Monster of the Day #1635

Monster of the Day #1635

Out of T-Fest MotD, so here's a leftover Daimon Hellstrom cover. Obviously I like this one, this might be one of the only Johnny Blaze GR appearances I've never read. Still, I suspect the 'guest stars' are illusions or something (or robots in other books). I used to hate that sort of thing when…
Monster of the Day #1635

Monster of the Day #1635

So this year's wrap up T-Rex movie was the direct to video cheapie Future Wars, with its alien future slaves, space ships, three dollars cyborgs, empty cardboard boxes, that one hallway we see for ten minutes, a tough (sort of) nun who helps those on the streets (our first since Mary Tyler Moore!), a…
Monster of the Day #1634

Monster of the Day #1634

You will never go wrong with me having a rubber bat on a string in a movie, but a rubber bat on a string with a badly superimposed 'vampire' face? Mexico, you magnificent bastard.
Monster of the Day #1633

Monster of the Day #1633

Our second movie was Caltiki, already featured as Motd. However, it's now availalbe on a remastered Blu Ray, and as you'd expect from a Mario Bava movie, it looks gorgeous. I think this was the first time in my life I hadn't seen the movie via a beat up 16mm dub print. It was…
Monster of the Day #1632

Monster of the Day #1632

As 12 years (including five or six years of two events per annum), T-Fest all but runs itself these days. Sandy opened this year's skein with this Japanese short film (about 50 minutes) featuring a young girl whose baby brother dies after an accident. She takes him to the mysterious unseen figure who lives…
Monster of the Day #1631

Monster of the Day #1631

I have to admit, I never got into Damien Hellstrom. I think he's kind of dull, I don't like the character/costume design, Marvel's demons are generally quite lame, it's version of Hell is tepid, 'soulfire' is far lamer than GR's 'hellfire,' etc. Still, that's a pretty good cover.
Monster of the Day #1630

Monster of the Day #1630

This will be a short week for MotD (just as next week will start late, probably on Wednesday) because of the do in Texas. So I might as well stick with where we've been lately. I knew Ghost Rider started in the pages of Marvel Spotlight, one of several anthology books (Marvel Premiere, etc.)…