#Mexican Fantomas

[fitsofgloom]

A Merman I Should Turn To Be

#fantomas #vintage comic books #mexican comics #vintage pulp #mermaid

[kekwcomics]

FANTOMAS #2-260 (Editorial Novaro, 1976)

"The Brain Driers" (Brain-washers?)

Art: Victor Cruz

#victor cruz #mexican comics #mexican comic books #mexican pulp #pulp art #horror #fantomas #70s comics #70s comic books #70s pulp #1970s comic books #1970s comics #bronze age comics #bronze age horror

[maxwell-grant]

Since it's been going around, how would various pulp heroes take on the Death Note murders, and would they survive the ordeal?

A couple of clarifications:

There is a possibility that Ogon Bat, who is a "God of Justice", is either already some kind of shinigami, or at least able to speak with and interact with Ryuk just fine.

The Golden Amazon and Emilia the Ragdoll could definitely kick Kira's ass and solve the case, but they absolutely should not be aware of the existence of the Death Note, that would just make things worse.

You'd think The Monarch / The Blue Morpho getting his hands on the Death Note would be an equally apocalyptic scenario but I don't think he'd even know what to do with it. He very clearly just wants to get one guy, and became the Blue Morpho so he could kill everyone standing in the way of getting that guy, and he's very clearly been putting off killing that one guy for years now. The Death Note is the solution to a problem he defines his life around trying and failing to solve. He'd be stumped.

Doc Savage, well on one hand of course he would solve the case, he's Doc Savage, if Kira was in a Doc Savage story the whole Shinigami business would have been smoke and mirrors perpetrated by criminals with access to a heart attack inducing machine with a perfectly logical explanation. On the other hand, Doc Savage is one of the only guys in here who is globally famous with his full name and face on the papers, so realistically Kira would nail him very quickly. I'm gonna split the difference by saying Doc would solve the case either way.

Nick Carter does most of the things Doc Savage does except he actually does regularly encounter weird fantastical kitchen sink bullshit on the regular, so I think he'd have a much easier time wrapping his head around the Death Note's particulars.

The Spider would not intuit the mechanics of the Death Note, he probably would not be aware of there even being a thing as a Death Note, but by the end of the story in the last paragraph he would have killed Kira one way or another, very possibly by accident. Same goes for the sword-n-sorcery characters featured there, they would have gotten their kills by the end of it (Spear would probably have the easiest time, he's just a caveman with a giant tyrannosaurus on his side and neither of them have names Light can use to kill them, he's fucked)

Six-Gun Gorilla does have a name that Light could use, but A: He would never find out, B: He would never think a gorilla would be his undoing, and C: There's a decent chance Ryuk would let the gorilla hunt and kill him because it's funny and so would be handing Six-Gun Gorilla the Death Note.

Nyctalope would probably survive Kira's usual method of execution given his heart is artificial, but I don't think he'd be able to crack the case, he's not much of a detective. A lot of these characters were chosen because they have different skillsets that don't make them as suited for uncovering this case regardless of how smart they are.

There is a decent chance that Hugo Danner would figure out Kira by complete accident, and most likely beg Light to find a way to kill him.

Nick and Nora Charles would not solve it but they'd be okay, the case would probably solve itself and they'd laugh it off.

I could also put Blue Morpho, El Sombra, The Whisperer, Black Bat and Hugo Danner in a "Would somehow make the situation worse" category.

Putting the names of the characters below the cut:

Can intuit the mechanics / Can solve the case -The Shadow, Arsene Lupin, Sherlock Holmes, Mexican Fantomas -Heiji Zenigata, Ogon Bat, Thomas Carnacki, Silver John/John the Balladeer, Sar Dubnotal -Nero Wolfe, Tom Strong, Tesla Strong, Nick Carter, Captain Harlock, Golden Amazon -Ducky (Lavender Jack), Rufus Carter, Theresa Ferrier (Lavender Jack), Emilia the Ragdoll, Carmen Sandiego, Rocambole

Can intuit the mechanics / Could not solve the case -The Spirit, The Phantom, Edison Hark (The Good Asian), Lavender Jack -G-8, Green Lama, Peter Cannon, Jules Grandin, Wesley Dodds, Judex -Indiana Jones, Spider-Man Noir, John Blacksad, John Thunstone, Nyctalope, Tintin, Solomon Kane

