NOTICE!! Sadly, no T-Fest this fall…
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NOTICE!! Sadly, no T-Fest this fall…

For a good reason, though. Sandy, our perennial host, will be out of town this fall on a gig in India. So we'll just have to make next year's event(s) all the bigger to compensate. Perhaps we can dedicate a day for everyone to watch 8 b-movies on their own and then report on…
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Monster of the Day #703
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Monster of the Day #703

Ah, that's the stuff. This is the preferred format for the covers, as far as I can tell; modern folks huddling in the background whilst the neanderthal Kona deals with things. "Don't worry," we imagine him shouting in resigned exasperation. "I got this! You guys just cool your heels over there, maybe have a…
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Monster of the Day #702
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Monster of the Day #702

It's not even just Dell covers. I could do about two straight weeks of Kona covers alone. This is one of the less awesome ones, and it features the book's cast being hauled off by La Carcagne.
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Stuff….

Matt Smith is leaving Doctor Who after four seasons. I haven't really seen any of his stuff, but I know he has been very well received. Personally, I'd like them to go back to a Doctor who is at least somewhat older, but the real focus will be the inevitable "Is it time to…
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Monster of the Day #701
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Monster of the Day #701

Dell Comics back in the '60s had an interesting strategy. They turned out not very good comics, but hired really good artists to paint their covers, guys like George Wilson and Morris Gollub. The interior art, meanwhile, generally was bad to decent at best, but by the time you saw that you'd already been…
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Monster of the Day #698
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Monster of the Day #698

I wonder what it was like to be a designer on one of these Japanese monster shows. You could (at least sometimes, one would imagine) work you ass off to design a really cool monster, knowing in advance that by far the most likely outcome is that the monster will never appear in anything…
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