Sunday, October 17, 2010
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Back From JoeCon!
A dedication to the customizers...
Clutch: Z’up?
Shipwreck: We just got back from JoeCon in Providence RI . We would have blogged sooner but…
tFidy: Shipwreck just sobered up!
Clutch: It was quite a trip! flew out of Philly...
Shipwreck: Breakfast sandwiches at Chickie and Pete’s and had a few Crabby Mary’s.
tFidy: Bloody Mary’s with old bay seasoning –so good!
Clutch: We roll into Providence and end up in this quaint little place:
Shipwreck: Tough place, good drink specials… we had some stuffies!
Clutch: A Rhode Island delicacy, that’s kind of like clams casino with extra breading. Good local flavor.
Shipwreck: After hanging out there for a while we ended up at another bar where there was this kickin’ band playing there called “Kung Fu Grip.”
Clutch: These guys rocked it out! That lead singer had a seriously angry vibe.
tFidy: Which is only fitting… a lot of the Joe Fans we met were pretty angry.
Shipwreck: It has to do with the continuity issues, Marvel, Cartoon, DDP, ROC, Resolute, IDW; it's getting hard to keep track!
Clutch: The Adventure Team guys seemed pretty laid back.
tFidy: I think that’s just a 70’s thing… besides those guys made their own continuity. No outside sources messing with their Joe World!
Shipwreck: Right on!
tFidy: Anyway, Rhode Island is a whacky little place, strange laws, one of which is no droids in an establishment that serves alcohol and has live music. So, I had to leave that bar and I went and visited my friend Pete:
...We used to work together at the Trade Federation. He’d moved to Rhode Island a few years back. He’s playing Johnny 5 in the Off, Off Broadway production of “Short Circuit: the Musical." Good to see him again… although I had that song “Who’s Johnny?” stuck in my head since we got back!
Clutch: Shipwreck and I had a late night and he was pretty hurting the next day. He laid around all morning watching reruns of McCale’s Navy while I played a pickup basketball game in the hotel gym.
Shipwreck: After Clutch got back from playing hoops, I was feeling better, so we headed out to breakfast. Ran into a few old friends...
Clutch: LJ when are you coming back Babe? It appears that DDP continuity is being completely ignored, so how come you and your fine self are not appearing in at least one of the continuities IDW is running?
Shipwreck: I smell a conspiracy!
tFidy: It was free comic book day the weekend we were there. Luckily we were able to locate a comic shop in the area.
Clutch: I also got to check out this tricked out ride. Got to take it for a spin in the parking lot; it was ridiculous! And in Adventure Team Yellow!
tFidy: The Con only had a few unsavory characters...
Shipwreck: But overall I pretty fun and relaxing time...
Clutch: Z’up?
Shipwreck: We just got back from JoeCon in Providence RI . We would have blogged sooner but…
tFidy: Shipwreck just sobered up!
Clutch: It was quite a trip! flew out of Philly...
Shipwreck: Breakfast sandwiches at Chickie and Pete’s and had a few Crabby Mary’s.
tFidy: Bloody Mary’s with old bay seasoning –so good!
Clutch: We roll into Providence and end up in this quaint little place:
Shipwreck: Tough place, good drink specials… we had some stuffies!
Clutch: A Rhode Island delicacy, that’s kind of like clams casino with extra breading. Good local flavor.
Shipwreck: After hanging out there for a while we ended up at another bar where there was this kickin’ band playing there called “Kung Fu Grip.”
Clutch: These guys rocked it out! That lead singer had a seriously angry vibe.
tFidy: Which is only fitting… a lot of the Joe Fans we met were pretty angry.
Shipwreck: It has to do with the continuity issues, Marvel, Cartoon, DDP, ROC, Resolute, IDW; it's getting hard to keep track!
Clutch: The Adventure Team guys seemed pretty laid back.
tFidy: I think that’s just a 70’s thing… besides those guys made their own continuity. No outside sources messing with their Joe World!
Shipwreck: Right on!
tFidy: Anyway, Rhode Island is a whacky little place, strange laws, one of which is no droids in an establishment that serves alcohol and has live music. So, I had to leave that bar and I went and visited my friend Pete:
...We used to work together at the Trade Federation. He’d moved to Rhode Island a few years back. He’s playing Johnny 5 in the Off, Off Broadway production of “Short Circuit: the Musical." Good to see him again… although I had that song “Who’s Johnny?” stuck in my head since we got back!
