HEY! You should check this out..: 31 Days of Halloween: Crazy and Cool Costumes

HEY! You should check this out..: 31 Days of Halloween: Crazy and Cool Costumes: Just to change it up a bit, I took costumes I have seen people post and just cool or weird ones from around the net and put some of my favor...

31 Days of Halloween: Crazy and Cool Costumes

Just to change it up a bit, I took costumes I have seen people post and just cool or weird ones from around the net and put some of my favorites on here as a fun little blog. Hope you enjoy it.

Keaton?

 

Anarchy Wyatt's

KISS ME!

Chika five nights at Freddy's

Chucky, the pre school years

Caught him

Nickelback

MASADA lite

Edward Safety Scissorhands

Not a fan of Lion King

Dunkin Donuts

Well Dressed Bear

Add caption

Can you catch her?

Spice Girls

Just wow...whew..

 

Show me the world

 


 

HEY! You should check this out..: 31 Days of Halloween: Evil Dead the Musical

HEY! You should check this out..: 31 Days of Halloween: Evil Dead the Musical: SPOILERS!   So I have looked at a few of the Army of Darkness comics and I have not been shy about my love of Evil Dead 1 and 2, AOD, a...

31 Days of Halloween: Evil Dead the Musical

SPOILERS!

 So I have looked at a few of the Army of Darkness comics and I have not been shy about my love of Evil Dead 1 and 2, AOD, and even to a lesser degree the remake of Evil Dead. But there are some other times they took the Evil Dead name and mediums we have not looked at yet and one of them is the FAR FAR off Broadway play, Evil Dead the Musical.

It is a Canadian rock musical first performed in 2003 and grew so popular, so fast that by 2006 it was an off broadway play that one critic even said it may be the new Rocky Horror Picture Show.  It grew bigger and bigger hitting other cites and towns. A friend and I saw it in in Austin years and years ago and it was great, even had a splatter zone.

Finally hitting the big time with Las Vegas, when Off-Strip Productions and RagTag Entertainment teamed up in 2011 to present it at The Onyx Theatre. It did so well it returned for another run in Vegas in January of 2012.

Ultimate 4D Experience - Las Vegas

On June 22, 2012, Sirc Michaels Productions brought the show to the Las Vegas Strip as a resident, open-ended production at the V Theater, the production is now officially the longest running production in the history of the show.
Due to the nature of the show, including the addition of 100 seat splatter zone, audience interaction, multi-media elements, and state of the art effects, lights, and sound, the name was altered slightly to include "Ultimate 4D Experience" to reflect production and design elements that separate the production from other stagings of the show.
The show has expanded to 5 nights a week (Tuesdays through Saturdays) and has an open-ended contract. According to the show's producer, it will be on the Vegas Strip until "the last fan is covered in blood".

The cast has been known the change out now and then but the main one seems to be the list below.

• Ash: David Sajewich
• Cheryl: Demi Zaino
• Annie/Shelly: Callie Johnson
• Jake: Andrew Di Rosa
• Scott: Creg Sclavi
• Linda: Julie Baird
• Ed/Moose: Ryan McBride
• Shemp/Male Swing: Ryan Czerwonko
• Female Swing/ Dance Captain: Jessica Kingsdale

Even the songs have changed and updated over the years, look at the starting songs in 2003 to the songs changed and added by 2006.

2003

Act One

1. "Cabin in the Woods" - Ash, Linda, Scott, Shelly, and Cheryl
2. "Housewares Employee" - Ash and Linda
3. "It Won't Let Us Leave" - Cheryl
4. "Look Who's Evil Now" - Cheryl and Shelly
5. "What the Fuck Was That?" - Ash and Scott
6. "Join Us" - Cheryl and Moose
7. "Good Old Reliable Jake" - Jake
8. "I'm Not a Killer" - Ash

Act Two

1. "I'm Not a Killer (Reprise)" - Ash
2. "Bit-Part Demon" - Ed
3. "All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Kandarian Demons" - Annie
4. "Do the Necronomicon" - Demons
5. "It's Time" - Company
6. "Hail to the King" - Company

 

 

