T-Fest a week from Saturday!!

T-Fest a week from Saturday!!

  March the 1st at Sandy Petersen's house in Rockwall TX, outside of Dallas, per usual. I hope to see many of you there. We generally get rolling around 10:00 A.M. We've basically bashed out the line-up, and it's pretty good, I think. We had one movie that I personally love (a fact not…
Monster of the Day #854

Monster of the Day #854

We've never really given Charles Band enough love on these pages, so let's pay a little homage to that fine gent, who gave us many, many hours of cheezy enjoyment in the '80s.
Monster of the Day #853

Monster of the Day #853

Sorry for the late post, everyone (especially Jamie). I was off today for last Saturday, and slept late, and then got distracted. Hope everyone has a great weekend, and hopefully I'll see some of you in Rockwall / Dallas in two weeks (!!!!!!). If anyone needs a place to crash, I'm sure Sandy can…
Monster of the Day #851

Monster of the Day #851

Man, that's just a gorgeous cover. You might want to skip the plot description, though. It fails to enhance the majesty of the art. I have to get this one in first, though: "Those dammed Beaver Men!" See what I did there?  

DC ‘comics’

In an earlier blog post, commentator Eric reacted negatively to my summation of DC comics these days. Admittedly, I don't really read a lot of them, so that opinion might not be considered authoritative. Then I ran across this review from the Robot6 site: ********** Batman: The Dark Knight Vol. 3: Mad (DC Comics):…
Monster of the Day #850

Monster of the Day #850

Our first inclination is to be a smart ass and note that this is a 'harmless' herbivore. On the other hand, hippos kill more people than any other animal in Africa. On the third hand, you'd think they'd leave you alone if you left them alone, so again, it's pretty much on Turok here.
Monster of the Day #849

Monster of the Day #849

Might as well keep running with Turok. Can't go wrong there. (I like Kona a bit better, but, you know, giant bugs and megalodons. Still, this ain't chopped liver.) This, by the way, represents a lazy Sunday for Turok.
Monster of the Day #848

Monster of the Day #848

Surprisingly few Mammoth covers. I guess artists just like painting T-Rexes more. Or else they recognized that Mammoths are harder to make look menacing. I mean, clearly they would be. However, Sesame Street itself figured out that 'wooly mammoth' basically translated to 'fuzzy elephant' and built what became perhaps the most beloved second wave…