#Script by Cavalieri

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Felicia Hardy The Black Cat #2 (1994) Plot by Kavanagh, Script by Cavalieri, Andrew Wildman Artist, 1st Appearance of Loop

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wip wednesday thursday!

last! scene! of 1782!!

I've decided this is the second performance of Die Entführung. again in script format because uh. the cat is eating my carpet again

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Salieri is at the opera— Mozart’s opera, on a night when the composer is himself conducting from the harpsichord. The theatre is packed, in spite of the summer heat, but Mozart finds Salieri easily in his box. 

Before the opera begins, Mozart stands and bows to the whole house; but then, he turns unerringly towards Salieri, catches his eyes, and inclines his head, to him alone. 

During the whole performance, Salieri’s eyes are nearly always fixed upon Mozart. So entranced, he could spare himself the attention to admire the brilliance of the singers on stage, including his own student. 

At the end of the opera, Mozart turns, once again, towards Salieri, a dazzling grin stretched too wide to be a smirk. He bows ridiculously, and Salieri hears Mozart’s laugh in his ear over the thunderous applause that the whole theatre is drowned in. 

Later, after all the rest of the theatre has cleared out, Salieri is still seated. Ostensibly waiting for Cavalieri, he watches the slow outward procession of stragglers, musicians packing up, builders restoring the set. Mozart and Constanze are chasing each other through the stalls, giggling loudly, flirtatiously. The young couple run into a corner, and into each other’s embrace— out of sight from the stage, but not Salieri. 

A blazing flare of envy is followed by a momentary realisation of its true source. Salieri is stunned. 

At this moment, Cavalieri appears in his box, behind him. 

Cavalieri: Maestro Salieri?

Salieri stumbles, staggers, and gracelessly stands. 

Cavalieri’s expression is unreadable, but Salieri could almost be sure that somehow, she knows. 

Salieri: Let’s go.

Two weeks later, Mozart is married.

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Mozart's singspiel Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail premiered on the July 16 of 1782, with Cavalieri in the role of Konstanze, and was immediately successful. The second performance was given on the 19th of July, and as per tradition, Mozart conducted the first few performances himself. He did mention too, in a letter to his father, how full the opera house was in spite of the warm weather. Mozart and Constanze married on the 4th of August.

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Now You See Me 2: Il trucco c’è e si vede

Tornano i maghi/ladri che rubano ai potenti per un nuovo pirotecnico e complesso spettacolo che si avvale di due novità nel cast: Lizzy Caplan e l'ex Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe.

Magia, illusione. Spettacolo. Non sono caratteristiche anche del cinema? Lo sapeva bene Christopher Nolan quando nel 2006 aveva costruito il suo The Prestige su questo parallelismo, ma aveva assimilato questo concetto anche il francese Louis Leterrier quando aveva diretto il suo Now You See Me - I maghi del crimine, un film che ambiva ad applicare il concetto di spettacolo di magia, la sua struttura, il suo senso di meraviglia e sorpresa, ad un più classico Heist Movie, un film che racconta uno o più furti.

Now You See Me 2: Dave Franco, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan e Jesse Eisenberg in una scena del film

Un film interessante nella sua prima parte, nella premessa e nella costruzione dell'intreccio, ma decisamente involuto e poco incisivo nella risoluzione; un film che però, a dispetto dei suoi difetti, ha colpito abbastanza a fondo da far nascere un inatteso franchise e che quindi torna con un sequel che riporta sul palco buona parte del cast del precedente, da tre degli originali Quattro Cavalieri, Jesse Eisenberg, Dave Franco e Woody Harrelson, ad alcuni dei personaggi principali che ruotano loro intorno, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman e Michael Caine, aggiungendo un paio di nomi interessanti, Lizzy Caplan e Daniel Radcliffe, ad uno spettacolo che mira ad essere ancora più ricco e complesso.

Quattro assi (più uno) per una rapina

Now You See Me 2: Woody Harrelson e Dave Franco in una scena del film

È passato un anno dagli eventi del primo film; un anno in cui i quattro eroi di Now You See Me sono stati nascosti in attesa di poter tornare in scena. E l'occasione arriva quando si tratta di smascherare la corruzione del magnate dell'informatica Owen Case, di sabotare l'opulenta presentazione dell'ultima versione del suo popolare software e smascherare le violazioni della privacy che comporta. A differenza del primo film, siamo già a conoscenza del coinvolgimento dell'agente FBI Dylan Rhodes nei piani dei Cavalieri fin dalle prime battute, del fatto che sono cinque e non quattro le forze al lavoro per l'articolato numero a sorpresa che stanno costruendo ai danni di Case, ma lo script di Pete Chiarelli e Ed Solomon aggiunge ulteriori variabili e livelli allo spettacolo di Now You See Me 2: l'inganno dei Cavalieri fallisce costringendoli a una fuga che li porta dalla parte opposta del mondo ed a lavorare per Walter Mabry, un facoltoso eremita senza scrupoli e rivale di Case.

Un passo avanti e due indietro

Now You See Me 2: Morgan Freeman in una scena del film

Come nel film del 2013, gli autori giocano con lo spettatore, lasciandolo costantemente incerto su quale sia il reale inganno a cui sta assistendo, su quali delle forze in gioco siano realmente in vantaggio, facendo costantemente dei passi indietro che a volte sono solo apparenti. Ma il primo e più deciso passo indietro è nell'incipit di questo seguito, che ci mostra un momento solo evocato nel primo film: il trucco di magia in cui ha perso la vita il padre dell'agente Rhodes, che ora sappiamo essere figlio del celebre illusionista Lionel Shrike, il tragico evento che ha instillato nell'uomo quella voglia di vendetta nei confronti del Thaddeus Bradley di Morgan Freeman oggetto del primo film. Si tratta di un incipit che non ha solo funzione evocativa, ma aggiunge complessità e sfumature al personaggio di Ruffalo, all'organizzazione nota come l'Occhio ed alla trama di Now You See Me 2, e getta le basi per sviluppi che potranno essere oggetto di ulteriori prossimi seguiti.

