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ecavalli posted:Makes sense to me. Magnum PI was one of America's biggest cultural trends during the time period in which Rescue Rangers was in development. If you're going to spoof more mature entertainment with mass appeal via a kids cartoon show in the early 90s, Magnum PI is a no-brainer. Disney actually did do a kids cartoon version of Magnum PI: 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Disney actually did do a kids cartoon version of Magnum PI: I actually really liked that show. They managed to translate every single trope from cop-shows to that weird school life. There was a criminal schoolboy who they couldn't convict, because his father was the Canadian ambassador. cant cook creole bream fucked around with this message at 15:00 on May 21, 2017 |
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cant cook creole bream posted:I actually really liked that show. They managed to translate every single trope from cop-shows to that weird school life. It's a cartoon that did a Silence of the Lambs parody episode where, instead of kidnap and murder, the plot involved bathroom stalls being tagged by a rogue graffiti artist, and the Hannibal Lecter stand-in they consult with is a kid who was once the ultimate graffiti artist ("Randall the Vandal") who, after Fillmore brought him in, was placed in "a permanent state of detention" and prohibited from having access to anything he could write or draw with.
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Fillmore had a Die Hard episode. It was a good show.
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Wheat Loaf posted:One thing I remember about Sailor Moon was that all the adverts for it made it out to be a kind of Dragon Ball Z action show, because Cartoon Network got DBZ and it was hugely popular and everyone else decided they wanted a piece of it (I remember Nickelodeon doing exactly the same thing with this other show called CardCaptors). After CN saw how well Sailor Moon did, they brought over DBZ a few months later and worked to finish the dub, as the syndicated run stopped at right about the Goku/Reccoome fight. Kids WB! turbofucked Card Captor Sakura since they thought anime = ratings. Much like with the original Sailor Moon run, the network didn't really know how to handle the property. And over at Fox, they thought Vision of Escaflowne was an appropriate get for their FoxKids block. 
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FilthyImp posted:
gently caress, I remember that. They got up to the episode where a naked doppelganger gets suffocated in molten metal, and presumably the censors just gave up.
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Begemot posted:gently caress, I remember that. They got up to the episode where a naked doppelganger gets suffocated in molten metal, and presumably the censors just gave up. It just quietly disappeared, as if from some fevered dream. In L.A. at least, pokemon was syndicated. It was actually given the Sailor Moon Death Slot (weekdays at 7:00) but it managed to overcome the fact that 90% of its audience was at or on their way to school that early because of the game hype. Fox Family ended up doing pretty well with their pickup of Digimon. And to bring it back to good/bad comic art, the side effect of Sailor Moon/ DBZ floundering their first go was the burgeoning birth-gasps of the US Manga market.
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 Billy Tucci's first look at the new Shi comic. Is pretty.
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 This is Gillian Anderson as Bowie in American Gods. It looks like a Jamie McKelvie piece irl. McKelvie is one of my favorite artists, I love his clean lines and flat palette. I just wish it was easier and affordable to get hands on some of his artwork. zoux fucked around with this message at 19:55 on May 25, 2017 |
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I'm glad Gillian is still getting fun roles.
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zoux posted:
Yeah, when I saw that pic I immediately thought of Lucifer from The Wicked + The Divine, who's also inspired by Bowie (although more toward the Thin White Duke end of things).
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Hey Arnold, Ed3 and All the disney shows were pretty good though. All Grown Up was an obvious cash grab (and mediocre) in hind sight. Rocket Power was pretty bad if only because Otto Rocket might be the most insufferable animated protagonist ever. Never really watched Braceface. Honestly dont know how it got past its first episode with such a flimsy premise ("teen has braces, how will she adapt to life?!"). Wasnt it produced by Alicia Silverstone or some poo poo like that? That and that My Dad is a Rock Star (which was exec produced by Gene Simmons of all people) were so terrible. Dont let celebrities make cartoons is my takeaway.
