BLOG ROLL

Looking for a new comic book or sci-fi blog to check out? We've got a great list over at the Mercury-Atlas blog at http://themercurymen.blogspot.com

Daryl Karameikos and Steve Guttenberg

Daryl from Captain Blasto, also known as Aaron Kleiber, gets a break from the indie world of filmmaking to act on a REAL set...with catering! He's acting alongside Dancing with the Stars celebs Steve Guttenberg & Sabrina Bryan, and Spin City's Richard Kind. You can follow him on Twitter @aaronkleiber and see his pics from the set at http://twitpic.com/photos/aaronkleiber

Congrats Aaron!

DVD's are coming!

One of the most frequent questions I get is, "Can I buy this series on DVD?" We can finally answer YES!

We've got a VERY small supply of DVD's of the ORIGINAL CUT of the series, including over ONE HOUR of extended and deleted scenes. We'll be posting them for sale soon, so don't be a stranger round these parts.

Get The Captain Blasto Poster!

We're finally proud to release the Captain Blasto poster for sale! It's an 11 x 17" print of the high flying hero hurtling through space in dynamic color. And it's only $8.99.

ORDER HERE

UPDATE: We've added t-shirts, including a replica of Colin's Blasto costume (without cape unfortunately). See the shirts HERE.

The Mercury Men Trailer

The Mercury Men trailer is finished, and only a few short days from release! Keep your eyes peeled.

Also, if you're a subscriber to Captain Blasto on YouTube, iTunes, Blip.TV, or simple RSS, you'll automatically receive the new trailer.

Captain Blasto Production Design

Blasto's recent Streamy Award nomination for Art Direction and Cinematography has inspired me to give a little behind-the-scenes look into the Captain Blasto production design, a subject that is always highly discussed at screening Q&A's.

Captain Blasto is the story of Colin Carter, a teenage boy so enamored with the adventures contained within the pages of super-hero comic book, he begins imitating the traits and story of its titular fictional character. Since Captain Blasto was created specifically for our film, his character design, along with several issues of his comic book series would need to be custom illustrated. This wasn't too much of a stretch since I had plenty of practice drawing Superman multiple times a day back in high school.

Captain Blasto rough sketch, done in the style of Joe Shuster's early Superman designs.

Captain Blasto w/ vintage coloring.

Custom made comic book prop (cover).

Custom made comic book prop (inside page).

To visually display Colin's love of the character, we canvased his bedroom with custom made memorabilia spanning decades, including posters, famous magazine covers, statues, and a 1950's Blasto actor autograph.

Notice the above LIFE magazine cover (first photo of set) is inspired by this classic photo of Kirk Alyn, the very first actor to play Superman in the old movie serials.

A few minutes of a fake cartoon were even produced in a 1970's animation style, inspired by the Super Friends.


Captain Blasto and the style of his comic book inform and influence nearly every aspect of the film's design, from Colin's costume to the comic book panel editing of various scenes throughout the film.

The comic book panels even include the classic advertisements!

Get the advance MERCURY MEN poster

The advance poster for THE MERCURY MEN is now on sale! You can get this classically styled advance poster (inspired by the great film designer Saul Bass) by visiting:

http://www.cafepress.com/themercurymen

Updates on The Mercury Men

For production stills, storyboards, and cast bios from the upcoming series THE MERCURY MEN, please visit:

http://www.mercuryseries.com

Only A Few Days Left to Nominate Blasto

Time is running out! There's only a few days left to nominate Captain Blasto for the Streamy Awards! Please take a moment to visit http://streamys.org/nominate.shtml and nominate Captain Blasto and it's team for any and all of the categories you deem fitting.

A Look Inside The Mercury Men

Get an inside look at the production of the upcoming series, THE MERCURY MEN.

Visit http://www.mercuryseries.com

Become a facebook fan at http://tinyurl.com/8dehxk

Follow the series on twitter at http://twitter.com/themercurymen

Nominate Captain Blasto

You can nominate Captain Blasto for a Streamy Award, given to the best of web series entertainment by the International Academy of Web Television!

Simply GO HERE and add your nomination to Best Comedy Series, Best Directing Comedy Series, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Original Music, and Best Artistic Concept in a Web Series.

A Real Faked Burglary

This guy tries to go shopping wearing the classic burglar panty hose over his head and gets a FANTASTIC response.

Second GEN Interview

Did a followup interview with Stephanie Carmichael for the Girls Entertainment Network. You can check it out by clicking HERE.

Stephanie and the girls of GEN have been great supporters of the series from the very beginning so make sure to drop by and comment.

Contest Winners

Congratulations to ROB UPCHURCH and JENNIFER MATASEK, winners of the Captain Blasto Poster Contest! There homes are now better decorated than yours.

Blasto Review on Tubefilter

Brady Brim-DeForest posted a great article about Captain Blasto over at Tubefilter, a site which covers web television and new media. You can read it HERE.

100 and Counting...

Captain Blasto reached over 100 followers on Twitter this morning. You can follow the series on Twitter at http://twitter.com/captainblasto.

Blasto Poster Contest

We're running a special contest in cooperation with the fine folks at Extra Life and you can win yourself a signed Captain Blasto poster!

PRIZES: TWO(2) winners will receive a 23×35 CAPTAIN BLASTO POSTER, signed by Christopher Preksta and Aaron Kleiber (Colin & Daryl).

HOW TO WIN: Watch the series, answer the following THREE (3) questions correctly, and email your answers to CHRIS@CAPTAINBLASTO.COM with the subject line “BLASTO CONTEST.” TWO (2) winners will be selected at random from correct entries. You are only permitted ONE (1) entry. Multiple entries will be ignored. Entries will be closed at 11:59 PM on Thursday, November 20th. Winners will be chosen on Friday, November 21st.

QUESTIONS:
1) During their first burglary, WHAT COLOR WALKIE TALKIES do Colin and Daryl use?
2) WHAT BOWLING SCORE does Daryl boast?
3) HOW MANY foam bricks does the crew throw at Captain Blasto?