jmstater

Join me for a look at the Rippaverse's latest, Goodyng the Polymath, by Mike Baron. A "secret origins"-style book tracing this hero's life and philosophy from childhood to the present, along with the life of his greatest foe. Follow me on the web at ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaterJm Blog: https://landofnod.blog/ Key Words: Pop Culture, Comic Books, Indie Comics, 2000s, 2024, Goodyng, Rippaverse, Mike Baron, Will Conrad, Graphic Novel Mentioned in Video: Soska Sisters, Isom, DC Comics, Private America, Bronze Star, Nexus, Badger, Texas, Denver, Bullies, Yaira, Alphacore, Solari, Sgt Fury and His Howling Commandoes, Rippazine, Tony Stark

Tune in for a review/retrospective of Rita Hayworth's tour de force film - Gilda - a film about overcoming the consequences of love and betrayal. MEA CULPA - I said "Rio" twice, when I should have said Buenos Aires. Sorry! Follow me on the web at ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaterJm Blog: https://landofnod.blog/ Key Words: Pop Culture, Vintage Movies, Film Noir, Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, 1940s, 1946 Mentioned in Video: Cinematography, MacGuffin, Argentina, Las Vegas Casinos, Germany, World War II, Post-War, Gypsy Rose Lee, Screaming Mimi, Black & White Films

Tune in for a spoiler-free look at the new 'Nexus: Scourge' by Mike Baron and Kelsey Shannon - my introduction to the character and his fascinating sci-fi universe. Follow me on the web at ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaterJm Blog: https://landofnod.blog/ Key Words: Pop Culture, Indie Comics, Comic Books, 2000s, 2024, Nexus, Mike Baron, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Smart Comedy, Cosmic Sci-Fi Mentioned in Video: Fabrizio Aiello, Horace H Hoover, Kelsey Shannon, Doctor Who, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Star Trek, The Badger, Steve Rude, Minimalist Design, Sequential Art

FM is a film with a laid back 70s sort of attitude and a soundtrack of groovy, mellow hits ... and critics hated it. Are those critics correct, or could there be more to this film than they thought? Tune in to Dad's Den for my review of this maybe misunderstood movie. Follow me on the web at ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaterJm Blog: https://landofnod.blog/ Key Words: Pop Culture, Vintage Movies, 1970s, 1978 Mentioned in Video: FM radio, AM Radio, Yacht Rock, Jimmy Buffet, Linda Ronstadt, Martin Mull, Cleavon Little, Steely Dan, Baby Boomers, Me Generation, Generation X, Millennials, Rat Race, Eileen Brennan, Alex Karras, Brenda Venus, Tower Records, REO Speedwagon, Radio Simulcasts, Tom Petty, Happy Endings, Nostalgia, Family, Queen

Let's take a look at Ian Fleming's 'Goldfinger', both the 1958 novel and the 1964 film. An interesting study in the changes one must make when bringing a book to the big screen. Follow me on the web at ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaterJm Blog: https://landofnod.blog/ Key Words: Pop Culture, Vintage Books, Vintage Movies, 1950s, 1958, James Bond, Ian Fleming Mentioned in Video: Gentlemen, Playboy, Esquire, Racism, Misogyny, Censorship, Casino Royale, Golf, Pineapple on Pizza, Cheating, Karate, Lesbians, Screaming Mimi, Sarin, Nuclear Bomb, Communist China, Dirty Bomb

Randy Zimmerman and Russ Leach have brought the first sword & sorcery pulp adventure to life in their graphic novel of Robert E Howard's 'The Shadow Kingdom'. Tune in for a spoiler-free review. Follow me on the web at ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaterJm Blog: https://landofnod.blog/ Key Words: Pop Culture, Indie Comics, 2000s, 2024, King Kull, Robert E Howard, Pulp Fiction, Sword & Sorcery Mentioned in Video: Conan the Barbarian, Savage Sword of Conan, Marvel Comics, John Buscema, Ernie Chan, Atlantis, Serpent Men, Solomon Kane

