Actors in robot suits and other surprising Rossum facts

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Here comes the post of actors in robot suits and other surprising Rossum facts!

1. There is only 1 Astro Boy and 1 Zoran.

2. Actors in robot suits - Actors in robot suits are among the weirdest stars in the Rossum meta trilogy.

3. There are two Atlases - One Atlas was in Metropolis and the other in its Astro Boy 2003 sequel.

4. There are two Pluto robots - Black Acheron and Green Pluto. 

5. There is only 1 Blue Knight.

6. In the final episode, Dr Tenma harmed himself to death in a prison, which is a very saddening thing.

Swinging from tree to tree

I like gibbons, ‘cause they’re the acrobats of the jungle. The same can strikingly be said for Tarzan in his original literary form. 

To swing from tree to tree throughout the rainforest canopy and within a crap ton of ancient trees, a character has to flex his or her arms. 

Interesting genres that defy categorisation.

WELCOME BACK dank fans! 

Interesting genres that defy categorisation. Ranging from the hugely popular Spaghetti Western to obscure nitwits. 

What's a soapcom? 

A soapcom is a cross between a soap opera and a sitcom. Unlike both of its compatriots, it possibly originated in comics as old as Segar's Thimble Theatre. 

Disney’s Cyberpunk Tarzan: Creators

The cast of Disney’s Tarzan Reboot 

The ERB Tarzan canon 

Created by ERB 

Tarzan’s family - Tarzan and Jane, Korak and Meriem, John ‘Jackie’ Paul Clayton 

The DragonFoot Tribe - Toog, Momga, Pagth, Kerchak, Kala, Gozan, TubLat, Terkoz, Gunto, Numgo, Taug, Teeka, Chulk, Thaka, Kama, GoLat, ZuTag, Karnath, Neeta, Gazan, and Gobu

The Mangani Civilians - Molak, Ungo, Akut, Gayat, Mwalot, Zutho and Toyat

The Volkoffs - Nicholas Volkoff and Olga Volkoff 

Created by Winn Scott Eckert and Mike Wolfer

Tarzan’s family - Suzanne Clayton 

Not totally canon (whether official or not) 

Created by Cyril Hume 

The Parkers - James and Vera Parker (original body types and personalities) 

The Brookses - Eric Brooks (original body type and personality) 

The Lancers - Baron Thomas Lancer, Baron Austin Lancer, Baroness Mindy Barker Lancer, Baron Richard Lancer, Baroness Gwen Byron Lancer, and Baron Jasper Lancer (original body types and personalities) 

The Holts - Hieronymus Holt (original body type and personality)

Created by Basil Dickey 

The Brookses - Mary Brooks (original body type and personality) 

Created by James Kevin McGuinness 

The La Ronde Family - Philippe La Ronde and Anais La Ronde (original body types and personalities) 

Created by Carroll Young 

The La Ronde family - Sandra La Ronde (original body type and personality) 

Created by Myles Connolly 

The Eskers - Connie Beach Esker (original body type and personality) 

Locals from Senegal - Lea Senghor (original body type and personality) 

Created by Gaylord DuBois 

The Durhams - Colin Durham and Margaret Durham (original body types and personalities) 

The Carne Family - Derrick Carne (original body type and personality) 

The Beasts - Kurok, Morok, Kublat, Thorag, Torik, Teeb, Tarchak, Thag, Yokar, Kroog, Chakat, Gortak, Zukora (original body types and personalities) 

Created by Robert Thompson 

The Jungle Backwaters - Naranee (original body type and personality) 

Created by Joe Kubert 

The Parkers - Vera Parker (current fashion sense) 

The La Ronde family - Sandra La Ronde (current body type and fashion sense) 

Created by Bob McLeod and Sal Buscema  

The Holts - Sarah Lyle Holt (original body type and personality) 

Created by Gary Goddard 

The Brookses - Mary Brooks (current body type and personality) 

Created by Robert Towne 

The Eskers - Count Max Esker (original body type and personality) 

