Year: 2016

So much Krampus.

The Hideous Sun Krampus.

OK, by the time I dealt with last night's snow (with a cold blast coming and lots more of the white stuff coming next Friday and Saturday) it was time to leave for work. Anyhoo, I watched Krampus last night, and it was great. Definitely worth a look. Lots of monsters too, so that's…

Another venerable tradition observed.

Any weeks with giant bugs is a good week!

OK, headed out after work and am just now getting home, and hey, Imgur is working again! So here's today's belated entry. Monsters and electrical lines. Will they never learn? Better luck posting tomorrow morning, I hope. I'm heading out after work to see Spartacus tomorrow evening and probably won't get home until close…

Sadly, the attempt to deal with yesterday's MotD in an "environmentally-friendly" manner proved somewhat counterproductive.

If only I had some sort of applicable running gag here! The Mars Attack cards suddenly sent onto a long run of giant insect attack scenes, presumably because watching Martians disintegrate people (or most memorably, once a dog) could only provide so much fodder. Also, they came out in 1962, and that was pretty…

For some reason, this was the highest rated episode in Japan. As we've seen, mixing and matching animals is a pretty easy technique to generating an Incidental Monster. Snakes (like the Lion Snake previously featured) with a few other attributes like fur and some horns...and wa-lah, there's your monster. I kind of like the…

We didn't do much with Thundarr, so let's go back to him. Again, it's got to be tough to come up with fun designs for the incidental monsters that popped up every episode for a minute or two. A horned whale/shark is pretty neat, though.