“Quick, Astro-Henry, the Space-Flit!” I don’t really see the Robot or Dr. Smith or even Will on any of these covers. I wonder if they couldn’t afford to license them.

Last week we were running some pretty great Gold Key covers for their Stark Trek comic. The painted covers were wonderful (a Gold Key trademark), but they didn’t really capture the spirit… Read Article →

Happy Monday, everyone. Yay. Back to work. And more snow! Terrific. This weekend I came across the fact that The Coneheads, like Howard the Duck, had a pretty good stop-motion monster in… Read Article →

Fear the Glitter!

I imagine that’s how a lot of women feel when Kirk’s around.

Ah, killer plants. Is that supposed to be Kirk? And that’s not a knife, *this* is a knife. And what’s with that guy’s hand?

Thanks to David Charney for the suggestion. The early issues of this Gold Key comic seemed to be fairly serious, at least from looking at the covers. By issue 9, however, the… Read Article →

The last film proved to be Army of Darkness. At first I thought that was a little on the nose (whatever happened to ending B-Fest with a Godzilla movie?), but a moment’s… Read Article →

After that horrid run of (for me) recent dreck, I was feeling pretty battered. Surely the worst was over, though. With time for just two more movies to go, I went to… Read Article →

Ugh, Showgirls (a pause), Howard the Duck, Nothing But Trouble and then the Brando Island of Dr. Moreau. Netflix used to have the great documentary Lost Souls on the berserk making of… Read Article →