Joe and the bots
After going on and on about JoeCrow Day, here’s a little screengrab of his work on the new mst3k vol 10.2. The new segment, with Joel, Trace, and Frank returning to the roles that made them famous (and Frank taking on a new one), is only three and a half minutes, but along with Cinematic Titanic (and Rifftrax, if that’s the way you roll), makes for a great 20th anniversary present for msties.
If the dvd sets are a little pricey for your taste, then buying all four discs for this single segment is probably overkill, but Rhino is making the disc available for special order at a more than fair price. While they might not look exactly as they did a decade or so ago, the cast members sure act like them old selves and it was certainly great to see Dr. F giving Frank a well deserved beating again, not to mention Tom getting a RAM chip and taking advantage of the chroma needed to get him back on the SOL bridge. As for Joe’s bot-building prowess - if I hadn’t known these were fan made, I’d have never guessed they weren’t the handiwork of the Brains themselves. Unless Joe has perpetrated an elaborate and prescient put-on, the autograph at left from the big man himself puts it best. Hopefully we’ll get to see more of Joe’s bots in action when Shout Factory takes over the release of mst3k discs, and he’ll actually get a little shout out on the discs themselves.
