The Shadow is based on the Greek myth of Debutades, a Corinthian girl who drew the portrait of her beloved on the wall of her bed-chamber by tracing the outline of his shadowcast by the lamp-light on the night before he departed for war. Leighton changed the setting for the drama to the battlements of a medieval castle, below which the young crusader’s ships are waiting.
Gao Weiguang cast opposite Ouyang Nana in upcoming vampire romance
#GaoWeiguang cast opposite #OuyangNana in upcoming vampire romance
The Shadow 如月 has cast Gao Weiguang as Shen Zhiheng, a supernatural being from the late Qing dynasty who doesn’t age, get wounded or die. Ouyang Nana plays his love interest, a blind young maiden and daughter of a rich entrepreneur.
Just wanted to point out that if you enjoy the subject matter here, you’re almost certain to love the work author Will Murray puts out, particularly his crossover novels like TARZAN: CONQUEROR OF MARS, DOC SAVAGE: THE SINISTER SHADOW, and THE SPIDER: THE DOOM LEGION. All top notch works!
It’s the late Gil Kane’s birthday! This comics titan had lots of opportunities to work on many pre-superhero icons and they are always worth showcasing!
“Today the Shadow shall hide you from destiny’s cunning hounds.”
–Uriel Septim VII’s comment if you choose the Shadow as your birthsign. The Shadow is the Birthsign for Second Seed, the equivalent to May on Tamriel’s calendar.
Hey everyone, I figured I’d start doing these ask round-ups at least once a month along with some general notes. I’ve never been comfortable using social media as a diary (or using diaries in general) but, it’s been recommended to me a few times as a theurapeutic exercise and, hey, no better place to do it than here, so here goes:
-My mental health’s been improving quite a bit since the beginning of the year, compared to the last months/two years. I’m starting to get more comfortable going back to working on the stuff I want to, this blog included. However, there are a lot of other projects in the works that I want to get to that have taken, and will take, a lot of my time and energy, so chances are I may not post essays as consistently as I’d like.
-I’ve taken up musical theater! On it’s own, it was as good an excuse as any to get out of the house on the regular, but it’s definitely something that’s been helping me a lot as of late and will definitely do great things for my life, and not just as a creator and artist. I had already taken up singing lessons at the start of this year to improve my voice acting and, yeah, all things considered I may actually start to do singing for real. I’m definitely doing a lot better at it than I ever thought I’d be. -The dancing lessons are definitely the roughest part, my body hasn’t exactly been in great shape for a while and unfortunately it has to be for me to carry my weight. I’m 6′3 and 230 pounds and a lot of the acrobatic exercises we’re taught are really harsh on my knees and feet if I’m not careful. I really need to go back to the gym, especially since I still desperately want to get back to Muay Thai practice. But, all things considered, still undescribably better off than I was last year.
-I’m still experiencing a pretty massive block when it comes to a lot of things I want to do, namely composing. It’s weird to me that now I have a much easier time singing for real than I do messing around with my keyboard and music programs, but I think it’s only a matter of time till I can get back on that.
Anonymous asked: you have a link tot hat one post that talked about that old male garment that resembled the shadow’s cloak from back in the day?
I think you mean this one, where I shared a FB post Michael Kaluta did talking about The Shadow’s costume design
Anonymous asked: Wait, there is a nazi doc savage? Who is this Sun Koh guy?
I’m linking Jess Nevins’ profile on the character here, I don’t like to talk about Sun Koh but the short version is, yes, he was the Nazi knock-off of Doc Savage. There’s been a couple of recent stories written based on the character, too, if you’re curious.
Anonymous asked: Any thoughts on ogon bat or nyclatope?
Posted some thoughts onThe Nyctalopehere, may revisit these in the future by my basic thoughts on the character: VERY neat design, love his power set, love his origin, his adventures are quite interesting and creative, he’s a great character all-around, but there’s also the fact that his creator collaborated with Nazis and wrote the character (even retconned him into being anti-romani which directly contrasts an earlier adventure) as one, and while that in itself can offer a lot of ideas for the character, it’s also kind of a difficult subject to handle, and I’m not sure if I could personally ignore that when handling the character.
