12 MONKEYS: “Pallid Man Wants You” at TeePublic and RedBubble!

Pallid Man wants * YOU * for the Army of the 12 Monkeys!

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This bit of 12 MONKEYS propaganda is now available on various shirt and case options via TeePublic and additional nouns at the RedBubble! =)

Available in both RED fill and black at TeePublic (red shown below, black fill above). For the next three days, these are *discounted* at TeePublic, which for standard-sized tees means $14 compared to the regular $20.

So get one now! Or twelve (even though it’s not primary, I won’t tell)—and help the Army of the 12 Monkeys recruiting drive! Cuz, man, it is really hard to get anyone to join up. I mean, who jumps at “Be all that you can be… right up until we unleash a plague that kills off most of humanity!”—right?

Join the army and unmake history!

Keep on keepin’ on~

Spider-Man - The Original Web Surfer

This is my entry in the WeLoveFine Spider-Verse Design Contest: The Original Web Surfer…

Conceived in the spirit of punny Peter Parker's gifted gab, the idea is that your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man first swung into action in 1962, which would indubitably make him the first true web surfer, right?

He's *also* the first person to create the web digitally! Cuz—hey!—he used his digits to trigger his shooters, right?

This is the part where you groan in appreciation.

Well, if you don't hate the idea of seeing this design on a tee shirt, please rate it here—thanks!

And if you're a fan of any of the Spidey family and the heroes of the recent Spider-Verse crossover event, you should check out all of the fan-made designs.

Oh, Webhead is meant to be flashing his very own Twhip-Shaka while hanging ten on his webs, not throwing a double goat. =)

* Note that you need to be signed in via WeLoveFine, Steam, or the Facebooks to rate designs. The rating period is open from September 22 thru October 20, 2015.

Keep on thwippin' on~

It's THE WORLD'S END!

Hey, blankin' blankety blanks!

Funny, "blankety" is, like, "blanket-y." I suppose spelling it "blankitty" might clear that up a bit, but then you get the "kitty" thing in there and…

Never mind.

THE WORLD'S END is here! It's the latest film from Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost—the creative team that brought you SPACED, SHAUN OF THE DEAD, and HOT FUZZ—and the third film in their "Cornetto Trilogy."

My Cornetto Wars Trilogy trading cards! =)

While the "Three Flavours" Cornetto bit *is* something of a gimmick, the films together do form a pretty wonderful body of work, deftly and brilliantly bending, crossing, honoring, and inhabiting multiple film genres and creating some wonderful characters and relationships along the way. I think they work best as a progression in time-of-life, roughly corresponding to 20s, 30s, and 40s, which I think springs from the creators' own POVs. Pay attention to the music/soundtracks and I think you'll agree.

And how better to title the 40s chapter than THE WORLD'S END, right? Straight from a coffee mug or Hallmark card! =)

In this film, we're introduced to a group of five teenage friends who decide to celebrate the end of their high school careers by walking (well, okay, staggering) the Golden Mile, a dozen-pub crawl through their home town of Newton Haven. Alas, this is a challenge that through no fault of their own, they must leave unfinished. Flash forward twenty-some years to present day and the leader of this band, Gary King (Simon Pegg) tracks down his friends, now grown rather distant from him, and gets them to return to Newton Haven with him to complete their quest! And it all goes down smoothly, like a pint of honey lager.

Not. =)

Enough rambling. For a decent taste of this somber and melancholy reunion of childhood friends as they enter mid-life—what the filmmakers described as (paraphrasing) "THE BIG CHILL if the corpse came to the reunion as well"—well, just watch the trailer…

=)

TRAILER.

And if you're Boston local, it's playing at Regal and AMC, but also in the main room at the Somerville in Davis. I highly recommend supporting the Somerville whenever you can, and while I'm not much of a drinker myself, it's the venue where you *can* partake of a pint while watching Gary King (Simon Pegg) and his rag tag court pub crawl on the big screen! I'll definitely be there. =)

Somerville listings.

Keep on keepin on~

P.S. Also, there's this thoughtful testimonial to consider (along w a link to the "5 DAYS" trailer).

Cornetto licks!

Quick-ish post to mark the occasion—the Cornetto Trilogy tumblr just posted my "Three Flavours" goofs from flickr side-by-side! =)

Links to the flickrs…

Three Flavours of Doom!

Three Flavours of Hero!

