The year is coming to a much required close, and it’s that time where every pop culture editor calls it a day with a list feature of some sort. I wasn’t actually planning on a best of feature, but fellow Schlock editor Teodor told me lists are required because, and I quote, “we like to
Year: 2013
The vibration of a big rig, the hard repetitive thud/smacks of the rubber hitting the uneven concrete separations on the interstate, pulsated through the earth to the stools and seats in the restaurant. It was enough to remind him of the softer click/clack sound steel wheels of rail cars rolling along had made before the
1. Statements “If you mean: Do I believe in an old man with a gray beard up in the sky? then, no— but I believe there’s something— a force—that underlies everything. Maybe God is the Universe or the force behind the Universe. It’s kind of hard to express.” • “I’m not a religious person— I’m
*** Iella (http://cargocollective.com/iella) is creature with an uncontrollable tendency to draw on things. Based in London, it dabbles in illustration, sequential art, doodling people on the tube and some traditional fine art.
Welcome to POP CULTURE DESTRUCTION for November, or as I like to call it NoIamnotgoingtodoathingfuckyouvember! Seriously, what is up with November? I’ve asked that question many a time and never got a satisfactory answer! DESTRUCTION NEWS Lars von Trier’s latest, Nymphomaniac, gets a trailer. It has heavy metal and also, how shall I put it,
As he makes his way to Schlock HQ’s stomping grounds to form part of Malta Comic Con 2013 on November 30 and December 1, we caught up with celebrated British comic book writer and novelist Mike Carey (Lucifer, Hellblazer, The Unwritten, X-Men) for a chat about his career and what makes him tick as a
Hapless and self-absorbed, Sam Sweetmilk is a hero for our times (or something like that). Schlock loves stories of hardship rewarded – or, just about – and of unlikely heroes coming out on top. So it is with great pleasure that we speak to Jason Lee Weight, the driving force behind Sam Sweetmilk, a comedic animated
by Charmaine Tanti Image by Nico Grimm They might be small and cute, but vampire children are also the most dangerous and disturbing of the undead. With their innocent and harmless appearance, and their voracious and uncontrolled appetites, they embody a fatal combination that often makes them more treacherous and more deadly than their adult
by Jeffrey Ford Illustration by Ivana Bugarinovic First published in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities, 2012 Out at the end of the world on a long spit of land like a finger poking into oblivion, nestled in a valley among the dunes, sat The Church of Saint Ifritia, constructed from twisted driftwood and
Text by Pete Farrugia Love is folly. The maiden, repelled by her own reflection in a brimming barrel of sake, is suspended between doubt and despair. She is overtaken by the sound of a nearby waterfall and the forest wind. The water is a drum, the air is a flute. She moves on stage and