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Zombies of Red Bank

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Hi there. This is Mike, your new online editor. I know you’re busy reading the fantastic new Holiday Issue or possibly JDP friend Aidan Ryan’s letter to the French, in which he offers to help them count better.

I’m sorry to interrupt, but I wanted to let you know about something cool happening today in Red Bank, NJ. Simply put: there are going to be zombies at Kevin Smith’s comic book shop from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm.

Okay, so it’s possible that there won’t be actual zombies in the store and more likely they’re just exploiting The Walking Dead for commercial purposes, but who cares? The good people at Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash are having a massive sale this afternoon only. 20% off when you buy $100 worth of loot.

UPDATE: Yep, actual zombies in store.

Plus, you probably have a chance of being on the Stash’s new AMC reality show just by showing up. In fact, judging by the disclaimer sign in their front window the last time I walked by, I think you’re pretty much volunteering to be on it just by walking in the joint. (Just keep that in mind if you have any outstanding warrants.)

Unfortunately, I can’t make it down there myself today, but if you stop in, be sure to tell ’em Jersey Devil Press sent ya. Because we need all the publicity we can get. (Seriously, we have like twelve Twitter followers.)

Right, I’ll see you again next week with some thoughts on Time Lords and editorial philosophy. In the meantime get back to that Holiday Issue. In fact, bring one down to the Stash.

They’re both sixty kinds of awesome.

Or as Aidan would say, soixante.

Happy Holiday Half-Issue!

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It’s that time of year again. Halloween has come and gone, so it’s time to bust out the ornaments and the awful music. Thanksgiving? What’s that? Corporations are spending millions of dollars to convince us to buy billions of dollars of crap, all in the name of whatever religious holiday they can appropriate. And if you try to fight this rampant capitalism, people call you things like “scrooge” and “grinch” and “get a job, hippie.” It’s almost like people want to go into debt to prove they haven’t forgotten their friends exist.

Well, we haven’t forgotten you exist, dear readers, and we’re going to prove it without dropping a dime. This is the 2011 Holiday Half-Issue, our gift to you.

We’ve got a new Thanksgiving-themed story, “Almost Every November,” from Eirik Gumeny; the delightful and uplifting “The Resurrection of Old Saint Nick,” from Samuel Snoek-Brown; “Chinese Take-Out,” from Stephen Schwegler, a mouth-watering, Christmas-flavored semi-sequel to “November;” and, from Laura Garrison, “The Long Happy New Year of Dora Wellington,” which is either about a Kwanzaa celebration that goes terribly wrong or the long happy New Year of Dora Wellington. You’ll have to read it to find out.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to get in line at Walmart. I hear they’re selling a giant TV for slightly less than they normally do.

You can download the Holiday Half-Issue by clicking here, or read it online here.

Walter Giersbach’s Last Show

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Here we are with the newest Brilliant Disguise: “Carnival’s Last Show,” by Walter Giersbach, based on lyrics from Springsteen’s “The Last Carnival.”

Tomorrow was the carnival’s last show, end of the run before the magic disappeared and the tumbleweed reclaimed the sandlot. We were striking the tents and moving on at midnight. Then we’d be as invisible as the spirit of Jesus on Monday morning.

Read the whole story here.

And if you think you’ve got what it takes to turn a Springsteen lyric into your own story, send it to us.