DON'T KNOW WHY BUT I'M UP FOR HORRORFFIC THURSDAYS

Hello comic loving and horror fans alike,                                                                                            Tonight I am going to really ready to give myself something of a short but striking bit of a true introduction to one of character that I know at least a little about. Here is what I am trying to scare myself with, 

  here in great reading sofa with my cohort of  comic crime reading Spidey showing off what we are capable of being a smashing to maybe a silly review or a serious one! Who really knows? So here's a lot of questions that will impress me as well as you my reading audience... and we will cover THE DARKNESS volume II eventually if not this time very soon after this one the only thing that I will absolutely know about THE DARKNESS volume II is that last week I picked it up along with another oversized comic that is actually the whole nineteen nineties storyline and returning from the dead... Death Of Superman at of course, Adventures!                                                                                                               My overall understanding of the character known as Vampirella goes way back to when I was still a teenager. We, our family were living in Gaithersburg, Maryland at the time I was attending Wooton high school and it was my first year in a new environment.  While throughout that whole year of nineteen eighty eight I was able to meet a nice teenager named Chan he was a few years older than me. We really had found a common connection as friends besides being in a few classes together. One time over my many visits to his home I was able to see that someone was a big fan of comic books like I was starting again to be one myself from when I was a little guy. Anyway it turns out that they had some magazine sized comics with a woman in a eye catching red suit on the covers, the insides of these comics were Black and White,  which in later years I would come to find that I really appreciate what the creators do to sell their products.                                             Vampirella had her starting in September, nineteen sixty nine by comic writer Forrester J. Ackerman and comic illustratior Trina Robbins designed the character's             iconic Red suit. 

Now let's get this review of these current Vampirella comics started, we will start with Vampirella Hollywood Horror the trade that Spider-Man has in his lap. It's a six issue storyline that was published in twenty,  sixteen it was written by Kate Leth and is drawn by comic artist Eman Casallos,  with cover for the trade is by Jenny Frison who is currently doing a variety of variations of Decetevice Comics characters covers.

        In it's opening Hollywood Horror has an actress heading to work outside of Santa Clarita, California to her current production, where she meets the casting director Slade and the filming begins of a scene. Meanwhile in the hills of Hollywood we see that Vampirella and her friend Tristan and her chauffer Coleridge arrive at their new manison that Coleridge found through an offer on Craigslist. When Vampirella and Tristan are just getting ready to rest for the night 

they have a very unexpected guest break upon them. Vampirella chases the guest off of her private property.  When she tries to find out who the guest is he simply designated,  but she finds a calling card with the casting director from earlier. The next morning she and Tristan arrive in Hollywood to find a bit of help from an investigator in finding out who Slade is?                                                                                                                                                  Vampirella and Tristan use the help of the investigator who is named Ms Court by having her interview the alien from the planet known as Drakulon. One of the many attending adording fans during the interview is dressed very similar to the way of Vampi's mysterious guest from the night before and for whatever reason Vampirella attacks the fan. We as the comic reader, find out at the same time the casting director Slade seems to be trying use her own investigator to finding Vampirella!                                     Eventually both Slade and Vampirella meet up and have a huge battle to the death... by the fifth arc in this tale. Then the sixth part of this series seems at it's end to just be tacked on as Vampirella finding out on Halloween night that she has a particular new favorite love interests who happens to use her as his guardian while he goes trick or treating!              Overall this for my very first of reading of a Vampirella story is both very interesting to seeing how the character is good at being a horror driven female that's always at her own crossroad of dealing with her foes. Yet at the same time this story at the very given time is very compressed of where it's headed. I am giving it as a grade C minus.                                         Now onward with the two other comics seen with Spider-Man of Vampirella's more current titles... we are going to review VAMPIRELLA FAIRY TALES which is on the left of my reading partner.  Here's a closer look at         