Il più grande spettacolo del mondo

Now You See Me 2: Michael Caine in una scena del film

Jon M. Chu, che subentra alla regia dopo Leterrier, impara la lezione del suo predecessore e cerca di costruire un film che è una macchina di spettacolo, dal gran ritmo e dal grande impatto visivo per movimenti di camera e scenografie, ma che funziona soprattutto quando ruota attorno ai trucchi di magia dei protagonisti: come un uomo di palcoscenico che si accende e brilla di luce propria quando è in scena, quando è al cospetto del proprio pubblico, ma torna ad essere ordinario e poco appetibile quando lo show termina e il sipario cala, allo stesso modo Now You See Me 2 colpisce e intrattiene quando racconta la illusioni dei Quattro Cavalieri, ma arranca in una trama inutilmente complessa e articolata, nella quale ci si trova spesso a dubitare delle spiegazioni che ci vengono fornite.

Vecchi e nuovi maghi

Now You See Me 2: Daniel Radcliffe in una scena del film

Come il film di cui sono protagonisti, gli interpreti danno il meglio di sé quando i loro personaggi di esibiscono ma sono penalizzati quando lontani dalla scena, quando una scrittura approssimativa rischia di farli sfociare nella macchietta. Pensiamo soprattutto ad Harrelson, che fatica a ritrovare il carisma del film precedente, qui ulteriormente penalizzato da un doppio ruolo che non riveliamo per non anticipare nulla, ma lo stesso discorso vale anche per Eisenberg e Franco, mentre risulta convincente l'integrazione della Caplan nel gruppo, valida alternativa alla Isla Fisher del primo capitolo. Non si può dire altrettanto dell'altra New Entry di Now You See Me 2, perché Daniel Radcliffe nell'inedito ruolo di cattivo risulta poco credibile. Ed è ironico che sia proprio lui, ex Harry Potter e più mago di tutti gli altri, ad essere tra i pochi estranei al mondo della magia in questi sequel.

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Favourite colour, music, film, anime? I'm curious

Uuhhh, sorry for the wait, this ask has been waiting in my inbox for a lot by now, but let me answer you. Some of these answers are really long, so I marked them with a title in case people are not interested in everything. Though, I don’t think many people would be interested at all, my life is not that eventful. 

Favorite Color

My favorite color is black (even though black is not technically a color, damn you art school why did you have to teach me that), closely followed by blood red and silver. 

Favorite Music

My favorite music... I don’t really understand if you’re asking me what genre I prefer, or who do I prefer listening to, so I’ll just go the safe route and answer everything at once.  I love metal (especially power metal, epic metal and folk metal, with a significance preference for its viking sub-genre), and I am in love with Blind Guardian, the first ever band I listened to. I still remember the first song I’ve ever listened, which is “Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)”. Being a Tolkien fan led me to discover them, and subsequently to fall in love with the genre. Among my favorites there’s also Nightwish, Epica, Alestorm, and I’m baffled by Sabaton and Korpiklaani. I do listen to a bunch more bands, but not as much and I don’t know as many songs. 

But it’s not my one and only love. Aside from metal music, I also love classic music (I am deeply in love with a ton of Italian composers alongside the others), dark cabaret music (most notably Aurelio Voltaire, Dresden Dolls and Emilie Autumn, though her style doesn’t really fall into one single category), and I go crazy with anime music and openings.  I appreciate the music of anime so much, even though a lot of people don’t think highly of it, and since childhood I’ve always listened to our “opening singers” (the most important I grew up listening to are Cristina d’Avena and Giorgio Vanni), so I simply cannot stop loving them.  On a similar note, I cannot have enough of movie soundtracks. Composers like Howard Shore, Ennio Morricone, Hans Zimmer... the list could go on forever. I never get tired of their music. Again, videogame soundtracks are on the list of my beloved music as well, especially the music from Skyrim (Jeremy Soule) and Assassin’s Creed (Jesper Kyd). 

Favorite film/movie

I don’t really have one favorite. I do have a list of movies that I could watch over and over again, though, and others I just have fun watching even though they’re not my favorites.  The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy are absolutely on the top of my list. As I said, I’m a huge fan of Tolkien, and I’m also a huge fan of Peter Jackson. Add them together and BOOM! I am a tiny bit bitter about the Hobbit movies, but seriously? I still loved it.  Right after them there’s ALL the movies by Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland and its sequel on top. I love Tim Burton, so much I cannot even explain it. And Alice in Wonderland has a very special place in my heart. 

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Not just because I love the story and the craziness of everything, but because back in high school (my last year) we decided to do Alice in Wonderland with a twist for our theater lab, and I not only got to write the entire script, but also to play the Cheshire Cat alongside all of my friends. My best friend was Alice, my other best friend was the costume designer, a lot of other people I knew and loved were the other characters. It’s such a delightful memory for me that I never stopped enjoying Alice in Wonderland from that day onward.  I got so involved with my part that I ended up making an entire steampunk-ish cosplay of the Cheshire Cat from scratch, a cosplay I brought two times to a convention and I’m currently renovating after taking it apart. This is how much I grew attached to that play and to that character.  Some years ago, before this, we had a director guiding us for two years of theater lab. A delightful man that looked at me and decided I needed to be addressed as “Alice” because of how much I reminded him of her.  It’s just good memories. 

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I also have the “classics”, like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and the like. If it’s fantasy/sci-fi/something along those lines, I probably love it. Regardless of who made it, being it the writer or the director.  One particular movie that holds a special place in my heart is “The Fall”, and I cannot really pinpoint a reason why I love it so much. I just do.  There’s many titles I can tell you, even more serious ones like “The Imitation Game”, “The Danish Girl”, or “Dallas Buyers Club” and “Fight Club”.  Even though I prefer fantasy themes, there’s significant exceptions.  Old Italian movies are among my favorites too, but they’re just a drop in the ocean.  To close this, I’m going to bring you my love for the entire “Night at the Museum” ordeal and the entire “Jumanji” series (as of now, but I will never love anything more than the original).  I get really excited when I get to talk about this kind of interests, sorry T_T

Favorite Anime

Oh boy.  This sounds like it might be an easy one, given the nature of this blog, but it’s actually not.  In fact, I forgot Saint Seiya was my favorite anime.  You see, I originally watched it when I was nothing but a child, with a memory that obviously wasn’t so good at the time. This eventually led me to forget about how much I loved Saint Seiya, even though its characters never left my mind, and I started gravitating more towards Yu-Gi-Oh!, especially 5D’s. For the longest time I was convinced my absolute favorite was Yu-Gi-Oh!, until I finally started re-watching Saint Seiya and got hit by the memory train. 

