Hello everyone and hello to all, how are you?
Top post today talking about the toys, which I did not do a bit 'of time, to tell you that officially started the festivities for the first fifty years of Ken Carson, better known as "Ken", the historian boyfriend / Barbie accessory that I mentioned several times on this blog (by the way: I would like my resume its analysis in episodes of the various models of Ken?? S andnot you know the drill CLICK HERE). The first to make a fitting tribute to the doll's most talked-about story were the Germans, the sixty-second edition of the Nuremberg Toy Fair ... Where there were also several models dressed (and undressed) as some historical versions of Ken.
nice idea, right? Surely this anniversary will be a good opportunity to return to talk about this doll and its (hypothetical) implications gay. Apparently, also because of the revival in TOY STORY 3, this little pop icon could return to be talked about, although in recent years had been put a little 'by to give the opportunity to attend Barbie dolls male cut more modern, and perhaps a little 'less ambiguous (like that big handsome boy Blaine, who see in the picture below) ... 
Apparently Mattel - which are not exactly stupid, otherwise they would not be on the market for sixty years - they thought it was a good time to revive the good old Ken Carson, who just last December, he debuted a new version decidedly abreast of the times (please note the T-shirt with the words "the perfect guy," in Italian ... To see it you just click the image below). 
A bit 'too skinny for my taste, but it certainly brings more than good its first sixty years ... Anyway, the years pass, but that air vaguely gay who accompanied him from the start is far from abandoning. Better that way. Changing significantly kind of toy, but continuing to talk to people who over time have driven a fair amount of homoerotic fantasies (inspiring even today many homoerotic drawings more or less professional), I wanted to tell you that are starting to circulate the first official images for the new animated series of the Thundercats ... 
This remake of the historic (and long) animated series of the eighties, at that time was born of the same name to accompany its line of toys will be taken care of by the Japanese Studio 4 ° C (Animatrix, Batman: Gotham Knight), so it should be a quality product. The hope is to be accompanied by a high-quality merchandise equally high, or that the animated series in danger of doing the same bleak view of the beautiful series that was supposed to revive HE-MAN in 2002 ... 
In that case, the toy line (very rough) proved a commercial flop and consequently the animated series was a clean break, although it was a real giellino view it from different points. On the other hand the standard of action figures have risen so much in recent years, and did not really make sense to launch a line of toys less than perfect, especially if it is the updated version of some classic cult. In fact, Mattel has launched a few years from a line of action figures MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE for collectors, and accurate and updated monthly, which is having an impressive success ... So much so that in this line began to be introduced also the characters in the '80s, fell in line for twin girls PRINCESS OF POWER ... 
Also, not to upset anyone, more than one character is produced in different versions or with interchangeable parts to make it more or less similar to this in a cartoon version rather than that which characterized the toy in the eighties .. . As you can see in the case of the archer Bow (over the head with "80's toy", and under his head mustache could be seen in cartoons She-Ra) ... 
Talk about treating customers with kid gloves! Perhaps be wrong, but - we are talking about a small cult gay pop culture around the world - something tells me that the percentage that gay fans are collecting this line of action figures of luxury is not just meaningless (if I had more money and more space it would take me just the signature, for example). Just out of curiosity: among you who read this blog there is someone who falls into the category? 
Beyond everything, though, this much talk of remakes of hits can not help but let me note that in Italy we are cut off from this point of view. Last (And only) case of a remake of an animated series of success was to Calimero, in 1992, where he also debuted the swallow Valeriano (the only cartoon character whose name is like me ... In fact, when I happened to look that series was always a little 'uncomfortable ...). 
In reality it was a Japanese production, then we say that Italy gave us the name and little else. However, even without resorting to the world of animation (which in Italy, unfortunately, has a glorious tradition of the troubled), take a look at what's happening in the world of comics, where the word Ramak ... Or just update ... It is almost unknown. Also because a characteristic of the Italian comic character is the one to be always equal to themselves. The disturbing thing is that, instead of focusing on characters and new ideas, we continue to repeat series of reprints ... Also because the public has become accustomed to the stories from ancient cut, and then read stories of twenty or thirty years ago rather than stories produced lately does not make a big difference, after all ... 
For example: yet another series of reprints will start in March and will involve Satanik (attached to "Smiles and Songs" and "Panorama"), one of the protagonists of the great era of comic book "Black" Italian of the year sixty. It was originally become so famous that in 1968, just four years after his debut comic, the film was even a dedicated ... They were definitely other times ... 
fact is that, at that time, this kind of evil Mr. Hyde in a skirt was a very rebellious character and, like many of his colleagues (from Diabolik-up), put in plain sight all the rot that harbored in society and the human soul. Ruthless, sadistic, greedy and sexually uninhibited Satanik had no problems using the most brutal means to achieve its aims ... Also resorting to the supernatural, and often found themselves grappling with opponents the likes of Dracula ... At that time it was decidedly a transgressive series, although nowadays the impact of those stories - partly because of historical, aesthetic and cultural totally different - it is almost zero and at times alienating ... 
And maybe it's just the point. Why offer the public new stories and new stimuli, perhaps with a comic book - today - could have the same impact that it had Satanik in the '60s and '70s? Much better to continue to offer (and repeat) comics that over time have lost their subversive and, unfortunately, over the years have been overcome by a reality that has become much more complex, dramatic and disturbing than the one presented in the Italian comic last century. Satanik will never speak of the problems of today, there's something rotten in today's society, the situation - in some respects disastrous - we live in Italy ... Quite different from the climate tuttosommato optimistic and naive of the '60s and '70s. 
Moreover, apart from all this space that the newspaper stands in response to the reprinting in the Annex, including the new histories of Italian folk continue to hold a decidedly retro size. As time passes, the more I come to think that it is not just a case. While all this may be because the operators of the popular comics in Italy can not keep pace with the times as a matter age (since the publishing executives are All, or almost, in his seventies), it is also true that publishers who espouse the retro line appearing above are also spared having to deal with a modern wide range of issues that today are considered inappropriate or at least uncomfortable. Type male homosexuality understood in a positive sense, for example ... 
The feeling is just to be confronted with a comic scene very careful not to go too far so as not to shake the reader from his stupor and from that to which it is used by other media. At this point the question arises: the fact that the popular Italian comic lies folded in on itself a few decades reflects a general trend of our country? Why should a publisher be afraid to go too far (though within the law)? Perhaps there is the fear of touching the burning issues and hit someone or something? And even if the printing of a comic book nation poses certain problems and began to be "afraid" to be unwelcome to the authorities and the powers that be, perhaps fearing repercussions of some kind, what does this mean? The history books have it answered, and not very pleasant. What do you think?
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