Oracle vs. Iron Man 3

One of the rare instances where work and pleasure overlap very well together!!  This is quite literally, a cell phone snapshot of what I found at oracle.com this week when I logged in for work.  I have to admit, I cracked right up with the cameo of Larry Ellison in one of the previous movies, AND, I got to see the Iron Man suits in person at Oracle Openworld about 3 years ago in San Francisco... the overlaps and cross sponsorships are fun and brilliant.  All this being said, I can't wait to see Iron Man 3... DC needs to learn something from Marvel I mean Disney, because these movies Marvel is putting out are really top notch and first class, and wonderful for comic fans like me.

Watching Superman II Tonight

Tonight we are watching Superman II. After the horrific events in Boston this week, its time for something fun.

Kellogg's PEP Comic Buttons

So I recently dusted off my old 1945  Superman radio show CD's and gave them a listen the other night.  They're delightfully goofy in all the right places, but the one part that sticks out in a rather odd way are the incessant ads for Kellogg's PEP, "that super-delicious cereal", which sponsored the show.  If you listen to the show and don't get the message that there's a free button in every package, then you must be deaf.  I decided to Google PEP and the buttons to see what they looked like.  They're actually kinda cool.  Most have white backgrounds, and they come in two general types.  The first few sets feature military insignia and war planes.  The second group feature pretty much every comic character featured in the press at the time... Superman, Popeye, Little Orphan Annie, and a lot of others that I don't know but probably should.  They're so simple but they make me want to mint my own buttons with my own characters on them!!  In any case, you can bet I'll be scouring the flea markets this spring for these little gems.  "They sure are a honey!"

1940's Superman Cartoons

I've been catching up on my superhero cartoons and have discovered some of the old 1940's Superman cartoons on Youtube.  These remind me of the old Looney Tunes cartoons that used to look grainy and have a big band soundtrack.  Somewhere in my collection, I have a hardbound book of the old Superman newspaper comic strips (I will have to do a bit on that for "Skeeter's Library"), and I also have a CD set of old Superman and Batman radio programs.  To find the animated cartoons from the 1940's is really great, because now I get to see that "3rd dimension" of video media that easily could have been lost to time.  I really need to find these on DVD... oh, and the 1970's Superfriends cartoons.  For your viewing enjoyment, click on the images below: