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Comfort Inn Manhattan
471 Main North Road
Adelaide, SA 5085
Phone: (61) 8 82622748
Fax: (61) 8 83497619
»Archer Hotel
Whether it is regular fast food or pub grub you are looking for or an chic and elegant dining option, the Archer Hotel is where you are likely to find your meal. This place houses several bar and dining options that are delightful to go to. Besides, the place is a hub of entertainment with an array of activities like live music and events conducted on regular nights to keep you entertained. Archer Hotel also rents out its places for private functions and celebrations. With a nightclub on its premises, you can wear your dancing shoes for some fun times after an meal. All in all, a great place for fun times.
»The London
The London Tavern offers an array of amazing local cuisine, prepared with fresh local produce which makes dining here, sheer delight. You can enjoy some amazing and rare culinary delights. There is a variety of drinks to accompany with your meal. After the meal, step into the nightclub and swirl to some peppy music for a perfect outing. To know the schedule of the events that are taking place here, check the website.
The multi-functional Mansions provides an ideal atmosphere for your dining need as well as a space for your small scale events. Located on the busy Pulteney Street, the restaurant provides a perfect mixture of pizzas, pastas and steaks with to go with served variety of wines and cocktails. The pre-order facility offered by the house is surely a blessing for those short on time. Apart from the restaurant, the place also doubles up as a venue for parties and social events at night during the weekends. Just the right place to host your family dinner or events. Call or visit their website for more information.
»Sugar Club
Found in the middle of Adelaide's cafe-culture strip is the fashionable Sugar Club. This chic club serves up some of the best dance beats in town. The place looks like a cross between a retro lounge bar and an underground dance club. Many of the people here are serious fashion hounds and the door staff can be picky, so it pays to look smart. DJs usually play cutting-edge stuff (progressive house, soulful dance and speed garage). A well-stocked bar sells imported beers and alcoholic soft drinks. The Sugar is open all week from 9 until late.
Nestled in a little dark street, this alternative club and concert venue can be difficult to find. The place is a converted warehouse and one of the grungiest nightspots in town. Dim lights, purple walls and red curtains all add to the look and feel. Pumping techno and house is played on Thursday nights. Fridays often feature live indie bands. An offbeat crowd, drawn by retro and gothic, fills the place on Saturdays. Well-stocked in Australian beers and base spirits, the two Proscenium bars also offer several imported ales and cocktails.
»Belgian Beer Cafe Oostende
As the name would define for you, Belgian Beer Cafe Oostende is restaurant and a bar that offers an array of Belgian cuisine that is delectable. The restaurant offers authentic local fare that gives you a taste of the local preferences of the people. There is also the lure of the amazing drinks and entertainment options that are offered by the Belgian Beer Cafe Oostende. If you are in the city and are looking for some fun times, Belgian Beer Cafe Oostende is the place to go.
»HQ Complex
The Head Quarters of fun and partying, this location is found inside the New Market Hotel in Adelaide. Saturday is the most happening day at HQ, with a number of happening events and live gigs. the performers at HQ are high on adrenaline and low on boredom. There is a membership card available to the club that entitles you to benefits like express entry. Check website for schedules.
»Electric Circus
As electrifying as the name is, Electric Circus has created quite a stir in the music scene of Adelaide. The place is packed on most days, but on weekends, it is packed to suffocation. The nightclub with its blue and red lights glows in the dark, just enough for you to see where your heading to. Dj's known on the international circuit and in Australia come to play here every week and Thursdays are popular for fun and partying. Check the website for upcoming gigs.
»Rocket Bar
Located in Central Adelaide just off Kent Town, the Rocket Bar is the place to be in for a night out with friends. Rocket Bar has a very contemporary feel to it, with typical dim lights, spacious dance floor and minimalistic seating. On event nights the place tends to get crowded as well known performers hit the spot with some fine talent and great music. Check the website for a list of upcoming events and programs.
»Supermild Lounge Bar
This cozy retro haunt makes a top place to unwind. It is one of the smallest night-spots in town but offers plenty of variety. To blend with the colorful decor many regulars like to dress up in their 70s gear. Getting through the door can be a problem wearing training shoes and denim, but once inside, the mood is quite laid back. Local short films are screened once a month. The bar serves a variety of cocktails, and anyone with a taste for imported beer will be charmed by the choice of brews available.
»Rio International
You will find Rio International in the middle of a busy party strip featuring several pubs, cafes, video game parlors and a movie complex. While the venue is very dark and loud downstairs, it has the look of a casual tavern upstairs. The DJs usually play commercial dance. Drinks offered at the bar include Australian and imported beers, a wide range of spirits and house wine.
»Jade Monkey
There is no monkeying around here, just loads of music to enjoy. The Jade Monkey is a music venue, with a variety of music on offer. If you are in the mood for some quaint music, then they have country for you, and if you are in the mood for some head banging fun with your pals, then rock is also available. Your wish is their command. The place is mainly non-smoking and for the ones looking to quench their thirst, there is a beer bar situated in the premises.


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CRYSTAL RIVER –— No one was injured and one man was arrested after gunshots broke the early morning silence on Friday in Crystal River.
Citrus County sheriff's deputies responded at roughly 2:30 a.m. to a domestic disturbance call with shots fired at West Concord Court, where they found a car had crashed into a tree, according Sgt. Steve Casada, a detective with the sheriff's office.
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Archaia Collects 'The Realist' for the First Time in English
Archaia, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios, is pleased to announce the April debut of acclaimed Israeli illustrator Asaf Hanuka's autobiographical original graphic novel The Realist. Collecting Hanuka's weekly strips in English for the first time, The Realist is an emotional, deeply personal commentary on his life and raising a family in Tel Aviv, Israel.
"Asaf Hanuka can say more with a single illustration than some people could say in a whole book," said BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon. "The Realist is a rollercoaster of emotion, filled with humorous strips of trying to raise a family and stunning, quiet images of the dangers of a war-torn country. Marjane Satrapi introduced Western audiences to a post-Islamic Revolution Iran in Persepolis, and now Asaf Hanuka gives us a window into modern life in Tel Aviv with The Realist."
Asaf Hanuka's autobiographical webcomic, The Realist, began winning awards shortly after its launch, including a Gold Medal from The Society of Illustrators. Collected for the first time in English and including never-before-collected strips, The Realist delivers both honesty and whimsy from a master of his craft. With echoes of R. Crumb and Daniel Clowes, Hanuka moves readers with his depictions of everyday life, commenting on everything from marriage to technology to social activism through intimate moments of triumph and failure.
Featuring a trim size of 6.875 x 10.1875 and containing 192 pages, The Realist original hardcover graphic novel arrives in comic shops from Archaia on April 22nd with a cover by creator Asaf Hanuka for the price of $24.99 under Diamond order code FEB151166.
The Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is March 30th. Not sure where to find your nearest comic retailer? Use comicshoplocator.com or findacomicshop.com to find one! It's also available for order directly from boom-studios.com.
Lucy Lawless Is the Last of the True "Salem" Witches (Promo)
BOO! WGN America has released a new promo for the all-new season of their breakout hit supernatural thriller "Salem," returning on Sunday, April 5 at 10pm ET/9pm CT. It features Lucy Lawless, the last "true" witch.
The promo features a first look at new recurring guest stars Lucy Lawless ("Xena: Warrior Princess", "Spartacus") and Stuart Townsend ("Betrayal," "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen") who have joined the series for season two. Lawless joins the cast as "Countess Marburg," one of the last remaining survivors of the legendary line of ancient German witches and Townsend portrays English aristocrat "Samuel Wainwright" – a doctor looking to uncover the secrets of "Salem" and keep his own from those who would seek to discover them.