But let’s not wander too far away from the question. What’s my favorite anime? Of all time is Saint Seiya, hands down. It has so much to offer, so much diversity, so much story and so many characters. Here in Italy, it has one of the most unique dubs of all time, with dialogues that are aulic (for the Italian fans who are curious --> l’origine del registro aulico dei Cavalieri dello Zodiaco è stato deciso da Enrico Carabelli e  Stefano Cerioni ed è spiegato in questo video, ed è poi stato mantenuto da Ivo de Palma nella serie di Hades) and filled with quotes from authors like Dante Alighieri, Ugo Foscolo and more, an “oddity” that made me fall in love again and again. 

Aside from this, I have another list, because I honestly cannot bring myself to choose only one.  Above all are Yu-Gi-Oh! (in order from best to worst for me --> 5D’s, Duel Monsters, GX, ZeXal, Vrains, Arc-V), My Hero Academia, and Sailor Moon.  Honorable mentions are Attack on Titan, Black Butler, Another, Pretty Cure ( spent basically my entire childhood/teenage years watching them, my favorites are the first two series), One Piece, Dragon Ball, Naruto, Beyblade, Tokyo Mew Mew... this could go on forever.  I’m a sucker for “old” anime as well, so a lot of them are mostly from the 70′s, 80′s, 90′s. Some of them I was so little when I watched it, like for example Card Captor Sakura (I was like three years old and I dressed up as her for Carnival), that I don’t remember them but they still have a place in my heart.  I wasn’t even fixated on one genre and that was it, I watched the hell out of anime and I still do (when I have time). 

I do also watch yaoi (shame on me, I know), and since I’m here telling you about my favorites: I love Dramatical Murder, especially (and you might not believe me) for how creative the story and the worldbuilding are. I’m also shameless enough to have watched the entire game in all its incarnations, so there’s that.  Not only that, I’m shameless enough to have watched more explicit ones, but I’m not telling you ;) I have a reputation here, after all. 

This took a long time for me to answer, and I’m sorry. I legit looked at this in my inbox, tried to conjure up some will to write, failed and went back to bed or to my books. Rinse and repeat for an entire week.  And to all of you who actually made it through this entire thing without getting annoyed/bored, damn you’re determined. 

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Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the Hominidae or great ape family: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.

Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, philosophers Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer, and legal scholar Steven Wise.

I think chimps should be granted citizenship and live in houses with humans and stuff. They can communicate their feelings and sovereignty most easily through ASL, but they can write in iconography and will be able to write in English (an abigada script) because they can hear and understand language..

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Elvira’s House Of Mystery #01

(Cover)

Pencils: Brian Bolland Inks: Brian Bolland DC (Jan1986)

(Story Page)

Script: Joey Cavalieri Pencils: Ron Wagner Inks: Bob Oksner Colors: Elizabeth Bérubé Letters: Kurt Hathaway

(Photos)

Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) Photography by David Goldner

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Quma y Las Bestias - Making of - 02 from Tamandua Estudio on Vimeo.

Luego de más de tres años de trabajo en “Quma y las Bestias”, les presentamos el segundo clip de making of. Les agradecemos enormemente a nuestras familias, al equipo de trabajo, nuestros colegas, mentores y tutores por acompañarnos en este proceso.

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After three years of working on “Quma and the Beasts”, we introduce you to the second “making of” clip. We want to thank our families, the crew, our collegues, mentors and tutors for joining us in this process. /// Dirección e idea original: Iván Stur - Javier Ignacio Luna Crook Producción General: Fernanda Torrera Guión: Diego Salinas Slemelson Dirección de Animación: Iván Stur Dirección de Arte: Verónica Arcodaci Dirección de Fotografía: Lucas Timerman Asistente de Iluminación: Julian Planes Dirección de Sonido: Julia Castro Música Original: Julián Stur Storyboard y Color Script: Constanza Oroza Asistente de Storyboard: Sebastián Conen Asistente de Dirección: Javier Stoyanoff Jefa de producción: María Fernanda Torrera Producción ejecutiva: Gustavo Alonso Coordinación de producción: Mailén Gayoso Coordinación administrativa: Lucila Aguilar Asistente de producción: Jeannely Iriarte Animación Stop Motion: Iván Stur - Belen Tagliabue - Gala Moser - Alejandro Samandjian - Malena Martínez - Mariana Dias Animación 2D: Franco Pelliciaro - Alejandro Samandjian - Sebastián Conen - Adrián Mirandeborde Concept Art: Nacho Malter - Graciela Goncalves - Giancarlo Rojas Marin Diseño de personajes y bestias: Roger Hoyos - Verónica Arcodaci Diseño de escenarios: Verónica Arcodaci Vestuario: Tamara Gómez Asistente de Vestuario: Eugenia García Asistentes de arte: Natalia Belén López - Mariana Dominguez - Eugenia García - Ángela Molina - Vanesa Bettinelli - Nayla León - Quimey Orcellet Producción de Puppets y Estructuras: Andrea Godoy Coordinación de Puppets: Javier Ignacio Luna Crook Supervisión de Puppets: Luciana Digiglio Finish Puppets: Verónica Arcodaci Asistentes de puppets: Agustina Daniela Ceballos Ghibaudi - Antonela Pires - Mariana Dominguez - Maximiliano Cuevas - Leila Antonovska - Indiana Simanauskas Battistoni - Ivan Zen - Florencia Tabanera - Luciana Chanllio Escultores: Maximiliano Canosa - Juan del Prado - Juan Ignacio Clo Diseño y prototipado 3D: Emilio Ibarra Warnes Diseño, modelado y realización de mecanismos: Giancarlo Rojas Marin Impresión prototipado 3D: Gonzalo Fernández - Paolo Cavalieri (SOLID INK) Diseño y realización de estructuras met��licas: Zacarías Iglesias Santi Diseño y realización de estructuras resina acetálica: Luis Liendo Realización de Estructuras metálicas: Fernando Alvino - Maximiliano Cuevas - Ignacio Viana - Gala Moser - Rigoberta del Tesouro Supervisión de Postproducción: Diego Gambarotta Postproducción y Motion Graphics: Adrián Mirandeborde Identidad Gráfica: Paula Caia - Verónica Arcodaci Consultoría Paleontológica y Arqueológica: “Equipo extensionista "Caminando..." de la UNLP Consultoría Arqueológica: Nora Flegenheimer y Natalia Mazzia Consultoría Paleoarte: Jorge González Agradecimientos: Cristina Sommer (Itaú Cultural) - Adrian Giacchino (Fundacion Azara) - Alberto Arcodaci y Guillermo Schödlbauer (Fundasur) - Hugo Nicolás Pailos (Laboratorio de Animatrónica y Control Dinámico. FCEFyN) - Juan María Raggio (Jumara Films) - Francisco González Táboas / Claudia Nardini (Aves Argentinas) - Esteban, Sergio, Analía, Facundo, Mechi, Victoria y Wone ("Caminando...") - Yiyo Adam e Isabel Macias (IDAC) - Fabian Ortega (Platamadre) - Noemi Bono - Diana Cordoba - Pablo Turcatti - Abril Barrado - Dani Soto - Ayelen Mattaini - Santi Pozzi - Fer Arditi - Ana Godoy - Matias Veneri - Malena Laiño - Marthe Pierot - Andreina Alessio - Marcelo Arias - Mariangeles Gelosi - Florencia Giacomini - Catalina Sirkoski - Axel Oil - Paula Suko - Lucas (Kino) - Léa Enjalbert - Ana Luz Chiarello - Lis González - Josefa Carla Claude Celsi - Gimena Ruiz Díaz - Emi Ávalos - Magalí Tyszberowicz - May Gil - Lucila Manara - Romane Nardreb - Florentina Gonzalez - Julieta Juncadella - Nayra Insua - Aldana Puchetti - Maribel Rombolá - Lui Salas - Agustina Buigues - Matías Castellano - Mauro Aversa - Kevin Bouchet - Dan Gorosito - Neyen Lencina - Guido Claverie - Lu Rossi - Mariela Sartori - Julian Villanueva - Gabriela Peró - Lucia Feulliet - Gabriela Fernandez - Juan y Caro (Estudio Guardabosques) - Santiago Riquelme - Tomás Montalvo - Mart Aire - Cof - Inés Fragueiro - Guadalupe Perez Cortés - Luis Avila - Nadia Banicki - Vivi, Diego, Zule, Pato y Fran (Semillero BA) - Lean y Sophie - Juampa Zaramella - Mab, Becho y Sebas.

