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Totally drafty update
Posted on May 12, 2008 by TimToday in my part of the world is one of those artificial holidays known as Mother's Day, which is not unlike the Futurama episode by the same name except that it also involves rounding up all of the family members we can find and, like thousands of others, descending on the local eateries to enjoy each other's company while waiting hours for a table big enough to hold us all.  Fortunately it was happy hour and they were well stocked with beer.  This made dinner go down easier, but it seems to be making this update somewhat more difficult. Hopefully it will all make sense tomorrow. If not, I can always edit it (the ability to rewrite history - one of the enduring legacies from our days as the Futurama Communist Front  ).
Anyway, I can now ramble on incoherently for at least two more years thanks to everyone who donated. And I also heard from a number of people who said "I was going to donate but you took the link down too fast". Yeah, sorry about that, I was all for restocking the bar and the webmaster junket to Tahiti, but Leandro is a pretty tight CFO. Plus enough of us were from the US that we were risking devaluing the dollar even more.  So to all who were gonna donate but didn't quite make it - thanks for thinking of us. Stash your cash under your mattress for next time. Or, if you're in college, or will be soon, use it for that and remember us when you're a rich doctor or lawyer or Prime Minister of Norway or something. 
Ok, now on to real stuff. First up, some Fan Fiction, part 2 of Frosty's fic Dear Fry, in which Fry and Leela are getting on very well together. So good in fact that Zapp Brannigan decides to do something about it, which is the second place where the drafty bit comes in.
And then Kyle Williams is back with yet more answers to Cubert's Rants. One of these days Kyle is going to send in a fan fic or some fan art or something and surprise the hell out of us, but until then, check out how he sets Cubert straight in 1ACV03, 1ACV06, 1ACV08, 1ACV10, 1ACV11, and 1ACV12.
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Totally shippy update
 Sofía strikes again with 11 pieces of Fan Art, including several "shippy" ones to keep the Fry  Leela 'shippers happy. Take a look at her Fan Art page to see all of them!
For more 'shippy goodness, we have a new entry in the Videoclips area by Ross, Saving Fry, made from clips of seasons 1 through 3 and set to a song by Nickelback called "Savin' Me". 
Finally, I'd like to thank Marcus Abroad, Tim, Ramón, David Hutchkins, Ralph Snart, Gort, Archonix, Tyrie, Shadowborne and Nick Murdoch for their donations to the "Let's Flog Leo" fund. Tim has been especially hard at work making sure I get flogged daily, however I stopped him from using the donations to buy salt for the open wounds: all of it goes to pay for the site's hosting, which should now be alive well into the next decade, all thanks to you. So next time our insane rambling causes you to think, "why are those guys still online?" you know who to blame. It's all their fault! All of it! Bwahahaha!  |
Now these messages from an alternate universe near you
Posted on May 7, 2008 by Tim As it's now May in most parts of the world, naturally our thoughts turn to Halloween, which is just around the corner, regardless of which way you look. So to get us in the spirit of the season, WhiteCrow Stormbringer sent in some more Fan Photos of his Zoidberg costume that were on a friend's camera. Judging by the award he's eating, someone left their Best Costume 2007 award laying around. Also judging by all the bottles in those pictures, it was a great party  which is why I'm guessing he's only just found the pictures.
 FMMB member yodazone and occasional FM/TLZ contributor KillaBob both caught this one - it was free comic book day this past weekend and one of the free ones was a Hellboy comic. And on the inside cover was this pic by story board artist David Au of the Futurama cast as the Hellboy crew. There's also one of Leela, Fry, Bender, and the rest as the Star Wars characters and you can read how it all came to pass. You can also discuss it on our forum. |
You guys can do what you want, I'm going to go eat a tub of non-fat non-flavored ice cream ...
Posted on May 5, 2008 by Tim ... and read the next fourteen pages of !iMmOrTaL!'s comic The Wong Side of the Law wherein it looks like Amy, Fry, and Zoidberg are going to get into a little miracle cream action. We already know what Fry's super hero costume looks like, and we'll see what Zoidberg does  but Amy? Well, I guess we'll have to wait until the next installment to find that out.  The new stuff starts at page 41.
