Today busty blonde Baywatchable beach body par excellence Erika Eleniak ( or short E E for her friends ) celebrates her 49th birthday and since it has been two years since I last re - posted her cult siren entry I thought it´s high time to put one of my top ten wet sex dreams on the blog again.
This is the third repost which means that I first posted this in 2014 and in the meantime there have been many risky animated GIFs and my blog has not been deleted so I must have managed to keep it at a level that most readers are still comfortable with reading. There are some animated GIFs that are new for this post or new to the blog but most of them have appeared on other posts and the world hasn´t stopped spinning. In any case, if this is still too much you can check out her repost from 2015 here .
Erika has been in a lot of movies but she´s probably most famous for her sexy striptease in UNDER SIEGE which is what this post will be focusing on. Which is also one of the reasons why I didn´t do a post about her sooner. Now longtime readers will already know that her striptease is on my Top Ten list of movie stripteases. I know, maybe it´s not on the official Top Ten or your personal Top Ten but it sure as hell is on mine. And one of my goals has been to do at least one post about all the entries on my list.
So far I have covered most of them including Demi Moore and the recently added Elizabeth Berkley but there are still some left on my list like Claudia Christian who earned a spot with her raunchy striptease in THE HIDDEN .
I also already had written a post about this on my old boob blog that´s probably still out there. Now you might ask yourself where the problem lies. Well, the thing is that I try to keep the post safe for work and most the Erika Eleniak pictures I had were full frontal nudity or at least with a lot of exposed breast. Not that I have a problem with that. But like I said, I tried to keep the post safe for work and how should I do a post about a particular scene when I can´t post any pictures ? I know that it is totally doable since there are also other pictures from the movie but for me this would feel too much of a tease. I always hated it when writers put scenes in comics that involved nudity well knowing that the artist were never allowed to draw them and had to come up with a way to make it work.
Which always never works. Because comics are a visual medium and if you fail to bring a visual gag over in a visual medium you have definitely failed.
So you might ask why I´m doing this post. Well, to tell the truth I have blogger and myself to thank for this. Since I figured out how to make screenshots I´m not depending on other people´s screenshots and I can do my own which are not that risky. Okay, some of them may be and I´ll probably include one shot of Erika Eleniak in all her stripper glory but only for scientific reasons, I promise. I also have already posted some pictures without having any reader complaints so I´m keeping my fingers crossed.
The other reason for doing such a post and hoping to keep it safe for work is that blogger now allows to post animated GIFs. So far the posting of GIFs was possible but you ran into trouble because blogger didn´t show it right. But now that´s possible so instead of filling this post with dozens of risky screenshots I can just post one animated GIF of her striptease and if readers have a problem with that they can just quickly scroll over it.
With all this in mind you might ask why I still feel the need to do this post.
Well, this blog is also about giving tribute to all the neglected or forgotten cult sirens out there who bare it all ( so to speak ) to turn unbearable dreck into fun trash and who never get top billing or movie awards.
They never get credit or the big bucks but nevertheless they work hard and are prepared to show it all - unlike some actresses who are extremely hot but who will never get naked on screen - just so we can get a little something from awful movies that otherwise would be a waste of time.
And it´s not like I haven´t posted about hot sexbombs before. I did four entire posts about Baywatch colleague Traci Bingham ( a.k.a. Traci Banghim ) one of which included a lot of animated GIFs from Janet Jackson´s hottest wardrobe malfunction on Jay Leno´s Tonight Show ,
more than one post about cult siren Markie Post and one about Heather Thomas , five about Jamie Lee Curtis sexy striptease on TRUE LIES ( one just for all the screenshots and one special post with animated GIFs ), also five on Salma Hayek with most mentioning her striptease on FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, one on Janet Jones and Leslie Easterbrook´s wet t - shirt on POLICE ACADEMY which I had to split into separate parts for real life Power Girl Leslie Easterbrook , beachbody Janet Jones and Becky Mullen , three on fitness sexbomb Kiana Tom´s exposed bra on UNIVERSAL SOLDIER - THE RETURN, more than three about Wonder Woman Lynda Carter as well as italian soccer MILF extraordinaire Simona Ventura with a spin - off for the part about german strip show TUTTI FRUTTI , Mistress of the Dark Elvira , Russ Meyer cult actresses Tura Satana ( which I re - posted in 2016 ) and Haji and I wrote about dozens of others including Joyce Hyser from the almost forgotten screwball comedy JUST ONE OF THE GUYS where I just had to include some full frontal. And that´s not taking into account all the posts about actresses from Andy Sidaris movies or all the posts about Yaya Han. Heck, our last post was an unscheduled cult siren post about Audrey and Judy Landers. Anyway, the list is far too long to post but you get an idea this kind of post is not unprecedented here.
