I read a lot of silver age comics, usually in collected editions. Lately I’ve been slowly going through DOCTOR SOLAR and the Charlton Steve Ditko CAPTAIN ATOM. I really like the “Atom Age” stuff in comics and movies. I like the confident and capable military, the egghead scientists, the hot babes, the cars, the monsters, [...]
Last Night’s Viewing: A FACE IN THE FOG 7/28/09
Well, not so much on TV as on dvd. But anyway, I busted out Treeline Films 100 CARTOON CLASSICS. First up FELIX THE CAT in APRIL MAZE. The thing for me about these old b & W cartoons is that they are often just plain weird as well as nightmarish. Poor Felix attempts a [...]
Last Night’s Viewing
Well it all began with turning off the Obama infomercial/ used car sale and went uphill from there. Not that he’s not fabulous in HD, but still. So, first up: A cartoon of course. From 1941, WOODY WOODPECKER from THE WOODY WOODPECKER AND FRIENDS CLASSIC CARTOON COLLECTION. Followed by THE HYP-NUT-TIST from POPEYE THE SAILOR [...]
Gorillanaut TV: I SPY
I have the haziest memories of I SPY as a kid but I always associated it with cool. I probably got that idea from my older brothers who were in their late teens in the mid-60′s and from my father who was essentially Nick Fury without the eye patch. I love the 60′s spy craze [...]
Gorillanaut TV reviews
I decided that summer was a good time to dig into the TV library and pluck something out to review. Today it’s THE WILD, WILD WEST episode “The Night the Dragon Screamed” from the Season One dvd set. It’s a fairly solid episode concerning warring Opium gangs and a treacherous British officer trying to seize [...]
Batman vs. the obese pederast known as Sweet Tooth
So I’m watching THE NEW ADVENTURES OF BATMAN dvd set the other day when the episode entitled ”A Sweet Joke on Gotham City” comes on. Holy Shit! You’re not gonna see this kind of thing ever again. SWEET TOOTH is an obese, Paul Lynde -like voiced sissy that wants to turn Gotham’s water supply into [...]
WEREWOLF ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: WEREWOLF Sept 25,1966 The Seaview is sent to monitor a radioactive volcano that may soon erupt. Two scientists already on the island are attacked by a wolf. One dies, and the other is infected by a virus that causes him to change from man to werewolf and back again. When [...]
Horrors of Gilligan’s Island
Dr. Gilligan becomes Mr.Hyde
