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50 feet of clumsy Martian or killer Mutant - the Universe is doooooooooommed
Posted on July 24, 2008 by Tim Good News Everyone! !iMmOrTaL! dropped a line to say that he's got 10 more pages done on his comic The Wong Side of the Law and many more on the way.  But that's not what we've got tonight.  Nope, we'll have to wait on more Wong for the time being, so instead, here's a bit of Fan Art called "Attack of the 50 foot Leela". Those of you that have seen issue #33 of the Futurama Comics know that it's story was titled "Attack of the 50 foot Amy" and what effect a clumsy 50 foot tall Martian, whose intellectual capability seemed to decrease in inverse proportion to her size, had on New New York. So !iMmOrTaL! decided to do a character swap, just to see what would happen. 
And More Good News Everyone! Leandro wandered through yesterday and got the link to the new How to Submit Stuff page put up. It's over there at the top of the Cool Stuff section which makes a lot of sense 'cause it's right on the top of most of the stuff it talks about. Thanks Leo!  |
At the risk of editorialising ...
Posted on July 23, 2008 by Tim ... I'm going to pontificate for a bit. It's been a month now since Beast With A Billion Backs was released. I'm as thrilled as anyone that we're getting more Futurama and I fully realize that not every episode can be The Sting - Beast certainly proved that. It has some good stuff but over all I was really disappointed with it - I won't belabor the point here - you can read what I and lots of others think in The Beast With Billion Backs discussion thread on the Message Board. There's a poll there also that gives it 2.625 on a zero to 4.0 scale - that's a C+, OK, not great. 
The upside to all of this however is that there is opportunity in adversity and proving once again the old adage that haste makes waste I present the very first post-Beast With A Billion Backs Fan Fiction called Critical Mass which I published on FMMB under my Red_Line nom de plume a mere four days after the BWABB release. One of the issues I had with this movie was that they chose to ignore certain aspects of the end of BBS *coughFryandLeela* and wrote this fic to "fix" it. 
Ok, now what I've got that out of my system, I've got one other thing on today's two point agenda: Did you ever think "Gee I'd like to send something to the Madhouse but I don't know how and I'm afraid that if I do it wrong the all powerful, all knowing, all seeing gods of the site will smite me before the masses"?  Well wonder no more, 'cause we've whipped up a fancy new page of instructions on How to submit stuff to Futurama Madhouse that debunks all of that (I, for instance, am not all seeing - I wear glasses) and gives you all the dope you need to know (and then some) to get your 24 hours of fame right here on the front page. Hopefully Leandro will wander by one of these days and put up a link in the "Send Fanstuff" section. Meanwhile, I expect my mailbox to fill up again.  |
Pass the Pi and the ear plugs
Posted on July 22, 2008 by TimHappy Pi Approximation day! Today is the 22nd of the 7th month and when you write that 22/7 and do the math you've got a pretty good approximation for the numerical constant Pi. Sounds like something they would have come up with in Futurama, doesn't it?
So anyway, I was doing a little background research for todays main news item when I got sidetracked by that little gem. Today we have another Fan Video by that cranker outer of fan vids BackToTheFuturama. This one's a bit regional 'cause it's a Futurama tribute to American comedian George Carlin who passed away recently (Carlin, not BackToTheFuturama). Comedy Central rated Carlin as one of the top ten stand-up comedians ever, and since CC is running Futurama and footed part of the bill for the new movies, you know they know their stuff. The vid is Futurama scenes set to clips of Carlin's monologues.
It's on youtube at the moment until I can get it hosted here on the Madhouse. Before I give the link, I have to warn you that Carlin's humor can be pretty raw so if you have sensitive ears, DON'T listen to it. In fact, DON'T listen to it at all.
OK, so here it is (don't say we didn't warn you): A Futurama Tribute To George Carlin.  |
Lions and Tigers and Brainspawn, oh my!
Posted on July 21, 2008 by Tim Ok, well, maybe there aren't any Lions or Tigers (although I wouldn't rule them out just yet) but there might be some brainspawn floating around somewhere out there. Things are starting to heat up in The Great Universal War as Fry leaves Leela and their child behind and ships out with the DOOp navy to help stop an alien invasion fleets in the wake of a 30th century Pearl Harbor. Check it out in part 7 of Hammer87's Fan Fiction. (promo pic by CosmicF)
And a reminder there is just about exactly two weeks left to get your entries in for the Great Real World Futurama Photo Contest. So grab your camera and watch for things in the real world with Futurama names on them. Send in your pics and in a couple of weeks we'll see what everyone found. And we have some interesting stuff so far. In fact, I saw a sign along the freeway last weekend that would have been perfect, but of course I didn't have my camera with me.  It's also a little tough to snap a photo when you're whizzing by at 70 mph (112 kph) with a trailer in tow. But I'll be back by there again soon and you can bet I'll get a picture of it. |
It was going to be called My Chemical Romance but that was already taken.