Today´s only comic book related thing is that I cast Erika Eleniak for the role Hawkgirl in my Justice League movie and you can find her part in the JLA CASTING SPECIAL BAYWATCH EDITION together with Carmen Electra.
Anyway, that enough public announcement stuff so after a rather long winded intro let´s hear it for celebrity birthday babe Erika Eleniak :
Originally posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Retro babe of the week : Erika Eleniak strips on Under Siege
Time for a dive into the vault for some awsome striptease goodness courtesy of the ever so popular RETRO BABE OF THE WEEK series. Today´s contestant is playmate and Baywatch babe Erika Eleniak whose claim to movie sex icon fame is her incredibly hot striptease on UNDER SIEGE .
Erika started on BAYWATCH where in one of the first episodes she got into trouble because of some raunchy pictures of her that were published.
Which at that time didn´t make much sense because her breasts were rather average and only grew to the enormous size she has been known for ever since in later episodes of one of the most successful series on the planet. I bet David Hasselhoff wished he had known this before.
So Erika Eleniak became the " queen of the mountain " on BAYWATCH with the biggest boobs around ...... until Pamela Anderson came around.
Like Pamela Anderson she also appeared in Playboy and was the playmate of July 1989 although I´m not sure if the pictures where she wore part of a uniform much like the one she wears in her famous striptease got her the role on UNDER SIEGE. Anyway, Erika Eleniak was only the first of a decades spanning tradition of Baywatch babes who got photographed by Playboy like Vanessa Angel, Krista Allen, playmate / Penthouse pet / pornstar Teri Weigel, Jenny Mc Carthy, Yasmine Bleeth, Donna D´Errico, Kelly Monaco, Brande Roderick, Nicole Eggert , Mitzi Capture and Gina Lee Nolin among others. Most of them have been in Playboy and other men´s magazines.
The bodacious Krista Allen played Clark Kent´s hot new teacher on
SMALLVILLE, Jim Carey´s new neighbor with the big boobs in LIAR LIAR and
the sexy oracle on CHARMED ( she was also in a series called Black Widow which had nothing to do with the Marvel character ) but she is probably best known for her role of Jenna Avid on BAYWATCH HAWAII.
Besides that american audiences are probably most familiar with Krista Allen from playing Emanuelle in eight made for tv movies . Because she did it when her incredible body was in prime condition
she was able to believable portray the french sex machine with the high moan factor who merciless milks men dry until they can´t remember on which side the doorknob is. The show had some strange 3D effects - because that was the new thing at that time - and the stories were not that great but it was all worth it to see Miss Allen get her freak on. Whoa, did she ever.
Back to Erika Eleniak, she appeared in a few movies like BEVERLY HILL BILLIES, CHASERS and BORDELLO OF BLOOD ( which got censored beyond recognition in Germany ) but she never achieved the level of success Pamela Anderson did. Not even Traci Bingham achieved it and she´s build like a porn star - in fact none of the other cast members of BAYWATCH did.
Carmen Electra is the only one who was anywhere near the success level of Pam and she also was in Playboy numerous times. A coincidence ?
Coming back to Erika Eleniak she had some pretty hot scenes in CHASERS ( much less so in THE OPPONENT and STRIKE FORCE a.k.a. THE LIBRARIANS ).
But my favorite movie with her is UNDER SIEGE. Which by the way is called ALARMSTUFE ROT ( Condition Red ) in Germany. That´s what you get when you use german words that make no sense in german - they have to come up with a different name. And that was one of the reasons why it was so difficult for me to find stuff about her until I figured out the original title.
UNDER SIEGE is one of the better Steven Seagal movies which means that his acting is not as bad as in other movies and it also has big stars like Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey and Nick Mancuso. The plot is simple but even though he only beats up smaller guys ( Did you notice that in most movies Steven Seagal only fights people who are smaller than him ? It makes it hard to take him serious. ) it´s a pretty decent action movie.
But the reason why I really like the film is of course Erika Eleniak and her sexy striptease after she comes out of a cake. She really shows some talent there which makes the fact that she never continued in that direction just more tragic. Ahh, the career she could have had stripping.
You can say what you want about Steven Seagal but he sure does have an eye for talent because it has been said that he included Erika Eleniak.
And if that rumor is true he has earned my eternal gratitude for giving the entire world one of the best striptease ever. And her manager who persuaded to take this part and use her stripper skills to the benefit of mankind. I bet he got something out of the deal as well. I know that if it had been me there would have been a few private sessions of rehearsing.
Of course the fabulous striptease is not the only scene where Erika struts her stuff because not only does she have wonderful breasts - she also has a tight derriere. There is also the scene in which she arrives on the ship where she steps out of the helicopter and has something on her shoe.
