20 June 2009
The one for June - Anime
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30 May 2009
May Day month...the colour red


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26 May 2009
Flash! [cue cheesy 1980s soundtrack music here...]
Continuing on my sci-fi 'trip', I'd recently watched the 1980 cult classic film 'Flash Gordon', re-released on DVD. It's in turn based on a comic strip by American artist Alex Raymond from the 1930s, and which has gone through a few incarnations on the small screen since.

Flash!! Aa..Ah!!
The premise of the story is that a ruthless dictator from another galaxy (or star system) is bombarding Earth with meteors. Flash Gordon, a polo player, is caught up with heroine Dale Arden and the Russian scientist Zarkov - who believes he has discovered the source of these attacks - in a space adventure to the distant planet of Mongo, homeworld of said dictator, Ming the Merciless.
By today's 'standards' in the mainstream, the whole premise of such a story may seem unbelievably camp and even dated. Indeed, that is why the concept of Flash Gordon has attained a sort of cult status in the sci-fi world, even recently being re-imagined into a TV series in recent years.
But it is probably precisely because it has a certain cult status, with a pedigree from the Golden Age of science fiction, that it is so notable.

Not only does it have that '80s, big-hair, over-the-top kind of feeling, it has that kind of unabashed sexiness too, which is probably partially a holdover from the '70s.
Take, for instance, the Mongo Princess Aura (right).
I must confess that I didn't like the movie that much...it wasn't the campiness as much as that some sci-fi ideas or stories, in my opinion, are difficult to translate onscreen.
Sometimes I prefer the printed word - on hardcopy, not even online. And I don't just mean text either, but graphics: the picture from (one of) the comic strips below, for example. Or the picture after that?
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17 May 2009
April...another sci-fi babe
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10 May 2009
March gal: anime
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31 March 2009
Ms February - Science fiction still on my mind...
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14 February 2009
January pin-up...late, but worth the wait
Following my previous post, I'm still running on the theme of science fiction. Now this might be stretching it a bit, because the lady below is a starlet in a movie that could be considered more horror-thriller than sci-fi, but what the heck. Check out the article about it here.

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