INDIANA JONES The Ultimate Comics Collection Mega Pack

Това е почти пълна колекция на всички официални комикси за Индиана Джоунс, които някога са били издавани!

Тъй като някои от комиксите не се намираха из нета съм ги сканирал от личната си колекция, така че съм почти сигурен, че тук е единственото от където можете да дръпнете всички комикс-приключения на Инди!

съдържа изданията на Marvel:

* Raiders of the Lost Ark
* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
*The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones (34 issues) (инфо за историите на отделните броеве тук: http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Further_Adventures_of_Indiana_Jones )


и Dark Horse:

* 1991: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (4 issues)
* 1992-93: The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (12 issues) (инфо за историите на отделните броеве тук: http://indianajones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Young_Indiana_Jones_Chronicles_%28comic%29)
* 1992: Mid-Atlantic, April 1916
* 1993-94: Indiana Jones: Thunder in the Orient (6 issues)
* 1994: Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold (4 issues)
* 1994: Indiana Jones and the Golden Fleece (2 issues)
* 1992-93: Indiana Jones and the Shrine of the Sea Devil (initially serialized in 4 parts, collected into 1 issue in 1994)
* 1994-1995: Indiana Jones and the Iron Phoenix (4 issues)
* 1995: Indiana Jones and the Spear of Destiny (4 issues)
* 1995: Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates (4 issues)
* 2003: Star Wars Tales 19: "Into the Great Unknown"
* 2008: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2 issues)
* 2008: Indiana Jones Adventures: Volume 1 (1 issue, digest format)
* 2008-2009: Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods (4 issues)
* 2009: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Yearning
* 2009: Indiana Jones Adventures: Volume 2: Curse of the Invincible Ruby (1 issue, digest format)

както и няколко бонуса за феновете:
всичките 6 броя на Indiana Jones: The Official Magazine и фен-комикса A Kid Called Indy!

Ето списък на липсващите в този торент комикси. Въпреки, че е малко вероятно изобщо да ги има някъде сканирани, все пак ако някой може, нека потърси. В случай, че откриете някое от тези заглавия, моля пишете! -

Young Indiana Jones and the Plantation Treasure (comic)
Young Indiana Jones and the Mountains of SuperstitionIndiana Jones et le Grimoire Maudit (translated as Indiana Jones and the Cursed Book of Magic) - издаван е само на френски!
Indiana Jones et le Secret de la Pyramide (or, in English, Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Pyramid) - издаван е само на френски!
Indiana Jones et la Cité de la Foudre (roughly translated as Indiana Jones and the City of Lightning) - издаван е само на френски!
Indiana Jones et les Bédouins de la Mer (in English, "Indiana Jones and the Bedouins of the Sea") is an unpublished French-language comic story. - а този май изобщо пък не е издаван...
Facing Death! - a four-page comic that was published in the United Kingdom as part of the first issue of Indiana Jones and the Lost Treasures magazine.
Indiana Jones and the Treasure of Monte Cassana - an eight-page story included in the IJ Adventure Magazine, published in the United Kingdom in 1990

Приятно четене!

Poster of the Week #23

"We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" aka "4 Dinos in New York"

The latest addition to my DVD collection - one of my animated favourites, produced by Steven Spielberg. Certainly an appealing poster by the master Drew Struzan :)

Top 8 of the 80s movies with a remake/sequel announced in 2008

2008 is ancient history. And as usual people look back and sum the highlights of the past year. Top something best/worst whatever of 2008... The same goes for the movies that came out. Well, I decided to give you something different, and it's about movies that came out like 20 years ago and movies yet to come! I give you...

Young_Jedi's
Top 8 of the 80s movies with a remake/sequel announced in 2008

#8 - The Goonies

written bu Chris Columbus, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Richard Donner!! It's the ultimeate 80s movie, it even has Short Round from "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"! It's actually like the kids veriosn of Indiana Jones! Hell, it even has a Cyndi Lauper song! And the video for the song has like almost all the wrestlers from the 80s in it! Even Steven Spielberg himself is in teh video! Geez, this movie is so great that it hurts me to put it on Number 8, but the reason for this is that the Goonies Sequel is not official yet, but there are rumors circulating around for ages...

#7 - Friday The 13th

We get a lot of crappy remakes of 80s slashers, and nobody seems to care much. But now it's Jason Voorhees and he's been around ever since he came out of the lake at the end of the first Friday. The movie spawned like nine sequels, one cross-over with Freddy and tons of comic books. And instead of doing another sequel, they decided to remake it? And gave it to Michael Bay?! Why?? Well... we'll see next week - the reboot will premiere on (yes, that's right) Friday The 13th.