2006-present

Act One

1. "Cabin in the Woods" - Ash, Linda, Scott, Shelly, and Cheryl
2. "Housewares Employee" - Ash and Linda
3. "It Won't Let Us Leave" - Cheryl
4. "Look Who's Evil Now" - Cheryl and Shelly
5. "What the Fuck Was That?" - Ash and Scott
6. "Join Us" - Cheryl, Moose, and House Spirits
7. "Good Old Reliable Jake" - Jake, Annie, and Ed
8. "Housewares Employee (Reprise)" - Ash and Linda
9. "I'm Not a Killer" - Ash

Act Two

1. "I'm Not a Killer (Reprise)" - Ash
2. "Bit-Part Demon" - Ed
3. "All the Men in My Life Keep Getting Killed by Candarian Demons" - Annie, Ash, and Jake
4. "Ode to an Accidental Stabbing" - Jake, and Annie,
5. "Do the Necronomicon" - Demons
6. "It's Time" - Ash and Company
7. "We Will Never Die" - Demons
8. "Blew That Bitch Away" - Company

 Like I mentioned before, a buddy of mine named Chris and I saw it years and years ago at a small theatre which was also doing a spoof play of Twilight and we laughed so hard. At one point the sister is going to sit down and read and she chooses Bruce Campbell's biography. Nice touch and the songs are a lot of fun and it sticks pretty well to the story of Evil Dead.  

See if it is coming near you. 

Both Raimi and Campbell have seen and approved of this venture and while there has been talk of a movie version of the musical, so far it has been shot down and gone nowhere but with a new Evil Dead tv show here and a new movie perhaps coming, who can say what the future will hold.
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HEY! You should check this out..: 31 Days of Halloween: Long Box of the Damned

HEY! You should check this out..: 31 Days of Halloween: Long Box of the Damned: This one won't be long, as most of Linkara's work can speak for itself. While he normally does Atop the Fourth Wall which makes ...

31 Days of Halloween: Long Box of the Damned

This one won't be long, as most of Linkara's work can speak for itself. While he normally does Atop the Fourth Wall which makes bad comics burn. He typically takes comics that are considered bad due to art, story, and just pure nonsense an some mix and matching of the three and it is pretty funny.

Today we are looking at something else he does, only in October, when he introduced Mourte, and talked each episode about various horror comics, good ones this time but without ruining or spoiling any twists or the end of the stories usually. He started this back in 2012 and it has been pretty successful so far, so lets take a look at some of the stories he has done over the years.

He started out and still does stuff for Thatguywiththeglasses.com/Channel Awesome but recently go his own website as well in Atop the Fourth Wall.

2012:
He covers a large mix her, from House of Mystery to Freddy vs Jason vs Ash. Let's take a look at some of my favorites. He looks at Marvel Zombies, a spin off of the Ultimate Universe Fantastic Four series where the zombies were introduced.

Friday the 13th: Jason vs Jason X where they allow the half cyborg Jason to battle old school Jason.

Hack/Slash: a cool series, collected in an Omnibus, take talks about a girl who hunts the slasher and killers we "know" from the movies. They are similar but not quite the same, except in one case where the infamous Chucky shows up.

Check out all of them here: Longbox of the Damned 2012 

2013:

Some of the more clever or weird ones this time include Batman and Dracula: Red Rain, Werewolves on the Moon vs Vampires, Zombo, Star Trek, Hack/Slash Omnibus 2, and even Captain America makes the Longbox.

Longbox of the Damned 2013 

2014:

This year we open with J. Michael Straczynski's version of The Twilight Zone,  We learn about 8 bit Zombie and Zombie cop.

Jason Vorhees returns in Friday the 13th, How I spent my Summer Vacation and Night of the Living Dead: Just a Girl. Batman gets into Halloween with Bloodstorm and Deadpool makes his first showing on Longbox.

We End with Zombies vs Robots.

Longbox of the Damned 2014 

2015:

In 2015, for the first time he has a theme as he covers most of the Marvel Zombies series if not all of it, one shots, the series of numbered comics, Marvel Zombies vs Army of Darkness, the Ultimate Fantastic Four where it started, any crossover with heroes, even Deadpool.

