Cthonic Bastard out of Carolina

What makes this video worser than worse is that while watching it, I can smell the snow crab legs my wife is eating in the other room.

Cool Spy Gadgets
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She Blinded Me With Super-science

As part of his series on "Secret Services," Chris Roberson today discussed several special organizations from comic-dom: Section Zero from Image Comics, Amalgam's "What-If" portmanteau Challengers of the Fantastic, and John Byrnes's Danger Unlimited. For anyone who enjoys superscientific spy-fi as much as I do, I highly recommend dropping by Mr. Roberson's neighborhood frequently. In that, past he has written about everything from the BPRD to the Diogenes Club, and, most recently, has commented that Section Zero inspired his own work.

This Old Bunker

So, you want to take over the world? You've got your doomsday device. You've got your army of henchmen in matching boiler suits. Now, where to put them all. Sure, the housing market in the U.S. is firmly the realm of the buyer, but what evil genius wants to set up shop on a cul-de-sac in the suburbs? Especially with today's gas prices.

Why not try Merry Olde England? A quick perusal of A Guide to Avengerland: A Guide To The Locations Used During The Filming of Classic British Television Series will show just how ripe Great Britain is for nefarious conspiracies. After all, if it's good enough for Professor Schnipps, it's good enough for anyone. Subterranea Britannica is a collection of maps and photos of abandoned military and scientific posts

h/t www.livingdice.com

Trask, the Last Tyromancer writes:

Malcolm Craig, author of "Hot War," the pointed me towards a fascinating site from the UK with dozens of maps and images of old military installations.

Most of the locations have both original images that show them in their prime, maps and modern images that show the ravages of time. This is one of the best gaming resources I found recently. The maps and images would make great supplements to any modern or post-apocalyptic game.

If you want to see what is available, this link takes you directly to the "good stuff," but check out the entire site. It is chock full of gaming goodness.



Bunkers and Installations


Trask, The Last Tyromancer

Things To Read in London When The World Is Dead
h/t hannibalchew

After The Rain (1958) by John Bowen
The Death of Grass (1957) by John Christopher
The World In Winter (1962) by John Christopher
The Ragged Edge (1962) by John Christopher
The Burning World (1964) by JG Ballard
The Drowned World (1962) by JG Ballard
The Wind From Nowhere (1961) by JG Ballard
Implosion (1967) by DF Jones
Denver Is Missing (1971) by DF Jones
Fugue for a Darkening Island (1973) by Christopher Priest

What Hath Alex Toth?

Rubin Espinosa has assembled an impressive collection of Alex Toth drawings, some of which I've never seen before, at his Collecting Fool site. These Huns were from Birdman, but the site also has examples of his work from everything from Herculoids to Huckleberry Finn. When I look at Toth's stuff and compare it to the Ren & Stimpy clones that pass for cartoon "art" these days, I weep.

Evil Geniuses, KGB Agents, and Bikini Girls in the Victoria & Albert Museum This October 31st!

Evil Geniuses, KGB Agents, and Bikini Girls in the Victoria & Albert Museum This October 31st!



h/t the Copplestone Castings mailing list

Nick Lund and I are getting very arty and doing a demo of the Kiss Kiss Bang Bang game at London`s Victoria and Albert Museum on 31st October as part of the Cold War Modern Exhibition.

Before then there will be lots more KKBB miniatures and scenery – Evil Geniuses (including Robo-Fuhrer), KGB men, Rogue Agents, Bikini Girls, Guards in Hats, missile silo equipment and all the doorways (from blast doors to vaults) you could ever want - and new packs from Artizan too.

http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=KKB
http://www.artizandesigns.com/catalogue.asp?sub_range=25

At the V&A we’ll be playing two scenarios for our DIY boardgame:

MY MISSILE`S BIGGER THAN YOURS

A top secret US nuclear missile silo has been seized by the Evil Genius Obermass and his boiler-suited minions. Unless he is paid $1,000,000 he will use it to obliterate an idyllic small town somewhere in America. Whilst schoolchildren practise ducking and covering, a specially selected, racially de-segregated team of US agents has entered the base through a secret entrance known only to the Pentagon – they only have a short time to prevent the launch.

ICH BIN EIN BERLINER (or Carry On Under the Kurfurstendamm)

In a network of dirty and decaying bunkers underneath the Berlin Wall a group of British agents is attempting to smuggle a defecting Soviet general into the British Sector. The British team comprises our 3 top men plus several new recruits (bearing a strong resemblance to members of the Carry On team). Pursuing them is a gang of KGB heavies led by the deadly Kolonel Krepps. But all is not as it seems: the Soviet general is playing a double game. Or is he?

French Connection Friday Late - Cold War Modern

Friday 31 October 2008
18.30–22.00, Throughout the Museum - FREE

Celebrate the mind-expanding visions of the hi-tech sixties. French Connection Friday Late invites you to 'turn on, tune in and drop out' with an evening of music, film, talks, games and happenings devoted to the Cold War Modern exhibition.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/cold-war-modern/exhibition

Mark Copplestone

Sigue Sigue Sputnik - "Love Missle F-111"