Somehow I have the feeling that this movie's gonna suck splattered sludge. It's here cause I'm still curious to see it. And they were also talking about remaking the Nightmare on Elm Street without Robert Englund, and crap ideas like that... I dunno who comes up with these things.

#6 - RoboCop

Part man, part machine. All cop.

The metalic Frankenstein of the Future story directed by Paul Verhoven is another cult 80s classic. Till now it has been continued by two movie sequels, live-action TV series, TV mini-series, two cartoon shows and tens of comic books and video games. In March 2008, however, RoboCop was mentioned in an MGM press release regarding franchises it would be focusing on in the future. An MGM poster displayed at the Licensing International Expo of June 2008 read, "RoboCop coming 2010". Who's gonna direct it is still unclear.

#5 - Short Circuit

After Pixar's huge success with "Wall-E" it's no wonder that someone over there came up with the idea to bring back Wall-E's granpa, Johnny 5! Dimension Films aquired the rights to do a remake. This is exciting enough, fans need more input, more input! But why remake? Can't they just make Short Circuit 3 and bring back good old Number 5? He's still alive!

#4 - The Dark Crystal

It was announced some years ago, not in 2008, but it just deserves to be here. Jim Hanson and Frank Oz directed "The Dark Crystal" in 1982. After 25 years the movie still has faithful followers and in in 2007 Tokyo Pop published vol.1 of a spin-off manga series "Legends of the Dark Crystal". (by the way they also published "Jim Hanson's Return to the Labyrinth", a sequel to the Labyrinth movie). The much anticipated sequel "The Power of the Dark Crystal" is planned to be released in 2011 and it's supposed to be directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (famous for his work on "Samurai Jack" and "Clone Wars"), though there are some rumors that he's no longer involved with the project.

#3 - Adventures in babrysitting

One of the funniest kids adventures ever, it's like the juniour high version "Big Trouble in Little China" :) Chris Columbus sure knows how to deliver! How in the world they plan to make a sequel 20-something years later, without any member of the original cast, without the origional writers and directr... Bets me! I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that Disney won't ruin the Further Adventures in Babysitting.

#2 - The Last Starfighter

When John Carpenter's "Halloween" chilled the blood the teenages at the endof the 70-s nobody could ever imagine that a few years later maniac killer Michael Myers would write "Escape from New York" for his director, let alone that he would direct his own movies! The man behind the iconic repainted Captain Kirk mask was Nick Castle, and in 1984 his sci-fi adventure "The Last Starfighter" hit the screens. And what do you know - the Starfighter will hit again in 2010!

#1 - TRON

Absolute cult classic and fan-favourite 1982 TRON already had a sequel - the PC game TRON 2.0. Maybe they were testing the market - do we still like TRON? You bet! And so on the San Diego Comic Con last year Disney screened some brand new CGI test footage... TR2N is sceduled to premiere in 2011 and Jeff Bridges will return as Kevin Flynn! It will be directed by Joseph Kosinski and IMDb tells us that he's also remaking the anti-utopia "Logan's Run" (which would deffinitely be on this Top 8 if it wasn't from the 70s ;))

Top 3 Christmas Movies, that are not-so-Christmas-movies

Christmas is coming, it's holiday season, and all I need now is some snow (hopefully we'll have some for 24 December) and a good Christmas movie.

When we're talking Christmas movies in everybody comes up with titles like "Home Alone", "Santa Clause", if you're into classics - "It's a Winderful Life", if you're into cartoons - various Christmas specials... But there are some movies that are (sort of) Christmas movies and you just don't associate them with Christmas.

And here's my Top 3 of such movies :)

3. BATMAN RETURNS

Tim Burton's gothic vision of Gotham City from the first movie is taken a step further. Covered with snow Gotham's even more grim, especially when you have sexy feline-fetish Selina Kyle slashing around with her whip-tale, an ominous circus ravaging the streets and helping grotesque Penguin biting off noses and kidnaping sleeping children to drown them in the icy waters of the city sewers

2. DIE HARD

"Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."
Detective John McClane isn't exactly the kid-friendly family entertainment for the holidays ;)

1. GREMLINS

Some years before "Home Alone" Chris Columbus wrote "Gremlins" and with Steven Spielberg as an executive producer and Joe Dante on the director's chair you just can't get anything but a cult classic! Seems like Billy's got the best Christmas present ever, but don't be fooled by cute little Gizmo, this is not another E.T. and things are about to get out of control! "Gremlins" sure is disturbing for some parents, but I don't think that the kids really care ;) It's gonna be one hell of a Christms!

