At the time I posted this issue I had no idea who this guy was. Later on he got the name Adonis. Apparently he has traveled dimentions because he knows Demon King Samrick in the Charby Universe, and is well connected in our universe as well.
I've got two old comics left to alter in the archive to clean up the lame issues and after that is all new issues. I'll probably stop daily updates around issue 50 to make sure I have a decent buffer to help me keep the updates consistent.
Rant
The superbowl was on tonight. For all the non-American sports fans out there please permit me to explain. The Super Bowl is the single largest even on US television, it is so large and popular that there is a movement to make the day after a national holiday in the style of new years of Christmas. It is an annual event where USAmericans gather around there TV’s to celebrate the richness of the spirit of olympian like sports competition by watching the commercials for the new year. Oh yea there is a game of American style football to but, meh, they are usually pretty boring and one sided filled with over payed guys who largely just don’t want to get hurt so they can get their premium contract for the next year.
I can’t really say to much about it because I was watching cheezy martial arts movies at the time. Incidentally if your looking for some perfectly enjoyable and absolutely awful Jet Lei movies let me recommend The Master, Legend of the Red Dragon, and Twin Warriors.
Twin Dragons is the story of two disgraced martial arts ex-monks. One takes the road of greed and power, the other takes the path of deranged enlightenment. And they fight…a lot I think might have been some talking in the movie too but……..
The Master’s plot involves Jet coming to America to visit his master who made the horrible mistake of training with a guy with a mullet martial arts. Mr. Mullets causes all kinds of trouble and Jet takes three inept punks (apparently American has gangs of punks with guns running around anywhere shootings people) and teaches them to be comic relief.
Finally and worse is Legend of the Red Dragon……there was a plot I’m sure of it but it is all a blur.
There is one thing I learned from all these martial arts movies, and that is apparently Chinese martial artists are constantly rebelling in china in an attempt to over throw the government. For an oppressive communist country they sure put out a lot of movies with anti-government themes. Clearly it is the liberal Chinese Hollywood at work again. Sadly after making these perfectly B-movies which are wonderfully Evil Dead 1 level bad most martial arts ‘masters’ (IE the actors who fly about on wires more then Peter Pan) move to America and start making new movies where they over dramatically leap about attempting to fight rappers.
This might not be so bad if they American movies teams didn’t labor under the delusion they were creating good movies. “Unleashed†aside almost all American Martial arts movies have this crazy notion that people enjoy ‘good’ martial arts and we are not painfully aware of the ridiculousness of someone leaping off a sword with their elbow to kicks someone seven times in the head with their big toes, which is the essence of bad martial arts.
However there is a difference between honestly bad and deliberately bad. Anyone who has watched a made for TV scifi movies knows what I am talking about. Godzilla was honestly bad, a decent movie that was just silly. Deliberately bad is things like dust mites getting turned into radioactive monsters possessing people and eating their brains only to later defeated by some obviously nerf arsenal. To be watch able a movie has to at least have some honest effort put into it.
Like most students with a video camera and a perchance for amusing mild insanity I’ve made some deliberately bad movies which I would never inflict on another human being. However my brother and I are not starting work on an honestly bad fake sitcom movie tentatively title “The Silverstone Legacyâ€. I’m going to be trying to finish the first section of it this week so if I miss a rant or two that is why. Here is a small sample from the opening:
Jean Silverstone’s Office
Setting Jean Silverstone sits in at his desk despondently looking at the paper. He is unshaved and uncombed but otherwise well dressed.
Narration Jean I was having a bad week. My entrepreneurial enterprise Infamy Inc has run into some problems lately.
Switch to flashback as narration continues of Jean in houses explaining a website, zoom into website with various stories.
Narration Jean Infamy Inc specialize in giving people their fifteen minutes of fame for a reasonable price. Remember that guy who ruined the Superbowl? That was us. All was going well and were had just closed our largest account ever. The successful suing of ourselves launching their lawyer and client into tabloid news all over America. When after a 1.2 million dollar lawsuit was settled our clients decided to leave the country before paying Infamy Inc. Its 1.21 million dollar bill leaving my company in an interesting financial situation.
Jean’s phone rings which Jean answeres.
Narration Jean Then my luck changed for the better. My parents died.
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