Aug 18-24 indie comix week: When I was a kid, I used to read Mad Magazine and Cracked, so when I got a little older, it didn’t take much convincing to pick up Eightball and Hate. I’m an OG in the “complaining about superheroes” game and my scars were anointed on the Comics Journal message board!

Shot on 16mm film between Tupelo, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee by John Michael McCarthy (Damselvis, Daughter of Helvis), this combines E.C. horror comics, rockabilly, teens gone wild movies, UFOs, hippie killing death machines, women with big hair and bigger breasts, David F. Friedman as an alien leader, Guitar Wolf and his band as the Men In Black, a Malt Liquor Angel, Blackie — an alien from the Lo-Fi Frequency Dimension played by Jack Olblivian from the band The Oblivians — and Kerine Elkins as a psychotic redhead that I definitely would have married at one point in my life. Or maybe that would be a union with D’Lana Tunnell, who plays Goliatha of the Amazones, a stripper who dances on top of a motorcycle.

Years ago, Johnny only killed nine beatniks and had to go back home. Now, he has to kill a number of hippies to please his alien boss, who also wants him to kill D’Lana.

It makes almost no sense, but who cares? The music is excellent. There are so many curves you’ll wreck yourself, and it seems like you’re in the third movie in a series of films, not a stand-alone. And I love that. I really feel like this has an audience of one, and I am that person, and thank you for making it for me.

You can watch this on YouTube.