9 Comments

• At May 9, 2009, Luis Jaime wrote:

  That was funny - you should also watch his 500 impressions in 2 minutes (it's got the TMNT and Snake ...

• At May 9, 2009, Anthony Strand wrote:

  I, too, laughed!

• At May 9, 2009, The Dude wrote:

  Great stuff, Greg!! Just the name of the production company alone made me laugh :-)

  By the way, that was exactly ...

• At May 9, 2009, stealthwise wrote:

  The part that made me laugh was him trying to tune the guitar.

• At May 9, 2009, Wolverine in (30) Seconds | avidbookreader.com wrote:

  [...] via Comics Should Be Good @ Comic Book Resources [...]

• At May 9, 2009, The Mad Monkey wrote:

  Well...looks like I had my cake and ate it too...

  I laughed AND saved $8 (not including refreshments).

  Sweet.

• At May 9, 2009, Dalarsco wrote:

  I liked the movie, but that doesn't mean that that wasn't hilarious.

• At May 10, 2009, Jax wrote:

  MM The place I went to watch Star Trek yesterday( in Australia) cost me $16.50 for a ticket (about ...

• At May 10, 2009, Dan Bailey wrote:

  Good lord. I go see a movie MAYBE twice a year, tops (as opposed to watching 250 or so on ...

I'm not entirely sure that this counts as comics.but hey, at least it's not another post about the Watchmen movie, right? Some people sure have beaten that horse to death around here lately.

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• At March 18, 2009, Eric TF Bat wrote:

  Some people sure have beaten that horse to death around here lately.

  That's a typo. I think you meant:

  Some people ...

• At March 18, 2009, Rohan Williams wrote:

  Weirdly enough, aforementioned artist Jeffrey Lewis is about to tour Australia with a series of lectures on Watchmen. So in ...

• At March 19, 2009, alistairw wrote:

  Oh man, I can't believe you beat me to that, Rohan. Yeah, Jeff did his Masters thesis on Watchmen. He ...

• At March 19, 2009, Shaq-fu wrote:

  Jeff did his Masters thesis on Watchmen

  ...here at SUNY Purchase!

• At March 20, 2009, GQ wrote:

  If comics looked that bad I'd never buy them.

Of course, around here that means something a little different than one might normally suppose. My bride recently suggested to me that we should maybe have a more traditional Thanksgiving celebration this year.

I stared in horror. "We should invite snippy relatives over to bombard us with thinly-veiled insults while we squirm in awkward silence?"

What? That's traditionally how it was done among MY people.

No thanks. As soon as I was old enough to be on my own, I instituted the Hatcher household's We Hate Traditional Holiday Celebrations celebration. It involves unplugging the phone, ordering takeout Chinese food and screening a host of gloriously bad movies.

Should you wish to indulge, allow me to suggest a few possibles that we are enjoying this year...

The mighty William Shatner at his shirtless 60's peak in White Comanche.

Julie and I were awestruck at the sheer amazing lunacy of this effort. What's better than William Shatner in a double role as both the cowboy hero and his evil twin? Why, Shatner as the cowboy hero and his peyote-eating Comanche war leader evil twin. Shot in Spain in 1967 during a Star Trek hiatus, this was possibly William Shatner's finest cinematic hour until The Wrath of Khan. Yeah, I said it. Taste the awesome in this clip here.

We got this oddity included on a 20-movie collection called Spaghetti Westerns that set me back a cool $4.98 at the drugstore.

On this same discount Western boxed set is another piece of grindhouse genius, The Flying Fist of Shanghai Joe.

Originally released as My Name Is Shanghai Joe, it's kind of like The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly if that had starred Bruce Lee instead of Clint Eastwood. Or, alternatively, it's like the old Kung Fu TV series with David Carradine if that had been made by Sergio Leone. Or if Jackie Chan's old-west martial-arts comedies had more blood and gore in them. Or if... oh, hell, I give up.

At any rate, it's the kind of culture-clash genre mashup I can never resist. And Julie liked it too. Chances are more films from this fine Spaghetti Westerns discount collection will figure into our holidays this year, but I assure you we've already gotten $4.98's worth of fun out of it. And since I gave you a clip from White Comanche, I think you should see one for Shanghai Joe, too. Fair warning-- the last couple of seconds of this are not for the squeamish.

I've spoken before of my unholy love for Patrick Swayze's deranged hero quest, Road House. So naturally we had to investigate this...

That's right, there really is a Road House 2. This straight-to-DVD effort suffers a little in that it's more earnest than its predecessor, and there's no Patrick Swayze or Jeff Healey Band or (sniff) Sam Elliott. But the fight choreography is fun and I love all the little nods to the original that got sneaked in there. It's really more "Road House: The Next Generation," as it takes place twenty years after the first movie and the hero is Dalton's son, Shane Tanner, who takes time off from his job as a maverick DEA agent to go help his uncle clean up his Louisiana tavern and keep it safe from drug dealers. Johnathan Schaech, who plays Dalton junior, actually helped write this thing. I have to admit that we enjoyed this a lot, especially Will Patton as Shane's aging-but-still-badass uncle. (You get the feeling this role was originally written for Swayze himself, but sadly, he passed on this. Can't imagine why.)

Here's a clip of one of the fights, and here-- because it's too hilarious not to share-- is the trailer dubbed in German. Amazingly, you still totally get what it's about even if you don't happen to speak German. It's that kind of movie.

And of course, we could not neglect the classics.

