Remember when the Madballs met the Care Bears?
We live in a time of epic super hero crossovers and comic book cinematic universes that are...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Mar 24, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, comic books, Overdue Books | 2 |
We live in a time of epic super hero crossovers and comic book cinematic universes that are...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Mar 21, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, Overdue Books | 11 |
Somehow, unintentionally, I’ve amassed a rather large collection of vintage coloring books...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Feb 17, 2020 | Branded in the 80s, comic books | 21 |
Nostalgia is a tricky wicket, and when you mix the obsession of collecting into the mix it can...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jul 11, 2013 | Awesome 80s Bedrooms, Branded in the 80s, Buried in DVDs | 18 |
I had a crap ton of fun examining Sara’s room from Adventures in Babysitting a couple weeks ago, so I figured I’d take a second to take a closer look at another pop culture bedroom. This time I decided to scope out...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Apr 27, 2010 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
I found some time this weekend and scanned another Thundarr the Barbarian article. This one comes from an issue of Fantastic from 1980, though for the life of me I can’t remember which month. It was written by Adam...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jan 24, 2008 | Branded in the 80s, Hostess Comic Ads | 1 |
So for the time being this post will finish off my collection of Hostess comic ads. Like I’ve mentioned before, I think there are still about 30 or 40 more ads that I haven’t been able to find yet, so that’ll...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jan 15, 2008 | Branded in the 80s, Hostess Comic Ads | 2 |
I’m back with my second to last round of Hostess comic book ads from the 70s and 80s. I know that there are about 50 or so more ads than what I’ve been able to locate in my collection of ads, so sometime this year I...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Jan 4, 2008 | Branded in the 80s, Hostess Comic Ads | 1 |
Wow, I really have been lax around here for the past two months. I’ll tell ya, the holidays really suck all my drive and energy, even when I’m not doing all that much. Anyway, it’s a new year, blah blah,...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Sep 14, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 1 |
So here we are at episode 13 of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon. I just wanted to remind anyone who cares, that next week I’ll be switching to a different cartoon for a bit to take a rest of dragons and underpants....
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Sep 10, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
It’s funny how life gets in the way of website content updates. I was supposed (I say supposed, but that’s so self-imposed) to have this posted last week (as well as the 13th commentary on the D&D cartoon), but...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Sep 6, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 2 |
This week I’m going to tackle the last three episodes of the 1st season of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon before moving on to a new show for a little bit. Today’s episode is titled The Box (a word that the movie...
Read Moreby Shawn Robare | Aug 30, 2007 | Branded in the 80s, Cartoon Commentary | 1 |
I’ve been thinking a little more about the format of this column again, and I think I might take a break from Dungeons and Dragons after episode 13, which is the end of it’s first season as well as both the half-way...
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