Created by Noni White and Bob Tzudiker 

The Durhams - Colin Durham and Margaret Durham (current body type for Colin and personalities for both) 

The Parkers - Ray Parker and Ashley Brennan Parker (personalities) 

The Elephants - Tantor (current personality) 

The Leopards - Lua and Sol (original personalities) 

The Gorillas - Kago, Mungo, Utor, Terkina, Flynt, Gunda, Zugor, Bruin, Matt, Carla (current personalities) 

Created by Arvid Nelson and Roberto Castro

The La Ronde family - Cecil La Ronde (body type and fashion sense) 

MNCTV’s Tarzan Cantik Summary

Tarzan Cantik became the latest Sinetron (soap opera) on MNCTV. This soap opera again showed a bare amount of hilarious action from Aryani Fitriana, who acted as Fathiyah.

Synopsis of Tarzan Cantik MNCTV: 

Fauzi (Adam Jordan), who, from a wealthy family, chose to work as a plant researcher and did not think about his family's assets. Fauzi is actually married to Lisna (Nana Khairina) but he has a loving girlfriend, Rianti (Lyra Virna), a fellow researcher. When he learned that Rianti was pregnant, Fauzi decided to divorce Lisna and marry Rianti, and they lived happily in a remote forest.

Time flies.

Rianti will give birth. While on their way to the hospital in the nearest town, the car carrying Rianti and Fauzi was intercepted by the Pharmacy Superpowers, a pharmaceutical company that had long targeted Fauzi, until an accident occurred and Rianti was separated from Fauzi.

Rianti who splashed into the river ended up inadvertently giving birth in the water. Rianti is caught by Lisna's unloving men.

Rianti and Fauzi's baby girls were stranded on an uninhabited island, mostly only big apes and other wild animals.

17 years passed. Fathiyah (Aryani) who grows up to be a lively, cheerful, loving feral girl. While looking for food with her best friends, the 3 monkeys, Fathiyah accidentally met and fought with a very tall human named the Madman (Arianto). Since the first meeting the Madman fell in love with Fathiyah.

When Fathiyah’s forest is disrupted by a group of people who will destroy it and capture its animals, Fathiyah gets to know Erfan (Kevin Kambey) and Revi (Rafael Sm*sh), and they work hand in hand together. Until finally Fathiyah accidentally carried their car to Jakarta.

Fathiyah lives in the house occupied by Revi and Erfan. Erfan initially disliked the presence of Fathiyah because he considered only disturbing, noisy and could not do anything. Revi who is more easily familiar with Fathiyah and want to teach Fathiyah all kinds.

Erfan and Revi turned out to be neighbours with Lisna and 2 of her adopted children, Carla (Gita Sucia) and Carlo (Lavicky), who had also reached their teens.

Carla, who has a long crush on Erfan, immediately hates Fathiyah. Carla and Carlo always collaborated to work on Fathiyah but as a result they were always unlucky.

One day Fathiyah, who ran away from the pursuit of Carla and Carlo, accidentally hid in the Superpower Pharmacy factory. In the factory, in a hidden room, Fathiyah instead found Fauzi. Apparently Fauzi is still alive!

Tarzan Cantik soap opera aired on MNCTV every day at 17:00 WIB, starting Monday, May 26, 2014.

Adventures in preservation piracy

Not written until years later.

Preservation piracy is a sensitive, touchy topic. However, it is increasingly socially acceptable for nerds to go out of their original comfort zone and into the Wild West of preserving something as relatively obscure as a clunky piece of old Kamishibai. 

The Jungle Book’s Scrawny Girl

The jungle book is having a damn distant sequel in the form of a fan fiction called the cryptid girl. 

The title character of a distant jungle book sequel, Mowgli’s descendant, is a girl named Jinni, being partly inspired by the title characters of Tida Wanorn and Fathiyah, as well as Mowgli, Goku and real life cases of feral kids in both south and southeast Asian subcontinents. 