We bought this for At The Earth's Core. Doug McClure actually made several of these 1970's Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptations for AIP. (My favorite of them is The Land that Time Forgot, a remarkably faithful adaptation of the Burroughs book; Michael Moorcock actually contributed to the screenplay for that one.) But At The Earth's Core has its charms as well, chief among them Peter Cushing as Abner Perry, and of course there's also Caroline Munro falling out of her ragged bikini (which kind of sums up her career, really.) The sense you get, watching these, is that everyone involved loved the books but had no money.  So you just kind of have to go with the rubber dinosaurs and so on. But if you can look past the incredibly low-budget effects, they're a lot of fun and very much in the spirit of Burroughs' breathless pulp-adventure romances. Trailer here for At the Earth's Core (and here is the one for The Land That Time Forgot.)

We have yet to screen War Gods of the Deep, but hey, it's Vincent Price. And the trailer looks promising.

"But Greg," I hear some of you saying. "This is a COMICS site! Are there no comic-related offerings in your Thanksgiving festival of B-movie awesomeness?"

Why, yes. Yes there are.

Somebody at Warner's finally got smart and decided to go ahead and issue these cartoons on DVD instead of allowing convention bootleggers to clean up on them. I have rambled on at length on how these cartoons were my gateway to the DC comics of yore and I won't go through it all again-- however, it is a very nice set, with a pleasant little documentary featurette about Lou Scheimer and the Filmation studio. The cartoons themselves don't really hold up, the animation is terrible and roughly half the voices are by Ted White going up and down an octave. But I can't help loving them. When I was six years old, these were hardcore.

There are a couple of quirks about this DVD set-- first of all, on the interior menus, someone goofed and put a picture, not of Hawkman, but of Birdman in the group collage illustration. Which is just odd.

I mean, I know that on TV Birdman was way more bad-ass than Hawkman, but still. Does no one check these things?

And it's kind of funny that although Aquaman is pictured on the box and even in the animated intro to the JLA cartoons, the King of the Seven Seas is actually nowhere to be found in any of the three Justice League shorts. (Here is my favorite of them, just to give you a taste.)

Still, as hokey as these are, it's nice to have them. In fact, with the Superman and Aquaman Filmation cartoons available on DVD as well, they've very nearly cleaned up the whole backlist of the original Superman/Aquaman Hour. All that's left are the Filmation Superboy shorts... but I suppose with the Siegel & Shuster legal foofaraw over the "Superboy" name, that won't be happening soon. Pity.

Now, if only they'd figure out that the Filmation version of Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle is a similar convention bootlegger's evergreen and get THAT rights mess sorted for an official DVD release, we'd have next year's holiday film festival dealt with as well. (But here's a clip for those that are curious. It really was probably the single most faithful ERB adaptation anyone has ever done.... at least, so far.)

Anyway, you can't tell me all that doesn't look like WAY more fun than turkey dinner with a roomful of dysfunctional relatives. Trust me, once you try it, you never go back.

(Although, I have to admit, I caved on Julie's desire to have turkey instead of takeout. One mustn't be rigid.)

Have a great holiday, everyone, however you choose to spend it... and I'll see you next week on the regular day.

7 Comments

• At November 27, 2008, Bright-Raven wrote:

  Well, I have to deal with a houseful of dysfunctional relatives every day, so the fact that I'm having Turkey ...

• At November 27, 2008, Dan Bailey wrote:

  >>Anyone else’s shop having such a sale?

  Nope. *sigh* Just as well for my wallet, though.

• At November 27, 2008, Dan Bailey wrote:

  Otherwise, having run out of family for all intents & purposes some years ago, back in the '90s I followed ...

• At November 27, 2008, Bill Reed wrote:

  That Shanghai Joe clip is pure awesome.

• At November 27, 2008, Bryan L wrote:

  Oh, man, I loved that Tarzan show as a kid. Thanks for reminding me how much.

• At November 28, 2008, Alvin wrote:

  Hey!

  The wife's had a bit of a cold so we had a quite day at home, I roasted a bird, ...

• At December 1, 2008, Bright-Raven wrote:

  "What was the Patrick S. movie where they were hillbillies and they go after the mobsters, now that was sweet!"

  Next ...

Check it out!

Thanks to Jonah Weiland for the heads up!

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• At October 17, 2008, Stefan wrote:

  We love you President Superman!

• At October 17, 2008, Chris McAree wrote:

  If he doesn't win, I want to nominate him as the next Oscar host.

  He's funnier than any of the presenters ...

• At October 17, 2008, Vic wrote:

  That's not saying much.

• At October 17, 2008, Angelle wrote:

  You don't have to be a comic fan to know any of those.

• At October 17, 2008, Sam wrote:

  The next president is a guy who makes Superman jokes. That made me smile more than anything else today.

• At October 17, 2008, Karlos wrote:

  Does that make McCain Lex Luthor?

• At October 17, 2008, Sijo wrote:

  Tell Obama that if he replaces Didio with Mark Waid at DC, he's got my vote! ;)

• At October 17, 2008, Apodaca wrote:

  "You don’t have to be a comic fan to know any of those."

  No one said he was a comic fan. ...

• At October 17, 2008, Apodaca wrote:

  "Does that make McCain Lex Luthor?"

  Definitely! Although, when he smiles, he reminds me of Dr. Sivana.

• At October 17, 2008, T. wrote:

  Okay, why does the fact that the dinner is named for Al Smith appear as "breaking news?" No one ...

• At October 17, 2008, joshschr wrote:

  I know McCain doesn't use any comic book references, but for those interested in his routine, you can find it ...

• At October 17, 2008, Michael Rawdon wrote:

  Recently when he appeared on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Leonard Nimoy said that Obama once gave him the ...