Cannot the mechanics / Can solve the case -The Spider, The Avenger, Doc Savage, Honoria Crabb -Assane Diop, Conan the Barbarian, Lobster Johnson, Tarzan, Dick Tracy -Flash Gordon, Professor Challenger, Red Sonja, Scrooge McDuck, Imaro -Byomkesh Bakshi, Six-Gun Gorilla, Spear (Primal), Black Terror, The Blue Morpho

Cannot intuit the mechanics / Could not solve the case -Moon Man, Green Hornet & Kato, Lone Ranger, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh -Phillip Marlowe, Domino Lady, Rocketeer, Miss Fury, Hugo Danner, John Carter -Zorro, Black Bat, El Sombra, Shaft, Sailor Steve Costigan -Darkman, The Whisperer, Nick & Nora Charles, Crimson Clown

#replies tag #pulp heroes #pulp fiction #the shadow #death note #superheroes #arsene lupin #sherlock holmes #ogon bat #doc savage #venture bros #the spider #green hornet #rocketeer #zorro #darkman #spear #primal #conan #tarzan #the phantom #lavender jack #carmen sandiego #indiana jones

[zlimy]

Oooo rey azteca

Huh what who said that?? :0

Must be una fantoma in here. Anyway i need mexican food

[krinsbez]

Pulptober 2023, Themes Elaborated, Part Six

OK, folks, here it the final installment of the elaborated themes.

As per always, first links!

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

OK, so here we go!

26- The Phantom/Justice Never Dies. Pulp Heroes are, more or less, ultimately still human beings, and all human beings die. Or do they? Given the age of the genre, it should not be surprising that any number of Pulp Heroes have found ways to cheat death. Time travel, cryogenic freezing, all manner of weird science and weirder magic. And some, of course, just because a man dies, doesn't mean their heroic identity dies with them... Today is for these folks. Alternates: Black Terror*+, Jonah Hex

27-G-8/Brushes With Horror. This one's fairly straightforward. To be a Pulp Hero means having to see things no man should have to see, horrors both man-made or...not. Today is for those heroes defined by this. Alternates: Lobster Johnson, Turok*+

28-The Green Lama/Where Science and Supernatural Collide: Many Pulp Heroes use cutting-edge science and technology to do their thing. Others use magic and mysticism. The heroes featured today? They happily use both. Alternates: The Shadow, The Challengers of the Unknown

29-Jules De Grandin/Ghost Breaker. Another fairly straightforward one. Many Pulp Heroes do battle, not with crime, but with the literal forces of evil; ghosts, vampires, all manner of supernatural threats. Today is for them. Alternates: Carl Kolchak*, John Thunstone

30-Athena Voltaire/Throwback Heroes. Yet another straightforward one. Pulp Heroes created long after the original Pulp Age to evoke those old-time two-fisted tales. Alternates: Red Panda, The Baboon

31-Batman/Gizmos & Gadgets: I don't think I really need to explain this one, do I? Alternates: The Gadget Man, Mexican Fantomas*+

And there you go!

#The Phantom #Black Terror #Jonah Hex #G-* #Lobster Johnson #Turok #The Green Lama #Green Lama #The Shadow #Challengers of the Unknown #The Challengers of the Unknown #Jules De Grandin #Carl Kolchak #Kolchak: The Night Stalker #John Thunstone #Athena Voltaire #Red Panda #The Baboon #Batman #Click Rush #The Gadget Man #Mexican Fantomas #Pulptober #Pulptober 2023 #Inktober #Inktobers #Inktober 2023 #Pulp Heroes

[browsethestacks]

Fantomas (Mexican)

#Fantomas #Comics #Pulp #Pulp Art #Pulp Illustration #Vintage #Art #Illustration #Design #Mexican #Mexico

[hello-robin-goodfellow]

TOP 10 FAVORITE SUPERHEROES

THANKS FOR TAGGING ME: @superkingofpriderock​

01. OGON BATTO (ALSO KNOWN AS: OGON BAT, GOLDEN BAT, FANTASMAGÓRICO, FANTOMAS AND FANTAMAN)

Originated in the medium of kamishibai (japanese street paper theater) in 1931, and later having expanded to the mediums of three live actions movies and one anime series in the 50s and 60s, Ogon Batto is a supersheroe created by Suzuki Ishiro and Takeo Nagamatsu. A being from ancient Atlantis who was sent forward in time 10,000 years to battle evil forces threatening the present day, he lives in a fortress in the Japanese Alps. His superpowers include superhuman strength, invulnerability, and the ability to fly, and his weak spot is dehidration.  Ogon Batto has an evil counterpart known as Kurayami Bat (暗闇バット "Dark Bat") and his main enemy is Dr. Erich Nazō (ナゾー), the leader of a crime syndicate bent on world domination, who wears a black costume and mask with bat-like ears, a red eye and a blue eye. To some of the brazilian audiences, he is kown with the name Fantomas, trough the 1960s dubbed anime series.

