Monster of the Day

Jurassic World comes out this week (I think). I'm an old fart who hates anything new, and the whole genetically engineered dinos makes me tired, like something from a SyFy original movie. At least its only two hours and change, which is fairly short these days. For the record, I do like Chris Pratt,…

Out of Dwellers in the Mirage stuff, but this is pretty sweet.

Yet another cover for the book. Since I'm having trouble getting an Internet connection in the morning, I'll jump ahead and post tomorrow's tonight. So consider this Thursday's.

Here's a nifty painted cover for another edition of the same book.

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. And hey, short work week left! Sweet.

By now the show was really going in a lot of direction, so this is in fact the only giant monster we'll see this week. He's OK, but nothing cool as say the Slug monster or boulder monster from earlier in the run. I mean, he's fine, but sort of generic, more like the…

“Dreh' dich nicht um, schau, schau, der Kommissar geht um! Er wird dich anschau'n und du weißt warum. Die Lebenslust bringt dich um.” Alles klar, Herr Kommissar?

This is a very witty turnaround. Volunteers have themselves shrunk down to 1/8 regular size, and then are provided comfortable lives in a miniature city. The idea is to conserve resources, since little people use less of them. For psychological reasons, the little people are then segregated off from the rest of society, to…

One of the greatest thing about this program is that the tone of the episodes varied wildly from episode to episode, so you never knew going in what you would get. Of course, most of the episodes were straight giant monster shows. Then you would get a very kid-oriented episode, a fact I loved.…