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Christmas with a Prince (2018)

Choosing Christmas with a Prince is the equivalent of looking for your wife's Christmas gift at the dollar store: even if you're desperate, it's a bad idea. This holiday romance screws up nearly everything you could, which does occasionally make it unintentionally hilarious. Mostly, it'll make you wonder what else you could be doing with your time.

Handsome Prince Alexander Cavalieri (Nick Hounslow) has broken his leg in a skiing accident. To avoid drawing too much attention, his friend Jeff (Josh Dean) suggests he recover in the pediatric ward at the hospital where he and his half-sister Dr. Tasha Mason (Kaitlyn Leeb) work. She’s not too thrilled about the disturbance his highness brings to the children she so dearly cares about, particularly not during the Christmas season.

This movie feels like it was cranked out in a week, with a script that was written during the Monday's morning. The performances are terrible, with Kaitlyn Leeb sticking out as the worst of the bunch. She’s playing the main character. You know you’re in trouble immediately. What’s doubly hilarious about this casting is that her "brother" couldn’t look more unrelated to her if he was a Martian, so the script throws in a quick line about how they’re half-siblings. Were they so good together they couldn’t just recast?

Or maybe they kept Leeb because she had such good chemistry with her love interest? Definitely not. The film's romance is so badly executed it’s like it was an afterthought instead of the main feature. The conflict preventing them from getting together is trivial: Tasha and Alexander went to the same school (20+ years ago?). She was 16, asked him out, he was 18 and said no. Now she thinks he’s taken a bed in her department to spite and embarrass her. There’s no reason they shouldn't fall in each other's arms - assuming they’d want to - once this is cleared up. You keep expecting something like an arranged marriage, a psycho ex-girlfriend/boyfriend that will sabotage the union, or royal/professional obligations to come provide an obstacle. They’re nowhere in sight… until the last minute when these concepts are introduced and then disposed of so quickly you wonder why anyone even bothered.

Christmas with a Prince gets the main points wrong, which means the details stand no chance. Alexander (who is sold as spoiled and bratty, but really isn't) befriends a sick little kid (Nick Hounslow). This wannabe Tiny Tim is delightfully poorly written. He tells Alexander his mother works far away, that she can’t make it in time to support him during his life-saving surgery. Instead, he will listen to his favorite song on a loop at the same time as her so they can be close together. His favorite song? A cover of Jingle Bells by Genevieve Fisher. Unless the kid’s got a tumor the size of a grapefruit in his head (which can’t be the case, as his post-surgery recovery time is less than a half-hour), that’s either a lie or a mistake. I swear I saw the same little girl cutting the same green piece of paper into a snowflake for three days. Whenever a conflict arises in the office, the Prince’s father, King Edward (Charles Shaughnessy) appears on one of the innumerable TVs on the wall to tell the doctor to cool her jets. How he can have a conversation when none of these TVs are equipped with microphones and cameras, I don’t know. Why is a 40+-year-old man is still listening to his father like he’s a teen? Bad writing.

Christmas with a Prince fills you with shame. It’s so low budget the elaborate gowns look like something rented out of a marching school band, the characters are so unsuccessfully defined it can’t even get the kind of drama that just crawled out of the primordial pool right. The music is all stock, the actors, lousy, the dialogue clunky, the romance forced. I had a blast, knowing full well that everyone else watching would be tempted to shut it off seconds in. (December 18, 2020)

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Cobra Kai Season 4: What to Expect

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This article contains Cobra Kai season 3 spoilers.

“Hey. Long time,” Kreese (Martin Kove) says at the end of Cobra Kai season 3 when he calls someone mysteriously, as if to ask a favor. Now just who could it be?

