This and That
I am off to a videogame advisory meeting over at Laguna later today. Also getting the database together on the ASIFA Student Film Festival. Will post stuff on it later.
I just re-read the first Doc Savage book, Man of Bronze. It has been years since I first read the starting episode of this classic pulp. As always, nobody can paint a ripped shirt like James Bama. Bama is the reason Doc Savage had a 60s revival. His paintings are why I first bought the books. The mindless Pulp adventure is why I keep buying the reprints.
I first read this book in my high school years long before I had spent 2 years teaching myself to read the hieroglyphs of the Maya. Once I could read what was behind the strange glyphs I give up the whole subject because basically I could not stand the content of their literature.
The Egyptians drank a lot of beer and built pyramids. The Maya did a whole lot of hallucinogens and built pyramids. The Egyptians buried their royal dead in their pyramids and the Maya ripped the living skin off of their victims at the top of their blood coated pyramids. Maybe Nancy Reagan was right about drugs?
The Maya in this 1933 first issue of Doc Savage saintly. So this book has some giant cultural and history holes about the size of Chichen Itza. Add to this a benevolent Latin American President being threatened by greedy revolutionaries out to use the treasure of the Maya to finance the overthrow of the nation of Hidalgo and you have gone as far away from reality as you can get. Overlooking all of star eyes stupidity of the 30s newsstand this is still a fun but mindless read.
Puppetoon Animation great turned live action director, George Pal, directed this book as his last project. Sadly it started out strong by following the the action of the book and then after the Maya assassin kills himself the plot went into Batman TV camp and was a great disappointment. It is a shame that Pal`s last film was such a disaster. But gods, James Bama can sure paint a ripped shirt.
I just re-read the first Doc Savage book, Man of Bronze. It has been years since I first read the starting episode of this classic pulp. As always, nobody can paint a ripped shirt like James Bama. Bama is the reason Doc Savage had a 60s revival. His paintings are why I first bought the books. The mindless Pulp adventure is why I keep buying the reprints.
I first read this book in my high school years long before I had spent 2 years teaching myself to read the hieroglyphs of the Maya. Once I could read what was behind the strange glyphs I give up the whole subject because basically I could not stand the content of their literature.
The Egyptians drank a lot of beer and built pyramids. The Maya did a whole lot of hallucinogens and built pyramids. The Egyptians buried their royal dead in their pyramids and the Maya ripped the living skin off of their victims at the top of their blood coated pyramids. Maybe Nancy Reagan was right about drugs?
The Maya in this 1933 first issue of Doc Savage saintly. So this book has some giant cultural and history holes about the size of Chichen Itza. Add to this a benevolent Latin American President being threatened by greedy revolutionaries out to use the treasure of the Maya to finance the overthrow of the nation of Hidalgo and you have gone as far away from reality as you can get. Overlooking all of star eyes stupidity of the 30s newsstand this is still a fun but mindless read.
Puppetoon Animation great turned live action director, George Pal, directed this book as his last project. Sadly it started out strong by following the the action of the book and then after the Maya assassin kills himself the plot went into Batman TV camp and was a great disappointment. It is a shame that Pal`s last film was such a disaster. But gods, James Bama can sure paint a ripped shirt.
posted by Larry Loc @ 9:27 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home