Erika leans forward to get it off, showing some good cleavage while all the horny sailors stand around drooling, hoping to get an eyeful. I guess they didn´t have to give the male actors much directions on this one.
She then walks past the viewer and the camera zooms in on her incredibly sculpted round and firm butt checks moving and shaking. Holy makarel !!!
Wow ! That has got to be one of the best butts in movies of all times together with sexbomb Kelly Overton working her butt crack in TEKKEN
and - of course - the spectacular Halle Berry in THE LAST BOY SCOUT .
And here´s Erika with her sexy striptease thanks to Steven Seagal who had the balls to include her in the script. I hope he at least got some.
Even if not I bet the strip was one of the scenes they had to do the most takes of. Steven probably had to relieve himself afterwards - if he didn´t get honey Erika to join him. In any case, it is Steven Seagal´s best movie and the one most liked by movie goers so in the end it was for the best.
One last thing about the famous striptease scene from UNDER SIEGE : people always wondered if there was a rivalry between Erika Eleniak and Pamela Anderson and if that was the reason Erika Eleniak left the show.
There are two different versions of the story but I think this article from Jake Davis on FETCH SPORT - which also takes an in depth look at Erika Eleniak´s life and career - comes closest to the truth. According to Pamela Anderson when she auditioned for the role of Jordan Tate in UNDER SIEGE Steven Segal naturally wanted to put her porn star body to the test on the casting couch and told her if she didn´t do it the next girl would do it and she would get the role instead. Pamela refused and so Erika got the role.
According to Pamela Steven Segal used Erika Eleniak as his personal blow up sex doll while Erika Eleniak denies something like this ever happened. I think you have to decide for yourself which version you believe. In any case we still have Erika Eleniak´s steamy striptease in UNDER SIEGE, one of the best in movie history which will excite generations of male movie fans to come. So many happy returns Erika and thanks for the mammaries !
Today´s post has been all about a tv cult siren and playmate that I wanted to do a post about for a very long time so I thought it´s only fair that the first video is also about a telenovela icon and playmate : Aylin Mujica.
I don´t have time to go into all the details here but the 43 year old starred in MARINA ( a telenovela that helped me a great deal ) and another with possibly the best title ever SIN TETAS NO HAY PARADISO ( without tits there is no paradise ). Since the 2015 Erika Eleniak post I eve managed to do one about Aylin Mujica on MARINA . Now you may think that I´m crazy writing about 43 year old tv stars but 40 is the new 24 and Aylin did a photoshoot for the mexican Playboy where she showed : she still got it.
Here is an actual video with Aylin Mujica and her boobs are just out of control. Aylin denies having had plastic surgery - at least not on her breasts - and in a recent interview she also said that she doesn´t see herself as sexy. Which is probably the only reason she never did porn.
Since this post was about stripteases our second clip is from BAILANDO PARA UN SUENO ( Dancing for a Dream ) which is the version of Dancing with the Stars from Argentina. Only the female contestants have bigger breasts, wear less clothing and instead of dancing they are stripping.
In our last Erika Eleniak birthday tribute I posted the famous striptease by übersexbomb Cinthia Fernandez which broke the internet because of it´s explicit nature and made me aware of the show. Today we have kind of a re - post but since it has been four years since we had nymphomanic doule dee cowgirl Virgina Gallardo´s boner inducing performance on the blog I guess there are a lot of first time visitors who have never seen it.
Speaking of hot dance performances, also in out last Erika Eleniak post we had one of the last videos of Daje Monroe but thankfully I found a new one with Didem Kinali. She is one of the best belly dancers on the planet and is it just me or do her breasts look better than ever ? And people tell me the women I draw have unrealistic boobs. They don´t know Didem !
A totally different show is TU CARA ME SUENA from spanish television which could be roughly translated as YOUR FACE LOOKS FAMILIAR although the spanish term " me suena " means something like making sounds or music if you take it literally. So it has kind of a double meaning since people - mostly celebrities - dress up and perform as famous singers.
Because it´s a spanish tv program and not a german one it´s an original idea and most of the performances are quite good. There is one who does an Adele performance almost better than the real thing but Today´s clip is Anna Simon with Marylin Monroe´s DIAMONDS ARE A GIRLS BEST FRIENDS.
Anna Simon is another tv cult icon I wanted to do a post about for a long time but as always I haven´t gotten around to - not yet. As with Aylin Mujica I can´t explain everything about her but she´s a tv institution in Spain. I tried to find a particular clip on YouTube but since I could not find it here´s an animated GIF from one of her best shows. Ay oma, que rico !
