Saturday Night Showcase: Rifftrax Live Christmas Shorts

And you know you'd buy it just to see how weird it is.

And you know you’d buy it just to see how weird it is.

On Thursday, Rifftrax did another Live broadcast to various theaters, riffing Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.  And thanks to fog and forgetting about it until an hour before it went live I missed out on it.

To make myself feel better, the first Saturday Night Christmas Showcase will go to Hulu and see a recording of a previous Rifftrax Live event as Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy are joined by “Weird Al” Yankovic for one of the many short subjects (most of them actually Christmas-themed) done in front of a live audience. Prepare to laugh a lot.

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Morning Article Link: Christmas Special Watch 2013

Christmas Specials Wiki logo

I need to get more Christmas images into the media library, but at least it fits this time. The Christmas Specials Wiki has tracked down all the Christmas specials coming up in 2013. I jumped to December with that link, but they list some that showed up in November even though there shouldn’t be any. Now you’ll know when to see your favorites and some new entries of Christmas specials.

Note to anyone posting my RSS feed

Hey, I just checked one of the sites hosting my RSS feed and noticed that it hadn’t updated since I changed my URL. bwmedia.wordpress.com is now bwspotlight.com, and I think the RSS feed didn’t change over with the domain. So you may want to check your settings. I’m going to switch my URL back to bwspotlight.com.

Friday Night Fights: More Like Finite

The tournament is called “Sugar Ray”, so you can guess which boxer this is named for: Joe Fraiser.

With me doing “Yesterday’s” Comic every midnight (or at least five nights as of the current schedule–DC Mon, Marvel Tues, Jonny Quest Wed, Transformers Thurs, Guyver Fri, at least until I’ve finished Quest and Guyver), I plan to choose the best fight of the week (although with Guyver I have to wait until I get past the GNs to the usual US-style comic) and use that for my Fight. This week, it’s the alternate universe X-folk.

Friday Night Fights clean logo

“Sugar Ray” round 1

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Today’s Comic> Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #28

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #28

“Wait, I don’t have my cool cape.”

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #28

IDW Publishing (November, 2013)

“City Fall” part 7
STORY: Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow, & Tom Waltz
SCRIPT: Tom Waltz
ARTIST: Mateus Santoluco
COLORIST: Ronda Pattison & Ian Herring
LETTERER: Shawn Lee
EDITOR: Bobby Curnow

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Morning Article Link: Save The Misfit Toys!

Region 1 DVD cover

SPOILER> Of course Santa saves the toys on the Island Of Misfit Toys…but apparently some people needed to actually see it. Comic Book Resources resident legends historian Brian Cronin posts to CBR’s Spinoff Online how people who saw the original airing of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer really wanted to see Santa arrive at the Island Of Misfit Toys, forcing NBC to have it put in for the next year’s airing. And you thought this kind of stuff only happened when they created the internet!

“Yesterday’s” Trade> Bio-Booster Armor Guyver

Bio-Booster Armor Guyver V1

“I can’t breathe in this thing!”

Bio-Booster Armor Guyver

Viz Comics (April, 1995)

(original publisher: Tokuma Shoten Publishing CO)

STORY/ART: Yoshiki Takaya
ENGLISH ADAPTATION: Fred Burke & Toshifumi Yoshida
TOUCH-UP ART/LETTERER: Bill Spicer
COVER DESIGN: Viz Graphics
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Toshifumi Yoshida
EDITOR: Annette Roman

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