Join me for a review of the first year of the Avengers comics, and how it compared to DC's Justice League of America from the same period. Follow me on the web at ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaterJm Blog: https://landofnod.blog/ Key Words: Pop Culture, Vintage Comics, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, 1960s, 1963, 1964 Mentioned in Video: Avengers, Justice League of America, JLA, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gardner Fox, Mike Sekowsky

When puny humans are getting Hulk down and he's not in the mood to SMASH, he goes ... SKYDIVING! Let's take a look at a wonderfully weird knock-off parachuting Hulk toy. Follow me on the web at ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaterJm Blog: https://landofnod.blog/ Key Words: Pop Culture, Toys, Knock-Off Toys, Marvel Comics, Hulk, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Blow Mold Plastic, Transformers

Ninety years (give or take) after Hal Roach produced the Laurel & Hardy vehicle 'Babes on Toyland' AKA 'March of the Wooden Soldiers' AKA 'Revenge Is Sweet' (no, really), it remains a funny, fantastic spectacle. Tune in for a review of the film and a plea to keep this classic alive.

Every toy that didn't want to be called lame in the 1970s had to have a super groovy van in their lineup. Tune in for a look at a couple of those vans in person, and a few others that I would love to add to my collection. Follow me on the web at ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/StaterJm Blog: https://landofnod.blog/ Key Words: Pop Culture, Vintage Toys, 1970s, Charlies Angels, CHiPs, Spider-Man, Marvel Comics, Vintage TV, Hasbro, Mego, Dinah Mite, Action Figures Mentioned in Video: Manual Windows, Shag Carpet, Barbie, Mattel, Hulk, Imperial Plastic, Volkswagen, Batman, Big Jim, Eric Estrada, Batcopter, Ponch & John, VW Bus, Fonzi

Let's check in on history's greatest lover, in 1948's 'The Adventures of Don Juan'. One of my favorite movies and an overlooked classic of swashbuckling romance.

Before VR headsets and other such modern falderal, we got our 3-D Star Wars fix through the engineering magic of pop-up books.

One might imagine that in a lurid film noir starring Anita Ekberg, the leading lady would be the main attraction. 'Screaming Mimi', though, is a film more beautiful than its leading lady.

There are Christmas films we all know well, and Christmas films we don't. Tune in for a review of 'It Happened on 5th Avenue', a lesser known film that gets into the true meaning of Christmas.

Star Wars hit the sweet spot of my childhood, from 5 to 12 - prime toy loving years. Today I look at the old Star Wars toys that survived my childhood, and reminisce a little about the movies and what they meant to me.

Republic's Captain America, the movie serial with everything but ... Captain America?

Can Chuck Dixon write a bodacious, barbaric tale of Conan the Cimmerian?

Eric July has come on strong with Isom 1 and 2, the first books in a new comic book universe. What do these books deliver? Tune in and find out. If you want to buy Isom, head over to www.rippaverse.com

NECA's Ultimate Bride of Frankenstein - out of the box and into my heart

Von Klaus has released a couple of killer (no pun intended) comics - Psycho-Killers Book 01 and Terror in the Trenches Vol 1. Did I like 'em? Tune in and find out. Terror in the Trenches Vol 1 is still in demand! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/terror-in-the-trenches-vol-1/x/808014#/

Join DC's Silver Age Heroes, Gabriel's Lone Ranger, Mego's Batmobile and Fisher-Price's Turbo Hawk on ... The July Toy Haul!

David Lucarelli and Henry Ponciano weave a tale of betrayal, blackmail and murder in 1910's Hollywood.

In this video I chat about my 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons memories, the good and bad of those rules and how WOTC marketing helped turn some nostalgiacs and some lovers of rules-lite games into the Old School Renaissance.

The power of comic books in the bronze age was not just in the epic stories - the key comics all the collectors demand - but also in the smaller, self-contained stories where the focus is more on the hero than the villain. In this video I look at one such comic, Captain America #258 by Claremont and Zeck.

Honey West hit TV screens in 1965 - a female private eye who was just as handy in a fight as she was beautiful. The show had style, but did it have something more?