Harryhenry
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As late as 2022 you had a main character in the "hit" Roland Emmerich film Moonfall asking a bold question (in context, this is meant to be a positive thing):
January 30, 2026 at 4:44 AM
As late as 2022 you had a main character in the "hit" Roland Emmerich film Moonfall asking a bold question (in context, this is meant to be a positive thing):
Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier, was a BAD INVESTOR???
January 26, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier, was a BAD INVESTOR???
George R.R. Martin also famously based A Song of Ice and Fire on the War of the Roses, enough for some to try and "figure out" where ASOIAF is going by trying to look at how the real Roses war turned out. But this is a fruitless endeavor as ASOIAF eventually diverged from the actual history.
January 24, 2026 at 1:52 AM
George R.R. Martin also famously based A Song of Ice and Fire on the War of the Roses, enough for some to try and "figure out" where ASOIAF is going by trying to look at how the real Roses war turned out. But this is a fruitless endeavor as ASOIAF eventually diverged from the actual history.
Even in the early days of modern fantasy fiction, Robert E. Howard literally created the Hyborian age for Conan just so he could do historical fiction (that he also wrote) without having to do research all the time, which for a poor Texan back then wasn't easy.
January 24, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Even in the early days of modern fantasy fiction, Robert E. Howard literally created the Hyborian age for Conan just so he could do historical fiction (that he also wrote) without having to do research all the time, which for a poor Texan back then wasn't easy.
Hot take: You CANNOT write any kind of fantasy fiction, or most science fiction either, without at least some knowledge and understanding of real world history. It's basically inseparable, no matter how much you eventually diverge from the real history.
January 24, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Hot take: You CANNOT write any kind of fantasy fiction, or most science fiction either, without at least some knowledge and understanding of real world history. It's basically inseparable, no matter how much you eventually diverge from the real history.
Look, if I were directing a Masters of the Universe movie... I'd make it look EXACTLY like the old painted promotional art. Go for that Barbarella/Planet of the Vampires/Flash Gordon heightened Italian-adjacent comic book look, make it really POP!
Basically, it wouldn't look like a car commercial.
Basically, it wouldn't look like a car commercial.
January 22, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Look, if I were directing a Masters of the Universe movie... I'd make it look EXACTLY like the old painted promotional art. Go for that Barbarella/Planet of the Vampires/Flash Gordon heightened Italian-adjacent comic book look, make it really POP!
Basically, it wouldn't look like a car commercial.
Basically, it wouldn't look like a car commercial.
Yes! That cracked me up when revisiting these old comics a while ago. Reminds me of the house from Stuart Little that's squashed between two giant New York City buildings.
January 17, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Yes! That cracked me up when revisiting these old comics a while ago. Reminds me of the house from Stuart Little that's squashed between two giant New York City buildings.
And meanwhile his old X-Men partner was writing his own Elseworlds story about a Superman/Lois/Lana Wonder Woman centaur polycule on the moon, so the late '90s was just a weird time for everybody lol
January 15, 2026 at 3:59 AM
And meanwhile his old X-Men partner was writing his own Elseworlds story about a Superman/Lois/Lana Wonder Woman centaur polycule on the moon, so the late '90s was just a weird time for everybody lol
The Muppets know what's up:
January 12, 2026 at 3:51 AM
The Muppets know what's up:
You can also see Jim Shooter's fascination with more grounded superhero stories shine through here when it comes to the New Universe, it's the same mentality he'd bring to Valiant Comics when he was running things there. He really took Marvel's "world outside your window" ethos to the next level.
January 12, 2026 at 1:13 AM
You can also see Jim Shooter's fascination with more grounded superhero stories shine through here when it comes to the New Universe, it's the same mentality he'd bring to Valiant Comics when he was running things there. He really took Marvel's "world outside your window" ethos to the next level.
This one Onion clip from 2011 is basically how every franchise works now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zgb...
January 7, 2026 at 1:15 AM
This one Onion clip from 2011 is basically how every franchise works now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zgb...
