Morning Article Link: Nazi-Bashing For Kids

Yakko, Wakko, and Dot shake hands with their T...

Yakko, Wakko, and Dot shake hands with their Tiny Toon Adventures predecessors: Buster and Babs Bunny and Plucky Duck, who make a cameo appearance in an episode of Animaniacs (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

From the Animaniacs to the Planeteer, Hitler and his Nazi friends, with Stalin and Castro along for the ride, have made their way to kids entertainment. And in only one of the 6 Bizarre Cameos listed by Cracked contributor Jacopo della Quercia are history’s villains treated as heroes. Still, one is bad enough.

Morning Article Link: The Best Fantastic Four Movie?

Wieringo's promotional art for Fantastic Four ...

Wieringo’s promotional art for Fantastic Four #509 (March 2004). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Did you ever hear of Roger Corman’s take on the Fantastic Four. It was at about the same budget as a modern fanfilm that was only intended to insure a studio could keep the movie rights even if the movie was never intended for release. You can find bootlegs of the film. It’s kind of crap, but Cracked contributor E. Reid Ross make the case that it’s better than the two big theatrical FF movies and already a better Fantastic Four movie than the one about to come out. That’s because it’s actually a better translation of the comic.

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Secret Wars II #2

Secret Wars II #2

“No, Beyonder, that’s not what ‘light the tree’ means!”

Secret Wars II #2

Marvel (August, 1985)

“I’ll Take Manhattan…”
WRITER: Jim Shooter
PENCILER: Al Milgrom
INKERS: Steve Leialoha & Joe Rubinstein
COLORIST: Manny Hands (in other words, too many to list)
LETTERERS: Rick Parker & Joe Rosen
EDITOR: Bob Budiansky

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Christmas Filler Video: Santa Sessions


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I may have shown this one before but I don’t keep track of these as well. Imagine if Santa Claus went into a recording session with a guy who knows how to be Santa better than Santa. And if you think that’s not possible, you haven’t talked to enough voice actors.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Game Boy #2

Game Boy #2

The original version of Super Mario Galaxy was rather limited by the technology at the time.

Game Boy #2

Valiant/Nintendo Comics System (1990)

“It’s A Small World After All”
no titles given on credits with these comics so I’ll just list them in the order they have
Mark McChlellan & Bill Vallely
Dennis Francis
Art Nichols
Jade
The Gradations

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Morning Article Link: Collect Them All

Star Wars pilot

Sometimes marketing actually comes up with a good way to promote something. Most of you have probably seen these already, but I needed something here and I hadn’t yet. “These” refers to a set of mock trading cards used to reveal character names for the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Firestorm Annual #5

Firestorm Annual #5

Well, that was a good run. Comic’s over. Everybody go home now.

Firestorm Annual #5

DC Comics (1987)

“Ground Zero”
WRITER: John Ostrander
PENCILER: Joe Brozowski
INKER: Alfredo Alcala
COLORIST: Shelley Eiber
LETTERER: Duncan Andrews
EDITOR: Denny O’Neil
“FIRESTORM” CREATORS: Gerry Conway & Al Milgrom

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