Post-Comic Malaise

I love the exhilaration of getting a comic book done, but when I post it and the comments and such have died down, I find myself feeling a bit odd and out-of-sorts. Another former LJ'er called it "post-artum depression," which is somewhat fitting, but it's not depression. It's that sudden feeling of having time to do things, when the work on the comic book used to fill that space. I'm antsy and not sure what to do with myself.

It's not that there isn't a list of things I should be doing, like cleaning house or yard work, but I'm not feeling that either.

I easily could start writing the next issue, but I like to give my brain a break from that. I worked from home today, which just gave me a strange case of cabin fever, as I've been cooped up in the house all day. I'm still feeling it.

The gym beckons. I need to do more there I think.

Okay, enough of this...

Down a Dark Hall

Not long ago, I wrote about how I've been reading or re-reading the books of Lois Duncan. She wrote a string of scary teen books in the 1970's and 1980's. One of them was made into the movie, "I Know What You Did Last Summer." Others have been made into TV-movies. I enjoyed a few of them when I was a teenager, so I recently got in the mood to read them again.

One I recently read was "Down a Dark Hall," and I was happy to find out online that a movie made from the book was being released soon. The movie got released today on Amazon Prime and iTunes. So I plopped down the rental fee and watched it tonight.


The movie stars AnnaSophia Robb as Kit and Uma Thurman as Madame Duret, the headmistress. The screenplay is fairly faithful to the book for the most part, though it does modernize it as the original book was published in the 1970's. The film has great atmosphere, the scares are subtle and builds well, and Uma Thurman chews up the scenery, being both severe and fascinating.

I am actually surprised that it only got a limited theatrical release, only two cities, while it was put out on video-on-demand. In my opinion, the movie should have gotten a wide-release as I think it's superior to most scary movies out there right now.

I'll definitely buy the DVD when it gets released.