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abuddyforeveryseason · 30 days

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This is the Buddy for for April 13th. He's surrounded by family this time.

Here we have him, his twin brother, his older brother Billy Lynch, his oldest brother Tommy Lynch, his sister Sissy Lynch, his dad Elias Lynch (also known was Wally), and his mother, Dolly Lynch (or María de las Dolores).

There's also a younger brother, Baby Lynch, not in the picture (babies are hard to draw).

I was reading an interview with Tom Scioli (the comic book artist) and he talked about his book Godland being a book about a family, with not a lot of room for romance. I haven't finished that series yet, but that's an interesting way to put it, and he says that it was writer Joe Casey's idea - it was an artistic choice that made the book less popular. Although I'm not part of the audience that has any interest in romance, I know some fans are all about it.

So, he moved on to American Barbarian. It's pretty awesome. After that, he started working on Transformers vs GI Joe, and that's really not the type of stuff I'm into. I'm not that into He-Man, either, or Thundarr the Barbarian, but American Barbarian was fun. I still haven't read Transformers vs. GI Joe, maybe it's be good.

The thing is, it seems like some authors, be them comic creators or even movie directors, are creative in their early work, then get stuck making IP adaptations that reduce them to guns for hire, taking orders from the studio, and trying not to offend the fans.

The tyranny of fandom.

I know a lot of people complain about Marvel doing that to creators. You've got horror guys like James Gunn and Sam Raimi, and they're stuck making superhero movies with no gore. What gives? But I kind of think in the case of superhero comics, it's a bit more forgiveable because a lot of pop director nowadays are fans of superhero comics.

Still, I can't really resent people who complain about that.

Just like there's the Oscar carrousel that makes it so people who deserve the Oscar never get it, there's the adaptation carrousel that makes is so adaptations are never any good. In Scioli's case, for instance, you have American Barbarian, which is a great He-Man adaptation - but the actual licensed comics he made aren't as much fun because they're constraining that creative artist to using characters he didn't design, so, what's the point?

And of course, he was free to add a few twists to American Barbarian he wouldn't have been allowed to if it was a licensed comic. Make the main character a bit of a moron, add some gross jokes and postmodern elements...

A clichè example is the Fantastic Four movies. Terrible. But Brad Bird made The Incredibles - the perfect Fantastic Four movie, with different names for the characters. Why did they choose Josh Trank to make that creepy, dark, dull movie in 2015, then? Because he had made a great Akira adaptation a few years earlier, called Chronicle.

There are a lot of other examples. Supreme? Into the Spider-Verse. Kick-Ass? Super. Turok, Son of Stone? Prey.

And that happens with a lot of movies, because directors are fans, but the unpleasant realities of copyright law keep them from making the movies they want. So, you've got stuff that's inspired by other stuff, written around the trademakrs, parodies that are better than the original, character interactions that could never happen...

But, the real money's in adaptations. Even if they're not very good. It's a pity, really. And of course, a really big movie has to follow the demands of executives and the audience, more than being a faithful adaptation or a personal vision.

So, if we ever had a movie adaptation of Godland (which is very unlikely anyhow, since it's a cult comic), there'll probably be a romance subplot shoehorned in.

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krafty1 · 5 months

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"R-E-V-E-N-G-E-!-!"

Image Credit: Tom Scioli American Barbarian #2 Cover Artist: Tom Scioli Publisher: Tom Scioli Publication Date: 2011 Tom Scioli’s comic book series, American Barbarian, is pure genius. It pays tribute to the legendary comic book artist, Jack Kirby, particularly in the style of Kirby’s Kamandi series, which he created while working at DC Comics. This comic is weird, wild, and a lot of fun.

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#American Barbarian #Favorite Cover Friday #Tom Scioli

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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#vhs aesthetic #vhs #pearl #resurrection #orphan: first kill #terrifier #terrifier 2 #barbarian #hellraiser #halloween ends #bones & all #movies #american slasher movies #slasher movies #film #terror films #horror films

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disneytva · 3 months

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Disney Channel Japan released an anthem for the channels 20th anniversary

Disney Channel 20th Anniversary Theme by Walt Disney Records, NOW streaming only on Spotify,Deezer,YouTube Music, Amazon Music,TIDAL,Pandora,Apple Music & iTunes

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uglynicc · 2 months

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Listen, I avoided this movie for AGES thinking it fit into the Bro Movie Torture P0rn™️ genre which really isn't my thing, but after going down a rabbit hole of video esays and analysis, I decided to watch it.

