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One Hundred episodes! and DXC speaks!
Posted on September 2, 2010 by Tim Ha! The joke is on Svip - I don't have any “humour”. I've got a humerus, two of 'em actually ... what? Oh, right, those are bones. I meant humor. Yeah, lots of that. But enough about me, 'cause tonight marks the broadcast of the magic 100th episode of Futurama. Woo Hoo.  Who'd a ever thought we'd get here? So number 100 is 6ACV12, The Mutants are Revolting and as usual that has a double meaning, in that there is a revolt by the mutants, and Fry get mutated and is quite revolting. You can read all of the gory details over on The Infosphere. And that we're told is the end of season 6 and we'll have to wait 'till November for the special holiday episode, and sometime next year for the next season ... and then the year after that for the next season ... and the year after that ...  Life is good.
 One other thing about the 100th episode I just gotta mention, about a year and half ago DSS did this Fan Art celebrating the event. Now there's planning ahead.  Let's see, what would the next big milestone be? 500 episodes? Even that other Groening show hasn't quite made it there yet, so who's going to be be brave and do a pic for that? 
 And another tip of the hat to Svip for this pointer - an interview with DXC in which he talks about the season finale, the move to Comedy Central, the forthcoming 'holiday' episode and his thoughts on a Futurama feature film.  Alas, no word on the rumored three year renewal, but he does say they'd need a year to get ramped up so the timing is good. Keep your fingers, toes, and tentacles crossed or whatever your species does for good luck.  |
Analysis: There will be more Futurama - there has to be
Posted on September 1, 2010 by SvipWe interrupt your regular programming of fan art and Tim's humour, with some Futurama related news.
On 26 August, Jackie Martling, former writer for The Howard Stern Show, on the radio show Opie and Anthony Show, was asked a question about the current happenings on Billy West by a caller. In his response, Jackie Martling said the following:
Billy West is the king of the voice-over guys. He does many of the voices on Futurama, that was just renewed for three years and i was with that pr..k when he got the call. We're sitting there eating dinner in Los Angeles and he takes a phone call and goes 'Oh good' 'What was that?' 'We just got renewed for three years' and it was what's-his-name calling him personally, you know the creator.
After some debate on PEEL, I have to conclude that there is no reason for this information not to be true.
There are two possible liars in this scenario (the radio show is authentic, I have heard a copy myself, you can hear it here (the interesting part is at the 3hour 10minute 40second mark)); Jackie Martling and Billy West. However, there is no decent reason for either of these men to be lying about this statement.
Jackie Martling mentions this news in passing, as if he doesn't realise the impact this information carries. Had he purposefully been making it up, he would have emphasised it more. He may be exaggerating or perhaps confusing it for something else (that is plausible), but I don't think in his position would be prune to making such rookie mistakes.
He also states that information was revealed to Billy West during a dinner they had together, where Billy West - I assume to avoid being rude - told him what was happening. Here we find the next possible suspect; Billy West telling Martling incorrect information, purposefully. But when you think about it, that is both out of character for Billy West and no real gain to him.
Billy West really care about the Futurama fans, and he would love to give them some information. But after having jumped the gun about the news of the 4 DVD films, David X. Cohen, Matt Groening and Fox have put a 'gag order' on him, so all information about Futurama needs to be confirmed from above.
However, with that in mind, could it not be that Billy West assumed that he would be able to pass this information secretly through Martling, and explain himself later that it was a mistake and assumed Martling would have kept it to himself.
In short, I cannot - for the life of me - think of any good enough reason for this information to false. The only question is when this will be announced. Officially, that is.
In closing, the cast will appear at Dragon*Con this September, where we have gotten the moderator to see if he can slip the question about this to Billy West. So we should stay tuned for that. |
There's just something about a girl in a uniform spanking another girl in a uniform
Posted on September 1, 2010 by Tim With a headline like that, it can only mean more spanking good Fan Art from Erik Heltner.  This is one of those times when I'm gonna let him tell it: “I don't know about you, but I've always thought Leela looked really cute in 1ACV12 when she wore that military outfit. There's just something about a girl in a uniform :-) So for a long time I've been thinking about making a drawing of her wearing that very uniform. But then I thought 'Amy probably looks cute in that uniform, too. Why not draw both of them on the same drawing?' But that just raised a new question: 'What kind of activity should they perform on that drawing?' The answer was simple: Leela should give Amy a good spanking! And then, since they are both wearing military uniforms, I decided to include some lines from Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. While watching the movie, I stumbled across two sets of lines that I thought were really funny when used in the drawing, and since they were both funny, I couldn't decide which one I should use, so I decided to use both of them by using the same drawing twice. I admit that is kind of cheating, but I really enjoyed making both of them, there's just something about a girl in a uniform spanking another girl in a uniform.” 
