Monster of the Day #3245

Updated on August 19, 2021 By Ken Begg 24 Comments

“For Pete’s sake, Clark, it’s a skeleton. It doesn’t have muscles or anything. Just deal with it.”

“Uh, yeah, about that. It’s a skeleton with a gun. Why don’t you handle it.”

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  • Took me a minute to realize that ‘Clark’ is “Doc” Savage’s first name….

  • Gamera977

    Esp. when he runs out of bubble bath…

  • Gamera977

    ‘I told you I’d lose all that weight on this new Death Diet Plan! Look at me now, how slender I am! Yeah, throw up your hands Marcie, you’ll NEVER be as THIN as I am now you fat cow!!! Kiss me Rex, hold me, I’m yours! Cause if you don’t I’ll fill your carcass with hot lead!!!’

  • Gamera977

    I’m normally a Second Amendment sorta guy. But is there anything in the Constitution about having to be ALIVE to own a firearm???

  • bgbear_rnh

    keep the finger bone disconnected from the trigger bone

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Yeah, I’m so used to the James Bama hair (what there is of it, anyway).

  • Ah jeez man, you don’t know the half of it.

  • As far as I’m concerned, if a skeleton picks up a gun, it’s his.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    OT, but in B-movie news, Sonny Chiba has passed away.

  • Ken_Begg

    “If you’re going to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk. Shoot.”

  • Ken_Begg

    C’mon, I’m pretty sure all the kids know Doc Savage’s full name. Right?

    Actually, I was moping to Sandy the other day about how kids–probably because of the metric ton of ‘content’ and ‘product’ being pushed out now, don’t really seem to watch anything made before they themselves were born. It used to be just black and white stuff, but for most I’m thinking they don’t watch much of anything made before the 1990s or even 2000s. It made me really depressed.

  • Eric Hinkle

    What saddens me is how on the few occasions I’ve recommended an author who wrote more than five years or so ago to modern fans I get told that ‘Shut up, he was a bigot and stuff. No I never read him but he’s older than me so he must be all evil and crap.’

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, for people today it’s safer not to read anything that hasn’t been officially approved. (Although then that might be problematic next Tuesday.) Otherwise people might read Orwell or something.

    Ha, I’m joking. People don’t read anymore.

    Seriously, though, in 20 years will there be anybody left who’s seen a Marx Brother or WC Fields movie? That’s horrible.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    It is horrible, but I think it’s not due to the quality, or black and white, or age, but the pacing. Today’s stuff is cut very rapidly, and I think people get used to that style of pacing, to the point where anything cut in a different age is slow and ponderous–even the comedies. The brain just gets conditioned to a certain flow.

  • It’s that these days, everyone has to be defined by their worst aspects. Thomas Jefferson, who (among many other things) provided the philosophical justification for our independence? Nope. Slave owner….. They’ll try and justify it by saying they want to promote a more rounded view of a person, but it seems like they are finding great enjoyment in knocking people down.

  • Gamera977

    I’m embarrassed, I know vaguely who Doc Savage is (sorta a cross between Allan Quatermain and Dr. Who I believe) but never read any of the stories…

  • Ken_Begg

    That certainly is a big part of it. I remember my young sister watching Psycho on TV for a few minutes and then leaving because it was ‘boring.’

    As I get older and my brain slows down even further, I find I like quiet slow stuff that’s all about small details you have to watch closely to pick up on. That’s why my favorite anime this year was Super Cub (out of the like hundred I’ve watched this year), which is EXACTLY that. I made Mr Rational watch a bit of it and if I’m remembering correctly his exact response was “that was the most #(&$##(&&##!! tedious crap I’ve ever seen, you idiot.”

  • Eric Hinkle

    Sometimes it goes the other way. I’m stunned by the praise I’ve read online for people like Stalin and Mao, how they ‘modernized’ their countries. So what if it cost a few million measly lives?

  • Ken_Begg

    Well, if you want to be a better person, it’s a lot easier to make everyone else worse than to have to toil at improving yourself.

  • Ken_Begg

    Too bad it wasn’t ‘only’ a few million lives. Just between the two of them you’re getting close to the century mark.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Yes, but I suspect that to these people any number lower than ‘me myself’ counts as ‘low’.

  • Eric Hinkle

    ‘If you want to feel taller, stand on a mound; don’t throw your brother into a pit.’

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Well, in the end, the audience selects itself. A film-maker (or anyone making stuff, really) has to decide what he wants to do–give the scene what it needs, or give the audience what it wants. While I don’t always agree with him, I admire David Lynch for going with the film first.But it can date some works. I remember reading “The Return” by Walter de la Mare and being super-impatient with what seemed obvious. Of course, he wrote this long before TV made his tropes redundant…