Hi, everyone. A few more changes have been made, and we’d like your help in spreading the word of Unflappings! Check out these new ways you can help us out and build our community:

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3) Register with us. If you sign up for an account with us, then you don’t need to worry about entering in any information when you’d like to comment. Pretty sweet, huh? Plus, the registration process is completely free and pretty darn painless. 

Okee dokee. I’m done shamelessly plugging us. Just wanted to let you all know that those opportunities are there. We’re usually pretty crappy at remembering to announce stuff like this, and we also don’t feel like bogging you down with links on the sidebar / little widgets all over the site, so hopefully one post won’t hurt! Cheers.

The Nightmare Factory
Editor in Chief: R. Eric Lieb
Editor: Heidi MacDonald
Designer: Symon Chow
Various Authors and Artists

I’m starting to think that maybe I have unreasonably high standards. At least, when it comes to the horror genre. I’m one of those people who never read normal books as a kid (I wasn’t a normal kid in general for that matter). In fact, I remember feeling super-accomplished when I was 12, after having spent an entire summer reading the uncut version of Stephen King’s The Stand. All 1000+ pages of apocalyptic glory. (more…)

The Mighty Thor #6
Writer: Dan Jurgens
Penciler: John Romita Jr
Inker: Klaus Janson
Colors: Gregory Wright

Taking yet another jump in my pile of random scrolls, we have the adventures of Mighty Thor (feat. Hercules of course).  Sure Odin was raising hell, literally and figuratively and Olympus lay in ruins. But regardless of what is happening in the immortal realm, the mortal realm had it going on. (more…)

Peter Parker: Spider-Man: One Small Break TPB (This post covers issue 27)
Writer: Paul Jenkins
Penciler: Mark Buckingham
Inkers: Green / Ramos / Buckingham 

Batman is absurdly popular right now. Remember when Peter Parker used to be the cool cat on the block? I do, so when I saw a “Peter Parker: Spider-man” trade for sale for $5 the other day, I stacked it on to my pile of purchases and headed to the checkout line. I’ve read Amazing Spider-man, I’ve read Ultimate Spider-man, and I’ve read some other forms of Spider-man, but this was my first time hitting up the “Peter Parker” line of work. Unfortunately, this book starts on issue 27, so I was kind of pulling an in medias res, but I was quick to catch on. Something that caught my attention, though, was a typo on the back of the book.

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So! I’m not posting today due to no scanner, but Dalton should be along later today to catch up. In the meantime, I will be shooting along some technical updates.

First the comment section has been somewhat reworked. Now it is a lot more clear on what to do with confronted with a bunch of random form fields. You can keep on going as usual with posting by putting in your name everytime, OR you can make an account (more visibly at least) and gain global recognition (along with praise from yours/Dalton truly).  We are all down for an engaging discussion if you want, so bring it on.

Speaking of an engaging discussion, we are toying with the idea of a discussion board/forum. If anyone has a yay or nay to that, give us some feedback. Or we might just go through with it regardless of what anyone says, time will tell. Either way it could be a good outlet for everyone to discuss their reading thoughts.

All in all, keep on reading, we appreciate all the feedback we have gotten so far.

Sandman: Dream Country – TPB #3
Author: Neil Gaiman
Art: Colleen Doran and Kelley Jones 

I’m actually kind of cheating because I’ve read this before, but I just got back from vacation and would rather visit the comic book store on Wednesday (for obvious reasons), so instead I’m going to rely on one of my favorite issues ever. The issue I am talking about is where Neil Gaiman performs A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Sandman Universe. For its novelty and classic appeal, it is understandable why this is often heralded as one of the greatest comic moments and why it won the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction (an award not actually designed for comics). Gaiman seems to be an expert at placing his universes in settings from our world (see also: 1604), but I must ask why other authors don’t attempt the same.

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Griffin: Chapter 10 Against The Wall
Writer: Dan Vado
Penciller: Norman Felchle
Inker: Mark McKenna
Letterer: Ken Holewczynski

Sure there was a lot of apocolyptic talk going on. Everyone was running around like chickens sans a head.  World destruction and military states.  But the real issue that was going on for this chapter was not what the world was fixated on, it was what they were wearing. (more…)

Sorry that we never got a post out today! You can call us lazy, or you can call us masters of testing your patience, but whatever you’d like to call us, you need not worry. Wil and I both had semi-Vacations the past week, so we’re kind of all discombobulated, but Wil will (that sounded funny) get out his post tomorrow (or today if you’re in ET or CT) and you’ll be able to read to your heart’s content (or until you’re done with the post). Unfortunately, our life consists more of reading comics and writing about them. That’d be pretty sweet if that’s all we had to do, but a man’s gotta earn a living, y’know?

Anyway, I leave you with this.

The Maxx, Issue #1
Story/Pencils/Inks: Sam Keith
Dialogue: Bill Messner-Loebs
Finishes: Jim Sinclair
Lettering: Mike Heisler
Color: Steve Oliff, Reuben Rude & Olyoptics
Logo: Chance Wolfe

Yesterday there was a really bad hail storm at my house. I’m a new homeowner so this was probably the first hail storm that has ever even remotely concerned me because if something happens, it’s my problem; not my mom’s problem, not my landlord’s problem, but my own. As such, I decided to watch my neighbor’s roof to make sure the wind and hail wasn’t ripping off any shingles. I figured if their house was fine, mine was probably fine too.

As I was watching the wind I saw my neighbor’s dog walking around in their back yard, hail beating down around her. Now, this particular dog lives across the street and I don’t know what her back yard looks like because of how the houses are situated. The only thing I could see was her black body cowered in a corner of the fence and I couldn’t tell if there was a dog house around or not. All I could tell was that she was alone, in a hail storm. Her owners were gone and she was all alone.

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dead Eyes open
Written by: Matthew Shepherd
Drawn by: Roy Boney Jr.

How would society cope if people started coming back from the dead? You might first picture images of graying corpses, reaching up from their darkened graves; coming back and craving flesh, brains, live meat.

Back track a little and imagine a landscape where people return from the dead, but they’re not at all the same as the zombies portrayed in Dawn of the Dead or Night of the Living Dead. Instead of being devoid of thought and merely consumed by the need for fresh meat, they’re unchanged by the act of death. They simply die and experience the feeling of their heart ceasing, blood slowing to a halt, breath dissolving into…nothing.

Like death, they’re devoid of life but only in the physical sense. Their minds, their ether, the part of them that is intangible remains behind after death. They can still walk, talk, think, act like a living person. But they’re technically dead. (more…)