Category Archives: Monsters

Douse the Bowser

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Nathan

I might as well finish up my write-ups on the Super Mario Bros. stories from Valiant Comics, and by that I mean the ones I could find scanned. I don’t think I’ve ever seen “Elect Mario for Man of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged aliens, annual mushroomland fair, baroness blueblood, bullet bills, chill, dirk drain-head, dr. mario, dr. mario world, dr. waldo bloom, elder shrooboid, fever, goombas, hot and cold running brains, it's always fair weather, jason voorhees, king bowser koopa, koopa troopas, koopalings, lemmy koopa, luigi mario, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario land, mario mario, mice, mouser, muck, mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, mushroom kingdom general hospital, nintendo comics system, pipe land, pipe ooze, piranha plants, princess peach toadstool, rusty water, shroobs, snakey, super leaf, super mario 3d land, super mario bros. 3, super mario land 2, tail tree, tanooki suit, the buddy system, the doctor is in...over his head, the revenge of pipe ooze!, toad, toads, valiant comics, viruses, wario, weird | Leave a comment

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wisp

Posted on March 25, 2020 by Nathan

The term “Will o’ the Wisp” refers to a sort of light that appears over swamps and marshes, caused by photon emissions from gases. Or at least that’s the scientific explanation. There’s a lot of folklore devoted to these weird … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Authors, British, Christianity, Dragon Quest, Etymology, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, J.R.R. Tolkien, Japanese, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Science, Scottish, South American, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, ariel, boitata, bram stoker, dracula, dragon quest iv, fairies, frodo baggins, ghosts, gollum, hobbits, ignis fatuus, irrwisch, jack o' lantern, john milton, karl haupt, lord of the rings, lost souls, paradise lost, puck, rogue wispers, samwise gamgee, snarks, st. elmo's fire, st. erasmus of formia, the hunting of the snark, the tempest, tonberries, umibozu, will o' the wisp, wisp, wisps, yokai | Leave a comment

I Got Rich Selling Mold

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Nathan

Here are some more Nintendo Comics System reviews for anyone who cares. And they’re still here even if you don’t care. Strange how that happens. Bedtime for Drain-Head – The second Dirk Drain-Head story starts with Mario having stayed up … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Comics, Dreams, Humor, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged bedtime for drain-head, big bertha, chuckberries, cloud burst, clouds, dirk drain-head, fins and roses, fish, fluffy, frog suit, jelectros, king bowser koopa, koopalings, lakitu, love flounders, luigi mario, mario mario, mushroom king, nintendo adventure books, nintendo comics system, princess peach toadstool, smookers, snakey, spinies, stanley the talking fish, super mario bros. 3, toad, toads, wendy o. koopa, wooster | 1 Comment

Heroes and Villains

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Nathan

Daughters of Destiny, by L. Frank Baum – This 1906 story of succession and conspiracy was originally written under the pseudonym Schuyler Staunton. It takes place in Baluchistan, a region made up of parts of Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan. Within … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Eric Shanower, Islam, L. Frank Baum, Magic, marissa meyer, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged akira himekawa, baluchistan, daughters of destiny, dragons, fairies, link, manga, master sword, na'vi, ocarina of time, oz-story magazine, renegades, schuyler staunton, skull kid, superheroes, supernova, the legend of zelda: ocarina of time, volvagia | Leave a comment

The King Is a Drip!

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Nathan

It’s March 10, which means that it’s Mario (MAR10) Day, at least in this country. I guess elsewhere it’s Iomar Day. I write a lot about the Mario universe anyway, of course. I’m really not that good at the games, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged airships, apook corporation, apook correspondence school of journalism hotel management and transmission repair, boomerang brothers, cloud nine, commander shroob, fungus forest, green gecko gem, harvey atkin, kamek, king bowser koopa, koopa paratroopas, koopa troopas, luigi mario, magic carpet madness, magic wands, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario kart, mario mario, mario's time machine, mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, mutiny on the fungi, nintendo comics system, pidgits, piranha plants, piranha-round sue, princess peach toadstool, shroobs, star hill, stopwatch, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, the kingdom enquirer, thwomp volcano, time travel, toad, toads, wart, wooster, yoshi's island ds, yoshi's new island | Leave a comment

Prester Change-O

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Nathan

I’d seen mentions of Prester John, but I wasn’t really sure who he was. I’ve since found out he was a mythical Christian king in or near India whom the European Church saw as a potential ally against the Muslims … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Comics, Crusades, History, Islam, Maps, Middle Ages, Monsters, Mythology, Religion | Tagged abraham ortelius, alexander romances, alexander the great, arabian nights, bishop hugh of jabala, bishop jacques de vitri of acre, Byzantine Empire, emperor manuel commenus, fantastic four, genghis khan, jesus, john the apostle, john the baptist, john the presbyter, kara kitai, mongols, nestorian christianity, pope eugenius iii, prester john, seljuk empire, sinbad the sailor, st thomas the apostle, yeliu tashi | 2 Comments

May the Pasta Be with You

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Nathan

Raiders of the Lost Mushroom – The Indiana Jones parody is infamous in that the character Indiana Joe doesn’t have a face. The story writer Perry Martin tells is that he originally intended Joe to be a caricature of Harrison … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Star Wars, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Technology, Television, Video Games | Tagged birdo ray, birdoroos, bob-ombs, boomerang brothers, bullet bills, bunsen, cobrats, colonel dietrich, crocodile dundee, crocodile mario, crocodiles, cyrano de bergerac, cyrano de mario, darth vader, death star, do the koopa, down under land, dr. nerdnick, flying pizza, grand moff tarkin, han solo, harrison ford, indiana joe, indiana jones, indiana jones and the temple of doom, james farr, jungle land, king bowser koopa, koalas, kolorado, koop star, koopa klaus, koopa troopas, koopaphobia, kort falkenberg, lions, lost mushroom, luigi mario, mario mario, mouser, mushroom kingdom, obi-wan kenobi, obi-wan toadi, paper mario, perry martin, pikachu, pizza, pokeys, princess peach toadstool, professor elvin gadd, raiders of the lost ark, raiders of the lost mushroom, robo koopa, robocop, robots, Rowdy Roddy Piper, rowdy roddy piper's rotten pipes, santa claus, santa claus is coming to flatbush, shy guys, star koopa, super smash wars, temple of koopa, toad, toads, triclyde, vanna white, wrestling, yoda | 1 Comment

Category Archives: Monsters

Douse the Bowser

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wisp

Heroes and Villains

Prester Change-O

May the Pasta Be with You

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

Blogroll

Celebrity Blogs

Comics

More Stuff from Me

Meta

Twitterpated

Flickr Photos