Gene Tunney, who had retired as heavyweight boxing champ in 1928, lived in Europe for over a year before he returned, with his wife Mary, on the liner Vulcania, December 3, 1929.
Photo: Associated Press via News19
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Je reprends mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 52461 photos (oui, ça a encore augmenté !).
2004. Fin d’été en Auvergne. Balade à Vulcania , à Saint-Ours.
Une serre tropicale aux nombreuses fougères arborescentes et des reconstitutions d’un cratère, de Pompéi, d’une coulée de lave...
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R O Y A L T Y
This one's been a long time coming. Two years I spent working on these character renders and these pieces and that's two years between other commission work and life's curveballs. And to say I'm beyond happy I finished is an understatement.
These five characters are the Royals, a set of characters from the Main Triverse iteration of my massive Disney fan project, "Stitch Triverse". Within Main Triverse, the Royals are considered (obviously by the name) royalty and the concept hails from the Auros system, a sister system to that of Turo. The princes, princesses and even just royalty who are seen as this have been aligned with the Federation via treaty and therefore serve as higher figures of authority within the canon (in a similar order to, say, the Grand Councilwoman).
Also in a way, the Royals also represent a big slice of my fandom journey within the "Lilo & Stitch" franchise. Yaiko Galaxia (the flaxen hair) is one of my main OCs, even prevalent as my main blog's avatar (as per a Skeb commission by @/ningukt) and if it wasn't for creating my moody flaxen haired kid, I think I wouldn't have Triverse as massively sprawled out and as intricately developed as I would have.
So this is a tribute to five of the characters I consider closest to me. Five pieces of me given to the L&S masses alongside an even bigger project intended for many to create within its realms:
To Yaiko Galaxia, the intrepid "Innoventor". ✨
To Mako Eikochino, the shy heart alive in the sea. 🌊
To Mimi Hiromi, the powerhouse of flowers. 🌸
To Elle Vulcania, the tomboy heart ablaze. 🔥
To Keiko Hubrect, imaginative idol and creative soul. 🐉
This one's for you. Included is a merged poster and then five individual character posters~
To learn more about the ever ongoing work on “Stitch Triverse”, check out the Carrd site here! https://stitchtriverse.carrd.co
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Volcanic cone of Vulcania, Saint-Ours-les-Roches, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France
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DIsney Month :Comic Version of 20000Leagues Under The Sea
The Fourth review of Disney Month ,we are looking at a comic adaptation.....Of my favorite Disney movie ,20000 Leagues Under the Sea
This 1954 comic follows Professor Arronoux ,his assistant Consiel and harpooner Ned Land are imprisioned aboard the Nautilus by the misanthropic Captain Nemo,and while Ned and Consiel seek to escape ,Arranoux seeks to learn Nemos secrets
So 20'000 Leagues Under the Sea is my favorite Disney film(Only competition might be Who Framed Roger Rabbit ).With great effects,set pieces,an interesting premise being a prision escape movie combined with sea adventure and science fiction,a fascinating villain and four amazing performances at the center with James Mason, Kirk Douglas . Peter Lorre and Paul Lukas ....But I am not talking about the movie ,I am talking about the comic version...Which is prett darn good ,despite wonkyness
The wonkyness is in the art ,not that it looks bad but....None of the characters look like the actors. Ned kind of looks like Kirk Douglas ,but Arronoux looks like a Victorian mystery reject , Captain Nemo looks like Walter Pidgeon as a supervillain (Complete with a big N on his chest ) and Consiell looks less like Peter Lorre and more like Jude Laws Watson (Thanks @goodanswerfoxmonster)
However for 54 the art itself is good,it captures many of the setpieces well .I also think it isa good adaptation.Stuff is cut ,Mainly most of the comedic scenes involving Ned Land and his bonding with Esmerelda the Seal,who is male here,never named .....And kind of blows up at the end.Also Nemos First Mate is cut so you dont get the fight between him and Ned Land . There are some changes.The big ones that stood out to me is that instead of Vulcania ,Nemos island is just called N and slight dialogue changes,the biggest being more emphasis on Nemos dead family(Changing the big speach about not considering murdering sailors murder ,from disgust at mass death this unamed country has caused,to just being about his family .Other then that its pretty close to the movie.I expected it to have the set pieces (Nemo rescuing Ned from the Shark ,The cannibal attack ,the finale on Nemos island and of course the squid fight .though that scene works better on film then in comic ) but it also had scenes I didnt expect like the weird dinner scene,Nemo lamenting his dead family and honestly most of the scenes and dialogue while changed are fairly close to the film .The purpose of comic adaptions of films initially was a substitute for home video,if you wanted to re experience a film you liked again you had to get a novelization ,listen to a radio adaptaion or in this case get a comic.And as a comic version goes,it nails most of the thematic and emotional beats of the story ,far better then I expected it to
OH fun thing ,the comic has a few promotional stills from the movie ....And when they were making the film they actuallly filmed two diffrent versions of the squid fight ,and the still in this is of the first clunky looking squid unused in the final film
Questions by @ariel-seagull-wings
1-How well the visuals of the movie translate to the comic?
Other then the Natilus the comic doesnt really try to copy the film.Some scenes dont work , the Squid fight feels underwhelming ,but the Rorapindi scene and the Nautilus attacks are pretty good
2- Does the comic has scenes that the movie didn't have?
All the new stuff I noticed :We see aboard the first ship that is attacked by the Nautilus ,we see Ned Land bring up Arronauxs gear onto their ship ,Ned trie to harpoon the Nataulus ,Ned brings Conciel and Arronaux aboard his long boat BEFORE they reach the Nautilus,Esmerelda the sea lion is how Nemo finds out about the heroes being aboard the Nautilus ,Arronaux sees one of the prisioners die on Rorapindi , Consiel finds a picture of Nemos wife and son ,a ship attacks while after they escape the cannibals , and a scene where we see deep sea creatures (That was actually going to be an animated sequence that didnt make the film ), those are all the strictly new stuff
3- Can the comic be judged as a work of art and adaptation of the novel on its own right, or primarily as promotional material for the movie?
I cant speak to it as an adaption of the book,....But as a work of ar in of itself....I think its honestly pretty darn good.Honestly this is one of the better comic adaptations of a film I have read .I can picture a kid in 1954 picking this up after watching the movie and enjoying it
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