I love Ogon Bat, on concept he’s easily one of my favorite pulp heroes, and it helps that his characterization’s pretty damn great too. I wanna make a post talking about Ogon Bat’s history in Brazil specifically (where he was called Fantomas, yes, and his cartoon was pretty damn popular to the point I knew about him growing up) and I have a couple of story ideas for Ogon Bat since, I think he’s public domain? Not sure, but I love the guy, I think he’s one of those characters people would really love.
More so than any other character, if I was gonna do a pulp superhero universe consisting of existing characters (”if” as in, “ofcourse I already have but I’m keeping most of it under wraps for now”), Ogon Bat would be my first and foremost candidate for “the Superman”, in the sense of him being this flying caped figure who’s always gonna save the day and is inspirational and kind and heroic to the point others can trust them and cooperate with him, but of course, Ogon Bat’s also a cackling skull-faced monster of unfathomable power who’s got little compulsions in how he deals with evildoers, and he also happens to be a time-displaced immortal sorcerer and “god of justice” summoned into existence by the tears of a child who formed a psychic link with him, who was also occasionally turned into a propaganda vehicle for Japan in WW2, also had a lot of other weird adaptations over the years.
You factor all of this history and some and suddenly the prospect of this guy potentially being the central “superhero”, in a world otherwise not really teeming with them, or equipped to deal with them, or maybe accostumed to a Western type of superhero completely unprepared for this godlike tornado of cackling justice/vengeance/chaos, suddenly starts to seem a lot more troubling and promising alike. So yeah, I really like Ogon Bat, and I definitely have plans for this character in my own writings.
@krinsbez asked: It’s been awhile since I asked you anything, so I’ll ask something I’ve been thinking about for a bit, but don’t think I ever Asked you about before. Somehow, The Shadow ends up in the MCU. Who does he recruit as agents? (my other thought is Cap and/or Bucky having to explain to all the 21st Century people who The Shadow is)
I don’t really have much to say to this question because I don’t watch the MCU nor do I like it very much, as I said in my ask round-up at the end of 2021, I stopped watching anything related to it after Thor: Ragnarok. I only watched recently No Way Home, and I might watch the new Dr Strange movie if a friend asks me to /if word-of-mouth is good enough (though I don’t really expect much of it, I really don’t like MCU Dr Strange in the first place). So I’m afraid my answer here is going to be rather abrupt.
I mentioned, when asked if Wolverine would be an agent of The Shadow in a hypothetical crossover, that there’s a couple of caveats holding back Logan from working as an agent (in the more traditional sense, because sometimes “agent” is used as just a catchy name for anyone who works for/with The Shadow and that can be pretty cool on it’s own, but there’s a distinction and I do find it important), namely, that Logan cannot commit to being an agent when he’s got his hands full being in teams 24/7, he’s a loose cannon, he’s a danger magnet, he’s way too dangerous especially in a team where no one has superpowers or experience in dealing with his berserk episodes or him being mind-controlled, and The Shadow has no use for assassins among his agents (or even outside of them). I really can’t think of many MCU characters, at least among the big name superheroes, who wouldn’t have similar issues, or that would be particularly interesting as agents in the first place. Maybe Scott Lang as one exception.
That said, I’ve been rewatching Daredevil recently and it’s definitely reaffirmed it’s place in my mind as easily my absolute favorite thing the MCU ever did, by a margin that wasn’t even remotely close to anything else until No Way Home recently, and I definitely think Matt Murdock’s supporting cast, including characters like Claire and Mahoney and Melvin (and maybe the Defenders, although I haven’t watched their shows, although obviously Frank Castle’s off the table), could make great, dynamic additions to the Agents. Matt himself is a more contentious subject because he’s a loner by nature, I don’t see him really working “for” anyone, and because there would obviously be tension between him and The Shadow, but that’s a topic for a separate The Shadow x Daredevil crossover that doesn’t really have much to do with the MCU specifically.
Karen in particular would benefit a lot from having the support and guidance of The Shadow and his agents, to help direct and guide her in ways that Matt never could. Karen spends a lot, actually even most, of the show struggling in the dark to find answers any way she can, tasked with doing investigative legwork, and because she’s a normal person trying desperately to stay afloat in a world she has little to no experience in and not a superpowered fighting radar, she makes a lot of mistakes, resorts to desperate and dirty tactics, and ends up getting people hurt and/or killed despite the best of intentions, and ends up also deeply despised by a lot of fans because she’s reckless and bull-headed and driven to heroics in ways identical to the superpowered dude protagonist. I definitely think she and Margo would have a lot of common ground to bond over.