Clutch: Shipwreck and I had a late night and he was pretty hurting the next day. He laid around all morning watching reruns of McCale’s Navy while I played a pickup basketball game in the hotel gym.
Shipwreck: After Clutch got back from playing hoops, I was feeling better, so we headed out to breakfast. Ran into a few old friends...
Clutch: LJ when are you coming back Babe? It appears that DDP continuity is being completely ignored, so how come you and your fine self are not appearing in at least one of the continuities IDW is running?
Shipwreck: I smell a conspiracy!
tFidy: It was free comic book day the weekend we were there. Luckily we were able to locate a comic shop in the area.
Clutch: I also got to check out this tricked out ride. Got to take it for a spin in the parking lot; it was ridiculous! And in Adventure Team Yellow!
tFidy: The Con only had a few unsavory characters...
Shipwreck: But overall I pretty fun and relaxing time...
Sunday, April 4, 2010
All that’s old is new again...
Clutch: It’s been awhile since our last installment.
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!
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!
Friday, January 15, 2010
Haven't we seen this somewhere before?
Shipwreck: Recently we headed down to the local multi-plex to see what all the hoopla was about with this new movie Avatar.
Clutch: We put on the 3D glasses and were completely blown away by the special effects!
tFidy: Loved the Battletech like tanks (although they should have been robotic if you ask me).
Shipwreck: All the crazy 6 legged jungle creatures were awesome too.
Clutch: Is it wrong that I found the 9 foot, blue, CGI version on Sigourney Weaver w/ the Stanford University tube top on attractive?
Shipwreck: Absolutely not! It can’t only be about the slave Leia outfit!
tFidy: To be honest, I was a little confused for about the first hour of the movie… where was Aang? The Earth Benders? Fire Nation? This is not the Avatar I know...
Clutch: Yeah, different Avatar. Heard there’s going to be a live action movie on that one called “The Last Airbender” later this year. Looks cool.
Shipwreck: A lot has been said about the political overtones and the cliché characterization in Avatar.
Clutch: We didn’t let any of that get in the way of our enjoyment of the movie!
tFidy: One of our buddies mentioned the Giovanni Ribisi played a stereotypical corporate pr*ck.
Shipwreck: We’re ok with it because the corporate world is full of guys just like him!
tFidy: One thing we haven’t heard how this film’s base plot is a complete copy of one of our favorite 80’s action movies “Red Scorpion”. Dolph Lundgren plays a Soviet Spetznatz who is part of the invading force in a 3rd World Nation. He ends up living with them, becomes sympathetic to their cause and eventually helps them repel the invading Soviet Army.
Shipwreck: Sound familiar?
Clutch: One of the more famous scenes is where the locals are defeated and don’t want to fight the Soviets anymore…
tFidy: Very similar scene in Avatar...
Clutch: Sully gives the “Blue Man Group” a rousing speech to unite the tribes. Dolph, never one for long speeches simply grabs a weapon and says “Let’s go kick some a*&.”
Shipwreck: Dolph could always say a lot with a minimum of words.
tFidy: I recently learned that there’s a Red Scorpion 2 that was made in the mid 90’s. Has nothing to do with the original…
It’s about a team of five commandos with special skills who take down and extremist group… who’s leader appears to have killer ‘hockey hair.’
Clutch: That’s reason enough to take them down! If anyone has a copy, please send it our way!
Shipwreck: Another familiar thing in Avatar was the special effect for when the human scientists’ consciousness was transferred to their avatar.
tFidy: That was right out of one of our favorite Sci Fi shows “Sliders”.
Clutch: That effect is such a trademark of Sliders, that when it was used on Buffy once Oz turned to Xander and said “I saw that on Sliders.”
Shipwreck: For those of you not familiar with the show, it chronicled four adventurers as they ‘slid’ from one reality to another trying to find their way home.
tFidy: You had to know a little bit about history in the early episodes, to get what was different about that reality. The show was dumbed down over time and the Sliders spent most of their battling the ‘monster of the week...’
