It's that time again, kids! BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE "DOOM DIMENSION" VOLUME 2 (of 2) comes out this week, and should be in book stores now.
But since we all know you're too lazy to go to the book store, let me make it easy for you:
It's the BEN 10: ALIEN FORCE "DOOM DIMENSION" VOLUME 2 CONTEST where you, YES YOU, could win a free signed copy!!!
RULES: Anytime from now until this coming Tuesday (August 3), name your favorite extra-terrestrial from pop culture (along with any interesting tidbits about them if you'd like) in THIS comment section. I will pick my FIVE favorite and send them a FREE signed copy of VOLUME 2! Enter as many times as you like.
(Check back Tuesday in the comment section for the winners so you can email me your address, thanks!)
UPDATED: Winners announced in the comment section. Thanks to everyone for playing!
54 comments:
The Green Martians from the John Carter books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were the perfect 10-12 foot tall four armed barbarians for a pulp hero to tear through.
Allen the Alien is one of my favorite aliens. He's from Invincible and the first time you meet him Invincible just goes to fight him and then thinks why am I fighting him, only to learn that Allen is out giving practice to other worlds and has been coming to Earth by mistake for the last few years instead of another planet. He's grown so much as a character over the years too.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: The concept for E.T. was based on an imaginary friend Spielberg created after his parents' divorce in 1960.
I like Starfire from the Teen Titans. Mostly the version from the animated series from a few years ago. She was so cheerful and optimistic. She worked best when teamed with the gloomy and sarcastic Raven.
Who doesn't love the bird-like Chozo, made famous in the "Metroid" series of video games? I bet the series' femme fatale hero, Samus Aran, would have some serious social quirks, having been raised by the likes of birds!
Man: "Maybe...maybe we could go on a date sometime?"
Samus: "Cluck!" *kicks man in face*
He's not very bug-eyed-monstery, but my favourite alien is probably the Doctor from Doctor Who.
E.T.
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Yoda it is. So little, but a friggin' badass he is! I mean, he's the jedi superchief, c'mon! The best one is the puppet one, so fake it could be real!!!
Oh, I also love Kitt Fisto. Because, as someone says, he's into chicks. You know what I mean.
Jerry Lewis as Kreton. Jerry Lewis is already a nut, but then you tell him he has to be an alien. Yeah, hilarity freakin' ensues. Heck, Jerry Lewis may have been an alien even without that movie. That's like double the alien for your money.
I know I might catch hell for this, but... Howard the Duck.
I mean, come on, he combines the best of William Powell in 'The Thin Man' with the quirkiness of a John Waters flick PLUS he got to make out with Lea Thompson. You can't beat that. ;)
The giant alien bugs from Starship Troopers.
All of them, thoose cool araknid who go around impaling everyone, the one full of lava in it's butt, and the alien bug boss that sucks peoples brains out with a giant natural straw...
The Plant Monster from Super Inframan. Cut off a limb and it grows back! Unstoppable! (actually, he's pretty stoppable)
Alf. Because although I really dig cats, there's way too much of them on the internet nowadays!
The Killer Clowns from outer space, the first horror picture I saw, they wrap people in cotton candy to gelatinize them, making them degistible...
Oh also the Alien from Alien, I mean cmon. Bursting out of people and killing them one by one...
Mork from Mork and Mindy!
Chewy. Gotta be Chewy.
Well probably the Alien, the most bad-ass and scariest creature that has ever been designed in pop culture. (Respects to HR Giger)
The martians from Mars Attacks!, the designs are so cool and pulpy.The scripts dialogue for the martians read "ack, ack, ack, ack"
Ziggy Stardust without a doubt, man.
He's the perfect amalgamation of Christ, Superman, and an economy sized bucket of glitter.
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Conquest from the Invincible series. he is a viltrumite who has come to test the progress Invincible has made in concurring earth. when Invincible refuses to go along with world domination, Conquest unleashes a brutal and merciless attack on him and his loved ones.
Oh my god!
My favorite one is Michael Jackson from Men in Black!!!
Jeff Bridges as STARMAN was awesome... especially when you consider that flick was directed by John Carpenter, not exactly the guy you'd expect such a heartfelt movie from.
While not really an alien "It" from the "Spooky Space Kook" episode of Scooby Doo was pretty cool because it was supposed to be an alien and a ghost and it's laugh was awesome.
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*same Jonny that said the Mars Attacks! Martians.
Gordon Shumway!
"Ha, I kill me!"
1. He's a puppet alien; they're cool!
2. 80s nostalgia
3. That's all I got!
Shoggoth - lovecraft alien from 1929ish
"It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter. ”
— H. P. Lovecraft, At The Mountains of Madness
The Germlin from the Bugs Buny Loony Toon " Fallin' Hare."
