Relatively Mundane Reasons To Hulk-Out

In honor of Lou Ferrigno's 57th birthday, here are a couple of clips from "The Incredible Hulk" TV series featuring David Banner hulking out:

Traffic Jam


Annoying Operator

Italian Batman

Good times.

From the 1982 Italian porno film "Bathman From The Planet Eros" (that's right -- by the early 1980s, the Italians managed to make a new Batman film and Hollywood didn't)

Pippy, The Begging Kitty

Video: Batman Vs. Jedi In Cosplay Deathmatch

Occasional Links: Kabinet Of Komic Book Kuriosities

Welcome to an extra-special dose of weird for your Friday morning...

First up, it's Scans Daily's "DC's History Of Gender-Bending." Love that "Wonder Man" depicted on the cover below -- how come he gets to wear a bodysuit but his female counterpart has to be half naked?





Next, from the unofficial Marvel Appendix, we have "The Many Faces Of Howard The Duck." This was notable for me by having that famous anthropomorphic character "Doucheblade."



Continuing the never-ending story of perennial Archie third-stringer Big Ethel, Stupid Comics has a profile of a Christian comic book that sees the character mysteriously turn into a beautiful fashion model -- only to realize that she'd rather be buck-toothed with bad hair and close to Jesus rather than be famous and pretty.


Not to be outdone by the recent Stan Lee fine arts tribute, artist Paul Slater is offering prints based on his interpretation of "American Gothic" :



The Worst "Spirit" Comic Ever Drawn?


That honor might go to this series of 1947 promo strips for The Spirit in the Minneapolis Star Journal. Needless to say, Will Eisner did not go anywhere near these.




I know what YOU need...it's coming to me...yes, you need an illustrated history of Grunge from Gen 13 semi- and fully-nude and in bondage. Am I right? Am I right? From Wizard Universe...er, I mean Shirtless Superheroes.


Video: Archie Meets The Sex Pistols

Occasional Superheroine Videocast: Amazing Spider-Man #547 & Robin #170

Today on the vidcast I review:

Amazing Spider-Man #547
Robin #170

Occasional Links: The Superhero Mama Edition

DIY Spidey


Pictures of a guy and his super-advanced homemade Spider-Man costume. Plus Photoshop. Suits for sale. Classic or black. Webshooters not included.


DIY Superheroine

Time is running out for Shadowline's "Who Wants To Create A Superheroine" contest. Entries due by January 31st, details are here.

“I’d been hoping to see a super-hero book with a strong female lead to act as a counter-point to our popular Bomb Queen series, but none were forthcoming. So I decided to come up with a contest to create a super-heroine for the 21st Century.”

If anybody is looking for any inspiration on that "superheroine for the 21st Century," here are some pics of Bomb Queen:

Yep, that's the "superheroine for the 21st Century," I guess...


Night Thrasher = "BADICAL"

I always found Night Thrasher from The New Warriors to be very emblematic of early 90s comic books, and apparently the blog Of Course, Yeah! thinks so as well:

"But back in 1990? You bust some Tae Bo out on the local pimp and he be all convinced you were trained by the ghost of Bruce Lee himself! And the scarf? Well damn, make all the fun you want and but when you're laughing and there's a BLACK! METAL! FIST! PILFERING! OUT! JUSTICE! IN! YOUR! FACE!...you'll think twice about dissing on dudes with a little bit of balls when it comes to fashion. "

Me, I just love the "TRAKA TRAKA TRAKA" skateboard SFX.


"I Am Darkhawk, I AM The Night"

Speaking of "badical" 1990s superheroes, Project Rooftop has an awesome redesign of Darkhawk's costume by Joel Carroll


Divorce, Spider-Man Style



Erik Larsen added his two cents to the "One More Day" debate on a Newsarama forum and suggested that a Peter/MJ divorce might have worked better:

"Have Peter and MJ get divorced. She can't take the pressure any more--living with Peter is giving her nightmares--he's always in danger--always getting hurt--Peter's always late for stuff because of Spider-Man and every time she can't help feel that THIS will be the time that he never comes back--and she just can't stand it. It's all too much. She files for the divorce. She leaves him. He becomes that much more of a loser. He could try to make things right--promise to give up the tights and all that but--great power and great responsibility and all the rest and he has to save somebody and she goes through with it.

And Spider-Man getting a divorce would be big news--in the real world--but Marvel has always prided itself on realism and a divorce is a realistic solution--not a "comic booky" solution. Marvel would get a LOT more mileage out of a tastefully handled divorce than a hastily executed mind-wipe."

Peter could have then called these guys:



Videos: The Bizarro YouTube Superhero Awards

Choose between --

"Spider-Man Does Barbie": (NSFW, sort of) Buddies get drunk and their toys get wild in this soon-to-be-classic

"Transformation To Superheroine": (NSFW, sort of) Man or woman in creeeeepy anime mask slowly puts on superheroine outfit. The messed-up camera angle really contributes to the David Lynch quality of the production.

"I'm A Superhero": A nice "Blair Witch" vibe with the camera work, as mom dresses like superhero to "experience childlike freedom with her son." My mom never did this for me.

Oh Crap! It's Another Vidcast!

One day I'm really meaning to make this vidcast thing a very professional, awesome production. In the meantime, we have this.

Comics covered:
Amazing Spider-Man #546
Hulk #1
Nightwing #140
The Goon #20
Teen Titans Lost Annual

Occasional Links: YouTube Yule Log Edition

If your holiday DVD collection is a bit on the sparse side (like mine -- I mean how many times can I watch that South Park Mr. Hanky special?), YouTube is a great resource.

Christmas TV Special Montage: When it got to Full House, I started blubbering away.

