Walking Dead BEER?

Ever look in a shop and see something really retarded? like while online once a friend showed me you can get My Little Pony fleshlights and then you think 'This fandom has really gone too far?' I feel like that with The Walking Dead now.

A beer company in America [So it's bound to taste like wank... American beer is like widdle lets face it chaps] has decided to make a The Walking Dead inspired beer. Now I love zombies and booze even if The Walking Dead has become like that third slightly slow child who licks the windows but you have to love them anyway... I normally like every nerd with too much money jump on most things with their fandom's packaging.

But this thing is to have Smoked Goat Brains so if you are a massive fag like me and don't eat meat then that's a no no right away. I don't know many meat eating friends who would enjoy the thought of drinking some animals brains..

It sounded rather nice until.. brains... I spose it needed something rather gimmicky for it to be Walking Dead related more then a label right? it's creative and I applaud that people are more original and taking risks but.... I dunno not for me.

BUT I think I might try it if I ever get hold of one. Us people who aren't from America will more then likely see this in Cybercandy or Forbidden Planet for at least £8 that's my thoughts on it anyway.

Here's the press realise a friend linked me too

 Press Release: 

(Philadelphia, PA) – Only two things in life are certain: Craft Beer and Zombies. Kind of. As avid enthusiasts of both, Dock Street Brewery combined an obsessive passion for brewing with our admiration for the finest zombie drama to date. Behold our liquid tribute, Dock Street Walker, an American Pale Stout brewed with wheat, oats, flaked barley, organic cranberry, and Smoked Goat Brains! 

Dock Street Walker is the brainchild (pun intended) of Head Brewer Justin Low and Brewery Representative Sasha Certo-Ware, both loyal fans of AMC’s The Walking Dead. More often than not, monotonous Monday cleaning rituals (labors of love for brewers everywhere) were spent recapping the previous night’s twists, turns, narrow escapes, or untimely goodbyes. Dock Street wanted to brew a special tribute to the show. “Screw it, let’s use brains!”

Dock Street Walker (7.2% ABV) is an American Pale Stout, brewed with substantial amounts of malted wheat, oats, and flaked barley for a smooth, creamy mouthfeel. Fuggle hops provide delicate, earthy notes, while the cranberries create a sinister, bloody hue, and a slight tartness. The pre-sparge-brain-addition provides this beer with intriguing, subtle smoke notes. In true walker fashion, don’t be surprised if its head doesn’t hang around forever.

While Dock Street has earned local, national, and international praise for many of its traditional styles like Rye IPA, Royal Bohemian Pilsner, and Amber Ale, making waves is familiar ground to Philadelphia’s first microbrewery. The growing portfolio of Reinheitsgebot-taunting brews includes Sexy Beast, Truffled Old Ale, Satellite Espresso Stout, Bubbly Wit, Nino’s Prickly Pears, and Spanglish Fly, a biere de garde brewed with wormwood, yarrow, and ginger. 

Gourmet mushrooms and potentially hallucinogenic herbs are one thing, but smoked brains… really? Believe it or not, much of the world considers brain to be a true delicacy. Think Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, but not ridiculous. Many also believe that using every part of an animal not only increases and encourages sustainability, but also honors the animal’s life and death. 

Dock Street will release this brainy new brew on March 30th. Join us at Dock Street at 7pm for live music from acoustic funky filth band Face and the Filthies, goblets of this never before done brew, and a screening of The Walking Dead Season Finale. Growlers will be available for those who’d rather drink their brains out at home. Eff the Governor. 

From: Beerpulse

Much love

Jigsaw

xxx

Here's the press realse that a friend linked me to.

Zombie Awareness Month - Day 1

Because no nerd or even normal person now hasn't heard of zombies, or seen enough zombie media to not know about them or how to deal with them so lets see this more as a celebration to all things undead and zombie like [Or infected if you want to be mega assholes about it]

Zombies have been big for years now and I think it's mostly due to the sheer explosion of things like The Walking Dead, Left 4 Dead and having zombie add ons to popular games such as COD and RED DEAD REDEMPTION - UNDEAD NIGHTMARE.