Clutch: Jerry O’Connell was the ‘boy genius’ who discovered sliding and John Rhys-Davies, who’s been in about a zillion movies we’ve loved, was his mentor. The fifth and final season the cast had almost completely turned over. It was still fun, but not quite the same.
Shipwreck: The first four seasons have been out on DVD, but it looked like season 5 would be doomed to obscurity, but it’s just been released to iTunes and Amazon on demand. (On DVD in Europe.)
tFidy: We’re 2 eps in to the final season, the only one without Jerry… we still love it, but it’s kind of like when Ted McGinley was living at the Cunningham’s house in the last years of “Happy Days.”
Clutch: Ah, Jenny Piccolo… wonder whatever happened to her?
tFidy: Don’t know, but ‘Ralph Malph’ was on an episode of Sliders… as was Freddy “Boom Boom” Washington from "Welcome Back Kotter."
Shipwreck: We’re not going to lie, one of our interests in the later seasons is the talents of the lovely Kari Wuhrer.
tFidy: She was maligned by many hardcore Slider fans, because she replaced the original female lead, Sabrina Lloyd.
Clutch: Not us, the Brothers have plenty of love to go around!
Shipwreck: The show ended with a cliff hanger and we never found out if the Sliders made it home or not. I think it’s time for a movie! Reboot, continuation, we’re on board either way.
tFidy: Sliders ended 10 years ago, I don’t hold out a lot of hope on that one.
Clutch: Dude, I just saw a trailer for a new A-Team movie! Anything is possible!
Shipwreck: Wow! That’s huge… and a topic for another blog...
tFidy: We out!
Clutch: Peace!!
Clutch: We put on the 3D glasses and were completely blown away by the special effects!
tFidy: Loved the Battletech like tanks (although they should have been robotic if you ask me).
Shipwreck: All the crazy 6 legged jungle creatures were awesome too.
Clutch: Is it wrong that I found the 9 foot, blue, CGI version on Sigourney Weaver w/ the Stanford University tube top on attractive?
Shipwreck: Absolutely not! It can’t only be about the slave Leia outfit!
tFidy: To be honest, I was a little confused for about the first hour of the movie… where was Aang? The Earth Benders? Fire Nation? This is not the Avatar I know...
Clutch: Yeah, different Avatar. Heard there’s going to be a live action movie on that one called “The Last Airbender” later this year. Looks cool.
Shipwreck: A lot has been said about the political overtones and the cliché characterization in Avatar.
Clutch: We didn’t let any of that get in the way of our enjoyment of the movie!
tFidy: One of our buddies mentioned the Giovanni Ribisi played a stereotypical corporate pr*ck.
Shipwreck: We’re ok with it because the corporate world is full of guys just like him!
tFidy: One thing we haven’t heard how this film’s base plot is a complete copy of one of our favorite 80’s action movies “Red Scorpion”. Dolph Lundgren plays a Soviet Spetznatz who is part of the invading force in a 3rd World Nation. He ends up living with them, becomes sympathetic to their cause and eventually helps them repel the invading Soviet Army.
Shipwreck: Sound familiar?
Clutch: One of the more famous scenes is where the locals are defeated and don’t want to fight the Soviets anymore…
tFidy: Very similar scene in Avatar...
Clutch: Sully gives the “Blue Man Group” a rousing speech to unite the tribes. Dolph, never one for long speeches simply grabs a weapon and says “Let’s go kick some a*&.”
Shipwreck: Dolph could always say a lot with a minimum of words.
tFidy: I recently learned that there’s a Red Scorpion 2 that was made in the mid 90’s. Has nothing to do with the original…
It’s about a team of five commandos with special skills who take down and extremist group… who’s leader appears to have killer ‘hockey hair.’
Clutch: That’s reason enough to take them down! If anyone has a copy, please send it our way!
Shipwreck: Another familiar thing in Avatar was the special effect for when the human scientists’ consciousness was transferred to their avatar.
tFidy: That was right out of one of our favorite Sci Fi shows “Sliders”.
Clutch: That effect is such a trademark of Sliders, that when it was used on Buffy once Oz turned to Xander and said “I saw that on Sliders.”
Shipwreck: For those of you not familiar with the show, it chronicled four adventurers as they ‘slid’ from one reality to another trying to find their way home.
tFidy: You had to know a little bit about history in the early episodes, to get what was different about that reality. The show was dumbed down over time and the Sliders spent most of their battling the ‘monster of the week...’