02. THE WONDER TWINS

Characters created for the cartoon Super Friends by the creative team of Hannah-Barbera, the twin brothers Zan and Jayna’s dinamic worked like this: They would punch each other’s hands, fusing the rings they used, and say “Wonder Twins: Activate”! So, Zan would take the form of anything water related (vapours, ice, etc.) while Jayna would take the form of an animal. The reason they are on the list? If you say “Super Gêmeos: Ativar” (portuguese for Wonder Twins: Activate) to anyone who was a child in Brazil during the late 1990 and early 2000s, we will know what are you talking about, and sweet childhood nostalgia will manifest.

03. EL CHAPULIN COLORADO

Remember the mexican actor dressed up as a bee in The Simpsons? Yup, he is a parody of this little fella. Writen and acted by the comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños in the 1970s to be a superheroe that represented the latin american audiences, El Chapulin Colorado is a guy who, despite being very bumbling and frightfull, always appear offering the services of his shrinking pills, his vinyll little antennas, his bionical hammer, a book containing a story that he feels has a relevant moral and his friendship to anyone who is in need and says the phrase: “Oh! Quién Podrá Defenderme” (Oh! Who Can Defend Me).

04. STATIC SHOCK

Virgil Hawkins is a fourteen-year-old honors student at Dakota Union High School who gains his powers by a mutagenic gas explosion, dubbed "the Big Bang" by the media, which grants numerous residents of Dakota superpowers; those affected are likewise dubbed "Bang Babies". Virgil lives with his widowed father Robert Hawkins, a social worker and the head of the Freeman Community Center, and his sister Sharon Hawkins, a university student and hospital volunteer. His mother Jean Hawkins died a few years prior, the victim of a stray bullet while she worked as a paramedic during a riot; her death causes Virgil to develop an intense fear/hatred of guns. This guy deserves his movie, Hollywood!

05. ASTÉRIX AND OBÉLIX

Created by the team of french comic artists René Goscinny and Alberto Uderzo, Astérix and Obélix are the two greatest warriors from a undomitable village of celtic gauls, who resist the invasion of the romans led by Julius Caesar with the help of a powerfull  magic potion made by the druid Getafix. Astérix is the little man, whose greatest strenght is on his inteligence, cunning and witty. Obélix is the big man, gentle and innocent, who wants nothing in life but to eat delicious wild boars, find the love of a good lady and punch some romans in the face. The dwo has been around not only in comics, but also in animated and live action movies, and show no sign of slowing down and stopping to have adventures. They even have their own theme park in Paris!

06. JUSPION (ALSO KNOWN AS JASPION)

Kyojuu Tokusou Juspion ("Megabeast Investigator Juspion") is the fourth in the Metal Heroes series of Tokusatsu shows. The series revolves around space orphan Juspion and his eccentric android assistant Anri, who are sent by old wizard/scientist Ejin to destroy Satangorth and his army of Megabeasts (kyojuu), as prophesied in The Galaxy Bible. He has a giant robot at his disposal and is followed around by Team Pet Miya. While it was a success in it’s native Japan, when it was broadcast here in Brazil in the 1980s, it got extremely popular, being a mark in the surgence of geeks for japanese pop culture in the country.

07.  JIRAIYA

 Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya ("World Ninja War Jiraiya"), also known as Ninja Olympiad, is the seventh Metal Heroes series.  Jiraiya (real name:Tōha Yamaji) is an elite ninja warrior from the Togakure style of Ninpō. His mentor and foster father Tetsuzan Yamaji, the 34th Grandmaster of the Togakure School, has trained him for the day the ancient Yōma Clan will return. Sure enough, the clan, led by Oninin Dokusai, arise with their army of evildoers in order to seize Pako, a mysterious treasure which came from outer space over 2000 years ago which is said to have power equiparable to the Sun. With the help of his family, and an army of international ninja heroes, Jiraiya must stand tall against the evil ones. If Juspion started the phenomenon of interest in japanese Tokusatsu heroes on brazilian audiences, Jiraiya consolidated it. To the point that “Virado no Jiraiya” (Turned into Jiraiya) has become a popular brazilian, meaning that someone is mad at something. The fact that his actor Takumi Tsutsui constantly comes to visit Brazil also helps a lot in the popularity of the character.