"Salem", a bold re-imagination of the infamous 17th-century witch trials, returns for season two at the dawn of a Witch War. As the disease and devastation unleashed by a deadly supernatural ritual spread through the war-torn village, Salem's most powerful witch, Mary Sibley, must face off against adversaries old and new who are vying for her throne.
"Salem" is a gripping one-hour drama that boldly re-imagines the infamous 17th century witch trials in colonial Massachusetts. The series stars Janet Montgomery, Shane West ("Nikita," "ER"), Seth Gabel ("Arrow," "Fringe"), Ashley Madekwe, Tamzin Merchant ("Jane Eyre"), Elise Eberle ("The Astronaut Farmer") and Iddo Goldberg ("Mob City").
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'Insidious Chapter 3′ Teaser and Poster Show Your Death
While Focus Features Insidious Chapter 3 trailer leaked this morning, it has since been pulled and replaced with a trailer teaser and official poster. The trailer releases officially tomorrow, so until then you at least have a look at this awesome poster that shows your death.
Leigh Whannell, co-creator of the terrifying horror franchise, directs the third film in theaters June 5, 2015.
"This chilling prequel, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl (Stefanie Scott) who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity."
The full cast of Insidious Chapter 3 includes Dermot Mulroney (August: Osage County) and Stefanie Scott (Jem and the Holograms) starring alongside Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, and Mr. Whannell, with the latter trio reprising their roles from the first two movies in the franchise.
'Silence of the Sleep' Creator Reveals 'The Human Gallery'
Few people are as successful with their very first game as Finnish developer Jesse Makkonen was with his hauntingly beautiful psychological horror game, Silence of the Sleep. To put it in perspective, that was his first stab at making video games, and he did it alone. His next project is another 2D horror game titled The Human Gallery, and it looks every bit as terrifying, eerie and visually unforgettable as his last.
The Human Gallery follows an artist who decides to enter the mind of a psychopath in order to find inspiration for his next work. This guy clearly hasn't seen Cell, because if he had, he'd know how bad that idea is.
Like Silence of the Sleep, the emphasis is on atmosphere. The interface will be minimal, the controls simple but polished, and it'll be backed by another moody soundtrack. I can't wait.
'Five Nights at Freddy's Children's Charity Drive Raises Over $256,000
Here's some news that ought to warm your soul. This weekend, YouTuber Dawko held a Five Nights at Freddy's-themed Play Live event with the goal of raising $15,000 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. I doubt he expected series creator Scott Cawthon would take notice, much less donate a quarter of a million dollars to it.
Here's Dawko's celebratory video.
With Cawthon's generous donation, Dawko's Play Live page was able to raise an impressive $256,474 total. Not bad for a day's work.
If you would like to donate to St. Jude, you can do that right here.
The Entire 'Leprechaun' Series Recapped In Under Five Minutes!
Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day, Bloody Disgusting reader Dimitri A.C. Ly just linked us to his video compilations that recaps the entire Leprechaun franchise in less than five minutes!
Plus, the one true way to kill a leprechaun…
Warwick Davis starred as the Leprechaun in the 1993 film, which spawned multiple sequels (Leprechaun 2, Leprechaun 3, Leprechaun 4: In Space, Leprechaun: In the Hood, Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood), as well as the awful WWE remake Origins. Dylan "Hornswoggle" Postl starred as the Lep in the 2014 reboot.
The '93 film starred Jennifer Aniston in which an evil, sadistic Leprechaun goes on a killing rampage in search of his beloved pot of gold.
Text-Heavy Poster For Ali Larter-Starrer 'The Diabolical' (SXSW)
Here's a text-heavy festival one-sheet for XLrator Media, Content and Alistair Legrand's The Diabolical, which marks Legrand's directorial debut, who co-wrote the script with Luke Harvis.
I don't really understand the poster, which carries huge text and a hard-to-see image of a crusty girl standing behind it. I mean, it's a cool looking poster, but it doesn't really tell me anything about the movie, which stars Final Destination and Resident Evil fav Ali Larter.
"The Diabolical follows Madison and her children in their quiet suburban home as they are awoken nightly by an increasingly strange and intense presence. Madison desperately seeks help from her scientist boyfriend Nikolai, who begins a hunt to destroy the violent spirit that paranormal experts are too frightened to undertake."
Patrick Fischler ("Mad Men"), Arjun Gupta ("Nurse Jackie"), Merrin Dungey ("Betrayal") and Joe Egender ("American Horror Story: Asylum") also star.
Rob Zombie Casts His "Doom-Head" In '31′
Day 6 of filming brings DOOM-HEAD.
Here's another name added to Rob Zombie's now-filming 31, his Halloween slasher that's heading to Murder World.
Joining the previously announced cast is Zombie regular, Richard Brake, who will portray 'Doom-Head'.
Malcolm McDowell plays 'Father Murder', the owner of Murder World for which the film is based.
Judy Geeson plays 'Sister Dragon', who runs Murder World alongside McDowell. She joins David Ury, who will be playing Schizo-Head, one half of murderous team of brothers living inside Murder World. Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs was recently cast as Panda Thomas, with Elizabeth Daily (E.G. Daily) playing 'Sex-head', and Torsten Voges as the insane partner of Death-Head.
Daniel Roebuck plays Paster Victor, an unfortunate participant in last year's game of 31.
"31 follows five carnival workers who are kidnapped the night before Halloween and held hostage in a large secret compound known as Murder World.
Once there, they have 12 hours to survive a terrifying game called 31 in which 'The Heads'- murderous maniacs dressed as clowns – are released to hunt them down and kill them."
Has Overhype Ever Ruined a Movie For You?
It Follows was released in New York and Los Angeles on March 13th. While I won't get to see it until March 27th, when it's finally released in Austin (damn you South By Southwest!), I have to say that I am incredibly excited about it (read both of our glowing reviews here and here), but a tiny part of me is terrified that I'm not going to like it as much as I think I'm going to. My reasoning for this is because it is becoming incredibly hyped, and I am a person who can let hype really get to me. Now, before I go on: I would like to point out that I am fully aware I could choose not to read reviews and news about movies before they are released, but it's kind of part of my job. Call me masochistic if you want. All of this got me thinking about movies that have been overhyped for me in the past. I'm also quite interested to hear your thoughts on movies that have disappointed you in the past.
The most recent example of overhype for me was my experience with The Babadook last year. I had been following it for a while since it premiered at Sundance last January. Think about it: that is about 11 months of me reading glowing things about the film (I finally saw it in November). I probably should have expected to be disappointed, and I definitely was. Don't get me wrong, I liked the movie. It just didn't live up to the admittedly impossible expectations I had set for it. I've already pre-ordered the BluRay on Amazon though so I'm hoping that a second viewing with more perspective will help, but mostly I just want it for the special packaging.
Haute Tension was also a victim of overhype for me. This was due mostly to the fact that I still can't stand the ending (and yes, I have seen it more than once). I don't appreciate movies that flat out lie to the audience and this movie was one of them. It was very well made, had some amazing gore effects and all of the performances were great; but every time I watch it the final 10 minutes completely take me out of the film. To this day I still do not understand the hype this film still receives.