Anonymous asked: I heard you you wanted to move your content to other places as well. Would that include youtube?
Yes / maybe / definitely / not sure.
(I know there’s another bit to your question. I appreciate you reaching out to ask my opinion on it, but I must decline to answer. Suffice to say, I’m not a fan, and I will not be speaking more than that. Please respect my decision to do so.)
I already have a couple of Youtube accounts, I use the Squalonius Jones channel to post music (as “Doc” Squalonius Jones, who is one of the main characters in that project I keep alluding to), I’ve used a few other accounts to post stuff but nothing I’d care to link since I will be revamping/deleting them. I used to be pretty dead sure for a long time that I was going to make a Youtube channel to post video essays and whatnot, that was kinda the thing I spent much of the past months working on, but now, I’m not sure. I’m at a lot of crossroads right now.
See, one of the chief reasons why I made this blog is because I wanted to write stories about characters I’m passionate about, and I figured that I could start by talking and doing essays on fiction, on some of those characters or works, and get more eyes on me and then the stories and characters of my own. But honestly? I’m sick of waiting. I’ve spend my whole life waiting for stuff to happen and I’m sick of it. My desire to talk about characters and stories has become increasingly smaller compared to my need to TELL my own characters and stories. No reason I can’t do both of course but, I think everyone’s had a long time to get their priorities straight over the past two years.
This isn’t a “No”, by the way, I do think it’s very likely I’ll make a Youtube channel to host my future creations in the long run, Youtube’s where I spend most of my time after all, it’s just that as of right now, I’m not even sure what those creations are gonna be. Maybe I’ll finally make a permanent Youtube account, maybe I’ll finally learn to draw and take a crack at WebToon, maybe I’ll try my chances with TikTok, maybe I’ll become a [BIG SHOT] on whatever trendy social media comes next, maybe musical theater works out far better as a career choice than anticipated, maybe I’m gonna put this social media thing on the backfoot and really focus on my career as a filmmaker / editor (I really don’t want to depend entirely on social media to make money), maybe I’ll try the odds with all of these, who knows,
only The Shadow knows.
Anonymous asked: Love your Street Fighter writings! Will you write one on Chun-Li sometime?
Thank you! And I already did. I really do want to get around to doing the other characters, even if that’s still a long shot for now given the size of the cast (and I’m including the EX characters) and *EVERYTHING else in the way, but I’m always glad to get positive feedback on my Street Fighter posts.
And I’ve just finished the Tarnished Angel arc, the whole comic’s been incredible so far and it definitely deserves it’s reputation, but there’s something that popped up during said arc, revolving around the villain of that arc, that I wanted to talk about. Spoilers ahead.
So, a lot of Astro City revolves around archetypes familiar to superhero comics and what influences said comics, and there’s plenty of direct shout-outs to existing creators in the city’s locations, sometimes related to the subject of the stories. A giant mountain called Mount Kirby, a streetpass named after Shuster, Kiefer Square named after Henry C.Kiefer, etc. During the Tarnished Angel arc, we’re following Steeljacket, our ex-con supervillain turned detective, as he’s trying to uncover who’s been killing supervillains in his hometown, and he ends up meeting an old superhero named Hidalgo, who used to be a Zorro / Batman / Oliver Queen type of character. The story hints at Hidalgo’s nature as Steeljacket lists the places he’s crossing before he’s taken to the mansion, referencing both Bob Kane (Batman’s bastard dad), as well as Walter Gibson (The Shadow),
And sidenote, it’s pretty funny that Steeljacket’s meeting this character at a place called Patterson Heights, considering James Patterson would write The Shadow about 25 years after the release of this story. But moving on,
It’s revealed that Hidalgo used to be a great hero who was distraught and tormented over his repeated failings and unpopularity and his growing awareness of his own problems, so he ended up hatching a plan. He had a mad scientist enemy of his named The Assemblyman create a giant rampaging robot he could easily defeat to win back the crowd;
(Man, that scientist’s haircut and goggles sure look familiar…)
It didn’t work, people died, and his involvement was discovered, which led to his downfall. Eventually Steeljacket encounters a mysterious robotic supervillain by the name of Conquistador, who’s been hiring villains from Steeljacket’s hometown Kiefer Square for one big job across the entire city. He very quickly figures out that it’s Hidalgo setting up a trap, and later, Hidalgo tells him he intends to kill all the villains under his employ in order to make a grand debut under a new identity.