08. THE CHANGEMAN

Dengeki Sentai Changeman (Blitzkrieg Squadron Changeman) is the ninth Super Sentai series, running from 1985 to 1986. In order to save the world from threat of invasion by the Great Star League Gozma, a special force called the Earth Defense Force is set up. One day, the Gozma launch an attack on them and have them on the ropes. That is, until the Earth itself grants five officers the power of the Earth Force, which lets them become the Changemen. Before the Power Rangers came to dominate the world’s pop culture, there four five Super Sentai that received a brazilian-portuguese dub and broadcast: Changeman, Flashman, Google-V and Maskman. Changeman was the first, and is my number one favorite.

09. THE BLACK PANTHER

Guys, is The Black Panther. Do i need to say more? Ok, i will a little something: If you didn’t watched this film, go do it. Righ now!

Wakanda Forever, king T’Challa.

10. ZORRO

Really, that mark says everything. Is freaking Zorro! He is one of the reasons the superheroe genre is what it is and is what we know. Without him, probably a lot of those guys wouldn’t have existed.

I TAG: @lioness--hart​ @ardenrosegarden​ @princesssarisa​ @mademoiselle-princesse​ @detective-jasminesa​ @johnnyclash87​ @visibilityofcolor​ @diversetolkien​ @anghraine​ @lady-sci-fi​ @butterflyslinky​ @margflower​ @amalthea9​

#superheroes #film geek #what i grew up watching #ask game #tag game #answered asks #send me questions #get to know me #being a child in latin america

[vengurren]

Fantomas. La Amenaza Elegante. No. 2-400. March 1979 Mexican Comic

#comic #vintage #cover #fantomas #mexico

[thefugitivesaint]

Víctor Cruz Mota cover, ''Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires- An Attainable Utopia'' by Julio Cortázar, 1975 “First published in Spanish in 1975 and previously untranslated, Fantomas versus the Multinational Vampires is Julio Cortázar’s genre-jumping mash-up of his participation in the Second Russell Tribunal on human rights abuses in Latin America and his cameo appearance in issue number 201 of the Mexican comic book series Fantomas: The Elegant Menace. With his characteristic narrative inventiveness, Cortázar offers a quixotic meta-comic/novella that challenges not only the form of the novel but its political weight in contemporary cultural life. Needing something to read on the train from Brussels (where he had attended the ineffectual tribunal meeting), our hero (Julio Cortázar) picks up the latest issue of the Fantomas comic. He grows increasingly absorbed by the comic book’s tale of bibliocide (a sinister bibliophobic plot to obliterate every book from the archives of humanity), especially when he sees the character Fantomas embark upon a series of telephone conversations with literary figures, starting with “The Great Argentine Writer” himself, Julio Cortázar (and also including Octavio Paz and a tough-talking Susan Sontag). Soon, Cortázar begins to erase the thin line between real-life atrocities and fictional mayhem in an attempt to bring attention to the human rights violations taking place with impunity in the country from which he was exiled.” Source

#víctor cruz mota #julio cortázar #fantomas versus the multinational vampires #book covers #cover art #comic art #mexican artist

[ebookporn]

This is my brother and I and our friend Jorge in Mexico City about the time that the film Roma takes place in the early 70's. 

We had the run of the city. We played soccer all day with our cousins. We wandered the markets looking for luchador action figures. We bought Mexican comics like Kaliman and Fantomas at corner newstands. 

I learned a lot from our time in Mexico. I learned that there are no borders. That people are just people. That they share the same problems. They are rich and they are poor. They plant a flower garden and kids make it a goal and trample it to the ground reenacting the World Cup. Some live in penthouses and take you to french restaurants and foreign films that have way too much nudity for a person your age to see. Some drive a bus for a living and barely make ends meet but still pile you and your friends into that bus and drive to a mountain village for a carnival of unsafe rides and the best taco you ever tasted of cheek meat pulled right from a pigs head. 

I learned that we are all one family just trying to live the best life we can with what we have and no wall can ever separate us. ...but most of all looking back at this picture I learned that my brother is quite a bit shorter than Jorge or I.