 And now, return with us to the thrilling days of futureyear, 3003 or so to be exact, when crudely drawn holophonic representations of our two favorite characters walked hand in hand into the metaphorical sunset of television history and when Fan Fiction was rife with speculation about what might happen next. Recapturing the heady glories of those days gone by is first time fan fic author Frosty with the first part of her first fic, Dear Fry. It's set a few months after TDHAIP and Fry and Leela are dating.  The story was inspired in part by the works of Nicholas Sparks, who's birthday, in a remarkable Futuramaish coincidence, is December 31  which has absolutely nothing to with the story, I just though it was an interesting factoid.
Donations - Good News Everyone - we received enough in donations to keep the Madhouse on the air for another year, plus some extra which, combined with the expected ad and Amazon income, should easily buy us a second year.  Which explains the disappearance of the Donate button. As promised, I have begun flogging Leandro to get on here and name names and stuff, but I think he's been off at a weekend long cumbia concert. |
Hey, guess what you're accessories to?
Posted on May 1, 2008 by Tim No, I haven't run off to Buenos Aires with the donations ... and I'm going to stop right there 'cause Leandro doesn't want me making jokes about money. Which is a bite 'cause Graham is always after me to keep up at least a 0.33 insanity quotient and he was quick to note that I was a little under quota on my last performance review.  But I won't be cracking wise about the donations 'cause that's a serious subject. I don't have all the details yet, but Leandro is sounding pleased and amazed at the support that has been shown for the Madhouse. You'll all be hearing from him soon but I'd just like to give a big thank you to everyone who has contributed so far. We'll publicly acknowledge all contributors in the near future as soon as we finish playing connect the dots between the paypal ids and aliases. 
But we're not quite out of the woods yet so there's still time to donate. And remember that you can also help out by ordering your Futurama stuff from Amazon.com through the link that's hiding in the count down up there at the top of the page. The preorder button for the next movie seems to have gone missing at the moment so I'm thinking a sleep deprived Leandro must have misplaced a comma or something. We'll get right on that.
Ok, enough of the begathon, time for some real content. That's what you're here for, right? Ok then, how about some Fan Fiction - So the crew is on the way to the annual Mad Scientist of the Year awards held in Hammelburg, Germany when one of Professor Farnsworth's inventions goes haywire. The crew arrives in Hammelburg all right, but instead of 3008 it's 1943 and as all you history buffs will note, Germany in 1943 was probably not the most fun place to be. The fic is by Hammer087 and it's called Yet Another Rip In The Space Time Continuum.  |
A slow day at the office
Posted on April 28, 2008 by Tim Ha! I wish. There's never a dull moment here in the boiler room of the Madhouse. No, that was meant for the PE crew, like Leela here who has taken a moment to look out the window and contemplate life, the universe, everything, and where her next paycheck is going to come from in this latest Fan Art from Sick Pickles. 
Or maybe she's just contemplating things that happen on A Slow Day at the Office, which just happens to be the title of CosmicF's latest and greatest Fan Fiction (and also my latest and greatest ploy to avoid creative effort by using a fic title as the headline ). Anyway, as you might guess, it's a slow day at the office and Fry and Leela find themselves with nothing to do but sit in from of the TV and drink beer and ... well, go read it ... then you'll know why Leela is in such a contemplative mood. 
Or maybe not because we also have Part 8 of La Belle Leela's fic Stranger In A Strange Land, which certainly gives Leela things to think about also.
 And one important news item from the mailbox - a few days ago we reported, with due skepticism, that The Infosphere was reporting the European release dates for the rest of the Futurama movies. Svip, who is one of the Grand Poobahs over there, wrote to say that the image they posted came with the European release of Bender's Big Score. So Woooo Hooo! We know when the movies will be out!  Must be that's what took them six months to release BBS in region 2. |
Pics, Fics, and red inks
Posted on April 26, 2008 by Tim This would have been a bigger update but my e-mail seems to have taken a  tonight. It must be hosted somewhere east of here 'cause it's way too early on a Friday evening to be that plastered yet.  Either that or it's a real lightweight. Anyway, before it wandered off to find a bush I did manage to extract a couple of tidbits from it. The first is this Fan Art sent in by the new and improved Ooy who also invites you to check out his comic (not Futurama) at gu.porplemontage.com.