The most likely candidate is Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith), Kreese’s war buddy and the main villain from The Karate Kid Part III. Season 3 of Cobra Kai explored Kreese’s backstory, adding credence to this postulation. We see Young Kreese’s (Barrett Carnahan) traumatic experience as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and how he saved his friend that he nicknamed Twig (Nick Marini). It’s implied that Twig is Silver. In The Karate Kid Part III, Silver was a rich CEO of DynaTox Industries, an unscrupulous nuclear waste disposal company. He helped to fund the Cobra Kai schools and was a major sponsor of the All-Valley Karate Tournament. Since the season 3 finale reveals that season 4 is headed to another yet showdown this tournament, Silver would be a good play. 

And here is everything else we might be able to glean about Cobra Kai season 4.

Potential Villain Cameos for Season 4

There are some other possibilities for a potential Cobra Kai season 4 villain for as we’ve already seen, Cobra Kai Easter egg clues can be intentionally misleading. Tory’s (Peyton List) mom was an expertly played red herring, which we’ll come back to in a moment. The writers know that their audience is watching the callbacks closely and are game to toy with our expectations. 

With the season 2 cameo of Chozen (Yuji Okumoto), Cobra Kai has exhausted all the villains from The Karate Kid Part II except for Sato (Danny Kamekona). At the end of that film, Sato had mended his ways so he wouldn’t have returned as a villain anyhow. In season 3, episode 4 ‘The Right Stuff,’ Sato is mentioned when a villager explains the changes at Tomi Village to Daniel (Ralph Macchio). But in the following episode, ‘Miyagi-Do,’ Chozen reveals to Daniel that he inherited the Miyagi-Do artifacts when Sato died. 

Sadly, Kamekona died in 1996, so even if Cobra Kai wanted to revisit him, he would have to be digitally reincarnated like Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing) in Rogue One, and that doesn’t seem likely. Those episodes also revealed that Yukie (Nobu McCarthy) died too, which is appropriate since McCarthy died in 2002. But back to villains, Chozen had some dojo-mates, Toshio (Joey Miyashima) and Taro (Marc Hayashi), who helped him harass Daniel (Ralph Macchio). However, they were tertiary henchmen roles. Few fans would recognize if they reappeared in Cobra Kai and Kreese had no ties to the Okinawan Miyagi-Do villains so he wouldn’t call them. 

The other great villain from The Karate Kid Part III was ‘Karate’s Bad Boy’ Mike Barnes (Sean Kanen) although he was Silver’s guy, not Kreese’s. Both Kanen and Griffith are still alive so maybe they both can return. Kanen is still acting with movie and TV roles as recent as 2019. Griffith retired from acting about a decade and a half ago and shifted to writing. Most recently, he was a writer for the NBC TV series Grimm. Regardless, he’s still in the business. What’s more, Barnes had two henchmen, supplied by Silver, Snake (Jonathan Avildsen) and Dennis (William Christopher Ford), but they were peripheral characters like Toshio and Taro. They wouldn’t have much impact without Silver or Barnes. Most fans wouldn’t even remember their names if not for the Internet. 

One other wild card for Kreese’s call recipient is Dutch (Chad McQueen) from the original films. When the Cobra Kai dojo-mates reunited in season 2, episode 5 “Take a Right,” Dutch was the only one missing from the original line-up. During that episode, the rest of the gang raise a toast to him, explaining his absence as due to his incarceration in Lompoc Federal Prison. Perhaps in season 4, he’ll be released. 

McQueen is the only son of Steve MeQueen. He retired from acting around the turn of the millennium and has devoted himself to racecar driving since then. In 2010, he founded the custom car company McQueen Racing. There were rumors that Cobra Kai reached out to McQueen to reprise his role as Dutch in “Take a Right”, but he was too busy with McQueen Racing at the time. Dutch was arguably the worst bully of the original Cobra Kai members. When Kreese beat Johnny (William Zabka) after he lost at the All-Valley Karate Tournament, the gang abandoned their sensei, but Dutch could have remained loyal. 

Mysterious Parents

One of the best red herrings of Cobra Kai was the identity of Tory’s mom. Most fans thought it was Ali (Elisabeth Shue) because Tory introduced herself in Season 2 as “Tory… with a ‘Y’” echoing Ali introduction to Daniel in The Karate Kid when she said “Ali… with an ‘I.’” Tory’s mom is bedridden due to health issues, forcing Tory to hold down two jobs while in high school to support her family. Her mom was offscreen in a scene in Season 3 which further stoked suspicions. But later in the season, we discover Ali is back and healthier than ever, and her two kids are Lucas and Ava, not Tory.

So, who is Tory’s mom? The only potential remaining lead female characters from the original films are Jessica Kennedy (Robyn Lively) from Karate Kid Part III and Julie Pierce (Hilary Swank) from The Next Karate Kid. Both actresses are still active in TV and movies. Tory had some martial arts background which she may have received from her parents (Tory’s dad could be in play too, but her mom has already been presented, albeit hidden from view, so she’s a more likely reveal for Season 4). Jessica wasn’t a student of Miyagi, but Julie was. So maybe Julie is Tory’s mom. 

Fans are split on the possible return of Julie. The Next Karate Kid was a critically panned flop, so it is generally disdained by the fanbase. It was Swank’s first lead role, and she shines despite the awkwardly bad script. Swank went on to win two Oscars, two Golden Globes and was named one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine. She is the most successful alumni of the Karate Kid franchise. What’s more, if Cobra Kai should bring Julie back into the canon, it opens the possibility of The Next Karate Kid villains, Colonel Paul Dugan (Michael Ironside) and his school security squad, the Alpha Elite, including Ned Randall (Michael Cavalieri). 

Beyond Julie and Jessica, there weren’t many other women in the original films. Ali had some high school girlfriends in The Karate Kid, Susan (Juli Fields) and Barbara (Dana Andersen) but like Toshio, Taro, Snake and Dennis, they were peripheral characters. The dramatic impact of one of them being Tory’s mom would be minimal. 

The other mystery parent is Miguel’s (Xolo Maridueña) father. His mom Carmen (Vanessa Rubio) describes him in Season 3 as “a very bad man.” Perhaps he could be Barnes or Dutch (Silver should be around Kreese’s age because they both served in Vietnam so he’s too old for Carman, although it’s noteworthy that despite playing his elder, Griffith is a year younger than Macchio). If Miguel’s dad is Dutch, that could really mess with Carmen and Johnny’s blossoming romance. 