Since the clip from spanish cult show TONTERIAS LAS JUSTAS where Anna´s boobs almost spilled out of her tight pink corsage has been deleted here is another clip with one of Spain´s greatest tv moments.
Anna is a guest on the very entertaining show EL HORMIGUERO ( which is highly entertaining, if you are ever in Spain you have to watch this show - provided it´s still on the air ) and her juicy breasts pop open her shirt. If this would have happened on a german tv show we would not get to see anything and the only way we would know it had happened would be from an article on the newspaper. But since this is a spanish tv show they not only taped it but are showing a slow motion for all the viewers at home.
A stereotype many latin women have to deal with is that most foreigners think all latinas have black hair. Just ask Sofia Vergara. Anna is a natural blonde but in one episode of OTRA MOVIDA - another comedy / news / gossip show - she wore a black wig and she looked so stunning that her male co hosts kept hitting on her for the length of the entire episode.
At the moment Anna is one of the hosts of ZAPEANDO together with Cristina Pedroche and Ana Morgade which is the trifecta of hot tv babes.
Or at least one of the trifectas since there are so many hot sexbombs on spanish tv. It seems I only get to write about these spanish sexbombs when I´m writing these re - posts so here is another mega busty iberian massita Paula Prendes whose giant melons almost leap off the tv screen.
If you ask me how best to describe Ana Morgade then I would say she´s like the spanish version of Tina Fey only with a DD breast size - at least. She has a rapier wit, a great sense of humor and a body like a centerfold.
Two years ago I put a whole bunch of Ana Morgade videos here and last year three videos with massita Ximena Cordoba who´s possibly the hottest weather girl on the planet. So this year I´m posting a video of mexican Über Power Girl Ninel Conde who celebrates her 48th birthday Today and whom I have cast as Zatanna in my Justice League casting .
And because of many requests here are more videos with Emanuela Botto.
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Tuesday, February 06, 2018
It´s Comics Titan Tuesday with Rich Buckler
Today is Rich Buckler´s anniversary and I still can´t believe that he passed away just last May. So to pay homage I have decided to make a little post about some of the many comic books from my youth that he worked on.
And make no mistake, he worked on a truckload even if he only did the covers in some cases. Because our last post was a SPIDER - MAN WEEK post I decided to stick to DC titles but even with that limitation it was very difficult to make the final selection. I hope I managed to avoid series that I had in last year´s post but I still tried to include some of his most iconic covers. Last year I also did a THORSDAY post for Rich Buckler but I´m not going to put the link up because there are a few others where I have art from Rich and as longtime readers know I have written a lot of THORSDAY posts and I don´t have the time to go through all of them.
Now as I said I didn´t want to make this another Marvel post or one that has some Marvel stuff in it so there might be another Rich Buckler post in the near future with that. What I am really thinking about is doing a post about all the series he worked on apart from Marvel and DC which includes THE MIGHTY CRUSADERS and the other MLJ heroes but also some ATLAS books ( not the pre - Marvel company, the other ATLAS Comics that Terry Hooper writes about in this post ) and some that are even more obscure.
Now I have included the best original art of Rich Buckler I could find and I also have crammed as many heroes in here that you might only know from movies or tv shows. Naturally my favorites take priority here. And I also included some german covers which are always interesting for the readers overseas. We are starting with the best known ones and make our way through the more obscure to the relatively unknown. Anyway, let´s start.
Apart from the usual thanks to Heritage Auctions, Comic Art Fans, Comixology and I site I can´t name because it´s probably semi - legal but where I have to go to find stuff I can´t get anywhere else we have some links since Rich Buckler worked on so many different books. There are some I keep for future posts that I still hope I can do but here is the rest.
BLACK IS BLACK I WANT MY ROBIN BACK or PROTECTOR THE CHILDREN
One of Rich Buckler´s inkers on the All - Star Squadron ( and a lot of other books ) was Tony DeZuniga and of course I found the interview by Jason Thibault on OPTIMUM WOUND after I mentioned the series Arak, Son Of Thunder ( which was co - created by Tony DeZuniga ) in one of my posts.
I initially wanted to address this in my often postponed New Teen Titans by George Perez Black and White post but CHRIS IS ON INFINITE EARTHS has posts one issue 1 ( by George Perez ) and issue 2 ( by Ross Andru ) of the New Teen Titans Drug Abuse Awareness Specials that I bought last year more out of curiosity and to close a gap in my Teen Titans collection.
They are not the best written Titans comics I´ve ever read but the art is solid and at least they were trying to do something to warn kids of the dangers of taking drugs. You surely won´t see any of this in Todays comics where taking drugs is openly endorsed. For all those who read the Tiny Titans series ( by the way, BEST Teen Titans series in the last 20 year not written by Marv Wolfman ) and wondered who the heck this Protector character was his secret origin is tied to these giveaways. When they were made another company had the license to Robin because they had paid for the rights to use Batman and Robin so they had to come up with a new character to take Robin´s place as leader of the Teen Titans and came up with one of the most generic looking costumes in comic book history.
