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Coming Full Circle
Jul. 24th, 2011 05:59 pm
Aye, if Wonder Woman is basically ethnic Greek, her skin tone would be darker, right?
And Aquaman should have had skin like a manatee's. (Sorry, he and his Marvel counterpart Sub-Mariner will never get love from me.)
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Wonderella Makes A Batman Joke
Jul. 23rd, 2011 01:56 pm
I bet David Willis is yelling, "Damn You, Justin Pierce!"
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When I Was Supposed To Be Served
Jan. 6th, 2010 04:31 pmThe current storyline on the webcomic Shortpacked! is about the "remastering" that ABC did to the first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers...the exact way done to the first season of Transformers to make "Generation 2" years ago.
Well, the subject creeped to "what fandom defined your childhood?", a question I tried to answer by looking at a Wikipedia Saturday Morning TV schedule from the year before I entered Kindergarten. To my dismay, very very little that year was "new". In fact, the "new" was really the same-old-same-old. Hanna-Barbera and Filmation and Sid & Marty Krofft doing whatever they wanted. Reruns of MGM/WB/Universal short cartoons from the preceding four decades. Animated retreads of past primetime hits/pop culture. Everything I was supposed to be "into" had already been around from before I was born.
No wonder I felt like I wanted something that was my own.
Well, the subject creeped to "what fandom defined your childhood?", a question I tried to answer by looking at a Wikipedia Saturday Morning TV schedule from the year before I entered Kindergarten. To my dismay, very very little that year was "new". In fact, the "new" was really the same-old-same-old. Hanna-Barbera and Filmation and Sid & Marty Krofft doing whatever they wanted. Reruns of MGM/WB/Universal short cartoons from the preceding four decades. Animated retreads of past primetime hits/pop culture. Everything I was supposed to be "into" had already been around from before I was born.
No wonder I felt like I wanted something that was my own.
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Random Geekishness
Dec. 22nd, 2009 02:32 am1) An interesting discussion on the Shortpacked! official board has been about the fact that the Diamond Distributor company uses the Batman standard to judge title sales. That is, every title they sell is compared to how well it does against the specific DC comic book titled Batman. One of the readers has suddenly made it his mission to create a comic book and attempt to sell a CentiBatman's worth of copies of it. (As the value of a Batman in copies is somewhat variable there is some luck involved.)
2) News relayed to me by Aaron![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ps238principal Williams that a British court ruled against Lucasfilm in a copyright case involving the Imperial StormTrooper costume from Star Wars. The judge had declared that the costume was "industrial design" rather than "scuplture" under the legal definitions (the copyright on it had run its course) and become public domain. My immediate thought was on the status of car design--whether the motorcars built before 1995 were suddenly made public domain by this ruling.
3) There are only six or so songs left to vend in my quota for Dread & Terror.
4) All of a sudden somebody is following my LJ via Blogged. I'm supposed to have a Widget working to tell me more about that as part of the LJ, but I haven't figured out how and where to put it up. Welcome, Kikuko...hope you are comfortable here.
5) According to the Japanese site www.saiani.net, the game Armored Core will have an OAV spinoff released sometime in 2010. I'll be watching for this in my usual around-the-blinders fashion.
6) Jon Bon Jovi was on Fresh Air yesterday. He says he absolutely hated the music videos his band made back in the Eighties. I wonder what the boys would have done if they had more creative control back then.
2) News relayed to me by Aaron
ps238principal Williams that a British court ruled against Lucasfilm in a copyright case involving the Imperial StormTrooper costume from Star Wars. The judge had declared that the costume was "industrial design" rather than "scuplture" under the legal definitions (the copyright on it had run its course) and become public domain. My immediate thought was on the status of car design--whether the motorcars built before 1995 were suddenly made public domain by this ruling.3) There are only six or so songs left to vend in my quota for Dread & Terror.
4) All of a sudden somebody is following my LJ via Blogged. I'm supposed to have a Widget working to tell me more about that as part of the LJ, but I haven't figured out how and where to put it up. Welcome, Kikuko...hope you are comfortable here.
5) According to the Japanese site www.saiani.net, the game Armored Core will have an OAV spinoff released sometime in 2010. I'll be watching for this in my usual around-the-blinders fashion.
