It´s that feeling of DEJA VUE things again !

Like promised - or threatened depending on if you like these posts or not - here is a selection of all the different interpretations of the poster from John Carpenter´s classic horror / sci fi movie THE THING with Kurt Russell.

I hoped to do this earlier but the fun block of my last post evolved into a real marathon writing session so I only finished with it Yesterday. Then the devastating news of Bernie Wrightson´s death hit. I thought about doing a special post for that but it´s still too early and I really don´t know what to say to that. Since Bernie worked mostly on DC titles I didn´t want to put it up directly after THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD 4 and frankly speaking with four DC posts already lined up - GREEN LANTERN issue 96, GREEN ARROW issue 130 and then FLASH issue 135 I don not know if I can keep to my schedule. Dong one post every day is grueling and I still have to catch up on two days of sleep as it is. Even I´m only human. In any case, I´ll try to finish this post quickly so maybe I can do the GREEN LANTERN post Today.

As for the different versions of John Carpenter´s THE THING, I found a lot of them on DevianArt and you can see who made them from the name. Unless they didn´t give the picture a specific name in which case I´m sorry. I can´t include all the links for all the pictures - especially since I´m not sure where I found some of them - but if one of your pictures is included here and you want me to put up a link for you e - mail me or contact me via the comments. I have tried to make the selection as diverse as possible so if your picture is not in here it doesn´t mean it´s not good enough but rather that somebody else did a similar version.

Well, doing the birthday section has taken longer than expected so I won´t bother with going through my bookmarks a third time to look for any links that might fit Today´s topic ( and I doubt that I would find any if I did ) so let´s get right to the part you all are really waiting for : the bonus round with lots of comic stuff, pop culture trivia and a plethora of busty babes. And we start with a comic related birthday although the real year of birth of David Hine, one of the deranged masterminds behind The Bulletproof Coffin and The Bulletproof Coffin : Disinterred is unknown.

Maybe he IS really just a figment of our collective imagination and there is on real David Hine. Be that as it may what IS most definitely real are the Bulletproof Coffin comic books which longtime readers of this blog may remember me pimping as the best comic you are not reading and also the best new version of WATCHMEN without trying to be the new version of WATCHMEN. High praise indeed but I am not kidding you it´s all deserved.

I discovered this comic thanks to Terry Hooper´s fantastic blog COMIC BITS ONLINE ( which you all should follow religiously as long as it lasts ) and if I should describe it to somebody in a short sentence I would probably say it is Alan Moore and Grant Morrison going on a peyote induced trip after drinking too much tequila drawn by Jack Kirby meets Geoff Darrow with every pop culture thing you love thrown in from dinosaurs to zombies.

I know that a lot of people are put off by the art reminiscent of old pulp comics but let me tell you it does not only grow on you from issue to issue but while you read you suddenly understand why it couldn´t possibly be drawn in any other art style. This comic has my highest recommendation and if you don´t enjoy the heck out of this comic you are probably not a genuine pop culture geek and only picked up a comic because it´s trendy.

And it´s okay if you don´t believe me, but before you say " Hogwash ! " and turn your attention to other things maybe you would rather put your trust in Nevs Coleman on FILTHY ORPHAN or P. M. Buchan at STARBURST who has everything you need to know about The Bulletproof Coffin new and old in one place. JOSHUA MALBIN has a short review of the first issue of The Bullteproof Coffin with some preview pages and if you are not afraid of spoilers got to David Brothers post on COMICS ALLIANCE for the complete first issue plus some preview pages from issue 5 ( he also has a post on the special cut - up technique used in The Bulletproof Coffin : Disinterred issue 5 ) or you can read COMICS RECOMMENDED´s spoiler filled review of the first series and THE OUTHOUSERS has some preview pages from the first issue of The Bulletproof Coffin : Disinterred book.

Now the first celebrity birthday where I know the year of birth is Christy Carlson Romano who turns 33 and if that name does not sound familiar her voice probably would since she voiced Kim Possible. For some reason my brother gave me season one and season two as a Christmas present but halfway through the first season I got distracted with something else and at the moment I´m just too lazy to go through all the episodes again to find out which ones I have seen and which ones I have not. And there´s so much other stuff on my to watch list that it´s not even funny. I´m also torn in which language I should watch it since usually I just stick with the original but it doesn´t have such funny creations like Bittedankeschön !

And speaking about different languages, since everybody is familiar with the original Kim Possible theme song by Christina Milian - and I´m saving that one up for her birthday post - here is the french version by Priscilla.



Maybe it´s just me but I think Disney forfeit a great opportunity to make money when they squandered the possibility to make a real live action Kim Possible movie with Lindsay Lohan when she was at her prime.