People who like zombies have always been into them I think, like before it was cool to wear or carry your 'This is my zombie killing ____' around with you proudly to show your all hip and with the kids. Liking zombies has become so mainstream now that you can get a zombie movie about everything where as back in the day [I'm not that fucking old I know] it used to be Zombies were the lame B movie type gorefest but now they are often the nasty things that lurk while having to endure with human struggle and all that crap.

Some of us just like shooting zombies and don't care for the person's inner struggle. Thank god for stuff like L4D, House Of The Dead and other such pewpew bangbang games. Saying that I'm not a total meathead I do enjoy the whole 'It's humans who are the worst' but sometimes I want someone to get eaten by a zombie not watch a whole ep of The Walking Dead just to see a cameo by a zombie doing nothing but minding it's own business.

I think my issue with how big zombies have gotten is no one bothers to make a good zombie movie any more. I am tired of seeing _____ VS zombies, clown zombies, zombie strippers, zombie sheep or any other 'hurhur' spin on zombies.

That's why I am bigging up the good zombie things.

The Walking Dead Game by Telltale

This game is one of the best games I have ever played and this is coming from an FPS meathead who likes to explode stuff. The plot is heavy, hard hitting, soft, sweet and tragic and the fact you can pick things and your story goes with what you did? it's amazing but also makes you realise how bad of a person you are.

I've never been so drawn into a game before and really feel things. I cried like a bitch when I saw the ending. Tears of manliness flowed like waterfalls. 

Some countries even use it to teach etihics in school.

Norwegian teacher Tobias Staaby is getting a fair bit of good press today for playing Telltale's The Walking Dead with his students at Nordahl Grieg Upper Secondary School in Bergen, Norway.

Staaby incorporates the game into his religious studies curriculum to help spur discussion about morality and ethical choices.

"The Walking Dead presents some dilemmas [the students] would not have thought of otherwise," Staaby told a reporter from Norwegian media outlet NRK. "That makes their answers to a greater extent their own."

You can watch the full report from NRK in the video above, though it's probably wise to enable subtitles if you don't speak Norwegian.

Though The Walking Dead is likely the grisliest game ever used in a classroom, is hardly the first -- sandbox games like Kerbal Space Program and Minecraft have been used as teaching tools for years

See full story HERE

In The Flesh

Due to the fact I never watch TV this one slipped me by for awhile until a work mate pointed it out so I started to watch and.. it's good.

In The Flesh is a BBC three part drama in which the dead came back to life and all hell broke lose.. after the events of the zombie take over alot of zombies were rounded up and 'cured' thanks to injections which give their brains the thing that being dead took away and now they walk amongst us but with all memories of their past lives in tact.

These people are called PDS 'Partally Dead Syndrome' and they try and fit back into our world. Our story is about a boy who had killed himself and there are alot of unresolved issues in the family due to how he died.

Where he lives sadly is a very god loving, low tolerance northern community that hate 'rotters' and who lead the HVF [Human Volunteer Force] which includes our main guys sister. It shows the northern lot in a very 'nice' light but as someone from the south.. oh well.

Anyway it's about zombies who came back, got cured and have to deal with 'living' their lives again and dealing with the guilt of what they have done and also dealing with the true livings feelings towards them.

A new, fresh look on the overly done to ahem.. death zombie story.

Three parts which doesn't feel rushed as you see him coming home, the struggles he gets from a conflicted family, a community who hate him and also meeting people along the way. It's powerful and compelling and  a damn good watch.

I can't say a bad thing about it other then the fuck ugly guy called 'Dean'...

Plot: 5/5
Acting: 4/5
Gore: 4/5
Scares: 1/5
Overall enjoyment: 5/5

These two stick in my mind as some freaking amazing recent zombie things. I suggest them to anyone.

Enjoy your merry month of zombie and expect a zombie related post everyday!

Much love

Jigsaw

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The Walking Dead Card Game

 

I've tried to play this two times now with two different people and no one has fucking worked it out yet. I saw it and hey I love Walking Dead and love card games.. so I bought this on payday for an ok £13.99 and damn son. It's not good.