Return to the All-Valley Karate Tournament

A key figure to bring back at the All-Valley Karate Tournament in what will probably be the season 4 finale is the Referee (Pat E. Johnson). Johnson was the martial arts master behind the original franchise, a noted master of Tang Soo Do. And in season 3, episode 6, ‘King Cobra,’ Captain Turner (Terry Serpico) tells Young Kreese that the martial art he will learn is Tang Soo Do. This confirms a theory that many martial artists have held about what martial art Cobra Kai really practices – it’s Tang Soo Do, a Korean martial art often labelled as Karate. Following the original movie, Zabka continued to train under Master Johnson. Coincidentally, Johnson also taught Steve McQueen and along with several other notable celebrities. Now in his 80s, Johnson still teaches Tang Soo Do. It would be so fitting to honor Johnson with a cameo because he was largely responsible for the Karate in the franchise.

One character we’d like to see developed in season 4 is Anthony LaRusso (Griffin Santopietro), Sam’s (Mary Mouser) punk little brother. So far, he’s only been a nuisance for the LaRusso family, the one slacker, but he has untapped potential for a more significant role. He appeared in almost every episode of season 1, but his role diminished to just two appearances in season 2. At least he’s still in the cast for season 3. Aisha (Nicole Brown) and Raymond (Paul Walter Hauser) were major characters who simply vanished in the third season. 

A huge wild card might be a cameo from Dre Parker (Jaden Smith). In the 2010 redux of The Karate Kid, Dre was the reinterpretation of Daniel’s role, the bullied outsider who finds redemption in the martial arts. While many hardcore fans of the original reject this as part of the Miyagi canon because there’s no connection of any of the characters to the original films, there’s no reason Dre can’t be integrated. After all, if Spock Prime (Leonard Nimoy) can meet Spock (Zachary Quinto) from the Kelvin timeline in the Star Trek redux, anything is possible with franchise reboots. Admittedly, the plot of Cobra Kai doesn’t include time travel (except for an overdose of nostalgia), however that doesn’t exclude the possibility of Dre existing within the world of Cobra Kai. More intriguingly, it would open the door to a cameo from Mr. Han (Jackie Chan). That would really raise the bar on the martial arts of Cobra Kai. And most significantly, Will Smith is an executive producer of Cobra Kai. Smith’s company, Overbrook Entertainment, acquired the rights for The Karate Kid to make the reboot and retained them for Cobra Kai. Cobra Kai has been incredibly witty with its homages to the original film franchise, but with more seasons to come, it will need to expand its scope lest it exhaust its supply of those golden Easter Eggs.

For years, there have been persistent rumors about a sequel to the Jaden Smith/Jackie Chan version of The Karate Kid. The film was by far the most profitable installment of the entire franchise, earning $359 million from a $40 million budget, more than all the original four films combined, so it is surprising that Hollywood hasn’t pushed harder for a sequel. But Jackie Chan is a busy man. There have been unconfirmed rumors of his involvement with Rush Hour 4 and Shanghai Dawn for years too and those are no closer to fruition. Nevertheless, a Dre cameo in Cobra Kai would be a good steppingstone for a redux sequel. And Dre could fit right in with the cast easily. Jaden Smith is the same age as Tanner Buchanan (Robby).

One of the reasons that Cobra Kai left YouTube Red to go over to Netflix was because YouTube wouldn’t commit to a fourth season. Given how the show has played out, the writers seem to have the underlying story arc sketched out, at least as far as season 4. With the escalating surprises that Cobra Kai has already brought, season 4 should be even more fun. 

Cobra Kai never dies! 

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Supergirl Movie Special (1985) José Luis García-López & Dick Giordano Cover & Gray Morrow Pencils, Joey Cavalieri Story, 1st Appearance of Supergirl (Linda Lee) from Earth-789.

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[houseofmystery]

Elvira's House of Mystery #1 (January 1986)

Script: Joey Cavalieri

Pencils: Ron Wagner,  Shawn McManus (Cain image, signed)

Inks: Bob Oksner,  Shawn McManus (Cain image, signed)

Colors: Elizabeth Bérubé [as Liz Bérubé]

Letters: Kurt Hathaway

[iris-nonsense]

Anime adaptation are even worse.

Most of the anime dubbed in italian in the 80s and the 90s were heavily changed and censored. In most cases they changed titles, name of places, foods and characters.

One of the most censored anime in Italy was Marmalade boy (Piccoli problemi di cuore) which was changed so much from the original that could be considered it's own series. They cut parts, changed plot points, different episodes were censored so much that they had to unite them to arrive to the standard lenght and the series was ended lots of episodes before the original series. All of this were done with the consent and the collaboration of the author and the japanese production house.

Another emblematic case was Saint Seiya (I cavalieri dello zodiaco) because they didn't adapt the dialogues from the orginal script, but from pices of the french script, so they have scenes where characters talks but they had no idea of what they were saying. The solution was to write the dialogues like an epic poem to fill more screen time and making the charcters quote Dante every now and then. This dub is still one of the most iconic of all time and made the italian version of Saint Seiya a lot more serious and poetic than its japanese counterpart.

So growing up as an italian anime fan is really a cultural shock.

True cultural shocks for people that grew in Italy: 

The male cat in the Aristocats, in the original, is not a very, VERY, very, Roman cat, “The best this side of the Coliseum” (”Er mejo der Colosseo”), but Irish. The dubbing with the Roman accent there was PERFECT. 

Realising that the Italian dubbers translated “Bella Notte” in Lady and the Tramp with “Negli occhi della notte” (in the eyes of the night). 

Not being able to tell the kid in front of you the name “Moana”, Oceania in Italy, for fear he will Google it on an unprotected PC. Moana Pozzi was a very famous Italian pornstar. 

Realising that the Nanny in “the Nanny”, the original, is NOT a girl from Frosinone (I swear she fit the stereotype PERFECTLY) that just came to the USA. 

