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more casey since i guess he has fans
I just had to turn this John Pomeroy commissioned "Dragon's Lair" drawing into a Christmas card parody. It's sort of a "Game Over/Bad Ending" inspired concept where the hero fails in his quest and the wicked wizard ends up getting his own "Happily Ever After" ending. At least this unlikely couple is making the most of it, and probably mailing these out to all the minions who helped make this possible.
Original Art: https://www.instagram.com/p/DDYxxVJRaoh/?hl=en Concept inspired by: https://stayathomemum.com.au/occasions/christmas/this-familys-parody-of-christmas-cards-is-just-amazingly-awkward/
Don Bluth is on record as saying Dirk the Daring and Princess Daphne are the perfect pair in large part due to the fact that they are on approximately the same level, mentally speaking. Descriptive idioms employed include "elevator didn't go all the way to the top floor" and "hasn’t got a whole deck of cards going on." These pages from Marvel's 1984 coloring & activity books seem to illustrate that sensibility.
The Fog Horn
With all the Foghorn Leghorn vs. Anime memes going around, I thought it might be worthwhile to reflect on a couple of poignant sections of this Ray Bradbury short story, which was the basis for the movie "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms", which likely inspired Godzilla.
When you spend your entire life stuck in the mud of the ocean's floor, your ears yearn for the sound of anything that sounds like a familiar voice: be it a Fog Horn echoing across the deep dark waters or the ramblings a giant Southern chicken calling out your clownin.
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Two characters from different franchises with the exact same catchphrase meeting each other what would that look like?
I thought of another, even though it's a throwback to the early 1990s, since both franchises seemingly distanced themselves from the catchphrase as they tried to keep current with cultural trends.
Another "Puzzle Card" commission of six personalized sketch cards that I received earlier this year from talented Mexican artist Marco Carrillo based on the first Konami Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles LCD electronic handheld game (released 1989 in North America, I think). The concept of the original game revolves around the Turtle/Turtles (the "sprites" all resemble Leonardo using a katana) braving the dangerous traps and enemies on ground and underwater to save April O'Neil held captive in “Shredder’s Asylum.” Marco expanded upon the concept to feature Raphael battling Mousers and Flap Jaws (top left), Leonardo with a defeated Foot Soldier (top middle), Shredder with April in the Asylum trap (top right), Michelangelo (bottom left), Foot Soldier getting destroyed by the "Turtle Cutter" trap (bottom middle), and Donatello acquiring a bomb (bottom right). Taken together, the puzzle has something of a relay system. For such a familiar video game to the generation of turtle-loving kids who grew up with the franchise, it's surprising to me how little love this thing gets in regards to fan-art tributes. Meanwhile, the infamous NES game is meme-worthy enough due to the "Dam Level" alone. But I'm glad I was able to help Marco bring this set to life! Marco Carrillo: https://www.instagram.com/marcocarrilloart/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/mdavidct.art mdavidct.deviantart.com
"Puzzle Card" commission of six sequential personalized sketch cards that I received earlier this year from talented Mexican artist Marco Carrillo based on the Dragon's Lair arcade games. Incredible amount of detail and energy he's able to (loving) cram onto those 2.5"x3.5" canvases! Marco Carrillo: https://www.instagram.com/marcocarrilloart/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/mdavidct.art mdavidct.deviantart.com
When the game just has to rub it in!
I might be in the minority, but I appreciated all those arcade-styled games that took the opportunity to make you think about the consequences of your failure when all credits and continues were exhausted. It could have been a blunt and absolute Game Over message or even an alternative “Bad Ending.” I think it’s a decent motivation to come back later to improve your skills and at least progress a bit further than your last playthrough, until you finally achieve those breakthroughs and score the win!
Also, I’ve never had the chance to play an original arcade Dragon’s Lair II: Time Warp machine or even the original ROM. Modern remastered versions of the game don’t have this Game Over screen.
Screencap source: Joe’s Classic Video Games @YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rCKFynm4h8
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Syndicate Collectibles website advertises the logos for “Dragon’s Lair Trilogy” and Space Ace. A little redundant but I hope that means they will do some figures inspired by Time Warp, the arcade sequel to Dragon’s Lair! (Interesting they also got the Army of Darkness rights even though I assume NECA still has Evil Dead.
Things aren't looking promising for Syndicate Collectibles' line of licensing properties! The website has even taken several steps backwards since their summer 2023 SDCC reveals.
So here's my peculiar soap-box lament as regards animation cel or production art collecting as a hobbyist. I prefer original animation cels or line drawing sheets NOT be signed. The original art has intrinsic appeal "as is" perhaps even moreso if it looks like it just came off the camera's plane. In the case of most cels from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series (1987-1996), they were matted and packaged as mass-market collectibles to be resold at select retailers or as mail-in promotions. It's great because it helped preserve a lot of the show's production art and there's so much of it out on the secondary market that it makes it feasible that any fan can own at least one cel without having to break the bank over it. But when somebody famous adds their signature to something, people think THAT adds a ton of value to it. Why not just own a signature separately on something that doesn't permanently alter the integrity of a historic one-of-a-kind animation cel? Despite my love of almost all things TMNT, I just don't think a Kevin Eastman signature should hold any special connection to the classic TMNT cartoon series, since Eastman and Laird didn't really care for the tone of the show and more-or-less rubber-stamped their approval rights for everything past the 2nd season. Eastman is a very generous guy with his signature (Peter Laird too), and I don't begrudge any fan who wants to get their own stuff signed, but this image of a mass signing of animation art (with the implication he's probably going to re-sell it himself) makes me a bit sad.