The biggest example of overhype for me isn't even a recent film. It's Suspiria. I have only seen Suspiria once, and it was over a decade ago when I was still in high school. I admit that I probably need to watch it again. I've been to film school and taken a few classes on horror films since then so I could probably appreciate it a little bit more now. I just remember being incredibly bored the first time I watched it. Suspiria is the reason I don't buy movies without watching them first anymore. This is probably something most people do already, but since Suspiria is such a highly regarded classic, I thought it was pretty much guaranteed that I would like it. Undoubtedly, that added to my bad memory of the film. Nevertheless, whenever someone mentions overhype my mind always goes back to the first time I watched Suspiria.
My goal in writing this post is not to bash on the movies I have listed. I have a respect for most films and the effort that goes into them, but I fully realize I may be inviting a lot of backlash by writing this post. The three films I listed above had a lot of care and effort put into them, and I take most of the blame for allowing myself to fall victim to overhype. I've tried to not actually read the reviews for It Follows and just read the blurbs on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't think I'll be disappointed, but I am still wary about it. Fingers crossed it lives up to my (slightly more managed) expectations!
So now that I've shared my experiences with you and I would like to hear about yours. When has overhype ruined a movie for you? Let me know in the comments below!
5 Scariest Sci-Fi/Horror Creatures From False-Heads
When it comes to terrifying and scary creatures, it's hard to find a better breeding ground than the combination of Sci-Fi and Horror. Mad scientists creating destructive monstrosities, viruses infecting hosts, alien beings that are bent on total domination… These are only a few examples of the types of beasts that have come forth from this marriage of genres.
Let's kick-start a discussion whereby we choose some of our own personal favorites that fit into this category. To start things off, we've got UK rock band False-Heads and their "5 Scariest Sci-Fi/Horror Creatures"! Head on in to check out their choices and then make sure to check out their single, "Wrap Up", at the end of this post.
Don't forget to pre-order your copy of the band's new EP Wear And Tear via Bandcamp.
'SOMA' is Just About Ready for Beta Testing
Developer Frictional Games has been quietly toiling away on their upcoming sci-fi survival horror game SOMA for some time now. A few weeks ago, the studio apologized after a somewhat lengthy silence — often a bad sign for far-off horror games — and this weekend they broke their silence again by sharing some more exciting news.
"If all goes according to plan the beta for SOMA, our upcoming sci-fi horror game, will be done in 4 weeks," Frictional announced on Facebook. "It feels both exciting and scary that the game is really nearly completed now. After several years of hard work, release is finally a clearly visible milestone."
The news of imminent beta testing is something to celebrate, both for the developer and for the fans who have been itching to get their hands on this game since it was revealed nearly two years ago. Don't get tooexcited though, because the beta won't be a public one.
"Note that we already have all the testers we need, so no need to make requests. [SOMA] is still incomplete so just hang in there a little longer, and you'll get the polished and proper version to immerse yourself in!"
"Penny Dreadful" Summons the Devil
Satan is coming to Showtime.
Showtime has shared a devilish new TV spot for "Penny Dreadful", which begins its 10-episode run on Sunday, May 3 at 10PM ET/PT.
This season, Vanessa and Ethan form a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Dr. Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), and Sembene (Danny Sapani), unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them.
Meanwhile, Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), the Creature (Rory Kinnear) and Brona (Billie Piper) are all waging battles of their own.
Patti LuPone will guest star as a mysterious character of great importance in Vanessa's past. Helen McCrory returns as Evelyn Poole (a.k.a. Madame Kali), the seductive spiritualist who will pose a unique threat to our protagonists this season, along with Simon Russell Beale, who is back as eccentric Egyptologist Ferdinand Lyle.
With Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green returning, additional guest stars include Douglas Hodge as a Scotland Yard investigator; Sarah Greene as Poole's powerful daughter, Hecate; and Johnny Beauchamp as a man with a singular past.
Kirkman Chats About Overkill's 'The Walking Dead'
Back in August we were given our first look at a new The Walking Dead — this time from Overkill Software and Skybound Interactive — which promised to be the opposite of Activision's embarrassing Survival Instinct game.
Overkill's take of the increasingly popular zombie franchise has more potential than Survival Instinct ever did, but it'd sure be nice to know something about it, aside from its nebulous 2016 release window. Enter series creator Robert Kirkman.
"I can say that it will be Payday-esque because [Starbreeze and Overkill] are currently doing Payday," Kirkman told Polygon. "But I'm told it will be in a bigger world than Payday currently encompasses. They are going to be learning a lot of stuff from Payday that they will be incorporating into The Walking Dead game."
This Walking Dead won't be the same kind of generic experience we usually get from licensed games. Overkill and Skybound are looking to create a unique and engrossing storyline within the Walking Dead universe that follows brand new characters.
"So instead of like it being a derivative experience, where you kind of enjoyed a movie so you're playing a game and it's not as good as the movie and there is some lame things about it, we're doing a thing that is its own experience that stands on its own as a cool game, rather than a licensing barnacle to this popular movie," Kirkman added.
Kirkman also confirmed that, like the Payday series, this game will be "online and interactive."
Here's the game's announcement trailer, if you missed it the first time around. It's beak as hell, but I wouldn't expect anything less from something that's a part of The Walking Dead.
10 Most F*cked Up Romances Selected By 'Spring' Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
One of my favorite genre films of the year, Spring, will be arriving in select theaters and on VOD March 20, 2015.
It's a super fucked up Lovecraftian horror romance that follows a young man (played by Evil Dead's Lou Taylor Pucci), in a personal tailspin, who flees the U.S. to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
In the spirit of Spring, we caught up with directing duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead who select 10 of the most f*cked up on-screen romances!
DRACULA: Dracula & almost every female character in the book
When we first meet Dracula he is in a cohabitating relationship with three undead sisters in his Transylvania Castle, which is arguably polygamy, incest and necrophilia. Apparently not satisfied with this, his desires redirect to his Victorian real estate agent's fiance, as well as her best friend, and travels super far all the way to goddamn London for the attempted hook-up.
Making the Vampire Lestat feel puritanical.
[Interview] Mike Mignola Talks Remaking The Monster in "Frankenstein Underground"
Mike Mignola's name is synonymous with a certain type of monster in comics. This week sees the release of his long anticipated "Frankenstein Underground" #1. A comic I called "another homerun for Dark Horse, another incredible chapter to Mignola's world, and a story unlike anything you've ever seen from both. It's compelling from cover to cover, and manages to exceed expectations with haunting art on almost every page. I wish I could read #2 right now, and frankly damning myself for reading this one so damn early."
I sat down with Mike to talk about how he chooses to flesh out his incredible world, the work that goes into making a monster a character, and the whole host of influences on this incredible adventure. Get ready for Wednesday with this interview.
BD: Why can "Frankenstien Underground" be enjoyed on its own without any knowledge of the preexisting Hellboy universe?
Mike Mignola: I hope it can. It focuses on the Frankenstein monster thrown underground and although it exists in a world that has already existed for a long time, reading the book doesn't hinge on any knowledge of that stuff. It has monsters, hyperborean legend, and all that stuff. And if this is your first introduction I think that's fine.
It's always a focus with these different things that we do. We don't want to trick you into buying other things. It's not about big crossovers. There may be a couple characters who crossover into separate adventures but if you don't read their main book you won't be lost. We make sure to introduce everything in a way that's digestible to the reader.
I know all the characters, and I know what we're doing in every book. But, I'm doing this for the reader who's never read any of the other books.
So these guys that do crossover from Hellboy, it's more of a wink to the long time reader. We establish Fabrice and who he is and what he's looking for, but without too big a question mark attached to him. Then we leave him behind. It's sometimes a trick to do that. But I think we did it well enough here.