[automaticpatrolperson]

Super-Raio X: Flamengo tem outro prejuízo e Flu acumula rombo de R$ 2,5 milhões com bilheteria no BR-17

Flu Notícias - https://flunoticias.com.br/11/2017/super-raio-x-flamengo-tem-outro-prejuizo-e-flu-acumula-rombo-de-r-25-milhoes-com-bilheteria-no-br-17/

Super-Raio X: Flamengo tem outro prejuízo e Flu acumula rombo de R$ 2,5 milhões com bilheteria no BR-17

31ª Rodada – Fluminense 1 x 1 Bahia – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 214.366,18 (Foto: Armando Paiva/Raw Image)

31ª Rodada – Flamengo 0 x 0 Vasco – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 346.795,58 (Foto: Gilvan de Souza/Flamengo)

30ª Rodada – Botafogo 2 x 1 Corinthians – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 34.248,32 (Foto: Satiro Sodré/SSPress/Botafogo)

30ª Rodada – Vasco 1 x 1 Coritiba – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 56.067,71 (Foto: Reginaldo Pimenta/Raw Image)

29ª Rodada – Fluminense 3 x 1 São Paulo – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 231.964,42 (Foto: Marcelo Gonçalves/Photo Premium)

29ª Rodada – Flamengo 4 x 1 Bahia – Ilha do Urubu – prejuízo de R$ 141.953,75 (Foto: Wagner Assis/Eleven)

28ª Rodada – Fluminense 1 x 0 Avaí – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 296.166,13 (Foto: Lucas Merçon/Fluminense)

27ª Rodada – Botafogo 2 x 1 Chapecoense – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 146.129,79 (Foto: Jorge Rodrigues/Eleven)

26ª Rodada – Vasco 1 x 1 Chapecoense – São Januário – prejuízo de R$ 92.572,59 – Portões Fechados (Foto: Paulo Fernandes/Vasco.com.br)

26ª Rodada – Botafogo 2 x 3 Vitória – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 84.349,77 (Foto: Vitor Silva/SSPRess/Botafogo)

25ª Rodada – Fluminense 0 x 1 Palmeiras – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 195.194,73 (Foto: Reginaldo Pimenta/Raw Image)

25ª Rodada – Flamengo 1 x 1 Avaí – Ilha do Urubu – prejuízo de R$ 79.724,85 (Foto: Reginaldo Pimenta/Raw Image)

24ª Rodada – Botafogo 2 x 0 Santos – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 105.252,84 (Foto: Vitor Silva/SSPress/Botafogo)

24ª Rodada – Flamengo 2 x 0 Sport – Ilha do Urubu – prejuízo de R$ 118.925,75 (Foto: Gilvan de Souza/Flamengo)

23ª Rodada – Botafogo 2 x 0 Flamengo – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 57.850,39 (Foto: Jorge Rodrigues/Eleven)

23ª Rodada – Vasco 1 x 0 Grêmio – São Januário – prejuízo de R$ 91.508,69 – Portões Fechados (Foto: Reginaldo Pimenta/Raw Image)

22ª Rodada – Flamengo 2 x 0 Atlético-PR – Ilha do Urubu – prejuízo de R$ 20.972,20 (Foto: Gilvan de Souza/Flamengo)

22ª Rodada – Fluminense 0 x 1 Vasco – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 25.811,14 (Foto: Paulo Fernandes/Vasco.com.br)

21ª Rodada – Fluminense 2 x 1 Atlético-MG – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 239.515,84 (Foto: Lucas Merçon/Fluminense)

21ª Rodada – Flamengo 2 x 0 Atlético-GO – Ilha do Urubu – prejuízo de R$ 100.039,34 (Foto: Reginaldo Pimenta/Raw Image)

20ª Rodada – Vasco 1 x 1 Palmeiras – Raulino de Oliveira – prejuízo de R$ 112.366,03 (Foto: Cesar Greco/Ag. Palmeiras)

20ª Rodada – Botafogo 1 x 0 Grêmio – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 89.724,94 (Foto: Vitor Silva/SSPRess/Botafogo)

18ª Rodada – Vasco 0 x 3 Cruzeiro – Raulino de Oliveira – prejuízo de R$ 127.665,91 (Foto: Paulo Fernandes/Vasco)

17ª Rodada – Vasco 0 x 1 Atlético-PR – Raulino de Oliveira – prejuízo de R$ 28.223,06 (Foto: Paulo Fernandes/Vasco)

16ª Rodada – Fluminense 0 x 1 Corinthians – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 53.140,37 (Foto: Lucas Merçon/Fluminense)

15ª Rodada – Fluminense 1 x 1 Cruzeiro – Giulite Coutinho – prejuízo de R$ 50.032,25 (Foto: Luciano Belford/AGIF)

14ª Rodada – Vasco 0 x 0 Santos – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 224.214,00 – Portões Fechados (Foto: Jorge Rodrigues/Eleven)

13ª Rodada – Fluminense 0 x 1 Botafogo – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 235.514,44 (Foto: Vitor Silva/SSPress/Botafogo)

12ª Rodada – Botafogo 1 x 1 Atlético-MG – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 37.929,74 (Foto: Celso Pupo/Fotoarena)

11ª Rodada – Fluminense 3 x 3 Chapecoense – Giulite Coutinho – prejuízo de R$ 7.624,28 (Foto: Nelson Perez/Fluminense)

7ª Rodada – Fluminense 0 x 2 Grêmio – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 292.641,08 (Foto: Luciano Belford/AGIF)

5ª Rodada – Fluminense 1 x 1 Atlético-PR – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 331.302,51 (Foto: Reginaldo Pimenta/Raw Image)

4ª Rodada – Fluminense 2 x 1 Vitória – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 355.568,73 (Foto: Mailson Santana/Fluminense)

3ª Rodada – Botafogo 1 x 0 Bahia – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 63.130,58 (Foto: Satiro Sodré/SSPress/Botafogo)

2ª Rodada – Botafogo 2 x 0 Ponte Preta – Nilton Santos – prejuízo de R$ 88.277,76 (Foto: Reginaldo Pimenta/Raw Image)

1ª Rodada – Fluminense 3 x 2 Santos – Maracanã – prejuízo de R$ 360.961,58 (Foto: Thiago Ribeiro/AGIF)

Agora são 36 as partidas no Rio de Janeiro que tiveram prejuízo neste Brasileirão-2017. As últimas duas a entrarem na lista foram realizadas na 31ª Rodada: Flamengo 0 x 0 Vasco e Fluminense 1 x 1 Bahia que juntas tiveram mais de R$ 500 mil de resultado negativo.

