Shipwreck: We’ve been busy shoveling a lot of snow.
tFidy: I blew outta here first sign of snow and was hanging on South Beach with J-Woww from the Jersey Shore. Couldn’t have a BiA blog without ole Fids.
Shipwreck: Wouldn’t go that far… We could have replaced you faster than you can say “The Situation.”
tFidy: That’s cold bro...
Clutch: If you’re like us, you love a good remake – like the Star Trek & GI Joe movies this past summer and Battlestar Galactica.
Shipwreck: There are a couple out there now that are so old school they’re new school!
tFidy: There’s the new Buck Rogers comic out by Dynamite Publishing.
Shipwreck: Our previous exposure to Lucky Buck was the 70’s TV series with Gil Gerard and Erin Grey.
Clutch: That and every time I had a sci fi program on as a kid my Uncle Eugene would say “that’s real Buck Rogers stuff”. Buck was the benchmark by which all other sci fi was measured.
tFidy: We picked up issue 9 and had no problem jumping on. Although I have to admit, I was a little disappointed that Twiki hasn’t appeared yet. Maybe next issue.
Shipwreck: Story was cool. Art was good, we’ll stick around to see if it’s worth back tracking to get the first 8 issues.
Clutch: Twiki may not be in it yet by Colonel Deering is… that’s her on the cover… she’s been captured and is about to go all Slave Leia, which is always a good look. Wish Erin Gray had done that back in the day.
tFidy: You know who else needs to show up in this comic? That princess from the series who always dressed like a Vegas show girl! I think her name was Princess Ardala – total 70’s fox!
Shipwreck: Speaking of foxes and Vegas, Clutch do you remember when we ran into the Cosplay slave Leia and Lara Croft in Vegas…
Clutch: Ah yeah… nice girls… good times.
tFidy: Our buddy Weerd1 told us about an upcoming Buck Rogers movie on the web.
Shipwreck: Gil and Erin play Buck Rogers parents. It was so cool seeing them together again.
tFidy: No word if Twiki will be in that movie either.
Clutch: Gil, Erin if you’re reading this, hope you are well - Princess Ardala too.
Shipwreck: When I heard there was going to be a remake of the A-Team, I was skeptical…
Clutch: Yeah this could go bad about a hundred different ways.
tFidy: Absolutely! But have you seen the trailer? If I may borrow a catch phrase from the show’s era: Awesome, totally awesome!!!
Shipwreck: The talk thru of the original intro sent chills down my spine!
Clutch: From what I’ve seen so far, the characters are nice modernizations of the classics.
tFidy: Not sure if they got Howlin’ Mad Murdock right though… he seems a too redneck.
Shipwreck: Yeah but Liam Neeson nailed Hannibal’s tag line – “I love it when a plan comes together.”
tFidy: Not bad for a guy who played a jedi!
Clutch: Everyone knows how the BiA loves cameos in remakes. Rumor has it that the original Face and Murdock will be in here.
Shipwreck: Dirk (Faceman) Benedict, we love ya man… we held out hope until the final episode of BSG that you would show up.
tFidy: We were bummed you never made it on, but looking forward to seeing you this time.
Clutch: Remember when we watched the new “Escape to Witch Mountain” with the kids?
Shipwreck: Best part was when the two kids from the original showed up.
tFidy: That was cool. I’m going to have the A-Team theme song in my head for the rest of the day.
Clutch: Sometimes is best just to leave things in the past though.
tFidy: How many times did Marvel Comics try and re-launch the New Warriors?
Shipwreck: Yeah, it was never the same. All they did was make them the catalyst for the ‘Civil War’ mega event from a few years back.
Clutch: It’s no secret that I loved 90210 back in the day… Brenda, Kelly – wow! Steve Sanders was too much of a spoiled rich kid to be a Joe, but he would have been fun to hang out with.
Shipwreck: And lots of our B list favorites were on that show at one point or another – Dina Meyer, Kari Wuherer, Casper Van Dyne and of course Tiffany Theissen… who has become a modern day ‘Ted McGuinley’… but that’s another story.
tFidy: Initially, we were curious when we heard about the revamp.
Clutch: But we wanted no part of a new generation, and only Kelly was coming back.
Shipwreck: Brenda came back for a while, but like the New Warriors, it just wasn’t the same.
Clutch: David (Brian Austen Green) was too busy being skittish and protecting John Connor to make it over to the zip...
tFidy: Yeah and “Aunt Becky” was in it as one of the parents… that’s just all wrong.
Shipwreck: She is pretty Milf-tastic though!
Clutch: Rob Estes of “Silk Stalkings” fame was her husband on the show…. Good for him.
Shipwreck: Speaking of that classic 90’s crime drama, just saw on imdb that Erin Grey was in an ep– now that might be worth checking out!
tFidy: That show totally pushed the envelope in it’s day! Did Vivid Video produce that?
Clutch: Not sure … when’s the Baywatch remake?
tFidy: That’s about all we have time for...
Clutch: We out...
Shipwreck: Peace!
