Here’s the preview for my new iRiff – “The Lost City Chapter 11: The Death Ray.” This is part of a “crossover” project at Rifftrax.com in which 12 different riffers have taken on chapters of this heinous 1935 serial. The full video will be available on Firday (April 10). This will also appear on the “Fun With Shorts Volume 5″ DVD which is coming very soon.
Two new shorts available on iRiffs today: “You and Your Work” and “Bus Nut.” Avialable together for only $.99! These will also be included on the forthcoming Fun With Shorts Volume 5 DVD. The shorts can be purchased here. YouTube sample after the cut:
Here’s an extended trailer for the latest episode of Incognito Cinema Warriors XP, “Bloody Pit of Horror.” The DVD and VOD will be available soon on iRiffs.com. This was my first episode as a writer. I’ve seen it. It’s funny. For REALS funny.
For the past few years I’ve sold Fun With Shorts DVDs out of my bedroom, burning, printing, and mailing them on demand. It suited me well at first, but as orders have increased and I’ve gotten busier it’s become a bit of a burden. And I think I spend more on ink and labels than I could ever hope to make from sales.
So I am no longer selling DVDs the old way. I am working with CreateSpace – an Amazon.com self-publishing company – to offer online sales that I won’t have to fulfill myself. I hope these will be available sometime in January. They will cost a tiny bit more (about $13), but they will be more attractively printed and packaged, and they will be a heck of a lot easier for me to deal with. They’ll be listed in the Amazon store, which sounds cool, but Amazon takes a HUGE cut of the sales. When the time comes, I’ll suggest that interested buyers use the CreateSpace store, as their revenue sharing is much more reasonable.
Lastly, I’ll be adding a new title to my DVD offerings: Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (which is currently available at Rifftrax.com as a download) plus the short “Toward Emotional Maturity.”
I had the honor and privilege to do some writing for Rifftrax recently. I contributed to last week’s Dark Knight commentary, as well as the freshly-released Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Check them out, won’t us?
RiffTrax has released another pithy commentary – this time for the Joel Schumacher atrocity “Batman & Robin.” This riff is unique, however, as it was written and edited by fans and then recorded by Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett in their inimitable style.
Somehow, amidst the never ending schedule of writing and drawing the strip, I made the time to watch this turkey through a couple of times and write some jokes. About three hundred jokes. It hurt. It hurt real good. But last night it paid off as I listened to the finished product. In addition to the hundreds of very funny jokes by other avid MST3K/Rifftrax fans, I was delighted to hear that about twenty of my own jokes were used – including a long rant at the very end of the movie. All in all, a great thrill and an oddly rewarding experience.
That said, I must warn you that watching “Batman & Robin,” even with the aid of hilarious commentary, can cause irreversible damage to the human brain. Proceed with caution.
Nah, not really. But my main dudes over at RiffTrax (Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett) have “riffed” the inane 1961 short “A Visit to Santa,” which I featured on Fun With Shorts last year. I haven’t seen the whole thing, but in the brief YouTube sample clip they make the exact same joke I did about the children’s shrill, muffled voices. Below is the RiffTrax clip, followed by my full version. Happy Christmas.
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April 8, 2009 
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