Dos 16 jogos do Fluminense como mandante, 14 tiveram renda líquida negativa, o que dá ao clube um rombo de R$ 2.555.414,51 com bilheteria no campeonato, ou seja, média de mais de R$ 150 mil por partida.

Ranking de prejuízo até a 31ª Rodada do Brasileirão-2017

Já o Flamengo teve todos os seus seis prejuízos no segundo turno do Brasileirão, apenas um jogo deu lucro, justamente o clássico contra o Fluminense, que rendeu R$ 10.911,43 líquidos.

Até aqui o campeonato teve 61 prejuízos, dos quais 36 são de clubes cariocas, quase 60% do total. Outro número que chama a atenção é a porcentagem de lucro diante da soma das rendas brutas das bilheterias dos quatro grandes do RJ. Apenas 3% do total é renda líquida, 97% é destinado ao pagamento das despesas dos jogos.

Relação Renda Líquida e Renda Bruta dos cariocas no Brasileirão-2017

Link da notícia original: Super-Raio X: Flamengo tem outro prejuízo e Flu acumula rombo de R$ 2,5 milhões com bilheteria no BR-17

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[janinegossman]

City of Ancient History: Rome

Main Attractions:

Gelato

Trevi Fountain

Colosseum

Pantheon

Vatican City

Pizza / Pasta

St Peter’s Basilica

Roman Forum

Spanish Steps

Sistine Chapel

Michaelangelo’s Keyhole

There many reasons why people visit the ancient city of Rome, but the reason that took me to the ancient city was that our friends were flying from South Africa and we were to first meet up in Rome, and then do a road trip of Italy.

Living in the UK has made me appreciate every place that boasts heat, sun and beaches. I had begged Kyle the entire winter to take me to a place where the sun shines. Our B&B / Apartment had air-conditioning which was the first sign it was going to be HOT. Yes please!

We woke up early in the morning and decided we would walk to the Colosseum as what better way to explore a city than to walk it’s streets. I had been to the Colosseum on a tour with school previously, but this trip reminded me how I had not appreciated the experience the way that it deserved to be appreciated.

Building the largest amphitheatre was completed in AD80, and the purpose of it was gladiatorial contests, public spectacles, animal hunts, public executions and drama’s based on classic mythology. Exploring the Colosseum made me realise that the human race has not evolved very much since there are still public executions and public humiliations in many parts of the world today.

We then headed over to Michaelangelo’s Keyhole which is at the end of Via Santa Sabina, at a square called “Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta” with a great big green gate with what seems like only a keyhole. There were people queuing to look through the key hole, so it seemed this was quite legitimate. Once you look through the key hole you see the most amazing view of St Peter’ s Basilica with rows of trees framing it.

Above is the picture I took… Below is what you actually see.

Photo courtesy of travelettes

When we were done with the magnificent keyhole, we headed into town to see the Trevi fountain, and the Pantheon.

The Pantheon, which means temple of every god, is a former Roman temple, but is now a church. The script on the top of the pillars means “Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, made [this building] when consul for the third time”. Two Italian kings, Vittorio Emanuele II and Unmerto I, are buried in the Pantheon, as well as Umberto’s Queen, Margherita.

Pantheon

Our meals in Rome were mainly eaten in kebab shops, and to our credit we ate what one eats in Italy, pizza. Our other staple in Rome, was of course, the most delicious gelato. We tried various gelato’s but the best was at a café called Gelateria La Romana near our B&B/Apartment. Once you had chosen your cone, the cone is run under a tap of either white chocolate or Nutella for a second. You then chose your flavour of gelato, and it was served to you. When you have worked your through Gelato Heaven, you end your experience with a liquid white chocolate or Nutella at the bottom point of your cone. This is most certainly a must in Rome.

On our last day in Rome, we headed to the Spanish steps, which were a disappointment as they were busy with construction, but we were still able to see them. We headed to our car rental company to pick up our hire car and made our way to Naples and the Amalfi coast. The initial drive in Rome was only a brief taste of the driving in Italy, which proved to be pretty interesting…

The one thing that will stick in my mind for a very long time is the immense heat I experienced in Rome. My body has obviously adapted very well to the colder climate, and rightly so, for self-preservation (chuckle). The sun beat down on my body the entire day and no amount of appropriate undressing would cool me down.

[afterthecrisis-blog]

Prelude to Crisis 25 - World’s Finest 311

Continuing his quest to test the strengths and weaknesses of the world’s superheroes, the Monitor once again turns his attention to Batman and Superman in World’s Finest 311 from January, 1985. How he doesn’t already have a good measure of them after testing them 5 or 6 times previously, I have no idea. I guess he’s just very thorough.

This time we find Batman busy protecting the launch of a communications satellite from terrorists while Superman waits in orbit to install a secret backdoor into its data feed that will allow him to more accurately track developing natural disasters from his Fortress of Solitude.

Meanwhile, in the Gotham suburbs, a teenage hacker is busy trying to download unreleased scripts from his favorite comic “New Teen Tyros” by “Phil Foxman.” He is distracted for a moment by his brother, and when his attention returns to the screen, he finds the scripts gone and a strange set of characters on his screen. He recognizes them as Kryptonian (because what 16 year old doesn’t recognize alien alphabets instantly) and runs a code breaker on the system to determine the password.

He gets the password, (Really Clark… Kal-El is the best you could do?), starts messing around, and faster than a speeding bullet a horrible monstrosity is unleashed!

Followed by a gang of kryptonite powered robots!

The threats make a bee-line toward Gotham for some reason where Superman makes quick work of them. Once all is calm, Batman sets off to track down the responsible party. In a rare coloring error, he sets off in a red Batmobile.

He barges into the kid’s house, being inexplicably mistaken for one of the kids friends from camp, and gives the teen hacker a stern talking to.

All while the Monitor looks on disapprovingly.

Working on this issue:

Cover Artists: Paris Cullins, Klaus Janson, and Tatjana Wood   Writer: Joey Cavalieri Penciler: Stan Woch Inker: Pablo Marcos Colourist: Nansi Hoolahan Letterer: Duncan Andrews

[houseofmystery]

Elvira’s House of Mystery #4 (June 1986)

Script: Joey Cavalieri

Pencils: C. U. R.

Inks: Sal Amendola

Colors: Elizabeth Bérubé

Letters: John Holiwski