   the cover first! Vampirella has a wolf behind her and she seems to have a red cape besides her classic red suit alone. Then of course there are bats behind her as well, the illusion of the cover and the writer of the story inside are by Soo Lee.  The main illustrator for the story is Emiliana Pinna. Vampirella walks through some woods and a pack of wolves are tracking her. She come to a mysterious old woman who tells her about a werewolf that has been killing a lot of the villagers and the village remains constantly in fear. The old woman asks for Vampirella's help to hunt down the cursed creature with a basket of goodies.                                                                                                                                      She returns to the woods and waits for her target while drinking some wine. When her target attacks they stare each other down. For a brief moment each thinks they can honestly best the other.... and yes with both being their own creatures of habits they of course bite each other! But when Vampirella does it, she cuts it's head from the wolf's body. She returns to the old woman place in the village she had offered to help.  She warns the old woman that there are always dangerous dangers just outside any village before she goes looking for a ride out of this chaotic village... the arc ends with her meeting another old woman this one happens to be offering Vampirella some milk and cookies!                                                                                                                                                             As I was reading this story I had the very feeling that Vampirella was extremely ready for her take of being Red Riding Hood only without a doubt a bloody end was the result no matter what the find outcome is? This is a one shot as to if the other story will lead some where is anyone's real guess? For still not knowing much about the actual character of Vampirella herself,  I am willing to give Vampirella FAIRY TALES a ranking of a B plus,  again mostly for the art of the story.                                                                                                            Now for a review of the book that really has me thinking that Vampirella is just as important as both Spider-Man or Spawn or even as fascinating as Batman or even as cool as the horror hostess named Evlira who is portrayed by actress Cassandra Peterson.  Who happens to be having a couple of comic series appearing here soon. The book we are glancing at now is part of the current ongoing Vampirella title which is titled Vampirella year one! On the cover of my copy she happens to have a silver suit on instead of her regular red one, it's because the character is currently celebrating fifty three years of existence. The writer of this historical background of the super vampire heron is Christopher Priest, who has written for both Decetevice Comics and Marvel Comics as far back as nineteen eighty four of most of their main characters.  Christopher has been writing the Vampirella title since July of twenty, nineteen. The illustrator for Vampirella year one is Ergun GuNDuz.                                                                                                                               Like a whole lot of "year one" storylines, at Decetevice or Marvel comics are made to help both old or newer readers of any certain characters a current telling of said character's original origin... I happened to have on this blog a review of Frank Miller's Batman Year one. Vampirella year one's cover that I have is illustrated by Collette Turner and Dynamite press that releases has a complete listing of all of their alternative versions of this cover, which amounts to thrity six different covers. The story begins with Vampirella talking to a man who is unnamed, he has brought her enrichment nourishment and she is talking to her belly as she holds it. We learn of her own history on her home planet called Drakulon. We learn of Drakulon's governing system and much her mother is someone of great potential power in her own right! Also one other thing that we as readers learn is her nickname by her closest friend is Snoop.             My impression from reading this year one arc that's bound to truly grace anyone who  is  a true comics lover  is that because  of everything new is our/my luring hook to not  only love or like what it is your brain is devouring...( see what  it  is  that I did there?, with it actually being that the character I am conversing of is well a vampire, no less) is giving me the one who cares absolutely about comics is the thoughts to flow for those of us that are always full of reaching ideas in certain ways of being caring about being creative in our own hopeful ways. As to what grade do I give Vampirella Year One number one for a whole altogether is an A plus... As to my review of THE DARKNESS volume II so far I am only on chapter 2, out of a spanning story of crimes throughout New York in the mid nineteen nineties that have magical weapons for the two main protagonists involved.  It has altogether twenty six chapters in the tomb of that very trade. Till next time my friends and love ones, enjoy whatever you DO have reading wise that let your mind wonder into a whole world of challenging growth known as reading! 

Today is of course a National comic book character day of????

