Design of the Week--The SpaceMan with the Ray Gun!

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...it's the most interesting visual on the set of the new BBC-TV series The Nerdist.
Like it's counterpart on the wall of Sheldon & Leonard's apartment in The Big Bang Theory (Click HERE for that art), it's based on a classic cover from the Golden Age.
This image is from Ace Comics' Space Action #2, published in 1952, almost 60 years ago!
And here's the really weird thing...it has nothing to do with any of the stories in the comic!
Yes, it's the old "this scene on the cover does not occur on the inside" trick!
As to who the artist is, there's speculation it's either Lou Cameron or Matt Fox, both of whom had considerable sci-fi experience.

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The Man with the Gun

Who is he?

Where is he?

When is he?

And...

what is his relationship to the new BBC tv series The Nerdist?

Find out tomorrow!

Same Nerd Time!

Same Nerd Channel!

"Where No Man has Gone Before" 2.0

The adventures of the Starship Enterprise continue with the new cast from the film...

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...as they embark on missions that re-imagine select stories from the original television series, along with new threats and characters never seen before.

Now, compare that to the original version of (most) of the same sequence...

Note the differences due to the altered timeline.
Spock doesn't play chess with Kirk.
Gary Mitchell bitching about being back-up to "Sulu and the Russian kid". (Sulu was ship's physicist and Chekov wasn't even aboard in the original ep.)
Makes me wonder how they're going to handle the inevitable encounter on Talos IV (which never happened in the movie-Trek universe)

Dark Shadows: the NEW Comic about the 1960s TV series!

With a NEW movie version starring Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins coming..

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...what better time to do a new comic book about Dark Shadows?

But, not the new movie version...they're doing the original 1960s tv series!

And who better to do the covers than one of our favorite Gothic-style artists, Francesco Francavilla?

TV’s original reluctant vampire, Barnabas Collins, laboring under his vampiric curse and haunted by dreams of his age-old lover and nemesis, Angelique, is one of the small screen’s most original horror creations.
The stories for the new comic book series pick up right where the narrative of the original ABC soaper left off in 1971, using the likenesses of the original actors.

There was a series of Gold Key Comics, published from 1969-1976, which is currently being reprinted in collected editions by Hermes Press...
Innovation Comics published a comic series based on the short-lived prime-time revival of the show in the early 1990s, some of which we will be re-presenting in October on our blog, True Love Comics Tales™.
The new series from Dynamite will be available in October!

YouTube Wednesday: Mothra Madness!

I recently caught the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy on Action...

...and, boy, did it BLOW!

I ran, screaming, back to my Classic Media DVD set for some REAL Mothra action with real Mothra fairies...
First, the original teaser trailer with ONLY preproduction art plus the first trailer with the Peanuts (btw, the trailer narrator was also the narrator and the Robot on Lost in Space, Dick Tufeld)...

 (also the original kool Japanese trailer...)

From Ghidorah: the Three-Headed Monster...the Peanuts return...

From Godzilla vs Mothra (1992)...the Cosmos...

...and noted horror host Svengoolie does a "Where Are They Now?" segment...

Now THAT'S MOTHRA!