Went to see ‘Bumblebee’ tonight. Expectations were low because of, well, the last few Transformers movies and Michael Bay, but the new guy at the helm Travis Knight knows his stuff. What an amazing little story! The action is stripped back and the main focus is on the relationship between Charlie and her friend/car Bumblebee. There’s a brilliant scene at the beginning set on Cybertron, which is what we’ve been waiting for all these years, but my absolute favourite moment is when Bumblebee tries to encourage Charlie by playing Stan Bush’s ‘The Touch’ from the original animated movie. Every hair was on end for that bit.
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I write novels and short stories and draw and write cartoons. The main cartoon I'm working on at the moment is Still Life. It's about a man who sits at home on his sofa all day and yet bizarre things still happen to him. At the moment him and his sofa are stuck on a desert island. Check out Still Life Series Five: Beyond the Sofa on this site. My debut novel is out now. It's called 'A Fifth Visitor', and it's a very unofficial sequel to 'A Christmas Carol'. The story picks up five years after the events of Dickens' classic, and we see how Scrooge is getting on with his promise to always keep Christmas. A new spirit pays him a visit and convinces Scrooge that he's not doing enough to redeem himself, so they both travel to the future to save a young nurse called Grace, but there's something big that this new spirit is keeping to himself. I'm developing a website dedicated to my writing, so watch this space. One of my short stories is available on amazon kindle. If you want to check it out, it's called 'Richmond's Rarity'. It's about a late night hospital radio DJ. I've written it under my author name of John D Payne. View all posts by John Payne
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