Gives new meaning to a spit-shine.

Spare the Kryptonite, spoil the child?

Hope Krypto doesn't run into any wayward butterflies.

21 down and many more to go.... To celebrate my favorite TV.com friend's coming of age, I have chosen a few of my favorite misguided covers...live long and prosper (and today's Leonard Nimoy's too, yah!)

Cleared out for spring-cleaning.

I haven't been on much lately - well, past several months actually, life has a way of interfering with that.  But I haven't forgotten the ones I enjoy talking with here, especially now, in the season to remember the ones you do cherish.   I really hope this finds you all doing well and I wish you good health and cheer!

The possible prequel disaster facing the Star Trek franchise is still a ways off, but the butchering of Classic Trek has already begun, with the announcement of the original Trek having CGI added effects in the way of planets and shots of the Enterprise, as well as a re-worked theme song.

Is this to appeal to the low-attention span crowd?  They wouldn't be fans to begin with, let alone watch it, so why do it?  A main part of this show, the recognition factor, will be lost.

It may be sentimental, but there is a certain comfort in seeing those regular fly-by shots and the orange planet that kept popping up, in that you knew what to expect, even if you tuned in from another channel.  In doing this, it will simply be adding more CGI out there to a public that is already tiring of it.

The original series was a product of it's times, and made by people that were given very little to work with.  It should be shown to future generations in the context of what they accomplished, not what revisionists think will make people happy.  It may look dated to the eye, but will remain forward in it's ideology.

Thought I'd try posting a video, and lucky me, got it right the first time.  Hope you enjoy it!

Now under my videos.

I am so sick of this heat already.  And August isn't even over yet.  Any way, here's something new, from 1967.  Or is that old?  This annual features the first appearance of the major FF villain, the Psycho Man, but even more important is that this features the first time the Silver Surfer had been featured in a story all his own, which would lead to his own magazine.  Hope you like it!

Cleaned out, making room for others

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I'm a David Lynch fan.  Yes, I know it's twisted and disturbed, but I make no apologies.  But I have to say I really freaked when I saw one of his first films, "The Alphabet."  Scared the hell out of me.

Being a child of the late 60s-70s, this really recalled some bad memories of public education at that time.  In particular was how PBS, during the day on our local affilliate, would run this really surreal and outright bizarre interlude between programs. This usually consisted of a landscape made of blocks, half-built facades of buildings, and other props that were shown in a totally dark studio, illuminated by different black lights, usually in purple/blue/green colors.  The camera would pan around the scenery and in the background electronic music would play, or sometimes it was just shown in total silence, with a list of state afilliates for PBS in white letters on the lower left hand corner of the screen would be shown.  It looked like something Andy Warhol would've dreamed about, and it was unnerving being a small child seeing that.  Lynch's film struck a chord with me in recalling that; the dehumanization of the educational process that went on then, due to people whining about schools "teaching kids evil values" in the Nixon era and in turn making it a sterile, rote environment where ideas were just dumped out rather than discussed, in studies. Check out "David Lynch Alphabet" or some combination thereof on YouTube to see what I mean.  Totally demented but a work of real genius.  Don't watch, however, if you are squeamish and/or are offended by the sight of blood.

And in further news ala Lynch, am glad he has a new film coming out, with some of his crew from "Wild At Heart".  And one of his early films will be on TCM on September 15, at 8:00 PM CST, am curious to see just how out there it is, too.  Why oh why can't he have a regular show on broadcast TV again, like "Twin Peaks"?  I'd rather have his bizarre and disturbing fantasy perspective on there than the grotesque and stupid reality show glut we have now.

Deanna gave me a good lesson on images in blog, so hope I get this right.  Thank you, Deanna!

What you see above is Batman #171, from my personal collection.  It was the first time The Riddler had appeared in either Batman or Detective comics since 1948, year on this is 1965.  The story, written by Gardner Fox (whose profile I also edit), was the basis for the pilot episode of the television series in 1966.  Rather garish pink, I agree, but it does stand out, which is why I decided to try it out on my blog.  Will post more if you like. (and if I don't mess this one up) 

I know I've posted this over in the Trek topics before, but am curious to hear from other people that don't hang out there often as to what they like to collect.

My main interest has been comics, have around 100,000.  Have a few Atomic Age and a good deal of Silver and Bronze as well and loads of Modern, of course.  I also like to collect movie posters, have a number of those, including some error prints as well.  Also like Hallmark Keepsake Ornaments, have between 500 to 700, haven't counted in a while.  Plenty of different action figures and older toys, as well as a good bit of comic statues.  My personal favorite isn't a comic character but one of the Alien Queen from "Aliens". 

And last but not least (don't want to flog this to death) around 1200 DVDs, with about 250 different TV series.  Would like to know what interests everyone else out there.

Saw this today at a digital theater.  Pretty good, though will stop short of saying it was outstanding.  Noticed where it borrowed a lot from previous incarnations of Superman, notably the main plot concerning Lex Luthor in the 1978 movie, as well as John Byrne's re-interpretation of Superman, Lois Lane, and Luthor in the 1986 mini-series "The Man Of Steel," and including a key element of Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow?" story from Action #583 and Superman #423. Some of the scenes with Routh's face appeared to have some digital tweaks, to me, in giving some of Reeve's expressions.  Will say Singer definitely did a better job with this than X-Men, so there is some real hope for this franchise being revived.

Am glad they didn't bring any of that "Smallville" dreck approach to him here, and can also say it was a real treat seeing Langella as Perry White, fine reversal of the typecast he has had for so many years now.  Could say more, but I don't like spoiling things too much.  Worth seeing at the theater, definitely for the title sequence giving the 1978 sequence a new spin as well as the destruction of Krypton.