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Give Me the Night: An Evil Love Story by Martin Scanlan

Public Service Announcement Time: Just a reminder, I’d like to pause for a moment to thank everyone who helped to make our #GETINFECTED book giveaway a huge success. You all successfully helped raise awareness about one of my favorite new independently published zombie series’, and for that I am incredibly grateful. The winner, selected by randomizing all of the entries, was Sean (@OddNMacabre) one of our Twitter followers. Congratulations Sean! I’ve passed along your information to the Zukos and your books should be on their way to you very soon. Didn’t win? You can still pick up either The Infected: Jim’s First Day or The Infected: Karen’s First Day for $3.99 each on Amazon or read them for free if you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program… Give Me The Night: An Evil Love Story by Martin Scanlan was a book I came across in one of my horror writing groups. Being a fan

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Fox Emm
Aug 8, 2015
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Review: Zenescope Comics’ “Grimm Tales of Terror # 13”

This issue is the final book in Volume One of the Grimm Tales of Terror series. The issue is entitled “Dead Girl Walking”. The book opens with Keres the Goddess of Death posing as a bartender at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. The murderously macabre vixen has set her sights set on an older man at the bar. The older man at the bar has been wolfishly eyeing an obviously younger women from afar. It is evident that his intentions are not pure as he slips off his wedding ring and asks the bartender to make him a drink. She mixes his drink and warns him that he should be careful when meeting new people because you can’t always tell what they’re like from looking at them. She then offers to tell him a tale while she pours him the shots he requested.He would do well to take her words to heart. It is also ironic because the reader

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Capt McNeely
Aug 4, 2015
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Review: Dark Horse Comics’ “Negative Space # 1”

It took me several weeks to obtain a copy of Negative Space # 1 to review as I prefer to review comics in print. It was sold out at every local shop but was available online. After reading it I now understand why. This comic is game-changing. This comic will change lives. I mean that. *Spoiler Alert* The story starts with an American Indian writer named Guy Harris who is struggling with writer’s block. However, this isn’t just any story that he is attempting to pen. He is writing his suicide note. Guy decides to go for an evening stroll to try to calm his mind. He isn’t trying to talk himself out of taking his own life. Rather he is looking for the words to express his feelings to those he will leave behind. He goes to order from a local coffee truck ran by his friend Woody. He gets his coffee and Woody can sense something is wrong.

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Capt McNeely
Jul 26, 2015
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Review: Dark Horse Comics’ “Death Head # 1”

The premier issue of this comic follows the members of the Burton family in three different plotlines. The first part revolves around Niles and Justine Burton. They are an expectant couple who are going for a weekend camping trip in a National Park for their “babymoon”. They have decided that they need time to bond and unwind before the arrival of their new baby. Instead they find an abandoned town full of moths, with a creepy crematorium, and sinister secrets. The second storyline follows their daughter Maggie who is attending a Catholic school, although she is far from saintly. She has a problem with authority, attending school, following the rules, and no faith in God at all as it turns out. However, she does have a spiritual awakening of sorts with the help of some shrooms she got from the girl she is in love with. The third and final feature follows their son named Bee who is being bullied

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Capt McNeely
Jul 22, 2015
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Review: Dark Horse Comics’ “The Strain: The Night Eternal # 11”

This is the penultimate issue of The Strain: The Night Eternal series of comics and it is just as exhilarating to read as the show on FX is to watch. The tagline of the comic reads: “FUEL UP FOR THE FINALE-LAST STOP FOR GAS BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD!” I found that to be very appropriate because the reader is taken for a joyride, with the pedal to the metal from page one. The issue starts off with a bang both literally and figuratively as we find the group of survivors being hounded by a horde of ravenous vampires. While fleeing from this onslaught of bloodsuckers they get split up into two teams. On the way back to the rendezvous point Gus and Nora spot a helicopter and decide to track it. What, or rather who, they discover there will change everything. Vasiliy, Quinlan, and Ephraim reach the meeting place and there they encounter an older couple who tell

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Capt McNeely
Jul 19, 2015
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Review: Dark Horse Comics’ “Harrow County # 3”