BD: With the massive world you've built over the last 21 years how do you decide what story to tell next, what was it about Frankenstein that made his story so compelling.
MM: To create these other books have them share a world and have a range of tones is a total joy for me. I you want Victorian occult detective stuff and you only want to read Witchfinder, that's perfectly fine.
But if you want to read that and Lobster Johnson, and Hellboy, you get a way bigger picture of what's going on in that world. But! You don't need it. There continuities still make sense, but every so often you'll get a character from there, over here. You don't need to know but it helps.
I don't know if Frankenstein was even that compelling. I know after The House of the Living Dead graphic novel, something prevailed about the monster after that was all done. Sometimes you tell one story with a character and you're ready to move on. I'm not even exactly sure when I developed another story for Frankenstein. It was almost out of the blue that I thought of the idea to do him underground, and with a world this big you just kinda tease these things around.
It wasn't a burning sensation to tell this story, but after Ben Stenbeck expressed interest to work on something other than The Baltimore series, you know I had several ideas to pitch to him. One of the ideas was Frankenstein Underground and he didn't even skip a beat.
So the project came together because we had the right artist for it. Without Stenbeck coming on it may have never gotten done. The nice thing is, it does something for the Hellboy world. So I'm glad it existed, but had Ben not wanted to do it, we would have found something else to flesh out the world.
BD: So do you draft up stories that only exist in these separated pockets of the world in the effort to flesh out side characters whenever the right artist comes along?
MM: Yeah… There's always a lot of that. It's almost an experiment. Or an exercise, it's this or this. I kind of store them away. I also give them different avenues in where they can go. The direction is up to the right artist. I had stories of characters that are left completely undeveloped in the Hellboy world. I often give certain characters and time periods and try to get them to the artist it appeals to most.
"He's just this kind of lumbering tragic character. He had to be the Mary Shelley here, and the trick was getting the roots of it in this comic."
And when they choose, we come up with a story for those characters by throwing around possible ideas. So we do that until its something that we respond to strongly and before we know it, we have something we're really happy with.
BD: The design of Frankenstein has the Karloff body with the Christopher Lee hair, how did you plan the look of the character? Was it more you or Ben?
MM: Oh, I didn't think of that… Well I had originally designed that character for The House of the Living Dead graphic novel, and I had drawn that type of character many times before. But, when it came time to do the book I had given Ben a quick drawing of roughly that type of Frankenstein. I started the whole design.
At first when it came time to the series, Ben took things in a pretty extreme direction and the result was taking it back in a more human proportion.
BD: You call Frankenstein "a corpse with a conscience" in this first issue, I love that description, but Frankenstein is made to suffer, how do you plan to give him more agency than pain in this series? And why is so pained?
MM: He's been living for a couple hundred years and he's been almost entirely abused during that time. From birth he's been a monster, it hasn't really got much better. I'm sure he had a couple years on a beach relaxing somewhere during a few beautiful summers. [Laughs]
But mostly its been pain. We see it in the opening pages of this first issue. He wasn't having a great time in the lead up to this series. He was misunderstood and met by a lot of men who just wanted to shoot him.
Calling him a monster, at least at first makes the most sense to me. If you've read the Mary Shelley novel he has almost no dialogue. He's just this kind of lumbering tragic character. He had to be the Mary Shelley here, and the trick was getting the roots of it in this comic.
He could have been this elegant well-spoken creature, even a portrait of us. But he's been so abused and so beaten down that he was reduced to that dumb brute.
BD: So is he trying to learn more about himself here, is he trying to be something more?
MM: No. He's not the type of character to search out who he is. He's such a well-defined character already that it was never in my mind that this would really be about him and who he is. This book is really about this situation we throw him into.
His situation is influenced by Edger Rice Burroughs Hollow Earth stuff. It's so much a thing that the simple pitch for this book was "Frankenstein in Pullicider." We throw him underground and it's just a parade of monsters. But, that is only really sustainable for one issue. I could only do so much before it wore thin, so it started out very simple and I brought my other influences into it. The kind of ancient history I love and the elements of my world, that's when it went from a simple pitch to a great story.
BD: How has Ben Stenbeck's work complimented your script? I found his work influenced by your own in Hellboy in Hell it really opened up and felt crazy at times, but in a very calculated way.
MM: Ben's been doing books that take place in specific time periods so this was a chance for him to open up. He's done a lot of world war I era Europe in Baltimore so here was a book where he could go wild. We have previously sprinkled this level of strange in the Hellboy stuff but no we're going into uncharted territory.
I'm very luck to work with Ben. There was no point where I scripted something and had any doubts that Ben could draw it. At this point Ben can do anything, there were things I asked him to do that I've never seen from him before, but that was half the reason he came onto the book. And there were a few places in the script were he gave me something far beyond what I had imagined. I'll never tire of working with him, because when you have someone like Ben you never want to let them go.
I don't do real plot style scripting. I'm always writing something akin to what ends up on the page. But for the most part when the action gets heavy I let my artist take it in their own direction. Some places I really break it down, like exactly the layout and the sizes of the panels on the page. It depends on how I envision the page, but I'm always spelling it out in one way or another. All this stuff is in my head, but it would be a full script if I had the time.
I always like to reletter my work after the artist has drawn everything. Sometimes they alter a facial expression, or change the direction of a scene, and it looks like someone who never had dialogue before should be speaking. I like adding after the fact because it gives the comic a much more organic feeling.
BD: Obviously Frankenstein has an incredibly rich history and you know it well, there are all kinds of little tributes to the character's past in these opening pages, but what iteration of the character do you find most dear and why?
MM: I read so much mythology, and it's been cooking up in my head for so long that coming up with a backstory for my world. I've got all this stuff, and to some extent I make my own history. So it's always a question of how much of my influence can I put into a new story. Is there room to put this history in there, and how can I make it work.
For the Frankenstein character I took my in head mythology. My first love is that Karloff monster. I found my own voice somewhere between the Mary Shelley novel and the Karloff monster and I think I found something special. I couldn't do Mary Shelley, so I took the elements of the character and distilled it down to something I could write. I had to make him mine.
"Fear The Walking Dead" a Prequel That Catches Up to "The Walking Dead"
I was really hoping the tentatively titled "Fear The Walking Dead" series would be a completely separate entity instead of living closely in the world of "The Walking Dead". As "Fear" is a prequel spinoff, clearly it's going to live in the same world as AMC's smash hit zombie series. Still, I'm praying the quality and writing are different as I'm not s huge fan of "TWD" series (I adore the comic by Robert Kirkman).
EW has some new answers to questions we've been asking since day one. Appearing at panel titled "Creative Activism" at the South by Southwest conference in Austin on Saturday, writer-producer Robert Kirkman was asked how his new spin-off* series will creatively fit with the comics and his existing "Walking Dead" flaghship series.
"It's not going to relate to the comics at all," Kirkman said. "From the beginning of the show one thing we've heard is, 'What's going on over here or there.' So the intent of the new show is to expand that world and show another corner of the United States and what's happening there. The timeline is taking place a little bit earlier timeframe than the original show. Rick Grimes woke up from a coma and was like, 'Oh, man, zombies, weird!' We're going to possibly see that unfold a little more in the other show. But I wouldn't call it 'prequel' because the entirety of the show is not going take place before ['The Walking Dead']. It will eventually form a path running concurrently."
That the two shows will eventually be unfolding at the same time is definitely interesting because it opens the door to the possibility to having characters cross over between the shows, adds the site. Kirkman hinted there might be narrative connective tissue between the two shows, but only cited elements that would play out in the mind of the viewer and emphisized the shows would stand on their own.