 

Well.. it might be the most amazing game in the world.. I just don't bloody understand it. The whole set is abit duff too if I'm honest.. We get 104 'walker' cards and 6 'hero' cards tho for the shit of me I still can't tell the point of the hero cards.

 

You have no idea my rage there is a freakin' T-Dog card but not a Dale? or anyone more relevant? ok cool...

 

 

Yep

 

How it says to play online is different to the sheer wtf wording the rule book has... and there is two ways to play this bullshit. Me and my friend just pretty much made up a game using the cards and it still wasn't fun.

 

The Walking Dead Card Game, based on Wolfgang Kramer's 6 nimmt!, features the same basic gameplay as that card game while adding ten character cards and two modes of play: Survival and Hero.

To play the game, you shuffle the 104 number cards, lay out four cards face-up to start the four rows, then deal a number of cards to each player. Each turn, players simultaneously choose and reveal a card from their hand, then add the cards to the rows, with cards being placed in ascending order based on their number; each card is placed in the row that ends with the highest number that's below the card's number. When the sixth card is placed in a row, the owner of that card claims the other five cards and the sixth card becomes the first card in a new row.

In addition to a number from 1 to 104, each card has a zombie point value. In Survival mode (for 3-10 players), players want to collect as few points as possible, while in Hero mode (for 2-6 players) you want to collect more zombie points than anyone else. In Hero mode, each player has a single-use character card that can give you an extra advantage in the round in which you play it.

 

I just....... what? maybe I'm being thick..

 

 

A deck of 104 zombie cards and these are the only pictures you get... bit cheap really when there are worlds of screen shots you could have used... Also the cards themselves feel grainy and really unfinished.. it was a case of 'Slap WALKING DEAD on it and nerds will buy it' well played... well played...

 

T-Dog's seen some things man...

 

All in all if you are a collector of The Walking Dead then yeah.. why not but if you like fun and not wasting your money on some sell out crap? avoid it.

 

Just play snap or something with them.. I don't even.

 

0/5

 

XJigsawX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Walking Dead Board Game

 

One of my gifts for Christmas was The Walking Dead Board Game and I will be honest. I like the game, it's fun but if I had been the one to have paid for it I would have been disappointed. It has a very large price tag on it of between £29.99 and £34.99.

 

So be a dead set fan if you want to have this for a collection but unlike allot of boardgames you can play it alone [oddly enough] but your max players are four.

 

 

You get two sheets of people to play as, tokens and badges that you just pop out. Made of a gloss card and no struggle or damage when you separate them.

 

 

Each character has a 'special abilty' to help in the game. Some are awesome and some are a little naff.. You can play as Lori, Andrea, Glenn, Sean, Rick and Dale. Even though Daryl is in the card pictures you play with he is not a playable option.

 

 

The rules are easy enough to follow just takes a little. You start in 'CAMP' which is a safe zone and you can go in any direction you like but every blank spot or spot with a bullet saying +1 or +2 is a zombie attack which is done with dice rolls and cards.

 

 

 

The board has four 'zones' and the corner of each zone is a place such as 'Deparment Store' and you have to collect all four pieces to win but to get the piece you need to survive two zombie 'encounters' which are the 'encounter cards'

 

Now each encounter/zombie will say something such as 'if you lose you will lose an ally' and an ally is like a life, you have two with the chance to gain them but if you lose them you are dead and become a walker and need to play from the WALKER deck.

 

But you also get good ones such as if you beat the zombie you gain a 'Scrounge card' which are your weapons.

 

Now your Scrounge cards have weapons such as 'Handgun' seen in the picture.. the +3 is it's power so if you get a zombie of a +8 power you need to use the +3 card and roll at least a 5 to win on the dice.

 

So the battle mode is basically use your weapon cards as many as you like against a zombie's number. Some cards once again have power ups.

 

It's a fun and simple game but we played about 5 times and didn't win, either of us. So it's tough. And unless you are playing with more then two of you if one of you is a walker and one of you is a human it's a very slow cat and mouse game.

