The Daily-ish Journals of Writer, Cartoonist David W. Wright
The first movie, as I said in my review, was perfect. So, how does one follow-up a perfect movie? Do you play it safe and do more of the same? Do you take the sequel to new places? Or do you try and find some middle ground? A Quiet Place 2 chose the first path,... Continue Reading →
Netflix brings yet another original genre show to television with its new series, Black Summer. Produced by The Asylum (of Syfy's Z Nation,) it acts as a prequel to that series. I’ve not seen an episode of Z Nation, and what I have seen makes me think it’s probably a bit too goofy for my tastes. With the... Continue Reading →
Three hundred. A good batting average in baseball. A perfect score in bowling. The number of Spartans taking on one million Persian invaders in the Battle of Thermopylae. The perfect number of onion rings to eat whilst bowling. But, most importantly that number has been the minimum weight I've been since high school. At my... Continue Reading →
A Quiet Place is perfect. There you go. End of review. Stop reading and go see it! What? You want more? Okay, if I have to convince you, read on. The movie begins ominously with a title card reading "Day 89" and we're thrust into a very quiet scene of a family foraging for supplies.... Continue Reading →
Ravenous is one of one of those rarest of rare Netflix gems — a good zombie movie. Yet the things that make it stand out are also the things that show how far it falls short of greatness. This French Canadian film that won “Best Canadian Film” at the Toronto International Film Festival starts off... Continue Reading →
Generally speaking, video streaming services are hit and miss when it comes to horror movies. If it's a good movie, you probably already saw it when it was in theaters or when you rented it. And what you usually have left are movies you'd find at a garage sale for .25 a pop, if said... Continue Reading →
In a recent email to Collective Inkwell readers I talked about my favorite book of all time, The Talisman (re-posted here). At the end of the email I asked readers what their favorite books of all time were and if there was a story behind why? I got some great responses back, including several books... Continue Reading →
This week I'd like to talk to you about my favorite book of all time — a book I haven't re-read in more than thirty years. That book is The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. I'm not going to spoil the book, don't worry. And I'm going to talk less about the book than why... Continue Reading →
As with any job, sometimes writing has its good days. Other times, not so good days. One of the questions I most get from non-writers, and even some writers who have a hard time coming up with ideas they want to write about, is where do you get your ideas? But a story isn't JUST... Continue Reading →
Let’s first address the elephant in the room: is M. Night Shyamalan’s new movie, Split, any good? Yes. Yes! And hell yes! The other question you might have is: is there a twist? No. There’s some cool surprises, but not the kind of killer twist audiences came to expect in Shyamalan’s breakout movies. After his... Continue Reading →
[photo credit Nate Grigg via Flickr Creative Commons] I've always had a weird relationship with Thank You. I say it all the time when someone gives me something or does something for me. I say it to cashiers and servers, and pretty much anyone who has to deal with customers all day long. And I say it... Continue Reading →
[All images copyright Gene Page/AMC] So, tonight we got an update on Daryl in an episode titled The Cell, which continued the pace of last week's stellar episode with another slow-build narrow focused story. Tonight's focus was on Daryl, following his capture by Negan, who is being held in a ... (wait for it) cell in... Continue Reading →
[Photos copyright Gene Page AMC] [This post contains spoilers for Season 7 Episode 2 The Walking Dead: The Well] Well, this was a much-needed episode to follow last week's brutal (and ultimately unsatisfying) season premiere. Why was this episode so good? First of all, three words: KING FREAKING EZEKIEL! But not just this awesome new... Continue Reading →
(Image copyright: AMC) [SPOILERS FOR LAST NIGHT'S THE WALKING DEAD] So, The Walking Dead returned last night with its much-anticipated season premiere which promised to answer the question: Who did Negan kill? As you surely recall, Season Six ended with a cliffhanger that (to put things lightly) didn't go over well with fans. The show spent all... Continue Reading →
(Non-spoiler review) It’s not often that a horror movie surprises me. It’s even rarer for a January horror movie to be good. And even rarer, a horror movie with a doll that I find even remotely tolerable. And yet, here is it — The Boy. I have to admit when I saw the first trailer... Continue Reading →
Here's another (more random) comic series I'm going to do, Versus. Pretty self-explanatory. These are things I've been doodling for years. I've always wanted to draw something super simple like The Oatmeal or Allie Brosh does, or even the hilariously awesome Boxjam's Doodle back in the day. I've always been a bit envious of funny artists who draw... Continue Reading →
A long time ago I used to draw two comic strips. The more popular of the two was Todd and Penguin, a family-friendly all-ages comic that I did for eight years. Then there was Taking Up Space, a comic I did off and on -- way more off than on. Taking Up Space had a lot fewer readers,... Continue Reading →
Wow. That’s the word that I found myself saying time after time as I watched Sense8, Netflix’s 12-episode series by the Wachowski siblings (The Matrix movies) and J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5). Wow, I’ve never seen this before. Wow, how did they pull that off? Wow, what GREAT writing! Wow, what great characters! Wow. Just.... Continue Reading →
I've always felt like an outsider.
When I was a kid, I was one of the only white kids in my neighborhood. When I was in middle school, we'd moved to the suburbs, where I was one of the poorest kids. After that, I gained weight and had horrible acne, which earned me all kinds of unpleasant nicknames.
Hi! This post was supposed to run on Monday, but I wound up holding onto it for a day or so to see if I still wanted to post it. Why would I hold it? Well, it's kind of negative. I know, big surprise. But I try to keep these podcasts positive, because despite my now... Continue Reading →
I taped this episode last week, but wound up using it for today because it was raining all day and night yesterday. In this episode, I talk about an industry in its death throes as artists attempt to cobble a living together. No, I'm not talking about traditional publishing (though I very well could be),... Continue Reading →
Hey there. Dave here with a few notes. First -- from now on, I'll be posting updates on M,W,F. Next, we're finally up on iTunes! Go check it out. And feel free to leave a review if you're getting any enjoyment out of this podcast. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/david-w.-wright-podcast/id867072124 Back with an update in which I talk about... Continue Reading →
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