~eP

#mexicanx #librarians #mexico #oneworld #translators #borders

[incomodtutorials]

Lista filmelor si serialelor care apar pe Netflix in luna August

Luna August bate la usa, iar Netflix a facut cunoscuta lista filmelor si serialelor noi care apar in ultima luna de vara. 1 AUGUST 2020 Super Monsters: The New Class (Supermonstruleții: Clasa cea nouă); Anaconda; Black Lightning (Black Lightning: Fulgerul Negru); Bulletproof (Antiglonț); Bumblebee; Double Jeopardy (Evadata); Dumplin‘ (Dumplin’. Vreau o viață pe măsura formelor mele); Duplicity (Duplicitate); Failure to Launch (Cum să dai afară din casă un burlac de 30 de ani); Free Willy (Salvați-l pe Willy I); Ghost (Fantoma mea iubită); Labyrinth (Labirintul); Land of the Dead (Tărâmul morții); Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Leagănul Vieții); Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Lara Croft: Jefuitoarea de Morminte); Made of Honor (Mireasa e iubita mea!); My Perfect Landing: Season 1 (Operation Ouch: Season 1); Operation Ouch: Special (Petit Ours Brun: Little Brown Bear: Season 1); Rango; Rise of the Legend (Huang Fei Hong: Nașterea unei legende); Rudy; Seed of Chucky (Fiul lui Chucky); Sicario: Day of the Soldado (Sicario 2: Soldado); Star Trek (Star Trek: Un nou început); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Sweeney Todd: Bărbierul diabolic din Fleet Street); Talking Tom and Friends: Season 2; Terminator Genisys (Terminator Genisys); O cursă cu obstacole; The Stepford Wives (Neveste perfecte); The Sum of All Fears (Pericol absolut); Where’s the Money (Unde-s banii?); 2 AUGUST 2020 Connected (Conexiuni: Viitorul e azi); Hook: Season 1; 3 AUGUST 2020 Immigration Nation (O națiune de imigranți); Dinotrux Supercharged: Season 1; Dinotrux Supercharged: Season 2; Dinotrux Supercharged: Season 3; Paul, Apostle of Christ (Pavel, apostolul lui Hristos); The Underclass: Season 1; 4 AUGUST 2020 A Go! Go! Cory Carson Summer Camp (Tit-Tit! Matei Mașinescu: Tabăra de vară); Malibu Rescue: The Next Wave (Salvamarii din Malibu: Valul următor); Mundo Mistério (Câte-n lună și în stele); Sam Jay: 3 In The Morning (Sam Jay: La trei dimineața); 5 AUGUST 2020 Anelka : L’Incompris (Anelka: Neînțeles); Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend (Indestructibila Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. pastorul); World’s Most Wanted (Cei mai căutați infractori); 6 AUGUST 2020 The Rain: Season 3 (The Rain: Sezonul 3); The Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of The Gods (The Seven Deadly Sins: Imperial Wrath of The Gods); The First Purge (Noaptea judecății: Începutul); Unlucky Ploy: Season 1; 7 AUGUST 2020 Berlin, Berlin (Berlin, Berlin: Fuga miresei); High Seas: Season 3 (Mările nimănui: Sezonul 3); ¡Nailed It! México: Season 2 (La fix! Mexic: Sezonul 2); Selling Sunset: Season 3 (Apusul e de vânzare: Sezonul 3); Sing On! Germany (Să cântăm! Germania); The Magic School Bus Rides Again Kids In Space (Din nou la drum cu autobuzul magic: Copii în spațiu); The New Legends of Monkey: Season 2 (Noile legende ale Regelui Maimuță: Sezonul 2); Tiny Creatures (Creaturi micuțe); Wizards: Tales of Arcadia (Vrăjitorii: Povești din Arcadia); Word Party Songs (Bucuria cuvintelor: Cântecele); Work It (Arată-le ce poți); Unlucky Ploy: Season 1; 9 AUGUST 2020 Hook: Season 1; Unfriended: Dark Web; 10 AUGUST 2020 GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event (Pe locuri, fiți gata, start! Un eveniment de comedie pentru familie); The Underclass: Season 1; 11 AUGUST 2020 Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids (Rob Schneider: Copii mexicani, mamă asiatică); 12 AUGUST 2020 Greenleaf: Season 5 (Greenleaf: Sezonul 5); (Un)Well ((Ne)sănătos); Alex Cross (Detectivul Alex Cross); Hands of Stone (Pumni de piatră); 13 AUGUST 2020 Une fille facile (O fată ușoară); RIDE ON TIME: Season 2; Skyscraper (Infernul din zgârie-nori); Unlucky Ploy: Season 1; 14 AUGUST 2020 3%: Season 4 (3%: Sezonul 4); Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story (Dirty John: Betty Broderick); El robo del siglo (Jaful secolului); Fearless (Neînfricatul); Glow Up: Season 2 (Glow Up: Sezonul 2); Octonauts & the Caves of Sac Actun (Octonauții și peșterile din Sac Actun); Project Power; Teenage Bounty Hunters (Adolescente pe urmele ticăloșilor); Honey 2; Land of the Lost; Unlucky Ploy: Season 1; 15 AUGUST 2020 Rita: Season 5 (Rita: Sezonul 5); Escape from Alcatraz (Evadare din Alcatraz); Takki: Season 1; The Squad (Brigada de elită); 16 AUGUST 2020 Hook: Season 1; 17 AUGUST 2020 Glitch Techs: Season 2 (Tehnicienii de glitch: Sezonul 2); The Underclass: Season 1; 18 AUGUST 2020 Pope Francis: A Man of His Word (Papa Francisc: Un om de cuvânt); 19 AUGUST 2020 Crímenes de familia (Umbra crimelor noastre); DeMarcus Family Rules (Acasă la familia DeMarcus); High Score (Scoruri mari); Little Singham: Season 2; 20 AUGUST 2020 Biohackers (Biohackeri); Great Pretender (Marele șarlatan); John Was Trying to Contact Aliens (John încerca să contacteze extratereștrii); Unlucky Ploy: Season 1; 21 AUGUST 2020 Alien TV (Emisiune extraterestră); Fuego negro (Forța obscură); Hoops; Lucifer: Season 5 (Lucifer: Sezonul 5); Rust Valley Restorers: Season 3 (Restauratorii din Rust Valley: Sezonul 3); The Sleepover (O noapte cu surprize); Unlucky Ploy: Season 1; 23 AUGUST 2020 Hook: Season 1; Septembers of Shiraz; 24 AUGUST 2020 The Underclass: Season 1; 25 AUGUST 2020 Emily’s Wonder Lab (Superlaboratorul lui Emily); Trinkets: Season 2 (Zorzoane: Sezonul 2); 26 AUGUST 2020 Million Dollar Beach House (Plaja reședințelor de milioane); Rising Phoenix (Renăscând din cenușă: Istoria Jocurilor Paralimpice); American Psycho; Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again; 27 AUGUST 2020 Aggretsuko: Season 3 (Aggretsuko: Sezonul 3); Unlucky Ploy: Season 1; 28 AUGUST 2020 All Together Now (Ca un star rock); Cobra Kai: Seasons 1-2 (Cobra Kai: Sezoanele 1 și 2); I AM A KILLER: Released (SUNT UN UCIGAȘ: VIAȚA DUPĂ ELIBERARE); Orígenes secretos (Origini secrete); Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (Cavalerul întunericului); The Bridge Curse (Podul blestemat); Unlucky Ploy: Season 1; 30 AUGUST 2020 Hook: Season 1; 31 AUGUST 2020 Luo Bao Bei: Season 1; The Underclass: Season 1; Uma Maheshwara Ugra Roopasya. Read the full article

