Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for July 07, 2010

It appears that way…

No. He disappears that way.

Makes you wonder what he was thinking taking a bag lunch and a thermos of coffee out of the house and to the front lawn…….

He plans to lean over a pick them up while the fuse burns down. It is going to be a long trip apparently. One does hope that the fuses burn a the same rate and one rocket-shoe does not ignite before the other.

That’s a NASA idea, cheap to construct!

“I’ll have that to go, please!”

Looks like a brown bag launch.

He’s out to lunch alright.

http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cscwy&uc_full_date=20200707

Happy³ already posted a beautiful video concerning yesterday’s strip.

The human versions of the poster aren’t bad at all:

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-g/godzilla_1954_poster_07.jpg

And this:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lpgclOOlEhE/TsMw1dx0GSI/AAAAAAAAJ-s/DsYfz2my9X8/s1600/godzilla_1954_poster_05.jpg

But with this one, they copied StelBel’s outstanding artwork most shamelessly:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IdDJv6218Dw/TsMxGQyI6nI/AAAAAAAAJ-0/cqeZtIIyjus/s1600/godzilla_1954_poster_06.jpg

What an ugly dog.

Has anyone tried throwing a ball for Bassetzilla? I realize Bassets are not the greatest ball chasers, though. What about a belly rub for the big monster?

Oof. There’s a film that will unsettle your lunch.

Martin is out to lunch.

Martin has a lot of crazy thoughts.

Well, if I’m not there, start the film without me. Chances are are I’ll be watching something with the ol’ Duke instead.

Welcome, Cleophiles and monster movie fans…

There’s something for you both in

the July 7th  2020 “CLEO and COMPANY”

at a theater near you, on Sherpa.

Yesterday’s “Bassetzilla”, at the Clevelandopolis Park N’View Drive in, introduced SuperBasset, and was actually a sequel to this, the original Bassetzilla movie.

Montana Lady and I…. sitting in a car behind the Cliffords.. .could safely hide behind Cleo’s tall chair.

But this one is in at the BassetPlexIV..

Normally, I stay home when scary films play a regular theater…

But I make an exception for old monster movies, as long as they were made before the special effects people filled them with blood and gore.

I watched so many when I was young, and grew to love the obviously fake monsters…

the giant reptiles, out-sized arachnids, rogue robots and antennaed green aliens…

and especially, the touches of humor … on purpose, or unintentional.

One thing to note….

This particular film was meant to be scary….

Sometimes it is… but other scenes become almost parodies of themselves, and it breaks the tension.

I think I can handle it.

The Japanese copied it first… and theirs was meant to frighten, as well.

But if you look at the English language posters, such as Tigressy posted….

You’ll see that an American, human actor has top billing.

At that point, with the crowds chattering away in Japanese, wildly mugging their expressions of horror….

contrasted with the stolid acting of the American “hero” …

the adaptation took on an almost ironic, satirical tone that neither neither film company ever really intended.

Montana Lady, if you’ll go with me, we can warn each other to duck…

or maybe take turns watching and describing the action, if it starts to get too scary…

and we can enjoy the famed kibblecorn of the BassetPlexIV.

We’ll hope Martin can grab that thermos before the launch. As he reaches apogee, he plans to unscrew the cap to release a very compact parachute that will float him gently back to earth (if he remembers to hang onto the thermos tightly).

Good Morning Ballardeers! Qday 2,116,000 and it’s 80 degrees F with a heat index of 86 at 0800 this morning.

Hotter than Phoenix this morning.

Y’all stay cool (((((HUGS)))))

Good morning Balladeers, (((((Plods))))) and Miss Susan.

This is just another ‘poor little doggie’ movie. She’s so happy to just sit and play with her little train set. And, she must’ve had a bad bag of kibble corn because you can see she’s burping very loudly.

I’ll bet if we all go over and play trains with her, she’ll be all better.

Poor Little Doggie.

Lots of basset monster movies lately. I guess we all need distractions.

Martin is lit.

So is Bassetzilla.

I would love to see a movie where Bassetzilla and Clovis-Rex went into battle with each other to see which one could eat the most people in Cleveland. Of course, neither one of them would eat any of the politicians. They wouldn’t want to throw up or get a bad case of the runs.

In lieu of a good…?!? – Yes; I didn’t think so.