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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Showing posts with label Pulp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pulp. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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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Saturday, December 19, 2009
Christmas Coundown
If you are not following Francesco Francavilla's Pulp Sunday, you're missing something. Something awesome, that is. Francavilla is a comic book artist and illustrator who provides us, his loyal readers, with regular doses of his pulp comic greatness.Back in the nineties, we comic readers started paying a gadawful amount for what in hindsight was, for the most part, a bunch of crap. My garage has longboxes full of the stuff. So, it is really great to get to see Francavilla's work for free, thanks to him and good ole Blogspot.
I note all of this because my Christmas eye candy for the day is the Francavilla family Christmas Card for 2009, and I felt obliged to give credit where credit is due.
Now, go to http://pulpsunday.blogspot.com", move your cursor to the top left hand corner of your browser, and click "Follow."
Leon Redbone & Zooey Deschanel - "Baby, It's Cold Outside
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Mercury Men
The cliffhanger has risen from the grave, and its latest incarnation can be found at www.mercuryseries.com. The Mercury Men Director Christopher Preksta points out that “the web video format seemed the perfect opportunity to reintroduce the old serial style of storytelling." Available this fall on both the internet and via iTunes, The Mercury Men is the story of a middle-aged civil servant who finds himself trapped in his office building by otherworldly invaders and pressed into service by a pulpy pistol-packin' aerospace engineer from a mysterious organization. Their mission: to stop the Mercury Men and their doomsday device.h/t ... I forgot....
More On Book TV
During my C-SPAN2 binge, I also caught David Grann, the author of The Lost City of Z, which is the story of the mysterious disappearance of British explorer Percy Fawcett while searching for a lost city in the Amazon. Fawcett's expeditions were like something straight out of the adventure pulps. He claimed to have encountered all kinds of cryptozoological treats: giant anacondas, small cat-like dogs, and double-nosed Andean tiger hounds. It has been alleged that Fawcett was the inspiration for everything from Indiana Jones, to Arthur Conan Doyle's Lost Word, to Kent Allard.
View it here
Apparently, John Grisham has discovered The Lost City of Z as well. Maybe it will inspire him to write something other than courtroom drivel.
And while Fawcett may have ended up as an entree, his spirit lives on. Seventy-year-old Colonel John Blashford-Snell, late of the Royal Engineers, has taken up his mantle. The Times lists the following as his acts of "derring-do":
—Colonel John Blashford-Snell is a former officer in the Royal Engineers who helped to found Operation Raleigh. He will lead the 20-person team on the two-month trip on June 21
—He has twice been shot at by Ethiopian bandits, bitten by a vampire bat and ate a Panamanian spider monkey
—Blashford-Snell is the founder of the Scientific Exploration Society
—He led the first descent of the Ethiopian Blue Nile in 1968 and the first vehicle crossing of the Darien Gap in Panama in 1972
—He invented a jungle hat that is mosquito-repellent, Teflon-coated and has a refrigerated headband
—He said recently: “I often say at 6am as I climb out of a soaking wet hammock, ‘God, I must be mad. Why am I doing this?’ ”
His official website is here: http://johnblashfordsnell.org.uk/
Church organist required for jungle meteorite hunt
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
$ecret $aturday$
Now some news culled from Market Watch. No, I'm not going to tell you how to save your 401K, whose at fault for mess at AIG, nor the best brand of matress to stuff your cash in when you yank it all from your bank. I'm here to talk about ratings.
When The Secret Saturdays premiered last Friday night serving as the Cartoon Network's lead-in for its all-new Friday night fantasy-action-adventure line-up, it proved to be quite a ratings booster, much like the Network's most hyped event for the night: the premier of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Jay Stephens's homage to the Hanna Barbera-school of action-adventure cartoons scored 35% more viewers agest 6-11 and 86% more boys of that age group than programming that appeared in that time slot last year. Likewise, The Secret Saturdays also saw a jump in children ages 2 to 11 by 47% and a jump in males of the same age group by 67%, kids 9-14 by 23% with 9-14 year-old boys increasing by 60%.