Hello All,                                                                                                                                                        Let me start off by saying that at the beginning of the earlier post of today titled "Hailing Frequencies are always recommended", where overall I went and did my utmost humbling best to paying respect to everyone's original communications officer of a science fiction series called Star Trek. Her name was Nichelle Nicholas she portrayed Luentiant commander Uhura, there was one thing on that entry that I forgot about in sharing about the fictional character and what that was is that until the Star Trek Trilogy of films by television and film director J.J. Abrams was it that Uhura got a first name. It is  Nyota. 

 Truly though I was wanting to start this very entry with why I have been using the color of RED over the last couple of years during the summer months... and I want more than anything to say it's not because of the weather being just so HOT. For myself I think that the main reasons I have been using this and other colors of RED is because the different colors of REDS make me feel that it gives myself energizing ideas throughout the mist of each day of the three months called sun screen protector time known as sizzling summer time.                                                                  Today's very late entry is about comics again,  this time I am going to be talking about of course my favorite one known as Spider-man yet really I am going to try my best to do this one as a general overview of Spider-man's lore without to much of my reasoning of what I know is going wrong with the character as a whole and the company that owns him. Way before even Spidey came along there were two other big sets of characters that are just as important as he is for the publisher called Marvel Comics. They are The Fantastic four seen here 

 and also at first a monster that was at first grey in color, but was after his first appearance in his own title       

of The Incredible Hulk. These characters were illustrated by Jack Kirby and scribed by Stan Lee. The Hulk's color went from Grey to Green and was then given a chance to appear in another Marvel comic title "Tales to Asontish" starting with issue sixy.  Which was a full year and half after his six issue main series that started originally in April of nineteen sixty two with a May cover date. When the issue of Tales to Asontish with his first appearance was released in September of nineteen sixty four with a cover date of October #60. Speaking of sixty that is how old the characters of Bruce Banner and Peter Parker are, who are those given names your probably wondering well those are the civilian selves of Spider-Man and the Jolly Green monster known as the Hulk. So the Hulk's actual anniversary owned month is the other "A lettered month" of the year,  called April.                                                                                                                                              Before you ask how I am hoping to celebrate the month of Spider-Man besides reading his adventures in his comics that I am going to devote the rest of my main free time to besides other comics as well, I'm wondering do you at all are you knowing of the anniversaries of Decetevice Comics super heroes? That are legacy characters like the Marvel ones that I have mentioned so far...                                                                                      Here they are from the likes of how I listed the Marvel ones on their popularity, for the oldest running comic book superhero that everyone without any doubt has knowledge of is the fellow whose motto is "T.J.A.T.A." maybe his animosity of his motto might be to admittingly hard on our brains when D.C. is trying to convince us the character needs to be modernized to fit our world as it is now. I am of course talking about the guy seen here from the Max Fletcher cartoon series of the character's 

  name. Simply known as Superman. He is eighty four years old as of this very writing . His celebration month is April with a cover date on Action Comics #1 June, nineteen thirty eight.  The other Decetevic Comics character that is equally the equivalent of Superman and has currently too many different comic titles it makes even my noggin spin worse than a plastic toy top is of course... is the guy 

            seen here. He is known as Batman, his celebration month is also April.  His first comic appearance was in Decetevice Comics # 27 that came out in May/June of nineteen thirty nine with a cover dated of  May,  So Bats and Sups are just a full year apart in their anniversaries celebrations.  The Third major comic character from Decetevice Comics is a female an is known as     

Yes you guessed right on who that female character is if you say Wonder Woman. Whose first appearance was in "All Star comics # eight, with a cover date of Dec/Jan, nineteen forty one.  It was released in October of that year so Wonder Woman's celebration month is October. The first Decetevice Comics team book that the Justice League appeared in was The Brave and the Bold issue # twenty eight cover dated March,nineteen sixty.  It was originally released in February of that year, so The Justice League * (which are known to most children as the superfriends from the nineteen seventies), celebration month is February and are sixty two years old. And the reason why the Fantastic Four were created in October, nineteen, sixty one with their first issue cover date being November in the upper left corner box. They are celebrating sixty one years this very year.                         Now as I am such a huge fan of the webspiner one of Spider-man's many nick names, besides doing a lot of reading of his monthly comic adventures,  I am thinking of watching the classic sixty seven cartoon series on DVD. His movies from the early two thousands, and  come up with my own stories to share here on this site. An finally if I can find some much needed time I will definitely be getting around to illustrating him if I honestly can find the time. Happy this 

guy day to all of... no more like Happy Spidey month to all of his many fans young and old alike! 

