Bonus: ATL Comic Convention: Day One - The Panels Awaken

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Bonus: ATL Comic Convention: Day One - The Panels Awaken

CatBusRuss⁠'s three star (at best) accommodations are not too far away from the Georgia World Congress Center, so not having a good time at his first ⁠ATL Comic Convention⁠ would be a difficult task. Our host was able to perhaps make new friends, or at the very least frenemies, as he sat in on four panels and served as a panelist for "⁠Knives in My Eyes: 20 Years of Brick⁠".

The panel dedicated to ⁠Rian Johnson⁠'s debut feature were for the true Johnson fans, so just ⁠CatBus⁠ and the "⁠Blood Orange⁠" comic co-creator, ⁠Tim Avers⁠. Tim also took part in a panel dedicated to "⁠Star Wars: The Force Awakens⁠" alongside friend of the show ⁠Bryan Young⁠ and "⁠The Last Jedi⁠'s" novelist ⁠Jason Fry⁠. These three had panels all throughout the day, so I am not questioning their fandom towards the mind behind "Episode VII". Hell, Fry has Rian's phone number.

The "Brick" panel will be released as a "⁠I Dig Crazy Flicks⁠" podcast in a few weeks, so not having an audience allowed the two to have a great conversation about the feature. In the end, people were coming in for the "⁠Tron: Heading Back to the Grid⁠ (CatBusRuss took part in that at Indiana Comic Convention and it is on this podcast feed.)" panel, so Tim and Russ did get a chance to sell this under seen gem to an audience before running to their next obligations.

CatBusRuss obviously attended the "Star Wars" panel that was mentioned. ("The Force Awakens" panel also featured ⁠Maggie Lovitt⁠, the lead news editor for "Collider") and Jason & Bryan's panel about Luke Skywalker's character in "The Last Jedi". The two remaining panels were back to back-to-back in the same room. This double header was opened with a panel about the film adaptation of "⁠V for Venedetta⁠" and hosted by filmmaker ⁠Mario DeAngelis⁠ and featured ⁠LiteraryHypeWoman⁠ Stephanie Carr, and novelists ⁠Kris Bird⁠ and ⁠Hollis Jo McCollum⁠. Mario then hosted a celebration about the art and life of ⁠David Lynch⁠ with Shawn Eastridge from the "⁠Missing Frames⁠" podcast and Tim Avers.

Because some listeners do not want to hear about an event they cannot attend second hand, CatBusRuss hopes to make up for that by reviewing ⁠John Carpenter's "In the Mouth of Madness"⁠. An ironically fitting film to choose because its title may explain any first-time comic con attendee's first experience.

NinetyForChill.com: The #Podcast

Episode 103: Eva and Butt-Head Do a Podcast with Gregory Carl.

Eva and Butt-Head Do a Podcast with Gregory Carl

The foul-mouthed Gregory Carl returns to "NinetyForChill: The #Podcast" to exemplify what MTV's most recognizable characters of the nineties may have become if they were middle aged. CatBusRuss and Gregory discuss "Beavis and Butt-Head Do America".  It is a feature that is a celebration of immature comedy and how fun it truly can be, and perhaps the actual influence it had on adolescents who grew up with it.

I bring up Gregory's potty mouth because after three "fucks" in the first 10 minutes, trying to censor this podcast seemed pointless. The only reason I would like to censor it is because this feature received a rating of PG-13. But, as we discussed the feature, being a cartoon may have allowed it some freedoms that the censors would not have allowed if it was live action.

Of course, Jim Carrey got a way a lot of these gags throughout 1994 and 1995. If it was not for the boom in gross out comedy at the turn of the 21st century starring actors who would have watched B&B, perhaps Hollywood would be a different place. Maybe I would have never argued the merits of the "Hangover" franchise with Billy Corgan.

This change in comedic taste may have provided us with Tom Cruises's most fun performance, Les Grossman. If immaturity was never celebrated like it was in this 1996 feature, would Ben Stiller had the nerve to let Hollywood's biggest star cut loose and make us forget about his scientology mania three years prior?

Aside from the humor, we were fascinated with the increased production quality. Did this take away from the feature's charm? Gregory had started to watch "Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe" and seemed thrown off by the fancy flash animation of today.

Since this is a Gregory Carl episode, we are going to talk about wrestling and growing up in Central Illinois. It makes me wonder if the "Monday Night Wars" and MTV's dirty toons were the only escapes that we had downstate.

Officially, we do not visit "Ally's Accessories Shop on Etsy's Trash Feature Revue", but iTunes did inspire me to check out an "Alien" knock off from 1985, "Biohazard". It was listed at $4.99, but free on Freevee, so I could try before I needed to buy. My experience is not documented on this episode. That is because Podbean is going to expect me to pay at least three times what I have been charged by the service to have all of my episode make my Apple, Spotify, and Google Podcast feeds.

Thus, I reissued my "It's Time for RiffCats", but since I plan a grand "Ally's Trash Features' episode, I swapped out the "Ghostbusters 2016" review with "Biohazard". Give it a listen here.