Monster of the Day

And so ends, sadly, our look at Jack the Giant Killer. What a high note, though! The Sea Dragon is fabulous. So goofy and so cool at the same time.

Again, I'm not much for dragons, but you can't not like that. In close-up, he looks like a relative of Reptilicus.

Hmm, there's just something so vaguely familiar....

Uh, something 'double header.' 2013, the Year of Phoning it In.

Sadly, about the best picture I could find of this beastie.

God bless physical props! (No theme this short week, just stuff.)

Ah, look everyone, Baby New Year is here! I hope and trust everyone vastly enjoyed the recent multitude of holidays; back to the 'none for five months' thing. Just had a feverish realization that there are basically only THREE WEEKS now until B-Fest. Yikes! Time to get going on that. Speaking of, tickets went…

Ygor seems more like a villain than a monster at first, using Frankenstein's creation to wreak his revenge; the hunchbacked assistant somehow turned malign master. However, he remains...oddly difficult to kill, a trait that suggests he's more than a simple maniac. Dracula is clearly, patently, unarguably Lugosi's most iconic role. On stage alone he…

The Undertaker and his manager talk trash before the bout in 1932. (Sadly, the violin they used to play Pop Goes the Weasel got smashed during the match, and the Undertaker lost.)

An earlier version of Westworld, based around a robot modeled on the Yul Brynner of The King and I, didn't work at all.