Not by George : Logan´s Run Aftermath !

Going over the posts of the last weeks I realized that I was so overworked with all the birthday posts that I totally forgot to post another issue of Marvel´s LOGAN`S RUN so I don´t have to think twice what to post Today.

As I have mentioned in earlier posts this and the next issue are not done by George Perez but since there are only two issues left of the series I thought, what the heck, why not include them ? Now I had to do a bit of research here but it seems that Marvel thought it had a good thing going and wanted to continue with the series. So they were in negotiations with MGM and that took up so much time that they could only do a twelve part story in this issue. They did a full story in issue seven and according to internet sources were already working on issues 8 and 9 when MGM told them that they did not have the license to produce any stories beyond the movie adaptation and the title was immediately dropped. There are people who say that it was due to low sales figure ( which probably kicked in once they went beyond the familiar territory of the movie ) and high licensing fees but the truth is they didn´t get approval. Which is kind of a shame when you read in the letters column how exited they are.

Anyway, Today´s story titled  Aftermath ! is written by John Warner with art by Tom Sutton and inks by Terry Austin. And if you haven´t checked out our previous installments use the following links to read issue 1 , issue 2 , issue 3 , issue 4 and issue 5 of George Perez´ LOGAN`S RUN.

Since the lead story was only 12 pages long they put a 5 page backup story by Scott Edelman with early art by Mike Zeck in which Thanos and Drax the Destroyer battle in the comic to fill out the issue. This is the reason why this back issue is so expensive as it hadn´t been reprinted. I think lately it has appeared in a few collections like the ANNIHILATION CLASSIC hardcover which looks like just a quick scam to get some money out of fans of Annihilation or The Guardians of the Galaxy. Because they did just include random issues instead of the first appearances of the members of this new team. I guess they thought Drax´ first appearance in IRON MAN 55 was not as exciting as this story plus this was never reprinted before.  

And with that we come to the entertainment block but not without first giving thanks to SPACE : 1970 , JUNK FOOD FOR THOUGHT and SUPER MEGA MONKEY`S MARVEL COMIC CHRONOLOGY for much needed info.

First up is Morena Baccarin who celebrates her 37th birthday. I know her from shows like The Mentalist and Firefly although she has been on many others. I want to thank the Morena Baccarin tumblr for providing this GIF and I guess she´s the reason I will have to watch the Deadpool movie.

It´s hard to believe but Nikki Cox is actually one year older than Morena as she turns 38. We all know her as the bigbreasted sexbomb with the hourglass figure and the Jessica Rabbit measurements ( 37DD !!! - 26 - 38 ) from Unhappily Ever After that locked in the male audience.

She was advertised as the Jessica Rabbit of the WB and there is even the Halloween episode of the show where they openly acknowledge that she´s a real life Jessica Rabbit : her character can´t decide on a costume and just wears a Hollywood style red glitter dress instead but because of her pornstar body everybody assumes she is dressed up as Jessica Rabbit.

She also appeared in  Nikki ( which never aired in Germany ) and Las Vegas. What I always found funny about the lat one is that the casinos always do everything they can to get the deck stacked in their favor and to get people´s money but when somebody manages to win against them they treat them like criminals. Talk about sour losers. Apropos stacked, let´s get back to Nikki Cox. Which by the way is a porn name if I ever heard one. How comes she´s never worked in the adult movie business ?

Anyway, I always thought she had the right qualities to become a movie superstar - which is why I cast her as the female Dr. Fate Linda Strauss in my first post of the Hollywood edition of casting the Justice League Of America movie series - but somewhere along the way she got on the wrong track. Let´s hope there are better things for her in the future.

Zachary Quinto celebrates his 39th anniversary and although he´s best known for playing everybody´s favorite pointy eared alien on the new Star Trek movies by J. J. Abrams and villain Sylar on Heroes ( which had a slight drop in quality in the second season but got unwatchable with the third season so I didn´t even bother with the recent relaunch ) he got his big break on 24 alongside buxom Cuthbert. Like Nikki she had great potential but so far The Girl Next Door is the pinnacle of her career.

I have seen parts of that and for a movie that - supposedly - has a porn star in the lead the lack of nudity is ridiculous. I don´t know if it´s an american thing but don´t make movies about stuff if you don´t want to show it. I have seen more naked boobs on talk shows, for Pete´s sake !