Welcome back, Dr. Jones!

I just got back from the European pre-premiere of "Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"... I want to write my review right now, while the cheerful childish smile is still on my face and the theme is still echoing in my ears.

To write my review, but how? I am just... speechless!

George, Steven, Harrison, thank you guys! Once again - you did it!

I am totally not giving out any plot details or whatever information connected with the story - I think it's a sin to spoil this experience for you. Because it's not just a movie, it's an experience. As a hardcore Indy fan I was waiting for this movie ever since there were rumors for a new sequel. The waiting, the revealing of the first teaser poster, the trailer, getting my ticket weeks before the date... But let's get to the point :)

The movie's opening shot is an instant classic - the Paramount logo, usually fading to a mountain on the horizon a second before The Man With The Hat gets on the screen, this time is being minimized to a molehill and this sets right away the sense of self-parody.

The first scene... Just beautiful! A nod to George Lucas' "American Graffiti", retro, vintage, like a post-card from the 50s. There hasn't been more entertaining and fun movie set in the 50s since Robert Zemeckis' "Back to the Future" and Brad Bird's "Iron Giant". The only disadvantage of this time period - I admit, I really miss the Nazis. I know, Indy is punching commies now, but still...

The directing - the name Steven Spielber for me is more than enough to guarantee a great time in the cinema (at least). And for those of you who have been disappointed by "War of the Worlds" for example (I was not, but I know some of you were), for those of you who think that he has lost his touch or something - just wait and see! The camera-work - Janusz Kaminski's work is recognizable and typical (which by no means is bad!), though I read on the net that he studied and tried to imitate the style of Douglas Slocombe from the previous three installments. By the way, I watched the movie for the first time in Poland, Janusz Kaminski's native country :)

The special effects - is there any reason to talk about them? I'm sure you're perfectly aware of what the guys at ILM are capable of - they are simply the best. You won't see something absolutely new and groundbreaking here, though everything is masterfully animated.

And the soundtrack, oh the soundtrack... And I don't mean John Williams (who is, of course, brilliant as usual), but the classic Rock'n'Roll tracks, featured in the film... OK, I told you no spoilers, but I just can't help it! The movie opens with Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog"!

And of course, the actors... I don't want to get boring with another paragraph full of superlatives. The cast is amazing. All of the actors are just perfect. Unfortunately Denholm Elliott is not among the living anymore, he died more than 15 years ago, but they didn't forget him and the movie pays tribute to his character, Dr. Marcus Brody. And if you have been disappointed by Sean Connery's rejection to return at least for a cameo appearance - they didn't forget him as well. You'll get a lot of fan service from George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, I assure you! And for sure you won't miss the father and son relationship, the new generation is here in the face of Shia LaBeouf, who steps into the boots of Mutt Williams. Karen Allen IS Marion Ravenwood, and Cate Blanchett is indeed a chilling villain.

But I guess you want to know about Harrison Ford's performance. "Isn't he too old?", "Shouldn't he use a walking stick instead of a whip?"... Are you kidding me?! Geez, Mr.Ford is alive and kicking, and he kicks hard! Harder than ever actually.

Yes, Indy is older and we know it. But what's more important - he knows it as well and he's not afraid to admit it. You've already seen the "Damn, I Thought That Was Closer!" moment in the trailer, and believe me this is only a vague glimpse of the humor you're in for! Honestly, this movie is packed to the top with in-jokes and one-liners. Harrison Ford even has his trademark Han Solo style "I have a bad feeling about this" (repeated in every episode of Star Wars).

And by the way there are references to the old movies (which I'm not going to give out) and to the TV-series as well - at one of the scenes Indy tells Mutt about his encounter with Panco Villa years ago :)

This movie has everything that you loved in the previous episodes - it's action-packed, emotionally-charged, mystery-filled, thrilling and entertaining to the max! It's a wild ride I wouldn't miss for the world. And the best in it are the characters' relationships - they are so much fun and at the same time sincere and human, it makes you both laugh at and identify with the characters. They still have that spark that we all love in the old three parts.

What can I say? The Adventure is back AGAIN, it has a Name and you know it!

Welcome back, Dr. Jones! We all missed you!

Quotes #2

"I dream for a living"

Steven Spielberg