 

It's a cool game, I feel it would have been better as a card game but that's just me.

 

I'd give it a 4/5

 

XJigsawX

 

 

 

Interview With Robert Kirkman

Last night there was a small event in my hometown and one of the free things they gave out was a small mag and it had an interview with Mr Walking Dead himself. Robert Kirkman so I thought people might be interested in reading.

Click images to make them bigger.

 

Enjoy

 

XJigsawX

The Walking Dead Season 3 - First Impression's

 

 

Well I finally got around to watching the third season of The Walking Dead and watched episode one and two today and my first impressions thus far are pretty good.

 

SPOILERS!!

 

 

I like how they are now at the prison like in the comic book. The seasons before it has elements of the comic just railroaded off of it alot such as people being dead when they should be alive and vice verse, new characters and group dynamics but you just need to learn [myself included I know] that the show and the comic are two different things, just treat them as such. I have made peace with my nerd rage and even though I miss Dale there are some cool characters like Daryl so I'm letting it go and enjoying.

 

Like I said treat them as two different things as there are so many changes.

 

But the prison this season is one from the comic and so is the character Michonne who was always a big favourite of mine in the comic books, she's amazing and I was worried they'd ef her up something awful but no, from what I have seen of her she is still awesome.

 

 

I still think she is a beautiful warrior goddess! I know, I gush, but I love the character and I love the person they picked for the role. I hope to see alot more of her in coming episodes, they made such a huge deal of seeing her at the end of season two that I thought there would be alot more of her in ep one but that's ok, the two eps so far have been action packed and enjoyable.

 

I like the friction between Lori and Rick it's more on the surface then it ever was in the comics at that stage and even though Lori is a total bitch in the comic and hey most of the time in the show you feel sorry for her as you see her break down in episode two.

 

 

 

So they find the prison and empty it out, goes fairly ok and they see prisoners like in the comic. A group of people who seem ok, little bland but more or less decent enough lead by a massive cock in a white vest and sporting some damn greasy looking hair.

 

There's the classic conflict between our group and the prison but new badasss Rick and Daryl soon deal with that and shit happens leaving the convicts down to two, a cool headed black fella and a very confused but chatty man. I'm kinda glad they are alive shame about the big black fella he was cool and the way he didn't want to fight the walkers made me feel he wasn't in there for anything bad.

 

I'm so glad nasty greasy asshole face was killed. Was in self defence though so it was justified. Also Hershal got bit and Rick chopped his leg off.. in Dale's absence it seems Hershal is getting his one legged fate.

 

That's all I have seen so far but this season seems very actiony with a much better mix of human stuff vs zombie stuff.

 

I think this might be the best season so far and looking back at the pretty...eh moments in season one this is great.

 

Look forward to seeing how it differs/is the same as the comic.

 

So far I rate a 5 out of 5! mega bonus points for it being the first thing in a very long time to make me feel a little grossed out at the gore.

 

XJigsawX

 

London Expo - Event

Well Expo was a blast and as already posted lots of good and very nice horror cosplayers went to the event. There was also a fair few horror guests this year which was really good, I only choose to see The Walking Dead cast members who were there due to money and time.

 

I also didn't see as much horror merch as before but there was still some good things going on.

 

There was a few horror related T-shirts, mostly Resident Evil though I was shocked to see more DEAD SPACE items.

 

Crazy fanart could be found.

 

Also a toy store had this, all my amusement, this is awesome. They make such a beautiful couple!

 

Met some other The Walking Dead cosplayers who were chill. I was expecting to see alot more as last expo in May I saw at least five different Ricks.

 

Andrew Rothenberg (Jim) and Jeffrey DeMunn (Dale) came to the event and did signings and I got to meet them.

 

He was either going to be 'wtf' or amazed at my costume.. thankfully he really loved it. He's a very nice guy and I was so glad I got to meet him.

 

Also a real nice guy and was fun to chat to. The Walking Dead cast are the nicest celebs I have ever met, such cool and down to earth happy people.

 

I hope to get a chance to see them all to be honest!