• At October 17, 2008, T. wrote:

  I know McCain doesn’t use any comic book references, but for those interested in his routine, you can find it ...

• At October 17, 2008, joshschr wrote:

  I'm not saying they'd be right to complain. People just complain about bizarre things, especially when it comes to ...

• At October 17, 2008, Thok wrote:

  I personally think McCain works better as the Parasite, trying to get close to Obama so he can drain his ...

• At October 17, 2008, T. wrote:

  Tell Obama that if he replaces Didio with Mark Waid at DC, he’s got my vote!

  Please, no, the line-wide ...

• At October 17, 2008, CBrown wrote:

  I'm going to vote for Obama, but that said, McCain was funnier at that dinner. John McCain actually has a ...

• At October 17, 2008, Nathan wrote:

  I got my vote in today for Obama.

• At October 17, 2008, Flinkman wrote:

  wow. who knew obama was so funny!

  i really enjoyed that, thanks for posting

• At October 17, 2008, Scavenger wrote:

  CBrown: Let's be fair here...McCain's writers were funnier than Obama's writers (Though I thought Obama's Guilani segment was the ...

• At October 17, 2008, Apodaca wrote:

  "if they’d let him show his real personality during this campaign, he’d be doing a lot better, I think."

  If they'd ...

• At October 17, 2008, Lawrence wrote:

  I'm not sure if McCain's jokes were actually funnier or if his delivery was just better. However I enjoyed both ...

• At October 17, 2008, Relique wrote:

  I doubt they wrote their own speeches.

  If Obama has comic knowledge then why didn't he acknowledge that his only true ...

• At October 17, 2008, Sam wrote:

  Sorry, there's no way McCain was better. His lines were decent and I thought the end where he built ...

• At October 17, 2008, Joe the Plumber wrote:

  I doubt very much that either Obama or McCain are comic book fans. Superman, Alfred E. Neuman and Mr. ...

• At October 17, 2008, Apodaca wrote:

  Again, nobody said "comic fan".

• At October 17, 2008, T. wrote:

  If Obama has comic knowledge then why didn’t he acknowledge that his only true competitor for President was recently in ...

• At October 17, 2008, Lawrence wrote:

  @T

  It worked for Sean Hannity.

• At October 18, 2008, T. wrote:

  Lawrence, I think Hannity and O'Reilly are one-note jokes too. And are horribly overrated. But Colbert is just ...

• At October 18, 2008, Rene wrote:

  Conservatives have ruled the country on all levels for the best part of a decade while Liberals have run in ...

• At October 19, 2008, CBrown wrote:

  "If they’d let him show his real personality, he’d be calling everybody a cunt and flying off the handle, left ...

• At October 19, 2008, Excelsior wrote:

  MCain drops comic knowledge too, he is always referencing the super friends..in every speech he mentions them. Altho i think ...

• At October 20, 2008, Russell H wrote:

  2 comics references and one use of the word awesome.

  Just when did the Obama campaign hire Chris Sims?

• At October 20, 2008, CCR wrote:

  This site was able to build off of the idea and actually use Superman as Obama... and it was shocking ...

Which is to say, it's time for another round of dental surgery.

Perhaps not quite as scary as the above photo, but plenty bad enough. I'm dreading it. This just seems to be going on and on. I think my dentist isn't going to be satisfied until I have an entirely bionic jaw.

So this week's column is a very hit-and-run entry.  Mostly just some internet stuff I found here and there that I thought was worth sharing. I normally wouldn't do a column of nothing but links but it's all I have time for, and I hate to miss a Friday. Here's what I've bowled out on YouTube the last week or two.

We'll start with a fun one I found out about from Dick Cavett, of all people. A clip from Blood on the Sun, starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The reason this is of interest to us is because this is, I think, the earliest American-made martial arts action movie. Cagney actually was a black belt in judo and helped choreograph the fight scenes.

It was made in 1945, so it's a rootin' tootin' wartime piece of U.S. propaganda that's occasionally quite racist, but it's still a lot of fun. James Cagney is Nick Condon, a tough reporter in pre-war Japan, trying desperately to get the scoop on the Tanaka Document, a blueprint for Japan's plan for world domination. As luck would have it, Nick's also a black belt, so there are quite a few scenes of him opening up a can of Oriental whup-ass on Tojo's minions and other evil secret police types trying to stop him from getting the Tanaka Document into the hands of the Western powers. Check out this clip to see Cagney hand the head of the Japanese secret police a serious beat-down.

And here is the Cavett column that got me interested; it's worth reading all by itself. Who'd have thought Dick Cavett was as geeky about this sort of thing when he was a kid as I was? (Of course I still am, really, and from the tone of Cavett's column he still is too.) His pitch was so good that I ended up ordering it for us, for the whopping sum of seventy-five cents plus shipping. And you know what? It really is that much fun, especially for those of you reading this that have an interest in pulp adventure (you know who you are.) The movie's fallen into public domain so you can find it almost anywhere on DVD for $1.75 or thereabouts.

Speaking of martial arts and exploitation films, here's a bit from one of my very favorite ones of the 1970's-- the so-bad-it's-genius Jim Kelly epic, Black Belt Jones.

Taste the awesome in this clip here.

A little closer to home, this clip is probably the most fondly-remembered of the Bruce Lee fight scenes from The Green Hornet. Unless you count the Batman crossover one where he kicked Burt Ward all over the room.

Speaking of Burt Ward, someone assembled this wonderful montage of Batman fight scenes from the 1966 series, including the very first one from the pilot.