#filme #netflix #seriale #streaming

[kekwcomics]

FANTOMAS

#fantomas #mexican comics #horror #action

[maxwell-grant]

How do you think French Fantômas and Mexican Fantômas would react if they discovered the existence of each other ?

It's a very amusing coincidence that the timelines for these two actually align almost exactly in where one ends and the other begins. Fantomas's original canon takes place around 1909-1913, but Allain wrote Fantomas stories all the way to 1963, and while I can't get my hands on those or even find them for purchase, he's presumably never bothered to explain the time that's passed. Then, circa 1964, we have the Jean Marais blue faced Fantomas from the parody film. And then, circa 1966, Novaro Editorial starts publishing Fantomas, adapting the original stories and sort of mixing the two Fantomas together. And interestingly, the stories actually do demonstrate this shift happening.

When Novaro started publishing Fantomas, they ran with the original version for about 9 stories. You can look at the image above and see that Fantomas was very much still intended to be the sinister villain, even if he started off much less horrible than in the novels since, by this point, the parody Fantomas from the film was still the main influence. And then we hit issue 10 in a story called Fantomas contra Fantomas, presumably based on the 1949 serial, and the story for the most part is like all the others. Lots of people talking, policemen fumbling around, Fantomas on a screen/phone talking to henchmen, and so forth. But there's something very different about this story, and it's Fantomas himself. You'd think that the transformation from novel/movie Fantomas to comic book would be some kind of gradual process, and that's what I assumed it was, until I read the comic.

