TWILIGHT TALES: DOING OUR PART FOR NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND

Godson Liam, aka Bondi, aka future editor of ORMONDROYD'S ENCYCLOPEDIA ESOTERICA, is being brought up properly with this
"Chibi" style plush Godzilla-- and when he graduates from infancy to baby-boyhood, on his nursery shelf there awaits a more realistic (but still cuddly) twelve-inch high plush Godzilla kaiju to snuggle. God pity the bad dream that wanders into a bedroom guarded by the Lord of Monster Island, GODZILLA, KING OF MONSTERS!

TWILIGHT TALES author WAYNE ALLEN SALLEE taught his young niece Ashley Mavros to read by introducing her to uber-texts such as Forrest Ackerman's FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND and the JOHN AGAR NEWSLETTER. MOLE PEOPLE synopsis from MST3K: "Smiling idiot John Agar takes Hugh Beaumont and Nestor Paiva beneath the surface of the Earth so that they have no place to run when he begins his windy pontificating through his muscled pie-hole. There they find Alan Napier and other thin men living out their sad existence in pleated skirts. Though aggressive at first, the pigmentless dress-wearers are cowed by Agar's mighty flashlight and shown the secret of their slaves, The Mole People. Actually, it's a matter of some controversy whether the mole creatures or their masters are the eponymous ones. Both could be considered "Mole People," as the former are indeed "moles" of a sort and the latter live among them - "Mole People." I became distracted by this and don't remember the rest of the movie, though I think Agar and friends escape. Without Nestor Paiva, no big loss. " As of this writing, there is no plush John Agar available.

GOD I LOVE BAD JAPANESE TRANSLATION (another in a series)

Literal English translations found on a Japanese blog of comic and anime reviews:

女の子が非常に魅力的でエロく描かれているので、これがエロマンガであれば受けが良いのではないだろうか？
If this is HENTAI MANGA, it might be popular because the girl is drawn in very attractively and eroticism. Moreover, an essential part is concealed with the strawberry.

なかなか扇情的な表紙なので、しばらくの間、記憶に残っていた。
It rang in one's heart at a while because it was quite stirred cover.

この漫画で気になった所は、設定が説明口調である事と、第三者の目線で物語を進めている所だ。
The place about which it was anxious in this cartoon is a place where the story is advanced by the line of vision of the thing and the third party whose setting is an explanation tone.

第三者の目線だと思った根拠は、主人公の少年と、少年のペットの心情が非常に分かり辛い点だ。
Grounds thought to be third party's line of vision are points that very understand feelings pet of hero's boy and boy and are painful.


さて、この漫画は全2巻なのだが、初回やその他の回に張った伏線が消化不良のまま、無理やり終わる。
Well, the advance hint put on first time and other times ends by force like dyspepsia though these cartoons are two all volumes.

作者も伏線の未消化が着になっていたらしく、同人誌で解決するという。
The author also says that it solves with paved DOUJINSHI [a parody of established manga characters] the undigestion of the advance hint is anxious.

See Also: Twisted Kaiju Theatre, et alia

WONDERFULLY PERVERSE COMICS

Comic book artist Ethan Persoff finds and then posts the most bizarre public service and advertising comic books he can find. If you're a fan of the Incredibly Annoying Music Show, this is for you. For comic book geeks, it's fun to try and identify the pros who volunteered their work for these projects. Am I crazy, or is that Dan DeCarlo's (Archie, Betty and Veronica) art on the Alcoholics Anonymous strip?

And Hank Ketchum's lil' sociopath, Dennis the Menace, has ALWAYS been...a disturbing concept, like chuckling at child rearing in ancient Sparta. See Also: Sumi Animation, , She-Hulk, ,Kaiju Kinkiness, ,Spider-Man: The Other, ,Zippy

Islands of Sanity #2: Kaiju, Or, the Love of Japanese Movie Monsters

As a small child, I reasoned that monsters such as Dracula, Frankenstein ot the Wolfman were small enough to fit through my door-- giants like Godzilla or the Deadly Mantis might crush me, but they couldn't hurt me. "Kaiju" is Japanese for "wonderous/mysterious/mythical beast"-- the film genre represented by Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and others. Add "dai" to "kaiju" for "giant monsters" and you have the joys of a film like "Destroy All Monsters", wherein the menace from outer space is so great that Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra have to combine forces...

"There are pleasures, as Algernon Swinburne tells us, "that the vulgar herd can never understand." To be fair, Swinburne probably used this phrase to defend his own perversions; who among us has not? Robert Graves in "Good-bye to All That")was wise to Swinburne even as a child, but that is neither here nor there. No, sorry, that was Baudelaire who said it. Good story, anyway, and why waste good html? It may be impossible for the herd to understand the pleasure that fills us when an obviously fake monster wreaks havoc on a miniature Tokyo and the electrical wires come spitting down and the badly lip synched voice cries, "Run for your lives..."

The pleasure we take in kaiju spans generations, but somehow skips over the humorless. My Aunt Dorothy often remarks, "I just love those little Mothra Twins", while less intelligent relatives voice the cliched reaction, "Oh those are just stupid." Yes they are, but that's not the point. Blue Oyster Cult paid tribute in a song. A copy of the original "Godzilla" poster is hung behind my desk, as a kind of Rorschach test: some visitors express delight. Some, sadly, mutter "those movies are just stupid", usually in a voice one step away from "hyuk yuk yukkity yuk."

The recent Hollywood remake WAS stupid and deserved to fail.


These fumetti are taken from the charming fanblog

Neo Monster Island.

In October, Marvel Comics is offering a tongue in cheek revival of its goofiest Jack Kirby/Steve Ditko/ Stan Lee monsters from the days before Fantastic Four and Spider-Man. As Lee himself has said in an interview, the idea was to come up with a goofy name like Mootoo and then see what the artist drew. Culture snobs should remember the surrealist/dadaist game called "minotaur", in which artists each drew a different part of an imaginary beast. Our favorite at Ormondroyd's is Jack Kirby's Chinese dragon, Fin Fang Foom. When he pulls up the Great Wall of China and cracks it like a whip...

The monsters of kaiju films are forces of nature, without motivation beyond warning us not to tamper in God's domain. The real world is full of little monsters who don't know they're monsters. They smash lives in the name of profit, patriotism, gamesmanship, power, religion, ephemeral causes-- and they are small enough in body and spirit to fit through doors.