Marvel(lous) Round Up

Recently subbed to out of context Beavis and Butt-head, on Twatter and found out that the comics I had as a teen were released by Marvel.

To be fair my comics stuff in the 90's was limited to the Beano, the Dandy and latter X-Files magazine.  I really didn't get much into comics and stuff as I was far more interested in gaming as a whole than reading about Spiderman and the X-Men.

True, I know who most of them were but its more in the context of what game they were from rather than what comic they debuted in. FYI Marvel VS Capcom series is the best MCU film never created.

Anyway the comics themselves weren't bad, if a little off from the show itself.  I still have my vote Cornholio window sticker, and I have a sneaking suspicion that some of these were bootsale finds.

Anyway here are some front cover scans from the UK edition.

And that's yer lot.

Also on a nineties vibe here, as well, is a documentary about the notorious Snes game Hong Kong 97 just in case you want to kill 1.2 billion fuckin' ugly reds.

Here comes a very special guy.

What I spectacularly failed to tell you about last weeks post is that I got on the bus home to find a friend of my was the driver. 

We keep in touch via facebook and have written letters before but we hadn't met face to face for a good 18 months and that was briefly.  So its a good thing he contacted me on facebook to say that it was his wife's birthday and that there would be a party at his place and would I like to come.

I gave it a few minutes to mull over I didn't know the place where he was living, and after googling it came back as a few streets away (I had an old address of his in Bexleyheath) so when a man says jack... you jack. 

It was pretty cool too, he has a cool cat that consistently tried to snag chicken from the table and a lot of kids there, mainly his.  His eldest had been to Tossa De Mar the same as me and I wished I could have asked him where he stayed (he went with the scouts) but mainly I remember it for him playing acoustic guitar and singing some odd blues songs with another guy. 

We got talking about the good old days and of people, of Beavis and Butthead, (we were fans and used to do the voices all the time back then).  All in all a good time, as they say online 11/10 would definitely go again.

Watashi mo Konhorio!

Apologies for the bad Japanese intro. If you didn't get it, thats Cornholio's signature line given in this.
Beavis and Butthead Virtual Stupidity Or Beavis & Butthead Virtual Aho Shoukougun as it was known in Japan is probably the most baffling western release I've come across released in the land of the rising sun. Now I love Beavis and Butthead as much as the next guy, but man, is that an obscure license or what. Incredibly from the video above it seems to be fully dubbed in Japanese,
i'd have loved to have sat in on that Voice acting session, maybe it did well on PC for it to find an audience.

In fact its almost as baffling as say a review of Commodore's Amiga 1200 in Japan. Commodore probably fucked up their marketing there as well.

The third license I've also seen is, Peanuts, but everybody loves Charlie Brown and Snoopy so that doesn't count.