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Tech Noir 2: Gunship’s tricky sequel

July 24, 2025 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Gunship released Tech Noir 2, and it’s a tricky sequel. I don’t rate it as highly, but you can watch for yourself.

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: doom, John Carpenter

John Carpenter’s Tales of Science Fiction comic book series begins with Hell

May 4, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Storm King Comics, owned by John Carpenter and Sandy King, has a new eight-part anthology out, and it begins with Hell.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: John Carpenter

Drew Struzan’s lenticular of The Thing destined to invade homes

February 22, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Made famous by director John Carpenter, The Thing is a 1980s horror movie based on John W. Campbell Jr’s Who Goes There?, a novella published in 1938.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: John Carpenter, posters, the thing, vice press

John Carpenter prints to get A2 revision

November 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Two years later and Vice Press are still getting asked about their John Carpenter 4K poster designs and, in particular, whether a smaller format is coming.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: John Carpenter, matt ferguson, posters, vice press

The virus won’t stop John Carpenter’s Tales of Halloween tradition

September 30, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Here’s what usually happens; at New York Comic Con the master of horror John Carpenter reveals the horror comic anthology Tales for a HalloweeNight.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: halloween, John Carpenter, previews

Level up your geeky Christmas tree with these toppers

December 11, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

These are “Pop-Toppers”, pop culture Christmas tree toppers, by Blain Hefner.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: bill and ted, christmas, household, John Carpenter, They Live

John Carpenter classics enjoy the 4K treatment

September 7, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Matt Ferguson of Cakes and Comics was commissioned by StudioCanal to help celebrate the work of sci-fi, fantasy and horror master John Carpenter. The big news this week is that the studio is doing 4K restorations of some of Carpenter’s iconic titles; The Fog, They Live, Escape from New York and Prince of Darkness. The […]

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: escape from new york, John Carpenter, matt ferguson, They Live

John Carpenter’s Tales of Science Fiction: The Standoff launches at San Diego Comic-Con

July 11, 2018 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

John Carpenter’s wife, Sandy King, owns a comic company. Storm King Comics is a division of Storm King Productions, and Sandy is both the head producer and the head writer. This will be the first time the company has been to San Diego Comic-Con, find them at booth #4504, and to mark that they’ll be […]

Filed Under: Console Tagged With: comic con, John Carpenter

Zaphats and augmented reality clothing for LARPs

August 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Augmented reality clothing brands, like Zappar, certainly aren’t restricted to making fashion to be adapted by LARPers. I suspect, for now, they may be restricted to fashion for geeks though. What a piece of AR clothing does is transform, on screen, when viewed with the right app. The best way to describe it is to […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: Augmented reality, fashion, John Carpenter, larp, They Live

Pingu does The Thing

January 4, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

When I write that Pingu does The Thing – I mean that he remakes John Carpenter’s The Thing. I’m sure Pingu can do many things. Pingu, of course, is an animated putty penguin. John Carpenter’s The Thing is a classic, important but rather gory horror encounter. In fact, The Thing’s gore only sometimes creeps into […]

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: John Carpenter, the thing

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