He was possible the only thing that could beat Bugs at his own game.
All I'm saying is Mac (from Mac & Me) is the only alien I know that makes you wanna tear up he's so cute, but can send the creeps down your spine from that damn whistle.
I friggin loved the aliens from district nine!
You gotta love any alien that goes coo-coo for cat food and gets insulted by being called a Prawn.
word!
Admiral Ackbar!!
IT'S A TRAPPPPP!!!
and his Admiral Ackbar Cereal from Robot Chicken
Gotta go with the good Doctor.
Someone already took Ziggy Stardust, so I have to go with the alien thing from John Carpenter's The Thing, because not only does it manage to mimic people in an incredibly spooky way, it also meant that we got to see Kurt Russell and Keith David blow shit up together, which is always awesome.
Oh, and it causes Wilford Brimley goes crazy.
Hands down Invader Zim!
"Come, GIR. Let us rain some doom down upon the heads of our doomed enemies. "
For me, it has to be those lovable giant robots from Miyazaki's 'Castle In The Sky'. As for a witty tidbit, the film was originally called "Laputa" from the flying city in Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", but its name was changed in the American release since 'Laputa' means 'whore' in Spanish...
I remember growing up in Japan as a child, my preschool gang and I would build sand castles and pretend to be those giant robots. We'd lumber around with a shovel (sometimes a chopstick) in each hand, mimicking the robot's iconic droopy arms.
Additionally, in the Studio Ghibli Museum in Japan not only does it feature 'a Catbus Room' (fuzzy and all, from Totoro!) they have the same robot from Laputa, quietly nested with his own garden. That small addition was a great homage to the film, and I can't wait for a chance to visit one day :)
Here's a link for a photo of him in his garden: http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/en/welcome/004537.html
Scorpius from Farscape. He looked the part of a very stereotypical bad ass villain but was really his people hero... even if they didn't want him to be.
Dr Zoidberg from Futurama.
Because he's perpetually hungry, a poor stinker wretch condamned to a life of chastity, if he doesn't want to die.
And I love him!
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The Purple People Eater from the 1988 movie of the same name. It was a little furry horned cyclopian alien inspired by the novelty song from 1958 by Sheb Wooley.
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My Favorite Martian. So cool, so badass, so suburban! Plus it's one of those rare shows that was in both B+W and Color!
Also the Men In Black aliens!! Hard to pick a fave, but Tony Shalhoub's Jack Jeebs is super-hilarious, especially in the sequel when he gets his head zapped off and it grows back.
Vincent D'Onofrio as Edgar the giant bug is great in the first one too.
Uh, and how can anyone deny the Ballchinians?!!
-Alien: because it's the most awesome concept ever
-Predator: because it's the ultimate badass
-John Carpenter's The Thing: OMG!
-Cthuhlu: the boss!
-the black monolith from 2001 Space Odissey
-the Blob: the closest thing to a shoggoth
-Klaatu (barada nikto)
-the Body Snatchers
-The Ymir from Harryhousen's 20 Million Miles to Earth
... here are the first ones on my mind
The Girl with three boobs from Total Recall!
Zaphod Beeblebrox from The Hitchhikers Guide. Hands down the best ET out there! I like both Sam Rockwell's version and by Mark Wing-Davey.
Centauri from The Last Starfighter. Robert Preston was hilarious as the con-man from outer space. His last film role before his death, R.I.P.
"Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada."
The Blob!
The unstoppable blob grows larger and larger, bloated with the blood of its victims, until it meets its match in Steve McQueen.
The Brain Bug from Starship Troopers is pretty awesome. This video about the design process behind making the alien is super cool...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjS-xlCcoF0
A giant grub crossed with Orson Welles from Touch Of Evil = Poo-Gina face!
Alien Nation! Mandy Patinkin as Det. Sam Francisco? Pure genius. It's the ultimate mismatched buddy-cop movie.
Superman!
Mr. Spock is the coolest green blooded alien around... and he's a killer DJ!
Check out DJ Spock rocking the party...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNVxTDJ6jpo
Galactus & his herald Silver Surfer. Epic aliens!
Gonzo the Great! Muppets from Space is a totally underrated flick. Funky Mothership Connection!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW2RlaC6nAs
Mister Miracle from Kirby's New Gods. How can you not love an escape artist named Scott Free who comes from a planet named Apokolips? Plus, his wife Big Barda is really cool too.
THANKS to everyone who took the time to leave a comment, you guys are awesome, I LOVED them all!!
It was a tough decision, but I'm going with my gut. The winners are:
-Strange Kid
-Ian
-na.utical
-Ras Yeti
-Fort Ignorance
Please email me at zombiehipp@gmail with your address. Thanks again to everyone!
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