Eventually Steeljacket holds him off long enough for the heroes to arrive and stop him for good and so on. But just to recap here, here’s the story of Hidalgo / El Hombre / Conquistador:
He used to be a heroic masked vigilante who fought crime on the streets, explicitly modeled after the pulp heroes who would most heavily influence urban superheroes like Batman, but who eventually committed great failings and/or underwent terrible tragedies that caused them to “die”, in ways figurative and literal, and eventually be reborn as cybernetic supervillains.
(Images from Al Ewing’s El Sombra trilogy, and Venture Bros)
Is this enough of a pattern for this to be a thing? I don’t know why this keeps coming up, nevermind those times the actual Shadow was turned into a cyborg or was seemingly used as a basis for cyborg characters
(Pictures from Bob Morane and Yu-Gi-Oh)
(Covers from Andy Helfer’s Shadow run and Masks 2)
Why this? Why cyborgs specifically keep cropping up in these contexts? Wouldn’t vampires or ghosts make more sense? What is it with Dark Avenger pulp heroes and killer cyborgs?
End of the Year: Some reflections and Ask Round-Up
Well, it’s the end of the year, and I figured I’d take the opportunity to talk a bit about it. It is, after all, the end of this blog’s first active year.
Although I’ve been using Tumblr since 2013, I only really started actively posting, actually using this platform to write and share art, this year, and once again, I can’t thank you all enough for following me. These past two years have brought so many changes to my life, so many ways I’ve had to change the way I perceive myself and the world and all the long and painful roads we take to get where we need to go, but starting this year, I never regretted my choice to start engaging with people on this platform more openly, to start putting more of myself out there and being more confident in what I do, what I am and what I want to be.
I never thought I’d get to find a place to talk this much about some of my interests, or that I’d get people interested in hearing what I had to say about niche topics, or that I’d get to talk and meet wonderful people through here. It really means the world to me and I’m nowhere near started on all the things I want to do, all the things I want to share here and elsewhere.
I do intend to start moving my creations to other platforms (I guess the word they use nowadays is “content”, but that doesn’t feel right to me), and I’m very aware that there’s only so much growth a platform like Tumblr allows, but I don’t intend to leave soon. I made a home and a name here after all. I intend to have more, many more, but we all gotta start somewhere and now, I finally did. Suffice to say I got a lot that I want to do, and a lot that I need to finish. So I figure before the year ends I’d start by getting around to some of the 120 asks I got sitting around.
I gotta be upfront in that I can’t give all of them the long-form essay treatment. It’s of the utmost importance for me to learn how to start editing, and that includes texts. So I’m gonna get to a whole bunch of them here, and maybe in another post.
@krinsbez asked: I dunno if you’ve looked at it yet, but I wanna thank you for making some suggestions that helped me figger out what to do for Pulptober 2022; granted, I didn’t do all of your suggestions, and one that I was gonna do I suddenly blanked on while I was making it and did something else, but I hope you are pleased by the result.
I just did, actually, and thank you!. I’m gonna link it here for easier access. I actually like this one much better than your Pulp 2021, the naming of some of these is really inspired, and I really like the inclusion of characters like Six-Gun Gorilla, Ogon Bat and Imaro, and of course I really love the inclusion of Harry Vincent as the chief representative of a whole category. I do have my own take on Pulptober that I may or may not post the coming year.
@jcogginsa asked: Shot in the dark, but have you ever heard in the indian comic book character Nagraj?
I did not but goddamn I really like some of the art I’ve found for this character on a cursory Google search. A lot of times when I have to look up non-American/Japanese superheroes (or search for material to use in my Pulp Tarot videos) it’s very hard to find art like this or even much art in the first place, as usually the characters are too obscure or not very interesting to look at or it’s hard to know where to look to find. But I really like how this character looks and he seems to be a really big name with a lot of history and following. I really gotta look more into this guy, thanks for bringing him to my attention
@frankashazam asked: Thoughts on Flash Gordon? I’m deep diving into some comic strip heroes and he strikes me as a weird intersection of John Carter and Buck Roger’s, much in the ways Star Wars does.
