01 October 2017
30 September 2017
Behold, The Future!
Saturday Solutions 011
There's a bunch of potential future posts embedded in yesterday's Friday Fun & Games. Let's take a look and see who they all were, eh?
Y'know - you don't really appreciate the gravitas that Peter Dinklage brings to the character in Game Of Thrones until you've watched him toss it away to embrace other roles as in UnderDog and The Knights Of BadAssdom, especially the latter, with a LARPer in contrast to the types of characters they would be role-playing. (LARP = Live Action Role Playing. Think D&D with costumes & props)
But the first thing we'll be looking at is #5 - The Guardians. Superhero Team fun from Russia, maybe even with love. I've already done a first pass to grab stills, so hopefully this week.
#2 - The Champions, is an old personal favorite. It's not a movie, it's a British TV series from Monty Berman and Dennis Spooner, whom you might know from The Avengers tv show from the same period. We've even got a little bit of comics for them coming up.
#19 - The 3 Fantastic Supermen, might look pretty goofy at first glance. And second. And upon review. But that goofiness worked for them - the film spawned 10 sequels over the next two decades.
#25 - That's Chin Kar-Lok as The Green Hornet. In Lam Ching-Ying's version, they basically ditched the goofy white guy and moved Kato up to the title spot. There's a special appropriateness to this in that Lam Ching-Ying was Bruce Lee's fight/action choreographer, in addition to being an international star in his own right, and his work in training others, such as turning dancer Michelle Yeoh into the #1 female action star globally. Chin Kar-Lok was Lam Sifu's protege. We'll be looking at him quite a bit, as he and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo are responsible for one of my favorite Hong Kong film genres - the Spooky Comedy.
Y'know - you don't really appreciate the gravitas that Peter Dinklage brings to the character in Game Of Thrones until you've watched him toss it away to embrace other roles as in UnderDog and The Knights Of BadAssdom, especially the latter, with a LARPer in contrast to the types of characters they would be role-playing. (LARP = Live Action Role Playing. Think D&D with costumes & props)
But the first thing we'll be looking at is #5 - The Guardians. Superhero Team fun from Russia, maybe even with love. I've already done a first pass to grab stills, so hopefully this week.
#2 - The Champions, is an old personal favorite. It's not a movie, it's a British TV series from Monty Berman and Dennis Spooner, whom you might know from The Avengers tv show from the same period. We've even got a little bit of comics for them coming up.
#19 - The 3 Fantastic Supermen, might look pretty goofy at first glance. And second. And upon review. But that goofiness worked for them - the film spawned 10 sequels over the next two decades.
#25 - That's Chin Kar-Lok as The Green Hornet. In Lam Ching-Ying's version, they basically ditched the goofy white guy and moved Kato up to the title spot. There's a special appropriateness to this in that Lam Ching-Ying was Bruce Lee's fight/action choreographer, in addition to being an international star in his own right, and his work in training others, such as turning dancer Michelle Yeoh into the #1 female action star globally. Chin Kar-Lok was Lam Sifu's protege. We'll be looking at him quite a bit, as he and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo are responsible for one of my favorite Hong Kong film genres - the Spooky Comedy.
stills are my caps from the vids as labelled
29 September 2017
Friday Fun & Games 011 - Video Whozit
Welcome once again to my way of avoiding participation in Friday Night Fights -
You might have noticed that yesterday's post had almost nothing to do with comics - only the presence of a Garfield doll as a nod in that direction. Jack Kirby's centennial just a couple weeks after starting the blog kind of brought the focus strictly to comics, but that's not my overall intent. Comics will always be a big part of the blog, but not the limits.
So today, we take another step to expand from comics to movies & tv. Our subject is Video Comic Book/Superhero Characters. Some of the following are adaptations of existing comic book characters, others are newly created for their source videos. Your job, identify the characters and where they come from. In the case of tv shows, only the series needs to be identified, not the particular episode.
(BTW - I pulled all these caps from my vids, so don't expect to be able to easily reverse image search thinking they'll match existing files from the web)
As usual, you can click for a bigger view to aid in identification as needed or desired.
Tune In Tomorrow for the answers - Same ODD Blog! Same ODD Time!
You might have noticed that yesterday's post had almost nothing to do with comics - only the presence of a Garfield doll as a nod in that direction. Jack Kirby's centennial just a couple weeks after starting the blog kind of brought the focus strictly to comics, but that's not my overall intent. Comics will always be a big part of the blog, but not the limits.
So today, we take another step to expand from comics to movies & tv. Our subject is Video Comic Book/Superhero Characters. Some of the following are adaptations of existing comic book characters, others are newly created for their source videos. Your job, identify the characters and where they come from. In the case of tv shows, only the series needs to be identified, not the particular episode.
(BTW - I pulled all these caps from my vids, so don't expect to be able to easily reverse image search thinking they'll match existing files from the web)
Video Whozit #01
As usual, you can click for a bigger view to aid in identification as needed or desired.
Tune In Tomorrow for the answers - Same ODD Blog! Same ODD Time!
28 September 2017
Why I Like Mo Lei Tau #01
Some folks, once they know what Mo Lei Tau is, wonder why i enjoy the genre.