Vintage Toys R Us CommericalFrom the 1970s: Toys R us and Christmas were always inextricably linked in my mind. It's the greed factor, I know.

Erasure's Andy Bell and Melissa Etheridge sing X-Mas: Worst Lip-Synch Ever!

Cingular's Christmas Story Parody Ad: "You'll poke your eye out with that cell phone!"

DirecTV "Movie Villains" Christmas Ad:


The Monkees Go Christmas Tree Shopping: And looking damn cool doing it!

A Pac-Man Christmas (abridged version): Thankfully edited so you don't waste too much of your life.

Star Wars Holiday Special: Also thankfully edited. With the Jefferson Starship!

"A Better Or For Worse" Christmas: No, I didn't know they made this one, either.

Barking Pee Wee Herman "Jingle Bells": Yes. Exactly.

A Charlie Brown Heavy Metal Christmas

A Charlie Brown "Scrubs" Christmas

A Charlie Brown Christmas Alternate Ending (NSFW)

A Charlie Brown Pulp Fiction Christmas

Eric Cartman Sings "Oh Holy Night": Sublime. One of my favorites.

That Rankin Bass X-Mas Cartoon With The Mouse: You know the one.

That Tom And Jerry Cartoon Where Tom Almost Lets Jerry Freeze To Death: (shudder)

"The Snowman": Fast-forward to around 9:30 to see him all melted. And that's the end of the cartoon. Damn intellectual cartoons!

Carl Sagan's Global Warming Christmas Special: With Tom Hanks as Dean Martin.

An Andy Williams NBC Kids Christmas Special: With Punky Brewster, the Cosby Kids, and a young Joey Lawrence!

You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch, "House" Style:


Christmas With Harley Quinn

Child Gets Nintendo 64 for Christmas, Goes Insane: Nope, this holiday isn't getting too materialistic.

A Foamy Christmas (NSFW)

Lobo ParaMilitary Christmas Special (NSFW): Remember Lobo? He was cool once.

Santa Claus Pwns The Martians

Scared of Santa Claus: Montage of photos of kids scared by department store Santas

Santa Claus Is Watching You by Ray Stevens: Stalking is apparently prime humor fodder.

Frosty the Snowman Meets Al Gore (NSFW)

Urban Legend: Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Swimming Bird Death Plunge

Cute Little Bird Rides Christmas Train

Red Bull Christmas Commerical: Three Wise Men give Red Bull to baby Jesus, claims it has angelic powers.

And Let's Not Forget The YouTube Yule Log:

It's Another Vidcast!

"The Occasional Superheroine Show"

This week on the show:

Wolvie gets pwned!

The Illuminati get off the hook!

Supergirl brushes her teeth!

Lower-level superheroes die!

Inappropriate laughter at a New God's expense!

And plenty more!

Hoo-boy!

"See, I thought Spider-Man movies were okay for girls to go see now..."

...but most women would apparently want to see "Vagina Street" instead.

Mr T: "Treat Your Momma Right"

Video: The Adventures Of Batman & Robin & Jesus Christ

Batman loses Robin at the San Diego Comicon. Jesus gets mistaken for a Jedi.

It's all good.

Vids: Jerry Lewis Slur? AND Reporters Laugh At Owen Wilson

I found these two gems together so...

In this clip, Jerry Lewis might be saying a slur against homosexuals during the Labor Day telethon. Well, even if he did, because he's an old big-time celebrity & doing charity work I'll think he'll be let off the hook. Further -- he's so old that I don't think he cares what anybody thinks. But the clip left me kinda ick.

Lewis
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And here we have two reporters who can't keep a straight face during their coverage of Owen Wilson's suicide attempt. As they explain in the end, it really had to do with the funny-sounding last name of Wilson's uncle or something. Real professional, guys. Will Ferrell as Anchorman laughs at you.

What Is On My YouTube Playlist

I'll be on the road for work, and my posting is over for today. But I thought I would post some links to some of the vids on my YouTube playlist. You know, because it's self-indulgent.

Giraffe -- the best clip ever
Dueling Daffy & Donald -- when I saw this as a kid it absolutely blew my mind
Nicolas Cage Punches Woman In Bear Suit -- I try to watch this every week or so, it cleanses my palette
Usagi Is the God Warrior -- this is pretty funny
I like this Kill Bill vid
And I like this "Grindhouse" vid
I've played this "Waking Life" clip a lot, but it's long
Easy Rider: "what you represent to them is freedom"
Selina goes batshit. Well, you know, it happens
Tootsie: "for I am not Emily Kimberly..."

Family Guy Clips:

ipecac
stewie gets glass in his head
where's my money
Lois! Lois!
brian's novel
rock lobster
ecstasy
stewie drunk
stewie drunk again
upside down face

More clips:
Classic "Dark Willow" fan vid (vid quality terrible, very emo)
This "Popeye" clip is good to watch if you're recovering from a cervical tear
Bruce Campbell is a honey
Fake Mulder
Donnie Darko tells it like it is
Moulin Rouge Mushery

Say Anything Clips:
Music Video
Why Is John Cusack Always In the Rain?

And this clip is like an audio-video imprint of the deepest recesses of my brain. It tells you everything you need to know about me, my personality, my wants, desires, and goals. Plus, it has Goonies:

Secret Identities and Alter-Egos in Pop-Culture

To me, the whole superhero business boils down to secret identities -- alternate selves that encompass everything one wishes to be or hides from his- or herself.
I've always loved those Academy Awards segments where they show a montage on a particular theme. Through YouTube I've assembled a compilation of various clips that address the topic of alter-egos. What I'm currently writing for my own project focuses in part on this idea, so it's inspiring and informing me as well. But mostly, I'm just a big YouTube whore. Enjoy.

Please Note -- some clips contain spoilers