WPNZR: August 2011

Monday

SERIAL: KANSAS, CHAPTER 18

Matthew McLean's hi-tech, neo-cyberpunk espionage thriller KANSAS makes a welcome return today! Hatcher and Dragon explore Dragon's futuristic casino, while the agents Durham and Nixon look on....

It wasn't the first time the casino had suffered a hacking attempt. Far from it. But usually the attacks, at least the exciting ones, were more subtle and used less obvious methods. Still, like the financial nets, casinos had their own drawing power as a target of the console jockeys, from experienced hands looking to siphon credits into the casino for free play on the casino's behalf to hard-line crooks looking to offload credits from the casino into a numbered account somewhere, to the inexperienced and fresh hackers who were just trying to test their toolsets on targets that couldn't bring serious corporate or legal power to bear should they get wise to the attempt ...READ 'KANSAS' CHAPTER 18 NOW!

READ FROM THE BEGINNING

Friday

A WICKED LITTLE TOWN: GRAND FINALE!

Let's have a big round of applause for K. PATRICK GLOVER & KEITH PERKINS! Their Wild West murder mystery A Wicked Little Town concludes today!

It has been a real rollercoaster ride for our heroes Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp, and it has been a joy to watch the art and writing come together on this project. Look out for limited-edition collectors prints of AWLT and KINK WALKER in late 2011, exclusively from Weaponizer Press! Fort now, click through and enjoy the season finale of A WICKED LITTLE TOWN!

>>READ THE FINAL CHAPTER OF ' A WICKED LITTLE TOWN'

>>READ FROM THE BEGINNING

On a personal note, as Editor I'd like to publically extend my thanks first of all to K.P.G. and Keith for their patience and dedication in keeping this serial running (nearly) on time, and for taking a chance on us as their publisher. You handled the teething problems (which were all at our end) patiently and professionally, and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with you. Looking forward to Season 2!

I'd also like to thank our web ninja Cook, who handled the tech side of things and designed our comics section's navigation and feel. Thanks guys! Onwards and upwards!

- texture

Thursday

FLASH FICTION: A MAN'S WORK

Another old hand (excuse the pun) here at Weaponizer, Vertigo Jones, returns with a flash fiction that manages to echo both Dostoevsky and steampunk in under a thousand words.

Leniel rises, and finishes donning his attire, puts on his pants and silk jacket in a burgundy so dark as to be black, fastens his tie. It snakes perfectly, through his fingers, almost magically into place under the old man's watchful eye. He would now sweep up the tools of his trade, His phones, identity papers, the sliver of plastic that he would explain was a key, and his Grandfather, as though in fugue would hold upto the light, bewilderment mapped out in the rugged crevices of his face. The computer, phone, a slender briefcase laden with items he would carefully request the names of, and immediately forget ...READ 'A MAN'S WORK' NOW!

Wednesday

FICTION: WE ARE SURE WE CAN SEE THEM

Will Couper has been with us from nearly the beginning of Weaponizer, and we're proud to present a brand new full-length short story from him today. It's a horror piece, the setup of which will be familiar to viewers of 'Most Haunted' and shows of that ilk. All together now... 'Mary loves Dick... MARY LOVES DICK...'

He found himself looking at her eyes and how wrong they were. It was hard to stop from staring, so he kept taking short, furtive glances and he couldn’t quite pin down what it was about her eyes that bothered him. The more he looked, though, the more he was convinced that something was amiss about her ...READ 'WE ARE SURE WE CAN SEE THEM' NOW!

Monday

FLASH FICTION: A DEMON, EMBRACED

Master of the micro-horror tale, Neal Turner returns with this disturbing little Flash Fiction...

Its eyes fell upon mine with the intensity of a bright blue spark, burning into my retinas. The deep carvings, the grooves and creases around those eyes tightening and loosening, contorting and writhing, a mass or squirming eels ... READ FLASH FICTION: 'A DEMON EMBRACED' NOW!

NONFICTION: THE MASON LANG FILM CLUB PRESENTS 'THE MATRIX'

Our regular film critic, occultist and expert on The Weird, Ian 'Cat' Vincent returns with an essay on The Matrix!

Remember when The Matrix was cool? Before the hyperreal religion of Matrixism, the pop-philosophy tomes, the disillusionment of the two awful sequels, the weak computer games, the thinly-populated MMORPG, the bullet-time tricks used in every ad and cheap spoof that came down the pipe... remember how great it was to have a hugely popular movie that pretty much everyone had seen and most of 'em had liked, that gave you a way in to talking about Gnosticism and perception and postmodern reality and awesome kung-fu flicks and anime to anyone? Didn't last long, did it? But while it lasted, it was a powerful thing.... READ 'THE MASON LANG FILM CLUB PRESENTS TRHE MATRIX' NOW!

READ 'THE MASON LANG FILM CLUB' - AN INTRODUCTION

Friday

COMICS: A WICKED LITTLE TOWN, CHAPTER 14

The penultimate chapter of the Wild West Webcomic A WICKED LITTLE TOWN premieres today on Weaponizer! Keith Perkins art and layouts are really impressive in this episode, and writer K Patrick Glover has the tension wound tight as we approach the thrilling conclusion!