STAR WARS FACT

It's been quite some time since I last posted anything Star Wars on my blog.
Here's something I've used a while ago in the past in another article, but probable didn't got much attention back then...

Music Trivia - The Justice League theme songs that never were

If I talk to you about Justice League opening theme songs...
You probably think about this one:


Justice League Unlimited Opening 

And/or that other one:



Justice League Unlimited Opening

Well I wasn't talking about the Justice League theme song, rather Justice League members theme song!

Secret Lives of Comic Store Employees

I know I'm like a whole year late on that...
But hey! Better late than never, am I right?

Here's a link to a very interesting read.
It's a compilation of interviews by Wired dot com.
The "Secret Lives of Comic Store Employees" as they called it.

Very fun insight from Comic book store employees, with fun tidbits and their opinions on various stuff.
A great read, check it out!

2 things to note from all those opinions:
- Everybody hates what Joe Q. did to Spider-man and Brand New Day
- Most comic book guys want to either be Peter Parker or Superman

Haha :P

Ade Due Damballa

"Ade Due Damballa. Give me the power, I beg of you.
Leveau mercier du bois chaloitte.
Secoise entienne mais pois de morte.
Morteisma lieu de vocuier de mieu vochette.
Endelieu pour du boisette damballa 
Endelieu pour du boisette damballa
Endelieu pour du boisette damballa"

If you're an horror fan, you recognised Child's Play's famous voodoo spell.
A classic movie moment.

Here's the opening of the very first movie:
(well, the important part only)



With those words, Charles Lee Ray transferred his soul into a Chucky doll.
Oh, you noticed it isn't the exact same words as above? That's because this is the human-to-object voodoo ritual.
The one above was the opposite, object-to-human transfer.

"Ade due damballa. Give me the power I beg of you.
Secoise entienne mais pois de morte.
Morteisma lieu de vocuier de mieu vochette.
Endonline pour de boisette damballa!
Secoise entienne mais pois de morte.
Endelieu pour de boisette damballa!
Endelieu pour de boisette damballa!
Endelieu pour de boisette damballa!  "

What kinda language is that?
It may come out as french for non-french speakers, but it is in fact an old form of Haitian Creole.
Which fans translated to:

"To the almighty Damballa, give me the power I beg of you!
To the mercy of my soul.
To the point of my death.
Hear me out of from my condemned voice."

The movie's mythos is based on old Haitian Voodoo religion-legends.
And Damballa is a snake-god, to whom Chucky asks and begs to help him save his soul.

Trivia Eyz, a trivia a day~

Music Trivia - Archies in the 60's and in the 90's

Here's a little tidbit of trivia~

The worse comic book movie adaptation isn't Steel, Catwoman, Elektra or Jonah Hex... oh no..
It probably is in my eyes Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again!

Multi-console gaming

For as long as there's been home console releases, there's been multi-console releases...
What is that, multi-console, you ask?
It's when a game is released on different systems.
Before games being released on Xbox 360 or PS3, there's been games released for Gamecubes/Xbox/PS2 and before that SNES/Megadrive and before that Atari/Commodore/etc..etc..

Now, I wanna just take a quick look at those sort of multi-console games.

Well, there's not a ton of options when a game gets a multi-console release.
It's either a port of the game, an "adaptation" or something different altogether...

Music Trivia #03 the music of: Die Hard

Here's another installment of my music trivia!
With the kind of blog updates, I hope, you can keep for later when you have time to enjoy...And listen to, calmly sometime, be it at work (well,that is if you have the kind of work where you can listen to music, or while working on homeworks...) or while reading, etc..

Come out to the coast, we'll get together, have a few laughs..

Today's topic, as you can guess, Die Hard!

Music Trivia #02

Remember that post?
Here's another look at some more gaming music and its inspiration!

Still using this Sonic artwork from Yuji Uekawa, at least until I draw something myself :P

Music Trivia #01

I like music.
In fact, it's always been a big part of my life. Always having music in the background or spending time listening to music...

I'm not just a "dude who draws stuff" or "who plays games". I'm also a "dude who plays music" since I was ten!~

That's why Music in games or movies is a big part of my appreciation and something I won't ignore or turn off.

Today, on this very hot saturday of almost-summer (how is it on your side? very sunny as well?) I wanted to have a little post on music inspirations & references. Little hommage in compositions, if you will.

