Terminal Cumberbatch? – The Imitation Game
We seem to be reaching Terminal Cumberbatch, a point at which all movies have Benedict C. in them in some capacity, whether as a star, co-star, supporting player or voice. Read more…
If you enjoyed the vintage Donald Duck-led subscription ad but wanted the sassy sailor to be alone in the spotlight, perhaps this contest, with cash money presents from Donald, is more up your alley. Read more…
Half in the Bag: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: More Colons
Not to go overboard with relaying Red Letter Media posts (there may be one more coming in a few days), but this Half in the Bag review of The Hobbit: I Don’t Want to Have to Type These Subtitles Anymore might be of interest. Their critiques and befuddlements generally sync with mine, so maybe great minds think alike. Or dumb minds do, one or the other.
Sunday Stupid: Get in the holiday spirit by watching a 1953 Christmas short that will forever haunt your nightmares!
You know the big ones when it comes to holiday viewing tradition. A Charlie Brown Christmas. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Frosty the Snowman. Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town. There’s now such a set rotation of TV Christmas classics, it’s hard to believe that there were once antecedents to their yuletide primacy. But there were — the Christmas cheer equivalent of cave paintings. And it turns some of these ancient specials were absolutely terrifying, Loverctaftian echoes of a time before time. Read more…
This ad is really burying the lede, don’t you think? Read more…
Here’s an early holiday present from out friends at Red Letter Media: a Best of the Worst: Wheel of the Worst bolt from the blue, featuring a senses-shattering appearance by genuine comic book artist Freddie Williams II. Enjoy it this weekend as you’re getting all stressed out over seeing the relations that you don’t want to see and buying/wrapping presents for those damn people.
Crisis on No-Christmas Earth – The New Adventures of Superboy #39
Superman, like pretty much every other comic book superhero, has had his share of Christmas stories. Batman has had them. Spider-Man has had them. (A lot of them.) So why shouldn’t the Man of Tomorrow? We’ve covered one of his before, right here on this very blog. And today we’re going back to the Kal-El well in a tale that traps his younger self in a world he never made — a world without Christmas, no less. Bah humbug, Superboy style! Read more…
Back again, finally – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
It’s a shame the Hobbit films have carried so much bloat, because there’s a great movie in there, underneath the thick layers of their interminable runtimes. Maybe, just maybe, two of them. Read more…
A wildly inaccurate Sgt. Rock toy bursts onto the 1983 scene!
Sgt. Rock, his war storylines and the hard-edged Joe Kubert imagery giving them life have often struck one as more adult-oriented fare (well, mostly). But back in 1983, just as the G.I. Joe craze was taking hold, kids could have their very own Rock toys from Remco. Read more…
The Justice Society of Would-Be Michelangelos – The Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest #21
The old DC digests are great, and always a pleasure to uncover. Easier to find nowadays in decent condition than their oversized cousins, they often sported splendiferous new artwork on their covers to sandwich the reprint material within. And the George Perez image we have above is one of my favorites — yes, kids, we can all get along. Read more…
Sunday Stupid: A wannabe Spider-Man eats it most amazingly!
This video has made the rounds several times over the last year-plus, but it deserves to be posted again, if for no other reason than to discourage other young men from being complete absolute goddamn morons. Read more…
Would you believe the Would You Believe gag cards have nothing to do with Get Smart?
Was the “Would you believe?” line from Get Smart once so popular it justified knock-off “gag cards” that were careful to make no mention of that program? Read more…
Trading Card Set of the Week – This Is Spinal Tap (2000, Canal + D.A.)
Can I raise a practical question at this point? Do we do “Stonehenge” tomorrow?
NO WE’RE NOT GONNA F*CKING DO “STONEHENGE”!
It’s perhaps one of the great tragedies of human history that Spinal Tap didn’t have a contemporaneous bubble gum card release on the heels of their hit 1984 documentary, This Is Spinal Tap. Wax packs with Nigel Tufnel’s dopey face on them would have been so grand they might have cured cancer, and would assuredly have joined the hallowed ranks of cardboard classics like Alien and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But we’ll settle for self-published cards issued in 2000, during the millennial re-release of that film. Read more…
When the machines rise up and enslave humanity, we’ll rue the day Milton-Bradley built Comp IV!
We’re approaching with breakneck speed the day when computers can think for themselves, when they no longer need we humans to hold their hands and tell them what to do. Read more…
Mego has the Hulk and Spider-Man all tied up in knots!
You want to make superheroes into Stretch Armstrong wannabes? Fine. Read more…
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