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Mars Attacks #1 Complete Box Set, Lame?

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I’m absolutely over the moon at all the Mars Attacks merch coming out for the series’ 50th anniversary this year. That is except for the Mars Attacks #1 Complete Box Set, which sounds cool as a complete 55-comic set in a cool collectible box for (gulp!) $200.

But as hard as I tried, I couldn’t figure out when a 55-comic set of Mars Attacks comics were ever released. There was a set released in the 1990s that wasn’t nearly 55 issues long and a few comics in the 1980s but that was it. Then I read the details on the Complete Box Set, it’s 55 issues of the SAME #1 issue of the new upcoming Mars Attacks comic with all of the 55 variant covers of all the original Mars Attacks cards.

How lame is that!? Very.

Stunt Rock Set to Air on TCM 3/31

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Stunt Rock, an early 1980s movie about a stuntman who hooks up with a rock band for some seriously crazy action, is set to air on TCM early Saturday morning (3/31) at 2am. It’s directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith whom I have an affinity for who also directed two other fun films Turkey Shoot and The Siege of Firebase Gloria.

I’m still looking to get a copy of another of Smith’s films Death Cheaters but haven’t ever been able to.

More on Stunt Rock here.

 

The Walking Dead: Zombie Plot Device

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I was, is and am a big proponent of the TV series The Walking Dead. I championed the show when it was first announced and couldn’t believe that one of my favorite writer/directors Frank Darabont was the one who was heading up the series. And, after the stunning first season of The Walking Dead I became even more fanatical about the show and counted the days until the start of the second.

And even with the second season, after Darabont was unceremoniously dumped from the show and The Walking Dead shifted gears from instead focusing on a group of people on the run from a zombie apocalypse to instead a group of people holed-up on a farm trying to wait out said apocalypse I still was, and am, a fan of the show.

But I have to admit that I feel like after the start of the second half of the second season of the show I started liking The Walking Dead less and less with each viewing. And I’d have to guess the reason for this is because of that farm.

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