He also cover the few Marvel Apes comics and where they cross, some cross with Black Panther, others with Exiles and so forth and he get them all before moving on to other comics.















Longbox of the Damned 2015 

 

HEY! You should check this out..: 31 Days of Halloween: Five Nights at Freddy's 1 th...

HEY! You should check this out..: 31 Days of Halloween: Five Nights at Freddy's 1 th...: SPOILERS Singing and Dancing Since it is Halloween, or at least the month of and I am covering several things horror themed I figure...

31 Days of Halloween: Five Nights at Freddy's 1 through 4

SPOILERS

Singing and Dancing

Since it is Halloween, or at least the month of and I am covering several things horror themed I figured it only fair to cover the popular horror game Five Nights at Freddy's which is up to number 4, as it is a small indie game there won't be much to say about each one.  I will post links to some people playing the games if you want to watch and a few other bonus videos and pictures.

Check out Markiplier's YouTube page for more Five Nights at Freddy's Playthroughs.

Five Nights at Freddy's: The one that starts it all, you are a overnight (12 am to 6 am) security guard for Freddy Fazbear's pizza. You are in an office with lights outside both doors which are open, you can close them but it cost electricity/energy. You only have so much and everything you do takes away from it, you have to use your video cameras to keep an eye on all the animatronics from Freddy the bear, to Bonnie the bunny, Chicka the Chicken and even Foxy. 

You have to keep watch and shut the door when they come up the hallway to your office, you have to guard things for 5 nights plus a harder 6th night and each night you have a recorded message telling you what to do and some backstory in to all of this. The game proceeds to slowly build up tension and uses major jump scares throughout. At the end you get your paycheck and learn some more about what happened but not everything. Including something about a bite of '87.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2:  This is a prequel, you are at a much nicer Freddy's with sleek, more cartoon, kid friendly animatronics that still want you dead. You learn more about why, I won't spoil all the story but Freddy's Family Diner(the first of the restaurants) and Freddy Fazbear's Pizza have a disturbing history of murder and child endangerment. You are a different security guard this time, maybe even one hinted at in the first game, You are again overnight but this time there are NO doors, you have a flashlight with limited power and can watch the video camera with no energy drain.

Now you also have a few other things to watch out for, there are two air vents into the office and a long hallway leading right into your office in front of you. You have the four animatronics from the first game as well as the old ones

and Balloon Boy. Mangle joins the group and there is a evil puppet that you can NOT stop and must keep asleep my winding a music box every so often.  This time instead of doors you have a Freddy head you can put on but it does not fool all of the machines. Again you have five nights with a harder bonus sixth night.





Five Nights at Freddy's 3: This is way in the future, by this time Freddy's has been closed up for years and years. The legend of the bite of '87 and all the murders that were unsolved but blame for at least a few were blamed on someone. It is a weird story, someone gets a idea to create a horror house based on the Freddy legend. You are again a night watchman watching over the site where the haunted house will be, you get messages again about stuff they have found and the legends of Freddy's.

This time you have to watch not just the rooms but the air vents, but it is an old system and now and then you have to reset the video or audio or vents or some combo of the three. If you don't you start to have hallucinations of the old animatronics but it doesn't end the game like last time but does distract you which could allow you to lose. On the second night they find SpringTrap, a new animatronic which you learn over the story may very well have a human trapped inside it who could have been the killer from the previous games. Somehow it has stayed "alive" and it's evil has festered waiting to strike and now it is coming after you. 

You learn about the children and the killer, and you have several endings depending on what you do and the choices you make.

Five Nights at Freddy's 4: This one has more story then the others, you play a child in this one, and it is set mostly in your bedroom where nightmare versions of the animatronics come down the hallway, you have to rely on audio clues this time, a nice change from the others where it was mostly sight. You can shut either door while you are near it, Foxy comes from you closet and you can shut that too but as soon as you move back to the safety of the foot of your bed the doors crack open. 

Shadow Freddy's also can attack from behind on your bed, just looking at them make them go away. As the nights progress you learn that your older brother is a giant dick who hides in the house and jumps out at you in a foxy mask, you are sometimes in Freddy's but you want to leave every time, the poor kid always ends up crying on the floor after every scene and you learn a horrifying fact in the end. A bonus to this game is due out on Halloween and is supposed to answer all the questions.