Her father and mother, Nuro and Tada were definitely screwed up people who pretty much had four boys before she was even born. Her brothers were also teenaged or even young adults at that time. 

Even as a baby, she was quite ugly to begin with, which is due to the fact that a polluted and totally screwed up environment was responsible for her family achieving their status as the most screwed family in the man village where she was born. 

Indo TARZAN clones!

Cempaka is a comic character created by RA Kosasih in 1974. Cempaka is a female "Tarzan" wearing leopard striped clothes. In her life in the forest, Cempaka is friendly with various forest animals, and her main friends are Sabor, a panther and Goro, a gorilla. Her actions and deeds are often helped by her animal friends to get rid of criminals, who want to disturb the peace of the forest. One thing that might be a bit unique is the presence of Goro who, if I'm not mistaken, is a gorilla who actually only exists mostly in the African jungle. But if you look at the contents of the story about life in the forest (it seems like in the Indonesian forest), it is an interesting story to watch, but the Cempaka comic is certainly not circulating anymore at this time. Last hope, of course, we can look for old comics sellers or on sites and blogs that provide old comics.

Gogo or Gogo Pendekar Rimba, is an Indonesian version of the Tarzan style comic created by M Ali S in 1983. The character, body posture and location of the Gogo story seem very inspired by the Tarzan character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912). The storyline for the Gogo comic is also similar to the storyline in the Tarzan comic, such as growing from a small boy to a big man living in the middle of the tropical forest, raised and cared for by forest animals.

Jakawana, or Jakawana Pahlawan Rimba Belantara (aka Jakawana Anak Didikan Rimba from 1978 onwards), is a Tarzanide comic character created by S Ardisoma (Saleh Ardisoma) by the publisher of the Bandung Karya Bhakti Foundation in 1978. The Jakawana comic was actually first published in the 1950s with the old spelling "Djakawana" by the publisher Melodie Bandung. Jakawana's early story was inspired by the Edgar Rice Burrough comics Tarzan (1914), while the way he was dressed in a leopardskin loincloth, which covered half of his body toward the left shoulder, similar to Hal Foster's early Tarzan style. Origin: Initially, a small child named Kohar was orphaned in the middle of the forest alone, but who was then nurtured and raised by a large ape, perhaps a matronly orangutan who escaped from an unkind zoo. During his life in the interior of the forest, Jakawana had known various forest animals and made friends with them.

Mala, is a Tarzan style comic character created by Bahzar and A. Bakti, which has been done alternately by the two of them since 1963, published by the Casso Medan publisher. Bahzar and A. Bakti's scribbles are good and look alive. The storyline, characters and location look very much like the characters of Tarzan, but that is enough to satisfy comic fans. The story of Mala's adventure was also very popular in the 60s. The location of the story that does not depend on a place makes the storyline not boring. Unfortunately this comic is no longer circulating, there is little hope to read and enjoy this Indonesian-style Tarzan comic, but with a little luck it might still be able to get it on old comic seller websites or in used comic vendors.

Marimba is a comic character created by Ed who circulated in the era of the 1950s-1960s. Marimba comics are old comics, aka "antiques", whose basic story and character are inspired by the Tarzan novel created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which first appeared in October 1912. Marimba's story is set in the jungles of Indonesia. In the Marimba comic story he befriends a monkey named Bono. Marimba's story and adventure must be interesting too, and perhaps no less interesting than the original "Tarzan" story.

Tiwi or the Goddess of the Jungle is a Tarzanide comic character created by Mar in 1974. The author, who is famous for his superheroes, turns out to also create another comic character whose genre is Tarzanide, and the character's creation is a woman. Tiwi wears a pretty sexy costume, and as a woman who lives in the wilderness, it turns out that she is tough in chasing and defeating criminals who disturb the tranquillity of the forest. Tiwi also knows various forest-dwelling animals. It is not uncommon for Tiwi's actions to fight crime with the help of forest animals. This Tiwi comic was published and circulated in the '70s. It seems that there are not many episode titles issued by the author, especially for now it might be rather difficult to get this Tiwi comic.