Sega Mascots 02: Opa Opa

Here's another look at a past Sega Mascots. This time, it's Opa Opa's turn!

 

OPA OPA

moar ANIME Opening for US Cartoons!

I was really gonna put my movie review today, no kiddin'! But with work-related stuff, time quickly went on today...

Anyway. Since the post about the japanese re-made intros for those superheroes shows was such a hit last time (huh... for you 4or5 guys and gals reading this anyway -__- hey! Look at the page views! that's a lot of 'em already! *update I took out the page views since it made my pages laggy*)
I decided to make another post for some other openings, the only ones I could find. AND I DID search a lot for them!

It seems all the 90s Marvel Animated shows did get an original opening theme in Japan (not sure about the last one, Spider-man).
So, it means the Hulk, the Fantastic Four and probably Spider-man had different intros, but I couldn't find them...

At least I found Ironman.
But first, let's have a quick recap of Ironman original intro:

That's the first opening btw, the second one was pretty boring, check in on the youtube links of this one.

Okay. Decent, classic animation, music kinda average but ok (not as catchy as, say, Spider-man, X-men).


IRON-O-MAN~

They did redraw the couple of important scenes here and there, but it re-used some parts from the original episodes.
I'm kinda disappointed with this one.
Not as epic as the X-men ones. Music is... average as well here.
: (

Now here's a better one,
remember the ol' Batman cartoon based on the Adam West live show?

It's SEIZURE time!

Woah! I prefered the animated opening to THE LIVE SHOW!
I did catch some episodes on tv here, they used to re-run that and the Adam West's Batman a lot on late afternoons.
The headshots are... strange and use too much time on this video. But it was ok, if you consider the era it was done.
(sure, Hannah-Barbera cartoons were a lot better)

Now, the japanese remade opening intro and the ending as well:

BATOMAN~ I ruuuuuuv yooooouuuu~

WOAH! That's fantastic!
I gotta say, I love this one.
It's great, catchy...
One Bat-word: PERFECT!

Japanese animation looked so damn' cool back in the day (I really much prefer this, Cutey Honey, Mazinger over any modern computer-done Anime!).

I'm kinda sad to say that, but in my eyes, Anime were a lot better than Western cartoons back then... Nowadays, it's kinda the opposite in my eyes. I'd take any of the DC animated modern stuff, Cartoon Network animations and the few others over any TV Anime shows... (not talking about OAV, movies, etc.. just the over saturated TV production)

X-Men, the ANIMated series...

Hello bloggers, readers... well, you 3 or 4 dudes/gals reading this very line : P

Some trivia/fun/funny fact for today!

You remember that 90s X-men animated series?

I love this catchy opening theme. A cult classic forever!

I've always prefered DC animation in general. Even if I grew up with Marvel comics mostly... The DC ones seemed better done, both in animation and story-wise, all under Bruce Timm's creative mind. But the early 90s Spider-man and X-men series really captivated me... The score was brilliant, the voice actors (in french when I was a kid and the original english one that I rewatched later on) were perfect. Spider-man re-used a lot of footage, quick shots, big animated movements (see Venom specially...).
So I kinda prefered X-men... Hey! There were Jubilee and Rogue :'3


X-men was very well done. Look at that opening theme! The actual show wasn't that bad compared to it nor very far away from it's quality, unlike some other cartoons. (Transformers?... G.I.Joe?...)

But it seems it wasn't that great enough for Japan.


SHOCK!!! Holy f... sh... WHAT DA...?!

Woow!
Did you know a japanese studio created an introduction specially for their audience??
It's.. woow! I like how close they stayed to the original design (they couldn't redraw the episodes ya know!)
The music...is different... But quite epic!! SHOCK!!!

Charles Xavier is such a pimp : P


APOCALYPSE kicks ass in this 2nd opening!

The music is a bit less dynamic here, but the picture is a lot more impressive here!
APOCALYPSE is huuuuuuuuge~


I love all the Anime sound effects, characters fighting in the air and all the cliché moments in those 2 opening videos! It kinda works with the X-men somehow...

I would so watch a whole japanese X-men show.

Eyz's guide4noobs to the Star Wars Expanded Universe

Hi there guys and gals!

Today, I want to a little chat about Star Wars, before making a future review later on.
Just to make things clear between us!