Another actor who got his breakthrough on a hit tv show is Wentworth Miller who turns 44 and of course I´m talking about Prison Break. He is known to Today´s audiences for his portrayal of Rogue Leonard Snart a.k.a. Captain Cold on The Flash and Legends Of Tomorrow alongside Prison Break co star Dominic Purcell a.k.a. Heatwave. I already posted the big cliffhanger of season one so here is a short spoiler filled trailer.



We are making quite a leap in the age as we come to Dana Carvey who is 61 as of Today. He is best known as Garth from Wayne´s World but he also starred in the little known movie gem Clean Slate where he plays a private investigator with amnesia. 62 old Dennis Haysbert is familiar to most people as Snake Doctor from The Unit and the Axe Cop cartoon ( which I still haven´t watched ) where he is Frog but he also started on 24.

Another cast member from Prison Break celebrates his birthday Today, Stacy Keach who turns 75. He has been in a plethora of roles but most have seen him in Sin City : A Dame To Kill For, NCIS : New Orleans or the Mike Hammer tv series. I have found a few episodes on YouTube ( quite a number have vanished ) and the episodes I remember are all from the last seasons where the quota of boobs per episode was raised considerably.

The episode below doesn´t have that many scenes with " hammerettes " but since they don´t last long you should watch it while you still can.



Today is also the anniversary of Alexander Salkind´s birth who was the presents in the Superman stuff from my youth like Superman, Superman II, Superman III and the Superboy tv series. I´m not sure if he put Valerie Perrine in there as Miss Tetchmacher but back then things were right.

So you can probably guess who has the number one position here. I have to object to the inclusion of Brandon Routh and Henry Cavill in that list though. Brandon was not a very believable Superman and while Henry may be a good actor I yet have to see him play Superman. And don´t get me started on why you have failed as a parent if you die trying to save a dog.



Two more memorable dates are the birth of Johnny Weissmuller and the Marquis De Sade both in different fields. Johnny is best known for inventing Tarzan´s call that everybody is familiar with while the Marquis .... well, I don´t have to explain him, do I ? In any case since I haven´t a video for the first one and couldn´t post it if I had one for the second one this gives me the opportunity to rectify an omission from my last post.



Speaking about my last post because this is the weekend I wanted to include a longer video and decided to go with the animes that were used for the fanmade trailer. I could only find short pieces of The Cat Returns ( here I liked the german title Kingdom Of The Cats much better because the english title sounds boring ) so here is The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. It is a nice little movie if you can get past the cliche of all these animes ending up being about falling in love and choosing a life partner and relationships. I like it better when they are about war and demons and weapons and super powers. You know, things you can really relate to.



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Paul Ryan Flash Friday : Emergency Stop 2

After two detours we are back to Paul Ryan´s FLASH run with the second installment of Emergency Stop. So if you want to brush up your memory as to what happened before you might want to go back to my post on the first issue of the story or re - read the actual issue if you have taken my advice and gotten some FLASH issues since my last FLASH FRIDAY post.

After the events of last issue Wally is out of commission with two broken legs but can even the combined forces of Jay Garrick, Max Mercury and Impulse stop a supersuit on a rampage ? One of the things I always liked about the pre - NEW 52 DC universe was the sense of legacy with various generations of super heroes working together to support and teach each other and you got that in spades in the FLASH book. It´s too bad nobody at DC remembers why people liked their comics so much since they are all focused on earning the quick buck. We return to the story in progress. 

Now was that great or what ? I bet you didn´t see that coming. Next week we will have the final chapter of the story - unless something else comes up that demands a special FLASH FRIDAY edition. Speaking of the Flash and special editions, my copy of The Flash - A Celebration Of 75 Years has arrived and although I knew which stories are going to be in it I am  a bit underwhelmed by the hardcover. Maybe I just need a bit more time.