Here's how he explained it: "One thing that we're doing with the new show that we're trying with everything is it's not derivative," he said. "It's standing on its own. You can watch it by itself and get your own experience. But if you are watching both shows there are things like, 'Oh they discovered this, or they discovered that in a different way.' There are a lot of things about The Walking Dead world these characters have to learn or figure out to get by. And there may be some things that are discovered in the companion show that haven't been discovered in the other show yet. So there could be like a thing where, 'Oh, they encountered a zombie in season 4 in The Walking Dead that could do this and now we know why that was.' So we're going to be doing things like that are going to be pretty cool, but for the most part [the two shows] should be able to stand alone."
He ended with this shocker, which may or may not be a joke: "And then we're going to cross it over for an Avengers movie and it will be great."
Creating a massive "The Walking Dead" universe is an awesome idea, so long as creatively they're separate. I don't want to see rehash after rehash with the same crew. Instead, I would prefer the new series to be told from different perspectives (male/female, old/young), and various directors and writers.
Retro 'It Follows' Poster Creeps Closer and Closer
David Robert Mitchell's must-see It Follows started it's life in just 4 theaters across America, and destroyed them all taking it a whopping $40k per screen average. expanding into more theaters next week, I don't think The Weinstein Company understood what they had on their hands, and are about to have their hands on the next great indie horror hit.
While we wait for it to expand closer and closer, the new art poster does the exact same. "It" may be in the rearview mirror, but it won't stop until you're dead…or you pass the curse along to someone else.
I gave it a perfect score, calling it "a classical horror masterpiece." Mike Pereira referred to as a creepy, mesmerizing exercise in minimalist horror" when reviewed out of the TIFF last September.
"For 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe), the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind."
Monroe, who is becoming a legit Scream Queen, stars with Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Olivia Luccardi and Lili Sepe.
The First Four 'Saw' Films Now On Netflix Instant
For whatever reason, Lionsgate is holding back the second batch of Saw films from Netflix Instant, but has just now released the first four in the franchise that spanned from 2004-2010.
James Wan and Leigh Whannell's SAW played the 2004 Sundance Film Festival before blasting through the October box office. It quickly had Lionsgate scrambling for a new director to take the reigns for its sequel, which would find Darren Lynn Bousman behind the helm for the next three.
What I find so bizarre about the Saw franchise is that a lot of you grew up watching it hit theaters, and are now adult readers here on Bloody Disgusting. A lot of the younger generation hasn't even seen them all yet! What's the next big thing? We're all sitting and waiting. Until then, Lionsgate will ponder whether Saw needs a sequel, remake or television series.
SAW (read the review)
Saw II (read the review, and another)
Saw III (read the review)
Saw IV (read the review)
Saw V (read the review)
Saw VI (read the review)
SAW 3D (read the review)
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[TV Review] "The Returned" Episode 1.02: 'Simon'
"The Returned" uh, returned tonight with its second episode, "Simon," and it was a slight improvement over the pilot episode, if only because we got to know the characters a little bit better. We don't get many more answers this week, but a few revelations are made as more and more people start to find out about the dead coming back to life. Lets get to the recap:Simon
The episode begins with a flashback to six years ago, when Simon and Rowan were preparing to get married. We see a younger Lena playing the drums and Simon walks over to take a picture with Lena. We then cut to the wedding day, where Rowan tells Simon she is pregnant. He gives a look that suggests he isn't thrilled by the news. At the church, Rowan is waiting for him to show up, but Tommy comes in to tell her that Simon has died. Cut to the present day and Rowan is sitting in the same church with Tommy preparing for their own wedding. Tommy gets called away to investigate Lucy's stabbing. Meanwhile, Chloe notices a disturbing black sludge coming out of the sink drain. While talking to her priest, Rowan decides she has to accept her visions of Simon in order to move on and be happy with Tommy.
Simon goes to the bar and asks Tony the bartender where he can find Rowan and he tells her she works at the library. He leaves without paying. Tommy comes in and starts interrogating Lena's friends and the Tony about Lucy. Lena remembers taking the picture with Simon six years before and finds it on the bulletin board. Tommy and Nikki take Tony to the station to interrogate him about Lucy. They believe he attacked her, just like "that woman seven years ago." Apparently, one woman survived and many others died. They show him pictures of the stab/bite wounds of the previous victims and he looks visibly shocked. After asking Nikki to leave Tommy asks Tony if there is something he isn't telling him. Tony hesitates.
Simon goes to the library and finds Rowan. She begins talking with him, thinking she is hallucinating. She tells him that she will always love him even though she is with Tommy. She touches him and is interrupted by children entering the library, then he leaves and is picked up by the police (for running out on his bar tab from earlier). In the interrogation room, Nikki tells him that he is supposed to have died six years ago. Tommy asks him about Rowan, and Simon gets defensive. Tommy orders Simon to be locked up.
In the middle of the night, Tommy is in bed with Rowan and walks to the basement and begins rummaging through boxes. He comes across a picture of Rowan and Simon, finally making the connection and realizing that Simon was telling the truth about his identity.Camille
Camille finally realizes that she died four years ago.Lena starts a fight with her parents and runs out of the house. As Jack follows her she brings up the fact that he had hit her before. Camille goes into Lena's room and begins looking through her things, noticing a picture of Lena and Ben. While Claire and Peter are talking downstairs, Camille comes down and asks Peter why she is here but none of the other kids from the bus are. Camille watches from Lena's window as Peter kisses Claire when he leaves. She sneaks out of Lena's window and Claire freaks out. Jack comes over, drunk, and she gets upset and leaves to go search for Camille.
Camille goes to the bar where Lena is at and speaks with Ben's friend Hunter. Claire finds Camille crying about Hunter not recognizing her. She is upset that everyone forgot about her and moved on. After coming home, Lena asks Camille what she did to her room. Camille lets on that she knows about her and Ben's relationship.Victor
Julie is at the police station trying to see if there were any missing person's posters of Victor. While trying to tell a policeman that she saw him at the bus stop (rather than just telling him that she took him home) she slips up and mentions the color of his eyes, which she couldn't have possibly seen if she had just seen him while driving by. The cop, understandably, finds this odd so he takes her to the back for questioning. While following him, she makes awkward eye contact with Nikki (Agnes Bruckner) and they have a moment. Julie goes home and asks Victor why no one is looking for him. She interrogates him and he just hugs her.
Later, her across-the-hall neighbor Annie (feelings girl from Mean Girls) starts asking Julie about Victor. Lets her know that Mr. Goddard (so that's his name) committed suicide by jumping off the dam (this would be Helen's husband). Victor gives her an evil look. As Julie is putting Victor to bed, she tells him that she is afraid of the dark, just like him, so she leaves the night light on for him. She goes to the bathroom and begins crying. Rather than going to sleep, Victor begins drawing the town with a black hole in the center. As Julie undresses for her bath, the camera lingers on her stomach, where there are scars that match the stab/bite wounds Tommy showed Tony earlier in the episode. Looks like Julie is the survivor from the serial killings from years before!
Overall, I think that this episode was better than the pilot. If only because we weren't bombarded with 10-12 characters to connect with immediately. Now that "The Returned" is settling into a groove, we get to spend time with the characters we've already been acquainted with. Sadly, there's no Helen this week, but she'll become more important in later episodes.
