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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This really needs some Hubert Rogers style starships added to it

Hubert Rogers' cover to the August 1941 issue of Astounding Science-Fiction. Three huge blue Art-Deco spaceships, dwarfing the people and cars in the front of the painting, rest diagonally in their massive launch silos, awaiting blastoff

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Avengers: Doomsday is the darkest film ever made

A turncoat French Resistance fighter is about to be strangled by his former comrades in Jean-Pierre Melviile's Army of Shadows (1969). Melville himself had been in the Resistance and Free French, and many of his comrades did not survive the war - including his own brother

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another third used that one wicker chair

Cover of Funkadelic's Uncle Jam Wants You (1979), with George Clinton as a revolutionary sitting in that one wicker chair that was to 70s album covers what J&B was to trashy Italian films

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is me with the sexy space ladies in kaiju movies. Namikawa, Zagreth and Randeth, and Princess Dragonmom are hot *and* have cool pet monsters

Kumi Mizuno as Miss Namikawa in Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)

Kaori Aizawa as Zagreth, a complete mess of an invading sexy space lady, in Godzilla Island (1997)

Kaoru Ukawa as the much more competent sexy space lady Randeth, also from Godzilla Island

Terry Lau Wai-Yue as Princess Dragonmom/Demon Princess Elizibub in Inframan (1975)

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy birthday to North Carolina's greatest

John Coltrane Quartet, Africa/Brass (1961)

Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard (1962)

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

S̶u̶s̶a̶n̶ ̶L̶a̶k̶e̶ Jamelle Bouie: Perhaps too pure. Excessive goodness can often blind us to the human failings of those less perfect

Jamelle Bouie confronting the eldritch horror that is the Aella Sankey chart, responding only "what the hell am i looking at". The poor soul

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

BREAKING: Black Roses will no longer be opening for Ed Sheeran

Demonic heavy metal band Black Roses from the 1988 movie of the same title. They've got silly monster faces, and I mean it *could* be Sessue Hayakawa under there

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Which Mekon are you? A helpful guide

Mekons, the long-lived Leeds folk-punk band. I certainly wasn't one of the aging punks in the crowd for their show last year, no, for I am young and spry

The Mekon, would-be ruler of Venus and the universe, lord of the Treens, and archenemy of Dan Dare. Created by Frank Hampson, he's a funny lil' green guy with a big head

Beware! This isn't a Mekon, but a Mekom, with a connsumate M - connsumate! By Sidney Sime, this was from the part of his "From an Ultimate Dim Thule" series that appeared in The Idler's June 1897 issue. He's occasionally been called the Mekon in other sources, so be wary.
"No one has gazed upon the MEKOM in his real shape, for he never appears in it...Take warning when you wander in dreams to avoid the MEKOM"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Middle aged ex boy band member Discount superhero Hot Vietnamese lady Bald gaunt guy Bald gaunt guy, but senator Zork

Character roster of upcoming FromSoft game Duskbloods, who are exactly as I've described them

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Not to be outdone, the People's Liberation Army Navy is going truly old school with their carrier catapults

Song era Chinese triple prod bow aka eight oxen crossbow, a siege engine that has three bows, two forward facing, one rearward, linked together to produce a weapon with both high draw weight and a long draw length

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Because the world always needs more Deadly Spawn posting: I learned about the movie from Dragon Magazine #49 (May 1981) in its cover story on Tim Hildebrandt, who co-produced both the film and one of its actors. It would be many years before I actually saw it

Production photos from the Deadly Spawn (1983), from Dragon #49 (April 1981) where it gets a passing mention in the article on Tim Hildebrandt. Pics are of a big ugly monster getting prepped and a bloody dummy readied for shooting
Original caption: "The making of a movie: Before the filming of scenes for “The Deadly Spawn,” fake blood is squirted on the adult-size monster (left), while producer Ted Bohus (photo above) readies a dummy used as the victim of an attack by baby versions of the unearthly beasts"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Smaug from the 1977 Rankin-Bass adaptation of The Hobbit had fur and cat ears

Smaug in the 1977 Rankin-Bass Hobbit TV movie, a burly reddish-gold dragon with a thick mane of fur and cute little cat ears

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The epic journey to get his hands on the extremely rare ARP 2500

