10 Mysterious Photos That Cannot Be Explained!
Today we have 10 Mysterious Photos That Cannot Be Explained!
It’s a “Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road”
What do you get when you mash up Mad Max: Fury road with It’s a Mad Mad Mad World?
Ken Meyer Jr.’s Ink Stains 73: Blyberg, McGregor & More!
If you’re a fan of fanzines, then you’ve got to check out Ken Meyer, Jr.’s monthly column Ink Stains. Each month Ken (who is an amazing artist) posts… well, let’s let Ken explain…
I have a collection of over 200 fanzines from the 60’s-80’s that I plan to scan and talk about, one at a time. I hope to have some of the participants answer a few questions. Many of those participants are established comics professionals now, while some have gone on to other things. I will show a few snippets from each zine and give you a link to download a pdf of the whole thing, which I hope all of you will do!
For Ink Stains 73, Ken took a look at Woweekazowie #2 from 1976 from Publisher: Willie Blyberg and Editor: Dean Mullaney
Woweekazowie #2 features:
- Killraven cover by Pete Iro
- Black Panther back cover by Willie Blyberg
- Iron Fist & Daughters of the Dragon splash by William Nevile & Sam de la Rosa
- Don McGregor Interview and Checklist
- Full page illo by Mark Gruenwald
- Spot illos by Pete Iro, Willie Blyberg and others
- Article by Mary Jo Duffy
- Victory strip by Willie Blyberg
- Full page Superman illo by Willie Blyberg (always loved this one!)
- Articles, a letters page and more.
Woweekazowie was one of my all-time favorite fanzines. Willie Blyberg was such a cool cat (where is Willie now?) and excellent artist. Love the memories Woweekazowie #2 brings back.
Thanks to Ken Meyer, Jr. for making these available!
Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of All Time
Alex Maidy and JoBlo.com posted their choices for the Top 10 Movie Soundtracks of All Time. Using just their list here are my top three and my suggestions for soundtracks that should have made the cut….
#8 – SUPERFLY
#6 – GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
#1 – PULP FICTION
How could these soundtracks not have made the cut…
– Saturday Night Fever: Biggest selling soundtrack ever.
– Nighthawks: So under-rated as a film and soundtrack.
– Sharkey’s Machine: see above
– From Dusk Til Dawn: Tarantino knows how to make a soundtrack.
– Jackie Brown: See above.
– Escape from New York: John Carpenter soundtrack!
– Sin City: Robert Rodriguez soundtrack
– Rocky: Bill Conti classic.
What did I miss?
Your Favorite Movie Gunfights
Jacob Hall and /Film recently posted the results of Your Favorite Movie Gunfights. Here are the top choices and my comments….
– The Matrix: really set a new standard for integrating computer effects into gunfights so much so that everyone knows what “bullet time” means.
– Raiders of the Lost Ark: Not so much a gunfight as a “Don’t bring a sword to a gunfight.”
– Shoot ‘Em Up: A movie gunfight lover’s dream.
– Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Not so much a gunfight as the joy of watching Arnold use a helicopter’s mini-gun to shoot up everything without ever harming a human.
– Tombstone: So many excellent gunfights to choose from and they nailed the right one. “Did you ever see anything like that?” “I’ve never even HEARD of anything like that.”
– The Way of the Gun: What a great under-rated movie. The ending is crazy good. Makes me want to watch it again soon!
So many other movies that could have made the cut: John Wick 1 & 2; Heat; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly are the four that came to mind first. Others?
“The Soft, Sweet Lips of Hell” by O’Neil, Adams & Steve Englehart
Diversions of the Groovy Kind has posted The Soft, Sweet Lips of Hell by (writer) Denny O’Neil and (artists) Neal Adams & Steve Englehart which appeared in Vampirella #10 (December 1970)! Englehart went on to fame as a comic book writer. I had no idea he began his career as an artist.
Thanks to Diversions for giving us another look!
30 Things We Learned from James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” Commentary
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 30 Things We Learned from James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
17. His second feature, Cop Land, was viewed by him as “a western, but setting it in the context of the suburban tri-state area.” The original 3:10 to Yuma served as an inspiration of sorts, and he extended that film a nod “in the sense that Stallone’s character is actually named Freddy Heflin and I named him after Van Heflin, the actor who played Dan Evans in the original.”
24. The cave where they huddle against a nighttime assault of bullets is in Los Angeles and is actually the same one featured in the Batman TV series where the Batmobile exited. It had gotten “so cold” in New Mexico that they returned to Hollywood to film the scene.
