Given they were able to keep Queen Angella looking like she just came from a Jazzercise class, I kinda am sad on reflection they didn’t keep Castaspella looking like she she just walked of the set of an ambitious music video.
I still love the new Castaspella , but my love of camp is just as strong.
The character of Melody—a naive (fine, dumb), pure-hearted blonde—basically was a continuation of an earlier comic character that Dan DeCarlo had drawn, MY FRIEND IRMA (1950). Written by ol’ Stan Lee, the comic was based on a popular radio show that had already spun off into television and the movies, launching the cinematic careers of Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.
Rimshots. Rimshots everywhere. The comic never really took off, partly because its original artist before DeCarlo took over didn’t succeed in making Irma look appealing enough, a bad start that the comic never really recovered from. Also, Irma more or less was a one-note character, a Stan Lee female fantasy (sorry Stan), whereas I’ve always felt there was more to Melody—a kind of cosmic synchronicity. In her case, her dumbness was an antidote against the scheming evils of the world, like the light-hearted giggle of an enlightened guru. The Universe provided for her.
Melody reminds me of 1950s Dutch sect leader, Lou de Palingboer (Lou the Eel Vendor), who claimed to be God, or rather, that God was him. Before he was God, or rather before God was him, Lou could tell when his tea was being poisoned: he could sense it. But ever since he was God, or rather since God was him, things had changed. If someone now tried to poison him, he wouldn’t sense it—he simply wouldn’t feel like having tea that day.
That’s Melody in the comics.
Yes, Tumblr friends, we are truly entering the capital of Weirdland now.
Melody also is the only character who can read speech bubbles.
What I say is true though—the Universe provided for her. In one story, Pepper and Josie lose a notebook with embarrassing secrets to Alex. Desperately they try to get it back but nothing works. Then Melody comes along: she kisses Alex, who then accidentally burns the notebook, and that’s the end of it: her mere presence is all it takes to solve the issue. Other times, she accidentally stumbles upon a secret door so that the whole gang can escape from some evil castle, or she casually utters that one word that helps to solve the story’s big problem. Hidden cosmic forces constantly work through her to right all wrongs around her.
Stories would often end that way, by the way. Melody exists the stage, with that odd, dancing walk of hers, which makes her look like her torso and legs have only recently been introduced to each other, while her friends stand there in amazement, only able to blurt out some last, perplexed insults.
Sometimes Melody even seemed quite calculating, such as in the story “Mighty Tidy”, drawn by Stan Goldberg (who never got her face right I feel). In it, Josie and Valerie warn her about a pushy vacuum cleaner salesman who’s in town. When he arrives at her house, she opens the door and invites him in anyway. As her friends settle into the routine of prematurely judging her and insulting her, Melody asks the salesman to thoroughly demonstrate his product; then, after he has cleaned her entire house, she shows him the door and asks him to leave. The score: a free housecleaning.
Remember that ice skating panel of her falling that I posted a few days ago? Here’s the sting: she isn’t falling because she’s clumsy, she’s falling—mastering the art of it—because it lures boys to her, who then pamper her.
Melody, a boy magnet with casual supernatural gifts, is the Fonzie of JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS (boring Josie is Richie).
I’m torn between “It clearly hates captivity, release the poor thing back into the wild.” and “It’s going to come for me at midnight, kill it with fire.”.
I don’t want to hear “Yog-Sothoth isn’t scary, the’re just bubbles/globes” ever again.
I really love the idea that in some of the more backwater parts of Eternia where Skeletor is a minor folkhero because he showed up one day and took out a local villain for daring to enroach on his reputation as the evilest thing around.
Skeletor is oblivious to this,
And in other places, Skeletor is whispered as a horrible monster who drags off misbehaving children.
These thoughts are why I like origins where Skeletor actually being really freaking old.
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We have a tradition every year of watching the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special and with She-Ra becoming popular I encourage everyone to watch it because it is the funniest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. The voice acting is terrible, especially Swift Wind who sounds like he smokes 20 packs a day. Two Earth children teach Orko about both Jesus AND Santa as if they both invented Christmas simultaneously. Skeletor is nice for an entire episode and nearly has an emotional break down. It’s a classic.
In the children’s defense, they come from a far-future version of Earth so the historical records may be spotty and changes in cultural traditions must be accounted for.
And if he hadn’t already been undead, it would have fucking killed him.
Weirdly, Skeletor is not undead O.O
He just has a Skeleton Head…the rest of him looks normal (FOR ETERNIA) as that’s not a costume he’s wearing there, he is actually bright blue
Eh, depends on the continuity. In some he was originally King Randor’s long lost brother Keldor, in others he was a demon from another universe, and in still others he was originally from Etheria.
The Skeleton War has many conflicting origins on Eternia…
I kinda love the unused idea he was a villain even back in caveman times.(though still having his face back then). That’s wonderful and makes me think of how it was revealed in Tabaluga that the evil snowman villain of the show had been causing trouble since there were still dinosaurs.
Monsters and Stuff 