Threat Level: Cheetah-bot

"I'm a street walking cheetah With a heart full of napalm."
--James Osterberg

Check out Darpa’s Cheetah-Bot @ Wired.com

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Tree-hugger

This critter looks like he would be right at home in Zothique, Planet Algol, or Gamma Terra. Just needs some fleshing out.

h/t Zdzislaw Beksinski - Official website presented by Belvedere Gallery

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Rockwell on Mars

h/t Bish'ss Beat

COMIC CORNER: ROCKWELL OF MARS! COMIC CORNER: ROCKWELL OF MARS! JOE JUSKO’S COVER ART FOR THE FEBRUARY 2011 ISSUE OF DYNAMITE’S ERB JOHN CARTER COMIC BOOK ADAPTATION WARLORD OF MARS #5 PAYS HOMAGE TO THE CLASSIC NORMAN ROCKWELL SATURDAY EVENING POST MAGAZINE COVERS . VERY COOL . . . ~

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Faux Pulp Paperback

h/t Bish's Beat

I spent part of today learning to use a new holster, so I thought this apropos.

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The Customer Is Always Right (but Only If They Register for An Account)

Generally I hate to jump on the "I hate T$R"" bandwagon, but this iis redamndonkulous! Here is proof-positive that WOTC needs to join Braniff Airlines, the Triangle Shirt Company, and IG Farben in the corporate dustbin:

PLANET ALGOL: You Need a Wizards.com Account to Email WOTC?!?!

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Ookla! Areola! Ride!

When not wielding, his famed Sunsword, Thundarr was partial to using the ancient martial arts form known as the Purple Nurple.

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Lady Gaga at the Grammies or Magic: The Gathering?

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h/t superpunch

Podcast of Mars

Candlelight Stories » John Carter of Mars

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A.I.M. High

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Lost Sutherlands

GROGNARDIA: Forgotten Sutherland Art

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Clark Ashton Smith Art

h/t Golden Age Comic Book Stories: Clark Ashton Smith

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The Lego Aquatic

Found this while hunting a Seu Jorge mp3. Artist unknown.

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Alpha Mutate It Like It's Stolen

According to the Huntsville Times police blotter, a car was broken into and a Gamma World role playing game was stolen.

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Youtube Video Referred to in Last Post

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"Don't Mention The Paciific War"

Last night, my wife took my nine year old son, himself a budding history buff, to our favorite Japanese restaurant. He decided it was the perfect time to educate his mom about Pearl Harbor. Fortunately, she got him to change the subject before his lecture got to Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

The tale reminded me of this:
http://m.youtube.com/#

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There's Got To Be A Morning After ... Doomsday

These images are from Korean figure design pro Yeon Gunn (a.k.a. AHEAD). More of his work can be found at his official site: BHEADWORKS 2005-2008 :: 네이버 블로그

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D.I. Choo Choo Choose You

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Don't You Forget About John Hughes

I often tell folks that my two favorite directors* are the Two Johns: Milius and Hughes.

Milius presented the life I aspired to. Hughes presented the life I lived. In other words, I wanted to be Conan or a Wolverine I was Farmer Ted and Ducky Dale.

Gallery 1988 is having a John Hughes tribute show, and one of my favorite blogging artists has produced an homage to Weird Science. Check it out: Montygog's Art-O-Rama!: I want her to aerobicize...



*-aside from Sam Peckinpah, that is.

Adventure Team, Baybee

This year's club exclusive action figures include a 3 3/4-inch Sea Adventurer and a twelve-inch Man of the Sea, which is basically a Sea Adventurer with a clean shave in his skivvies.





h/t Super Punch

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Appendix N for Planet Algol

Sea of Spices - Location Influences Brainstorming

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A. Merritt

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_monster_sharp.jpg

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Topographical Tuesday Revisited ... Briefly

Back when I was blogging regularly, I had a weekly feature called Topographic Tuesday." Each week, I would post a map of a fictional place, whether it was China Mieville's New Crobuzan or Mary Tyler Moore's t.v. apartment.

Now, that torch has been handed off to Comic Book Cartography. CBC has maps of Kamandi's Earth A.D. (as seen in this post), the Baxter Building, SHIELD headquarters, and Pogo's swamp.

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Legoville Strike Team

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfnzi2ozUL1qbcy5lo1_500.jpg

The Shield Lego™-style

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Gross Art

Two-Fisted Art

h/t Bish's Beat

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You've Gotta See This...

Fat Cotton: Illustrator of the Surreal and Strange is a must-see for any fan of old-school gaming, weird/pulp fantasy, and/or the art that goes with (think Erol Otus).

Once again, h/t Blair @ Planet Algol.

Jones Soda now has a limited edition D&D. set. Read more at Jones « Lord Kilgore

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An Action Typist on Planet Algol

PLANET ALGOL is the currently at the top of my list of "Campaigns I Wish I Were Playing In." With the possible exception of the Flagons & Dragons Gamma World game, that is.

Just take a look at the latest offering at Planet Algol: a bit of brainstorming of the pulp sword & sorcery sort that makes me covetous.

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Super Bowl

Captain America trailer looked great.

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Fury a la McGinniss

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legovalypse

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2686/4096629518_da0b904260_z.jpg?zz=1

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Charlie Sierra Mike

Back when my wife and I were newlyweds, X-Files was our show. We watched religiously. I haven't seen an episode in years. Back when FX would run marathons, I would revisit my favorite episodes: "Home," "Jose Chung," the baseball episode, etc.

But my favorite, I haven't seen since it originally airred. Eye of Polyphemus recaps here : Eye of Polyphemus: X-Files--"Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man"

Quest & Grimm

h/t http://calvinscanadiancaveofcool.blogspot.com/

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Medicinal Baton

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