REAL PEOPLE
NOT ACTORS
NOT ACTORS
December 31, 2025 at 7:58 AM
REAL PEOPLE
NOT ACTORS
NOT ACTORS
This has also lead me to the horrifying realisation that Philip Jose Farmer was the MatPat of his time. If Farmer was young enough to become a youtuber at the right time he'd have made bank off of fan theory videos
December 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
This has also lead me to the horrifying realisation that Philip Jose Farmer was the MatPat of his time. If Farmer was young enough to become a youtuber at the right time he'd have made bank off of fan theory videos
Something that surprised me about Young Sherlock Holmes (1985): It has a disclaimer assuring the fans in the audience that this is just a fun respectful bit of speculation and isn't meant to fit in with the original stories. Like imagine if a DC or Marvel movie had a disclaimer like this.
December 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Something that surprised me about Young Sherlock Holmes (1985): It has a disclaimer assuring the fans in the audience that this is just a fun respectful bit of speculation and isn't meant to fit in with the original stories. Like imagine if a DC or Marvel movie had a disclaimer like this.
And to toot my own horn a bit, here's the artists I have listed in a reference folder for a project of mine, which have all to some degree helped inspire me for my own work:
December 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
And to toot my own horn a bit, here's the artists I have listed in a reference folder for a project of mine, which have all to some degree helped inspire me for my own work:
One of my favourite pieces of Tissot trivia: A late in life conversion to catholicism (the sincerity of which is still up for historical debate) led him to paint biblical scenes, and his depiction of the Ark of the Covenant directly influenced its iconic depiction in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
December 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
One of my favourite pieces of Tissot trivia: A late in life conversion to catholicism (the sincerity of which is still up for historical debate) led him to paint biblical scenes, and his depiction of the Ark of the Covenant directly influenced its iconic depiction in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).
Yes! Scorsese's really good at that. The Age of Innocence looks like a James Tissot painting come to life (to the point where a Tissot painting literally appears in the film) thefilmexperience.net/blog/2018/3/...
December 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Yes! Scorsese's really good at that. The Age of Innocence looks like a James Tissot painting come to life (to the point where a Tissot painting literally appears in the film) thefilmexperience.net/blog/2018/3/...
Also RE: Alan Ladd Jr., as great as he was as his job, giving him credit for Star Wars artistically reminded of something Jack Kirby's son said:
December 19, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Also RE: Alan Ladd Jr., as great as he was as his job, giving him credit for Star Wars artistically reminded of something Jack Kirby's son said:
I love how, as soon as sports were desegregated and black people started dominating many different sports, they pivoted to "maybe there's a SPORTS Gene???" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spo...
December 13, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I love how, as soon as sports were desegregated and black people started dominating many different sports, they pivoted to "maybe there's a SPORTS Gene???" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spo...
Disney comics might actually be the worst when it comes to this, as Don Rosa explains here: career-end.donrosa.de/p/the-epilog...
December 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Disney comics might actually be the worst when it comes to this, as Don Rosa explains here: career-end.donrosa.de/p/the-epilog...
Asterix's Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny have their own problems, but even they made fun of comics like this in 1969(!)
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Asterix's Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny have their own problems, but even they made fun of comics like this in 1969(!)
People think those cases are like that one specific Genesis transparent pattern (like the waterfalls in Sonic) that doesn't show up in emulators. That IS a cool effect but that's also one very specific case and doesn't apply to everything.
December 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
People think those cases are like that one specific Genesis transparent pattern (like the waterfalls in Sonic) that doesn't show up in emulators. That IS a cool effect but that's also one very specific case and doesn't apply to everything.
Watching the Malcolm in the Middle S1E8 episode "Company Picnic", and look who I spotted: Jerry Lambert, aka. Kevin Butler from the iconic PS3 ads!
December 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Watching the Malcolm in the Middle S1E8 episode "Company Picnic", and look who I spotted: Jerry Lambert, aka. Kevin Butler from the iconic PS3 ads!
The memes about Malcolm in the Middle's Francis subplots aren't a joke. This is from S1E6, "Sleepover":
December 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The memes about Malcolm in the Middle's Francis subplots aren't a joke. This is from S1E6, "Sleepover":
Little known fact: R2-D2 was friends with Francis Ford Coppola, so much so that Francis really wanted him to play Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1971), but unfortunately it wasn't to be (Bob Evans called him a "runt"). Instead they settled for some rando, Al I think is his name?
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Little known fact: R2-D2 was friends with Francis Ford Coppola, so much so that Francis really wanted him to play Michael Corleone in The Godfather (1971), but unfortunately it wasn't to be (Bob Evans called him a "runt"). Instead they settled for some rando, Al I think is his name?