                                                     

Hailing Frequencies are always recommended.....

Hello to All crews of exploration of everything and crews with imaginations that are full of loss always as well.....                                                                                                                                            Maybe the reason of why of late that I have been so focused on my writings of my blog posts have been showing up in a regardless colors that are in RED will most certainly be carefully explained. While I was working on my entry about talking of the passage of Tony Dow also known as Wally Cleaver on the nineteen fifties to early nineteen sixties television series called "Leave It To Beaver ", while watching the Memeroial Entertainment Television marathon which included "Wally's new Job". Here's a few scenes                                  

                                                           

                                                                                                              , from that very episode. During one of the many comicreal breaks over the course of the ten episodes shown I had gotten to see that as I had said at it's end of yesterday post someone else had went to their heavenly home of existence, and if you're in need of what series the one who did pass was a part of  here is their station on a very famous spaceship.                                                                                                               

                         Up above is her place on the bridge of the N.C.C. 1701 constitution class of the earth spaceship known as the Enterprise. So before I get to who it is that passed away yesterday I will give you a run down of the original series characters that have entered into the energizing bridge of heaven with a quote from the character famous related line of dialogue. Believe you me, I am going to make this part very both interesting and worth coming back for, for every actor from a certain television or movie that I have cherished.  So the first line of dialogue that I am giving  is "There comes a time when a man finds that he can't fall in love again....He knows that it's time to stop. I don't belong on your ship....I belong on this one. This was my home. This is where I had a purpose. " It is on the holo deck and is said to Jean Luc Picard. The person who says this is James Doohan as ????                                                                                   

                                                                                  Here is another quote by Doohan's character from his character in the voyage home the fourth movie of the original Star Trek movies "Admiral, there be whales here!"  He went join his other cast member whom I will be talking about next, Doohan left earth on July 20, 2005. He was eighty five years of age. Now on to the first original series cast member that has passed, but first here's a few lines of his character dialogue "It seems Admiral, that I have all of his marbles." And of course when this very character portrayed by DeForest Kelley was an Admiral himself " I don't see no points on your ears, boy, but you sound like a Vulcan. " "No, sir. I am an android." " Almost as bad." From Star Trek TNG polit "Encounter at Farpoint."                                                                                                                       

                                                                                     Or his character's best line of the original series "I'm a Doctor not an...." DeForest Kelley left earth on June 11, 1999. He was seventy nine years of age. For those wondering who was more recent passing of this bridge officer that passed is without any doubt, of the original Star Trek series most famous character of all them was of course the character portrayed by Leonard need I say his last name? Well here's some of his character's dialogue that your may know of... "Well, we found a whole world of minds that work just like yours: logical,  unemotional,  completely pragmatic. And we poor irrational humans whipped them in a fair fight. Now you'll find yourself back among us illogical humans again." "Which I find eminently satisfactory, Doctor.  For nowhere am I so desperately needed as among a shipload of illogical humans."  Or going with his character's Next Gen appearance in "Unification" two parter that was made to honor the creator of all Star Trek Gene Roddenberry.  Here's that very bit of dialogue "In your own way, you are as stubborn as another captain of the Enterprise I once knew. " Then I am in good company, sir."                                                         