[ source: Market Watch ]
John Rozum reports that The Saturdays are making an appearance in issue 30 of the Cartoon Network Action Pack comic book" which is in stores now. Rozum wrote the story, Scott Jeralds illustrated, with the cover credits going to The Secret Saturdays creator himself, Jay Stephens.
[ source: JOHNROZUM.COM
This just in from Cryptid Saturdays:
[ source: Cryptid Saturdays ]
When The Secret Saturdays premiered last Friday night serving as the Cartoon Network's lead-in for its all-new Friday night fantasy-action-adventure line-up, it proved to be quite a ratings booster, much like the Network's most hyped event for the night: the premier of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Jay Stephens's homage to the Hanna Barbera-school of action-adventure cartoons scored 35% more viewers agest 6-11 and 86% more boys of that age group than programming that appeared in that time slot last year. Likewise, The Secret Saturdays also saw a jump in children ages 2 to 11 by 47% and a jump in males of the same age group by 67%, kids 9-14 by 23% with 9-14 year-old boys increasing by 60%.
[ source: Market Watch ]
John Rozum reports that The Saturdays are making an appearance in issue 30 of the Cartoon Network Action Pack comic book" which is in stores now. Rozum wrote the story, Scott Jeralds illustrated, with the cover credits going to The Secret Saturdays creator himself, Jay Stephens.
[ source: JOHNROZUM.COM
This just in from Cryptid Saturdays:
October 7, 2008
The Saturdays on iTunes!
Our very most treasured show - The Secret Saturdays, is now available for download on iTunes. Currently, the entire hour-long first episode can be purchased for $1.99, or you can buy the season pass for $19.99 and have them automatically downloaded every week for the entire 1st season.
The episodes ARE in the correct aspect ratio (16:9 widescreen), unlike what is currently aired on the SD Cartoon Network ( the commercials are in widescreen, the the regular broadcasts aren’t? Is this just me?). So if you may, this is a great way to support the show AND get to view them in their full glory ( no sides chopped off) without a HD channel.
This just made Spectre’s iPod a whole lot happier.
[ source: Cryptid Saturdays ]
Sunday, October 5, 2008
The New Cryptozoo Revue
Imagine if Doc Savage and Lara Croft spawned a kid who was a cryptozoological Beastmaster whose pets are an invisible monitor lizard, a pterosaur, and the lovechild of Ooklah the Moc and Scooby Doo, and you would get the new Cartoon Network show, The Secret Saturdays. The Saturdays are a family of scientists dedicated to tracking the world's most bizarre creatures and powerful artifacts, all the while fighting to thwart the global domination plans of V. V. Argost, the host of a t.v. show called Weird World (picture Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not's Jack Palance, only slightly less creepy).
From the little I've seen so far, I am eagerly awaiting the next episode, both as a father who wants to expose my kids to quality cartoons and as a fan of the greats of the genre: Jonny Quest, The Herculoids, Thundarr the Barbarian, and Scooby Doo. Saturdays creator Jay Stephens even credits Jonny Quest's Doug Wildey and Alex Toth as part of the inspiration for the show although he also gives props to such greats as Roy Crane, Harvey Kurtzmann, Jack Kirby, and Herge.
Following in the tradition of these luminaries, Stephens fills his show with of all of the things that made his predecessors great: rocket packs, jazzy Hoyt Curtin-style pursuit music, bad guys with Warsaw Pact accents, witty fight banter, and more weird science than you can shake a Tibetan Fire Sword at.
If there's any Secret Saturdays crew member who should be fired, it's Wardrobe. While the action, characters, and backgrounds look like something that Doug Wildey would be proud of, the Saturdays costumes are wholly yawnable "speed-suits" one would expect to see on anonymous henchmen, not on the stars of the show. With the exception of Zak's emo kit, that is. Perhaps, they could hire Rob Liefeld to re-work the costumes. He was always good at designing costumes with lots of pouches, holsters, and packs.
Aside from that minor flaw, the show looks quite brilliant, and I eagerly await the next installment.
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