Friday 80s Flashback for July 10, 2015

[Batman 1989] -- I'm at the San Diego International Comic-Con this week. This afternoon, I saw the 3rd Annual Musical Anatomy of a Superhero panel, and it got me to thinking about superhero movie scores from the past. So, I thought we could flash back to one of the most iconic pieces of film music from the 80s: the Batman: Original Motion Picture Score by Danny Elfman! Prior to scoring films, Elfman was known for his work with that great band of the 70s and 80s, Oingo Boingo (responsible for such hits as "Dead Man's Party" and "Weird Science"). However, after scoring his first film (for his brother) in 1982, Elfman has gone on to develop scores for many TV and film projects. And he has been nominated for many awards, winning (for example) a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (for Tim Burton's Batman) and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme. Elfman's work on the 1989 Batman score is recognized on a rather wide scale because it was later used as the basis for the theme music in Batman: The Animated Series (1992) as well as the soundtrack for several Lego Batman video games.

No trio of Flashbacks this week. Instead I'm using an embedded YouTube playlist with all 21 tracks:

1. "The Batman Theme"
2. "Roof Fight"
3. "First Confrontation"
4. "Kitchen, Surgery, Face-off"
5. "Flowers"
6. "Clown Attack"
7. "Batman to the Rescue"
8. "Roasted Dude"
9. "Photos/Beautiful Dreamer"
10. "Descent into Mystery"
11. "The Bat Cave"
12. "The Joker's Poem"
13. "Childhood Remembered"
14. "Love Theme"
15. "Charge of the Batmobile"
16. "Attack of the Batwing"
17. "Up the Cathedral"
18. "Waltz to the Death"
19. "The Final Confrontation"
20. "Finale"
21. "Batman Theme (Reprise)"

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Well, that's all till next week. Dedicated 80s-philes can find more flashbacks in the archives. As always, your comments are welcome on today's, or any other, flashback post. And if you like what I'm doing here, please share the link with your friends. If, however, you don't like the flashback, feel free to share it with your enemies.

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I'll see you in seven!

SDCC 2015!

My Wife and Me at the San Diego Convention Center

Greetings my fellow 80s-philes! 

For the next week, I'm in San Diego for that great geek Mecca known as the San Diego International Comic-Con (SDCC for short)! You'll catch some of my photos and musings on Twitter (@brainwise), but there might also be posts at the nerdy blog I now co-author with my wife, Dangrdafne: BookendedByCats.com. If you'd like to keep up on the comic booky (and other entertainment) goodness, go give our fledgling blog a try! 

Friday 80s Flashback for July 25, 2014

The Teen Titans rendered in the style of The Breakfast Club by Cliff Chiang

[See You in the Funny Pages - Redux] -- I'm re-using a previous Flashback, because I am currently in the midst of heroes. Well, comic book, video game, TV and movie heroes. And several hundred people trying to dress like comic book, video game, TV, and movie heroes. If you want to feel like you're at SDCC with me, you can check out Mark Anderson's tutorial on how to draw Batman (but there is, however, no tutorial showing you how to autograph your drawing like one of the artists who actually work on the Batman comics ... sorry). You can also follow some of our adventures by checking out our little friend, Mocha (travelswithmocha.tumblr.com). This Flashback has something of a heroic theme. To find out what songs made the playlist this year, read and hear more after the break.

"Warhead" by Katrina Kuntsmann (at SDCC)

Found a cool indie comic called Warhead at SDCC yesterday. It's written and drawn by Katrina Kunstmann. She signed my copies of issues #1 and #2, and she drew a doodle of her title character for me. His name is Adam, and he has a nuclear bomb for a head. Find her in the Small Press section, or visit her online at http://warheadcomic.tumblr.com/!

Warhead (issues 1 and 2)

Adam enjoys a cuppa

The (Lego) Battle for Multicultural Heroes

Tony (@Crazy4ComicCon) tweeted my submission to his Comic-Con Panel Design Contest. Here it is!

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Tony B Kim‏@Crazy4ComicCon

Everything is awesome! Great sub by @brainwise @ArkhamAsylumDoc @VampyBitme @BlackNerd http://bit.ly/1l32vgD  #SDCC pic.twitter.com/NpSxMdscht

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Friday 80s Flashback for July 19, 2013

"Look at what's happened to me: I'm an accidental superhero!"

[This Looks Like a Job for a Hero! -- Redux] -- I am attending the San Diego Comic-Con this week, and I don't have time to write a new post. So I figured I could re-use the heroic SDCC theme from the 2011 Flashback. I'm fully immersed in movies, comics, web-series, video games, and other media that deal with heroes, anti-heroes, reluctant heroes, and the occasional, honest-to-badness villain. I'll do my best to have a new playlist of 80s music next week. But until then, you can read and hear a flashback of a Flashback after the break.