And I actually loved it. There is SO MUCH commentary about this movie but I enjoyed it enough to dive into my own analysis of it lol, even if it's one that's been done before.

The book does sound like it's a bit too gruesome for me (plus the author's comments about "women can't make movies" definitely rubs me the wrong way), but only going off the movie I am blown away how some toxic trolls out there entirely miss the point and unironically idolize Bateman.

Firstly, I interpreted this as a comedy, a real dark satirical one, and I laughed a LOT.

Second, I do think the murders are in his head. I know there's room for commentary about The Rich And Elite Being Able to Literally Get Away With Murder, but I'm fairly certain someone would, at the very least, complain about a naked man running through an apartment complex with a chainsaw after a screaming woman. All the little hints that a lot of events didn't happen also lead me to think this.

I think he's still a D Bag who abuses sex workers, but that the killing was either a fantasy to give himself a sense of power, control, and greater agency in his life, or that it is a product of untreated and worsening mental state.

Ignoring his potential neurodivergency/mental illness here purely for the fact I think it's a separate interpretation from the one I have, and focusing on the idea that he's getting lost in the dark fantasy world he's constructed, my greatest takeaway from the movie:

Bateman is a loser.

Yes, he's wealthy and attractive, but what does he actually have going for him, even in his shallow little group of elite toxic fuckwads?

For his inflated sense of importance, no one gets his name right or even remembers who he is most times. His fiance doesn't respect or even like him, and he doesn't like her either. He pays women to be part of fantasies where he is awe inspiring, a rich, muscular sex god, and even they are bored and unimpressed, they can't even act like he's worthy of their admiration. His male peers don't think he's anything great either, and how could they when they're constantly wrapped up in meaningless pissing contests. He's so insecure in his masculinity he is close to tears when someone mistakes him as being homosexual. He can't even buy his way into Dorsia, can't use his good looks or cash, the only things he has going for him, to get a dinner reservation at his White Whale restaurant.

He's failing to achieve anything even in his shallow little world, so his Wall Street job (with a business card no one thinks is particularly great), fancy apartment (which he grudgingly admits isn't even as nice or as expensive as his rival's) and chiseled good looks mean nothing. He craves status and recognition, which he fails to achieve.

And yeah, he's a misogynist, racist, classist, homophobic dishrag too, can't forget that.

He's the archetype of toxic, impotent-with-misplaced-rage, insecure yet inflated male ego we see everywhere. If people don't perceive what Bateman feels is his inherent "greatness" or "importance," he lashes out, through mistreatment of those more vulnerable, and/or through dark fantasies which give him that sense of greatness and importance.

It's almost too real, because there are so many real world examples of this kind of privileged dickwad (which makes it even more baffling when these same real world dickwads put Bateman on a weird pedestal thinking he's actually great), but I loved the way the movie examined it. I don't think it's celebrating Bateman or men like him at all, I felt more compelled to laugh at him as a figure of jest, a ridiculous caricature of entitlement and failure. Hell, even his "confession" falls flat, he can't even get that right.

Anyway, just my musings after my first viewing, 20 some years late to the party lol.

#american psycho #american psycho movie #don't come for me #patrick bateman #movie analysis #kitchen sink rambles #long post #also it was super tame compared to movies I've seen recently like Barbarian

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tcfactory · 17 days

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Listen, don't get me started on my feelings about stereotyping and cultural appropriation or all of that, because it would be long and rambling and probably not really in line with any popular opinions on the topic, which is just how it is sometimes and that's fine.

This is a small country. We've been conquerors and conquered and rose up and been conquered again. Our religion and much of our culture was eradicated over the last thousand years because it didn't gel with Christianity or whatever power was lording over us at the time. Other small countries are much closer to us at any time than some of you could ever imagine and over the course of history we sometimes traded bits of our culture, but more often than not we made stereotypes, sometimes harmless oftentimes not, about the people on the other side of the invisible line so we could set ourselves apart. This is us and that is them and it's fine if we found them strange or didn't understand their habits all that well, because we are different people and anyway they probably think the same about us.