And while we're on the subject of Batman, here and here are two versions of the Dark Knight trailer that cracked me up.

How about some cool cartoons? Somewhere out in space live The Herculoids. Or check out Frankenstein Jr. vs. The Shocking Electrical Monster. Perhaps you'd enjoy this vintage Space Ghost short, back when he was the galactic Dirty Harry. The first Justice League cartoon I ever saw. The first Teen Titans cartoon I ever saw. The original opening credits for the Hanna-Barbera Fantastic Four. And here are the credits for possibly the greatest adventure cartoon ever: Jonny Quest.

This clip is so deranged I don't want to spoil it with a description; you really should see it for yourself. But it made me laugh so hard it frightened the cat.

And finally, Adventure House has a whole page of free downloadable pulp-magazine PDFs. I'd especially recommend Charles Beaumont's wonderful reminiscence, "The Bloody Pulps," originally published in Playboy and later included in Peter Haining's terrific anthology The Fantastic Pulps.

That should be enough to keep you folks entertained while I am recuperating. See you next week, bionic jaw and all.

9 Comments

• At September 19, 2008, Dan Bailey wrote:

  Good luck, Greg. I've always felt Philip K. Dick was on to something (as opposed to *on* something, which of ...

• At September 19, 2008, s1rude wrote:

  That Cagney clip is insane - it's so much more, I don't know, visceral than modern fight choreography. The ...

• At September 19, 2008, Greg Hatcher wrote:

  Are the other fights in the movie that good, or is that the cream of the crop?

  Oh, that one's definitely ...

• At September 20, 2008, Perry Holley wrote:

  " I think my dentist isn’t going to be satisfied until I have an entirely bionic jaw."

  Is anyone else sensing ...

• At September 21, 2008, FunkyGreenJerusalem wrote:

  Speaking of martial arts and exploitation films, here’s a bit from one of my very favorite ones of the 1970’s– ...

• At September 21, 2008, Greg Hatcher wrote:

  Replace ’so bad’ with ’so over the top’ and you could be describing the joys of All Star Bat Man ...

• At September 21, 2008, FunkyGreenJerusalem wrote:

  .

  The difference is that I don’t try and sell the idea that it’s done that way ...

• At September 22, 2008, Brian Cronin wrote:

  I can tell you that DC has pointedly NOT sold the book as a parody.

  All the solicits and ads for ...

• At September 22, 2008, Greg Hatcher wrote:

  Or is this just something misguided fans have called it?

  I'm thinking of the swarms of fans who show up any ...

It's a cartoonist at work, condensed from four hours into 6 minutes. I found it pretty fascinating.

Thanks, Aaron!

If anyone else has some good YouTube ideas, send them our way!

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• At March 21, 2008, Crash-Man wrote:

  I enjoyed that.

• At March 21, 2008, Aaron wrote:

  Glad you enjoyed it, Brian! I thought it was a neat find.

• At March 21, 2008, BizarroBeachHead wrote:

  I love Battles, good video.

Put it this way: my alternate title was See? See? I'm NOT MAKING IT UP!

Just to get the party started, here's a clip from the 1977 TV-movie pilot for "Exo-Man." I don't care what anybody says about the new movie with Robert Downey Jr., seeing this will convince you that all Marvel fans should be down on their knees thanking God nobody in Hollywood took a swing at making Iron Man till now.

And here are a couple of the proto-steampunk Lone Ranger cartoons from 1966: Cult of the Black Widow and The Prairie Pirate. I'd forgotten this when I wrote the Ranger column, but Tonto got to have solo adventures on this show too -- here he is fighting The Snow Monster. These are even more demented than I remembered.

Two of the post-Adam West Batman attempts at campy television superheroics: Captain Nice and Mr. Terrific.

Just for Bill Reed: Young Samson and Goliath. Sadly, it's only the commercial, but you can at least get a taste of the sheer adrenaline-rush craziness of the thing.

The Greatest Batusi Ever.

... and finally, my new favorite music video.

Enjoy. See you in a couple of days.

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• At March 20, 2008, red-Ricky wrote:

  Cap's video reminds me of that time when Marvel used Samuel L. Jackson's voice for their cartoons.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24qKtp9I12w

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaTxv1CtlME

  Apparently, Brian Cronin didn't ...

• At March 20, 2008, KDBryan wrote:

  That is indeed "The Greatest Batusi EVER." You deserve some sort of award just for finding that.

• At March 20, 2008, Lothor wrote:

  re "young Samson & Goliath:" how can a dog turn into a cat?

• At March 21, 2008, JR wrote:

  They used to play Young Samson on the USA network and it was probably my favorite of the old Hanna ...

Enjoy!

Here is a fascinating piece on a comic from 1964 about the first black President, which the comic predicted could happen in 1976!!

Please excuse the cheesy music.

I don't normally enjoy making fun of old cartoons, because it seems kinda mean, as you can't really hold them to the same standards of today.

That said, since the following was intentional, it's okay to laugh at it...

In an attempt to put out an oil fire (I presume it is an oil fire), Aquaman floods all the coasts in the Western Hemisphere!! It's all a plot by the Legion of Doom, but the idea that they knew Aquaman would be dumb enough to fall for it...well, that speaks volumes about Aquaman's capabilities (or lack thereof).

Finally, here is a video clip from Showtime's This American Life (the TV version of the acclaimed radio program).

I reviewed the episode here, and I mentioned how awesome the Chris Ware feature was.

Well, here is that feature!!

There ya go!

Hope you enjoyed it!

If anyone else has any good comic-related YouTube suggestions, let me know!