As someone who became a real Flash fan when Wally West took up the mantle of Flash there is too much old stuff in it but I know that this is meant to represent 75 years of history. And there are some stories that just HAVE to be in here, like the first story of Jay Garrick as The Flash, the first story of Barry Allen as The Flash, the first story of Wally West as Kid Flash, Flash of Two Worlds, the death of Barry Allen, the first story of Wally West as The Flash etc. For the rest of the material I´m glad that they included an issue drawn by Mike Wieringo and I don´t know which important Flash stories have already been in other trades so maybe they didn´t want to put it here. But if this is really meant as a representation of 75 years of Flash history then they should pick EITHER the stories with the most historical relevance of the Flash lore OR the best Flash stories.

I´m not sure if they achieved that. Also, the reproduction of Flash 215, Flash vol 2 issue 1 and Flash Annual 2 is really bad. Okay, the first issue of the second volume is the reason why I bought this book in the first place but did they have no better copy ? DC always boast that it has a bigger library than Marvel who has to ask Ralph Macchio to lend them his old issues for the collections but they really couldn´t get a better copy ? With all their resources ? They probably wanted to include Flash 215 because not only does it have a Jay Garrick / Barry Allen team up it also features the death of Vandal Savage - for as long as that lasts in comics - who is Wally West´s antagonists in the first issues of volume 2. But if they did have no better copy they should have omitted it for some other issue in better condition. Also I don´t feel that Annual 2 is really that important so you could have put stories in the book by some of the great artists that have been on volume 2 like Carlos Pacheco, Oscar Jimenez, my man Paul Ryan here or Greg LaRoque who did the longest stretch.

It really tells you something when everybody mentions in his review that Flash issue 54 Nobody Dies should have been in this collection because it gives you a better feeling for who Wally West is than the annual they chose to include. So my verdict on this is that I can only recommend it to people who know very little about the comics and want to get a bit of background info on this cool guy from the tv series. If you are a fan of the Golden Age and Silver Age Flash you may also like it but when you came in after Crisis you might find the selection in here not to your liking. What I want to say is that it´s nice that they have introductions to the specific chapters about the different Flashes but does it really take a 75 year special for DC to get their asses in gear and write introductions ? This should be in ALL the trades and collections not only the special ones.

Another thing is the price. While 40 dollars is okay for such a big book I want to know why the Spirit book costs 50 dollars when the production values and page count is the same. I don´t understand how that works. 

We start Today´s entertainment block with Liv Tyler who celebrates her 39th birthday. Most people know her from roles which are more related to geek culture like Arwen in the Lord Of The Ring movies or Hulk´s Betty Ross but she also appeared in One Night At McCool´s with John Goodman.

As in previous posts there are a few strange coincidences, the first one being that on my very first Paul Ryan FLASH FRIDAY post Tony Curtis celebrated his birthday who was the father of cult siren Jamie Lee Curtis and Today is the 64th birthday of Dan Aykroyd among whose plethora of movie credits is Trading Places where he starred opposite Jamie Lee Curtis. They also appeared together in Christmas with the Kranks.

I have already done a number of posts on ultimate cult siren JaMILF Lee Curtis a.k.a. Freezeframe a.k.a. The Body : the original post which mostly contains pictures with links to animated GIFs , one post with all the pictures I could find and a re - posted version with a few GIFs added. 

What´s even more of a coincidence is that Jamie Lee Curtis is one of the candidates of my Top Ten Movie Striptease list as is bodacious Baywatch bombshell Pamela Anderson who celebrates her 49th birthday Today. So far I haven´t gotten around to give her a solo post but I cast her as Power Girl in the first post of the Hollywood edition of my Justice League movie casting and part of that has appeared in the post on Janet Jones Gretzky, Leslie Easterbrook and Becky Mullen and their respective solo post.

Back to Dan Aykroyd, he was in the original Ghostbusters movie which has been remade with a new all female team but let´s just ignore that, okay ?

I wanted to post a cartoon video of the Ghostbusters but found something that is even better. As some may know there have been 2 cartoon shows called Ghostbusters, The Ghostbusters with two dudes and a gorilla ( WTF ? ) and The Real Ghostbusters with the team we all know from the 1980s movies. So the first one is just a cartoon show called Ghostbusters and the other one is the cartoon based on the real Ghostbusters, right ?