After only getting to spend two brief scenes with Mary Elizabeth Winstead last week, we get most of the episode spent with her and Simon. I've always thought Winstead was an underrated actress, and her acting in this episode only proves me right. She kills it in all of her scenes and it's almost heartbreaking to watch her scene with Simon. I'm eagerly awaiting the scene where she realizes that Simon is actually back.
I'm still not completely involved with Jeremy Sisto's Peter. As of now his character is kind of useless/annoying, and I'm hoping the show finds a better use for him soon. His scenes with Claire were probably the weakest part of the episode for me. I like Sisto and don't want to see him wasted on the show. Camille and Lena's dynamic is the most compelling to me. I'm disappointed that we didn't get more scene with them together this week but I'm guessing they'll clash more next week since Lena knows that Camille knows about her and Ben.
I'm also excited for the inevitable episode about Tony, which will give us his backstory with the serial killer (I just looked it up, it's episode 5). We weren't really given a lot of information with that today, but that's just how this show rolls.
While not much headway was made on the Victor front, we did get a major revelation about Julie: she was attacked by the person who was committing the murders years ago. Clearly, that murderer was dead and is one of the returned. I assume we will meet him/her soon. I thought that reveal of her stomach was a great way to end the episode though. Oh, and that look between her and Nikki has to mean something. This is going to be a show were the smallest detail could be important in the future so keep an eye out for things like that. Nevertheless, I'm sure we'll find out more about that next week.
Random Notes
- In my review of last week's episode, I referred to "Lucy" (played by Leah Gibson) as "Kris" (played by Chelah Horsdal). This was my mistake. Sorry about that!
- I don't know about you guys, but I really miss the opening credits of the French version.
- I know I've already said it, but Mary Elizabeth Winstead did some fantastic work on this episode.
- Curious to know if anyone else called Julie being the lone survivor victim after Tommy mentioned that there was,in fact, a survivor. I don't think I called it when watching "Les Revenants" so I'm intrigued by your reaction.
- The series is definitely moving at a much faster pace than "Les Revenants" did. Granted, that's probably due to the shorter episodes, but since the remake has two more episodes than the French series, I'm curious to see what is added come the season's end.
- That's it for Simon's episode! Check back here next week for episode 3: "Julie." I'm guessing we'll see more of what happened the night Julie was attacked by this mysterious killer (and probably learn more about their connection with Tony).
[Podcast] Whatever – March 16th, 2014 – "Wrong Number"
This week: Is Hotline Miami 2 a worthy sequel? Does Episode 3 of Resident Evil: Revelations 2, take a misstep? And another Friday the 13th?
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Phoenix Suns
Another Phoenix Suns jersey image surfaces
Is the picture getting clearer?
The Phoenix Suns released another image of part of their new look Monday, though this one is a bit tough to place on the uniform.
What we do know is it's a photo of the team's alternate logo, which is also new for this season.
It's the sixth such image that has been posted.
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- Tim Kempton, Suns analyst and Notre Dame alumnusTK explains what Notre Dame has to do to have a chance against Kentucky in the Elite Eight.
- Mike D'Antoni- Former NBA head coachYou won't see Mike D'Antoni coaching college basketball.
- Lon Babby- Suns president of basketball operationsLon Babby says the Suns gave up an opportunity in their playoff race.
- Al McCoy, Hall of Fame voice of the SunsAl talks about the Suns' disappointing loss to the Kings in the midst of a playoff push.
- Ryan McDonough, Suns general manager Ryan McDonough talks about the development of the Suns younger players and gives an update on Brando


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kimcocoMarch 18, 2009
I have an area along a flagstone walkway where I want to run a border of Muscari and daffodil bulbs, with an overplanting of Ajuga. Behind that is a row of Pygmy Barberries.
Last year was my first with Ajuga (Bugleweed), so I'm not sure how compact they get when fully established. According to pics I've seen on the web, they look pretty dense. For those familiar with Ajuga, will bulbs be able to break through in the spring?
If not, can anyone recommend a low growing groundcover as a border along a (sunny) walkway? Ideally I'd like something really compact so the walkway doesn't get muddy during rainfall. A plastic border in that area for various reasons would not work.


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People of north Karnataka unhappy over south's lack of response over their irrigation, developmental issues
The tepid response in Hyderabad Karnataka and its neighbouring districts to the bandh on the Cauvery dispute yet again underlines the disconnect between southern and northern regions, be it on developmental issues or inter-State water sharing.
President of the Hyderabad Karnataka Horata Samiti and former minister Vaijnath Patil feels that leaders and organisations in Old Mysore region have themselves to blame for this. He asks if they have ever actively supported the people of Hyderabad Karnataka on utilising the Krishna waters or on amendment to Article 371 to give special status to the region.
Even leaders of pro-Kannada organisations in the region, which had given a call to join the Statewide bandh, do not hide their displeasure over this indifference. President of the Hyderabad Karnataka Janapara Sangharsha Samiti Lakshman Dasti and president of the Jai Karnataka Rakshana Vedhike Arun Kumar Patil describe as "unfortunate" the Old Mysore region people's lack of interest in safeguarding the interests of Karnataka in Krishna basin or in correcting regional imbalance.
"The people and organisations have been magnanimous in supporting the cause of the farmers in Cauvery delta and extended support to the bandh call," says Shivasharanappa Khanadal, divisional president of the Kannada Sene, the only organisation which had organised State-wide protests on the delay in amending the Article 371 of the Constitution.
"Both Cauvery and Krishna water problems have been inter-State issues. People of both areas have been fighting for justice. Yet, when it comes to Cauvery issue, the political parities and pro-Kannada organisations seek our support, but the leaders of old Mysore region never stand by us when we fight for justice. Most of them are not even aware of issues pertaining to water sharing of Krishna river," says Panchappa Kalburgi, president of Bhima River Water Protection Committee.
People of the region have had issues with Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra over sharing of water from Alamatti dam, with apportionment of additional water as decided by the Bachawat Tribunal award being a contentious issue.
Echoing similar sentiments, Basavaraj Kumbar, president of Krishna Kanive Neeru Rakshana Horata Samiti, says that it is important for farmers of both regions to have mutual understanding for each others' problems. He adds that unlike the Cauvery issue, which is beamed 24/7 on media, the problems of Krishna basin find no space.
"While the Cauvery issue is about opposition to the release of fixed amounts of water to Tamil Nadu, the Krishna issue is about deciding the quantum of water to be divided between Karnataka and other States," says Veerbhushan Nandagave in Bidar, who is a member of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha for over 30 years, adding that there has been no State-level agitation on this issue.
"The general impression is that the districts in Karnataka are divided among the river basins of Cauvery and Krishna. Very few people even know that Bidar district lies in the Godavari basin," says Khaji Arshed Ali, journalist and former Member of the Legislative Council. No leaders have sought utilistion of about 25 tmc ft of water available for use in the Godavari river basin.
Social activist Gurunath Wadde feels that the issue goes beyond water dispute and spills into cultural domain. "The unification of the State that started in the 1950s managed to sew together different regions under one banner. But even today many people in Bangalore and Mysore think that the backward districts of Hyderabad-Karnataka are a burden on them."
(Compiled by Bageshree S. with inputs from T.V. Sivanandan in Gulbarga, Firoz Rozindar in Bijapur and Rishikesh Bahadur Desai in Bidar)


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if you never have damping off.......(help me!)
Last year I lost over half of my plants to damping off. I'm determined not to have that disaster again. If you are successful in preventing it, what is your method? Wash everything in bleach? Microwave soil-less mix(for how long)?
I haven't started my seeds yet this year. I want to be sure I do everything possible to keep all my seedlings.