Clutch: Jerry O’Connell was the ‘boy genius’ who discovered sliding and John Rhys-Davies, who’s been in about a zillion movies we’ve loved, was his mentor. The fifth and final season the cast had almost completely turned over. It was still fun, but not quite the same.
Shipwreck: The first four seasons have been out on DVD, but it looked like season 5 would be doomed to obscurity, but it’s just been released to iTunes and Amazon on demand. (On DVD in Europe.)
tFidy: We’re 2 eps in to the final season, the only one without Jerry… we still love it, but it’s kind of like when Ted McGinley was living at the Cunningham’s house in the last years of “Happy Days.”
Clutch: Ah, Jenny Piccolo… wonder whatever happened to her?
tFidy: Don’t know, but ‘Ralph Malph’ was on an episode of Sliders… as was Freddy “Boom Boom” Washington from "Welcome Back Kotter."
Shipwreck: We’re not going to lie, one of our interests in the later seasons is the talents of the lovely Kari Wuhrer.
tFidy: She was maligned by many hardcore Slider fans, because she replaced the original female lead, Sabrina Lloyd.
Clutch: Not us, the Brothers have plenty of love to go around!
Shipwreck: The show ended with a cliff hanger and we never found out if the Sliders made it home or not. I think it’s time for a movie! Reboot, continuation, we’re on board either way.
tFidy: Sliders ended 10 years ago, I don’t hold out a lot of hope on that one.
Clutch: Dude, I just saw a trailer for a new A-Team movie! Anything is possible!
Shipwreck: Wow! That’s huge… and a topic for another blog...
tFidy: We out!
Clutch: Peace!!
Friday, January 1, 2010
BiA – 3 x 2 4 10
Shipwreck: Happy New Year Everybody!
Clutch: And welcome to the new decade!
tFidy: What are we calling these first two decades in the 21st anyway? The 0’s and the teens? Or do we just lump the first two together and call them the “earlies” (pause) – what ? It’s a legitimate question that everyone rolls their eyes at, yet no one has an answer. Fans help me out here...
Shipwreck: In 2009 we came across a few cool things we’d like to share with you.
Clutch: Some are new, a few not so much…
tFidy: But in typical BiA fashion, they all are flying just slightly under the radar.
Shipwreck: In the world of movies – you gotta check out War Machine. It’s a take no prisoners commando movie that may remind of a few Real American Heroes that you know.
Clutch: Film creator Rene Perez was kind enough to sit down with us and do an interview which we featured in an issue of BiA a few months back. Look for it in our archives if you didn’t catch it the first time around.
tFidy: There’s also companion piece comic called “Bring the Pain” that goes along with it featuring a mute ninja and this drunken sailor and their adventures.
Shipwreck: Drunk??? What?? So the guy likes a couple of drinks? He helps that ninja out of more than one tight spot! Both are worth checking out.
Clutch: It’s well know what fans we are of the Mack Bolan adventure books by Golden Eagle Publishing – well they also make another series called Deathlands, which chronicles a team of adventurers in a post apocalyptic world in the 22nd Century.
tFidy: The books are hit or miss but the characters are pretty cool. Sci Fi Chanel did a movie which was pretty true to the mythos.
Shipwreck: The leader is this Snake Plissken look alike and his very hot, quasi mutant partner Kristi… who I might add did a stint on Charmed… it always comes back to Charmed!
Clutch: That’s great Ship, but did you notice that Tracy Lords is in this?
tFidy: Is that the Tracy Lords who did all the…
Shipwreck: Yeah that one! She plays the ‘evil step mom’ in this one. She’s still bringing it, although we don’t see as much of her as we used to.
Clutch: If you are a fan of the novels don’t be a continuity geek and nit pick. If you’ve never read them, you can jump on to the movie without any problem.
tFidy: There’s tons of stop action movies out on YouTube and elsewhere for 3.75” action figs, but not much for our bigger brothers in 1:6 scale.
Shipwreck: “Storm Cloud” came out a year or two after 911 and although the movement is quite as crisp as it’s modern counterparts, it’s still worth seeing.