You know that old saying that the third time is the charm? Well, whoever said it was dead on. Issue # 3 of Harrow County is better than the first two installments, and that is saying a lot. Just when I thought that there is nothing that Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook could do better, they prove me wrong. This issue took the best parts of the first two and melded them into the magnum opus that is Issue #3. This issue begins with Emmy and Bernice surrounded by ghosts who have awakened from their eternal repose. They get closer and closer until Emmy screams at them to stop. They obey her and she is bewildered by it. She screams at them again in frustration because she believes that they were trying to scare her. They shiver in fear and this frightens Emmy. Emmy and Bernice quickly make their way past the gravestones leaving these “haints” behind. It is not

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Capt McNeely
Jul 18, 2015
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Video Game Review: Telltale’s The Walking Dead

With Comic-Con wrapping up and AMC’s “The Walking Dead” 6th season revealed I decided to take a look back at Telltale’s game adaptation of “The Walking Dead”. This game was released back in 2012 and won Spike’s Video Game of the Year award for which it got a lot of backlash for mainly because it came out of no where and was competing against a lot of other and better games I.E Darksiders 2 and Dishonored. I personally was upset that this won because from a gameplay stand point and I would go on to be-grudge this game until I eventually picked it up and now playing through it for a second time I can now understand why this would win Game of the Year. As you can see graphically wise, it ditches the ultra-realism that most games aim for and instead uses cel-shading. I personally enjoy cell-shaded games, some of my favorite games of all time are cell-shaded but

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Capt McNeely
Jul 18, 2015
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Marvel Announces A New Blade Comic Series With Female Lead

Marvel Comics has just announced that there will be a new series featuring a day-walking, vampire-hunting, badass coming this fall. Blade, who was born Eric Brooks, won’t be the titular character this time out though. This time around it will be his 16 year old daughter, Fallon Grey, who will be kicking undead ass and taking names. She will also probably be taking notes seeing as she is still in High School. Fans of the Blade franchise shouldn’t be worried though, as he will still be there to mentor her as a father and train her as a monster hunter. (No word on who the mother is yet) While the comic franchise is getting a reboot, there have also been rumors of the possibility of a new Blade film, which we reported on here. Blade #1 is set to debut this October. In the meantime, stay tuned for further updates on both the comic and the film.

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Capt McNeely
Jul 17, 2015
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Review: Image Comics’ “Outcast # 10”

Outcast follows Kyle Barnes, a man who has been tormented by demonic possession his whole life. He has been labeled an “outcast” by the demons, although he is unsure what that means. He even has a newfound ability to “pull” demons out of others. In his quest to find answers and make sense of the world around him he uncovers a more sinister plot. This issue begins right where the last left off with Kyle and Reverend Anderson having just exorcised a demon from a girl named Sherry. Kyle is troubled because the girl is now left in a catatonic state just as his own mother was. He is starting to question his faith and wonders if they both would’ve been better off before he had intervened. In the meantime, the mysterious “Man In Black” visits another church member and they seem to conspire against Kyle and the Reverend. Whatever he is up to with these church members, it can’t

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Capt McNeely
Jul 15, 2015
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Giveaway: The Infected Book 1 & 2 by Joseph Zuko

Friends, regular readers, and strangers who were drawn here by the presence of the word “giveaway” in the post title, it is my pleasure to announce that today we will be launching a giveaway of two books I’ve read and reviewed right here on Zombie Apocalypse Defense Force. Writer Joseph ‘Zombie’ Zuko and his wonderful wife have graciously offered up a copy of both The Infected: Jim’s First Day and The Infected: Karen’s First Day for one of our lucky readers! (I’ve linked the reviews for your convenience, just in case you missed them earlier.) The series is excellent! Zuko is a fantastic storyteller who manages to intermingle character development, heartbreaking sentiments, along with gore and action sequences. If you’re a zombie fan and have been looking for a thrilling read, then you’ve come to the right place, but if you aren’t convinced here are the book descriptions of these 4.5 and 5 star rated reads: The Infected: Jim’s First

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Fox Emm
Jul 15, 2015

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Give Me the Night: An Evil Love Story by Martin Scanlan

