Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Thundarr the Movie


As a life-long comics fan and a retailer with a quarter century of experience, I was today years old when I discovered that Buzz Dixon and Chuck Dixon were not the same person.


I found Buzz's blog and he talks about working on the Thundarr the Barbarian cartoon and a proposed feature film where it turns out the Sunsword and not a comet was the source of the great cataclysm mentioned in the opening of the show. Apparently it was being fought over by two rival alien species causing it to be hurled toward the Moon, which it splits, before crashing into our planet and destroying the world as we knew it in 1994. Essentially he replaced the comet with the very weapon our protagonist wields and the film would have been a prequel.

How metal is that?


In his blog post Buzz says this, "There are plot holes and logic gaps in Thundarr big enough to fly a fleet of Airbuses through wingtip-to-wingtip so if you’re going to have a future where indestructible handheld weapons shatter moons and wipe out civilizations as the result of an unintended impact, you might as well go all the way and pile the wild ideas on top of each other.”


Those the kinds of stories I want to tell.

5 comments:

Narmer said...

What...? Wow! Thundarr was a childhood favorite! Metal indeed!

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Jonathan Linneman said...

Haha...I've actually also been confused by that before. It doesn't help that Buzz Dixon wrote for the G.I. Joe cartoon (and movie) and Chuck wrote some post-Marvel Joe comics...!

Wesley Austin said...

Wow, Thundarr the Movie sounds epic! Can't wait to see how they bring the classic adventure and action to the big screen. This is definitely one for the fans!
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