 Another refuge from my ailing e-mail is this Fan Fiction called Biogenesis. It's by Sine Wave and was an entry in the 2007 writing competition over at TSFFC. It involves all of your normal everyday standard Futurama things like a mysterious, virus like disease, a case of amnesia, a battle over a lava pit, and Zoidberg dieing (or not). 
 Ok, last thing - an item of business - This website has stayed alive for eight years with minimal, unobtrusive advertising thanks in part to your donations back in 2005. Those donations have paid for most of the hosting over the last three years. Unfortunately, that is running out and we're faced with either cramming advertising in your face or asking for your help again.  And as we all loath and detest advertising we humbly call your attention to the Donate (Paypal) button that has mysteriously appeared up there. If you donate, not only will you be helping the Oldest Living Futurama Fansite get older, we'll also send you a pile of official Futurama Madhouse kudos AND we'll flog Leandro until he goes back to updating like he's supposed to. |
THIS ... IS ... FUTURAMA
Posted on April 23, 2008 by Tim OK, I couldn't resist the 300 parody 'cause this new Fan Art from Ross reminded me of it for some reason. Maybe because he called it Fry, Spartan. Ross says it was based entirely off of the cover of a copy of Halo 3 that he saw on the web for the first time about five minutes before he decided to draw it, and for the fact that it turned out so well that it had his die-hard Halo-fanatic friends "freak out". I just hope they don't find out about this - that's all we need is a bunch of freaked out Halo fanatics shooting up the place and leaving body parts stuck to the chandeliers and stuff. So keep it quiet and check out his other three new ones as well.
 And for a little clone bashing, Kyle Williams is back with a record breaking number of answers to more of Cubert's rants. And by record breaking number I mean one (1). And I actually got it put up the same week he sent it to me, which is another record. You can check it out in 2ACV09. |
Dates and stuff
Posted on April 21, 2008 by TimGood News Everyone! Our Buddies over at The Infosphere are reporting European release dates for the three remaining Futurama movies - June 2008 for Beast With A Billion Backs, November 2008 for Bender's Game, and April 2009 for Into the Wild Green Yonder. While we don't know the source and authenticity of this info, we do know that the North American release date for BwaBB is June 24, 2008 which is consistent. The big questions now is will there be more?
 Even more Good News Everyone! Toywiz.com shows the fourth set of Toynami Futurama action figures, Nudar and Fry as Captain Yesterday, available for preorder with shipping in May. Rumor also has it that Series 5 will be Calculon and Clobberella, Series 6 Lrrr and Superking, and the Build-A-Bot is Robot Santa. Nothing about it on the Toynami site yet, but they can be a little sluggish on updating - at least they have a Futurama link on the main page. Thanks to Whatever James for the tip on this one. 
James also said "As always, thanks for the fantastic site!". I'll say you're welcome, but as Graham pointed out a few days ago, the thanks really goes out to everyone who has contributed their talent and creativity and time to make FM/TLZ such a great place. Thank you all!  |
Leela's heard someting
Posted on April 19, 2008 by Tim What's that you say, it's Fan Art day at the Madhouse? Indeed it is, 'cause that's what next in line in the old mail box. So first up is Procyon with three new ones, now in color! Check out Amy on her party board, Fry and Leela dancing, and this, Leela in her classic opera pose.
 And there's this one by Ross which is a little hard to see in the thumbnail so go look at the big version of it. Ross says "I did this recently while recovering from some minor surgery.  I had gotten the "tears in rain" quote from Blade Runner stuck in my head and began absently doodling on a sheet of paper while watching the Futurama episode The Sting". I think the two thoughts mesh quite nicely.  |
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