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Presumably it’s not linked from the bluray menu, so you’d not be able to see this file if you’re using a furniture bluray player. Hidden files! Fun! But I wonder what they thought they’d achieve with this? Presumably dastardly bootleggers would either just copy the entire bluray, including the menu. If not, they’d just leave this file off the new bluray? And do bluray bootleggers even exist any more? Posted on May 8, 2024 May 8, 2024 Categories mysteries Leave a comment on *gasp* Jazz Show Posted on May 7, 2024 May 7, 2024 Categories music Leave a comment on Jazz Show Comics Daze It’s a lazy Sunday, so even though it’s been just a few days since the last Daze, I guess I’ll just have to spend all day reading comics again. *pout* And today’s musical accompaniment comes courtesy of the year 1990. Skinny Puppy: Too Dark Park 12:14 : Tender by Beth Hetland (Fantagraphics) Half a year ago, I was actually getting kinda worried about Fantagraphics — for instance, they had a month where they didn’t publish a single original work: It was all reprints and Disney stuff. But I guess that was just a publishing glitch — they’ve come storming back with a huge number of new comics. This starts off like a sweet story about a pregnancy… … but from the start, there’s something off — an unnerving disconnect, sometimes from something trivial as a weird sandwich eating habit… … to some really horrible nightmares and stuff. (I’m not snapping a pic of the most gruesome stuff, because this is a family oriented blog, of course.) It’s such a tense reading experience! You never know what new horrors are going to confront you on the next page, and the violence is so much more convincing for being realistic than for being over the top — small, likely wounds. And it keeps on escalating, and reading the last few pages was an ordeal. It’s the most horrific horror comic I’ve read in years, and I’ve read Vacuum Decay. It’s a masterfully done comic — absolutely fantastic. But hard to recommend. 12:38 : Makinaphobe by Rafael Zaiats (Strangers Publishing) This is introduced as being a fever dream about a car accident the author was in when twelve. There’s obviously a lot of talent here, but I can’t really say that it reads much like a dream? It’s more like video game physics or something? But I guess people dream in video games these days. Steve Martland: Glad Day 12:58 : Out of Left Field by Jonah Newman (Andrews McMeel) Indeed! Anyway, this is a pretty fun book — almost surprisingly so, I’d say. The artwork doesn’t do anything for me, but the book zips along nicely — there’s fun bits and dramatic bits — and it’s just well executed. Some weird choices, like mangling the names of any references to real things, and somehow making them seem all… Rings of the Lords”? OK, I guess that one’s a joke, but… Towards the end, though, it starts feeling a bit like he didn’t quite know how to finish up the book, and we get some rather stilted scenes. Galaxie 500: This Is Our Music 13:32 : MythologiesApochrypha #1 by Tim Lane (Fantagraphics) A new Tim Lane series! Wow! The main story in this book is structured around the guy in the middle panel up there watching TV and clicking around. So what we get is a documentary on Frank Sinatra, basically, and as someone who knows zilch about Sinatra, and who absolutely loathes talking head documentaries, you’d think this would be totally not in my wheelhouse… but it’s fascinating. I have no idea whether Lane made up the stories about Sinatra or not, and I don’t really care, because it’s riveting. And those sharp lines! Inhuman artwork. We also get a few fake ads and a couple shorter stories at the end. So it’s a classic one person anthology indie comic book, and I hope Lane keeps doing these. My Bloody Valentine: Glider 13:55 : Fatcop by Johnny Ryan (Fantagraphics) I haven’t read a Johnny Ryan book in yonks, but this was pitched as a graphic novel”, so I thought I’d give it a try. Ryan’s stuff is usually short gross out pieces, and that’s how this book starts off, really — just a bunch of gags about Fatcop doing heinous things. Then it starts cohering into a story, and...