Larry King

A sign of quality!

@DannyMerrick @BryanBaugh What Bryan described as for feeling about The Crazies, I feel about Martin. It's Romero's best film. So intimate, twisted, sad, enthralling.

@BryanBaugh @larrykingundead This. It's extremely flawed but the flaws are charming to me. Similar to Martin that I never want a remake of.

The 2010 remake of The Crazies isn't just a better movie compared that what it's remaking, but it's also a better Resident Evil movie than any of the official Resident Evil movies have been or will be.

@ManFirestorm Same here and if I pick one up for cheap and the cover's falling off, I don't have a problem taping the cover back together.

@larrykingundead Amen to that, I’ve bought many a comic that was beaten up, I can still enjoy them

I don’t have a lot of Kirby comics, so I was stoked when I put this in my birthday comic pile. I’m fairly sure this is a reprint.

@matttrinh Haha, that'd be fun one to pull off.

@larrykingundead I'm still waiting for Joel Hodgson to join them for re-riffing Mitchell so we'll finally figure out what happened to John Saxon.

You know who could have singlehandedly stopped Zarek and Gaeta's space mutiny in the second half of the 4th season of Battlestar Galactica? Big McLargeHuge!

@OpenRoadOpenMic True, though those that saw Deadwood would know that too.

@larrykingundead It’s also the film that made everyone go “Timothy olyphant is a badass” … and then we got Justified.

@matttrinh While yes most reboots are pointless, I'll give that RiffTrax take on Space Mutiny a go. That is my favorite of the MST3K series.

@larrykingundead Since I know your opinion about reboots, how about the same guys revisiting the movie just to come up with more names? youtu.be/1zZL2Xw5h00?si…

@EinsteinAdonis @eeBAHeeCanales Those are your examples? I was hoping for something of quality that wasn't apart of some offshoot pocket universe. It's easy to look down on it when you realize what it's a pastiche of, and how the original is superior, and Momoko's Ultimate X-Men is a mess.

@larrykingundead @eeBAHeeCanales Well if you’re holding up Extreme Manhunter as an example of visual experimentation I don’t know how you can look down on the work of Nick Dragotta. Peach Momoko is also doing very interesting stuff.

@BryanBaugh @nyquillionaire As bad as here and IG are, DA is way worse. Wasn't always that way but the stolen content, posting results from Google Image Search, broken filtered search features which used to be effective now are pointless.

I miss the original Deviantart. Yeah it is a bad joke/ cesspit/ ghost town/ bot-ridden mess, now. But in its early years from roughly 2005-2010, DA was so simple and fun. It functioned smoothly and was easier to use, share art, and connect with other artists and clients, than any platform before or since. I made so many cool online friends on there, many of whom became professional colleagues and contacts. The comments section was great back then too, lots of fellow artists and followers, chiming in with kind words on your work and asking genuine questions and starting great conversations. But as time went on DA kept “updating” with junk features nobody needed. Then the pornographers moved in. Then the endless bot accounts. My old DA account still exists and every once in a while I still post art there, but it is almost pointless.🫤

is there ever going to be an artist friendly widely used social media platform again or are we all doomed forever and ever

@EinsteinAdonis @eeBAHeeCanales It's a genuine question, because when I go into the LCS to see if anything is worthwhile and I go by the Marvel and DC section all I see is modern takes on old ideas, like how Absolute DC stuff is just edgy 90s comics(think Spirits of Vengeance and Vertigo mashed up).

@EinsteinAdonis @eeBAHeeCanales Okay, what are some examples of modern mainstream comics that are doing experimental work?

You can tell how much a impact Spawn had on 90s comics, even at DC. Manhunter(1994 series) not to be confused with any of the other Manhunter characters or the Oan created androids that predated the Green Lantern Corps.

@eeBAHeeCanales Haha, damn, that is a great way of putting it.

@larrykingundead His voice is like a knife with a velvet handle.

@eeBAHeeCanales Guy could have read a cutesy childrens book and made it intense even scary.

@larrykingundead My first contact with Tony Todd, he was so good in it. His "hell" monologue always gives me the chills.

@WillPheesh @ManFirestorm Yes indeed.

@larrykingundead @ManFirestorm Brilliant issue. BWS was fantastic.

The first Iron Man comic I ever saw and read was issue #232 by Barry Windsor-Smith and co-written with David Michelinie. I had no clue what was going on but the cover caught my eye and I am thankful.

@aricb70 @ManFirestorm Ha, that is awesome!

@larrykingundead @ManFirestorm This was my first Iron Man

@eeBAHeeCanales I'd say this is less experimental but more of a desperation play to peel away Todd's readers. This Manhunter has a similar "deal with the devil" plot point too not just visual stylings that are similar.

@larrykingundead It's crazy how visually experimental superhero comics, supposedly the most mainstream of all, used to be back in the day. Especially compared to what we have today.

@eeBAHeeCanales I feel the same about the Savini Night of the Living Dead remake, Patricia Tallman as Barbara goes from this panicky mess to Proto-Jill Valentine and I love it. Also it's got Tony Todd so that adds to it's goodness.

@larrykingundead I remember watching it and enjoying it much more than the original, yes. Same with the 1990 remake of NOTLD.

@SwordsmenElite @BryanBaugh "--I will never read it" Well it's not like you can read in the first place mongo.

@BryanBaugh "I don't like a movie I never saw." What a pillock. But then again, I don't like "Wolf and Betsy" because I will never read it

Oh… Wolfen.😒 I saw this movie on HBO a couple years after it came out. So probably 82 or 83. Being a kid and hoping to see another great early 80s special effects creature (the early 80s was a golden age for werewolves and special effects creatures after all) - the minute I saw they were just using a normal, actual wolf and calling it a werewolf - this movie had committed an unforgivable sin in my 10 (or maybe 11 year old) mind and was immediately cast out, into the nether regions of “lame” for all time. Haven’t seen it since. Over the past 40+ years, whenever this movie has come up - in conversation or online or in a book, or whenever there was a rare opportunity to rent or stream it - I always go through the same thought process: I should probably give that movie another (fair-minded adult) chance. …But I already know it doesn’t have a cool werewolf. So what is the point. And I move on. Yes I know that is unfair. But those childhood grudges are stubborn. And there’s so many other movies to watch and so little time…

@KingpinTurd There's nefarious things going on for sure. Not just here.

@larrykingundead This is how count dankula's office neighborhood burned down a few weeks ago. I have a vape shop next door and haven't seen a single customer in 4 months. Open 24 hours (weird).

How many tobacco/vape shops does their need to be in America? How many are fronts for drug running? It's bad enough they exist at all. What's worse is their owners decorate them with garish pulsing LED's that are on 24/7 and when it's at night, and raining, it's made worse.

@BryanBaugh It's the truth, I will not deny it! Also, since I like to double down. The Howling 2: Your Sister Is A Werewolf is better than The Howling.