I found the DOOM one at the Cornetto Trilogy tumblr on its own last week (submitted from my freshly-minted tumblr). Yeah, I'm tumbling now. Well, at least for a little while. I've been preoccupied obsessed with getting some bit of Cornetto fan goofing up there, and when submitted uploaded images or links to flickr didn't seem to work, I thought that the Trilogy tumblr might take kindly to another of its kind, so, Edgar, Simon, Nick, I tumble 4 U.

What was I gonna do? *Not* force the Culture Club reference?

=)

If there's any chance you've come across this post and have no idea what any of the images or titles are about… The (Three Flavours of) Cornetto Trilogy refers to the three brilliant and remarkable films by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg and their talented menagerie:

SHAUN OF THE DEAD

HOT FUZZ

THE WORLD'S END

All of these films are incredibly entertaining, thoughtful, clever, and have at their centers some great relationships and relating. I don't have the time to describe the awesome properly, but with these films, I believe you can watch and trust the trailers. In fact, they are UNDERselling their films.

And—Oh!—the music! Frack. Can't wait for the soundtrack to THE WORLD'S END to be available here in the colonies!

END opens in the U.S. on August 23 and select theatres are offering the triple feature of all three films in order on Thursday, August 22. I *highly* recommend this option. DO IT =)

Keep on keepin on~

The Cornetto Trilogy: Three Flavours… of HERO!

In my second riff on the trilogy, "Three Flavours… of HERO!" I decided to tackle Simon Pegg's hapless heroic leads. I really need to practice drawing more, freehand and digitally. My likeness-ing needs improvement. It's always been a weakness and challenge.

And went with the (closing?) line from HOT FUZZ (and a lift from POINT BREAK)…

Angel: Sergeant Butterman, the little hand says it's time to rock and roll!

A fine and fitting declaration of intent for THE WORLD'S END, I rather think.

It's my sincere and not-at-all-secret hope that this creative team supreme works on turning "The Cornetto Trilogy" into "The Increasingly Misnamed Cornetto Trilogy." =)

Keep on keepin on~

P.S. The Cornetto Trilogy triple feature plays at the Brattle Theatre on Sunday, July 28! =)

The Cornetto Trilogy: Three Flavours… of DOOM!

A riff on Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost's "Three Flavours" of "The Cornetto Trilogy"—also known as "The Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy"—the films SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, and THE WORLD'S END. In this fan artishness, I decided to feature the "baddies."

Hafta admit, I had trouble deciding on what and how much copy to use which resulted in me kinda throwing in more than I probably should have. Cuz I think I'm sooo frickin clever. : P

"ENJOY THE RIDE, LOVE THE ENDING" is Cornetto's actual marketing copy. Pretty well describes how to consume the films (haven't seen END yet, but I'll go out on a limb and consider it just as slice-of-fried-gold as SHAUN and FUZZ =), but also kind of bittersweet, in light of the trilogy being "completed" with END.

So, when do you think they'll get off their duffs and start on the Jaffa Cakes prequels? =)

Keep on keepin on~

P.S. The Cornetto Trilogy triple feature plays at the Brattle Theatre on Sunday, July 28! =)

The Mighty AdoAbouters!

And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when the verse's mightiest heroes and heroines found themselves united in an uncommon production… MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING!

Thespians, assemble!

1. Happy Birthday to Joss Whedon! Keep up the awesome, please. No pressure. Thank you. =)

2. Everyone should see MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Especially Shakespeare and Whedon fans, but still, EVERYone. It's so very accessible and charming and lovely. In the modern-day, cinematic form that Whedon builds around Shakespeare's original words, you quickly realize that the Bard really did write the world's first rom-com. Well, not counting Adam and Eve, y'know, if you look at it the right way. For Whedon fans, the casting makes for some really joyful wish fulfillment. Just go see it. NOT just another summer super Hero film! =)

3. And Many thanks to the Sunnydale Bard for sharing his creations and allowing his fans to play with them from time to time. Specifically I'm thinking of the MyMuchAdoPoster contest (for which the above was something of a by-product =) and the Evil League of Evil application videos.

4. I kitbashed the above poster, entered it for the contest as a non-starter (for legal reasons), and JW retweeted it! A weird thrill, like a wink from a patron saint, maybe? Cuz everyone knows what that feels like, right? Shiny's a good word for it. =)

Keep on keepin on~