I'm Back and the Pokémon Apokélypse Fan Film Trailer

Hey I'm back!

To my dozens of friends I thank you for your patience and hope I will deliver more blog fun after this little sabbatical I took. In May I was helping an old friend of mine move his brother out of his apartment (the brother had health problems). So after working 7-8 hour at work I would go and help my friend for 2-3 hours. I was exhausted. When someone brags to you that they kept everything from the several businesses they owned, sometimes they ain't lying.

So I found this little trailer while watching for fan film trailers on YouTube:



Beyond the initial chuckle at the premise of Pokémon Apokélypse, one could make this into an unusual but interesting RPG campaign. Imagine your PCs' surprise when the underground fighting ring that the players are investigating isn't human or robot, but colorful elementally powered pet monsters battling for supremacy.

With some tweaks you could use Monsters and Other Childish Things by Arc Dream Publishing for this type of campaign. If you want to do some searching check out anime RPG classic Big Eyes, Small Mouth and add the Cute & Fuzzy Seizure Monsters sourcebook.

I LOVE the original cover. It is so the truth.

Or just have the fact that there are underground rings of fighting pet monsters just be part of the background. Just because you can.

Crossover Art Part 1

Inspired by the current installment of Jeff Rients Mr. T Tuesday I give you some crossover art.

The artwork below is from my good friend Gene Koch! Check out his artwork at www.feverdreamstudio.com and on DeviantArt

Fiction: Later, In Ultronic City

This is a piece of fiction I intended to submit for a netbook, but real life had intruded. I never submitted it. So here it is, a little superhero fiction for ya'll.

Later, In Ultronic City

Thrasher had never seen anything like this before. Some magic-using quack calling himself Mr. Crowley had got a hold of The Dark Passages of Allerac and had ripped a hole in reality. The mystic mojo stuff was way over Thrasher’s head. Well, let Doc Miracle and Penumbra and the Weird Squad deal with patching up time and space. Thrasher was an old school brawler like his old man, and Mr. Crowley had given him plenty of things to hit.

The Justice Brigade had its hands full. The zombie things had begun to pop up all over Ultronic City. Any touch or grab would drain the life force of victim and leave them in a coma –like state. It was almost as if they were gathering the energy to do something dangerous with it. Even the Justice Brigade Reserves were called to help evacuate the City.



Now, here in Silverton Heights, Thrasher joined Lasher and Brickhouse to try to contain the zombie things until the mystic guys had done their work.

“Got this area covered, kid,” rumbled Brickhouse in his gravelly voice.

Suddenly, the zombie things broke through the technomantic barriers developed by Redfist and the Blacksmyth. They swarmed the massive mutant and tried to take him to the ground. As Brickhouse fought these zombie things, Thrasher could see his friend’s red brick skin begin to fade to gray. Then the fight was over, and the good guy didn’t win.

The zombie things turned as one and started for Thrasher and Lasher. For the first time, Thrasher noticed that all of the zombie things looked the same. They had yellow eyes, wearing nothing but brown rags. Bald head, skinny with skin the color of clay. They murmured or moaned something continuously that you couldn’t quite make out.

Thrasher glanced over at Lasher. Everybody teased the pair about how their names sounded alike. It was coincidence, he always said. They had become junior members of the Justice Brigade at the same, and, Thrasher admitted, there was an attraction. Maybe if they survived this, he would...

“If I’m going down, I’m going down fighting,” Lasher interrupted his thoughts as she extended her Cyberlashes. A familiar hum filled the air as they charged to full power.

“You got that right, sister!” Thrasher yelled as the zombies advanced.

He really hoped that the Weird Squad got this settled soon.

-fin-

Five Links and Grouchy Smurf

The Wandererverse: You want fan fiction crossovers? I'll give you fan fiction crossovers!

Welcome to the Corner: A fellow by the name of Cyprus Corners presents some of the best stuff not on DVD--like Damnation Alley and Moontrap!

Virtual Toy Chest: A great place to see some great old toys. Sorry about the E-bay ads.

ConceptArt.org Forums: (WARNING: Some stuff NSFW!) Concept artwork on a variety of subjects. A hour of tooling around can give you a year of gaming ideas.

cereal:geek magazine: A great 80s cartoon magazine edited by James Eatock, the legendary Busta Toons. Sample artwork and ordering information are all here. Check it out.

To finish, Grouchy Smurf says...

"I Hate Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag!"

Victory is Mine!

In a former post I declared that I was nominated for a fan fiction award at Twisting the Hellmouth, the premiere Buffy/Angel crossover fan fiction site. Said nomination was for my Buffy the Vampire Slayer/CSI Miami crossover entitled “Your Home Security Bites”. Since I talked to you about it, the results came in:

I won!

Let the celebrations commence!

You can see the Winner page for Best CSI Crossover on the Crossing Over Awards website here. Read my story and the other nominated stories. They’re all good reads. Then explore the great fics that were nominated in the other categories. I guarantee you find some inspiration, or just read some good fan fic.

I've Been Nominated!

One of my many vices is a love for fan fiction. I even write some on Twisting the Hellmouth, a Buffy/Angel fan fiction crossover site. You can read them here. (The link for the main site is on my sidebar). For the second time in two years, one of my stories has been nominated for a Crossing Over Award in the Best CSI Crossover category!

The nominated story is "Your Home Security Bites" and it's a Buffy the Vampire Slayer/CSI Miami crossover. It started out as a small 100 word story and ballooned to an almost 5000 word epic! It got real nice reviews too. I'll be letting you folks know how that goes.

You know, it's fun tooting your own horn sometimes!