Production photo from Close Encounters (1977), with a guy (ARP representative?) at the controls of the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer used in the film's climax

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Electric Dragon 80,000V (Gakuryu Ishii, Japan, 2001)

Disc cover for Gakuryu/Sogo Ishii's 2001 movie Electric Dragon 80,000V: half-metal Thunderbolt Buddha vs rock n'roll superhero Dragon Eye Morrison, with a mighty electric guitar between them

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Going to plug Chor Yuen, who put Bava-esque cinematography to work on wuxia and kungfu movies, often with horror elements

Black Lizard (Hong Kong, 1981) - three swordsmen in a standoff in front of ghostly sheets of calligraphy

Web of Death (Hong Kong, 1976) - spider themed clan stronghold lit in supersaturated red

The Magic Blade (Hong Kong, 1976) - Ti Lung a specter of vengeance backlit in an almost totally dark scene

The Enchantress (Hong Kong, 1983) - poster featuring movie scene a group of warriors posed in a lush, deliberately artificial set with rich blue-green lighting

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

And then there's this compilation album, which I think more than a few Gen X electronic music fans will remember, with Roach's "Caravan" one of the highlights. This was also my first knowing encounter with Don Preston The included catalog had Wayne Shorter, the Seeds, and...The Moms and Dads

Music from the 21st Century, a compilation of Tangerine Dreamish music (and featuring TD themselves) released in 1982 on GNP Crescendo, a label with a really eclectic catalog. Cover is a Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social painting of a spaceman with glowing eyes in a decaying spacesuit, fingers on a book in a ramshackle control center. Discogs link: https://www.discogs.com/master/333892-Various-Music-From-The-21st-Century

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

So apropos yesterday's Steve Roach posting: the Dec 85 issue of Audio had an article on him and scenemates - possibly my intro to them - and also Stewart Copeland's The Rhythmatist, Propaganda's A Secret Wish, and a Mitch Miller interview Bonus: Michael Stearns with a Serge and goofy shirt

Electronic musician Michael Stearns looking very much the Arizona to California type with a Serge synth and big ol' flowing shirt, from an Audio magazine Dec 1985 article on him, Steve Roach, and Richard Burmer

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

RETVRN to the Ace Double (The Grinning Gismo is by the same guy who's also responsible for The Absent Minded Professor)

What I believe is the first Ace Double edition: Samuel W. Taylor's The Grinning Gismo and Keith Vining's Too Hot for Hell (1952). Both covers feature tough he-men and sexy dames (the one in the former brandishing a gun at the he-man, the one in the latter naked and carried over the gun brandishing he-man's shoulder) The cover text helpfully tells us to "Turn over book for 2nd novel"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

No one has ever been more vindicated than Clark Oppenheimer

Clark Oppenheimer, normally mild-mannered secret identity of the Caped Wonder, confesses his deep loathing for the obnoxious Woody Woodpecker. Panel from The Tick #2 1988 (Ben Edlund writing/pencils, Maxfield Banks inks, Robert Polio lettering)

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Or for those of us whose tastes veer towards the schlocky (and a repeat viewing of my youth):

The cyclopean yet Muppet-like alien from The Atomic Submarine (Bennet, 1959), a kind of furry tube with one big ol' eyeball. This was in the Saturday afternoon rotation at WKBD 50 Detroit when I was a young Yooper

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The throwing stuff at the camera style of 3D? Why, that's perfect for...

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A disorienting and nightmarish carnival in Pennsylvania with astonishingly good set design, perhaps?

Theatrical poster for Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (Christopher Speeth, 1973), with a roller coaster climbing up to a skull. A very bizarre movie, thought lost for many years

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

So...if they had stuck with the original name for what would become Fangoria, would it have made the transition to horror as smoothly, or would it have been too closely associated with fantasy? (I had this a long time ago, with the poster on my wall. It has become dust, the fate of all things)

Cover from the not yet published magazine Fantastica #1, with Godzilla on the cover. This would be delayed for a while and eventually released under the new title Fangoria. Image from a Starlog Press catalog for booksellers, listing their upcoming products for 1979

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Film you’ve watched more than 6 times with a gif “Hard mode:“ No Star Trek, Star Wars, LotR, Disney or Ghibli

