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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Queen Latifah Doesn't Hate Cephalopods As Much As She Ought

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Change-Bots and Sea Heroes

I'm struggling with allergies or a cold or something today, so if it's all the same, instead of a real post today I'll send you to Robot 6 where you can read my review of Jeffrey Brown's Incredible Change-Bots graphic novels.

Or if you'd rather, there's my article from a couple of weeks ago about my Seven Favorite Sea-Based Superheroes (That Aren't Aquaman or Sub-Mariner). I forgot to link to that one at the time, but people seemed to like it.

Thanks for letting me take the night off. *cough cough*

Monday, January 31, 2011

Art Show: Mrs. Ghost Rider

Plural vs. Singular

By Mattias Adolfsson.

Isle of 100,000 Graves

By Jason.

Underwater Ghost Rider and Friends

By Kerry Callen.

Art Show: Zombie Spoor

Pirate

By Jim Silke. [Illustrateurs]

Mermaids

Artist Unknown. [Never Sea Land]

Tannhauser at Hoerselberg

By Willy Pogany. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Namor Meets the Beatles

By Chaz Folgar. [Puffdoggydaddy]

Art Show: Where do all the Croco-People go?

Love at First Sight

By Mattias Adolfsson. This is just a detail. Click the link to see the whole thing.

Aquaman

By Dave Barking.

Namor vs. Shagreen

The artist is keeping anonymous, but he or she blogs at Marvel Flipside.

Rusty Recon on Gear Island

By Jeremy Vanhoozer.

Art Show: Grrrreat!

HMS Hornblower

By Mattias Adolfsson.

Floating

By Sulamith Wulfing. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Atomic Commandos in Action!

Possibly by Ogden Whitney. [Admiral Cal]

24 movies I missed in 2010

The list-making bug caught up with me yesterday, so I'm not going to be able to leave it alone with just songs and comics. Over the coming week I'm going to post about every 2010 movie I saw. All 52 of them. In order from least favorite to most.

But as I made the list, I was also reminded of all the movies that I wanted to see this year, but never got around to for a variety of reasons. So, by way of explaining why you won't see Toy Story 3 or Harry Potter 7.1 on the big list, here are - in alphabetical order - all the movies that I wish I could've caught in the theater in 2010. Some of them (Harry Potter) I hope to still see on the Big Screen, but I'll have to wait for most until they hit the Netflix.

I'm tempted to comment on why I want to see each of the following movies or - better yet - why I missed them, but I'll resist that. If you really want to know why any of these appear here, I'll be happy to go into detail in the comments.

The Awesome List: Stop that Ocean-Monster!

The One Piece Restaurant

There's a theme restaurant inspired by the popular pirate manga/anime One Piece. Unfortunately, it's only in Japan. Topless Robot has the lament.

David Fincher confirmed for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

It's old news that Disney and David Fincher have been developing a 20,000 Leagues movie together, but the update is that it's now official.

Liquid Air Diving Suit

Remember the Fluid Breathing System that Ed Harris used in The Abyss? It's real.

Super-Merman

Siskoid can tell you all about it.

Aquaman's not doing his rep any favors

Is there any wonder that Super Friends single-handedly started the Aquaman Sucks meme? [Blog into Mystery]

Other People's Art Shows

Shad's got a nice gallery of mermaid comic book covers.

Never Sea Land has one dedicated to outrigger canoes...

...and another chock full of oceany goodness from pirates to tall ships to sea life to...well, shark cars.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Pass the Comics: In the Land of Submarines

Death is the Sailor

Moby Dick, only with a kraken and a creepy twist ending. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Yellow Submarine

Bully has what may or may not be random panels from a Beatles comic. It's sort of hard to tell with the Beatles.

Not that Land of the Lost

Long before Marshall, Will, and Holly met the greatest earthquake ever known, Isabel and Billy discovered the original Land of the Lost: an undersea kingdom "where all the things that disappear from Earth find their way." Isabel Manning Hewson came up with the idea and developed it into a radio program that she also wrote and narrated; then turned it into a book illustrated by Olive Bailey. Which of course led to a comics version written by Hewson and illustrated by Bailey.

The series assumes that its readers are familiar with the other versions and just recaps - as opposed to retells - the origin story in the first issue. Pappy posted that first story - featuring a lost nickel and a plot to kill the series' hero, a fish named Red Lantern - earlier this year.

More recently, Pappy followed up with the second story from Land of the Lost #1. In this one, the Land of the Lost's inhabitants plan a surprise party for Red Lantern and are visited by a mysterious, blind merman.

Creature from the Black Lagoon vs. Aquavelva Man