Girl Genius Comic for Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The month is almost over, and I'm still packing and shipping Kickstarter stuff. It has pretty much consumed my life for the last six months. It shouldn't take this long but I've had a couple of setbacks. anyway, I'm on about it here because I need to do my monthly update over at Kickstarter and I really don't know what to tell them except "I'm still going..." So yeah.

In an effort to get some 40 year old closure, I've acquired a DVD set of the 1983 Wizards and Warriors: a TV show I loved dearly but wasn't able to catch all of. I don't remember what we were doing that year, but it was something that got me home just in time to catch the last half-to-five minutes of this incredibly cheesy show that arrived halfway through the season to replace something else that was canceled. I guess D&D was still popular, and this show was a triumph of goofy low-budget fantasy. In one episode, they fight an invisible dragon. 

Anyway, I adored what little I was able to see of this show. I think the villain had a lot to do with that, actually, 13-year-old me knew what she liked. He's easily the best actor of the bunch, and not only are his evil skills delightful and on point, well, let's just say whoever got rid of those silly huge sleeves partway through the puny eight episodes of this show's run really knew what they were about. Good job, costumer! You earned that Emmy! There's a lot of Party City metallic fabric in this thing, but putting Dirk Blackpool in that sleeveless evil suit makes up for everything else.

The other thing that was really cool was that whenever they went to commercial break they'd freeze the frame and it would shift into a drawing, then when they came back, there would be a drawing that would shift into the live action. So cool!

I'm delighted to be able to report that even after all these years, this show still makes me stupidly happy. Pity about the writing of the women though, oof. She's ridiculously pretty, so at least she's nice to look at, but all the princess wants to do is be spoiled and go shopping tee hee. I'm disappointed in the writers for that one, it seems like they could have done something a little less basic. Oh well. Off to watch Dirk Blackpool be wonderfully horrible again.

Oh, I also love the bit where the villains are playing not-chess with glow sticks. Just straight up glow sticks, like they just came from a six-year-old's birthday party where they robbed the piñata. Like the villains they are. Glorious.

Next up I have Tales of the Gold Monkey, and Thundarr the Barbarian. Two other shows I was inordinately fond of.

I wonder why everyone back then wanted to name their princesses Ariel? I mean, it's a nice name and all, but it sure got used a lot.

Ok, I'd better go do an update for the Kickstarter folks.

Thanks everybody!

--Kaja