Clutch: There’s a lot of cool figs in this pic. No true Joes, but some nice BBI and Cy Girl figs that all the 1:6 collectors loved at that time.
tFidy: Decent plot and I think they may have borrowed some of the background music from some of Ms. Lords earlier films… “hi I’m here for the mission brief…" bow chick bow-wow
Shipwreck: This film is pretty hard to find these days. There’s allegedly a sequel out there, but we haven’t located it yet. If any fans have it, please let us borrow for a screening.
Clutch: We are pretty pissed off about the state of comic books these days. Either the art is downright awful, or the book is part of some major event that forces us to buy more books than we have the time and money for.
tFidy: If any of the major publishers are reading this, let me tell you, comics that fall into either of those categories we just don’t read and advise other fans to do the same!
Shipwreck: That’s right Fids, we’re not taking it anymore!
Clutch: There are a few books we are into at the moment – Dark Avengers by Marvel for one. It’s a concept that’s been done before – villains masquerading as heroes, but with their own agenda. We saw it in Thunderbolts and the Phoenix Guard over in the Joe books.
tFidy: The character interaction is great. Many issues start with the team sitting around the breakfast table BS’ing… it kinda reminds me of the “360” in That 70’s Show… except no one’s high… well except for Venom who is highly medicated… and Norman “Iron Patriot” Osborn, who is either high or crazy…not sure which.
Shipwreck: It’s a well know fact, and I’m not going to make any apologies about it, I’m a big fan of Archie Comics. An event that got a lot of press this year was he finally choose Veronica (can you blame him?) and they got married. Is this the end of Archie and his 60 year run in high school?
Clutch: But after 3 issues of living the good life with V, Arch goes back in time and chooses Betty!
tFidy: What? Archie can create alternate time lines? There are those out there who believe that Archie grew up to be Cobra Commander, but I’m thinking he became the time lord Kang the Conqueror!
Shipwreck: That could explain his over half a century in high school!
Clutch: Look at Veronica and Reggie in the background of issue 603 – tell me they don’t become Cobra Commander and the Baroness!
tFidy: That’s all we got for now. I gotta go pick up my tux at the rental place for New Year’s eve...
Clutch: Dude we just watching the Ball drop on TV, no need to get decked out.
Shipwreck: We Out!
Clutch: Peace!!
Clutch: And welcome to the new decade!
tFidy: What are we calling these first two decades in the 21st anyway? The 0’s and the teens? Or do we just lump the first two together and call them the “earlies” (pause) – what ? It’s a legitimate question that everyone rolls their eyes at, yet no one has an answer. Fans help me out here...
Shipwreck: In 2009 we came across a few cool things we’d like to share with you.
Clutch: Some are new, a few not so much…
tFidy: But in typical BiA fashion, they all are flying just slightly under the radar.
Shipwreck: In the world of movies – you gotta check out War Machine. It’s a take no prisoners commando movie that may remind of a few Real American Heroes that you know.
Clutch: Film creator Rene Perez was kind enough to sit down with us and do an interview which we featured in an issue of BiA a few months back. Look for it in our archives if you didn’t catch it the first time around.
tFidy: There’s also companion piece comic called “Bring the Pain” that goes along with it featuring a mute ninja and this drunken sailor and their adventures.
Shipwreck: Drunk??? What?? So the guy likes a couple of drinks? He helps that ninja out of more than one tight spot! Both are worth checking out.
Clutch: It’s well know what fans we are of the Mack Bolan adventure books by Golden Eagle Publishing – well they also make another series called Deathlands, which chronicles a team of adventurers in a post apocalyptic world in the 22nd Century.
tFidy: The books are hit or miss but the characters are pretty cool. Sci Fi Chanel did a movie which was pretty true to the mythos.
Shipwreck: The leader is this Snake Plissken look alike and his very hot, quasi mutant partner Kristi… who I might add did a stint on Charmed… it always comes back to Charmed!
Clutch: That’s great Ship, but did you notice that Tracy Lords is in this?
tFidy: Is that the Tracy Lords who did all the…
Shipwreck: Yeah that one! She plays the ‘evil step mom’ in this one. She’s still bringing it, although we don’t see as much of her as we used to.