 And in a repeat of last night, we've got another promise of more Fan Comics coming soon. Erik previously did two comics called Housewife at Play and way back when (just over two years ago to be exact) he promised a third installment. Well Good News Everyone - the story is written, drawn, cleaned-up, and is now in the color stage, so we should be seeing it soonish. Huzzah!
 So what you s'pose would happen if Fry suddenly got a lot smarter, say due to the Professor giving him a brain implant, just about the same time that Leela was coming to terms with her feelings for him? I'm pretty sure this can't be a good thing, and that's exactly what Frosty started exploring in part 1 of her Fan Fiction On the Shoulders of Giants. So now the concluding part 2 is here and you can find out. I'll give you a hint - Fry's graduating from Mars U and coming back to PE after being away for three years. A lot can change in three years. 
Fan Art by Robert Hawks |
The Wong side of the bed
Posted on August 31, 2010 by Tim Got a whole bunch of new Fan Art hot off the drawing pad from !iMmOrTaL!, who says “I'm Back Baby!” Here are 10 images from the new season, one from each of the first ten episodes, all of which are key scenes from each episode presented. They may look like framegrabs, but says they're only traced from FGs, the rest he did himself.
 More good news everyone - remember !iMmOrTaL!'s comic The Wong Side of the Law? Well, he's back to work on it and we should have more real soon now.  |
Better late than Fry
Posted on August 30, 2010 by Tim Oh, wait, Fry is the definition of late. But then with a roommate like Bender I guess we can understand why.  Anyway, I'll get to the late bit later, first though, there's a steaming hot batch of Fan Fiction, both from Rush. The first one is Forever 'Rama which is a sequel to Hot Problem where Universe Jumping Bender lands in an unusual universe even by Futurama standards. And the other will go down as probably the shorted fan fic on record - at only 6 lines, it's Awkward Meeting, and things get a little awkward for Farnsworth when a certain embarrassing question gets asked. Rush comments “this fan fiction is too short even to my standards” so he added a little bonus material - two short unrelated scenes about In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela and Put Your Head on my Shoulder.
 And now the better late than never section - these things came in during the time that I was gone and for various reasons I didn't pick up on them right away. First up, back about the time season six premiered, our good chum Kevin Fitzpatrick from UGO Entertainment sent a couple of links to some site he thought we might be interested in. The first is the 25 Hottest Women of Futurama. With 25 of them they might as well have called it All of the Women of Futurama. The other one is the 50 Best Episodes of Futurama which seems kind of a stretch 'cause we aren't even to 100 yet, but hey, 'rama has a better than average gem ratio so it's all good. Check 'em out.
So while I was out sunning myself on the beach and other summer type stuff, which apparently included being totally clueless, the 2010 ComicCon was going on, including a Futurama panel where, among many other things, it seems that the Guinness Book of World Records people have awarded the cast and crew of Futurama the world record for current most critically acclaimed animated series.  Way to go! Thanks to Go-agreen-a for the tip. 
 And lastly but not leastly, Flounder found this - lolcats of the future - best lolcat ever. |
"all I can say for sure is that something weird's gonna happen"
Posted on August 28, 2010 by Tim Don't take this wrong, but Fry doesn't seem like the educated type, so why's he wearing a varsity jacket? Thereby hangs a tale of some Fan Art and maybe possibly a future Fan Comic why not. The perpetrator of this is Frosty who is working on a comic where in “something weird's gonna happen” and she and three of her friends end up in the year 3000. No word on when the comic might show up yet though.
 Two of Frosty's images are promo pics for a Fan Fiction that she currently has spooling out on the Message Board. It's called Second Chances. You can go read it there, or I'm sure it will be in the fan fic section in it's entirety onces it's completed. Basic plot synopsis - just as Fry and Leela's relationship was really getting going, Fry left town and became a best selling author. Now, two years later, he's back, trying to pick up the peices. Only he's got some baggage - in the form of a publisher that's got the hots for him. 