Mo Lei Tau is a Hong Kong movie genre, loosely translating as No-Brain-Comedy. Though that's a misnomer of sorts, it's actually more applicable to watching the films in any language other than Cantonese - including Mandarin. The level of pun & word play involved goes pretty damn deep, and just plain cannot be translated.
And yet - they're still fun as hell, even knowing you're only getting a fraction of what's happening at times.
Exhibit #1> Fatty Cheng as a Taoist stepping on a stuffed Garfield as an iconic feline power source while ringing a bell to repel an evil undead spirit:
Of course, he's kind of screwed when the daughter of the host of the evil spirit wants her toy back...
Where else are you going to find this kind of Odd fun?
Mo Lei Tau is a Hong Kong movie genre, loosely translating as No-Brain-Comedy. Though that's a misnomer of sorts, it's actually more applicable to watching the films in any language other than Cantonese - including Mandarin. The level of pun & word play involved goes pretty damn deep, and just plain cannot be translated.
And yet - they're still fun as hell, even knowing you're only getting a fraction of what's happening at times.
Exhibit #1> Fatty Cheng as a Taoist stepping on a stuffed Garfield as an iconic feline power source while ringing a bell to repel an evil undead spirit:
Of course, he's kind of screwed when the daughter of the host of the evil spirit wants her toy back...
Where else are you going to find this kind of Odd fun?
Kent Cheng Jak-Si appearing in Zhou Gui Da Shit (aka Ninja Vampire Busters) (1989)
27 September 2017
But where were Gene, Roy, and the SoP?
Let's follow up on the ending of this morning's post...
"The simple ballads of the cowboys were created out of sweat, loneliness, and danger. Often they are sung to the accompaniment of thundering hoofs across the dusty plains. The cowboys had their favorites, including the famous BILLY VENERO."
I think it's time to listen to some Marty Robbins...
"The simple ballads of the cowboys were created out of sweat, loneliness, and danger. Often they are sung to the accompaniment of thundering hoofs across the dusty plains. The cowboys had their favorites, including the famous BILLY VENERO."
I think it's time to listen to some Marty Robbins...
The ballad of Billy Venero from The Hawk #1 (1951)
Johnny Mack Brown - Educational Cowboy
Once upon a time there was a cowboy star named Johnny Mack Brown.
JMB had him some comic books, and he didn't seem to be quite like the other cowboy movie stars...
Ah, yeah - exciting adventures in boot polishing!
Really, he did have some good adventures (stay tuned) but he surely didn't seem to be all in-your-face about being the man's man cowboy, now did he? And, as noted above, his comics were Educational type publications. Learn the history and culture of the Old West, one page at a time!
And, of course, what's Cowboy Westerns without the music?
JMB had him some comic books, and he didn't seem to be quite like the other cowboy movie stars...
Ah, yeah - exciting adventures in boot polishing!
Really, he did have some good adventures (stay tuned) but he surely didn't seem to be all in-your-face about being the man's man cowboy, now did he? And, as noted above, his comics were Educational type publications. Learn the history and culture of the Old West, one page at a time!
And, of course, what's Cowboy Westerns without the music?
pages from Johnny Mack Brown #s 541, 834 & 922 (1954, 1957, 1958)
Labels:
1950s,
1954,
1957,
1958,
Johnny Mack Brown
26 September 2017
C'mon In!
Nope.
Decided i'm not coming out of my head today.
Why don't you folks step inside for a few instead...
(with less drugs and more colour)
Decided i'm not coming out of my head today.
Why don't you folks step inside for a few instead...
(with less drugs and more colour)
Nope. Not going out there today.
NOTE: Three images from this post contain nudity and have been moved to our back room for adult content. It's really minor stuff, and probably not worth the effort to go look. But should you desire to do so,
please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive of the original post to view the artwork.
please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive of the original post to view the artwork.
stuff by Gilbert Shelton, Kelly Freas, B.Kliban, life, -3-, Forte... man my brain ain'
25 September 2017
Blue Monday, not Monday Blues
Fighting the urge to draw back deeper into the cave today. Nearly Monday Blues instead of
Instead of withdrawing, how about we dig something up out of the darkness? Say maybe an Un-comic with a Frank Frazetta cover for a Neal Adams comic strip? That work for you?
Hope so...
NOTE: The images from this post contain nudity, and thus have been moved to our back room for adult content. The text remains that you may make a fair guess as to whether or not you wish to look at the pics. (Fair warning, there's not a whole lot of nudity, but a lot of oddity. And you do get a naked cover from Frazetta)
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive of the original post to view the artwork.
Ah, 70s.... how we miss you.
Instead of withdrawing, how about we dig something up out of the darkness? Say maybe an Un-comic with a Frank Frazetta cover for a Neal Adams comic strip? That work for you?
Hope so...
NOTE: The images from this post contain nudity, and thus have been moved to our back room for adult content. The text remains that you may make a fair guess as to whether or not you wish to look at the pics. (Fair warning, there's not a whole lot of nudity, but a lot of oddity. And you do get a naked cover from Frazetta)
Please follow this link to The Other Voice Of ODD! archive of the original post to view the artwork.
Ah, 70s.... how we miss you.
Dragula by Tony Hendra and Neal Adams from National Lampoon #20 (1971)
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