Pass the Comics: Eve among the chimps

Monsters from the Sea



A short essay by Tony Isabella and Ernie Chan. [Diversions of the Groovy Kind]

Come Back to Tlakluk



An American WWII pilot returns to the island where he was once stranded with a Japanese pilot. It's not exactly Hell in the Pacific. [Diversions of the Groovy Kind]

Korak, Son of Tarzan visits The Hidden World



An uncomplicated, but sweet story with absolutely gorgeous art. [Gold Key Comics!]

Art Show: Grrrreat!

HMS Hornblower



By Mattias Adolfsson.

Floating



By Sulamith Wulfing. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Atomic Commandos in Action!



Possibly by Ogden Whitney. [Admiral Cal]

The Adventure You Will Never Forget!



By George Akimoto. [Admiral Cal]

Meet Me Underwater



By Lew Bridcoe.[Art Jumble]

A Pirate's Life for Me



By Selina Fenech. [Never Sea Land]

Aquaman



By Pat Gleason. [The Aquaman Shrine]

Land Ho!



By Jeremy Vanhoozer

Back to the Boat, And Quickly!.



Also by Jeremy Vanhoozer, obviously. He says that these are from something he's "starting to fool around with," so I hope that means there's a comic or some other kind of story coming. The files are named Gear Island, which sounds absolutely fantastic.

Happy New Year!



By Gene Gonzales.

The Girl of the Lost City



Artist Unknown. [Cows in Art Class]

Tarzan



By HM Stoops. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Judy of the Jungle



By Alex Schomburg. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Not that Creepy, but who needs it to be?



By Frank Frazetta. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Tigers



By Andry Rajoelina. [Art Jumble]

Jungla



By Pierre Alary.

A Time So Brief



By  Julie Bell. [Shanna the She-Devil Blogger]

Let's you and him fight



By Ken Smith. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

24 movies I missed in 2010

The list-making bug caught up with me yesterday, so I'm not going to be able to leave it alone with just songs and comics. Over the coming week I'm going to post about every 2010 movie I saw. All 52 of them. In order from least favorite to most.

But as I made the list, I was also reminded of all the movies that I wanted to see this year, but never got around to for a variety of reasons. So, by way of explaining why you won't see Toy Story 3 or Harry Potter 7.1 on the big list, here are - in alphabetical order - all the movies that I wish I could've caught in the theater in 2010. Some of them (Harry Potter) I hope to still see on the Big Screen, but I'll have to wait for most until they hit the Netflix.

I'm tempted to comment on why I want to see each of the following movies or - better yet - why I missed them, but I'll resist that. If you really want to know why any of these appear here, I'll be happy to go into detail in the comments.

Pass the Comics: In the Land of Submarines

Death is the Sailor



Moby Dick, only with a kraken and a creepy twist ending. [Golden Age Comic Book Stories]

Yellow Submarine



Bully has what may or may not be random panels from a Beatles comic. It's sort of hard to tell with the Beatles.

Not that Land of the Lost



Long before Marshall, Will, and Holly met the greatest earthquake ever known, Isabel and Billy discovered the original Land of the Lost: an undersea kingdom "where all the things that disappear from Earth find their way." Isabel Manning Hewson came up with the idea and developed it into a radio program that she also wrote and narrated; then turned it into a book illustrated by Olive Bailey. Which of course led to a comics version written by Hewson and illustrated by Bailey.

The series assumes that its readers are familiar with the other versions and just recaps - as opposed to retells - the origin story in the first issue. Pappy posted that first story - featuring a lost nickel and a plot to kill the series' hero, a fish named Red Lantern - earlier this year.



More recently, Pappy followed up with the second story from Land of the Lost #1. In this one, the Land of the Lost's inhabitants plan a surprise party for Red Lantern and are visited by a mysterious, blind merman.

Creature from the Black Lagoon vs. Aquavelva Man



Read the whole thing at The Aquaman Shrine. It's a Bizarro strip, so it is - of course - awesome.

Black Orchid visits the Island of Fear



And stops a slavery ring in the process. [Diversions of the Groovy Kind]