Rudy Panucci On Pop Culture

Month: March 2013 (Page 2 of 3)

Go See These While I’m Gone

The PopCulteer
March 15, 2013

If you read The PopCult Toybox last Tuesday, then you know that I’m marching on Atlanta this weekend to speak at a GI Joe convention, JoeLanta. That means that I have tons to do to get ready, and don’t have a lot of time to write a PopCulteer this week.

However, there are two great events you should attend this weekend. You can see them below. I’m outta here.

PopCult should be chock full o’ cool stories and stuff about my trip next week.

 

The PopCult Toybox

Going To JoeLanta!

This week’s PopCult Toybox is going to be a short one. Y’see, this weekend I am going to be able to do something that, for a long time, I never thought I was going to be able to. I’m going to a GI Joe Collectors convention.

JoeLanta, held at the Marriott Century Center in Atlanta, is one of the largest conventions devoted to 12″ (or 1/6 scale) action figures. Here’s a video clip about the show…

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Deni Bonet, HARRAH and Beggar’s Clan on Radio Free Charleston 182

Shirt by Megan Lara

Above you see a very special episode of Radio Free Charleston. Our friend and international music superstar, Deni Bonet is in this week’s show with a really cool music video. We also have a very special semi-animated performance by HARRAH, plus we have the Radio Free Charleston debut of Beggar’s Clan. We also have the return of Murfmeef and some trippy animation. 

“Too Much Beer”

Host segments were shot in a couple of places in Charleston, near the State Culture Center and downtown on Capitol Street. In my exuberance, I claim that we shot “all over town,” but I was stretching things a bit. We only went to two places on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, right after the switch to Daylight Savings Time messed with everybody’s internal clock. Continue reading

Monday Morning Art: Wearin’ O’ The “Green”


Today’s artisitic kickstart to your week is a blown-up detail from the music video for “Green” by HarraH, which can be seen on episode 182 od Radio Free Charleston, coming later today. We’re featuring HarraH, fronted by RFC production assistant, Lee Harrah, because this Friday they are headlining the SHOW OF THE YEAR at The Blue Parrot!

Not only is it St. Patrick’s Day…Not only is it HarraH’s third anniversary show… This show features three recent RFC favorites, HarraH, Trielement, and The Wayward Girls School of Burlesque!

RFC 182 also features new music from Deni Bonet and the RFC debut of Beggar’s Clan, plus other cool stuff. Production notes will be up by morning. Check PopCult for that post. Check the flyer below (withartwork by Lee) for more info on the HarraH show, and click the image above to see it larger.

So Long, Comics Buyer’s Guide

The PopCulteer
March 8, 2013

I come to bury Comics Buyer’s Guide, not to praise it.

The venerable comic book hobby publication ceased publication with its March 2013 issue. This was announced back in January and reaction was swift, heartfelt and fondly nostalgic. The consensus was that CBG was just not made for these times. The internet had robbed CBG of its usefulness, and the hobby had changed too much for Comics Buyer’s Guide to remain profitable.

And all that is true. However, mired in mourning, many writers have white-washed the history of CBG a bit. There’s more to the post-mortem than “’twas the internet that killed the beast.” In a day when several magazines about comics are thriving, we need to look behind the cover story to get to the real truth. I picked up the final issue of CBG, and I’m going to take a detailed look at it to see why it may have failed.

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A Marvelous History Lesson

The PopCult Bookshelf 

Marvel Comics The Untold Story
by Sean Howe
Harper Collins
ISBN: 978-0-06-199210-0
$26.99

Sean Howe has crafted a meticulous and fascinating history of one of the most powerful forces in Pop Culture, Marvel Comics. In “Marvel Comics The Untold Story,” Howe goes back to the 1930s and traces the origins of the company that would become Marvel. We learn about the superhero boomed during World War II. Then Howe guides us through the lean years of the 1950s to the glory days of the Jack Kirby/Stan Lee collaborations of the 1960s, the influx of wild young talent in the 1970s and the corporate machinations and comedies of error that almost sank Marvel in the 1980s and early 90s. The book ends with Marvel’s acquisition by Disney in 2009, and the detail is phenomenal.

If you’re curious about the creation of The Fantastic Four, Spider-man, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, The Avengers and the rest of the Marvel roster of heroes, you’ll find it all in here. It’s not a sanitized version of what happened, either. Continue reading

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