And it's literally just two pages. In one page he's a sinister blue-faced being commanding orders to his henchmen, and the other, literally from one panel to the other, he goes from the blue-faced Bond villain from the film, to a quiet and contemplative man resting in an armchair playing around with his cat waiting for pieces to fall in place for his new game. And indeed, the whole story ends with Fantomas handing the fake Fantomas behind the current crimes to the police, with a final letter that is pretty out of character for the original Fantomas, but much more in line with the characterization he would take going forward. This story draws a very clear line in the sand: Out with the old and busted, in with the new hotness.

You wouldn't be that far off in assuming that Fantomas's redemption arc started simply because he got a cat.

Dear journalists and Inspector Gerard: In front of you is the real thief of famous paintings. I was fine with him using my name, until he mistook a bad copy for an original.

I am a cultured man and a connoisseur of art: whoever cannot distinguish a true Cezanne is an idiot. He also did not commit the robberies because he was an art lover, but for money, and because he did not care that the paintings left France.

On the other hand, I make it known to you that the stolen Courbet has been returned into the hands of it's owner. I dislike making moves against poor people.

As for the other paintings that were stolen by the wretch that I left tied up, I must confess that, as I am in love with them, I could not resist the temptation to enrich my already vast collection of masterpieces.

The very next story, Fantomas steals a time machine to try and steal a ruby that once belonged to Genghis Khan, and after a bunch of adventures through time, he ends up failing. Two stories afterwards, Fantomas takes a look at the world, it's nukes and weapons race and the elites and politicians furthering it along, and states he's never had a bigger challenge than solving that, and decides to fight for world peace. So he assembles a league of the world's greatest scientists and fakes a message from aliens to all the world leaders telling them to dissassemble the arms race and instead divert all their resources to fight for the preservation and progress of the human race, and it actually works.

He tells the scientists that, although he is not considered a noble man, the magnitude of importance in this mission inspired him, later privately confiding to his cat that, actually, the real reason he sought to bring world peace was so war couldn't interfere with his plans. Fantomas pulled off Ozymandias's goal literal decades before Watchmen, and he did so without spilling a drop of blood. I mean, not that it lasted, obviously, but it was very clearly a different direction than what had been done with the character before, and this was going to be the direction going forward.

These stories are set in France, by the way, actually a lot of the Fantomas comics allude to the stories taking place in France. Sometimes they take place in France and sometimes they take place in some fake city and sometimes it's just Mexico, the latest stories seem to be pretty firmly set in Mexico, and the character's a globetrotter so he goes everywhere.

So really the question isn't how they react if they'd discovered each other, because you'd be hard pressed to find two characters less compatible and less willing to tolerate the other's existence. If these two exist in the same world, there is no way they don't know of each other at the very least.

How can French Fantomas possibly maintain a career and legacy as a mastermind of terror when this globally famous do-gooder keeps going around fighting crime and opression and acting as an ambassador for peace and goodwill and progress? How can the Mexican Fantomas possibly do good in the scale he must, or even get away with the odd mischief, if he bears the name and legacy of a globally infamous horror who drowned France in the blood of men, women, children and animals for years? What will the legacy of the name Fantomas be to the world?

It's a very clear Ultimate Evil vs Ultimate Good, past vs future conflict here, the old gothic serial killer vs the new sexy superhero, the two having very clearly defined worlds that are wholly incompatible, that you'd have to drag them outside of in order for this conflict to play out and risk undermining both characters.

The two things they have in common besides a name are the very clear storytelling precedents they share. One is, momentary disguises and diversions aside, there is only one Fantomas. And the other is the hardline rule of their universes: Fantomas Always Wins.

But how can Fantomas always be the sole victor, if he's not even the sole Fantomas?

Clearly one of them's gotta go.

Actually, I just discovered there WAS a Mexican Fantomas story detailing the two meeting. It was called “Uncle Fanto”, and it’s about an elderly Fantomas coming to visit his nephew, until he falls and busts a leg, and everyone laughs at him when he claims to be Fantomas, and Fantomas explains that his uncle misused his virtues for the sake of evil, and was incarcerated 20 years ago, and since then he’s been cleaning the name. Uncle Fanto’s looking for him because Allain has died and he has nothing left.

My genius and your inventions will make history, nephew

You recall that you promised to be on good behavior

And the story ends with Uncle Fanto getting stopped from an attempt to do one last crime, and promising that he won’t go back to the way he used to be, so Fantomas takes him to Professor Semo, who applies a memory-wiping treatment, fixes his knee and renews his agility (Semo is definitely my least favorite part of these stories because goddamn the guy is sketchy). The story ends with Uncle Fanto racing a robot.

