Just the Ticket

When last I left off, I had just finished reading Unleashed #0: The Game . Things have heated up quite a bit since then, so let's kick off the series lineup from there. Unleashed : This story arc was a decent follow-up to the events of Godstorm.  A new villain (the same one who ripped off Venus' arms) unleashes an army of monsters, vampires, werewolves, zombies, and demons upon the world as a way to ultimately cleanse it so he can start fresh. But there's a lot more going on than what this Being is up to. We get to see what the big deal is with the Keepers. The Maker  is the chief creative force in the Universe, and the father of Unleashed 's all-powerful big-bad, The Being. Hate  ironically turns out to be the recently murdered Roman goddess of love, Venus. Love  turns out to be Alice Liddle, fresh from her death at the end of Down the Rabbit Hole , which I will get to later. Corruption , who we last saw trailing Sela Mathers on her journey through Myst to...

I just updated my last Mashup Issue  because of technical difficulties viewing the video on a smartphone. To rectify this problem with the post, and all future Mashup Issue s, I included a direct link to the video on YouTube as well. You can read (and check out the video for the first time if you're a smartphone-using idjit like me) this updated entry of  The Mashup Issue #2  by clicking here . Now, on to the business at hand. I have another fresh entry into the Timedrop Comics Fake Universe for you. You probably remember (or maybe you don't, but that's okay) that a war is raging between covens of elemental "Witches" (humans who have inherited certain Knavium-based alloys that somehow occur naturally in their bodies, and are therefore gifted with a command over specific cosmic elements like time, fire, electricity, or fate). You may also remember that no coven or Witch is strictly good or evil, except as they are viewed by one another, so there is still plenty o...

As promised, I'm following up Mashup Issue #2  with a new Soundtrack . If you read (and hopefully viewed) Mashup Issue #2 , you'll recall the two rappers up for review today are Riff Raff and Atmosphere. I first heard Riff Raff's single, "Kokayne" (off of his new album, Neon Icon ) where I hear most new music that grabs my attention these days: on Skratch 'n' Sniff. Living in the middle of nowhere (home to two classic rock stations, four country stations--at least--and one teeny-bopper pop station that barely comes in at all), iHeartRadio and Skratch 'n' Sniff have been a blessing to me. Titled "Video Games" for radio play purposes, the white rapper's white powder anthem sports a sped-up baseline that sounds like it came straight out of Fugazzi's "Waiting Room," what might be bagpipes or a squeezebox put to non-annoying use, slightly creative rapid-fire name-dropping (Chris Rock, Carson Daly, Dolly Parton, Usain Bol...

I decided to get back into the review scene, rather than give you another character "right away" (sarcastic quotes because it's been a month since I posted anything here). Welcome to The Mashup Issue , Ticketholders! You may have noticed that I started the numbering with two instead of one, and that is because there is already an issue of Bring Back the Soundtrack   with that title. In addition to reviewing movies (which I haven't done in months), books, and music, and designing cool comic book character concepts, and working at Safeway, and writing a book of my own (65 pages and counting), I also find time to create the occasional mashup, along with Photoshopped "album art," under the name DJ Timedrop. In an effort to get as many hits on my work as possible, I will use this title to share my (now small) archive of remixes and mashups with you, starting with this one: It is by no means my first piece, but I consider it my best work so far, and it is ...

Greetings, Ticketholders and Heromachiners, and welcome to another wiccan exhibition! Today's character is something I had hoped to include in this year's Steampunk contest, but I pissed around too much with concepts and details before I came up with a design I liked, and I was unable to complete this character in time. I've still gotten some good feedback on her, especially regarding the design of her dress and the incorporation of metal into her clothing. Last year, I created several characters as part of a Public Domain Literature contest at Heromachine, called the "Gale Force" series, revolving around Dorothy's return to a relatively futuristic Oz, where aliens, extradimensional beings, and advanced technology rule. Theodora Kindle (my Elemental Fire Witch of a few issues back) was the first step in incorporating characters from my failed "Gale Force" storyline into the Timedrop Comics/Clockwork Universe. Most, if not all, of my Elemental Witche...