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

How dare you say this about Lim Eleking. Konomi is very disappointed in you, and so am I

Friendly little kaiju Lim Eleking and his buddy Konomi Amagai, from Ultraman Mebius. They are the most adorable pair ever

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

US Navy, if you need any help on a possible future mine sweeping mission, may I suggest these four, who are not only experienced mine clearers, but have also admirably handled even larger threats

From Godzilla Minus One (2023): four guilt wracked WW2 survivors on a dinky little boat that they're going to be shooting mines from, as well as taking on Godzilla

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My beautiful yellow sack with a cinnabar aura is nothing if not scientific

Dijiang, a six legged, four winged blobby thing from the Classic of Mountains and Seas. It is very cute and very very scientific

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

One of the best covers ever, along with Power Man and Iron Fist #83:

Power Man and Iron Fist #83, April 1982, artists Denys Cowan and Josef Rubinstein
Luke Cage is holding an injured Danny Rand, with the blurb "In two seconds, Luke will put Danny down. Then *somebody's* gonna get hurt"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Sheboygan is actually famous for its resident Lake Michigan kaiju

Cover art for the 1979 boardgame The Creature that Ate Sheboygan, written by Greg Costikyan and published by SPI. A Godzilla-esque monster smashes the city's downtown while munching on a bus

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Preparing for your Dr Serizawa cosplay I see

Akihiko Hirata as Dr Serizawa from Godzilla (1954): a scientist with a patch over his right eye, much as Mikester has in his photo

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Larry Hama once again showing his genius

Cobra Commander kicking a puppy from a character pinup in GI Joe issue 150 (1994), art by Sal Buscema (I don't know who the inker etc. may have been). He looks rather like he's dancing to a ska band as he does so.
Writer Larry Hama previously had Cobra Commander kicking a puppy in GI Joe issue 100 (1990)

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

So for Godzilla Day, one of the greatest moments in kaiju history, from Godzilla Island episode 203: Evil Sexy Space Lady Randeth (❤️🥰) flexes on G-Guard - whose food supply she's contaminated - with a tasty meal and wine, which she enthusiastically displays over the viewscreen (Randeth: Kaoru Ukawa)

Evil Sexy Space Lady Randeth (Kaoru Ukawa) taunts the famished G-Guard commander with wine and a meal. Will G-Guard transform her Smile of Evil into a Pout of Evil?
From Godzilla Island episode 203, "Spiritual Powers"

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Got to get this guy for the third act, though the rare Cossack variant may cost you a bit

As Telly Savalas was in Horror Express (1972) along with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, behold: the 1970s Kojack action figure. Capable of realistic action and posing in any position, he also comes with lollipops, cigar, and hat. The removable costume does not include a Cossack outfit.
Image edited from The Collector Gene 17 April 2012 http://collectorgene.com/2012/04/kojack/

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

May I offer everyone a happy Polish Godzilla in these trying times

Godzilla, from the Polish poster of the 1954 movie. The bright blue and deep green Goji has a very happy expression and appears to be sheltering a Japanese town rather than leveling it. Dog Rates would give this good boi a 14/10.
Up to the 80s Polish movie posters were often very artsy and nonliteral, this is one of my favorites because Happy Godzilla

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Gort and his buddies at least offered a peaceful galaxy where, free from aggression, the various civilizations could work together for the benefit of all. Not, say, a MechaHitler, who would face immediate obliteration under them

The robot Gort from the classic The Day the Earth Stood Still (Robert Wise, 1951). Gort's a big shiny 1950s style robot, firing a death ray both incredibly powerful and incredibly precise from its very ominous, glowing eyeslit.

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Jack Kirby beat up Nazis on the streets of NYC, and dealt with them with more finality in France. While we can't all be legendary artists like Jack, many of us can still aspire to be a Nazi-puncher like him

Artist and writer Jack "King" Kirby - revolutionizer of comic art, creator of many of the greatest comic characters, and puncher of Nazis - looking extremely cool in suit and with cigar on a New York street

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I am Damo Godzooky @clearwind.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Perhaps part of the same series as....

Scarfolk Council Public Safety poster, informing us that it is illegal to gather in groups of one as of the 5st of April 1970. Poster is in an unnerving 70s-ish style
From the 31 March 2020 entry at https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/

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