Speaking about women who kick butt, Freema Agyeman celebrates her 38th birthday who played Martha Jones on Doctor Who, just the best companion ever and not only because she was absolutely hot. She was seriously underused and had a difficult time with fans because she came right on the heels of Rose. I don´t know if I found the GIF below at THE WHONIVERSE tumblr but you can sure find more Martha Jones GIFs there.

And if you need further proof that Martha Jones was on the mind of all male Whovians : she was the first companion to be featured in episode one of the Doctor Who porn version. You know that you have arrived in entertainment mainstream when they make a porn version about you.

Now since I wanted to post a Doctor Who video with Freema Agyeman I thought I had to look for one but then I remembered that Brianna from FandomReactions is currently binge watching the series before the new season starts and her latest reaction video is Martha Jones´ first episode.

I have to admit I have become addicted to reaction videos especially with the CW series. Since I can´t watch those with anybody in my family it´s my way to re - watch the episodes and see other people´s reaction. Which is especially interesting with something where you have already seen all the episodes and you know what is coming like with Doctor Who. Anyway, I don´t think I have mentioned the girls from FandomReactions before and I have them to thank for the Justice League fan film I posted because I´m not always up to date on anything involving social media.



Janine Kunze turns 43 who is best known as Carmen Krause from Tom Gerhardt´s brilliant comedy series Hausmeister Krause - Ordnung muß sein. The blonde knockout showed her curves in Knocking On Heaven´s Door and a guest appearance on Die Rote Meile and if you happen to own a copy of the September issue of the german edition of the PLAYBOY of 2002 you might want to keep it safe since she won´t do another nude photoshoot. Not so much for her hubby but more because her daughter is slowly getting to the age where the male classmates get interested in sex and having them drool over nude pictures of her Mom would probably lead down to some therapy sessions down the line. Although I´m not sure how effective that is going to be since you can find anything on the internet.

Janine is a frequent guest on various shows but I picked a video from Extreme Activity because it has the highest babe ratio. As you might have guessed from the preview picture german Busenwunder Verone Pooth is the real eye catcher which explains why she was on the show so many times. So far I have not gotten around to make a post on Verona but maybe I can do it this year. The only problem is that I still haven´t found the video with her wardrobe malfunction on Stefan Raab´s Tv Total.

I had three videos with Verona Pooth and Janine Kunze on Extreme Activity but I´m saving the other for the third person´s next birthday.




Now our next candidate put me in a dilemma because Bernhard Hoecker, who celebrates his 47th birthday, is a frequent guest on Genial Daneben - as are Janine Kunze and Verona Pooth. So far I haven´t found a video with all three of them - which would have made things easier considerably - and since I don´t want to have two videos with Verona Pooth in a row unless it is her solo post here is a clip from Switch Reloaded ! to diversify things.



Naturally I could not choose anything else than their version of Tatjana Ohm, the Jessica Rabbit of news tv very aptly played by Martina Hill.

Of course since then life has not only imitated art ( which in turn imitated life ) but turned it upside down completely with mega busty albanian sexbomb Enki Barcaj, the breast braless news reader in the whole world.

By the way, while I am trying to put all videos of Enki Bracaj on the blog as quickly as possible I am not going to make a new GIF for every new video. Making them is very time consuming so unless somebody else out there wants to jump into the breach ( I swear, so far I have found no GIFs of Enki ) I´m just going to re - use the same one over and over again.



We are slowly coming to the end of this post as controversial film director Spike Lee turns 60 who is known for making social issues the focal point of his movies and giving Rosie Perez her breakthrough in Do The Right Thing.

Before doing the right thing latin sexbomb Rosie was doing the dance thing on the show Soul Train which is where Spike Lee discovered her.



From Oscar winning director Spike Lee we come to Oscar winning actor who celebrates his 67th anniversary. I can´t list his complete list of films but he has been in comic book movie adaptions like A History Of Violence and the Hulk movies where he was General Thaddeus " Thunderball " Ross.

Now the question on everyone´s mind is if William Hurt will become the Red Hulk in the next Avengers movie since the Ross in the comics went down that road. I´m not so sure about that happening since Disney has made Ross the Secretary Of State in the last movie which is something that has not happened in the comics. I sure would hope they would finally give an actor of William Hurt´s pedigree more to do in the movie universe.



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Starting the October with Richard Corben

Today Richard Corben celebrates his 76th birthday so I thought is there a better way to kick off the new month ? Of course I already had a few of his pictures in a special folder but there were some comics I wanted to feature for which I had to consult the internet so I´m running late.