Thanks for your help.
I wash all my trays in a weak bleach solution before I start. I use those little peat pellets to get my seeds started. They are a bit more expensive but very sterile and they can be moved around under the lights and turned as the plants bend toward the lights. I also water with chamomile tea. Now, the jury is still out on that (it may be the boiled water rather than the tea that helps) but I heard it works and I haven't seen any damping off since I started. I also add a bit of No Damp to the tea every once in a while as insurance. As soon as the seeds sprout, I move them out of the covered tray and into the air. I also run a fan in the furnace room for a few hours a day.
It is very discouraging to see your hard work droop and die so try everything.
Good luck,
Always bottom-water your seedlings and make sure they get some sort of air circulation. I use a small fan near mine. A couple of times I sprinkled my seedlings with cinnamon (yes, just regular old baking cinnamon) because I had heard that would help prevent it as well.
But since I've started the bottom-watering and use of good air circulation, I've had little problem.
I have never washed anything in bleach and do not water with anything other than water. I have certainly never tried to cook my potting soil. If there's a sleety afternoon in February and I absolutely can't think of anything better to do, I'll wash my transplanting pots out with dish soap and warm water, but I have never washed the trays I use get seeds germinated.
The most important things to do to avoid damping off are: provide good ventilation and don't overwater (however you apply the water). Bottom watering is probably a little better, but nothing is going to help if you're growing your plantlets in mud. Test how the trays feel when the soil is very dry and test again when you know they're soggy. Try to use those feels to decide when you've watered "just right". If you have to choose, water too little rather than too much. The worst that can happen is you have to water again a little sooner.
Ventilation, however, is the real key. Keep your plantlets in as large a room as you can manage. Take the lids off the trays pretty much as soon as sprouts appear. If you're using a heat mat, take the tray off when the sprouts appear, even if not all of the seeds have germinated. If you can open a window a crack (I used to be able to do this on the south side of my house, even in winter in zone 6), that's good. Keep the door(s) of the room open. If the room doesn't have good air circulation already, run a fan once in awhile to clear out the humidity.
I only had damping off once, when I had to travel out of town and a friend stopped by to water for me. She apparently tried to dump Lake Michigan on my seedlings and it took days for the soil to dry out. I lost about a third of my plants that year!
The suggestions about sterilizing trays (or pots), ventilation and not overwatering are all key - along with using a fast-draining soilless mix.
I'd make sure the area the seedlings are grown also has been scrubbed down and cleaned with a bleach solution, and that any lighting fixtures suspended over the seedlings are swabbed as well. Tools used for transplanting need to be cleaned or dipped in alcohol between uses.
I don't completely avoid damping off, but when it happens it's usually because I've been careless about one of these precautions.
I remembering posting last year about sterilizing soilless mix in the microwave. It had been left in standing water outside for months. I wanted to ensure nasty micro-organisms hadn't set up home in the bag!
Now I make sure I pour boiling water over the soilless mix as recommended by Garden's North site owner.
Since I religiously use NoDamp in my sowing process, I conclude this has curtailed any damping off in the past three or four years. Sow seeds in your dampened medium & soak the container in a sink of NoDamp added to tepid water. Allow those pots to drain off on layers of newspaper. to soak up excess water.
I wash all equipment in bleach & detergent even my cut up mini blind labels!
A ceiling fan is on in the room & the soil temperatures are not over 26C to 28C for most pots & flats. The lowest shelf is used for lower germination temperatures such as 18C to 22C. I use a cold basement for lower germination temps & a hot water radiator for higher germination temperature requirement.
I use 4 inch plastic pots & fibre flats in plastic bags to start off germination. Getting the sprouts out of the bag or opening up the top is vital for air circulation. Allowing the soil to almost dry out before bottom watering is as everyone else says key to preventing damping off.
I have learned so much over the years of germinating seeds. Experience & doing are rewarding you'll see!
My experience is the same as leslies. I always assume that it is impossible to be completely sterile and so am careful not to allow the growing environment to favor the growth of the damping off fungus. Not too damp or humid, not too warm, plenty of light and fresh air circulation. I make my own mix from unused peat, perlte or virmiculte and have never sterilized anything. For at least 10 years I have not had a case of damping off. Al
The easiest cure for all damping-off problems is NO DAMP. It seems a lot of places don't carry this product in North America, don't know why?? It is a miracle cure for this problem. I haven't lost a seedling in 6 years since using it. It is in abundance up here in Canada. A small bottle will last years.
I have something slightly different to report -- I was starting to get some damping off after having a fan and using chamomile tea. I decided to make some Aerated Compost Tea, because it is full of beneficial bacteria and fungi, and see if that would put the soil mix back in balance. And... it did! The seedlings that had already wilted from damping off actually are coming back to life!!! I am amazed by such a positive result. I thought that once damping off had happened so a seedling, it was a goner. But these seedlings are actually strengthening again!! If anyone wants to know how to make Aerated Compost Tea (more strong and active than just regular compost tea), you can follow the link below or visit the Soil, Compost and Mulch forum here on GW.
Here is a link that might be useful: Deuley's Own Little Texas Tea Brewer
My present report is that I think I have averted a catastophic event intervening with a chemical treatment.My germinants appear to be healthy at the moment,though I lost some seeds.... My preference is to try to manage diseases from a cultural approach, but this particular seed is too important to me....stuff happens...
I was so happy... until my straggler seedlings started dying as they btoke the surface - but my first seedling were still thriving. I've lost over 50% at this point.
I bottom water using a capilary mat, not too much heat, just the right light, and air circulation - but still have moldy mildew. I think they're water logged via too much water via the capillary mat. How do you cut back the water if using the capillary mat system under a tray?
Any suggestions would be appriciated - I have to move the healthy ones out - but all I have is an old bag of Jiify Starting Mix and MG Mopisture (with fertilizer).
This is my first year starting indoors from seeds. No damping off yet. What I think is helping is the use of the coir pellets. Peat can often carry the pathogens, but apparently the coir does not. In addition, the coir is much more renewable compared to the peat which takes many many years to replace.
I'm also winter sowing and have 4 containers showing sprouts, including of all things, chamomile! :)
I'm putting in another vote for winter sowing. Drainage holes in the bottom of the jug and the lid off. I let Ma Nature for the most part water them. She seems to do a fairly good job of it too. On the rare occasion where I end up watering them, I water from the bottom. No damping off thus far....over 200 jugs and 2 seasons; everything from flowers to herbs to vegetables...no shrubs or trees though.
I'm really late to the thread but here's my two bits on the matter.
#1 - pasteurized soil, not sterilized is much better because sterilization kills everything in the soil where as pasteurization (between 140-170F degrees for 45-60 minutes) does not kill off the beneficial, thermophilic bacterial and fungal microbes that promote healthy plants.
#2 - because the seedbed you've prepared for your soil is also a perfect substrate for the several fungal contaminates that fall into the "damping off disease" category the best thing you can do to prevent them from taking over is plenty of fresh air exchange. The fungus will love the limited air-flow and elevated CO2 levels of your growing chamber almost as much as your seedlings will - however your seedlings really don't need the elevated CO2 until after they've put on their first set of true leaves. Having a little fan in there lightly blowing on the trays also helps promote hardier stems and reduces your "hardening off" times.
#3 - bleach does not kill fungus - it's technically not even rated for that purpose. If you want to clean your environment, use lysol, or better yet, 70% (not 91%) rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol is extremely effective at killing bacteria, viruses and fungal spores via it's evaporation point. The reason 91% alcohol is not as effect as 70% is because the extra water in the solution fools the cell membrane into allowing the alcohol to pass through and once inside, it destroys the cell as it boils away (evaporates) into a gas.
