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thehefnerThe Professor from Gilligan's Island is Reed Richards.
It's a sad day for DDR fans everywhere: Captain Jack has died. I don't know the details yet. I will Dream a Dream for you, oh Captain my Captain.
Some Hollywood asshats are talking about remaking CREEPSHOW. You know, George Romero and Stephen King's love letter to the classic EC Comics horror stories like in "Tales from the Crypt"? Apparently these producers are abandoning the comic anthology aspect in favor of a story structure mimicking films like "Go," and in doing so utterly and completely miss the point of CREEPSHOW.
No, seriously. The Professor IS Reed Richards. In age, in face, in pipe. In the way he's absolutely brilliant yet only able to invent things for very limited, specific purposes. DOOM would have figured out a way off the island before Richards would have even found coconuts to make a radio!!!
Oh, Jay? Apparently we still DO have my grandfather's files. ALL of them. Either up at Gordon's farm in storage or (god fucking help us, I don't care what Mom says I do not fucking trust this) in our basement.
I hate posting on LJ between Friday and Sunday because I feel like only half the people are reading, and even they're just skimming.
It's a sad day for DDR fans everywhere: Captain Jack has died. I don't know the details yet. I will Dream a Dream for you, oh Captain my Captain.
Some Hollywood asshats are talking about remaking CREEPSHOW. You know, George Romero and Stephen King's love letter to the classic EC Comics horror stories like in "Tales from the Crypt"? Apparently these producers are abandoning the comic anthology aspect in favor of a story structure mimicking films like "Go," and in doing so utterly and completely miss the point of CREEPSHOW.
No, seriously. The Professor IS Reed Richards. In age, in face, in pipe. In the way he's absolutely brilliant yet only able to invent things for very limited, specific purposes. DOOM would have figured out a way off the island before Richards would have even found coconuts to make a radio!!!
Oh, Jay? Apparently we still DO have my grandfather's files. ALL of them. Either up at Gordon's farm in storage or (god fucking help us, I don't care what Mom says I do not fucking trust this) in our basement.
I hate posting on LJ between Friday and Sunday because I feel like only half the people are reading, and even they're just skimming.
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Date: 2005-10-22 05:34 am (UTC)HEFFIE: Reed Richards is the leader of the Fantastic Four and is one of the most, if not THE most, brilliant minds in the Marvel Comics universe. Before being a scientist, he was an Indiana Jones-like adventurer and explorer, then he went to NYU to study physics where he roomed with a brilliant european exhance student by the name of Victor von Doom. Though Doom was highly arrogant, the arrogance was deserved. They formed a brief partnership for a time until Reed noticed that Victor's calculations for a project were off. Doom disregarded Richards and proceeded with his machine, which was intended to create a portal into Hell so he could contact the soul of his dead mother (why she was in hell is a whole other story), but the machine blew up in his face, scarring Doom. Whether the scar was huge or just a tiny mark has been up to speculation, but Doom retreated to a tibetian monestary and had the monks create a suit of armor and a metal mask, which he put on before it cooled sufficiently and thus totally burned him. Reed and Doom have been arch-enemies ever since and Reed Richards is considered one of the greatest heroes, thinkers, and leaders of Marvel Comics superheroes.
DOOM: Richards is a fool and an idiot, a stretching madman of unbridled arrogance and show-boating stupidity. That he dared to question Doom's calculations?! To suggest that Doom is even capable of error! Bah! Richards was always jealous of Doom's intellect, just like everyone else. No, Doom's calculations were not incorrect. Richards must have sabotaged Doom's machine, leaving Doom horribly disfigured and hideous! It was not enough to deny Doom his mother, no, but to destroy Victor von Doom as well! So be it! No longer am I that weak Gypsy peasant boy Victor. I am ruler of the soverign European nation of Latveria, the most brilliant mind in the world! I shall destroy the pitiful "Fantastic Four," and all the self-righteous so-called "heroes" in this world, and save Richards, bane of my existence, for last. Know my name well, plebians, for I am Doctor Doom, but you shall know me as MASTER!
Doom blames Richards for everything bad in his life (there are some that argue that Richards actually was wrong about the calculations and did sabotage the machine, but not in a malicious way as much as to try to save Doom). So for me, "Richards" has become synonomous with everything bad in life. Stub your toe? Curse Richards! Get into a car accident? Curse Richards! Bank screwing you over? Curse Richards! Girlfriend leave you for the sleazy hedonist pot-head man slut waste of life son of a best-selling author? Oh you bet that's a Curse Richards. You see, it's all purpose! Give it a try sometime!
Oh, and Captain Jack is a dance music artist/remixer whom I am only familiar with via DDR, as he is included on most of the games I think. His are some very memorable tunes, such as his remix of "In the Navy".