And if all the world cares to know of our culture are the embroidered flower patterns of what used to be just one small subset, used as tacky decals in the completely wrong context, well. At least they cared to know something. At least there is something that can remain alive while the tourists from those bigger, richer, much more important countries think it's pretty enough for a souvenir. And maybe that guy there raving about the goulash recipe he loves wouldn't even eat a proper gulyás dish if you served him one, but at least he knows the word, kinda, right? Right?

And yeah, maybe that stings if you think too hard about it, but we are small and not much can be done about it and there's not much left to preserve after all this time. We try out best quietly anyway, because speaking up about it too loudly will invite the far right nazi-adjacent crowd, thumping their chests about a mythical, glorious Hungary of conquerors rather than conquered that haven't existed in centuries if ever.

...yeah, best not talk about those guys. Leave them no place to stand. They don't deserve to be here.

I'm fascinated by and a little envious of foreign cultures that, despite facing adversity, are still living, breathing things, because so much of my own has already become empty window dressing. We assimilated into the culture that is a wider Europe in the hope that being more like those richer, bigger, more powerful countries would compel them to spare some scraps from their table and yeah it fucking sucks. And we are not big or interesting enough for others to care, so it's all up to us to hold onto what we can.

And we are not alone in this. This seems to be the lot of the small and there's plenty of that here. We are in fair company.

#tbd #what do you think about barbarian coding well foreigners are still regularly surprised we have electricity here what do you think #to a lot of british and german and etc. people I am a stupid barbarian from a small backwards country #let's not get started on the americans I have yelled at people I otherwise like a lot bc they were being extremely stupid about it #so idk #I'm desensitized to it tbh

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maor-koren · 1 year

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Every Disney Channel Animated Series Finales.

The Proud Family - Psycho Duck (s2e31)

Kim Possible - Graduation (s4e22)

Lilo & Stitch: The Series - Link (s2e26)

Dave the Barbarian - Shake, Rattle, & Roll Over / Bad Food (s1e21)

Brandy & Mr. Whiskers - Rip Van Whiskers (s2e36)

American Dragon: Jake Long - The Hong Kong Longs (s2e31)

The Buzz on Maggie - Synchronized Flying / Roach Hotel (s1e21)

The Emperor's New School - Graduation Groove (s2e31)

The Replacements - Irreplaceable (s2e31)

Phineas and Ferb - Last Day of Summer (s4e48)

Fish Hooks - The Big Woo (s3e28)

Gravity Falls - Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back The Falls (s2e20)

Wander Over Yonder - The End of the Galaxy (s2e22)

Star vs. the Forces of Evil - Cleaved (s4e21)

Elena of Avalor - Coronation Day (s3e28)

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure - Plus Est En Vous (s3e17)

DuckTales - The Last Adventure! (s3e22)

Big Hero 6: The Series - Krei-oke Night / The Mascot Upshot (s3e10)

Milo Murphy's Law - Sphere and Loathing in Outer Space (s2e20)

Star Wars Resistance - The Escape (s2e19)

Amphibia - The Hardest Thing (s3e18)

The Owl House - Watching and Dreaming (s3e3)

The Ghost and Molly Mcgee - The End (s2e21)

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thecartoonblog · 3 months

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Currently missing watching old Disney Cartoons at the moment 🥹😕

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driveintheaterofthemind · 1 year

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Vintage Paperback - The Black Leather Barbarians by Pat Stadley

Signet (1960)

#Paperbacks #Paperback #Paperback Cover #The Black Leather Barbarians #Black Leather Barbarians #Pat Stadley #Juvenile Delinquency #Bikers #Motorcycles #Vintage #Art #Signet #Signet Books #New American Library #1960 #1960s #60s

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johnnyappleseede · 4 months

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My Howard library

(It is meek, I know—but in time, it shall grow. Also, I have other volumes which contain Howard stories; these are just the books which are solely dedicated to Howard.)

Books (by title):

“Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, The” 2003 print by DEL REY.

“Conan the Barbarian” 2008 printing by EASTON PRESS.

“Conquering Sword of Conan, The” 2005 printing by DEL REY.

“Gods of Bal-Soggoth, The” 1979 first publication by ACE BOOKS SF.

“Hour of the Dragon” 1977 AUTHORISED EDITION by Berkley Medallion.

“Howard Collector, The” composed by Glenn Lord, 1979 print by ACE BOOKS SF.

“Last Celt, The” composed by Glenn Lord, 1976 FIRST EDITION by GRANT.

