Manly Movie Mamajamas: the origin of The Rambo Connection

September 23, 2008 on 1:41 pm | In Uncategorized | No Comments

If you picked up ToyFare #135 (on sale now!), you’ve already experienced the conclusion to our epic three-part storyline “The Rambo Connection,” featuring “the Manly Men of Action” (Stallone, Arnold, et al) in their incredibly violent struggle against OTHER manly movie action stars (Seagal, Keanu, et al) to save still OTHER manly movie action stars (Gerard Butler, Daniel Craig, et al).

It’s not our usual cast of Megos and/or ’80s toys, so you might be wondering how it came about. I had been planning to write a post about the secret origins of the strip, but luckily TTT contributing writer and excellent blogger Sean T. Collins already did, so I don’t have to!

It’s called the Manly Movie Mamajama. As Sean explains, the idea is that a bunch of men (and, us being by and large comic geeks and non-sports participants, the “manly” tag is definitely tongue-in-cheek) get together and endure a marathon of three somehow related, testosterone-soaked movies. And crack wise during them incessantly.

As someone who really didn’t watch a lot of these kinds of films when I was a kid, the whole enterprise has been particularly enlightening to me (as I recall, the entire first line-up of The Warriors, Road House and the Road Warrior was at least partially chosen because they were three films I’d never seen). In fact, since a large percentage of our TTT writing crew attends these fests, Manly Men of Action have been very much on our minds lately. And that’s a large part of how we came up with the idea of the Rambo Connection.

I highly recommend trying Manly Movie Mamajamas at home with your own friends. If you do, come to the Wizard Universe Message Boards and let us know what movie combinations YOU come up with!