Waro or Waro Manusia Rimba, is a comic character from the Tarzanide genre created by Sukri in the 1960s. The name of the Waro character is similar to that of the character Wiro the Jungle Boy. It is not clear whether this comic was inspired by Tarzan's character or from Wiro's character. What is certain is that Waro looks like Tarzan and his name is similar to Wiro. From the 50s to the 80s, in Indonesia there have been many comics in the Indonesian style of Tarzan, such as Wiro, Yimbo, Mala, Zanga, Jakawana, Marimba, Cempaka, Tiwi and others. Of the many Indonesian-style Tarzan figures, the comic Wiro by Kwik Ing Hoo is perhaps the most successful of all. Back to Waro, whose name is similar to Wiro. Apart from that, as an alternative, the Waro comic in its time must have been an interesting comic to read. It's just that the comic "Waro Manusia Rimba" is no longer circulating today. If you are curious about this comic, you might still be able to get it from used comic sellers or on old comic sites/blogs.

Wiro or Wiro si Anak Rimba, is a comic character from the Tarzan genre created by Chinese Indonesians Kwik Ing Hoo (Semarang) and Liem Boen Djien, who appeared in 1956. Kwik Ing Hoo (himself a dude who converted to Islam) is the painter and Liem Boen Djien is the story writer. In Indonesia there are actually many Tarzan comics circulating, but Wiro comics are the most successful and most well-known comics from the 50s to 80s. 

Wiro’s actions and adventures in his comics are probably the most suitable for the readers' tastes, and also the natural conditions that suit Indonesian nature, as well as the forest animals that are Wiro's friends are also very interesting for comic readers in Indonesia to enjoy. The initial story and the storyline are actually not too far from Tarzan's story, about a teenager who from childhood lived in the forest, befriended forest animals until he was a teenager, fought against criminals who planned to disturb and damage the peace of the forest. This character, besides Tarzan's genre, might be more appropriate for all ages, as his story is indeed closer to the story of Mowgli the Jungle Boy than that of Tarzan. Wiro, a boy who’s been armed with a slingshot, swings from tree branches to other tree branches. The Wiro comic was very popular in its time and affected many Indonesian children who followed the Wiro style using slingshots and tree climbing in the 60s to 70s. The popularity of this Wiro comic was apparently not only enjoyed by Indonesian children, even Barack Obama when he was a child in Indonesia had read Wiro comics. Wiro's adventure from Java to the forests of Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Sulawesi to West Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) with his animal friends, like monkeys, orangutans, tigers and elephants. In the 1980s Wiro comics were reprinted with Enhanced Spelling, and there were some scenes that were revised and replaced by Kwik Ing Hoo, one of which was when Wiro hunted wild boar and ate them, wild boar replaced with deer. Then in the late 80s, the story of Wiro was continued by other comic artists, but the quality of the graffiti was still below the quality of Kwik Ing Hoo's.

Yimbo, is a Tarzan comic character created by Bahzar in Medan in 1965. The author, Bahzar previously in 1963 had created a character of the same genre, namely Mala, who was made with his colleague A. Bakti. Yimbo looks similar to Tarzan, so does the story line. Yimbo comics were once quite popular in Indonesia in the 60s to 70s. Now of course it has been very difficult to find this rare comic. The only place I know and find this comic is only on the tokokomikantik.com website.

Zanga, is the Indonesian version of the Tarzan comic character created by Eng in the 60s era in Medan. The theme, character and location are very inspired by the Tarzan character who appeared in 1912. This Zanga comic painting scrawl deserves a thumbs up because it looks good and alive. Zanga's face and posture look very similar to Tarzan's. The location of the story is very suitable with the nature of Indonesia. Although this Zanga comic can be said to be imitating the character of Tarzan, but the story and adventure of Zanga is definitely fun to follow, unfortunately this comic is no longer circulating at this time.