Now most people have at least heard about the first drug awareness issue and a few like myself may be aware there was a second issue but when I went back to check the posts to link them I found out that there was even a third issue. The art on this was done by Adrian Gonzales and this is probably the Holy Grail for collectors of oddball Teen Titans paraphernalia.
Speaking about cringe worthy moments in Teen Titans history, back in the day between the old Teen Titans and the restarts of the New Teen Titans the powers that be at DC were doing a lot of stuff to get kids reading the book by introducing such characters like Bumblebee and the Joker´s daughter. They also tried to do what the SJWs are doing now which was creating a new black character who would then join the Teen titans only to have a black character on the team - without having any idea what to do with him or what his story ought to be. Naturally Mal Duncan turned into a huge catastrophe but at least DC learned their lesson - unlike the SJWs - and didn´t repeat their mistakes when they created Cyborg later.
Who by the way belongs in the Teen Titans and has no business being in the Justice League of America. So if you want to know everything about Mal Duncan - what a weird name - OUT OF THIS WORLD can hook you up.
Apropos, one of the more obscure books - at least to newer comic readers - Rich Buckler worked on at Marvel is Killraven - although not as obscure as Skull the Slayer or Reagan´s Raiders - so for all who have never heard of him and only know him from his cameo on Guardians of the Galaxy MIKE LUOMA`S COSMIC CRACKLE has a megalong post about his entire history.
We start our - as always highly selective depending on whether there are any connections to hot chicks or any videos I got bookmarked or at least an interesting story I can tell - celebrity birthday rundown of the day with the always delightful Alice Eve who you might have seen in films like The Raven, Men In Black 3 or Star Trek : Into Darkness and who turns 36.
I know that I posted a video with her last year but as far as I can tell this is my last video with her I have bookmarked so unless I can find a new one in the meantime we will have somebody else taking her spot in next years Rich Buckler birthday post. If I get to write one that year. You never know.
We are staying in England as Rick Astley celebrates his 52nd birthday.
Sometimes it´s funny how things work out. I remember that Rick Astley and Kylie Minogue started out around the same time. But while all music critics attested a long and prosperous career for Rick Astley because of his obvious great talent most people said Kylie Minogue would never amount to much more than a one hit wonder. In fact, one of the vj´s at Mtv - way back when they were a music channel - Steve Blame ( the guy who looks like Leghorn´s secret brother separated at birth ) went on record that she was nothing more than a one hit wonder and called I Should Be So Lucky the worst written song of all time. Adding fuel to the fire was the fact that for some uncanny reason if you play a Rick Astley song faster it sounds exactly like Kylie Minogue ( or if you prefer it, if you play a Kylie Minogue song slower it sounds exactly like Rick Astley ) which led to the rumour that Kylie was not really singing her songs and that - since they were both under contract at Stock, Aitken & Waterman - it was really Rick Astley. Nobody even thought for a moment that it might be the reverse although Kylie had two big talents of her own as she demonstrates here.
Like I said, funny how things work out as Today Kylie Minogue is the big star while Rick Astley remains just a footnote that only a handful of people remember although I have to say that I always liked his music.
Nonetheless I´m not above shamelessly using the opportunity to link to a tumblr I came across with animated GIFs from her videos Better The Devil You Know and Step Back In Time and her number 2 and number 3 sexiest videos of all times. As you might have guessed from the GIF above my all time favorite is Give Me Just A Little More Time. Ah, what wouldn´t I have done to Kylie " Geile " Minogue if I had met her in my sexual prime.
Coming a close second to Give Me Just A Little More Time is of course I Just Can´t Get You Out Of My Head even if Kylie´s assistant prevented any wardrobe malfunctions during the video. Which is hypocritical as Kylie´s outfit is made for that. It´s the prototype " f - word me " - dress and the closest thing you get to going full frontal while being dressed.
Anyway, Kylie´s performance has been often imitated but I really don´t want to say that it has never been duplicated because there are some versions which maybe don´t surpass it but come very close. As always I´m letting you be the judge. I already posted Anna Simon´s bonerinducing version from Tu Cara Me Suena but for all that missed it here it is one more time together with the stunning performance of Rocio Guirao Diaz.
