Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

Hello there, how’s your day been? Have you seen an anglophone Tarzan Musical in your lifetime?  The first known significant Tarzan musical (or more accurately, the first musical based on a Tarzan work wholesale) was made by Johnny Simons and Douglas Ballantine in 1977. It was named Tarzan of the Apes because it was based similarly on the first Tarzan book. The casts in both the original and 1988 revival runs consist of largely anonymous actors who played Tarzan, Jane Porter and others.   Then came the original version of the legendary Tarzan Rocks! It was the Broadway Musical’s spiritual predecessor, which lasted for six and a half years, from July 1999 to January 2006. John Coulter has had such a good Tarzan portrayal that he himself reprised for an unaired pilot of a scrapped live action show. It had the working name of Tarzan’s Animal Friends and was the ‘spiritual pilot episode’ for what would become the famed tv show, Disney’s Legend of Tarzan.  The Broadway Musical ...

The Bionic Six aren’t going to have a reboot until the 2020s comes to a close.  For its impending 40th anniversary, there can be a continuity reboot series where the Bionic Six are now the Bionic Eight due to clearly adding two more women, a mixed Portuguese-Hawaiian and a Navajo, onto the mix.  The surname and ethnicities of Jack Bennett and his two children are revised to reflect the changing times. Not only will they be Jack, Eric and Megan Butala, they’re also of a multicultural background (mixed Croatian-Konkani American and Croatian-Irish-Konkani American). Jack is a mixed Croatian-Konkani American with an Indian mother of Konkani descent and a Croatian father. His children Eric and Megan are from a Croatian-Irish-Indian Konkani background, with the latter having a blonde ponytail while still being a tomboy. Helen Bennett is most likely an Irish American who will be Hella Harnett with a ginger bobbed hairstyle.  James Dwight Corey will be Jack’s office friend rather...

A Peruvian reviewer made a review on one of the worst jungle hero tv shows ever. And much more importantly, it's a freaking Peruvian one. Check It Out! They arrived one day in Iquitos, without having previously made a really constant research and reconnaissance of the work site, they arrogantly developed the details of “its production”, they took a luxury cruise to arrive at a hostel (also luxury), they stayed a couple of weeks having a relatively cool time, the owners of the jungle freaking out, and they immediately sent to move to Lima. Then they worked the post production with all the gags, stereotypes and reiterations of bad stories and thus they launched “their miniseries” based on the story of a supposed jungle girl who talks to monkeys, dresses as a girl version of Sheena and tries to save the world from a brotherhood led by a duo of baddies who badly imitate Pinky and the Brain and speak with an impossible accent, to the point that they look like sad dogs barking. Now it le...

Dear a majority of anime fans the world over, I am telling you an abridged version to the story behind one of the anime industry’s own shrewdest and most astute ever freemium lancers, Yukiyoshi Hane.  Not everyone knows about him before he began his career as a troubled but brilliant business minded animator. However, he began his career by animating a shit ton of scenes for the Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon Orochi.  Finally, he got his big break at the very end of 1972. It was when he was animating and character designing two very different shows, one a relatively much lighter and softer adaptation to Osamu Tezuka’s Triton of the Sea, and the other being a considerably much wackier yet more merchandise-driven adaptation to Go Nagai’s brilliant but long-troubled Mazinger Z. Otherwise, midway through season 2’s airing schedule, he awkwardly but slowly got replaced as a character designer by a dude called Keisuke Morishita, himself an otherwise mediocre animator on h...