Wrong. This may already be common knowledge but as it turns out there was a live action show by Filmation in 1975 called The Ghost Busters which were two guys and a gorilla of which Universal Pictures bought the name to use in their movie. Universal had also contracted Filmation to make a the cartoon version of the movie but at the last minute they gave it to another company. So Filmation went back to the original source material and did a cartoon based on their 1975 tv show and when the cartoon series that Universal had ordered came out they called it The Real Ghostbusters even if the other cartoon show was more the original. So which one is the REAL real Ghostbusters ? As with comics everybody can decide for himself which part is canon and which not since both cartoon shows are legitimate as they both have their own source material.

Some may argue that The Ghostbusters is the real one since it goes back to the show that started it all while other say that the Ghostbusters in the movie are The Real Ghostbusters. And so you can make a qualified decision here is the first episode of the 1975 tv series The Ghost Busters.



I don´t know if it really counts as a coincidence since I keep mentioning Ferris Buellers Day Off in this section but I have to comment that Alan Ruck turns 60. What DOES count is that last Saturday was Carly Simon´s birthday and Today is the 66th birthday of her producer Tommy Mottola or like I call him The Music Mack. Because not only did he produce sexbombs like Diana Ross, Gloria Estefan, Destiny´s Child, Shakira, Anastacia and Jennifer Lopez he was also married to Über sex goddess Mariah Carey.

 
And don´t feel too sorry for him because he doesn´t get to tap that blow up sex doll anymore since he traded up by marrying sexual dynamo Thalia.

I take any chance I get to post another Thalia video and since I try avoiding having more than one music video in any given post that means that I can only mention the birthdays of Missy Elliot ( 45 ) and Debbie Harry better known as Blondie ( 71 ). But I´m sure Thalia´s live performance of Amar Sin Ser Amado more than makes up for it.



Our next anniversary is Genevieve Bujold who turns 74. She was in two creepy movies involving medicine gone wrong, Coma and Dead Ringer as well as in Earthquake where future Dallas double D dekolletage doll Victoria Principal wears the mother of all afros as well as a very thin t - shirt, the latter drawing the viewer´s attention away from the former.

Speaking of cineastic masterpieces, Leslie Caron turns 85 whom you know from An American In Paris which is my favorite musical of all times. No matter how often I have seen this every time it´s on tv I have to watch it. This one has it all, great music by George Gershwin, a wonderful cast, a terrific story and a lot of truths about art and painting. The comments of Gene Kelly in the movie about art students who come to Paris are so dead on. A great part of the charm of the movie comes of course from Leslie Caron who was discovered for this movie by Gene Kelly and she is one of the few who has danced with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyev. You can find more GIFs of Leslie Caron from An American In Paris here , there a lots of GiFs and pics at the Leslie Charon appreciation tumblr THANK GOD FOR LESLIE CHARON and there is more stuff from the movie to be found on the internet.

I thought about posting the trailer for An American In Paris as I couldn´t find the full movie but since Today is all about Leslie Caron here is one of her best scenes from the entire movie where she shows her versatility.



We have two people in the dearly departed section beginning with Sydney Pollack. He was one of the first producers / directors I took notice of as it seemed for the longest time that he was only producing movies for me to see. No matter if it was Jeremiah Johnson, Yakuza, Three Days Of The Condor, The Electric Horseman, Absence Of Malice, Tootsie ( one of the few movies involving a guy in women´s clothing that´s actually good ), Out Of Africa, Bright Light Big City, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Presumed Innocent, Havana, King Ralph ( also with John Goodman - see, there is a reason why I mentioned One Night At McCool´s before - besides having an excuse to post GIFs of Liv Tyler all wet ), The Firm or Searching For Bobbie Fischer. It was like a pact - he made them, I watched them. 

The other is Charles Laughton from the original Spartacus movie with Kirk Douglas. He was in all the movies that have been remade like Island of Lost Souls ( where he played Dr. Moreau ), Les Miserables, Mutiny On The Bounty, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, The Canterville Ghost or Salome.

Since I already have a music video I have to leave the Flash video with Queen´s title song of the Flash Gordon movie for another day. The other videos about time travel or the Reverse Flash contain too many spoilers about things I want to talk about in future posts but luckily I found this just a few days ago and we all like a good DC vergsus Marvel, right ?



To close things out and get you started on your weekend here is a video I couldn´t put in my last post. Like I said this is not an actual trailer but a fanmade mash up of different studio Ghibli animes like The Cat Returns.



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