Also born on this day was another pop culture icon, Patrick Macnee, who is of course best known as John Steed in Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone where he was the constant to an ever changing crime fighting duo and sometimes trio although the classic version was his partnership with Emma Peel played by the just divine Diana Rigg. Yes, I always had trouble calling the series The Avengers because for me that team was Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye, the Vision and the likes. I remember when I first saw something about The Avengers tv series in one of the first orderbooks and thought I had found a lost gem of tv entertainment about the World´s Mightiest Heroes. Picture my disappointment when I found out that it was only a normal team of spys without any superpowers. The humanity of it !
Now as I have already posted all my Diana Rigg videos and it´s Patrick Macnee´s birthday anyway I should include something about him.
I´ve already added the documentary about The Avengers elsewhere on the blog but there is another series in which he appeared that I am a bit more familiar with since it aired in the 90s. Yes, as many readers know I am fond of what other people may consider the trashy side of pop culture.
Make no mistake, Thunder In Paradise definitely falls into that category.
Compared to this Acapulco H.E.A.T. is like Shakespeare although like all good ( or is that bad ? ) shows from the 1990s it includes a certain amount of hot bikini babes which they go to great lengths to make the viewers aware of them as they put it right in the intro of the very first episode.
Well, I think it´s the first episode. I didn´t have the time to go through all videos of Thunder In Paradies on YouTube so I bookmarked the three longest one that have the best quality and this is the last one of them.
After this I will have to look for others. By the way, the brunette sebomb in the yellow bikini from the first video I posted looks a bit like Teri Weigel before her boob job. Can anybody out there confirm or deny that´s her ?
As for why there are so many random bikini babes in shows like these, the bikini babes serve two purposes here ( and I´m saying this without any double meaning ) : the first one is to keep the male audience who was clearly the main target here hooked. A famous crime fiction writer once said that if things get too boring you send in two guys with machine guns.
The same principle works with televison shows, dudes and bikini babes.
The second purpose is to get an actor of the caliber like Patrick Macnee with a pedigree on a show like this and to keep him interested. Some people may scoff at this but including a lot of hot women in a show does wonders for the morale. If you don´t believe that ask yourself : if you had the same job but were surrounded by hot women in swimsuits would you not be happier at the end of the day ? Now one of the things I noticed when I went through all the videos is how colorful everything was back then. The comic books were like that and definitely the tv shows. And you may say that I just included this for the hot bikini babes or maybe Carol Alt but that´s not it. If you are looking for intellectually stimulating stories portrayed by the greatest actors America has to offer you will be disappointed. But if you want to see a highly entertaining show with tons of wrestlers guest starring from their heyday and cheap special effects you have come to the right place. This show was produced by the guys from Baywatch and Hulk Hogan quit the WWF to film the series. He then met with Eric Bishop and after the end of the show he went to the WCW.
Now originally I had another episode of The Secrets of Isis here since I grab every opportunity to put more out there but because I then found out that I did indeed have one last video left of Thunder In Paradise I took it out again because they were both from tv shows. Instead here is a video about Esteban Maroto. I always like to include videos where you see creators draw and he really deserves the title comic artist. With all the noise about american super hero comics I sometimes forget that there is a big part of the european comic market that has nothing to do with capes or spandex which is just as valid and sometimes even has better artwork.
Likewise I changed this video because I want to safe the clip from Super Friends with Wonder Woman for my upcoming post on Mike Deodato´s run on the book. This is a compilation from The Beasts are Coming, one of the creepier episodes of the show and while it says part 1 there is no need to search on YouTube for part 2 because there is no part 2. It´s all a scam !
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Craters of Wegthor !
And make no mistake, he worked on a truckload even if he only did the covers in some cases. Because our last post was a SPIDER - MAN WEEK post I decided to stick to DC titles but even with that limitation it was very difficult to make the final selection. I hope I managed to avoid series that I had in last year´s post but I still tried to include some of his most iconic covers. Last year I also did a THORSDAY post for Rich Buckler but I´m not going to put the link up because there are a few others where I have art from Rich and as longtime readers know I have written a lot of THORSDAY posts and I don´t have the time to go through all of them.
Now as I said I didn´t want to make this another Marvel post or one that has some Marvel stuff in it so there might be another Rich Buckler post in the near future with that. What I am really thinking about is doing a post about all the series he worked on apart from Marvel and DC which includes THE MIGHTY CRUSADERS and the other MLJ heroes but also some ATLAS books ( not the pre - Marvel company, the other ATLAS Comics that Terry Hooper writes about in this post ) and some that are even more obscure.
Now I have included the best original art of Rich Buckler I could find and I also have crammed as many heroes in here that you might only know from movies or tv shows. Naturally my favorites take priority here. And I also included some german covers which are always interesting for the readers overseas. We are starting with the best known ones and make our way through the more obscure to the relatively unknown. Anyway, let´s start.