Clutch: If you are a fan of the novels don’t be a continuity geek and nit pick. If you’ve never read them, you can jump on to the movie without any problem.
tFidy: There’s tons of stop action movies out on YouTube and elsewhere for 3.75” action figs, but not much for our bigger brothers in 1:6 scale.
Shipwreck: “Storm Cloud” came out a year or two after 911 and although the movement is quite as crisp as it’s modern counterparts, it’s still worth seeing.
Clutch: There’s a lot of cool figs in this pic. No true Joes, but some nice BBI and Cy Girl figs that all the 1:6 collectors loved at that time.
tFidy: Decent plot and I think they may have borrowed some of the background music from some of Ms. Lords earlier films… “hi I’m here for the mission brief…" bow chick bow-wow
Shipwreck: This film is pretty hard to find these days. There’s allegedly a sequel out there, but we haven’t located it yet. If any fans have it, please let us borrow for a screening.
Clutch: We are pretty pissed off about the state of comic books these days. Either the art is downright awful, or the book is part of some major event that forces us to buy more books than we have the time and money for.
tFidy: If any of the major publishers are reading this, let me tell you, comics that fall into either of those categories we just don’t read and advise other fans to do the same!
Shipwreck: That’s right Fids, we’re not taking it anymore!
Clutch: There are a few books we are into at the moment – Dark Avengers by Marvel for one. It’s a concept that’s been done before – villains masquerading as heroes, but with their own agenda. We saw it in Thunderbolts and the Phoenix Guard over in the Joe books.
tFidy: The character interaction is great. Many issues start with the team sitting around the breakfast table BS’ing… it kinda reminds me of the “360” in That 70’s Show… except no one’s high… well except for Venom who is highly medicated… and Norman “Iron Patriot” Osborn, who is either high or crazy…not sure which.
Shipwreck: It’s a well know fact, and I’m not going to make any apologies about it, I’m a big fan of Archie Comics. An event that got a lot of press this year was he finally choose Veronica (can you blame him?) and they got married. Is this the end of Archie and his 60 year run in high school?
Clutch: But after 3 issues of living the good life with V, Arch goes back in time and chooses Betty!
tFidy: What? Archie can create alternate time lines? There are those out there who believe that Archie grew up to be Cobra Commander, but I’m thinking he became the time lord Kang the Conqueror!
Shipwreck: That could explain his over half a century in high school!
Clutch: Look at Veronica and Reggie in the background of issue 603 – tell me they don’t become Cobra Commander and the Baroness!
tFidy: That’s all we got for now. I gotta go pick up my tux at the rental place for New Year’s eve...
Clutch: Dude we just watching the Ball drop on TV, no need to get decked out.
Shipwreck: We Out!
Clutch: Peace!!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
All About... AI!
tFidy: We’re going to take a break from talking about GI Joes and 90’s sitcoms and focus this blog on some of our favorite AI characters.
Clutch: Cool! Now that baseball season is finally over we can talk a little hoops, and AI may be coming back to Philly! “Practice? We’re going to talk about practice?”
Shipwreck: Not Allen Iverson, Artificial Intelligence – robots, droids, synthezoids and all the other animated forms so popular in Sci Fi
tFidy: Do you even pay attention in the Production Meeting Clutch?
Clutch: They’re always so boring. Michelle from Accounting kept walking by and I got distracted…
tFidy: Well I’ll get started since I’m sure you don’t have anything prepared. I’m going to start with Rosie the robot maid from the Jetsons. The Jetsons were a futuristic version of a 50’s sitcom family. George Jetson was a nice enough guy, but not particularly bright or hard working. Jane, his wife was pretty much a do nothing ditz… and Rosie is the one who fixes all the problems faster than you can say “Jane stop this crazy thing!” Clearly in this version of the future, technology made human’s lives easier and ‘bots like Rosie allowed them to live a comfortable life. Little known fact, Rosie’s been married to C3PO for years. They have a nice home up in Connecticut; I think they may be neighbors with David Letterman...
Shipwreck: The Jetson’s vision of future is taken a step further in the Battlestar Galactica mythos, where the Cylons decide to shake off their shackles and focus on exterminating the human race. Now we’ve gone on and on about all the Cylon hotties – Six, Boomer, Number 3, but no one embodies the plight of the Cylon better than “Gary the Cylon”. Here’s a guy whose main job function is to destroy mankind, yet he struggles with the day to day problems we all face – getting vacation time, health insurance, dealing with coworkers. Check him out on YouTube. He shows you that there’s a heck of a lot more to being a Centurion then just saying “By your command.”