8 Comments

• At February 28, 2008, Arnie C wrote:

  Have you posted "I'm the juggernaut, bitch!" yet? ;)

• At February 28, 2008, Michael wrote:

  Wouldn't water do nothing at all to stop an oil fire?

• At February 28, 2008, text wrote:

  Anyone notice that the back of Black Manta's head looks just like a great big ass?

• At February 28, 2008, Bill Reed wrote:

  Aquaman *would* drown millions to save the day. That makes sense.

  But why's he on a jetski?

• At February 28, 2008, Apodaca wrote:

  I love that Chris Ware animation. Really great stuff.

• At February 28, 2008, Ryan wrote:

  I'm glad that Aquaman monogramed his jet ski.

  "He's gaining on me! Oh, no! I've gotta jump for it!"

  Because heaven forbid ...

• At February 28, 2008, Apodaca wrote:

  Also, it's not like Aquaman could, oh I dunno, TURN TO THE RIGHT.

  Why would you try to outrun anything on ...

• At February 29, 2008, Richard wrote:

  That black president story was drawn by Joe Sinnott.

An instant classic.

13 Comments

• At February 19, 2008, Apodaca wrote:

  Eh. He didn't jump very far, and he had to throw the ball into the hoop.

• At February 19, 2008, Mister Midnight wrote:

  I thought the REAL Superman wore the # 23 on his chest.

• At February 19, 2008, Rohan Williams wrote:

  Yeah, it looked cool and everything, but it wasn't even really a dunk. So 'classic' is probably a stretch, especially ...

• At February 19, 2008, T. wrote:

  Looked like a pretty high jump to me. And I think throwing it in was part of what made ...

• At February 19, 2008, DB wrote:

  The cape and the t-shirt were good for a few laughs. I bet Shaq wishes he'd done something like this ...

• At February 19, 2008, kwaku wrote:

  I loved it and I don't care if it wasn't a "real" dunk. It had more to do with the ...

• At February 19, 2008, Pzilla wrote:

  I'd like to see any of you even get close to that, dunk or not.

  You will believe a man can ...

• At February 19, 2008, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Eh. He didn’t jump very far, and he had to throw the ball into the hoop. He jumped high rather ...

• At February 19, 2008, Rohan Williams wrote:

  T. said...

  "Looked like a pretty high jump to me. And I think throwing it in was part of what made ...

• At February 19, 2008, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Don't get me wrong, Green totally got ripped off by the judges, too.

  His cupcake dunk, while not as "classic" of ...

• At February 19, 2008, Rohan Williams wrote:

  That's a good point, Brian. Howard's dunk contest experience seemed to help him out there- his sticker dunk last year ...

• At February 19, 2008, T. wrote:

  He jumped high rather than long, as he was going for the “flying” effect.

  Exactly.

• At February 20, 2008, Apodaca wrote:

  Fair enough. I'll admit that I know jack squat about Basketball.

Enjoy!

First off, here is the live marriage they had at Shea Stadium when Peter and Mary Jane were married in the comics in 1987.

Next, here is their wedding on the 90s animated series...

Here is a tribute to Peter and Mary Jane called "Peter Parker Loves Mary Jane"....

Be forewarned, it is set to Celine Dion!

Finally, here is a cutesy tribute to the couple, as well, this time set to the Lisa Loeb tune "Stay."

I am sure plenty of fans echo the sentiment of that song title!

12 Comments

• At January 17, 2008, John Trumbull wrote:

  Didn't Lisa Loeb voice Mary Jane on the MTV Spidey show?

• At January 17, 2008, joshschr wrote:

  With Niel Patrick Harris, who's on How I Met Your Mother with Alyson Hannigan, who was on Buffy with Sarah ...

• At January 17, 2008, avengers63 wrote:

  I'd never have thought Spider-Man could have been within 7 steps from Kevin Bacon. That's great!

• At January 17, 2008, joshschr wrote:

  I know there are closer ties, but I'm at work, and that's the best I could think of without hitting ...

• At January 17, 2008, Eric wrote:

  I am listening to Lisa Loeb right now and seeing her a week from today. I totally forgot that she ...

• At January 17, 2008, Adam Jones wrote:

  @joshschr:

  They've released some of the cartoons on DVD, to coincide with various Marvel movie releases, but no, there is not ...

• At January 17, 2008, joshschr wrote:

  Thanks Adam. I recall seeing a Venom collection and maybe a DD too, but I would love to watch ...

• At January 17, 2008, Kyle wrote:

  He didn't really get married to MJ in the 90s cartoon, didn't it turn out to be a hydro clone ...

• At January 17, 2008, John Mihaly wrote:

  Next to the Mets late season collapse against the Cardinals, that's the worst thing that happened at Shea that season.

• At January 17, 2008, Brian Cronin wrote:

  He didn’t really get married to MJ in the 90s cartoon, didn’t it turn out to be a hydro clone ...

• At January 17, 2008, Bertone wrote:

  Hey! I am the guy who did the Celine Dion one! Thanks for posting it!

  Alot of fans don't like Celine ...

• At January 18, 2008, red-Ricky wrote:

  Can't wait to see how ItsJustSomeRandomGuy deals with OMD/BND.

  Funny thing is, I think he just did a time travel arc.

  http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ItsJustSomeRandomGuy

First off, I know people liked seeing it the first time around, and now that it is in theaters, it has popped up on YouTube agian.

So here is the Iron Man movie trailer.

It only looks AWESOME.

Next, courtesy of Bob Layton, (whose awesome website, BobLayton.com, can be found here), here is a Marvel roast of Jim Shooter from back in 1984.