Apart from the usual thanks to Heritage Auctions, Comic Art Fans, Comixology and I site I can´t name because it´s probably semi - legal but where I have to go to find stuff I can´t get anywhere else we have some links since Rich Buckler worked on so many different books. There are some I keep for future posts that I still hope I can do but here is the rest.
BLACK IS BLACK I WANT MY ROBIN BACK or PROTECTOR THE CHILDREN
One of Rich Buckler´s inkers on the All - Star Squadron ( and a lot of other books ) was Tony DeZuniga and of course I found the interview by Jason Thibault on OPTIMUM WOUND after I mentioned the series Arak, Son Of Thunder ( which was co - created by Tony DeZuniga ) in one of my posts.
I initially wanted to address this in my often postponed New Teen Titans by George Perez Black and White post but CHRIS IS ON INFINITE EARTHS has posts one issue 1 ( by George Perez ) and issue 2 ( by Ross Andru ) of the New Teen Titans Drug Abuse Awareness Specials that I bought last year more out of curiosity and to close a gap in my Teen Titans collection.
They are not the best written Titans comics I´ve ever read but the art is solid and at least they were trying to do something to warn kids of the dangers of taking drugs. You surely won´t see any of this in Todays comics where taking drugs is openly endorsed. For all those who read the Tiny Titans series ( by the way, BEST Teen Titans series in the last 20 year not written by Marv Wolfman ) and wondered who the heck this Protector character was his secret origin is tied to these giveaways. When they were made another company had the license to Robin because they had paid for the rights to use Batman and Robin so they had to come up with a new character to take Robin´s place as leader of the Teen Titans and came up with one of the most generic looking costumes in comic book history.
Now most people have at least heard about the first drug awareness issue and a few like myself may be aware there was a second issue but when I went back to check the posts to link them I found out that there was even a third issue. The art on this was done by Adrian Gonzales and this is probably the Holy Grail for collectors of oddball Teen Titans paraphernalia.
Speaking about cringe worthy moments in Teen Titans history, back in the day between the old Teen Titans and the restarts of the New Teen Titans the powers that be at DC were doing a lot of stuff to get kids reading the book by introducing such characters like Bumblebee and the Joker´s daughter. They also tried to do what the SJWs are doing now which was creating a new black character who would then join the Teen titans only to have a black character on the team - without having any idea what to do with him or what his story ought to be. Naturally Mal Duncan turned into a huge catastrophe but at least DC learned their lesson - unlike the SJWs - and didn´t repeat their mistakes when they created Cyborg later.
Who by the way belongs in the Teen Titans and has no business being in the Justice League of America. So if you want to know everything about Mal Duncan - what a weird name - OUT OF THIS WORLD can hook you up.
Apropos, one of the more obscure books - at least to newer comic readers - Rich Buckler worked on at Marvel is Killraven - although not as obscure as Skull the Slayer or Reagan´s Raiders - so for all who have never heard of him and only know him from his cameo on Guardians of the Galaxy MIKE LUOMA`S COSMIC CRACKLE has a megalong post about his entire history.
We start our - as always highly selective depending on whether there are any connections to hot chicks or any videos I got bookmarked or at least an interesting story I can tell - celebrity birthday rundown of the day with the always delightful Alice Eve who you might have seen in films like The Raven, Men In Black 3 or Star Trek : Into Darkness and who turns 36.
I know that I posted a video with her last year but as far as I can tell this is my last video with her I have bookmarked so unless I can find a new one in the meantime we will have somebody else taking her spot in next years Rich Buckler birthday post. If I get to write one that year. You never know.
We are staying in England as Rick Astley celebrates his 52nd birthday.
Sometimes it´s funny how things work out. I remember that Rick Astley and Kylie Minogue started out around the same time. But while all music critics attested a long and prosperous career for Rick Astley because of his obvious great talent most people said Kylie Minogue would never amount to much more than a one hit wonder. In fact, one of the vj´s at Mtv - way back when they were a music channel - Steve Blame ( the guy who looks like Leghorn´s secret brother separated at birth ) went on record that she was nothing more than a one hit wonder and called I Should Be So Lucky the worst written song of all time. Adding fuel to the fire was the fact that for some uncanny reason if you play a Rick Astley song faster it sounds exactly like Kylie Minogue ( or if you prefer it, if you play a Kylie Minogue song slower it sounds exactly like Rick Astley ) which led to the rumour that Kylie was not really singing her songs and that - since they were both under contract at Stock, Aitken & Waterman - it was really Rick Astley. Nobody even thought for a moment that it might be the reverse although Kylie had two big talents of her own as she demonstrates here.
Like I said, funny how things work out as Today Kylie Minogue is the big star while Rick Astley remains just a footnote that only a handful of people remember although I have to say that I always liked his music.
