Monster of the Day

This reminds me of the fight with Harryhausen's walrus. Again, monsters have been fairly light on the ground in the Marvel movies, although there's enough fantasy stuff in it to feature some briefly. Sadly, no Fin Fang Foom or anything, yet. Well, Groot, but he's a good guy now, and not nearly as giant.

Wrestling and monsters. Thank you, Mexico!

Now, that's nice.

OK, same basic plot as yesterday's film. Indeed, the producer really liked this plot and used it several other times as well. Not as much as Herman Cohen's go-to "Teen (or chimp) is turned into a monster by the authority figure meant to help him" trope, but plenty of times nonetheless. The advantage of…

This poster promises a monster far more elaborate than the one in the film, but to be fair, there's some nudity and lots of violence, so I doubt audiences of the time were disappointed.

At this exact moment, I'd say running away would be a good option. It's not a popular opinion, but I think that Jack Kirby was a pretty decent artist. I really miss the color palette from those days, especially the super-vivid browns and oranges. The Thing really looked fabulous on the FF covers back…

Wow, hard to see a bunch of Millennials attacking this guy with sticks. Indeed, they'd still be shooting selfies at this point. Apparent mad scientist "Vandoom" ran into all sorts of copyright issues too.

Got my "Monsterbus" yesterday, the Marvel omnibus with nearly 900 pages of wacky pre-superhero Marvel madness. I haven't had time to crack it open, but needless to say, the anticipation is great. Monster Groot is on the cover, of course. Fin Fang Foom will do the honors on Volume 2 in August. The Blip…

Uh, he was Hank Pym? In the Marvel universe, it's possible.