I first saw Richard Corben´s art in my older brother´s issues of the german version of french cult comic magazine METAL HURLANT, SCHWERMETALL and what made me an instant fan - beyond his photorealistic art and incredible coloring - was the way he drew women. I always tended more to the kind of female body type Russ Meyer showed in his movies and it seems Richard Corben also likes his women more voluptuous. When doing a post about Richard Corben there are some pieces of art where nudity can not be avoided but I hope we are all mature enough to handle it.

As always I am not trying to cram all of Richard Corben´s work into one post - which would be impossible - but I hope I included some diversity to what I picked. I still haven´t read his latest specials for Dark Horse, not to mention RAT GOD which is still in my amazon shopping cart, so those may have gotten the short end of the stick. I HAVE done posts about Richard Corben before, about his Hellboy stories and his adaptions of such literary horror like Edgar Allen Poe or H. P. Lovecraft so just click the " richard corben " tag if you want to read those. And for more comics and essays about Richard Corben you can find those - as always - in the link section.

There are plenty of links to mention and I should probably start with Pete Dorre´s THE BRONZE AGE OF BLOGS who has a plethora on posts about Richard Corben where you can read complete stories, COMIC ATTACK and its post on Hot Stuff 1 with plenty of original art, not only from Richard Corben, ( it´s where I found the page of Bug ) and MIFFED IN CLIFFTON has a megalong post on Richard Corben where I found one or two pictures.

Sean Witzke at COMICS ALLIANCE takes a very detailed look at Richard Corben´s great issue of Solo for DC, Alberto Garcia Marcos a.k.a. el tio berni over at ZONA NEGATIVA gives a pretty detailed overview of Richard Corben´s work in La Otra America : Richard Corben that provided the page of interior art from Epic Illustrated 2, 4TH LETTER has another post on Richard Corben and you can read about the influence Richard Corben´s Den had on Hal Hefner´s comic book Gates on HAL HEFNER`S WEBSITE .

We start Today´s birthdays with tv personality Daniela Katzenberger who turns 30 and at first I thought wikipedia had done a mistake when they translated her german entry but it turns out that a restaurateur is NOT somebody who restores paintings ( that would be a restorer ) but a person who opens and runs restaurants professionally. I guess that´s why they mostly use the term conservator instead of restorer in english to avoid any mistakes. Although it is not the same to just conserve things.

What wikipedia DID get right is that Daniela is also a model, tv presenter, singer and as of late actress and book author. I haven´t seen enough of her own tv show to really make a qualified assessment - there are other people who have done that in detail - but I don´t think she lacks any talent. I´ve seen an episode where she was booked as a model and when she finally started to listen to the photographer she did an excellent job and the photographer was blown away by her professionalism. The only model I ever was was for the local hair dresser because he said my hair was good to work with and grew back very quick ( I guess that´s gone now with my age ) but I don´t think being a model is as easy as people think.

Because then everybody would do it. And while people are already talking about the Katzenberger Effekt I think with Daniela we have something like Pamela Anderson because as I said numerous times there were a lot of good looking women on Baywatch and many people say also more talented but none of them managed to use their popularity to boost their career.

There are a few people who come out of the reality tv thing and in most cases it are the ones who stay true to themselves. Anyway, since she is so famous Daniela Katzenberger is naturally one of the women parodied by Martina Hill ( who does a version of Tatjana Ohm, Germany´s Jessica Rabbit of news tv that is even better than the real thing ) on Switch Reloaded for which she even won a german tv award in October 2012.



We are staying with hot women who started out as models but we are making the jump from Germany to Spain where Mar Saura celebrates her 41st birthday. In her case wikipedia needs to be updated because while it mentions her appearace in Los Mysterios De Laura it doesn´t acknowledge that she played a big role in season two of El Ministerio Del Tiempo one of Spain´s most successful series which I have mentioned a few times before. Since I try to pimp the series as much as I can I was looking for an episode with her or some good scenes but there are mostly interviews so I´m leaving you with Mar Saura´s biggest impact on spanish tv history : her sexy wardrobe malfunction on the show Verano Noche ( Summer Night ).

Speaking about great moments in tv history brings us to Sonia Monroy who turns 44. She became famous as a member of the aptly named all busty pop group Las Sex Bombs whose debut album sold 50,000 copies in Spain and went gold. She also was on the spanish version of Survivor and her best appearance was on a talk show where she wore a dress with the mother of all cleavages even rivaling Kylie minogue´s plunging mega cleavage in I Just Can´t Get You Out Of My Head and it´s a miracle she didn´t have a wardrobe malfunction although the dress didn´t leave anything to the imagination where her 38D airbags are concerned either.

