….aaaaaaaaand we are BACK! Episode 6 of the Nerd Lunch podcast has the group discussing the first two Star Trek Next Generation movies; Star Trek Generations and Star Trek First Contact.
We are literally all over the place with our discussion but it’s clear one of us doesn’t like First Contact and none of us really liked Generations. Come see why…
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This the is final day of AWESOME-tober-fest 2011 comic book week in which I look at comic books featuring the character of Dracula. Today I’m going to look at the epic battle between the Lord of the Vampires and the Dark Knight Detective.
Today’s comic is Batman & Dracula: Red Rain from 1991. Yes, Batman vs Dracula in an Elseworlds tale. How badass is that? The book was written by Doug Moench and illustrated by Kelley Jones. This was a very popular graphic novel and spawned a cartoon movie that was loosely based on the story.
This graphic novel has Batman investigating a series of murders affecting Gotham’s homeless population. Batman discovers that the murders are by a family of vampires led by Dracula himself. Batman recruits a female vampire named Tanya who recently left Dracula’s family to help lure the vampire legions to the Batcave. Batman is accidentally bit by a vampire but still manages to destroy the majority of the vampire family except Dracula. Dracula kidnaps Gordon and Batman goes after him. Dracula and vampire Batman battle and Dracula is impaled on a broken tree trunk. Batman laments that Bruce Wayne is dead but states that now, vampire Batman can continue forever.
Welcome to Day 4 of AWESOME-tober-fest 2011. This week I am looking at comic books featuring the character of Dracula. Yesterday we looked at Marvel’s regular size Tomb of Dracula. Today we look at Marvel’s magazine sized Dracula Lives.
Marvel released Dracula Lives after their comic Tomb of Dracula became popular. It was a black and white magazine that featured Marvel talents such as Tomb of Dracula writer Marv Wolfman and artists Dick Giordano, Roy Thomas and Gene Colan. The magazines would feature articles about Dracula movies as well as the actors that played Dracula. The magazine would also become known for the comic stories featuring Dracula. Since the magazine was released concurrently with the Tomb of Dracula comic, the stories would, for the most part, keep continuity between the two. Events that happened in one would be reflected in the other.
Let’s look at some of the more notable comic stories in this magazine.
In Dracula Lives! #2, there is a Dracula origin story. It’s written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by the awesome Neal Adams. The artwork is truly fantastic. Adams is wonderful. I mentioned his work on Monday when I looked at the book and record set A Story of Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein. The story involves Turks invading Transylvania and taking Dracula (who is a mortal man) prisoner and planning to use him as a puppet king. Dracula is injured in battle and taken to a gypsy to keep him alive. The gypsy reveals herself to be a vampire and the Turks kill her and take Dracula back to their stronghold. Their the Turks threaten Dracula’s wife and child to make him to their bidding. The Turks kill his wife, then Dracula reveals that the gypsy turned him into a vampire and he slaughters everyone. Why he didn’t “vamp out” earlier to save his wife is a mystery. Dracula then vows vengeance on the entire world for the death of his wife.
Well, Episode 5 of the Nerd Lunch Podcast is up! This week we are joined by a good friend of this blog, Rondal Scott from Strange Kids Club.
The topic this week? We discuss some of our favorite actors who haven’t been getting enough work lately. We discuss who they are, what we know them from, and what role we think would be a good one for their return.
Hope you come prepared with IMDB in hand because I guarantee you will need it when listening to this episode.
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The boys from Nerd Lunch and I recorded a sequel to our ground breaking (and Internet breaking) podcast, Nerd Lunch! In episode 2 CT, Jeeg and I are joined by special guest Shawn Robare from Branded in the 80s. Shawn has been a good friend to this blog almost from the beginning. You may have heard me mention him several times in various articles plus we even did a huge blog crossover last year in which we talked about unofficial movie trilogies.
Anyway, this week we are discussing one of my favorite topics, the Back to the Future franchise. I could talk for days about the BTTF movies, but don’t worry, CT managed to edit this one down to an hour. And it’s a lot of fun. Come hear the four of us discuss our favorite movie, our favorite scenes, some problems we may or may not have had with the movies’ temporal physics and whether we want to see a Back to the Future Part 4: Marty’s Grandkids.
So head to iTunes, download and subscribe to us or check out Nerd Lunch to listen to 4 nerds talk nerdy about Back to the Future.
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