Clutch: BSG has a pretty grim view on the relationship between man and machine, but it’s take a further in Terminator. Not only do these machines not want to do human’s work, they send this guy back in time to kick some human butt. There’s been a lot of bad *ss terminators over the years, but this guy was like the Rose Bowl – he was the ‘Granddaddy of Them All’. When he said – “I’ll be back”, he wasn’t kidding; coming back for two more movies. He wasn’t just a killing machine; he could deliver the comedy line too… “Hasta La Vista Baby” is a classic! I always hoped he would make a cameo in "Sarah Connor Chronicles." Guess he’s kinda busy with his day job.
tFidy: BSG and Terminator were both very dark, but the Buck Rogers series had a different view of the future – one that was pretty dull. As hot as Colonel Deering was, she and that Doctor, were total wet fish. What they needed was an infusion of 20th Century cool, which Buck had by the truck load. No one got that better than Buck’s robot companion Twiki. He was always ready to bust a move on the dance floor or throw out a 20th C colloquialism that got the point across a little better than that dull future speak. Ask anyone to remember one thing about that show and they will mention Twiki’s catch phrase – “Beety, beety, beety, what’s up Buck?”
Clutch: Twiki was pretty cool. And the future wasn’t all bad, as I remember that Princess who was always trying to invade Earth dressed like a Vegas Show Girl.
Shipwreck: We’ve got to put Commander Data from the USS Enterprise on this list. He was a future version of Pinocchio; a being given life wanting to be a real boy, by getting human emotions. He pursued this is whole career and was got close to achieving his goals, but never quite got there. The crew on the Enterprise was the best Star Fleet had to offer and he could out do any of them. He was stronger than Worf, smarter than Geordi and was a better musician than Picard. For all of Riker’s lady’s man rep, it was Data who scored with Tasha Yar (a highly underrated Star Trek Babe). Data even had an evil twin - Lore, but unlike most evil twins, he didn’t have a goatee.
Clutch: You want an AI character that’s done it all? How about the Vision from the Avengers? He’s a member of the World’s Mightiest Heroes. He can turn intangible. He married the very hot Scarlett Witch (before she went off the rails nuts). He went all Skynet and tried to take over the world, got taken apart by the US Government, reassembled by Tony Stark, fought his evil doppelganger from another dimension, switched bodies with him and eventually defeated him. It all went bad for the Vizh though when the She Hulk ripped him to shreds during the “Disassembled” storyline a few years back. And like Humpty Dumpty, all of Stark’s men couldn’t put the Vision back together again. Until… hold on this gets confusing- Iron Lad (a teen version of Kang the Conqueror) traveled back in time and reassembled him, but in a teen version… he’s now part of the Young Avengers.
tFidy: Iron Lad? Teen Vision… really? What is this: Earth’s Mightiest One Tree Hill?
Shipwreck: A lot of times it doesn’t end well for a lot of these AI characters… the Terminator got… well terminated, Data was destroyed saving the crew of the Enterprise and I think the robot from “Lost in Space” got his power pack pulled out one too many times by Doctor Smith.
tFidy: It’s a hard knock life, for us…
Clutch: Ok, I draw the line at show tunes. Can we talk some basketball now?
Shipwreck: Next time...
tFidy: We’re out.
Clutch: Peace!
Clutch: Cool! Now that baseball season is finally over we can talk a little hoops, and AI may be coming back to Philly! “Practice? We’re going to talk about practice?”
Shipwreck: Not Allen Iverson, Artificial Intelligence – robots, droids, synthezoids and all the other animated forms so popular in Sci Fi
tFidy: Do you even pay attention in the Production Meeting Clutch?
