Monster of the Day

Well, I guess the killer plants are a (tad) more immediate of a problem, but looks like there's another biggie come up on the horizon.

  I know we already had a week of Kona not too long ago, but what can I say, I love these covers. Here's a two-fer. Yes, there were enough of these great covers that I can double up today. The writer(s) must have had a taste for unusual menaces. Here are two more…

Well, this overlapped, but here's the last of the Saturday the 14th monsters. Maybe I'll run more Kona covers the rest of the week. The entire movie's posted on YouTube, by the way. I'll probably burn it to disc tonight. I'm sure it's lame, but what the heck?

I know the movie must suck, but man, the monsters!!

Trumpy guest stars in a Tex Avery cartoon.

OK, this is the coolest beastie from this film, so I should hold it off, but I just couldn't. Me likee the gillmen.

So nobody got the gag yesterday. This confirms the findings of the Damien Motd; numerology jokes do not fly at Jabootu. Uh, OK, this will do for today, I guess.

Here's a DC villain who, in the New 52 (Hey, kids, comics!) is of course an insanely gross mass-murderer. Meanwhile, Marvel--presumably learning the lesson from their amazingly successful movies--is making waves with *gasp* comics that are actually clever and fun, like Hawkeye, Daredevil and Wolverine and the X-Men, the first X-Men book I've read…

The Sci Fi Channel (as it was known at the time) also took a whack at the Shark Man idea. No Stan Winston creation, it was a CGI creation, at about the level you'd expect from the SFC. It was surprisingly difficult to find a decent still from the movie; hence the better but…