Showing posts with label Hokum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hokum. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

The Return of... Plague Bringer!!!


In celebration of the fact that Plague Bringer is back and playing their first show in ten years at this year's Forever Deaf Fest in Chicago on April 1st and I grabbed tickets HERE.

These guys have such a small internet presence. Thanks to the Spreading the Plague YouTube channel HERE for posting this video. Lots of great stuff on this channel - go check it out.




NCBD:

What a great week! Let's go:


I really enjoyed issue 3 of David and Maria Lapham's Good as Dead, so I'm charged for #4! This book has some really interesting things going on in the background, and apparently, that's about to go off this issue!


This bi-weekly schedule for GIJOE's Dreadnok War storyline has really given the book the boost it needed! We've got major The Hills Have Eyes vibes in the outback with everyone's favorite grape soda addicts, and now that we've gotten an almost otherworldly, animalistic view of Cobra Commander, the pull on this one has strengthened for me quite a bit. 


I recently covered Tynion and Walsh's Exquisite Corpses on The Dread Broadcast because I think it's a book people need to know about. 


It feels like it's been forever since the first issue of Dan Jurgens, Mike Perkins and Mike Spicer's follow-up to last year's Bat-Noir, Bat-Man: First Knight, which I wrote about HERE. So far, I dig this new series just as much as the first; I could literally read one of these every year and be pretty happy. Batman fits 1930s Noir so well, and these creators really flourish in the style. 





Watch:

Finally! The trailer I saw for Damian McCarthy's new film Hokum has hit YouTube, and I can share it! I know, I know - I don't normally like to watch trailers. I saw this before Sisu: Road to Revenge last month and was left jaw agape - another fantastic Neon trailer that shows us so much without telling us anything at all. Now that's how trailers should be!


Especially for McCarthy's films, which, to date, with Caveat and Oddity, are extremely unique and unnerving creations. Hokum - out May 1st - looks to be no different. 




Playlist:

Tim Hecker - Infinity Pool OST
Bluekarma - The Information
The Afghan Whigs - Gentleman
Frank Black and the Catholics - One More Road for the Hit
Ritual Howls - Ruin
Drain - ... Is Your Friend
Plaguebringer - As the Ghosts Collect, the Corpses Rest
Orville Peck - Pony
Radiohead - Kid A
Radiohead - OK Computer
Dreamkid - Daggers
Eldov - A Story of Darkness and Light
Mondo Decay - Nun Gun
Massive Attack - Mezzanine




Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.


• Four of Wands
• Seven of Wands
• Eight of Cups

Don't allow harmony to convince you to drop your guard.