The Amazing 3 (1965)

 

Here's a rather unknown to the general public cartoon brought over from Japan in the wake of Astro Boy.  It was dubbed by Copri in Florida, and is pretty straightforward, like the other Japanese cartoon series they dubbed.  The basis is that three agents from Galactic Control are sent to Earth to see if the planet will be saved or destroyed.  They take the form of three animals, a duck with a Beatles hair cut, a horse and a rabbit.  They make friends with an Earthling named Kenny/Shinichi.  They help him and his secret agent brother Randy/Koichi defeat a host of vile villains over 52 episodes.  Then the moment of decision is upon them.

RIP John Lennon- Help!

                 

Wakanda Forever (2022)

 

In which Namor, the Submariner, prince of... Talokon, wants help from the Wakandas to protect the world's supply of vibranium from the surface dwellers.  Nations are demanding Wakanda shares it, and some are trying to steal it from Wakanda.  There is also a young scientist Riri Williams who built a vibraniun detector.  This leads to a battle between Namor and his Talokan warriors against the NEW Black Panther and the Wakandans.  Shuri finally comes to terms with being a ruler and the Panther, and they make peace with Namor.

Robot MOTW- Maria

 

A lower class worker, Maria, is copied into a robot, in order to crush a rebellion of workers.  This robot assumes Maria's identity.  Rotwang is her creator, and he more than lives up to his name.  The workers and the upper class fight, but eventually they are brought together.  It's a massive movie, and I have only seen most of it once.  Faux-Maria is not really a monster, she is only doing as she was programmed.  It is really Rotwanker that is the monster, and the upper class who look down upon the lower classes.

RIP Kirstie Alley

 Kirstie Alley passed on yesterday from a short battle with cancer.  She is perhaps best known as the woman who replaced Shelley Long as Sam's sort of love interest in Cheers.  I'll admit, I did not watch the show much after Long left.  This is not a knock at Ms. Alley, but the dynamic of the show had changed and it just didn't seem as funny to me.  I liked her best as Lt. Saavik in 1982's Wrath of Khan. She was a funny woman, and was quite successful.  Thank you for the memories.

Sven- The Raven (1935)

 

Wacky neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Vollin comes out of retirement to save a dancer.  He then falls in love with her, much to the chagrin of her father and fiance.  Vollin is a Edgar Allen Poe (Hi Dr. Nick!) devotee, and has a torture chamber in his basement.  Guess that makes it a dungeon, really.  He finds an escaped killer, ruins his face and makes him do the dirty work for him.  This eventually does not work out well for him, but he's not really a good person so no one minds at all.

Happy 7th Birthday, Emerald Sage!

 

Emerald Sage turns seven years old today.  She's been with us for almost five years now.  She is the senior cat now, and sort of tries to rule the roost.  Her ruling of the roost tends to be sleeping in her various spots and bossing us around in the evening before bed time.  She is a creature of habit overall.  She doesn't like being held too much.  Her toleration of being picked up is about 36 seconds, then she becomes a wiggle butt and wants to be set down.  She is very sweet, but a little shy around new people, or even sometimes people she knows well.  I'm so happy to have her in my life.  She has the loudest purr of any cat I have ever had in my life.

proposed Xenorama #15 cover

 

I was searching for a pressbook in my bins, and came across this cover I had made for the original Xenorama #15.  I didn't remember making it at all, though there was a lot of material prepared for this issue.  The issue was supposed to be about spores, molds and fungus, or any slimes and blob monsters.  Why Inframan and Kamen Rider are there I have no idea now.  I had started it back in 2001 or so, but it was sidetracked and eventually dropped for a different sort of issue altogether.  I do have some pages of this issue around... perhaps I could try do a similar issue over again.

The Raven (1935) Trailer

                    

Frankenstein titles

 

I have been looking for the German version of this movie, as they released the original US cut on DVD, as a bonus to Japanese cut.  The AIP version was slightly different than the Toho version, with some added scenes of Frankenstein being more aggressive at the start of the movie.  When the movie was released in the US, this version was no longer available, at least in this country.  The deleted scenes have been presented on other discs, not just including the octopus sequence.