Tuesday, December 16, 2014

View-Master of my domain



Vintage Disney Viewmaster slides.












I just dropped "Disney Viewmaster" into a Google Image search, there's a ton of pictures like these.  I am 99% sure I had the flying saucer one as a kid. And I KNOW I had this one.



Thursday, December 4, 2014

Over Hill And Under Blecch





"The Slobbit: The Adaptation's a Slog" by Desmond Devlin and  Tom Richmond
Mad Magazine June 2014  (Issue #527)


Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Comics Review Time!



My local library has Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer and Pinocchio and the Great Puppet Theater in the YA/ Teen section.  Both are well worth your time.


Art-wise the books are very much in the vein of Mike Mignola's Hellboy, but artist Dusty Higgins brings his own enjoyably quirky sensibilities to the story.  For example, Jiminy Cricket looks more like an abstract bunny than an actual insect, but it totally works.



This is a funny, imaginative comic that's a lot more fun than Once Upon a Time or Fables.  Don't take my word for it: the great Chris Sims of Comics Alliance gave it a favorable review.

I give this comic five wooden-nose-stakes up.













Monday, July 7, 2014

Meta Blog

  I updated the layout to this rickety old blog for the first time in many, many years.  I liked the old minimalist look, but this layout lo...