The first thing that comes to mind when I think of Flash Gordon is FLASH
*BAM
AAH-AAH
HE’LL SAVE EVERYONE OF US!
And that’s kinda it. I know Flash Gordon is a really big name, definitely one of the most famous pulp heroes along with Conan and Zorro, and he definitely deserves a more in-depth post than what I’m giving here, but to be honest, without going into the influence of Alex Raymond’s art, I don’t think I have much to say about Flash Gordon specifically. The comics are gorgeously drawn but I can’t say the writing pulled me over too much, the movie’s fun (and Thor: Ragnarok owes it a big fat check), a lot of aspects of this franchise have aged really poorly and a killer fashion sense does not redeem a brutally outdated villain, but in going through the media, I ended up liking Flash himself as a character a lot more than I thought I would, he’s consistently a really nice character, the friendliest jock in the universe, a big-hearted fella who wishes these weird aliens would get along instead of trying to kill or enslave him and his friends. That scene in the movie where, in an effort to protect a woman he just met, he starts a big football brawl among aliens the minute he has something spherical to throw at people, really won me over on the guy.
Anonymous asked: Who would win in a fight: Doc Savage or the Shadow?
The Shadow, because I said so.
@krinsbez asked: Do Jungle Girls in general count as Pulp Heroes, or only specific members of the breed?
They pretty unambiguously do, same as jungle heroes. I don’t really know what else to expand on with this question, it seems like a pretty open and shut case to me.
Anonymous asked: Are you planning to see The Suicide Squad ? I’m asking because this is basically a movie about a bunch of American mercenaries doing a black op in a South American country but which still try to avoid the most problematic aspects of the concept, and I would have been curious to know how much do you think it succeed at it.
I did actually watch it, didn’t really feel like doing a post at the time about it. I think the movie’s approach to that political aspect was really half-assed, like it wanted to have it both ways and be really critical of American interventions in South America and the darker aspects of American foreign policy in general (I mean, it gets some props for that, the overwhelming majority of superhero movies don’t go nearly that far) but it also wanted the main characters to still be mostly likeable and hands-free of the ordeal and also for them to get credit at the end for “liberating” the country and, the movie shows the Squad murdering an entire camp as a bad thing but then Harley Quinn slaughters an entire building and it’s very clearly meant to be badass and empowering and, look, the movie wasn’t thinking hard about it and neither will I.
But in short, I liked it. I thought it established it’s characters really well, but I felt that the movie in general was kind of stupid and hapharzadly put together in how it handled said characters, I think the movie was only really genuinely great in some parts, mainly those with the core cast interacting and the Peacemaker-Rick Flag segments, goddamn was Peacemaker incredible in this. I really loved Ratcatcher 2 and Polka-Dot Man and I really wish I could have liked King Shark more but they straight up forgot to give him narrative closure, Bloodsport was cool, Harley Quinn was there, I had a pretty fun time watching it, but a lot of it felt strangely incomplete. Still liked it fine.
I actually got a couple other asks about Atomic Robo, and no I haven’t. I’ve known about it for a long while, it seems to get a lot of comparisons to Hellboy and Mike Mignola’s aesthetics and storytelling, but I haven’t touched it yet.
By the way, if any of you have asked me something along the lines of “Have you watched/read -X-?”, chances are I haven’t replied to you either because I’ve never interacted with the thing, or because I want to get around to it and eventually make a post of it.
Anonymous asked: Just found your blog. Awesome to see someone who remembers the Shadow. If if you’re still doing crossovers, how do you think a meeting between the Shadow and the German Doc Savage, Sun Koh, would go?
Thank you! Oh I assure you plenty of people do remember The Shadow, but more so than that, I want to make it so a lot more people who don’t actually get to know the guy. Now, as for your question: See, I know Sun Koh has a whole bunch of ideas in his stories that could be used to make a story out of this, he’s got a whole saga to him I already talked about briefly in my post about Atlantis. But a crossover usually implies treating both parties of said crossover with something resembling respect or acknowledgment of artistic integrity, and the very idea of giving Sun Koh a modicum of the thought or respect I apply to other characters makes me taste bile. Sun Koh is not the German Doc Savage, he was the Nazi clone of Doc Savage, and nothing the Nazis ever created, no bastardization of concepts they tried to claim as their own, deserves the kind of attention or touch that could be afforded to any other creation. You’re asking me to cross over The Shadow with the Nazi Doc Savage and how it would go, like there’s any other way this story could end in anything other than this
-being the softest end I can imagine for that guy.
