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... Lost A Wheel...
1 hour, 14 minutes, 03 seconds before she climbed inside the Birthday Cake. ...It's all starting to make sense now, ain't it?
'Tis the season for Santa Tron! Art by MrPicard21ec [via]
We leave y'all with the delightful Yuletide piece, Wonder Woman's Trampy Christmas, OR Ho-Ho-Ho-ing For The Holidays (Is a Wonderful Thing).
...and we'll be back....!
Too many Midori Green Lanterns got your tummy upset? Not to worry; maybe all you need is a Christmas cookie.
Oops! (I fudged up that sentence.) What I meant to say was: Maybe You Need All the Christmas Cookies!
... That's more like it.
2010, The Year That Was -- as it was, according to the Omniscience we call Google.
Happy New Year 2011!
Thanks for making our first half-year on Tumblr an awesome experience, everyone!
-- Love, Sherm, Me, and all the Mealsters @ Super Hero Happy Meal
And now for the astounding answer to the Star Wars trivia question we asked y'all down the blog:
What was the name of the larger work in which BOBA FETT made his very first appearance?
If you said The Star Wars 1978 Holiday Special, you'd be exactly right. The 32-year-old television Christmas special featured all the entire Star Wars cast in such a campy way that the Rocky Horror Picture Show looks 'Shakespeare serious' by comparison. Complete with everybody from Bea Arthur to Jefferson Starship, The Star Wars Holiday Special was cheesy bad. But because it's Star Wars, and because it hit when it did, the Special is also an integral part of Lucaslore -- and more.
Why? For Two HUGE reasons:
(1) The Special introduced millions of first generation Star Wars fans to Boba Fett, the intergalactic bounty hunter who just oozed cool from Minute One, and it did so over a year and a half before he was seen on-screen in The Empire Strikes Back. Fett's appearance in an animated segment on the Special also paved the way for the popularity of Kenner's mail-away Boba Fett action figure the following year!
(2) The Star Wars 1978 Holiday Special has also been cited by film makers and creators like Tim Kring (Heroes) and others as the first example of 'Transmedia Storytelling' — the concept of using multiple mediums to tell a story. They state that by introducing Boba Fett on TV, George Lucas expanded the Star Wars universe - grew demand for it -- in ways previously never before done. And by doing so, Lucas was able to later re-introduce the bounty hunter first as a toy, and then as a character in his next film.
Ingenious, no? Boba Fett's popularity always seemed to be more coincidence than plan, but methinks now that might not exactly be the case. Star Wars' most notorious bounty hunter stands revealed as one of the greatest PR success stories ever told -- today, or in a galaxy far, far away.
BTW, The Star Wars 1978 Holiday Special is 97 minutes long, but Super Hero Happy Meal prefers to go light on the camp. Down to just 5 minutes, here's what you missed all those years ago. (For more info on the SWHS, check HERE.)
A Very Deadpool Christmas by Reilly Brown [via]
The original card, Nicholas Was... written by Neil Gaiman and calligraphed by Dave McKean, 1989. via
Nicholas Was... is a hundred-word short story that, according to its writer Neil Gaiman, began life as a Christmas Card, which he sent out to friends and family in 1989. The original card was calligraphed for Gaiman by artist Dave McKean.
Earlier this month, the Beijing-based graphics design firm 39 Degrees North created this fantastic video adaption of Nicholas Was... a haunting short that mixes Gaiman's dark words with equally dark yet truly beautiful animations.
For more insight into Nicholas Was... check out Neil Gaimain's blog -- HERE.
Christmas Re-Animator. Do not watch this one alone.
... And we're off like a Chris Evans shirt. See ya tomorrow, Mealsers!
Wolverine's Christmas
As Super Hero Happy Meal's resident movie critic, Sherm caught a late showing of this flick last night [via]. He came back drunk off his buns, mumbling incoheren-tly about Santa's big <something> package, candy cane <something-somethings>, and, I think, an Angelina Jolie baby. Still, the little guy did manage to give the Santaman sequel 3 1/2 stars before he passed out.
I dunno, maybe it's decent, but maybe it sucked. You know what I mean? I've learned it's best to take whatever Sherman says with a grain of salt -- especially if tequila and, like, any number of Angelina Jolie babies are involved.
Speaking of, whatever recently topped a Marist Poll as the most annoying word or phrase in the English language -- and for the second year in a row, too! It's true: earlier this month, the agency's annual survey of 1,020 Americans showed that nearly 39% deemed whatever as our most irritating word, followed by like (28%) and the phrase you know what I mean (15%).
Here's one word that will never come close to making Marist's list: superheroes. Let's get on with 'em, shall we?
Sherm and I gotta bounce for tonight. Catch ya all on the flip-side. Ho ho ho!
And The Wasp catches him Flashing The Avengers by George Zapata [via]