  The Raps of Five Nights.
  

The Purple Man

 

HEY! You should check this out..: Merry Month of Marvel: History of Marvel Comics Pa...

HEY! You should check this out..: Merry Month of Marvel: History of Marvel Comics Pa...: Okay, bear with me here as this gets a little twisty and weird. A lot of stuff happens in a short period of time as it makes the change...

Merry Month of Marvel: History of Marvel Comics Part 3: From Atlas to Early Marvel

Okay, bear with me here as this gets a little twisty and weird. A lot of stuff happens in a short period of time as it makes the changes to go from Atlas and early Marvel to the comics we know today and love or hate.

Jack Kirby

While Goodman had an empire going with published works and magazines of which comics were just a small part. Goodman was considering closing down that division. The reasons he did not close it are murky at best. There are different points of view but lets start with artist Jack Kirby, who after his split with Joe Simon, and losing a lawsuit to DC was having trouble finding work.

Joe Simon

According to Kirby, when he arrived at the offices, Stan Lee was in a chair crying and they were moving out furniture and Lee begged for help saving the company. Kirby also said that he told Lee to tell Martin to stop moving the stuff out, he would make books that sell, but according to Lee and others Mr. Kirby was prone to hyberbole and no one was moving out furniture and Stan says he is not much of a crier. He loved that Kirby was there and enjoyed working with him but would never have begged for help to save the company.

taStarting with Strange Worlds #1 and doing the cover and artwork on a 7 page story "I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers."  This lead to a 12 year run that changed comics, Kirby helped elevate simple science fiction and monster stories with his artwork. This lead to Strange Tales, Amazing Adventures, Tales of Suspense, Tales to Astonish, and World of Fantasy.

With the titles of stories that Stan Lee came up with like "I Created Spoor, the Thing that Could Not Die!" Later the writer/artist teams worked even more closely together in what would become called the Marvel Method. The writer would give a description of his story and the artist would draw amazing scenes based in it. It helped everyone and helped Marvel not only stay open but become bigger.

Jack Kirby drawing

For several months in 1949 and 1950, Timely did bear a circle logo with Marvel Comics but the first modern comics with the label were the science fiction anthology Journey into Mystery #69 and teen humor mag Patsy Walker #65 both in 1961, each had a box with MC on the cover. Goodman would return to the Atlas name for his next comics company in the 1970's.

With DC bringing back superheroes in the 1950's and 60's such as The Flash and Green Lantern, The newly named Marvel choose to follow suit.

Check with us in the following day and next week for the final few blogs on the history, catching us up to modern day.

HEY! You should check this out..: Marvel at the History Part Two: Atlas Comics

HEY! You should check this out..: Marvel at the History Part Two: Atlas Comics: Yes, I was in the Daredevil Tv Show. It is Friday, so it is time to take another look at where Marvel Comics came from and how it is w...

Marvel at the History Part Two: Atlas Comics

Yes, I was in the Daredevil Tv Show.

It is Friday, so it is time to take another look at where Marvel Comics came from and how it is what it is today.  We know it has grown, it has a whole movie universe that connects with their TV shows. They are part of Disney and that universe and Netflix has a whole series of shows coming out under the Marvel name.

You have already read the very start in a Timely manner I hope, if not check it out here(Timely Comics) from there we heading in to Atlas Comics.  

I was NOT in any Fantastic Four movie.

This was Goodman's 1950's comic book company that evolved from Timely Comics, and was one of two direct forerunners to Marvel Comics. The other is from the 1970's and was called Atlas/Seaboard Comics. This was the end of the Golden Age of comics and Superheroes were becoming less popular and things had moved on to almost everything else.

Atlas took what Timely had started doing and writing stories on everything. Stick with me, Horror, Westerns, humor, funny animals, men's adventure/drama, crime and war comics.  Timely had done these, but Atlas branched out to include jungle, romance, espionage, medieval adventure, Bible stories, and sports comics.  Like many other publishing companies they had humor stories about models and career woman.

Starting in November of 1951, Goodman started using the Atlas globe logo, though another company called Kable news distribute his stuff with the logo and a big K.