6) Jon Bon Jovi was on Fresh Air yesterday. He says he absolutely hated the music videos his band made back in the Eighties. I wonder what the boys would have done if they had more creative control back then.
Toy Envy Doesn't Get Crueler Than This
Apr. 26th, 2008 08:29 pm(Cross-Posted to the Forum for the webcomic Shortpacked!:)
( Ultra-Cool Action Figure and Motorcycle/Sidecar Set Behind Cut )
Merowlink and his ride from the VOTOMS side-story Armor Hunter Merowlink. (The plot: his infantry squad was wiped out, he knows who betrayed his buddies and left them to die, and he's aiming to kill them ALL.) Pictures courtesy Takara-Tomy (the manufacturer) and HobbyLink Japan, respectively.
The toy is 1/18 scale (same as the 1980s G.I. Joes), so Merowlink could bring Scarlett or Lady Jaye along for the trip in the sidecar. And check out all those joints on the figure!
His gun is a 20mm anti-tank rifle, almost as long as Merowlink is tall.
And my misfortune? This set is retailing at about $45, nobody on this side of the Pacific is carrying the VOTOMS merchandise, and I DON'T HAVE ANY FRIKKIN' MONEY.
Did I mention that Merowlink is one of my favorite anime characters of all time, along with the likes of Captain Harlock and Roger Smith of The Big O? It was even my long-time ambition to cosplay Merowlink.
Those Japanese toy makers are cruel and relentless.
FP
( Ultra-Cool Action Figure and Motorcycle/Sidecar Set Behind Cut )
Merowlink and his ride from the VOTOMS side-story Armor Hunter Merowlink. (The plot: his infantry squad was wiped out, he knows who betrayed his buddies and left them to die, and he's aiming to kill them ALL.) Pictures courtesy Takara-Tomy (the manufacturer) and HobbyLink Japan, respectively.
The toy is 1/18 scale (same as the 1980s G.I. Joes), so Merowlink could bring Scarlett or Lady Jaye along for the trip in the sidecar. And check out all those joints on the figure!
His gun is a 20mm anti-tank rifle, almost as long as Merowlink is tall.
And my misfortune? This set is retailing at about $45, nobody on this side of the Pacific is carrying the VOTOMS merchandise, and I DON'T HAVE ANY FRIKKIN' MONEY.
Did I mention that Merowlink is one of my favorite anime characters of all time, along with the likes of Captain Harlock and Roger Smith of The Big O? It was even my long-time ambition to cosplay Merowlink.
Those Japanese toy makers are cruel and relentless.
FP
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Fandom Meme
Jan. 16th, 2006 06:22 pmVia robby_bevard:
Step 1 - Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life
Step 2 - Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each item
Step 3 - Post in your own journal.
(Mmm...obsessive fannish love? That's a challenge...)
1. Doctor Who
2. Battlestar Galactica (the original)
3. Star Wars IV ~ VI
4. Robotech
5. Fans! (The T Campbell Webcomic)
6. College Roomies From Hell!!!
7. Shortpacked!
8. Nodwick
9. Knights of the Dinner Table
10. Superdimension Century Orguss
11. Gundam (Universal Century timeline)
12. Rhea Gall Force/Gall Force Earth Chapters
13. Bubblegum Crisis/Crash
14. Dirty Pair
15. Martian Successor Nadesico
16. The Big O
17. Area 88
18. Kimagure Orange Road
19. DC Comics
20. Marvel Comics
robby_bevard:Step 1 - Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life
Step 2 - Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each item
Step 3 - Post in your own journal.
(Mmm...obsessive fannish love? That's a challenge...)
1. Doctor Who
2. Battlestar Galactica (the original)
3. Star Wars IV ~ VI
4. Robotech
5. Fans! (The T Campbell Webcomic)
6. College Roomies From Hell!!!
7. Shortpacked!
8. Nodwick
9. Knights of the Dinner Table
10. Superdimension Century Orguss
11. Gundam (Universal Century timeline)
12. Rhea Gall Force/Gall Force Earth Chapters
13. Bubblegum Crisis/Crash
14. Dirty Pair
15. Martian Successor Nadesico
16. The Big O
17. Area 88
18. Kimagure Orange Road
19. DC Comics
20. Marvel Comics
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