Obviously this is a very “tame” take on this story and the original Fantomas, who’s presented here as mostly a robber and criminal mastermind (and he’s said to be sixty years old in 1971, which means he would have been born in 1911, so he definitely could not be the original Fantomas), and not the one I’d go with if I put these two together, but it’s the official one. It’s perfectly in line with the reocurring trend of the Mexican Fantomas finding ways to redeem villains and give them second chances.

Maybe he himself was a second chance for the original Fantomas.  

#replies tag #pulp heroes #pulp supervillains #fantomas #mexican fantomas #crossover

[petite-dweeb]

“Suspended Animation was released on April 5th. We recorded it at the same time we did Delirium Cordia. It was all one big recording session. We learned all the material for both records and went into the studio and recorded it all, it was a pretty long session. And then basically Mike went in and edited it the way he had planned it. It was basically his vision to do these two records, so he knew how it was going to be laid out, so after we recorded he spent time editing and mixing it. Basing the album around the month of April was Mike’s concept. I think it coincided with the record just happening to come out in April, so he kind of went with the April Fool’s concept. And from there the Japanese artist Nara, sent him like 30 different pictures and he didn’t want to have to choose, he didn’t want to have to pick out a few of them so he decided to use them all. The number 30 just fit into the calendar days. So there was a lot of chance element involved, which is always a good thing I think. Mike writes everything. There is a little bit of room for editing and changing parts once we start learning the music. Like there might be some stuff that he’s written that is impossible because, his writing process is tied in with recording so he’ll record these demos at home and send us the demos, then we’ll basically learn the stuff. But since it’s him recording, sometimes he’ll do stuff that either we’re not hearing or that’s impossible to play. We’ll adjust it if we have to but basically he writes everything. I’m also playing with my own Trio Convulsant on this tour, which is a different style of music than Fantomas. Is it difficult mostly because I’m playing an upright bass in The Trio and that’s the hardest thing for me because they’re two totally different instruments. A lot of people don’t realize that even though they’re both basses and they’re both ultimately tuned the same, there’s still a major physical difference. It was a little hard but I usually had time between sets to just kind of relax and warm up on my electric bass. It was a little hard, but I can’t complain. I’m playing music for a living. [Laughs] I formed The Trio Convulsant initially when I wrote some music several years ago that I actually put out as a record with a different lineup while I was in San Francisco and this new record was basically just me wanting to continue that. Ches \[Smith, Drums] and Mary \[Halvorson, guitar] are two musicians that I’ve played with for the last 5 or 6 years and I felt that they would bring to it what I was hearing which they definitely did. My own musical influences are all over the place. Lately I’ve been listening to a lot of 20th century classical music, some Mexican folk music, anything I can get my hands on basically, I wouldn’t narrow it down to anything specific. Fantômas are planning on going to China this year and to Australia and if we’re lucky maybe a couple places in South America too, so that’s all being thought out right now, so more touring, more time with Mike. We decided to stop doing Mr. Bungle because it just kind of actually died naturally. It’s kind of like an injured cat that kind of crawled into the bushes and died really slowly. It wasn’t really an abrupt decision, we did our last tour and everyone sort of went off in their own directions, physically and musically. It just kind of teetered out from there. I think it was the right thing to do. There were a lot of things about that band that were difficult. It was a hard band to tour with and it was a hard band to organize and get together. It was a lot of people with a lot of ideas, so you know. There are things about it I miss but we’ve moved on.”

#trevor dunn #fantomas #mr bungle #Mike Patton

[krinsbez]

OK, I give up.

I cannot find any posts with art of Fantomas, the Character for Pulptober 8th, representing the Theme “Pulp Evil” that A: I haven’t RBed already, that aren’t B: of Mexican Fantomas, C: Except for poster art for the movies that I don’t have the time/patience to find out who made it. So, have an image from the 1964 movie.

#Fantomas #Pulptober #Pulptober 2022 #Inktober #Inktober 2022 #Pulp Heroes

[kageyasame]

Since you offered, I have always wondered what La Fantoma means, or at least just Fantoma

(assuming this is for the spanish thing)

i actually dont know either? it sounds like a mexican thing to me but idk

does sound like fantasma, ghost, and paloma, dove/pigeon. mmm. i’ll google it

apparently a medical term?

oh, it’s those models of transparent bodies w/ organs. according to freedictionary es it’s also a hallucination/ghost

i did not know this before, thanks mate!

#ask and ye shall receive #the moist princess