Anonymous sent: Mental Image of a crossover between Miss Marple & The Shadow where the latter comes to St. Mary Mead in search of an urban legend of the British police and is absolutely THRILLED that the legends are True (The two of them will, of course, casually solve mysteries in the course of chat over afternoon tea).
Anonymous sent: Mental image of The Shadow having a crossover with Poirot in which the two of them spend the ENTIRE Mystery playing the age old game of ‘I know you know I know … but we’re not admitting it’ until the PoV character can’t even begin to work out what the two of them ACTUALLY KNOW and solves the mystery themselves out of sheer frustration.
Nothing further to comment here, I just really like these.
Anonymous sent: Is there a Gotham City villain more likely to produce an entertaining set of memoirs than The Penguin? (Catwoman could, but probably wouldn’t care to; The Riddler might, but would all but write them in cypher to keep the Best Bits to himself; the other Rogues would either be unable, unwilling, too untrustworthy or too darned depressing - if we want the Good Scandal - not to mention acid wit, gentleman bandit ingenuity, bird puns et al - we’ll have to head to the Iceberg Lounge!).
Anonymous sent: I remain profoundly certain that the Best way of giving the Penguin positive attention would be to write a novel or series of short stories disguised as a very, very old Oswald C. Cobblepot’s memoirs of Gotham City’s most colourful era - and make it THE most entertainingly scurrilous combination of “Can’t believe I got away with this!” schemes and “Can you believe this guy?” anecdotes about EVERYONE (Bonus points if Batman comics help set up these memoirs as True - from a certain perspective).
As well as these and I’m pretty sure they were sent by the same person. I really like getting these asks.
Anonymous asked: Assuming you watched it ,any thoughts on No Way Home?
I did watch it, I went with a friend of mine who’s obsessed with Spider-Man and grew up with the Raimi trilogy, I went based on his recommendation. To put it into perspective, neither of us had any kind of prior affection for MCU Spider-Man, in fact we actively disliked the first two films. So when he left the session singing praises to high heavens about this movie, and not just the Raimi parts, I was very interested. And keep in mind also that I’m not an MCU fan, I haven’t watched anything MCU since Thor: Ragnarok and didn’t really have intent on changing that. I only bring this up to put it into perspective just how much this film won me over, that I went back to watch it again.
I really, really liked it, I felt like I got to see the conclusion of three trilogies and a movie that pretty much fixed some of the biggest issues all three of the Spider-Man trilogies had. It’s got some problems and I do think Into The Spiderverse is still the better film, still the stronger and more concise narrative, still has the better protagonist and I’m still pretty strong in my opinion that Peter B Parker is my favorite movie take on Peter Parker (although I’m definitely convinced that Andrew Garfield is my favorite live-action Spider-Man), but it speaks volumes about how much I liked No Way Home that there was any debate at all over whether I liked it better than Spiderverse, and Spiderverse didn’t have moments of fanservice that turned me into a chimpanzee at the movie theater, and it didn’t have Alfred Molina and Willem Dafoe to attack my heart.
Seriously I think I also went in mainly because I really love those two and their characters and I really wanted them to see them tackle them again, and I honestly didn’t think they’d get anything but glorified cameos when I heard they were coming back. I was very glad to see that they didn’t undo Doc Ock’s arc from Spider-Man 2 and that they gave Molina a chance to play both sides of Otto even if only briefly (I definitely would have traded a lot of the Dr Strange scenes for more with the villains or Charlie Cox as Daredevil) and oh man was I BEYOND HAPPY to see Willem Dafoe pull grand larceny on the entire goddamn movie, finally getting to act his heart out without that mask and be goddamn horrifying in ways he was never allowed to before and, just, goddamn I live for a great villain performance like this, that alone was worth it. I had a really great time.
The 90’s is remembered for a lot of things, the Internet, cartoons that shaped a generation of children, comic books developing even further into what they are now. And one other thing, the 90’s, was the age of the pulp hero movies. Throughout this period, four films were made, of characters that are symbols of the time when men were not just men, they were legends, giants of adventure and action. I urge everyone, to rewatch these films, and feel that spark, that thrill of adventure once more.
