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Cat Dressed as ‘Evil Dead’ Icon Ash Williams Just Won Halloween Forever
Pack it in, folks. Halloween has been conquered. Now and forever.
I don’t mean to ruin the fun for all you fellow cat parents out there, but I’m pretty sure that cats totally hate being dressed up for Halloween. Of course, we think it’s adorable when we put shark fins on their heads and stuff them into bumble bee outfits, but the many scratches I’ve endured over the years suggest to me that they’re not having as much fun as we are.
But this cat, well, this cat is the grooviest cat of them all.
The folks over on the Twitter account Cat Cosplay work with “trained cat models” to pull off the wackiest cat cosplay photo shoots you’ve ever seen, and for Halloween this year, they dressed one of those handsome feline models up as the most handsome horror icon of them all: the Evil Dead franchise’s badass Deadite-slayer, Ash Williams.
And yes, thanks to a fake arm, they even gave this little guy his own chainsaw hand.
Hail to the cat, baby.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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