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I Got Rich Selling Mold
Here are some more Nintendo Comics System reviews for anyone who cares. And they’re still here even if you don’t care. Strange how that happens. Bedtime for Drain-Head – The second Dirk Drain-Head story starts with Mario having stayed up … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Comics, Dreams, Humor, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged bedtime for drain-head, big bertha, chuckberries, cloud burst, clouds, dirk drain-head, fins and roses, fish, fluffy, frog suit, jelectros, king bowser koopa, koopalings, lakitu, love flounders, luigi mario, mario mario, mushroom king, nintendo adventure books, nintendo comics system, princess peach toadstool, smookers, snakey, spinies, stanley the talking fish, super mario bros. 3, toad, toads, wendy o. koopa, wooster |
The King Is a Drip!
It’s March 10, which means that it’s Mario (MAR10) Day, at least in this country. I guess elsewhere it’s Iomar Day. I write a lot about the Mario universe anyway, of course. I’m really not that good at the games, … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Humor, Magic, Maps, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged airships, apook corporation, apook correspondence school of journalism hotel management and transmission repair, boomerang brothers, cloud nine, commander shroob, fungus forest, green gecko gem, harvey atkin, kamek, king bowser koopa, koopa paratroopas, koopa troopas, luigi mario, magic carpet madness, magic wands, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario kart, mario mario, mario's time machine, mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, mutiny on the fungi, nintendo comics system, pidgits, piranha plants, piranha-round sue, princess peach toadstool, shroobs, star hill, stopwatch, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, the kingdom enquirer, thwomp volcano, time travel, toad, toads, wart, wooster, yoshi's island ds, yoshi's new island |
Kiss a King
I’ve looked at a few of the Mario stories from the Nintendo Comics System, and I thought I might as well throw a few more reviews into the mix. While my previous reviews were just of stories I’d read recently, … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Donkey Kong, Dreams, Humor, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged anime, beezos, betrayal most proper, birdo, boshi, bowser koopa jr., cobrats, donkey kong coloring and activity book, donkey kong jr., donkey kong no ongaku asobi, donkey kong strikes again!, donkey kong's fun with music, fawful, flurries, fryguy, goombas, goomboss, gunions, hammer brothers, hawkmouths, just deserts, king bowser koopa, king k. rool, Kirby, luigi mario, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario mario, mushroom king, ninjis, nintendo comics system, one piece, paper mario, pauline, piranha plants, princess peach toadstool, pyramids, shroobs, shy guys, sparks, stanley the talking fish, star spirits, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, super mario bros. heroes of the stars, super mario land, super mario odyssey, super mario rpg, the adventures of dirk drain-head, the fish that should've gotten away, the legend, toad, toads, triclyde, venus fire traps, waluigi, wario, wart, wooster, yoshi, you again? |
Never Steal a Used Carpet
Koopa Klaus – Christmas was almost a month ago, but here’s the Christmas episode of this show. I already wrote about this one twelve years ago, and I can’t say I can think of much to add. It is weird … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christmas, Comics, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Food, History, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged al capone, albatosses, apes, bad rap, baron manfred von richtofen, birdo, bob-ombs, brian bonsall, captain lou albano, caught in a draft, cloud land, crime land, danny wells, dirk drain-head, donkey kong, duh stoopid bomb!, ed metzger, eliot ness, fat boys, flab boys, flurries, flying carpets, george washington slept here, gorilla my dreams, gorillas, james brown, king bowser koopa, king james, koopa klaus, koopa klub, koopa troopas, lakitu, little mac, little marios, luigi mario, mama mario, mario and the red baron koopa, mario mario, michael jackson, mother brain, mouser, mushroom king, nester, nintendo comics system, nintendo power, ostros, pasta, pasta land, perry martin, pidgits, president george washington, princess peach toadstool, rap land, ratigator, sam shalam, santa claus, sergeant slaughter, shy guys, snifits, spaghetti, spinies, super mario bros. 2, super mario bros. 3, the untouchables, the unzappables, toad, wart, wooster, world war i |
Nintendo in Book Form
I grew up in the heyday of Choose Your Own Adventure books, which allowed the reader to make choices from a list of options at certain junctures in the narrative. A lot of them led to death, because that was … Continue reading →
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia, Donkey Kong, Games, Mario, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged brain drain, cheep cheeps, choose your own adventure, dinosaur dilemma, dinosaur land, donkey kong jr., doors to doom, double trouble, dungeons and dragons, flown the koopa, ganon, hammer brothers, iggy koopa, king bowser koopa, koopa capers, leaping lizards, link, ludwig von koopa, luigi, magikoopas, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, monster mix-up, morton koopa jr., mushroom king, mushroom kingdom, narnia solo games, nintendo adventure books, pipe down!, princess peach toadstool, super mario world, the crystal trap, the shadow prince, toad, triforce, unjust desserts, wart, wendy o. koopa, wooster, yoshi |
Fungal Footmen and Mushroom Minions
Since we just looked at Ozma’s castle staff, how about that of the Mushroom Kingdom? Well, the most famous member of that royal household is Toad. He and the other Toads you rescue in the original Super Mario Bros. are … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged chef spore, doki doki panic, luigi, mushroom king, new super mario bros., nintendo adventure books, nintendo comics system, princess peach toadstool, super mario adventures, super mario bros., super mario bros. 2, super mario galaxy, super mario rpg, super mario sunshine, toad, toadsworth, wooster |
Koopariffic Comics
I don’t own any issues of the old Nintendo Comics System, but I used to read them at the store. In retrospect, maybe I should have bought some, because now they’re hard to find. Some of the stories have been … Continue reading →
Posted in Comics, Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games | Tagged dirk drain-head, king bowser koopa, koopalings, mouser, mushroom king, nintendo comics system, princess peach toadstool, stanley the talking fish, wart, wooster |
The House at Mario Corner
Archetypes being what they are, it’s pretty much possible to link any group of fictional characters with any other, if you stretch a bit. It’s a largely futile exercise, but sometimes fun. Recently, I was thinking (think, think, think) about … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Mario, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged a.a. milne, bees, eeyore, honey, kanga, luigi, oogtar, owl, piglet, princess peach toadstool, rabbit, roo, tigger, toad, wooster, yoshi |