Jonny Quest Opening Titles

Jonny Quest Opening Titles from Roger D. Evans on Vimeo.

Here's a cool video. The original opening titles from the animated sixties version of Johny Quest is one of the most action-packed opening credits around and a gentleman by the name of Roger D. Evans has just made them better. He painstakingly recreated each scene from the titles and re-shot the entire titles sequence in stop-motion animation. The end result is the above video. His blog detailing the extensive work he did on each scene can be found here. The original title sequence is in the following video as a comparison. I've also included an Amazon.com link below for those who don't already own this cool series on DVD.





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Jonny Quest - The Complete First Season (1964) on DVD

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Portal: No Escape

Here's a cool short film based on the video game Portal produced by Dan Trachtenberg and starring Danielle Rayne. It's very well done short and is of professional quality. Also, you don't need to know anything about Portal to enjoy the film. Check it out.

Space Family Robinson

Imagine my surprise when I came home from work and found this sitting on my doorstep; the first volume in Dark Horse Comics reprint collection of the old Gold Key/Whitman Space Family Robinson comics . This is a beautiful hardcover collection of the first seven issues. Their goal  is to eventually reprint all 59 issues plus some extras. I've read through a good chunk of this volume already and can't wait for the other volumes to be released. Dark Horse has also made available a six page sneak peek to get you interested. I've included the preview pages below but they are also available on their website. Click on the images to enlarge them.

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Space Family Robinson Vol 1

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Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Lost in the Andes" by Carl Barks

Fantagraphics Books released the above images (click on the images to enlarge them) to show off the first volume of their upcoming reprints of classic Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics by Carl Barks. I mentioned this back in January when they were first announced  Fantagraphics appear to be doing a stellar job in preparing this material for release. Reprints of these in the past have suffered from horrid recoloring jobs but they appear to be doing a bang-up job replicating the flat coloring scheme used on the original comics. The Robot 6 website has an interview with Rich Tommaso who's in charge of the recoloring process for this release. Go here to check it out. The book's due out in October. I've already got mine pre-ordered. If you don't, why not?

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 Walt Disney's Donald Duck: "Lost in the Andes"

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The Astrosmurf

The seventh volume Papercutz has released of the fabulous Smurfs comic stories showed up in my mailbox. I've talked about smurf comics before here, here, here, here and here. It's wonderful seeing these comics reprinted. The Astrosmurf is one of the volumes I used to own as a kid and my copy is falling apart after being read over and over again so it's nice to receive a brand new reprint hot off the presses.  If you haven't checked them out already, I highly recommend you do. They're really good.

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The Smurfs #7: The Astrosmurf
The Smurfs #6: The Smurfs and the Howlibird
The Smurfs #5: The Smurfs and the Egg
The Smurfs #4: The Smurfette
The Smurfs #3: The Smurf King
The Smurfs #2: The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
The Smurfs #1: The Purple Smurfs

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Free Game - Streets of Rage Remake

Streets of Rage Remake is an excellent fangame remake/sequel to the Streets of Rage series. If you've ever played any of the Streets of Rage games and wished for a sequel or have a hankering for an old-school style beat-em-up, then this is the game for you. Go here for more information and to download this great game.