After having several nasty infections of trichoderma (forest green mold) I've learned to wash everything down/out with hot, soapy water (dawn antibacterial dish soap is GREAT), spray it down with lysol and wipe it out with a paper-towel dipped in rubbing alcohol. These days I've found that Walmart and various other pharmacy stores sell containers "wipies" that are 6"x6" sheets presoaked in rubbing alcohol which is _very_ convienent.
It may seem like overkill but when I was growing portabella mushrooms any kind of contaminate mold (in my case, trichoderma) can destroy an entire crop but when growing them organically I resisted using some of the rather harsh chemicals that huge commercial outfits employ.
If I can get a couple stacks of oak logs about 3-4" thick, I think I'll try some shiitake outside this year. God knows I'm getting more than enough rain for it this season... :rolls eyes:
Anyways, hope some of that helps...
someone said: No damping off yet. What I think is helping is the use of the coir pellets.
coco-coir is often pretreated with a specific form of trichoderma that is beneficial in that it fights off (eats, actually) several other forms of fungal contaminates but doesn't have a strong enough mycelial growth to completely colonize the substrate and to choke-out / damp-off your plant.
Anybody tried Physan 20 for damping off?
I use fresh vermiculite, or sterilized potting mixes, fresh plastic containers, good circulation, bottom watering but I still get damping off. I've tried chamomile, cinnamon, hydrogen peroxide, etc but none of these "home cures" ever worked for me.
Hydroguard used to work but I don't know what happened because one year it just didn't do anything for me. And now I think the product has been recalled or something?
I'm looking into the No Damp and planning on buying some. I even got damping off with the Physan 20.... I'm just cursed when it comes to seeds.
Have done indoor growing for several years. Initially I cleaned my pots with bleach and such now I just make sure they reasonably clean from previous year soil. Put a big fan over your seedlings and run it 24/7 on slow. Take off your covers as soon as you see germination. Water from below and use regular plastic trays with cell inserts- no fancy stuff allowed. Water enough but let it slightly get dryish on the top between watering. those are my rules and I do not know what damp off is.
I've never had damping off only read about it :) I do what many have already posted here and keep the environment bad for damp off fungus. Water when almost dry. Grow in a room with good air circulation. Use Pro-Mix. I also wash pots, cells, and trays each year in dish soap and water.
I started some uncommon Black Pepper seeds about 4 weeks ago and have lost about half of the crop to my dismay, a combination of things probably led to the problem. I used recycled soil from last years planters which wa snot treated or cleaned prior to use and I started the seedlings in a room where there is absolutely no air circulation... Being a first year seed starter I have very little experience in starting seeds, I thought it was just stick them in the ground and give them a drink twice a day.
Going to start over with new, clean planting soil and get some air moving in the room. Bought some chamomile tea too... Wish me luck
Same as leslies and others who don't do anything fancy. I have never had damping off (fingers crossed). As long you don't overwater and provide fresh air it won't happen. Camomile spray etc is treating the symptoms not the disease. I think damping off is most commonly caused by excess 'care'. I sow the seeds, water from below and then leave well alone until the compost is quite dry. Then I water from below again. Nothing else. If I'm using my heated propagator I take the lid off during the day as soon as the seedlings show. Damping off will only appear if conditions are right for it. Remove the conditions rather than treating the symptoms.
Besides the things already mentioned using fresh Pro-Mix BX with Biofungicide potting mix seems to prevent damping off and mildew on the surface of the soil. Its supposed to contain a type of bacteria that eats fungus. But the bacteria die after a while so old stuff that has been laying around for a few months losses its anti-fungal properties. If you do get damping off sprinkling powdered cinnamon on the seedling is supposed to help. My daughter was working in Guam where it is extremely humid and all her tomato seedlings were keeling over until she tried the cinnamon trick.
I had damping off several years ago when I knew nothing about growing seeds indoors. I had been plagued with aphids, damping off, and whitefly so I did all of the following: start seeds on paper towels with tea; water from below with chamomile tea; use a fan from time to time;do not allow too much condensation; use expensive sterile seeding mix. Keep everything clean: hot water and soap, maybe some beach solution. I have not had any problems for the past 6 years.
Winter sowing is not the answer. I live in Zone 5 Canada, and would not get a ripe pepper or tomato if I wintersowed them. There are also some annuals I must start indoors in order to get blooms and collect seeds.
IMO the problem is caused by the triple threat of high humidity, cool temps, and poor air circulation. Those conditions together seem to foster the growth of plant pathogens.
Once I learned that, I started to maintain high humidity, WARM temps (between 72 and 78 degrees religiously), and good air circulation. I haven't had a problem since maintaining these conditions.
Good air circulation doesn't necessarily mean a fan (although a desk or ceiling fan in the room on LOW setting would certainly be helpful). Too much air movement will just dry out the soil faster. To me good air circulation simply means having the seed shelf exposed to the ambient air of the room. Don't have them "inside" of anything - like humidity domes, or those cheesy plastic covered "greenhouse" towers, or the foil everyone puts around their flats to reflect the wasted light from the grow lights (a hassle and a waste of time anyway), etc.
I reuse all my flats, inserts, and pots, and I don't sanitize anything - although I believe sanitizing equipment with a mild bleach solution prior to reuse to be good practice. There is no such thing as true sterilization in a home setting let alone around gardening equipment and soil, so there is no point in worrying about it.
I use seed starting mix for impatiens only, the rest of my seeds are planted in cheap potting soil right out of the bag.
I do not use any chemicals - never heard of "No Damp", do not know what it is, and wouldn't use it anyway.
I use filtered snow melt warmed to room temperature until I am able to use captured rainwater at room temperature. I never use softened water or city water and will use well water only if I have no other choice. My preferred backup is water acquired through reverse osmosis.
I bottom water only, and mist surface-sown seeds twice daily until they germinate. Once seeds start sprouting I cut back on the watering following the wet / dry soil cycle.
I do not fertilize seedlings until they have several sets of true leaves - and then I fertilize with only a diluted solution at most. I fertilize full strength only after plants are established in the ground.
Folks may disagree with me and of course I respect that, but what I mentioned above has worked for me for the past 19 years.
Best of luck to all,
I water my tomatoes and peppers overhead, keep them in an unheated workshop, use plain old potting soil and I've never had damping off. But while we get foggy mornings, California isn't typically as humid as states east of the Rockies, so maybe it's the natural climate here that is helping me out, or something I'm unwittingly doing that is offsetting nasty habits.
I do find it funny that some people do things other people swear against and come up with the same results. The more time I spend on these forums, the less I'm finding myself using terms like "must". Not to say there isn't a ton of experience to learn from on these forums. There most definitely is.
Here is a link that might be useful: my blog
I never have a problem with damping off. Here's what I do. YMMV. First, I plant in plastic (6-pack) cells. I fill the cells with a good quality soiless mix (no particular brand - but labeled for germination). I water the mix (in the trays) with boiling water. When they are thoroughly wet, I put them aside overnight before planting. This allows the mix to become uniformly moist. If there is any water left in the tray, I dump it out (rarely happens). The next day I plant. I cover the seeds with bird gravel and lightly water. I cover the trays with a humidity dome, propped open and put them on an unlit shelf until germination (except for those that need light to germinate). It is usually a few days before I need to water them again, but I check thm daily. Make sure the humidity domes are propped open to allow for good air circulation.


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