean, he’s all waterlogged and not much of a threat, yet.BRANDON BLAKEI’d HANG with the quiet girl. Ha!LEWIS TICEI’ll take the canoe trip. At least I’d have the advantage of whacking Jason upside the head with an oar if he got out of line.GREGORY G. KURCZYNSKILooks like someone already beat you to the punch there, Gregory.GREG BROWNI think both would make playing Marco Polo not so fun.FELICIA FURY…1 min

DEPARTMENTSEXORCIST PLAY UPDATES ORIGINAL NOVEL WITH MODERN EVILSAt a time when we have Legally Blonde: The Musical, Shrek: The Musical and even Evil Dead: The Musical, it was perhaps inevitable that The Exorcist would show up on stage. The live theatre version, which plays through August 12 at Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse, is neither a musical nor a take on the movie, however, but rather an adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s 1971 novel of the same name.John Pielmeier – whose play and film Agnes of God concerns a nun who strangles her newborn upon claiming she was impregnated by God – penned the stage version of the story, after approaching Blatty personally for permission to adapt the tale.“To be honest, the play just came spilling out of me,” he recalls. “It was actually not much of a…3 min

DEPARTMENTSSLIPKNOT LAUNCHES APOCALYPSE-THEMED MUSIC FESTThe culture of Slipknot is spreading. On August 17 and 18, the Grammy-winning metal collective is set to stage two day-long events called Knotfest, one in the band’s home state of Iowa and another in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Joined by other ear-crushing acts such as Lamb of God, Dethklok, Cannibal Corpse and Deftones, Slipknot’s inaugural branded event will cap a string of sporadic tour dates that the group has embarked upon – including its current headlining slot on the 26-date Rockstar Mayhem Festival – since bassist Paul Gray fatally overdosed in May 2010.According to percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan, the atmosphere of Knotfest will be more in line with the immersive tone of European festivals, and will be wrapped in a “pagan, ritualistic and apocalyptic” motif, with fire-breathers, stilt-walkers, amusem*nt park rides,…3 min

DEPARTMENTSFIRST AND FINAL MAN-THING COMICS TO BE RELEASED TOGETHER THIS HALLOWEENWhat’s green and corrosive and feels your pain? It’s Marvel’s Man-Thing, the empathic swamp creature that returned last month in a three-issue comic book miniseries, penned by a writer four years deceased. More than twenty years in the making, The Infernal Man-Thing is set to be bundled with the 1974 story that inspired it in a new trade paperback release scheduled for October 31.Created by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, Man-Thing first appeared in the May 1971 issue of Marvel’s Savage Tales, and amassed its biggest following in 1974 and 1975 during an eponymous 22-issue run scripted by the late Steve Gerber, who succumbed to pulmonary fibrosis in 2008.According to artist Kevin Nowlan – whose sketched layouts served as the basis for the final Man-Thing story – Gerber…2 min

Issue Issue 125 August 2012 (2024)

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