So in December of 1953 to June 1954, Atlas tried to bring back The Superhero.  In the series Young Men, we see the return of The Human Torch, Captain Amercia, and Sub-Mariner. Other comics such at Captain America and Men's adventure brought more superheroes to the forefront.

BOO!

Though Goodman's idea was to see what was popular and put out a ton of magazines and comics based on that. Westerns and War Dramas, then suddenly Drive-In movie monsters, sometimes even other comics. When EC was doing well with its horror comics suddenly so is Atlas, pumping out a ton of horror comics. They were profitable but cheaply made product turned out by talented but low paid artists, making the art beautiful despite it all.

The Atlas bullpen of writers was a stable of five writers(called editors). Stan Lee, Hank Chapman, Paul S. Newman, Don Rico, Carl Wessler, then in the teen humor department they had Al Jaffe(who would go on to write for MAD magazine). Daniel Keyes, who would write Flowers for Algernon, was there in 1952.

The artists were varied and included the veterans Carl Burgos who created The Human Torch and Bill Everett who was behind Namor. Joe Maneely, Russ Heath, and fledgling up coming Steve Ditko. While Rawhide Kid and Two-Gun Kid were introduced at this time, they have not connection beyond the name to the later Marvel heroes.

In the style of following popular titles, Atlas had such comics as Homer, The Happy Ghost(Casper, The Friendly Ghost), Homer Hooper(Archie Andrews), Melvin the Monster(Dennis the Menace), and even Sergent Barney Barker(Sgt. Bilko). Millie The Model was still with us, you remember she started back in Timely, she ran 207 issues well into Marvel's 1970's launching spin-offs along the way.
 

Can the Punisher just kill this knock off?

Hey kid, your shirt doesn't fit.

At least this never made a movie.

Because I was not allowed in Riverdale...

Dan DeCarlo would later take over Millie the Model. From that he went on to handle and have a hand in creating Josie and the Pussycats, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and other Archie staples. They also had a high school series called Patsy Walker that was created in 1945 and went all the way till 1967 with THREE spin offs. Patsy Walker herself would be brought into Marvel as the supernatural powered Hellcat.
 

I became this!

The good days were soon to end, from 1952 to late 1956, Goodman put out his comics to newsstands through his self owned disturbing company Atlas News Company but he shut this down in 1956 and started using American News Company, the nations largest distributor and pretty much a monopoly.

American News Company had been found guilty of restraint of trade and ordered to divest itself of the newsstands it owned. Its biggest client, George Delacorte, announced he would seek a new distributor for his Dell Comics and paperbacks. The owners of American News estimated the effect that would have on their income. Then they looked at the value of the New Jersey real estate where their headquarters sat. They liquidated the company and sold the land. The company ... vanished without a trace in the suburban growth of the 1950s

With no other choice, Goodman turned to Independent News(owned by Rival DC) who said fine by only 8 titles per month. The last comic to bear the Atlas globe logo was Dippy Duck #1. They were backed into a corner, they had given up their own distributing company and wholesalers were pissed they went with American News Company, since the new distributor was the rival they limited everything.

Soon layoffs came, Lee had paid for quite a bit of artwork and comic strips but never used them, he stored them in a closet and as things were being cut, Goodman found them and was upset he had all these stuff in a closet that he had paid for. He had enough to go for several years, they used it in Strange Tales and World of Fantasy. Stan Lee was part of the few still there and helped put them together and rehire artists as they could.
 

I am Stan Lee before Cameo's

As they hired them back, they had moved on from the Atlas Name....

They were not Atlas for long really, and Goodman made so strange choices which lead pretty quickly to the end. They seems strange now anyway but who knew what was going on behind the scenes and in his head. It looks like most of what he did was short term ways to save money. 

Again, not many heroes here, the same ones we have already seen for the most part, But the knockoffs...it is amazing they were not sued, of if they were I didn't find anything about it. Homer the Happy Ghost? Really? WOW. Also amazing that Millie the Model is one of their longest running comics. Then who knew a teen drama, almost Archie like female would become a superhero? 

Come Back NEXT FRIDAY to see Pre-Superhero Marvel!