Simon Lee’s Predator Visiting the Dentist
This was too good not to share… Simon Lee‘s Predator Visiting the Dentist. You can see more of Simon Lee’s work here.
Twilight Zone: “The Little People” [Season 3, Episode 28] / Z-View
Twilight Zone: “The Little People” [Season 3, Episode 28]
Original Air Date: March 30, 1962
Director: William Claxton
Writer: Rod Serling
Starring: Joe Maross, Claude Akins and Michael Ford.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Three astronauts make an emergency landing on an unknown planet and discover a society of beings the size of ants. When the ship is repaired one of the astronauts elects to stay behind since the society view him as a god.
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116 Amazing Facts for People Who Like Amazing Facts
Alvin Ward and Mental_Floss present 116 Amazing Facts for People Who Like Amazing Facts. Here are three of my favorites…
50. Roger Ebert and Oprah Winfrey went on a couple dates in the mid-1980s. It was Roger who convinced her to syndicate her talk show.
62. Dolly Parton once entered a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest—and lost.
74. Herbert Hoover was Stanford’s football team manager. At the first Stanford-Cal game in 1892, he forgot to bring the ball.
Twilight Zone: “Person or Persons Unknown” [Season 3, Episode 27] / Z-View
Twilight Zone: “Person or Persons Unknown” [Season 3, Episode 27]
Original Air Date: March 23, 1962
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Starring: Richard Long, Frank Silvera and Shirley Ballard.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
After a night of drinking, David Gurney wakes up late for work and immediately starts getting ready. When he can’t find his razor he goes out to wake his wife and ask if she moved it. When his wife awakes she begins screaming at him as if he is a stranger. Gurney soon discovers that no one recognizes him…
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June Vigants and Stanley from “Lords of Flatbush”
June Vigants created the Sly as Stanley Rosiello from Lords of Flatbush piece above. June was doing sketch commissions through the mail and although I’d never met her, I liked June’s art and decided to commission a few pieces. I wasn’t disappointed.
You can see more of June’s art here.
Mister Miracle Splash Pages – A Time Machine of Sorts
Diversions of the Groovy Kind is a regular stop on my daily website visits. You’ll always find something cool like this post of Mister Miracle Splash Pages.
I don’t know about you, but those Mister Miracle pages take me back to my childhood.
Twilight Zone: “Little Girl Lost” [Season 3, Episode 26] / Z-View
Twilight Zone: “Little Girl Lost” [Season 3, Episode 26]
Original Air Date: March 16, 1962
Director: Paul Stewart
Writer: Richard Matheson
Starring: Sarah Marshall, Robert Sampson and Charles Aidman .
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Chris and Ruth Miller are awakened in the middle of the night by their little girl’s cries. When they check her bed and her room she is nowhere to be found… and her cries seem to be coming from inside the wall.
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Daredevil #175 – By Frank Miller & Klaus Janson is an All-Time Best!
This cover by Frank Miller and Klaus Jansen is still one of my all-time favorites. The cover got me to thinking about what a great run Miller and Jansen had with the character. I really should revisit it.
Twilight Zone: “The Fugitive” [Season 3, Episode 25] / Z-View
Twilight Zone: “The Fugitive” [Season 3, Episode 25]
Original Air Date: March 9, 1962
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Starring: Susan Gordon, J. Pat O’Malley and Nancy Kulp.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Jenny is a young girl whose best friend is Old Ben. Although elderly, Ben is young at heart, plays with Jenny and the kids and is always fun and kind.
Things change when two men show up claiming that Ben is an escaped fugitive from another planet and they are there to bring him back.
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Mike Zeck “Owned” The Greatest Punisher Cover List
In 2016, CBR.com ran a poll to determine The 25 Greatest Punisher Covers of All Time.
The cover above by Mike Zeck and Phil Zimelman was selected for the number one spot.
Zeck and Zimelman also scored with the 2nd, 6th, 7th, and 12th Greatest Punisher Covers of All Time.
Zeck had the 8th spot all to himself.
It’s nice when a poll goes the way you think it should.
Twilight Zone: “To Serve Man” [Season 3, Episode 24] / Z-View
Twilight Zone: “To Serve Man” [Season 3, Episode 24]
Original Air Date: March 2, 1962
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Rod Serling based on a story by Damon Knight
Starring: Lloyd Bochner, Susan Cummings and Richard Kiel.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Aliens come to earth promising peace and shared technology. They seem to be making good on their promise to turn earth into a paradise, yet some doubts linger…
This is one of the best Twilight Zone episodes made.
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Ed Brubaker & Sean Phillips – A Retrospective!
Long time readers know that I am a huge fan of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips comic stories. Perhaps David Harper summarizes my feelings best when he describes his admiration for Brubaker and Phillips by saying they are…
the finest and most consistent creative partnership in modern comics. When you hear Brubaker and Phillips are working on something, the question isn’t “will I buy it?”, it’s “when can I buy it?” They’re the type of team where your pull list simply has a “Brubaker/Phillips all” item on it. That’s rarefied air, at least for me.
Harper goes on to create an excellent overview of Brubaker and Phillips work in This Noir Life: A Retrospective of the Brubaker/Phillips Partnership at sktched.com.
15 Fun Facts About the Indiana Jones Movies
Sean Hutchinson, Michael Arbeiter and Mental Floss present 15 Fun Facts About the Indiana Jones Movies. Here are three of my favorites…
1. ONE DOG INSPIRED BOTH INDIANA JONES AND CHEWBACCA.
While developing the film with Spielberg and screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, Lucas named the main character “Indiana Smith.” But Spielberg protested that it was too similar to the 1966 Steve McQueen western Nevada Smith and requested a change. The three agreed that the last name should be as universal and nondescript as “Smith,” so Lucas threw out “Jones” as a possibility. Indiana came from Lucas’ dog, an Alaskan malamute named Indiana. The big, hairy pup was also the inspiration for Chewbacca from Star Wars.
14. SEAN CONNERY SAID NO TO A CAMEO IN THE CRYSTAL SKULL.
As tempting as it may have been for Sean Connery to re-team with Ford on The Crystal Skull, the happily retired former James Bond turned down the part.
15. THE CRYSTAL SKULL INSPIRED AN ALTERNATIVE PHRASE TO “JUMP THE SHARK.”
Ever since Henry Winkler attempted to sail over a shark in a late-season episode of Happy Days, the phrase “jump the shark” has been used to describe the point where a television series goes off the rails in its ridiculousness. The Crystal Skull spawned an alternative phrasefor that, known as “nuking the fridge.” And Spielberg seemed surprisingly pleased about it.“What people really jumped at was Indy climbing into a refrigerator and getting blown into the sky by an atom-bomb blast,” Spielberg told CNN. “Blame me. Don’t blame George. That was my silly idea. People stopped saying ‘jump the shark.’ They now say, ‘nuked the fridge.’ I’m proud of that. I’m glad I was able to bring that into popular culture.”
Twilight Zone: “The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank” [Season 3, Episode 23] / Z-View
Twilight Zone: “The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank” [Season 3, Episode 23]
Original Air Date: February 23, 1962
Director: Montgomery Pittman
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
Starring: James Best, Sherry Jackson, Edgar Buchanan and Dub Taylor.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When Jeff Myrtlebank rises from his coffin the town folk are at first frightened but fear turns to joy at having Jeff back… that is until they notice that he is not quite the same…
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“Wayward Pines” Season 2 Trailer is Here!
I enjoyed the first season of Wayward Pines and will definitely tune in for the second. The idea of a 10 season arc that tells a complete story really appeals to me. Hopefully the second season will live up to the first.
