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Mamuthone from the carnival of Mamoiada in Sardinia

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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard posters by Jason Galea

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What a great Uchi-mata!

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by Steven Rhodes

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Only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.

VERTIGO dir. ALFRED HITCHCOCK

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Villains from THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS (1986-1991).

As a kid, I didn’t quite understand why there were two different Ghostbusters cartoons, but I didn’t complain. The more, the better. I didn’t prefer one to the other, the only thing they had in common was the name and a basic concept anyway. I did wonder why Egon was blonde though.

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Villains from Hanna-Barbera’s JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS cartoon.

Dr. Strangemoon / The Scorpion; The Serpent / Captain Nemo; Dr. Midas / Mr. X; Dr. Madro / The Shadow; Zor / Evil Eye.

(Most of these images come from the Josie wiki.)

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Akira

Katsuhiro Otomo

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“The Man from Sadisto” novels, sexploitation parodies of Bond, with titles like “The Sex Ray” and “The Lust Bomb.”

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AVENGERS: ENDGAME!

Here are some of my favourite shots from the trailer (which I’d be more inclined to call a teaser to be honest!)

Marvel are still clearly holding as much as possible close to their chests. Hype aside, all we see is a few long shots of scenery and only a handful of characters. I was hoping for some epic shots, but it was seemingly going for a more sombre tone, which is cool don’t get me wrong.

Most noticable features include Hawkeye, now donning the Ronin outfit after what most of us presume to be the loss of his family. Stark is straight up stranded in space with I guess Nebula, unless she bounces and leaves him for dead before the footage we see in the trailer, because there is a shot of her inside of the ship. We also see Thanos sort of limping, with the damaged gauntlet still singed to his arm (like I said would be the case - go me!) The snap certainly took a toll on him.

I’m assuming the next trailer will be where it’s at, in terms of story and epic shots. All I can say for now is… I want more, I need more! Most importantly, I’d put all my chips on “Endgame” being the title and it was!

What did you guys think? Let me know! For now, go watch the trailer again here:

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The world of 1970s pinball art.

Xenon (1980), with its seductive female voice, a novelty at the time, is perhaps one of the more famous ones. The artwork was done by pinball wizard Paul Faris.

Kevin O’Connor did the Strikes and Spares artwork. Look at Fonz though, and finger-snapping Pinky Tuscadero. Richie brought his own chair to Arnold’s.

I come from a rural village. Wind, fields of grass, grey skies. There was a bar with a pinball machine which always made a terrible racket: lights flashing, whooshing, like a crazy UFO with an ambulance siren on top. There were always greasy guys in leather jackets hanging out there, who took offence at my feminine, angelic features.

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