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prefect posted:https://twitter.com/vincentdonofrio/status/865424030710415361 Wow, I never realized it was the Law and Order: CI guy playing Kingpin. Jesus that's good acting, when you can't recognize the actor.
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He was also Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. And the bad guy in Men in Black. The man has a hell of a range.
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I've been a big fan of Ron Frenz since he was on Amazing Spider-Man back in the day so it was a pleasant surprise when I began reading the first Eric Masterson issues of Thor and found it had the creative team of Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz. Thought this was a great panel, from Thor #393.  And a shot of Daredevil for good measure, from the same issue. 
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Ron Frenz is awesome and vastly underrated. I'm still salty that he got paired with an incompatible inker when he drew Superman.
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Man, I've never gotten used to all the bold letters in American comics.
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Hip Flask posted:Man, I've never gotten used to all the bold letters in American comics. I really don't like it unless the character is meant to be very obviously yelling that particular word, which should be rarely employed. The number of comics (webcomics in particular) that seem to just bold any old random words in the middle of a sentence does my head in. Even if it's just highlighting the word and not meant to represent it being literally emphasised by the character, it seems incredibly insulting to the reader, like they can't pick out the important words in a sentence.
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It's almost always the words that would be emphasized in a regular spoken conversation. Some people are bad at it like sometimes people are bad at every other part of the comic process but it's not like it's inherently a bad or nonsensical thing
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My adamantium claws go through anything like paper. My psychic knife is the focused totality of my psychic ability. My teke can smash mountains.
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Internet Wizard posted:He was also Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. And the bad guy in Men in Black. The man has a hell of a range. And he was Thor!   
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Dick Trauma posted:And he was Thor!  I had no idea that was him.
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zoux posted:What's that from? Adventures in Babysitting.
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Because of that film, every time a fan casting for an Avengers film came up people jumped up and down screaming that it should be Vincent.
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Internet Wizard posted:He was also Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. And the bad guy in Men in Black. The man has a hell of a range. I'm glad his health issues didn't end his acting career completely. It was touch and go for a while.
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Dick Trauma posted:And he was Thor! I am losing my loving mind about this
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Dick Trauma posted:And he was Thor! I saw that movie a dozen times as a kid and never, ever would've guessed that was him. Wow.
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Rhyno posted:Because of that film, every time a fan casting for an Avengers film came up people jumped up and down screaming that it should be Vincent.
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My thought process during these last few posts:Internet Wizard posted:He was also Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. Internet Wizard posted:And the bad guy in Men in Black. Dick Trauma posted:And he was Thor!   
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Finally, being alive in the eighties has proven useful. 
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Sometimes the bolded is awkward, like it's on the wrong words, but that Thor panel is done right. The way I look at bolding in lettering is that it's a cross between emphasizing the words the way they'd be spoken and highlighting key words or phrases.
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Lobok posted:Sometimes the bolded is awkward, like it's on the wrong words, but that Thor panel is done right. The way I look at bolding in lettering is that it's a cross between emphasizing the words the way they'd be spoken and highlighting key words or phrases. Zelda bolding.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Wasn't he also the bad guy in Jurassic World? He was in it, I have no idea if he was the bad guy He was also the bad guy in the visually gorgeous but otherwise dull movie The Cell.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Wasn't he also the bad guy in Jurassic World? Yes.
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More important than his acting abilities, imo, is that d'Onofrio seems to spend 90% of his day on Twitter, thanking fans for their compliments and answering their questions.
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VDO has so many great roles on his resume. Two of my favorite: he was one of the dumb cops who kicks off the plot in Strange Days, and he was Robert E. Howard (!) in the greatly underappreciated biopic The Whole Wide World. He was also a great Orson Welles in Ed Wood, and he was the the guest star of one of the best episodes ("Subway") of on the best TV series ever made (Homicide: Life on the Street). What a great actor. Hell of an impressive range.
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Poops Mcgoots posted:More important than his acting abilities, imo, is that d'Onofrio seems to spend 90% of his day on Twitter, thanking fans for their compliments and answering their questions. Really? That's awesome.
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