 

Ah my awesome book signed by Carl, Sophie, Carol, Maggie, Dale and Jim now! very happy with this book.

 

I think thats enough of me showing off now!

 

XJigsawX

Horror News

London Expo have just announced that JEFFREY DEMUNN who plays Dale in The Walking Dead will be coming!

 

 

LONDON EXPO takes place 26th till the 28th of October!

 

XJigsawX

 

AMC The Walking Dead FACEBOOK Game

So as many people have done in the past and present when bored and sick of looking at the same friend spam their facebook 20 times about their every movement or having to read that one friend who only talks about their freaking kids we've all been known to play one or two Facebook games.. while playing LOST BUBBLE I notice an advert at the side for a Walking Dead FB game so I jumped right on that.

 

I like the art style... how ugly it makes Shane which is true to the show to be honest haha.

 

You get to make your own character which is pretty neat, it's better then most FB games where you have very limited choice.. but saying that I think I had about 7 choices for tops, pants, shoes and like 5 for heads? By the way I look nothing like this I just felt this looked the least crap.

 

Also FB kept freezing and I had to keep resetting and making my char like 5 times before it got on with it.

 

Shane and his nose give you a step by step on how the game is played. Your health can be regenerated by giving up your stamina points, 10 a go in fact which is alot when once you've used up all your free shit for starting the game you can only move 28 times.

 

 

Ok now the super awesome fun missions. Most the time they just ask you to kill a few walkers, grab bags of food and water and every single time you risk your life for these assholes they just reply with something crappy like 'OH GUESS THAT'LL DO IT'S NOT ALOT THOUGH' fine do it your fucking self.

 

 

This is cool and I do like games which do it and that is you can level up your guy. You get 10 to start with and then after every mission you get another point to add. Each time you level up a skill the three empty slots become four.. then five.. so it gets harder and harder to upgrade.

 

Also after missions you get money to buy things and upgrade weapons... which can break FYI but like your stamina if you ignore the game and come back to it at the end of the day everything will be back and fixed.

 

 

You can also kill your friends which is abit..... um... not sure how I felt about that to be honest.

 

 

Oh and whats a kicker is in typical FB fashion you have to pay real money if you wanna play the game longer after you have run of of your daily bits and pieces and the free shit they pump you with for joining.

 

 

Every mission is very same-same and you realise that almost right away and to kill zombies you have to wait for a red cross hair to be in the right place and smack them around the head. If fighting isn't your idea of fun you can hide and sneak around them but as easy as it is to kill a zombie might as well do it, extra points.

 

So the game is ok, it passes like.. five minutes... it's easy as anything but least well madeish for an FB game.

 

Gore: 1/5

Scares: 0/5

Plot: 0/5

Overall enjoyment: 1/5

 

XJigsawX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

London Film & Comic Convention

Not many photos or much to say compared to other cons as I only went on the Sunday and Sunday is always the slow day but regardless of this I had an ace time as did my friends. Met some awesome cosplayers and had some nice conversations with them. So onwards!

Rick from The Walking Dead

Elvira

Shaun from Shaun Of The Dead

Great horror make-up!

Zombie hunter

All the cosplayers I was able to snap, like I said I missed out on Sat.

There was an awesome horror table with some props and merch, I really want the Hellraiser cube so badly.. but I didn't have a £50 spare ha.

And there was a large Alien and Predator stand.

A relative of my guy!

I like the more comic book and sci-fi based things are even MORE horror stalls!

Sadly Norman Reedus of Walking Dead fame bailed as they moved the filming for the show around and we missed him sadly.. But a huge Norman Reedus fan decided to get a book, take photos and let us all put messages for him and it'll get sent away so that's pretty cool.

Little Norman!

Oh and I got to meet Tom Skerritt but I don't know if it's the fella's age or what but he wasn't very up for chatting, didn't seem friendly and I really don't think he knew where he was..

My signed pic : D

All in all it was fun enough, bit boring but least didn't have to line up very long. Got to meet Short Round from Indy, The Todd from Scrubs and other people and a day in London was fun anyway.

XJigsawX