Nonetheless I´m not above shamelessly using the opportunity to link to a tumblr I came across with animated GIFs from her videos Better The Devil You Know and Step Back In Time and her number 2 and number 3 sexiest videos of all times. As you might have guessed from the GIF above my all time favorite is Give Me Just A Little More Time. Ah, what wouldn´t I have done to Kylie " Geile " Minogue if I had met her in my sexual prime.
Coming a close second to Give Me Just A Little More Time is of course I Just Can´t Get You Out Of My Head even if Kylie´s assistant prevented any wardrobe malfunctions during the video. Which is hypocritical as Kylie´s outfit is made for that. It´s the prototype " f - word me " - dress and the closest thing you get to going full frontal while being dressed.
Anyway, Kylie´s performance has been often imitated but I really don´t want to say that it has never been duplicated because there are some versions which maybe don´t surpass it but come very close. As always I´m letting you be the judge. I already posted Anna Simon´s bonerinducing version from Tu Cara Me Suena but for all that missed it here it is one more time together with the stunning performance of Rocio Guirao Diaz.
Also born on this day was another pop culture icon, Patrick Macnee, who is of course best known as John Steed in Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone where he was the constant to an ever changing crime fighting duo and sometimes trio although the classic version was his partnership with Emma Peel played by the just divine Diana Rigg. Yes, I always had trouble calling the series The Avengers because for me that team was Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, Hawkeye, the Vision and the likes. I remember when I first saw something about The Avengers tv series in one of the first orderbooks and thought I had found a lost gem of tv entertainment about the World´s Mightiest Heroes. Picture my disappointment when I found out that it was only a normal team of spys without any superpowers. The humanity of it !
Now as I have already posted all my Diana Rigg videos and it´s Patrick Macnee´s birthday anyway I should include something about him.
I´ve already added the documentary about The Avengers elsewhere on the blog but there is another series in which he appeared that I am a bit more familiar with since it aired in the 90s. Yes, as many readers know I am fond of what other people may consider the trashy side of pop culture.
Make no mistake, Thunder In Paradise definitely falls into that category.
Compared to this Acapulco H.E.A.T. is like Shakespeare although like all good ( or is that bad ? ) shows from the 1990s it includes a certain amount of hot bikini babes which they go to great lengths to make the viewers aware of them as they put it right in the intro of the very first episode.
Well, I think it´s the first episode. I didn´t have the time to go through all videos of Thunder In Paradies on YouTube so I bookmarked the three longest one that have the best quality and this is the last one of them.
After this I will have to look for others. By the way, the brunette sebomb in the yellow bikini from the first video I posted looks a bit like Teri Weigel before her boob job. Can anybody out there confirm or deny that´s her ?
As for why there are so many random bikini babes in shows like these, the bikini babes serve two purposes here ( and I´m saying this without any double meaning ) : the first one is to keep the male audience who was clearly the main target here hooked. A famous crime fiction writer once said that if things get too boring you send in two guys with machine guns.
The same principle works with televison shows, dudes and bikini babes.
The second purpose is to get an actor of the caliber like Patrick Macnee with a pedigree on a show like this and to keep him interested. Some people may scoff at this but including a lot of hot women in a show does wonders for the morale. If you don´t believe that ask yourself : if you had the same job but were surrounded by hot women in swimsuits would you not be happier at the end of the day ? Now one of the things I noticed when I went through all the videos is how colorful everything was back then. The comic books were like that and definitely the tv shows. And you may say that I just included this for the hot bikini babes or maybe Carol Alt but that´s not it. If you are looking for intellectually stimulating stories portrayed by the greatest actors America has to offer you will be disappointed. But if you want to see a highly entertaining show with tons of wrestlers guest starring from their heyday and cheap special effects you have come to the right place. This show was produced by the guys from Baywatch and Hulk Hogan quit the WWF to film the series. He then met with Eric Bishop and after the end of the show he went to the WCW.
Now originally I had another episode of The Secrets of Isis here since I grab every opportunity to put more out there but because I then found out that I did indeed have one last video left of Thunder In Paradise I took it out again because they were both from tv shows. Instead here is a video about Esteban Maroto. I always like to include videos where you see creators draw and he really deserves the title comic artist. With all the noise about american super hero comics I sometimes forget that there is a big part of the european comic market that has nothing to do with capes or spandex which is just as valid and sometimes even has better artwork.
Likewise I changed this video because I want to safe the clip from Super Friends with Wonder Woman for my upcoming post on Mike Deodato´s run on the book. This is a compilation from The Beasts are Coming, one of the creepier episodes of the show and while it says part 1 there is no need to search on YouTube for part 2 because there is no part 2. It´s all a scam !
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