Back when I spent my summer vacations in Spain I always tried to tape as much of spanish tv as I could because it had to help me survive german tv for the rest of the year. So one year I was very tired when I finally arrived home and decided to leave setting up the vcr for the next day and Sonia Monroy´s appearance was the first thing I saw on spanish tv. I set up the vcr the next day but of course the show was not repeated and it took me a few years to find even some small clip on the internet. From then on setting up the vcr was always one of the first things I did when I came back home. Anyway, I coudn´t find any clip from this on YouTube which may be for the best because I don´t want to have too many videos of the same kind in one post. I uploaded one of the videos I found on my old blog and if there is enough reader interest I will do the same here. Otherwise it takes too long and I want to keep the uploads for the important things.

Apropos my summer vacations in Spain, that´s also when I got to see the uncensored version of late night movies of bad reputation and bad taste like Dr. Alien, Scream Queen Hot Tub Party, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers or Evil Toons with Michelle Bauer who celebrates her 58th birthday.

Speaking about cult sirens, Tara Buckman turns 60 who is best known for her role as one of the Lamborghini Babes in the Cannonball Run movie.

Readers may remember that I mentioned this video on Andrea Bocelli´s birthday and that I promised to post it on Andre Rieu´s next anniversary. Well, Today he celebrates his 67th birthday and I am a man of my word. 



We are staying with people who have a great voice as Julie Andrews turns 81 who is best known for her roles in Mary Poppins and The Sound Of Music and I have to admit that the only pieces of the latter one I know are those I have seen in compilations of various musicals at the Oscar Awards.

Now I didn´t find The Sound Of Music on You'Tube but you never know what you might stumble upon instead while looking for other stuff.



Our Dearly Departed section starts with Phillipe Noiret who has appeared in over 150 movies during his illustrious career so I might be forgiven for only mentioning two. The first one is Revenge Of The Musketeers about which I have written before since Sophie Marceau plays the daughter of D´Artagnan ( played by Phillipe Noiret ) and shows her breasts in a scene. The movie is finally available on amazon although at a very steep price.

Another great movie with Phillipe Noiret is Il Postino called The Postman in english which always gets it mixed up with Kevin Costner´s Postman. Which is also a great movie. As some readers might know I worked almost a year at the post office where my brother is still employed and I told him if I was still actively delivering mail I would watch the Kevin Costner movie at least one a week. Back to the Postman movie with Phillipe Noiret he plays world famous poet Pablo Neruda who lived in exile on Salina Island near Sicily during the 1950s. He befriends the local postman and decides to help him to win the heart of his love Beatrice played by Maria Grazia Cucinotta whom I cast as Big Barda in the first part of my Hollywood Edition of Casting The Justice League Of America Movie. Which also has Sophie Marceau as Justice League Europe liaison Catherine Colbert. 

Next up we have Richard Harris who for me is always the guy from A Man Called Horse which was a horror movie for me with the native american ritual ( people who have seen the movie know what I´m talking about ). When I see such scenes my skin begins to crawl even if it´s only depicted in graphic form like in Mike Grell´s Shaman´s Tears. There are two german versions of the movie available, one for ages 12 and up which is identical with the american r - rated version and one for ages 16 and up and you can see the differences and what was cut here . Coming back to Richard Harris, when he was not hanging around as a native american he appeared in such movies like Cassandra Crossing with Sophia Loren, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame with Salma Hayek ( which I already posted ) and The Wild Geese with Richard Burton, Roger Moore, Stewart Granger and Hardy Krüger. That movie was also heavily censored in the german version . 

Speaking of Sophia Loren, she co starred with Walter Matthau, our last celebrity birthday in the Grumpy Old Men movies where he teamed up once again with Jack Lemmon his partner in his most famous movie The Odd Couple. The movie was so successful that it spawned a tv series with Quincy M. E.´s Jack Klugman playing the part of Walter Matthau and Tony Randall substituting for Jack Lemmon. This was must see tv during my generation but there is a whole new generation who are oblivious to that which I realized in an episode of 21 Jump Street my younger brother was watching. One of the characters was evicted and while he was wandering the city looking for a new place to stay they were playing the famous music from The Odd Couple and he had no clue whatsoever what that was about. Coming back to Walter Matthau he also starred in a comic related movie as the grumpy neighbour George Wilson in Dennis The Menace and he was the uncredited drunk in Earthquake with Victoria Principal. 

Since a lot of Richard Corben´s early work was published in the Warren publications Eerie and Creepy here is a video with Esteban Maroto who contributed to many issues of those and also the Vampirella magazine.



I´m ending the post with Richard Corben video although I would have preferred one where you see him drawing or at least some art. But since I already posted the video with the Richard Corben art in an earlier post I looked around and I found this low budget movie adaption of Neverwhere.



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