“People of the Black Circle, The” 1977 AUTHORISED EDITION by BERKLEY PUTNAM.

“Red Nails” 1977 AUTHORISED EDITION by BERKLEY PUTNAM.

Films:

“Conan: The Complete Quest” (Dir. John Milius, Richard Fleischer, 1982, 1984; blu-ray, 2016 release)

“Red Sonja” (Dir. Richard Fleischer, 1985; blu-ray, 2010 UK release)

Sidenote: The Red Sonja with which most of us know is not Howard’s Sonya, rather it is the creation of Marvel writers, Roy Thomas & Barry Smith. They took inspiration from a smaller character by Howard, Red Sonya of Rogatino, whom belonged in an entirely different age with different fiction–though had the titular red hair and flaming temperance, which the Marvel duo took and placed in Howard’s Hyborian Age, mainly to make a sexy female Conan.

#Robert E. Howard #conan the barbarian #red sonja #vintage #rare books #old books #american #sword and sorcery #science fiction

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iloveyoujohnnydepp · 3 months

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Johnny Depp at the 45th Deauville Film Festival premiere for Waiting for the Barbarians in Deauville France (September 8, 2019)

Re: Johnny Depp as Captain Joll in Waiting for The Barbarians (2019) dir. Ciro Guerra

#Waiting for the Barbarians #deauville france #deauville american film festival #johnny depp #actor #icon #celeb #musician #iloveyoujohnnydepp #2010s hollywood #2010s actors #2010s icons #2010s #2019 #2010s films #2010s movies #late 2010s #captain joll #ciro guerra

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 3 months

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THE HYBORIAN AGE ON ANOTHER PLANET? JOHN CARTER MEETS CONAN?

PIC INFO: Spotlight on pin-up art of a long lost and/or would-be Marvel Comics character, Talon, a barbarian-like character from another world, an alien planet, created by Jim Steranko. Artwork by Bruce Timm for his art book "Naughty and Nice: The Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm" (2001). FLESK Publications.

"The back-room legend goes that Jim Steranko created a barbarian character named Talon for a series pitch to Stan Lee when both were at Marvel. Stan passed on the series, which Steranko continued to play around with over the next few years but never published anywhere. In the meanwhile, the legend continues that Stan liked the idea of a Barbarian comic for Marvel, just not this one, and that led to licensing the "Conan the Barbarian" property."

-- HERITAGE AUCTIONS (Comics, Comic Art, & Animation)

Sources: www.pinterest.com/pin/386324474279056238 (Pinterest 2x)Flwsk# & Bud's Art Books.

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 2 years

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Conan The Barbarian, 1982 art by Renato Casaro

#renato casaro #conan the barbarian #art #artwork #fantasy #r p g #rpg #illustration #heavy metal aesthetic #painting #warrior #battle #witch #80s #80's #American epic sword and sorcery #sword and sorcery

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pinknredbracket · 1 year

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ROUND 1: PART 3

ROSE and JAKE LONG VS CANDY and DAVE

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lovegodsmashtyrants · 4 months

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“The early Conan stories speak of being ethnically and culturally alone,where your homeland is only a foggy memory, your people are scattered and forgotten, and your culture proves both a burden and a strength.” - from The Irish-American Identities of Robert E. Howard and Conan the Barbarian by Christopher Dowd

#conan the barbarian #quote #Conan #irish american #Irish #christopher dowd

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froggierboy · 2 years

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emperor's new school was the funniest premise for any of disney's tv shows based on movies because the rest of them pretty much entirely exist within the (albeit extended) realm of their film's canon (obv buzz lightyear is abt like. the source material for the toy or whatever but it's still reasonably canon compliant) and then some corporate suit responsible for keeping the batshit disney channel early-aughts cartoon machine going brrr went "okay so it's the same characters but yzma is a high school principal and kronk is a narc and kuzco is a student and there's a girl oc there for the express purpose of asserting kuzco's heterosexuality. immediately after which i assume literally everyone agreed without even listening because they wanted to get out of the office before happy hour ended at tgi fridays.

#rye.txt #like literally - the disney channel animated series lineup of my childhood was bonkers #brandy and mr whiskers. braces. dave the barbarian #lilo and stitch the series. the replacements. sabrina the animated series #absolute CLASSIC AMERICAN DRAGON JAKE LONG

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