earthworm jim – VoVatia (original) (raw)

Not Pumpkin Pie!

Beth and I are back from California for the second time in a month, and from this year’s OzCon International, the first full one since 2019. I think the Friday programming might have been shorter than in previous years, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Eric Shanower, Food, Futurama, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged atticus gannaway, beetlejuice, changelings, cinar, david hulan, dina schiff massachi, dorothy gale, dumbo, earthworm jim, elephants, eric gjovaag, erica olivera, fairies, faith, filmation, freddy fogarty, glinda, hungry tiger, immortals, imogene the cow, jack pumpkinhead, ken mclellan, lollipop guild, marsupilami, mombi, munchkins, nate barlow, neil cuadra, ozcon international, ozma, patchwork girl, peter hanff, phineas and ferb, professor wogglebug, puns, return to oz, rugrats, ruth cuadra, ryan bunch, sam milazzo, sarah crotzer, sawhorse, school days in the land of oz, spirituality, te craft, ted eshbaugh, the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the life and adventures of santa claus, the oz kids, the tik-tok man of oz, the tin woodman of oz, the tin woods, the wizard of oz (1902), the wizard of oz (1939), the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, wicked witch of the west, zoe o'haillin-berne |

Do You Want to Kill a Snowman?

I had been wanting to write something about snowman characters in video games, with one that immediately came to mind being Rusty the Snowman in Earthworm Jim, who breathes fireballs. Sounds like he’s as self-destructive as the They Might Be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Art, Donkey Kong, Humor, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Prejudice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, They Might Be Giants, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, antisemitism, bad mr. frosty, banjo-kazooie, battletoads, bleak the snowman, book of hours, chilly, clayfighter, cool cool mountain, donkey kong country 3, dr. freezegood, earthworm jim, evil the cat, frosty the hit man, michelangelo buonarroti, mr. blizzard, mr. frosty, penguins, robots, rusty the snowman, sir slush, snowman's land, snowmen, super mario 64, teenage mutant ninja turtles ii: the arcade game, weather, winter, yoshi's island |

Spice and Sprites

Dune, by Frank Herbert – This was a book I’d heard referenced a lot, but really didn’t know what to expect aside from a planet with sandworms. I’d never seen any of the movies or anything. I didn’t love it, … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Futurama, Magic, Monsters, Politics, Religion, Television | Tagged arrakis, beetlejuice, changelings, dune, earthworm jim, fairies, frank herbert, incryptid, litany against fear, october daye, peter puppy, rosemary and rue, sandworms, seanan mcguire, verity price |

Wily Science

Having just recently attended a Kevin Geeks Out show about mad science, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some prominent mad scientists in video games. There are a lot of them, many in games I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Christianity, Chrono Trigger, Comics, Donkey Kong, Evolution, Final Fantasy, Fundamentalism, Mario, Mega Man, Religion, Science, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Technology, Television, Video Games | Tagged apes, archie comics, baron k. roolenstein, chrono cross, crash bandicoot, day of the tentacle, donkey kong country 3, doug tennapel, dr. eggman, dr. fred edison, dr. light, dr. lugae, dr. neo cortex, dr. robotnik, dr. wily, earthworm jim, final fantasy iv, gato, golbez, iggy koopa, king bowser koopa, lara ashtear, lucca ashtear, luccia, ludwig von koopa, maniac mansion, mega man x, monkeys, nurse edna edison, professor dinglehopper von schlemmer, professor elvin gadd, professor gerald robotnik, professor monkey-for-a-head, psy-crow, purple tentacle, queen slug-for-a-butt, red edison, robot masters, robots, rubicante, sonic adventure, taban ashtear, weird ed edison |