 And speaking of Fan Fiction here's a couple of short ones that are in the fan fic section. They're both by Rush. One is called Meaty Love which is a follow up to Proposition Infinity (caution - if you haven't seen it yet this may contain saturated fats, peanuts, and/or spoilers  ). The other one is Hot Problem - it's something we haven't seen in a while, an “after the opera” fic.  The crew is on their way back to Earth from a delivery when they encounter a warm reception - much warmer than anyone really wants. |
Nailed it! (again)
Posted on August 27, 2010 by Tim Every once in a while some prognosticator actually gets it right. And sometimes, they do so without even trying or knowing. Likewise, every once in a while, a fan gets it before canon does. Here's just such a case - many moons ago, as in before I came here, Rye Guy drew some pics of a large Leela. And then, about three years ago, he asked that they be taken down. Then, last week, in The Prisoner of Benda, canon imitated Fan Art when Amy, in Leela's body, went on an eating binge.  And so we said, “hey, now it's canon” and as FM/TLZ is run by some of the best nerdlingers in the business, we have backups. And so, here they are, back again from their three year exile at the spa, Rye Guy's heavy duty artwork.
 But weight, there's more! One of the other things that was also ”on hiatus“ (there's a favorite phrase of Futurama fans everywhere) was a Fan Fiction, also dealing with Leela Leela and weight gain called The Heavy About Love. The first three parts are up and Rye Guy is promising to crank out the rest of it Real Soon Now. And the pic shown here, available on RG's Fan Art page, is a promo pic for the fic. So grab a deep fried ice cream sandwich (wrapped in frosting and lightly baconed) and a nice pork sundae and go have a nice, light read. |
What's your rush?
Posted on August 25, 2010 by Tim Have I used that one before? I can't remember. Somewhere I have a list of all the headlines I've used, but it's a month or so out of date and I'm too lazy to go look for it right now.  But as you might guess from the subject it's time for some more Fan Art from Rush. A whole crap-load of it to be exact - about 14 new pics if I counted right. He sure can crank 'em out.
 And now for something really bad Rush's Bad Futurama Impressions - a short sound clip of Rush imitating some of the characters. He does a pretty good job on some of 'em, although he can't quite seem to keep that Irish brogue of his out of all of them.
Fan Art by Lee Roberts |
Welcome to the world of tomorrow (in some other universes)
Posted on August 24, 2010 by Tim 'cause we've got an out of this world update tonight, leading off with a couple of cross-genre Fan Arts. These were made by Vytas Wolf. This one is Blood Leela and the other one is Bender the Necron Lord (seems like kind of fitting roles for them next time they find themselves unemployed again ).
 A long time ago in a reality far, far away, Rush wrote an amusing little Fan Fiction called Universe Jumping Bender in which Bender, apparently due to some misbegotten experiment of Farnsworth's, is popping in and out of various universes, usually just at the right (or wrong) time, depending on your point of view. I bring all this up because it related to another alternate reality - Rush's Fan Art; particularly this one which seems to have something to do with U-J-B as it's titled Universe Jumping Bender was here. |
Back in the land of the living (networks)
Posted on August 22, 2010 by Tim All right, I'm back to a real Internet connection and a sane computing environment. No more pointing the pringles can across the lake and hoping it doesn't rain (wifi doesn't go very far through rain). So anyway, there's a huge backlog of stuff to plow through so let's hop on the ol' bike and pedal our way through some of it. And speaking of bikes, kaspired had to do a little repainting on his and he sent in some photos. I'll let him tell it from here: “I needed to repaint a section of my bike so I used a Futurama theme. This isn't done with decals! Everything is hand painted. Everything in the black section of the down tube is my paint job, including the gloss black. One side uses the Futurama title font for the bike brand, the other says the same thing except using the second alien alphabet. The striping was masked and brushed, and I hand cut the lettering masks. The actual size of the Planet Express Ship is about 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches (2cm x 4.5cm). I hand cut four masks (which had to align correctly) for each color.” Now that's fan art of the first order.
 Now here's one that make me glad we have cut and paste. It's a Fan Fiction by first time authoress Hailey Sands. Now if that name sounds a little familiar it's 'cause she's the sister of long time fanfic writer Trenton Sands. Her debut fic is called (and this is where cut and past really comes in handy) Drag Fry to Hell: Bender's Inferno. It's a nifty little missive about Bender wanting to date Fanny again, but he's got to make a deal with the Robot Devil to do so, he drags Fry along, bad stuff happens, and Bender is great.
 Ok, time for the high-brow segment of our update. Everyone get out your copy of “Culture for Dummies” and turn to page 11011010. Koen Bolhuis mangled up this pic which he calls Benda-Lisa. |
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