The cast of Magma

The cast of Magma

Both of the previous adaptations have hilariously bad English-dub localisations by today's standards. The manga needs an effective English translation as well. This is the first Tezuka Productions and Mushi Production show not to have the old 'Tezuka Star System' as a standard. It is also the first to have links with the alternative fantasy scene.

Jovians and Saturnians are distinct-looking but closely related humanoids who live in Jupiter, Saturn and most their large moons. Both are incredibly adept transformers and can even out-morph the old school Transformers characters by a wide margin!

The cast of characters

(Modern) Magma: Magma has direct predecessors; the shrunken live action Magma behind the scenes, the golden Robot Stuntman from the 1980 Astro Boy series, and Emily's Battle Bot stage father (who bore some similarities to Disney's Tarzan and had green eyes!) from the 2003 series as well. Unlike the forerunners, he has three main transforming purposes: turning into a luge, snowballing into a beast, and the classic example of morphing into a rocket or a UFO. 

(Modern) Goa: Goa has two indirect predecessors (both males), the human-sized versions of manga and live action Goa. Unlike her three cumbersome forerunning counterparts (who are all males), she is a female who has plans to irritate the solar system. When she does irritate the solar system however, she finds out that planet Earth is the worst fit for invasion! 

(Modern) Gaum: Unlike Magma and Maura, Gaum's predecessors are all direct ones. His manga predecessor tended to have antennae hidden within its hair, whereas its live action counterpart had them paired close to the in-built helmet. The OVA version was older in age, even though it retained the helmet-antennae pairing seen in the live action/anime hybrid version. Unlike all previous versions, he ain't the son of Magma at all.

Emily: Although a prototype of her portrayal first appeared in the Astro Boy 2003 episode 'Battle Bot', Emily is a supporting character and a creation of Shinji Seiya. 

Slate: Scheming driver of the 'big purple outer space float', which is the main headquarters for the Solar System subsidiary of Dr C Corp. 

Maura: Magma's daughter.

Lava: Magma's grandfather. 

Asher: A hairy old wizard in Magma's village who is inspired by the Earth Wizard in the manga and two previous adaptations. His inventive yet rather hectic nature would make him a target of the Solar System Pirates. 

Tephra: Basalt's son.

Bae: Youngest of Lava's children and mother to Magma.

Clio: Basalt's wife.

Basalt: Magma's sidekick, who is pretty much bigger, older and slightly more unattractive than the beautiful yellow buddy. However, he and Magma share some certain things in common. He can beat his chest for different purposes.

Obsidian: Grandson to Obsidian the first, the junior is one of the more cunning antagonists turned antiheroes. He is also called the Black Garon. 

Fina: Number One of the Fina-Lina pair from the moon Hyperion.

Lina: Number Two of the Fina-Lina pair from the moon Hyperion.

Elise Murakami: Taurus's mother who got killed by factory robots in Russia. 

Taurus Murakami: A cousin of Reno Hardaway from the Astro Boy 2003 series, Taurus is a largely original character aged 16 years old. He was definitely named after the Roman calendar animal Taurus. 

Andrew Murakami: Taurus's father.

Tattle Tooth: One of the Solar System Pirates, he is indeed inspired by Classic Goa in both manga and live action forms. Unlike the predecessor, he tends to have two main weapons which are a modernised 'caveman' club and a ninja star. 

Ludic: Ludic is younger than Tattle Tooth in age, but has two horns in his head. He is inspired by Skull from old school Power Rangers. 

Deron: The chubby sidekick of Ludic, Deron is a good natured goofball inspired by the old school Power Rangers character Bulk. He is also friends with Emily and Taurus.

Scuttle Weed: Scuttle Weed is a character inspired by the OVA Goa in terms of looks. Being the main antagonist in the series (not by power, but by episode numbers), Scuttle Weed likes to plan an ultimately disappointing invasion of another world in the solar system. He owns the 'little black outer space float' with his fellow pirates. 