Then of course there is Leonard's character most well noted bit of dialogue that even any non star trek fan does know "Live Long And Prosper."                                                                       Of course who we are really talking about today is the Young lady who sat behind Kirk on the bridge at the communications station, called Uhura portrayed by Nichelle Nicholas.  Whose character according to Gene Roddenberry her name means freedom. Before she was cast as Uhura on Star Trek she was a singer and dancer in her very early twenties and was touring with bands lead by Duke Ellenton and Lionel Hamilton. She caught the eye of Huge Hefner when she was playing a fictional character based off of lose adaption of his famous magazine,  while living in Chicago. Two years before Star Trek was ever thought about by Gene Roddenberry she starred in his police drama television show called "The Lieutenant" in the episode titled "To Set It Right" which had dealt with racial prejudice. That very same episode starred Don Marshall who would later play in Star Trek's first season episode "The Galileo Seven". Her character in "To Set It Right"     

           was named Norma Bartlett.                                                                                                        Nichelle's character of Uhura first appeared in the episode titled "The Corbomite Maneuver" it was also the only time her character's uniform was command yellow like Kirk's usually is through out the series. 

 Expect for when he wore his alternate  green tunic one from time to time as well. Her normal one after Uhura's first episode was mainly Red for the remainder of the series. Nichelle throughout the course of the first season of Star Trek had very strong improvement of something that she was very unaware of?, what was that your are thinking of that she did that she didn't know of or as I phrased  it as unawareness of... 

    At the same time of when the first season was in progress of being made there was in the Civil Rights movement that had started in nineteen fifty four, the movement's leader was                                                                     

                                                                                            the man seen here with Nichelle.  When these two met Martin Luther King Jr had told Nichelle of how her most recent work experience was the best way of showing that all people are capable of making is a solid foundation of both people of African-American decent and of other races being absolutely capable of making their dreams a reality. In fact here is a picture of their                                                                                                 

                            conversation with Nichelle as Uhura. After also voicing her concerns to Gene Roddenberry as well and hearing that he made up his fictional space crew of people of all diversities, because he was wanting to show the whole planet earth that everyone can really reach their greatest potential,  no matter what! Seeing that both men saw things as understanding common people,  She stayed on as Uhura from the next two seasons of the series. Nichelle got to have William Shanter share the very first interracial kiss 

 in the third season episode titled "Plato's  Stepchildren" *( more about this when I review STAR TREK the television series itself). Star Trek itself, was canceled on June third,  nineteen sixty nine.                                                                                                                                However anyone who is a Star Trek loyalists of the series knows that there was something called syndication. Which allowed any network in anywhere to play and replay the series over time and again and that of course had new fans grow out of it wanting more... Roddenberry was paying very close attention to that and he and his actors, and screenwriters put together after seeing the First STAR WARS film in nineteen seventy seven were hard at work on a new forum of Star Trek one way or another. They started out by trying to make another television series, but that overall plan would payoff in a whole multitude of new ways... in the meantime the animation company of Filmation came to Roddenberry and offered him a cartoon series as long as all of the actual actors were willing to voice their characters and all but Leonard Nimoy were willing to do it at first. In fact here is the animated cel of  Uhura 

 with Nichelle as Uhura, the animated series put the owners of Star Trek franchise ready for Star Trek the motion picture. Even when Nichelle wasn't working on fictional space in the nineteen seventies she was busy helping the ongoing real life space exploration known as NASA. The  re-release of the animation series after the motion picture was released increased even more new fans to the fantastic space operatic saga known as Trek. What then followed were five more feature films and in late nineteen eighty seven a new version of Trek was forever forged into place.                                                                     I almost forgot to mention that Nichelle was born Grace Dell Nicholas in Robbins,  Illinois in nineteen thirty two. And has been one the best communications of keeping not only Star Trek going for close to fifty six years... She found time to have a family as well.           Is there something that I am of course forgetting over this long goodbye to a great woman who died at eighty nine of heart failure in Silver city,  New Mexico just two days ago on July thirty, twenty,  twenty two. Well yes there's the reason I have been writing in RED most of this summer don't worry all will be explained later tonight in another post for August first? Yes your getting two for the price of one today!