A quick heads-up for fans of Indiana Jones – Indymag is a fan-produced, high-quality magazine, available for free in pdf format.
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This is just too wonderful not to share it here.
In Defense of Indiana Jones, Archaeologist
Traveling with Indiana Jones
This week I’ll be spending 52 hours in Lucca, a Medieval city crowded with cosplayers, comic book fans, roleplayers and assorted geeks.
To spend these 2 days and spare change in Lucca, I’ll have to spend 11 hours on different trains.
And while I might certainly slip my old Kindle reader in my bag, I think I’ll go for the old school solution, and pocket a big, fat paperback. Continue reading
Pop culture blog Beati Lotofagi featured a HUGE selection of Indiana Jones art… and dedicated the gallery to Karavansara!
Enjoy!
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Supporting cast
It sometimes happens that I fall in love with my support characters.
Now, every series should have a handful of characters the hero can call upon when he gets in trouble – as heroes will.
Not properly a sidekick, more like a recurring character.
Think Marcus Brody and Sallah in the Indiana Jones movies.
Such characters provide support, continuity, and quite often an element of comedy that the hero can’t bring himself (being heroic AND funny is hard work indeed, for both hero and author).
More generally, they can voice the feelings and the thoughts the hero, for a number of reasons, can’t.
They can act as conscience, provide wise suggestions, or quite simply hand the hero the tool he needs, when he needs it.
Tom Selleck as Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark with Tom Selleck as Indy and Sean Young as Marion?
Now that’s something I’d like to see – much as I love the first Indiana Jones movie as it is, the alternative is intriguing.
It would have been different.
Worse?
I can’t say.
Sure it’s good to play with what-might-have-beens…
And here’s a very very short snippet of Selleck and Young during their screen test.
and, considering that I can’t let you go with just 37 seconds of media, here’s Selleck telling his version of the famous “he turned down Indiana Jones” story…
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Lost and alone in the African jungle, archaeologist Jonathan Baker has a very bad encounter with a giant spider – he loses his right hand, and barely survives the ordeal.
Saved by the lost Sumai people, he learns the legend of the Spider Goddess, planning the extinction of humanity, and receives the strange blessing of the ancient god Siruuk.
Through a mysterious ritual, his right hand is restored and imbued with mystical powers, and he becomes known as The Claw, the traditional enemy of the Spider Women that serve their evil Goddess.
Then things get really interesting. Continue reading
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