Sandstone: Although a prototype of his portrayal appeared in the Astro Boy episode 'Battle Bot' as proto-Emily's 'foster father', Sandstone is one of the most important new characters for the spinoff series. In the Japanese version of his first appearance, the tone of his voice was simply too deep and manly to attract kids. It got replaced in the English version with a witty Massachusetts accent instead. In both versions of 'Battle Bot', he originally had blond hair, albeit much shorter than Magma's.

Fiamme: One of Maura's friends.

Tuff: Magma's rival from Hyperion. Along with his little brother Tuffite, he is one of the Solar System Pirates.

Lapilli: Lapilli comes from the Jovian moon Calisto.

Tuffite: Tuffite is from Hyperion. He is the younger brother of Tuff and Marea.

Stilo: Inspired by the OVA Classic Maura, Stilo intends to retain the red clothing, blond hair and helmet. She is from the Jovian moon Amalthea.

Marea: Inspired by the live action version of Classic Maura, Marea intends to retain the inspiration's metallic clothing and helmet, with the Afro replacing the darker brown live action bouffant instead. She is sister to Tuff and Tuffite.

Sienna: First appearing in the same episode as Sandstone and Emily, Sienna intends to retain her inspiration's bouffant manga hairdo (which is now red instead of light brown!), albeit her own clothing would replace that of the latter.

Coal: A seductive but elderly antagonist inspired by the OVA Goa. He comes from Hyperion.

Limestone: Wimpy and claustrophobic critter friend of Magma.

Windy: Huge and grisly Windy comes from Saturn.

Outer Space Madness: is Disney ripping off the fairy tales?

Welcome to my Outer Space Madness

I like Ambassador Magma, the one manga that both The Space Giants and its OVA remake are based on. In the live action/animation version, Magma could shrink into a human size (when standing behind the scenes), but in the manga and almost alway in the Ova, he still remained a clunky, heavily armoured and almost robotlike giant anyway.

In both manga and live action/animation versions, he transformed into a rocket (via his hidden head, arms and legs), but in the OVA, he simply (and quickly) morphed into the same thing, probably as a blessing in disguise. Many hairstyles are part of the character too: a scruffy wig in the live action/animation version, a bundle of achingly long but lightly coloured bangs in the OVA, and the original manga hairstyle which grew into a big flame.

In his first manga appearance, Magma was probably (and inappropriately) slate-coloured with dull hair. As the chapters go into their first climax, he became gold coloured and blond haired. Later on, a then-unlikely pair of simplified 'four fingers-single thumb hands' got added to the body part roster, which is very thankfully cost effective because a pair of actual human hands is still so hard to draw. The reason why they got added was (and still is) the demanding handiness of the character's creator. At the same time, the hair also grew into a flabbergasting flame of locks and bangs!

In all versions, he could talk like a human! He can wrestle a shapeshifter in dinosaur form, can attack a Godzilla-sized crayfish-like monster, and can roar.

Am I thinking about the classic Magma in most of my crapped out blogging time? Oh yes, my mentor Tim Danko had watched what is now the really boring 'Kimba The White Lion/Leo The Lion' show as a kid. I agree with him that the late Osamu Tezuka's first major success is (relatively speaking) the dullest and most ordinary of his major works.

Even though the whole classic meta-show was loosely based on an equally boring manga called 'Jungle Emperor', its titular character Leo (who was nicknamed 'Kimba' in the first two seasons of most dubs) was a rebellious young antihero, who evolved into a sensibly intelligent if supposedly vegetarian beast!

This led to two medium-length films, as well as a blandly dark reboot show (which flopped miserably or had some success in most countries) and its considerably more nationally unpopular (but more internationally successful) 'film finale' of 1997. Nine years after the film finale's English-dubbed release, a somewhat satirical television special, acting as the franchise’s first and only official continuity reboot, got aired on Fuji Tv as the final (and only almost entirely non-canonical) instalment of the whole franchise's continued existence.

