Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection is currently included with Amazon Prime. The affectionate remembrance has my highest recommendation.
Some short bonus clips not in the movie are available for free on YouTube. This one is about Dave’s devotion to Bettie Page.
I’m hoping to direct the attention of some fans to these images. They compare frames from the old SD and the new HD versions of the classic Fleischer Superman cartoon, “The Mechanical Monsters”, as released by Warner. Color differences aside, you will note there is significant cropping in the DVD release, as shown on the left.
He was unique, and his first movie continues to be delightful viewing.
I recently posted about Ben McKenzie’s book on crypto scams. McKenzie was James Gordon on the Gotham TV series, which featured Paul Reubens in an inspired role as the father of Robin Lord Taylor’s Penguin.
I’m planning to see Oppenheimer this week. Saturday night’s 3-hour Christopher Nolan movie was Interstellar.
The MoCA Wi-Fi extender worked very well for movie night on the patio, and equally well for using a tablet on the deck Sunday morning. On the screen is a 1952 Atlas war comic story illustrated by Joe Sinnott.
Once again, it’s both incorrect and infuriating that Stan Lee is given full credit for creating the Marvel Superheroes. Other than that, this is a good business background on the formation of what is now called the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The Spider-Man multiverse could have a team of Peter Parker super girlfriends by making his powers an STD. Or have they already done that?
