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August 29, 2007

Elf With A Gun

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Many thanks to Meine Kleine Fabrik for introducing me to Marvel's most random and mysterious recurring character, Steve Gerber's "Elf With A Gun".

Sounds like the next big Hollywood high-concept action film to me: "Babe, I'm visualizing Danny DeVito or Vern Troyer."

[Link: Our Favorite Elf...With A Gun!]

August 17, 2007

Escape From the Planet of the Bicycle Apes

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One Got Fat is a macabre little educational film from 1963 about bicycle safety, narrated by Edward Everett Horton, featuring kids sporting wire tails and wearing these absolutely terrifying Papier-mâché monkey masks with souless black pits instead of eyes, that were surely designed in the very pit of Hell by Satan himself. One by one, the unfortunate chimp-children are dispatched in a variety of gruesome ways for violating bicycle safety rules.

Gratuitous double-entendre dialogue: "Slim knew that his big sack would be hard to handle."

[Link: One Got Fat]