Fantastic Four Annual Vol 1 # 5 introducing the Psycho-Man, 1967, drawn by Jack Kirby

Recruits for Akron, 1975, painted by Gray Morrow

If you are going to swipe, I guess swipe from the King

(Shhh. Don't worry. Asking for a friend.)

This same tree bridge set was used in 1932’s The Most Dangerous Game, which also starred Fay Wray. That’s her, minus her blonde wig from King Kong, in the shot below!

Going on a trip with Fay Wray is like going on a trip with Tom Hanks.

King Kong, Hungarian Lobby Card. 1976

Are you real ?

Real tied of spam bots

Hmm. I’ve only seen this guy use a computer once, and it did NOT go well.

I’m fascinated by older science fiction media and how they predicted (or failed to predict) future technologies. Frequently, their “futures” fail to predict changes that exist now. Which got me thinking, films were in color before televisions so it seems like there should be science fiction films that showed color televisions before color televisions existed. Can anyone think of an example of this?

Everyone who buy a Jamie Maddox action figure buys many of them, right?

I heard Frank talking about what movies they picked at a Mads event and he talked about how some bad movies are at least trying to entertain the audience. A schlock movie may rely too heavily on sex and violence, may have bad effects and stilted acting with weak dialogue, but they are trying to give the audience a good time. It is only money and talent that prevent them from making a good movie.

But there are other movies that don’t see entertainment as their goal. They are trying to be clever or profound but the people making them are just a talentless as the people trying to be entertaining. These movies seem like they are more concerned with trying to make you feel the author/director is smart or artsy but they are neither smart nor artsy. It’s more important that the writer/director feel good about themselves than to make the audience feel good about seeing the movie. These films are insufferable. Give me a bad movie with gratuitous fight scenes, sexy people doing sexy things, and sympathetic protagonists vs evil and I can have fun.

And now I have to resist the urge to rant about my two most hated films, MADE IN HEAVEN (1987) and PREMONITION (2007), neither of which was on MST3K. I still want to strangle PREMONITION.

When someone claims that some recent movie they’ve seen is the worst they’ve ever seen when they haven’t been subjected to the terribleness of the movies they show on MST3K:

A funny joke, but the NRA here is the National Recovery Administration.

The idea of the repugnant National Rifle Association tainting even the Son of Kong is too much for me to take.

Son of Kong (1933)

The Doctor and The Master implies a third, less prestigious renegade timelord named The Bachelor

The groans are strong with this one.

I can’t begin to tell you how many times I had to reread that headline before I understood it.

IYKYK

Proty: Adventure Comics #312 is really something special.

He’s going to have to star in yet another crappy movie to pay them for this, right?

Nicolas freaking Cage is getting a variant cover for Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #19, how cool is that?

[cover artist by Dan Mora]