Clutch: They’re always so boring. Michelle from Accounting kept walking by and I got distracted…
tFidy: Well I’ll get started since I’m sure you don’t have anything prepared. I’m going to start with Rosie the robot maid from the Jetsons. The Jetsons were a futuristic version of a 50’s sitcom family. George Jetson was a nice enough guy, but not particularly bright or hard working. Jane, his wife was pretty much a do nothing ditz… and Rosie is the one who fixes all the problems faster than you can say “Jane stop this crazy thing!” Clearly in this version of the future, technology made human’s lives easier and ‘bots like Rosie allowed them to live a comfortable life. Little known fact, Rosie’s been married to C3PO for years. They have a nice home up in Connecticut; I think they may be neighbors with David Letterman...
Shipwreck: The Jetson’s vision of future is taken a step further in the Battlestar Galactica mythos, where the Cylons decide to shake off their shackles and focus on exterminating the human race. Now we’ve gone on and on about all the Cylon hotties – Six, Boomer, Number 3, but no one embodies the plight of the Cylon better than “Gary the Cylon”. Here’s a guy whose main job function is to destroy mankind, yet he struggles with the day to day problems we all face – getting vacation time, health insurance, dealing with coworkers. Check him out on YouTube. He shows you that there’s a heck of a lot more to being a Centurion then just saying “By your command.”
Clutch: BSG has a pretty grim view on the relationship between man and machine, but it’s take a further in Terminator. Not only do these machines not want to do human’s work, they send this guy back in time to kick some human butt. There’s been a lot of bad *ss terminators over the years, but this guy was like the Rose Bowl – he was the ‘Granddaddy of Them All’. When he said – “I’ll be back”, he wasn’t kidding; coming back for two more movies. He wasn’t just a killing machine; he could deliver the comedy line too… “Hasta La Vista Baby” is a classic! I always hoped he would make a cameo in "Sarah Connor Chronicles." Guess he’s kinda busy with his day job.
tFidy: BSG and Terminator were both very dark, but the Buck Rogers series had a different view of the future – one that was pretty dull. As hot as Colonel Deering was, she and that Doctor, were total wet fish. What they needed was an infusion of 20th Century cool, which Buck had by the truck load. No one got that better than Buck’s robot companion Twiki. He was always ready to bust a move on the dance floor or throw out a 20th C colloquialism that got the point across a little better than that dull future speak. Ask anyone to remember one thing about that show and they will mention Twiki’s catch phrase – “Beety, beety, beety, what’s up Buck?”
Clutch: Twiki was pretty cool. And the future wasn’t all bad, as I remember that Princess who was always trying to invade Earth dressed like a Vegas Show Girl.
Shipwreck: We’ve got to put Commander Data from the USS Enterprise on this list. He was a future version of Pinocchio; a being given life wanting to be a real boy, by getting human emotions. He pursued this is whole career and was got close to achieving his goals, but never quite got there. The crew on the Enterprise was the best Star Fleet had to offer and he could out do any of them. He was stronger than Worf, smarter than Geordi and was a better musician than Picard. For all of Riker’s lady’s man rep, it was Data who scored with Tasha Yar (a highly underrated Star Trek Babe). Data even had an evil twin - Lore, but unlike most evil twins, he didn’t have a goatee.
Clutch: You want an AI character that’s done it all? How about the Vision from the Avengers? He’s a member of the World’s Mightiest Heroes. He can turn intangible. He married the very hot Scarlett Witch (before she went off the rails nuts). He went all Skynet and tried to take over the world, got taken apart by the US Government, reassembled by Tony Stark, fought his evil doppelganger from another dimension, switched bodies with him and eventually defeated him. It all went bad for the Vizh though when the She Hulk ripped him to shreds during the “Disassembled” storyline a few years back. And like Humpty Dumpty, all of Stark’s men couldn’t put the Vision back together again. Until… hold on this gets confusing- Iron Lad (a teen version of Kang the Conqueror) traveled back in time and reassembled him, but in a teen version… he’s now part of the Young Avengers.
tFidy: Iron Lad? Teen Vision… really? What is this: Earth’s Mightiest One Tree Hill?
Shipwreck: A lot of times it doesn’t end well for a lot of these AI characters… the Terminator got… well terminated, Data was destroyed saving the crew of the Enterprise and I think the robot from “Lost in Space” got his power pack pulled out one too many times by Doctor Smith.
tFidy: It’s a hard knock life, for us…
Clutch: Ok, I draw the line at show tunes. Can we talk some basketball now?
Shipwreck: Next time...
tFidy: We’re out.
Clutch: Peace!
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