Been watching a butt-load of “Twilight Zone” and this classic episode came up yesterday. I think this guy is a private detective in the universe this takes place in.
39. Eye of the Beholder
38. Doctor Detroit
Inspired by the movie I watched the other day.
Movies for 3/10/13:
Satan’s Little Helper. Horror/comedy with an interesting take on the slasher genre, but ultimately just kind of boring with some terrible acting. Except for “Satan” – a psycho in a mask who never talks or shows his face, but is able convey a ton through body language. Otherwise, in order for the movie to really work, you have to just assume everyone in this world is a complete idiot.
The Detective. Will be reviewed for Gutter Trash and up in a few days.
Ok, PANIC!: Funny Supervillains
Boom, baby, boom! It’s the Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight! And so he says to me, ‘you wanna be a bad guy?’ and I say, ‘Yeah baby! I wanna be bad!’ I say ‘SURF’S UP, SPACE PONIES! I’m making gravy without the lumps!
37. Electric Superman
I make no apologies for my liking of Electric Superman. In fact, Electric Superman is when I developed my love of Stuart Immonen. He needs to write more.
I thought about doing a supplemental Red Electric Superman, but fuck that guy.
Movies for 3/8/2013:
Manhunter The first attempt at a Hannibal Lecter movie, it’s the Michael Mann adaptation of Red Dragon – a movie I liked better than this. Not that this is bad, it’s just really dated. Also Brian Cox is fantastic as Dr. “Lecktor”. Anthony Hopkins is great, but Brian Cox gives it a little something that Hopkins doesn’t have. The downer is that he is only in the movie for about a minute.
Doctor Detroit Dan Akroyd as a college professor who accidentally becomes Chicago’s most notorious pimp. It’s ridiculous and dumb, but I laughed like an idiot.
Movie for today:
Superman vs.The Elite Seemed appropriate. It was good. It’s an adaption of the far better issue of Action Comics called “Whatever Happened to Truth, Justice and The American Way?”. It’s Superman fighting a team of Authority-like fascist superheroes and public opinion.
36. Grendel
Today is International Women’s Day. So I drew lady Grendel Christine Spar (that’s not really true, it just worked out that way. Everyone knows I hate ladies).
No movie yet today. I’m at work, give me a break, Womens.
35. Black Phantom
Black Phantom in his original guise.
Another movie for 3/6/13 – After Porn Ends. A documentary about how former porn stars return and adjust to real life. It was interesting, but not great.
Movie for 3/7/13 – Black Sabbath. Anthology horror movie hosted by Boris Karloff. Fun, enjoyable.
34. Luke Cage
Wanted to do a redesign of Luke Cage that paid homage to his original costume and made him look more like a superhero.
Movie for 3/5: Star Crystal. I sorta tweeted about it as I watched it. It was terrible. A mid-80s rip-off of Alien, but with none of the resources. It ended with the alien reading from the Bible and a happy ending complete with theme song. I shit you not. Don’t watch it unless it’s in a group and there is booze involved.
Todays movies (so far):
Deadgirl. A unique take on the zombie genre – two guys find an undead woman chained in a basement and proceed to spend the entire movie fucking it. Absolutely full of itself and filled with so many abhorrent characters and so much rape, there’s almost nothing about it that is worth watching. Even the “hero” of the movie is an absolute shitbag.
To Be or Not To Be. Mel Brooks film about an acting troupe pulling one over on the Nazis. Funny, enjoyable. It’s kind of like a PG version of Inglorious Basterds.
33c. Creator Owned Day: Professor EMP
One of Black Phantom’s villains.
33b. Creator Owned Day: Black Phantom
Back in November I posted this character’s final form. It’s another idea that has been popping up in my head and won’t leave. The Black Phantom (the name taken from a public domain character) is a little more formed than Range. There’s a developing supporting cast, some villains, an origin and a chapter ready to be expanded on. The only thing keeping it back right now is a cohesive theme – a reason for being (other than being a superhero character I’d like to do stuff with).
33a. Creator Owned Day: Range
I posted this character last year for Creator Owned Day 2012. He and his partner have been popping up in my mind recently. There’s still a lot of work to be done into order to shape a story out of them. Right now, they’re inadvertent rip-offs of “Kick-Ass” and the movie “Super”. I need to find my voice in that idea. But I still like the visual ideas of the characters (who also still need names).
The movie for 3/4/13 was Bronson starring Tom Hardy’s cock and directed by Nicholas Winding Refn. It’s a bio-pic about Britain’s most violent criminal who has lived in solitary confinement for over 30 years. It was very good, but very artsy. Tom Hardy’s performance pulls together what is a very schizophrenic, gorgeous and violent, but comedic movie. That said, there was a lot of similarities to another movie called Chopper, another bio-pic about another dangerous criminal. I liked Chopper a bit more. There’s also some similarities with I Love You Phillip Morris, which I enjoyed, but I’d rank at the bottom of this weird list of biographical prison films.
See you in a bit.