Public Service Announcement Time: Just a reminder, I’d like to pause for a moment to thank everyone who helped to make our #GETINFECTED book giveaway a huge success. You all successfully helped raise awareness about one of my favorite new independently published zombie series’, and for that I am incredibly grateful. The winner, selected by randomizing all of the entries, was Sean (@OddNMacabre) one of our Twitter followers. Congratulations Sean! I’ve passed along your information to the Zukos and your books should be on their way to you very soon. Didn’t win? You can still pick up either The Infected: Jim’s First Day or The Infected: Karen’s First Day for $3.99 each on Amazon or read them for free if you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program… Give Me The Night: An Evil Love Story by Martin Scanlan was a book I came across in one of my horror writing groups. Being a fan

Continue reading →
Fox Emm
Aug 8, 2015
Horror Fuel

Review: Zenescope Comics’ “Grimm Tales of Terror # 13”

This issue is the final book in Volume One of the Grimm Tales of Terror series. The issue is entitled “Dead Girl Walking”. The book opens with Keres the Goddess of Death posing as a bartender at the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. The murderously macabre vixen has set her sights set on an older man at the bar. The older man at the bar has been wolfishly eyeing an obviously younger women from afar. It is evident that his intentions are not pure as he slips off his wedding ring and asks the bartender to make him a drink. She mixes his drink and warns him that he should be careful when meeting new people because you can’t always tell what they’re like from looking at them. She then offers to tell him a tale while she pours him the shots he requested.He would do well to take her words to heart. It is also ironic because the reader

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Capt McNeely
Aug 4, 2015
Horror Fuel

Review: Dark Horse Comics’ “Negative Space # 1”

It took me several weeks to obtain a copy of Negative Space # 1 to review as I prefer to review comics in print. It was sold out at every local shop but was available online. After reading it I now understand why. This comic is game-changing. This comic will change lives. I mean that. *Spoiler Alert* The story starts with an American Indian writer named Guy Harris who is struggling with writer’s block. However, this isn’t just any story that he is attempting to pen. He is writing his suicide note. Guy decides to go for an evening stroll to try to calm his mind. He isn’t trying to talk himself out of taking his own life. Rather he is looking for the words to express his feelings to those he will leave behind. He goes to order from a local coffee truck ran by his friend Woody. He gets his coffee and Woody can sense something is wrong.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jul 26, 2015
Horror Fuel

Review: Dark Horse Comics’ “Death Head # 1”

The premier issue of this comic follows the members of the Burton family in three different plotlines. The first part revolves around Niles and Justine Burton. They are an expectant couple who are going for a weekend camping trip in a National Park for their “babymoon”. They have decided that they need time to bond and unwind before the arrival of their new baby. Instead they find an abandoned town full of moths, with a creepy crematorium, and sinister secrets. The second storyline follows their daughter Maggie who is attending a Catholic school, although she is far from saintly. She has a problem with authority, attending school, following the rules, and no faith in God at all as it turns out. However, she does have a spiritual awakening of sorts with the help of some shrooms she got from the girl she is in love with. The third and final feature follows their son named Bee who is being bullied

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jul 22, 2015
Horror Fuel

Review: Dark Horse Comics’ “The Strain: The Night Eternal # 11”

This is the penultimate issue of The Strain: The Night Eternal series of comics and it is just as exhilarating to read as the show on FX is to watch. The tagline of the comic reads: “FUEL UP FOR THE FINALE-LAST STOP FOR GAS BEFORE THE END OF THE WORLD!” I found that to be very appropriate because the reader is taken for a joyride, with the pedal to the metal from page one. The issue starts off with a bang both literally and figuratively as we find the group of survivors being hounded by a horde of ravenous vampires. While fleeing from this onslaught of bloodsuckers they get split up into two teams. On the way back to the rendezvous point Gus and Nora spot a helicopter and decide to track it. What, or rather who, they discover there will change everything. Vasiliy, Quinlan, and Ephraim reach the meeting place and there they encounter an older couple who tell

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jul 19, 2015
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Review: Dark Horse Comics’ “Harrow County # 3”