But there's something that any Disney fan will never know about until now. Both Magma and Kimba/Leo have partly inspired The Lion King to become a major hit in 1994, perhaps because 'the circle of life' (Tezuka was fond of this term too!) is also 'the beauty contest of life' according to the Canadian 'In Your Face' author Shari Graydon. Gee, I have read the same term from 'In Your Face: The Culture Of Beauty And You' by that Canadian (Shari Graydon)! 

What most likely inspired The Lion King to become a hit is that it was a notoriously costly 'technical ripoff' of Shakespeare's Hamlet, amongst many other tales about the poor fallen hero and his fellows. Fairy tales get ripped off very easily and are pretty much prone to significant and at times adaptation decaying variations, since they're very ancient and out of copyright.

The Sam Francks Show

Today, I have bought five raffle tickets at Selwyn College. These tickets got to do with The Sam Francks Show, aka Sam Francks: For The Record.

The hilarious live show will be live at Selwyn College on Saturday May the 19th from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM. It is a sell-out for going to my next Rotorua camp on September.

I have a good job to do in preparation for this show: selling raffle tickets! I am helping Totara Learning Centre teacher Pippa to sell them for an hour on this special day.

Brat Characters revision

These characters are known for their weirdness 

Ool - Ool is one of the weirdest Doc Savage villains around. 

The Black Dragon - The Black Dragon, aka George Brent, was once the childhood friend of the Shadow until scary circumstances led him into the streets, which explains why he, The Black Falcon and their henchmen prowl the Bronx. 

The Voodoo Master - Possibly the most iconic Shadow enemy with wit. However, he is like Shiva Khan in terms of sympathy, as his mother abandoned him in the streets in order to survive. 

The Black Falcon - The Black Falcon, aka Gill Brent, George’s younger brother, is one of the more challenging Shadow adversaries. He often has a sibling rivalry with Dragon, though they even have good moments too. 

Benedict Strang - Benedict is the estranged babysitter of Margo Laney. Known as Mr Remorseless, because he’s like that, he has taken more lives than any other Shadow villain. 

Kaspa Stark - Kaspa Stark, the hero of The Tale of Kaspa, is a young man raised by lions in the Zambian savannah. 

How popular is GOTJ now?

Hello GOTJ fans, how popular is the whole Georgie franchise since 2007?

Europe: Germany, Romania, Austria, France (EU French), Ukraine, Spain (EU Spanish and Basque), Lithuania, UK, Portugal (EU Portuguese), Hungary, Belgium, Poland, Latvia, Ireland, Russia, Sweden, Estonia, Slovakia, Denmark, Bulgaria, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Norway

The Americas: Venezuela (Venezuelan Spanish), Canada (Canadian English and Canadian French), USA (American English), Mexico (Mexican Spanish) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese)

Asia Pacific: Japan, UAE (Emirati Arabic), Sri Lanka (Sinhala), Taiwan (Taiwanese Mandarin), Hong Kong (Hong Kong Cantonese), South Korea (Korean), Turkey, Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia and Israel (Hebrew)

Tookie: Toucan Tookie (Spanish and Romanian), Tuki (Polish)
Witch Doctor: Dr Wizard (Portuguese and Romanian), Shaman (Polish), Witch (Spanish)
Tiger: Tiger Troll (Polish)
George: Georges (Quebecois French), Jorge (Spanish and Portuguese), Yka (Finish), Wanasara (Sinhala), Joji (Korean), Georg (Norwegian)
Dr Towel Scott: Dr Towel Scoot (Romanian), Dr Tapika Scott (Finnish), Dr Trapito Scott (Spanish)
Ursula: Urszula (Polish)
Magnolia Scott: Marguerite (French)
Ape: Max (French), Gorilla (Romanian), Majom (Hungarian), Saru (Japanese), Malpa (Polish), Wonsungi (Korean), Apina (Finnish), Simian (Spanish), Macaque (Portuguese), Aap (Dutch), Affe (German)
Weevil: Witold Beetle (Polish)
Shep: Musti (Finnish)