Personal Best? Flashback to My Favorite Swamp Thing Cover Quartet While preparing for the upcoming Cincinnati Comic Expo Swamp Thing Reunion, I was asked by the Comic Expo Director Andrew Satterfield what my favorite Swamp Thing cover might be. Well,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Blockbuster Bi-Beasts Busted the Banks! Or: How Godzilla, Megalon, and Space Spiders Made a Bicentennial Bundle, Part 3 ____ “Vance, did you ever see that movie JAWS? Well, it makes that shark look like a goldfish!” – Alan Hale, Jr.,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jack Kirby’s Birthday Bash Celebrating What-Would-Have-Been Jack’s 95th Intermission: With a mission. Posted on Facebook by “Remembering Jack Kirby”, captioned: “Long Island, 1950. Rosalind and Jack Kirby with their children, Neal (2) and Susan (6).” Image ©1950, 2012 Neal and Susan[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Berserk Bicentennial Big Beasts! Or: How Godzilla, Megalon, and Wisconsin-Spawned Space Spiders Overran 1976 America, Part 2 One of the ballsiest aspects of Cinema Shares promo of their wide summer of 1976 release of Jun Fukuda‘s ゴジラ対メガロ / Gojira tai[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Bicentennial Beast Blender Blast! Reconnecting With the Summer of ’76 MonsterFest, Part 1 Toho Studios’s “international poster” and promotional art for ゴジラ対メガロ / Gojira tai Megaro / Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973), which Media Blasters/Tokyo Shock adapted for the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