You know that old saying that the third time is the charm? Well, whoever said it was dead on. Issue # 3 of Harrow County is better than the first two installments, and that is saying a lot. Just when I thought that there is nothing that Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook could do better, they prove me wrong. This issue took the best parts of the first two and melded them into the magnum opus that is Issue #3. This issue begins with Emmy and Bernice surrounded by ghosts who have awakened from their eternal repose. They get closer and closer until Emmy screams at them to stop. They obey her and she is bewildered by it. She screams at them again in frustration because she believes that they were trying to scare her. They shiver in fear and this frightens Emmy. Emmy and Bernice quickly make their way past the gravestones leaving these “haints” behind. It is not

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jul 18, 2015
Horror Fuel

Video Game Review: Telltale’s The Walking Dead

With Comic-Con wrapping up and AMC’s “The Walking Dead” 6th season revealed I decided to take a look back at Telltale’s game adaptation of “The Walking Dead”. This game was released back in 2012 and won Spike’s Video Game of the Year award for which it got a lot of backlash for mainly because it came out of no where and was competing against a lot of other and better games I.E Darksiders 2 and Dishonored. I personally was upset that this won because from a gameplay stand point and I would go on to be-grudge this game until I eventually picked it up and now playing through it for a second time I can now understand why this would win Game of the Year. As you can see graphically wise, it ditches the ultra-realism that most games aim for and instead uses cel-shading. I personally enjoy cell-shaded games, some of my favorite games of all time are cell-shaded but

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jul 18, 2015
Horror Fuel

Marvel Announces A New Blade Comic Series With Female Lead

Marvel Comics has just announced that there will be a new series featuring a day-walking, vampire-hunting, badass coming this fall. Blade, who was born Eric Brooks, won’t be the titular character this time out though. This time around it will be his 16 year old daughter, Fallon Grey, who will be kicking undead ass and taking names. She will also probably be taking notes seeing as she is still in High School. Fans of the Blade franchise shouldn’t be worried though, as he will still be there to mentor her as a father and train her as a monster hunter. (No word on who the mother is yet) While the comic franchise is getting a reboot, there have also been rumors of the possibility of a new Blade film, which we reported on here. Blade #1 is set to debut this October. In the meantime, stay tuned for further updates on both the comic and the film.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jul 17, 2015
Horror Fuel

Review: Image Comics’ “Outcast # 10”

Outcast follows Kyle Barnes, a man who has been tormented by demonic possession his whole life. He has been labeled an “outcast” by the demons, although he is unsure what that means. He even has a newfound ability to “pull” demons out of others. In his quest to find answers and make sense of the world around him he uncovers a more sinister plot. This issue begins right where the last left off with Kyle and Reverend Anderson having just exorcised a demon from a girl named Sherry. Kyle is troubled because the girl is now left in a catatonic state just as his own mother was. He is starting to question his faith and wonders if they both would’ve been better off before he had intervened. In the meantime, the mysterious “Man In Black” visits another church member and they seem to conspire against Kyle and the Reverend. Whatever he is up to with these church members, it can’t

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jul 15, 2015
Horror Fuel

Giveaway: The Infected Book 1 & 2 by Joseph Zuko

Friends, regular readers, and strangers who were drawn here by the presence of the word “giveaway” in the post title, it is my pleasure to announce that today we will be launching a giveaway of two books I’ve read and reviewed right here on Zombie Apocalypse Defense Force. Writer Joseph ‘Zombie’ Zuko and his wonderful wife have graciously offered up a copy of both The Infected: Jim’s First Day and The Infected: Karen’s First Day for one of our lucky readers! (I’ve linked the reviews for your convenience, just in case you missed them earlier.) The series is excellent! Zuko is a fantastic storyteller who manages to intermingle character development, heartbreaking sentiments, along with gore and action sequences. If you’re a zombie fan and have been looking for a thrilling read, then you’ve come to the right place, but if you aren’t convinced here are the book descriptions of these 4.5 and 5 star rated reads: The Infected: Jim’s First

Continue reading →
Fox Emm
Jul 15, 2015
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