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  • Final "Ninja80" teaser ad...Opted for more of a teaser, less of a challenge/soap box/manifesto type ad at this pre-publication stage. One of the overriding emotions I'm having as a bi-product of all the research I'm doin…

  • Mostly off-topic here, but a neato new book is coming out featuring the best of safety warning illustrations. See it here.I always loved the 'Corrosive Acid Warning' which at one point adorned the hood of a fave FPU crea…

  • N80's first white-glove slap to the world's faceThis is an early draft of a print ad running in the upcoming issue of Sonambulo, sort of the first poking out of the turtle's head on this project. I'm not sure I like the …

  • An interlude in the L vs. N struggle here. I really love the entirety that is War of the Worlds - fromt he book to radio broadcast to the George Pal film and especially all the myriad takes on tripods that appeared in go…

  • RIP Frank GorshinAlways loved Frank Gorshin, who really understood how to overture and put a ridiculous role so over the top that it totally works. It's the same kind of skill wrestlers used to have when they would actua…

  • Ninja Suits for DOGS!!!Found these images on a cool blog/site about Japanese culture in LA - Joypop.Ninja suits for the whole family is just genius. This ad ran during the annual Ninja Festial in Iga. Check it out, it's …

  • Great girl grappler gallery!Boston's own burlesque-luchadoras La Gata Negra are featured in a teriffic series of illos by New England-area alterna-artiste Mister Reusch. See the rest here.Nice THICK ladies there Mister!

  • Currently obsessed with WATARI THE NINJA BOY!This AMAZING 1966 adaptation a hugely successful manga pulls no punches — ridiculous characters, bizarre FX sequences and some rather violent content for a kids flick.Ah, ther…

  • LUCHA vs. NINJA - Downtown LA 5-11-05Today, a trip down into LA's SEEEEEEEDY wholesale district, where I scored a lucha flick I had not seen! 'Macabre Legends of the Colony' is actually a nexus point between Los Campeon…

  • Looking forward to Lili Chin's birthday later this month at Bahooka. In the meantime, here's a neato little Tiki-themed FLASH game here from neelcartoons.com in France via MuchoSucko.com.MuchoSucko also introuduced me to…

  • Interesting cross-cultural lucha libre/large-scale mariachi event in Las Vegas this weekend, and I was interviewed by a local paper about the lucha side of things. Read it here.And if you're really into armor and sword p…

  • I just don't know what to think of this...Homeboy here from the new movie is getting some serious digital post help in the spandex department. What's with the over-tights banana-hammock?

  • ¡Enmascarado Micronauts!Another nexus of my worlds... being a child of the 70's who inherited and LOVED all his dad's space toys from the 50's, I was really enamored of the Mego MICRONAUTS toy line. Sure it was the time …

  • NEEDLESS REMAKES ARE NOT THE EXCLUSIVE PROPERTY OF THE AMERICAN FILM INDUSTRYThe Japanese novel "Sengoku Jieitai" was the source for the 1979 Kadokawa/Japan Action Club actioner we know as "G.I. Samurai." Flawed as it is…

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