But how much fight training did Norris actually have? As this is Something I Read on the Internet, it should be taken with a grain of salt, but I'm under the impression that all of Norris's "fights", like almost all Western martial arts tournaments before the rise of kickboxing, were based on point scoring — in other…

Here's the entirety of "Flash of Darkness."  This was the 17th of 56 episodes.  Not a dream, not an imaginary story.  I can't imagine what they did for an encore (yes, I know the show was a semi-anthology with Boone always hosting but only occasionally the protagonist, and there was not real continuity, but still!).

I never said I get off on chainmail armor, but I have dressed up in bandages and a red wig as Leeloo from THE FIFTH ELEMENT and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.  And yes, I also enjoy looking at Ahnuld's oiled body in CONAN THE DESTROYER (which is not as good a movie as Milius's, but offered some…

We do get some of that in Leigh Brackett's otherwise excellent novella "Black Amazon of Mars" (Brackett, who wrote much of the best dialogue in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT and THE BIG SLEEP, mentored Ray Bradbury, and before she died, turned in the first draft of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK).  And there's the problematical bit…

Although as a counter to your argument that nerds didn't look like that when you or I were kids, here's Wendy Pini's contemporary Angelique Trouvere:

I'm fonder of her as Captain Marvel (wearing the costume Frank Cho called "dykey," which I don't see anything wrong with it being even it were true).

I wish they didn't stick The Spider in that spiderweb costume from the serial. It looks dumb and I don't know how the mouth works.  I much prefer the fanged hunchback disguise from the pulps.

And fwiw, here's an old photo of Wendy Pini as Sonja. I was also going to say that she also designed Vampirella's outfit, but googling it, I see that was Trina Robbins.

Why would I try to convince you a photo of me in a chainmail bikini (which I'd happily take if I had one and actually thought you wanted to see it) wasn't an S&M fantasy?  How do you know I don't get a stiffy seeing myself in the mirror in one, or Ahnuld all oiled and bulging, or gladiator movies?  And what's wrong…

You may have missed the sarcasm of the "quelle surprise."  Of course Cho likes Sonja's chainkini and BelleChere in it.  My rather less of-course-y point was that Simone and Connor have publicly stated they adore BelleChere's cosplay as Sonja (BelleChere has also worn rather more clothes when cosplaying Kelly Sue…

And somebody seems to be selling mail mankinis.

Well, it's not chainmail, but I wouldn't say the 300 leather briefs aren't sexualized.

Gail Simone apparently really adores BelleChere (as does Amanda Connor, and, quelle surprise, Frank Cho), so that might be another reason keeping the chainkini.

Not to defend the chainkini, but Conan wore even less and Killraven's outfit belonged in a fetish club.  Schwarzenegger later criticized the Milius movie for keeping its hero too covered up — "you should have seen more of my body."   And yes, I know that Howard's Conan only wore a loincloth and sandals when he was a…

Yeah, Connor on Sonja would be awesome.  So would Staples, although I doubt she'd have the time.  Dynamite's THE LONE RANGER has had great non-generic art from Esteve Polls that reminds me more than a bit of Western greats John Severin and Russ Heath.

Nah, Simone ditched that (or writers before her did).  This Sonja's attitude towards sex is much more like Conan's.  Her attitude towards booze, too.

Actually, as I say above (or maybe below, depending on your feed), there is no hunchbacked assistant named Igor in the Universal films.  There is a hunchbacked assistant named Fritz, played by Dwight "Renfield" Frye (whose sibilant voice may be the reason why MAD MONSTER PARTY voices the character named Igor with a…

Of course, Dr. Frankenstein never had a hunchbacked lab assistant named Igor, at least not prior to YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN.  In Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS, Victor Frankenstein is not a doctor (just a medical student) or a baron and has no assistant (although he had one by late 19th stage…

I'm very leery of giving money to something that those right wing Catholic loons/opportunists the Warrens will profit from.  These are the people who advised an accused murderer to attempt a Not Guilty by Reason of Demonic Possession plea.  In a world that has seen more murders of accused witches since WW2 than in the…

I've not seen the movie yet, but this is pretty damning if true.  From the Salon review: