Greatest Zombie Shirt Ever

Everyone loves swag. Everyone really loves San Diego Comic-Con swag. This year Cap-Com is giving away a zombie shirt to die for to promote their Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles game.

X-Sanguin VIII

If you are going to Comic-Con, go over to X-Sanguin and pick up your tickets for the largest, hippest after-hours party in San Diego. Last year WildClaw's Aly and Charlie got in with Dave Dorman, L. A. Banks, and Tony Swatton to have an excellent night out with the freaks.

Comic-Con 2009 :Jason Swag

Behold horror swag you won't be able to get unless you are lucky enough to go to San Diego!

Limited to just 500 pcs worldwide (only 400 for San Diego Comic-Con), this Jason Voorhees Bust from Gentle Giant stands approximately 8 inches tall and comes with a spear along with a removable mask revealing the terror underneath! In 1957, a young boy named Jason Voorhees drowned at Crystal Lake Camp. In 1958, two camp counselors are murdered. In 1962, fires and bad water thwarted attempts to reopen the Crystal Lake Camp. Now in 1979, Crystal Lake is finally set to reopen, ignoring the warnings from a local wacko. The murders by a mysterious stalker start once again.

While at the AFX booth, be sure to get this exclusive Jason Voorhees bust autographed FREE by the actor who portrayed him in Friday the 13th Part VI (Jason Lives) – C.J. Graham! C.J. will be appearing at the AFX booth at various times throughout the show (times to be posted in during the show at the AFX booth).

From Comic-Con 2009 :: Exclusives! Page 1 at www.comic-con.org

In Love with a Wookie...Sci-fi as a Gateway to Horror

So you've recently seen a photo of myself and a wookie at San Diego Comic Con last year...but our love began at a much earlier age. Here we are in Orlando at the Ewok Village...me at the tender age of 15 (and yes that is a fanny pack...if that isn't horrifying enough for this blog post...then I don't know what scary is anymore).

My love for all things sci-fi started with repeated Star Wars viewings at the age of two. I could not get enough of it and my parents took me to the theatre to see it at least four times. They then fed my cravings for more by bringing me home an action figure or a ship nearly every week. My father eagerly helped me cut out the upc's from the card backs to send in for Obi Wan and the much coveted Boba Fett! I still own the bulk of my star wars collectibles as well as throw pillow and Empire Strikes Back sleeping bag (which gets regular use to this day). From Star Wars I moved onto the saturday tv shows...Svengooli and creature features. Godzilla and Gamura. Wolfman and Sinbad. I loved my Ray Harryhausen...

Sci-fi proved to be a great 'gateway' drug to horror for me. There's probably a safer way to ease into the scary movies though...I went straight from Star Wars to Alien at the tender age of four. Let's just say my parents rarely curtailed my television viewing. I was petrified of spaghetti for quite some time. However I distinctly remember being more worried that the alien would eat the kitty then the alien eating Tom Skeritt.

I started reading science fiction books a couple years later. Ray Bradbury was a favorite. I remember pouring over the novelization of V and loving it...but being very confused by what a "guerilla" was. From there it was only a matter of time before I was working my way through Stephen King and Clive Barker books...no wonder I was an insomniac.

Sigh...but all along my love for horror has only been rivaled by my love for science fiction (well maybe my love for superheroes is also a competitor). And nothing is better when the two mix it up together...like peanut butter in my chocolate. Check out some of these for a sweet sweet taste...Event Horizon,Alien Quadrilogy, and The Ray Bradbury Theater

Vectar the Intolerable vs SDCC

Vectar the Intolerable gives you a cranky overview of San Diego Comic-Con 2008. He tries mightily to understand why we must gorge on pop culture. All brought to you by MimoZine from Mimobot.


Aly and Chewbacca share a tender moment at SDCC 08

Is this horror? Do fat men in tights scare you? Then, yes, this is horror. The horror of the real.

The Ladies of Horror (SDCC 08)

Over at KPBS Comic-Con News they have a fun set of interviews from the floor of the San Diego Comic-Con 2008. Women like Jovanka Vuckovic, Elvira and Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser) all talk about their horror fun. Jovanka has a great quote in the middle of the piece - "We need more chicks in horror!"

What Does A Vampire Killing Sword Look Like?

WildClaw Theatre's good friend, L. A. Banks has seen a piece of her fictional Vampire Huntress world come to life. Here is a video of Leslie seeing her character Damali Richards' vampire killing sword, Madame Isis, for the first time at the San Diego Comic-Con this summer. The sword was made by Hollywood armouror, Tony Swatton, for The Devil's Candy Store.



This sword has a unique blade with four blood gutters. This means that the wound will be in the shape of a cross in any said vampire one might run through with this handy weapon. Hmm... nasty.

Bonus - the video also features WildClaw's Aly and Charlie (shooting the video).

San Diego Comic-Con 08 Part 1

Charlie and Aly are back from the madness and horror that is San Diego as they spent time in The Devil's Candy Store booth with Leslie Banks, Kevin J. Anderson, Dean Haglund, and many more assorted creators. But Aly actually spent some quality time with a very happy Wookie.



More convention news and photos to come. Like this one from the X-Sanguin VII Ball where Aly actually met said Wookie. Trust me, gun-toting elves ain't the half of it.

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X-Sanguin VII

San Diego Weeeeee!

Here's a pic of the Dark horse booth....

The Devils at San Diego Comic-Con 08 This Week!

Come on by The Devil's Candy Store booth #1704 this week at the San Diego Comic-Con. We'll have L. A. Banks in our booth signing Vampire Huntress merchandise created by our own devils.


Dave Dorman's cover art. © 08 Dave Dorman.

Plus, you can pick up "Sex. Death. Art." t-shirts:


Modeled by one of WildClaw's badass babes, Anne.

And Zippos™:

Wildclaw at San Diego Comic Con!

Come on by the Devil's Candy Store at Booth #1704 to meet me and Charlie...you know you want to...

And then buy some sweet swag...maybe tell us why you love horror, ask us about Deathscribe, or ask us to spatter you with blood. We will do it...you think I'm kidding.