Jack Foster
@recklesseyeballs
Comics Outlier, Hairy Handed Gent, Gay as a 3 Dollar Bill, He/Him www.GUNcomic.com
Friends! I'll be in San Diego signing at the 🏳️🌈 Prism Booth 🏳️🌈 (Hall C Booth 2144) 🍒 TODAY Thursday 5-6 🍒 TOMORROW Friday 10-11 SWING BI! SAY HI!
Got the A24 Backroomz Zine! Mostly a reprint of 🟡 The Yellow Wallpaper 🟨 which I suppose you could make a case for being a Backroom prequel. TYW is one of those stories, like Rappuccini’s Daughter that feels like a bone English Lit classes throw Weird Tales enthusiasts between classics
Sodastream’s version of Dr Pepper is called Dr Pete who sounds like the name you put in your phone for your coke dealer
Breakrooms is at its most striking when it lets the bizarre world it's created resist explanation. The unintelligible signs - the language of dreams - you suspect even if you could retrace your steps they wouldn’t take you back to where you entered because reality is always shifting...
Nova Swing, the 2nd book, shifts genre to a noirish thriller set in the melancholicly named Saudade City, a planet on the edge of the tract. MJH trades Stalkers for Entradistas & we meet Vic Serotonin, running goods in & out of the zone & discovering there may actually be 2way traffic.
M John Harrison picked up the baton & ran w it in his New Weird/Space Opera ‘Empty Space’ trilogy. The Kefahuchi Tract ‘a black hole with no event horizon’ spills ‘rogue physics’ into the universe, in the form of sentient code, unquantifiable tech and, you guessed it, dangerous artifacts.
In Picnic a govt institution collects bizarre artifacts left behind by a presumed alien visitation. Stalkers enter the ‘zones’ & steal artifacts to sell on black markets (& gives the ’79 movie it’s title)… Dave McKean illustrated a gorgeous Folio Ed👇 www.foliosociety.com/row/roadside-picnic
If you saw Breakrooms & vibed w its weirdness and the idea of pyschogeography in general & wanted some further reading, look no further: Breakrooms owes a debt to 70s Russian Sci Fi cult classic, Roadside Picnic by bros Strugatsky, a progenitor of weird books by Van DerMeer (Annihilation) & Miéville
Me over my morning Joe, is that a hint of gooseberry I detect🧐 Am I an absolute mark for falling this stuff?
I dont wanna know your favourite films or music recs... I just want to know your top four picks for a DC Finest comics collection.
Here’s some hot Demon Cakezzz (hotcakes?) from the Doom that came to Gotham animated 🔥🍰