Masked wrestler pop culture and vintage Mexican monster media for over 25 YEARS!
May not have looked it, but this site and our sister effort VINTAGE NINJA had some serious technical difficulties over the holidays. Some lingering structural issues made it un-safe for me to post anything new on the site for way … Continued
The good folk over at the Latino Comics Expo have talked me into leaving my shell and hitting the road! Bay-Area fans, come on out to San Jose the weekend of October 11-12 for a fantastic, talent-loaded FREE show headlined … Continued
Founder of Something Weird Video Mike Vraney has passed away, taken too soon by cancer. An invaluable champion of the obscure, forgotten and neglected genre niches in the VHS era, his catalogs were like textbooks for psychotronica, including hordes of … Continued
We’ve just put some copies up for sale of the recently released Famous Monsters lucha-themed issue, in case in this world of dying print you can’t find it at a newsstand, or even find a newsstand for that matter… Just … Continued
Back in yonder 2006, some of the FPU crew set up an altar at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s then rather less gentrified Dia de los Muertos celebration. There had been a spate of death’s in the wrestling world, and we … Continued
So we’ll be set up once again for SON OF MONSTERPALOOZA with an all lucha, rasslin’ and Mexi-monster table of goodies for everyone! New this time is the “Viva la Lucha!” issue of Famous Monsters of Filmland / Monster World … Continued
I’d be recommending the hell out of the Latino Comics Expo anyway, but even more so since I’ll be running a panel with guests Rafael Navarro (Sonambulo), Jay Gonzalez (La Mano del Destino) , Dan Madigan (of Mondo Lucha and soon … Continued
Coming this October, with three articles by your’s truly: From the publisher’s release: “There’s one character that has fought more monsters than any other character: El Santo. That’s right, it’s the big reveal of the cover for October’s FM #270: … Continued