John Byrne, Mark Gruenwald, Mike Carlin, Butch Guice, Dave Simons and Tom DeFalco are in there!

Pretty darn awesome, no?

If you have any other cool comic-related YouTube clips out there, let me know!

4 Comments

• At October 23, 2007, Joel wrote:

  Wow, total flashback. First of all, yes...that Iron Man trailer does the job. I am anxiously awaiting this movie on ...

• At October 23, 2007, simplyconnections » Blog Archive » YouTube Can Be Good - 10/23 wrote:

  [...] click here for full story This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 at 5:45 am and ...

• At October 23, 2007, layne wrote:

  That roast is great, thanks!

• At October 23, 2007, Apodaca wrote:

  What movie(s) is the Iron Man trailer showing with?

Enjoy!

First off, here is a funny video explaining how the New York Comic Con may have been run a bit better.

"And HOT asian girls that want NOTHING to do with you!" Nice.

Here are a couple of parodies of the TV series, Shazam.

That's some twisted stuff right there....

If any of you readers out there have any neat YouTube clips that are comic-related, let me know!

4 Comments

• At September 5, 2007, chroom wrote:

  Man, those NYC nerds have it good. We couldn't even get hot asian girls down here at the Watchacoochee, ...

• At December 19, 2007, David Taw wrote:

  I better get there early so I can find free parking for MY MOM! LOL.

  By the way, I miss ...

• At July 19, 2008, casinomillionaire wrote:

  casinomillionaire...

  Camino creaking during manufacturing....

• At October 4, 2008, maldistribution of healthcare articles wrote:

  maldistribution of healthcare articles...

  machining nightfall geese ...

Enjoy!

Dave Miller sent me the following short film that he directed adapted from a story written by Mary Fleener and drawn by Pat Moriarity that appeared in Big Mouth #3.

It's called "Pickup."

And we all got sent this...interesting rendition of a monologue from Superman Returns, as performed by various attendees of this year's San Diego Comic Con.

If any of you readers out there have any neat YouTube clips that are comic-related, let me know!

5 Comments

• At August 28, 2007, Adam Jones wrote:

  I don't know if these are youtube specefic, but if you go to VicSage.com you can find some interesting Question ...

• At August 28, 2007, Apodaca wrote:

  That Superman monologue one is... well edited.

• At August 29, 2007, fanboy d wrote:

  well edited indeed...

  i know i'm s'posed to be laughing at that but i'm in shock at how hot that woman ...

• At August 29, 2007, David Levitt wrote:

  Hi! I love your page!

  Here are some comic related viedos I made.

  Mocking Comic Con- after they over sold tickets ...

• At August 29, 2007, Apodaca wrote:

  i know i’m s’posed to be laughing at that

  Don't feel too bad. It's not very funny.

Reader Zack Smith sent me another nifty one, this one Mice and Men, starring Superman and Bizarro!!!

Next, check out this (in three parts) complete 1966 Captain America cartoon episode, including the awesome theme song ("When Captain America throws his mighty shield...")!!

I would show the one where Cap fights a Nazi robot, but I don't want Avi Green pissed at me!

If anyone else has any good comic-related YouTube suggestions, let me know!

9 Comments

• At August 21, 2007, Bill Reed wrote:

  Hahah! Of Mice & Supermen, even. Brilliant.

  And the classic Marvel cartoons are great. Swiped straight from the Kirby drawings. I ...

• At August 21, 2007, Nathan wrote:

  While not comics related video, go on Youtube and search "Child Beater"

  It's not what you think. But ...

• At August 21, 2007, Brad Curran wrote:

  Bizarro Lenny reminds me a lot of John Malkovich playing the role. I had to watch that adaptation like 15 ...

• At August 21, 2007, layne wrote:

  I've made a few YouTube playlists featuring episodes of the '60s Marvel Super-Heroes, Fantastic Four, and Spider-Man animated series. Unfortunately, ...

• At August 21, 2007, Lewis wrote:

  I find it fascinating that they actually manage to get quite a bit of animation even when just swiping the ...

• At August 21, 2007, Anthony Strand wrote:

  The Of Mice & Men video is funny, but it would have been funnier if they'd adapted the script more ...

• At August 22, 2007, Patrick wrote:

  Do a YouTube search for "Captain America" and "Hannity" and you'll find a great clip that takes those '60s Captain ...

• At August 22, 2007, Richard J. Marcej wrote:

  Damn, when are they going to get around to collecting those Marvel Super Hero cartoons on DVD!!!!

  When??!!!!!!

• At August 23, 2007, The Mutt wrote:

  I loved those cartoons. I vividly remember the one where Cap fights the Sleeper. Watching it with the comic book ...

Enjoy!

First off, here are three vintage Super Powers commercials (the first one from 1984 and the next two from 1985) featuring, as Zack so nicely puts it - "those do it yourself" set-ups that no sane kid could actually put together." I always DID get a kick out of those!!

Finally, in case you happen to HAVE some Super Powers figures, you'll enjoy playing along to this...ADVENTURE RECORD!!!

I cannot believe how goofy this is - I love technological innovations right before the REAL technological innovations!! Sorta like the "brilliantly innovative" toy idea in Big.

Thanks for the suggestions, Zack!

If anyone else has any good comic-related YouTube suggestions, let me know!

5 Comments

• At August 13, 2007, Sean Whitmore wrote:

  I had that record!

  I think sending away for it in the mail was the only way to get the Steppenwolf ...

• At August 13, 2007, Jeff Holland wrote:

  Oh, man, that was great. In particular:

  1) Those parademons sounded adorable. Like munchkins.

