Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)

I just watched this for the first time ever last night.  I'm glad I did not pay money to see it back in 1977.  I love the first two Peanuts movies, and many of the television specials, but this movie a mess.  There are many fun parts to it, but it lacks any kind of logic, even in world of Peanuts.  The animation is good, and the music, for the first time not done by Vince Gauraldi is adequate, though the songs are not memorable at all.  The voice cast is good, but that is generally a given for anything with the Peanuts name on it.

Emerald Sage

Emerald Sage- the torbie cat in front of Thuvia Jane- entered our lives on 12-10-2018.  It took a little while, but the cats at least tolerate each other now.  She was born 12-04-2018 and will be five years old soon.  She's a very sweet and very vocal girl, and has her own individual personality.  She's not quite a tortie, so her tortitude is somewhat muted, but she does have a bit of sass to her when she needs it.

a micro menace!

This is short story from My Greatest Adventure #76, February, 1963  A scientist accidentally gets involved in some Middle Eastern intrigue and creates a large microbe.  It grows to a gigantic size and menaces the area.  The scientist must find a way to stop the bacterium from taking over the world.  Spoilers: he succeeds!

Abraca Pocus! I'm a bat!

I'm a little surprised that Bugs Bunny has not been mentioned, since, well, he's ubiquitous these days.  Here's a clip I love and still sing the song.  I haven't tried putting a video in here in ages, though, so it will be interesting to see how this works.

Godzilla vs the Smog Monster lobby card

Back in my day, lobby cards were almost as important as the movie poster.  I vividly remember trying to memorize every detail of any lobby card for a movie I wanted to see.  Funny thing, though, I really don't remember too many of them, other than the three that were up for Godzilla vs Megalon when it was released in 1976.  I wish I had asked the manager if I could have bought them, since they probably just trashed them after the movie was in town for a week or so.  This is a common lament of many monster kids.  It never even dawned on me to ask what would happen to the promotional material once the movie was done.

Astro Boy 32 Dinosaur Dilemna

Professor Al Chemy figures out a way to bring dinosaurs back to life.  These are supposed to be gentle thoughtful dinosaurs.  Naturally, this goes all sorts of wrong.  Kids are visiting Stone Age Park, which is populated by robot dinosaurs.  Miss Anthrope, the teacher, has some issues controlling one student, the hip talking Disco Teck.  The real dinosaurs show up and take Disco hostage.  They are hungry and want some food.

Xenorama #29

The last issue I posted on here was #23, about two years ago.  This is the newest issue, which is live on Amazon now, along with all the issues from #15 on, plus the Marine Boy book, version #2 (and that's a spoiler- there will be a version 3 in the near future, as soon as I put the final touches on it). I know I should have published more about the other issues recently, but life does happen, and I have found I much prefer the physical books than reading online.

Pachycephalosaurus

 

This is an image from a project I am working on now.  It's more of a long term thing, so it won't be out any time soon, but I'm having a great deal of fun writing about it.  It's about the various dinosaur parks I have visited, plus a few more parks I want to visit.  The history of the parks is one of the most interesting things I am learning about.  There are so many of these things in nearly every state (except perhaps Hawaii, since the islands are only about six million years old and thus wouldn't have fossils at this point in time.

Mazinga Z

 

    Who knew there would be so many classic Japanese cartoons available on home video, either DVD or Blu Ray now?  I had those Hong Kong DVD sets of both Mazinga Z and Devilman with their wonderfully off English subtitles.  Now they are both available, along with several other shows.  It's just amazing.  I've got the entire run of Gatchaman shows to get through now, and several other sets that I haven't opened yet.

Aqua Cave

It has been quite a while since there were any posts here.  I am writing the Xenorama books these days, which takes up most of my free time.  I loved the blog, but I'd really rather hold physical printed material in my hands when I read.  Call me old fashioned.

I'm currently working on an issue of Xenorama dedicated to some of my favorite comic books.  I have about 10 issues in various states of completion, and this is by no means done.   It's full of mostly Marvel and DC stories from when I was growing up, but there are some other surprises in there.

One of them is Aquaman.  I'm glad that his movie was a little successful, and I quite enjoyed it when I saw it in the theater.  I wrote about him about ten years ago, before the Brave and Bold cartoon made him outrageous and liked him then.