The Old School Otaku Lounge

Perhaps one of the least talked about yet most widely distributed Japanese animation series, Superbook and Flying House were commissioned by Pat Robertson's CBN, animated by Tatsunoko, and became a fixture on TV screens around the world! I wrote a big thing about 'em at Let's Anime and it's up for everyone to enjoy, just in time for Christmas!

http://letsanime.blogspot.ca/2016/12/go ... -junk.html

Thank you for posting that. That rings some other bells in the back of my head. Wasn't there ..hmm

It gave me memories, but the Google fu lead me to this ( https://archive.org/details/funny_or_di ... 343a4cb878) which was not it..
or this...
( http://www.photogyps.com/super-mechanic ... jesus.html )
... no. Hm. Any chance you can help me remember what I am trying to remember from this?

Ah well. Google Fu also showed me that Osamu Tezuka's "In the Beginning" came up after this from a request from the Vatican in 1984... of course, being Tezuka, and then Tezuka's death, lead to "In the Beginning" coming out in 1997.
Huh. Interesting things to think about.

You know, they brought back Superbook as a remake not to long ago. Cept, its in CGI, and it looks so god awful.

Hah, I did a panel one year at Animazement where me, Sean Ryan and Kevin Gray from Alphacounter.com (or formally known as) showed the Adam and Eve episode clip at our "What the Damn! Moments in Anime" panel.

https://youtu.be/Mu52iVljoHE?t=345

runesaint wrote:Thank you for posting that. That rings some other bells in the back of my head. Wasn't there ..hmm

It gave me memories, but the Google fu lead me to this ( https://archive.org/details/funny_or_di ... 343a4cb878) which was not it..
or this...
( http://www.photogyps.com/super-mechanic ... jesus.html )
... no. Hm. Any chance you can help me remember what I am trying to remember from this?

Ah well. Google Fu also showed me that Osamu Tezuka's "In the Beginning" came up after this from a request from the Vatican in 1984... of course, being Tezuka, and then Tezuka's death, lead to "In the Beginning" coming out in 1997.
Huh. Interesting things to think about.

Super Mechanical Fighting Team Jesus is a comic my wife Shaindle Minuk and myself collaborated on a while back.

http://misterkitty.org/comics/graveyard/smftj.html

The video is a short film by a person Shaindle knew here in Toronto decades back who borrowed the name for one of his own projects.

DKop wrote:You know, they brought back Superbook as a remake not to long ago. Cept, its in CGI, and it looks so god awful.

I do indeed reference the CG Superbook reboot in the article.

Speaking of Super Mechanical Fighting Team Jesus, I did use the character in my "Ozone Commandos" comic, and when I finished "Ozone Commandos Go To Hell" I had Shain pencil in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Mary in the final pages, just to wind everything up neatly.

http://misterkitty.org/comics/ozc/ozc88.html

When Corn Pone Flicks made a movie out of Ozone Commandos, of course they had to include the super robot Jesus, so Jeff Tatarek built a costume out of foam core and it appeared in a few scenes.

http://cornponeflicks.org/film.html#ozone

The sheer talent and energy of Cone Pone Flicks continues to startle and impress me. Many of the shorts could easily work on Adult Swim in some form, or dare I say, the old days of MTV's Liquid Television or USA's Night Flight.

I still think the short 'Foreshadowing' is one of the single most mind destroying things I've ever seen because the comedy is informed by the truth of the subject, and that ending, that perfectly timed sound effect, I lose it every time.

And I'm proud to have contributed source material for a couple of projects. I wish I had done more.

my big plan for Corn Pone Flicks was to pitch "Corn Dog Seven" as a series of really short episodes of a post-apocalyptic adventure series where the opening of every episode would be a different disaster destroying the world, the episode would continue from a previous episode that didn't exist, there would be a completely different crisis every episode, somebody named "Jones" would die in every episode, and the cliffhanger at the end of every episode would naturally *not* be picked up in the next episode. And of course it would have deliberately terrible effects, like "Decker" on AS.

I don't believe anybody else in Corn Pone Flicks would have agreed to this ever, but I still think it's a pretty good idea.

Local Christian channels in my lifetime always seemed to air Superbook, but I don't think I've ever caught any episodes of Flying House. If I did, I probably didn't remember it. But I always remember seeing the "fat red robot", so definitely Superbook was the real mainstay of these channels.

Too bad, though. Flying House sounds more like the type of show I'd have followed.