  2) Parademons appear, Robin immediately gives up. Nice ...

• At August 14, 2007, nadir wrote:

  that record was painful.

  i quite remember these commercials and always felt the "you decide" was a total rip off of ...

• At August 14, 2007, Azor wrote:

  Does anyone remember the Super Powers commercial where the Aquaman toy gets stabbed or something and the kid shouts out ...

• At August 27, 2007, Retro wrote:

  I personally love vintage toys. It's fun finding the toys you had as a kid, or the ones you always ...

Enjoy!

First off, here is a very interesting interview with John Byrne from a kids program in 1994.

Byrne does an excellent job here. Good stuff.

This next one may be a bit more goofy than it is cool, but I thought it was kinda neat, if only in its sheer earnestness.

So, please to enjoy a Nightwing tribute video!!

Well, I at least know one person who will enjoy a Batman The Animated Series Nightwing tribute! So I will just claim it is for her benefit!

That's it for this week!

Please let me know of any other good comic-related YouTube clips out there!

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• At August 9, 2007, Adam Jones wrote:

  As much as I love BTAS and Nightwing, that video was horrid. Did that guy use the Daredevil soundtrack?

• At August 9, 2007, Ian Astheimer wrote:

  Man...

  Nightwing's animation mullet kills me every time.

• At August 9, 2007, Apodaca wrote:

  "How did you first get into comic...uh...drawing?"

• At August 9, 2007, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Yeah, Dan, that question was awful, so it was particularly good to see how well Byrne handled it.

• At August 10, 2007, StereotypeA wrote:

  I remember trying to sell my girlfriend on Batman the Animated Series and the later episodes were on.

  The moment she ...

• At August 10, 2007, Michael Craven wrote:

  One of the only problems I ever had with BTAS is how tiny Tim was. I know his is ...

• At August 10, 2007, Apodaca wrote:

  Yeah, it is great watching Byrne sincerely attempt to give a fun, inspiring interview despite the lameness of the situation. ...

• At August 23, 2007, anderw wrote:

  thx for it

How awesome does that look?!?

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• At July 30, 2007, SanctumSanctorumComix wrote:

  Daaaaamn...

  As a guy who NEVER really liked Iron Man...

  I WILL have to see that (AND buy the DVD).

  Downey Jr. is ...

• At July 30, 2007, John Seavey wrote:

  Looks very good. So they have until May 2nd to make Iron Man not a total douchebag in the comics, ...

• At July 30, 2007, M Bloom wrote:

  Looks fantastic. I've never been much of an Iron Man fan, either, but I will definitely not be waiting for ...

• At July 30, 2007, Jeff Holland wrote:

  That was just beautiful.

• At July 30, 2007, Jaleel wrote:

  Shellhead's always been A-list, but in the last couple of years Marvel has been going bigger with him than the ...

• At July 30, 2007, Michael wrote:

  And did you catch the song playing as Shellhead made his first appearance? How utterly, totally, perfectly, sublimely perfect. ...

• At July 30, 2007, acespot wrote:

  That song is much more fitting nowadays, where Stark's actions actually DO kill "the people he once saved". (Formation ...

• At July 30, 2007, Paperghost wrote:

  I've never liked iron man or found him interesting, but I am totally sold on seeing that film.

• At July 30, 2007, Apodaca wrote:

  I want to see that NOW.

  And using the "Iron Man" song isn't new. They modified it for use as the ...

• At July 30, 2007, Sleestak wrote:

  It looks like corny crap.

• At July 30, 2007, Apodaca wrote:

  Did you look at a different trailer, Sleestak?

  Or do you not know what corny means?

• At July 30, 2007, Sleestak wrote:

  It looks awful. Downey is sleepwalking through it, you can just tell from the trailer. And how many goofy sight ...

• At July 30, 2007, Sleestak wrote:

  Hollywood has made me gun shy.

  I wonder if even now some suits are convening to have the director re-shoot critical ...

• At July 30, 2007, Brian Cronin wrote:

  I think we're kind of lucky with Iron Man in the sense that it's ALREADY such a great toy tie-in ...

• At July 30, 2007, km wrote:

  I’ve never liked iron man or found him interesting, but I am totally sold on seeing that film.

  Ditto. Sleepwalking or ...

• At July 30, 2007, DubipR wrote:

  Out of all of the Marvel films and their casting, getting Downey was by far the best of them. ...

• At July 30, 2007, Apodaca wrote:

  Downey is sleepwalking through it, you can just tell from the trailer.

  I can't. To me, it looks like he's playing ...

• At July 30, 2007, Nirmal wrote:

  I've never known anything or cared about Iron Man, and...

  that looks really cool.

• At July 30, 2007, Rohan Williams wrote:

  It looks amazing. I'm another one who was never really a big Iron Man fan, but I've been looking forward ...

• At July 31, 2007, Sleestak wrote:

  "Yes it would be very cool."

  "That one's not bad"

  Iron Man song.

• At July 31, 2007, Paul wrote:

  Heh. Will there be corny political smack?

  "If only our humvees had been armored!"

• At July 31, 2007, km wrote:

  Forgive me, I'm probably missing the point, but: This is a comic book movie about a guy who can fly ...

• At July 31, 2007, Dave T. Game wrote:

  "This video is no longer available" :(

• At July 31, 2007, Brian Cronin wrote:

  “This video is no longer available” :( I'm honestly surprised we had access to it for as long as we ...

• At July 31, 2007, Apodaca wrote:

  Iron Man song.

  Oh, come on. Now you're really reaching. That's not a joke, and it was in the trailer for, ...