“No one should be playing a villain. Everyone should be playing a fully-realized person… No person in the world including Hitler or Osama Bin Laden walks around believing they’re a bad guy.”
TCM’s Creature Feature Thursdays in May!
All of us are going to enjoy TCM’s Creature Feature Thursdays in May! Fans will be live-Tweeting and enjoying the ole drive-in movie feel and fun. See you there!
“The Big Sleep” & Howard Hawks Get the Cinephilia and Beyond Treatment
Cinephilia and Beyond give their extensive treatment to Howard Hawks and The Big Sleep with interviews with Hawks and Leigh Brackett, The Big Sleep script, behind the scenes photos, storyboards, and a whole lot more.
Michael Mann’s “Heat” Prequel Drops Next Year!
Michael Mann’s Heat will finally get the prequel we’ve been hearing about for years. It will come out next year… as a novel.
That’s right, a novel.
Mann will co-write along with Reed Farrel Coleman (an award-winning author). All of the main characters from Heat including Detective Vincent Hanna (Pacino), Neil McCauley (De Niro), Chris Shihirlis (Kilmer), and Nate (Voight) will appear in the prequel. The novel will be released through Michael Mann Books from publisher Harper/Collins.
Source: /Film.
Ken Meyer Jr.’s Ink Stains 71: Steranko, Ditko & More!
If you’re a fan of fanzines, then you’ve got to check out Ken Meyer, Jr.’s monthly column Ink Stains. Each month Ken (who is an amazing artist) posts… well, let’s let Ken explain…
I have a collection of over 200 fanzines from the 60’s-80’s that I plan to scan and talk about, one at a time. I hope to have some of the participants answer a few questions. Many of those participants are established comics professionals now, while some have gone on to other things. I will show a few snippets from each zine and give you a link to download a pdf of the whole thing, which I hope all of you will do!
For Ink Stains 71, Ken took a look at Comic Crusader 5 and 6 from 1969 from Editor and Publisher: Martin L. Greim.
Comic Crusader 5 and 6 feature –
- Covers by Steranko
- Lots of fan art and articles
- Comic story by Martin Greim
- Early art by Dennis Fugitake
- Steve Ditko’s Mr. A comic story
- …and more!
The Steranko pieces make these issues worthy for me even if as Ken points out, it appears that someone else (Greim?) inked the cover to #5.
Thanks to Ken Meyer, Jr. for making these available!
Richard Stark: Parker’s Rules
If you’re a fan of Richard Stark’s Parker you’re going to love…
Parker’s Rules
- Don’t ever show a gun to a man you don’t want to kill.
- Don’t talk to the law.
- Always split the money fair.
- Each man for himself.
- Don’t kill somebody unless you have to. It puts the law on you like nothing else.
- Never leave a guy alive who’d like to see you dead.
- Don’t let yourself be framed in a lit doorway.
- Don’t meet in a town where you’re going to make a hit.
- Don’t stay in the hotel where you’re going to make a hit.
- Don’t take a job on consignment.
- Don’t work with anyone you can’t trust or don’t respect.
- When there’s no place to hide, stay where you are.
- Any job that requires more than five guys to be pulled can’t be pulled.
- For a big enough score, any rule can be broken.
“PSYCHO”: THE PROTO-SLASHER THAT BROUGHT ON A REVOLUTION IN CINEMA
Fans of Alfred Hitchcock’s Pyscho will want to check out PSYCHO: THE PROTO-SLASHER THAT BROUGHT ON A REVOLUTION IN CINEMA at Cinephilia and Beyond.
There you’ll find interviews with Hitchock, the Psycho script, behind the scenes photos, storyboards, and a whole lot more.
Barry Smith’s Conan Covers
Conan #10 was the first issue of Conan that I bought off the rack. Barry Smith (who was not yet Barry Windsor-Smith) was really starting to show promise of what was to come and Roy Thomas’ story has stayed with me all these years later.
Diversions of a Groovy Kind recently took a look some of Barry Smith’s Conan Covers and that’s what stirred up this great memory.
Sly Stallone is the Top Choice for “Starlight”
According to rumors coming out of 20th Century Fox, Sylvester Stallone is their number one choice to take the lead in Starlight. Sly would play…
…Duke McQueen, a man who has long since settled down and left his days of saving the Universe and operating as the space hero everyone depended on—at least that’s what he thought. His wife long passed and his kids off embarking on their own adventures, Duke lives a quiet, solitary life until he receives an unexpected call from a distant world, calling him to action one last time.
Source: JoBlo.com
