Atomic Kommie Comics

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Design of the Week--Captain Steve Savage

Each week, we post a limited-edition design, to be sold for exactly 7 days, then replaced with another!
This week...During the Korean War, Captain Steve Savage patrolled the skies protecting us from comic book Communists.
Now he's back to save us from the new threat of Kim Jong-un!
Check out his limited-time, limited-edition collectibles HERE!

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Show the lady you love that she's a HEROINE on Valentine's Day!

If you'd like to show your woman that you appreciate her strength as well as her beauty, why not give her a Valentine's Day gift that symbolizes exactly that?

We offer dozens of designs showing powerful women doing what they do best!

Whether it's '70s psychedelic or '40s retro, we have a heroine to suit your needs!

There's a kool variety of products ranging from his-and-her garb to mugs and mousepads to messenger and tote bags to blank sketchbooks!

Check out Heroines™!

Your lady (and you) will be glad you did!

Friday, January 13, 2012

James Bond 007 50th Anniversary Blu-Ray Set or "AGAIN? NEVER!"

WTF?

I got the complete VHS set in the early 1990s (up to GoldenEye), two different sets of DVDs (the set up to World is Not Enough, and the 2-disc per title Ultimate Special Edition set up to Die Another Day) and the three-disc Casino Royale release!
And the VHS and two different 1967 Casino Royales and Never Say Never Agains!
Now you want more money from me?

So, where's George Lazenby (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)?
Yeah, the movie is in the box set, but where is he in the trailer?
Even Timothy Dalton gets a couple of shots!
And, the box set is missing the two previous versions of Casino Royale (1953 tv production with Barry Nelson & 1967 feature film with everybody), as well as Sean Connery's Never Say Never Again!
Sorry, I'll not buy this set until it hits the "used" racks.
Maybe, just maybe, if you had included new commentary tracks with Sean, Roger, Timothy, Pierce, and of course, George...

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Reading Room: GREEN PLANET Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Art by Dick Giordano

Exiled by the repressive government of Earth, Jason Tolliver and other dissenters are shipped to the planet Klorath in a far distant solar system where a colony of rebels led by Tolliver's father had been established.

Upon arrival at the so-called "Green Planet", they discover a partially-completed colony encampment, totally-deserted.

The new arrivals cautiously move into the camp, and utilize the supplies to finish the camp and grow food.

Within a couple of weeks, the camp is completed and the first crop ready to harvest, but an attack by a giant pterodactyl-like creature on the farmers provides a possible answer to the fate of the previous Earthmen.

Following the creature to its' nest on a nearby cliff, Jason encounters another human...but not one of the Earthmen!

Tolliver and the fur-garbed man fight off an attack by one of the pterodactyls, then go their separate ways, having conquered a common foe, but unable to communicate.

Jason returns to the camp, calls a meeting and informs the others that they are not alone on the Green Planet...

For those who say classic sci-fi was just Westerns with spaceships instead of horses, this story, with its' "pioneers and native inhabitants" concept seems to prove them correct. (Although with a much happier ending than most settler-Indian encounters in the real Old West.)

There was never a follow-up tale, although this one was finally reprinted thirty years later, still with no credit for the original book it was based on by J Hunter Holly (Joan Carol Holly)