Posted on July 20, 2008 by Tim Good News Everyone, we have a new Fan Comic, or at least a good beginning on one. It's by María M. Salazar and it's called Chemical Experience. And you'd think Leela would know better than to drink some strange liquid left sitting on the conference table, but she has a momentary lapse of judgment and boy does she have an experience.  María drew these first six pages in just thirteen days, so you know she was pretty busy. She calls the drawing style "checkers" which she also used for some of her recent Fan Art.
 Maybe once the chemical influence wears off, Leela will be looking for one of these. Or maybe Fry will. This one won't help them much though, it's made of folded paper. KillaBob spotted this on deviantArt and thought we ought to know about it.  The same artist also did some brain slugs that we featured some time ago. And it just occurred to me that we really need a drooling smiley with a brain slug attached. |
Dang, I almost nailed it last night.
Posted on July 18, 2008 by TimIt isn't quite an announcement of more episodes but it does have some Good News, Everyone!  FMMB member yodazone found this Interview with David X. Cohen on Newsarama.com (gotta love that name) where he talks about things coming up in the next two movies - intros, themes, and really vague hints at plots. The really good news is DVD sales have exceeded expectations and the door is still open for more new movies and/or episodes after Wild Green Yonder. And there's a bone in there for the shippers too. So give it a read and then tell us what you think on the Message Board.
Bonus material - poking around in that interview there's a link to an interview with Billy West from just after the release of BWABB that's got some interesting stuff in it too. |
It's Deja Vu all over again
Posted on July 17, 2008 by Tim I'm back again, baby! And man is it weird. Usually when I go away I come back to an overflowing mailbox. Not this time, just a couple of contribs from Fry+Leela4eva. Like first with this Fan Art, and second with a short part II of her Fan Fiction Deja Vu. I don't think the pic and the fic are related, 'cause in the fic their kid is already three years old, a forgotten byproduct of the time slips.
And that's all folks. The keg is dry, so unless someone sends in some stuff, or Leandro gets the 639 635254 26273 9675464, or there is some sudden breaking news announcement like Comedy Central has just ordered another 16 episodes or some such, we may have to go into summer re-runs.  |
Picture yourself in an alternate universe, where Leela has two eyes and is involved with a really normal guy. Where they decide to have a biological child instead of adopting, which leads to all kinds of things. Prepare to enter... The Mute and the Norm.
 Because that's pretty much what the latest Fan Fiction from multi award-winning fanfic author Christina Nordlander Dawson is. Titled The Mute and the Norm, it explores events in "The Cyber House Rules" in a slightly different way, which leads to Adlai Atkins and Leela having a biological child instead of adopting. To find out how different this makes their lives than that of the episode, you'll have to read on. It's a great story, so what are you waiting for? Read now!  |
Doctor Zoidberg answers again!
That's right... everybody's 17th favourite FM:TLZ section has been updated again. Yep, it seems that our good friend Doctor Zoidberg has answered more of your questions in the aptly named Ask Dr. Zoidberg pages here, so if you want to see what the good doctor has to say about your questions then click away and read his many words of wisdom.
That's all from me for now, but fear not... I'll have a new fanfic up in a couple of days or so too. Yeah... there's going to be two updates from me within the same month. Robot Hell must be looking for heaters between catching airborne porkers. |
Captain's Log, update #606...
 Only 60 updates to go before I reach 666 posts. And the question is: will that cause the site to go to hell and become taken over by Beelzebot? I can answer that right now: nope, it already happened, a long time ago, and the armies of hell can't invade the same site twice. Besides, there's plenty of ways this site can go to hell, and most of them involve me messing with some script and destroying stuff in the server, not the Prince of Darkness. Like something I've been trying to get to work this week for our artsy visitors, that I'm really wishing to announce but I can't get to work quite right yet. You want a hint? 3862846625 635254 26273 66 8447 7483. If you know what that means and want a sneak peek, email me!
Content update before I get any more sidetracked. BackToTheFuturama has created a cool videoclip, a trailer that mixes Futurama with The Matrix. The original Matrix, not those things that came afterwards to completely ruin the franchise. Most of the lip-synch is very well done, and while the image quality is rather bad in places, it's still a must see. You can download it in our Videoclips section, or you can also find it on YouTube.
In the Fan Fiction front, we have a new story by Frosty, called The Odd Couple. Some "harmless" role playing gets out of hand for Fry and Leela when they have to pose as a professor and wife for one of Farnsworth's dinner parties. This fic has a couple of illustrations made by Frosty, who's also made two other pics for our Fan Art section. So there you have it, two sections updated for the price of one!
By the way, I was messing around with our Google Analytics stats (they're a fun toy to play with), and I'm surprised at the amount of visitors from Argentina. Why do I give a darn about Argentina? That's where I live, that's why. There's about a hundred people from my own city, a fact that has me puzzled: I may know some of you! So if there are any regular visitors from La Plata, drop me a note. |
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