Step right up, step right up everyone. Whether you’re good or bad, happy or sad. Whether your an emotional wreck, or a blissful speck in this back hole of an existence we call ‘life’. Step right up and witness something you’ll be soon to never forget. Feast your eyes on the most exotically impressive work I have ever created. The horribly wonderful bastard child of Kevin Smith’s ‘Clerks’ with the pure unadulterated awesomeness of ZOMBIES!

I do apologize to everyone at the 2010 Supanova Melbourne convention two weeks ago for the delay, but it’s finally released. Free now to wreak it’s havoc upon society.

In case any of you are wondering what inspired this… my mate Chris Booth has long been a fan of B-Grade horror movies. So it should be no surprise when he mentioned that I should do a comic involving zombies walking into a 7-11, that it was immediately obvious to me that it should be set in the universe of Clerks. His idea was essentially that Zombies could be much less of a plague and more of a hindrance upon society. It’s never been done. At least not that I can tell.

In every zombie movie as far as we’ve both seen, Zombies are always portrayed as an outbreak, an uncontrollable mass that destroys society in a matter of hours. What if it wasn’t so rapid? What if they roamed around aimlessly? Never talking. Never dying. Just moaning. Hordes of the dead just standing around. On street corners. Under bridges. In parks. Seldom ever attacking people, and even then most people can easily avoid them. They’d become part of everyday life. Normal.

Sure some people might simply ‘kill’ them. But if this happened in real life perhaps some people wouldn’t want them to be exterminated. After all how could you KNOW for sure they didn’t remember being alive? They feel hungry. They can remember the word for ‘brains’. How could you know that they wouldn’t feel pain? In short I think this would be an awesome movie if it were done in a style similar to District 9. So if there’s any interested directors, feel free to write me!

Well we’ve had another long, tough haul to get here to another completed Shinyverse issue and let me tell you it’s been hard on the whole team. I mean how many times can I nag, prod, push someone into getting the next issue done when they don’t even have their own home internet atm?

Yup. That’s right folks. The troubles of the last few years have caused the team to spread right across the face of the earth in order to get decent paid employment in order that we can afford the internet. Though after spending some time here in Japan I’m once again disgusted with the flagrant price gouging and under-servicing we are forced to endure in Australia as a result of the non-competitive, modern business model whereby one company only introduces improvements to it’s customers in the event that their competition has already gone and done it. Which they will almost never do.

But I didn’t start writing in order to rant.

Let me tell you about this Japanese guy i’ve seen around here in Tokyo on rollerblades wearing cosplay and dancing in the streets. But wait there’s more. That’s not the full extent of his depravity. Oh no. It’s about the cosplay. You see, he’s not just in regular Otaku cosplay. Rather he’s cosplaying as a maid. No not as a butler. I do know the difference between a butler suit and a maid dress. No this guy is standing there on the street side in broad daylight and lamplight (he’s there at night too), with rollerblades and maid cosplay on, hairly legs protruding beneath the short skirt and all doing the twist, the watousie, the bird, you name it he’s dancing it. What’s worse though is that he didn’t even have the decency to wear a Kamen No Maid Guy mask. Bleeeagh…Oh the humanity of it….

Now let’s move onto something less disturbing.

Ah who am I kidding, I’ve got nuthin’. Other than some cool cosplay ideas…

See you all next time Risky-Sama can manage to finish a strip.