• At July 31, 2007, acespot wrote:

  But really, why would they deprive us of being able to watch this poorly filmed trailer over and over and ...

• At July 31, 2007, Brian Cronin wrote:

  Yeah, I'll admit, it DOES seem kinda silly to make a stink over an ADVERTISEMENT, but I bet they have ...

• At July 31, 2007, acespot wrote:

  Hey all, I found a Limewire feed. No worries.

  Email me for a link.

Enjoy!

The two videos are a set, the first one is short while the second is longer (but I wouldn't say LONG). They both detail exactly what would happen if you were forced into....

LIVING WITH GALACTUS

Part the First

Part the Second

Pretty cool stuff, Matt!

If anyone else out there has any suggestions for future clips, let me know!

6 Comments

• At June 7, 2007, shannon banannan wrote:

  oh my god, these videos are HILARIOUS. who is this matt jackson guy? an up-and-comer? genius.

  also where'd ...

• At June 7, 2007, Scavenger wrote:

  eh...

• At June 7, 2007, Adam Jones wrote:

  Oh, I got it! It's a bad roomate! But he's the DEVOURER OF WORLDS! Wocka Wocka! ...

• At June 9, 2007, The Mutt wrote:

  Galactus is no one's dick!

• At June 28, 2007, Lorin wrote:

  Wow. Terrible.

• At December 3, 2007, steven wrote:

  These are great!

  www.1dayvideos.com

  Get a professional video created in one day!

Enjoy!

First, here's a quick interview with Scott McCloud on Free Comic Book Day.

Here is a featurette on the day itself.

Neat stuff, Tom!

If anyone else out there has any suggestions for future clips, let me know!

Parodies of the Mac/PC ads using Marvel/DC. They're quite funny.

Funny stuff, eh?

25 Comments

• At May 1, 2007, Rohan Williams wrote:

  That was awesome.

• At May 1, 2007, Anthony Strand wrote:

  I'm a diehard DC guy, but even I have to admit that these videos make excellent points. I hope DC ...

• At May 1, 2007, Graeme Burk wrote:

  The first one was really funny. The other three were more of the same...and by the fourth, I was bored ...

• At May 1, 2007, Graeme Burk wrote:

  I hope DC gets it together in the movie adaptation department at some point.

  If you're talking about producing movies featuring ...

• At May 1, 2007, Bry Kotyk wrote:

  One more for the "quality over quantity" side. Marvel has seen some truly great adaptations (the first two X-Men ...

• At May 1, 2007, gar wrote:

  I agree with those who prefer quality to quantity, but I cannot understand how so many people suggest the new ...

• At May 2, 2007, Joe Rice wrote:

  The Punisher is still in New York.

• At May 2, 2007, J To The AAP wrote:

  Wow, lots of hate for X-Men 3 over here, but love for the first one? I see that a lot ...

• At May 2, 2007, T. wrote:

  Mary Jane being literally next door happened in the comics first, both in regular Marvel Universe and ultimate marvel universe. ...

• At May 2, 2007, Graeme Burk wrote:

  Mary Jane being literally next door happened in the comics first, both in regular Marvel Universe and ultimate marvel universe. ...

• At May 2, 2007, Jeff Holland wrote:

  "So they thought the best way to make you more relatable to young people was...to make you an illegitimate father?"

  Yeah, ...

• At May 2, 2007, AstroZombie wrote:

  [quote=J to the AAP]Wow, lots of hate for X-Men 3 over here, but love for the first one? I see ...

• At May 2, 2007, AstroZombie wrote:

  Bryan Singer=Overrated

• At May 2, 2007, Michael wrote:

  "I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I’m actually annoyed with the a series of strawman arguments at work here"

  And ...

• At May 2, 2007, Graeme Burk wrote:

  And I’m getting annoyed (mildly, but still annoyed) with people using “strawman” to mean “an argument on the Internet I ...

• At May 2, 2007, Graeme Burk wrote:

  X3>X1

  I feel someone at last understands me. I didn't dislike the first two X-Men movies, but I don't get why ...

• At May 2, 2007, sleeper wrote:

  Those parody videos are quite funny (and correct).

  BTW: anyone arguing that Marvel's comics-to-movie adaptations are better than DC's comics-to-movie adaptations ...

• At May 3, 2007, SanctumSanctorumComix wrote:

  In my flawed, but humble opinion, here are the rankings of Marvel & DC movies* (by my taste-standards):

  SOME of which ...

• At May 3, 2007, SanctumSanctorumComix wrote:

  OOps.

  Just noticed that Superman IV is on the list 2x.

  (It's soooo bad that might be accurate.)

  Anyway, I MEANT to place ...

• At May 3, 2007, sleeper wrote:

  MASK OF THE PHANTASM should have been MUCH higher on your list and the two Tim Burton Batman movies should ...

• At May 3, 2007, T. wrote:

  Really cool to see such great DC-bashing. Good show.

• At May 5, 2007, david wrote:

  what? no Batman Begins in the list? That's a fantastic show...

• At May 6, 2007, deworde wrote:

  The first thing I said after coming out of the movie was "Superman, Deadbeat Dad". I mean, the rest of ...

• At May 8, 2007, DanCJ wrote:

  My list would be more like:

  ***WORST***

  - Superman IV - DC

  - Supergirl - DC

  - Howard the Duck - Marvel

  - Swamp Thing ...

• At May 9, 2007, SanctumSanctorumComix wrote:

  OOps!

  I did forget BATMAN BEGINS...

  Place it at # 3 and move everything else down one notch.

  My bad.

  Oh. I finally sat ...