He literally wears his costume all the time, at the bar, at home, at the grocery store, everywhere. He also is someone who doesn’t really have an identity outside of his superhero identity. ![]() And even when he does manage to get a call into an office job to clear out a feral file clerk for a mere hours pay, it’s just another story to tell to his friend at the bar. ![]() Andrew Roth does a great job of playing him as a likable schlub who never seems to let life get him all the way down even when he’s out of a job and forced to look into a temp agency. Squid Man himself was never in the top tiers of superherodom to begin with, and now it seems like he’s reached the end of his career. The film uses Pete as the framing device to get Squid Man to tell his life story, or at least the superhero portions of it, and it works quite well. His luck starts to change when Pete comes into the bar wanting to interview him about a book he is writing about superheroes, starting from the bottom up. Unfortunately, that wasn’t enough to keep him employed in his current supergroup and he’s stuck crashing with his friend who isn’t much better off as he collects unemployment, scratches off lottery tickets, and has a grand plan for some class action lawsuit. He really only has one claim to fame when he was instrumental in defeating Lord Paradox before he could destroy the entire universe. And if he really concentrates, he can shoot ink out of his toes. His only real power is the ability to shoot ink out of his fingers. Squid Man is not the most powerful superhero out in the world, he’s not even in the middle of the list. And at the start of the film, he’s not doing much of anything besides drinking at the bar with his friend. There’s a few special effects, a couple fights, but it’s mostly just the life of Squid Man when he’s not out fighting crime. Even though most of the comedy in the film is low-key and situational, the characters are quite fascinating and relatable with just enough fantasy thrown in to remind you that you are watching a superhero movie in a world full of superheroes. It’s a low budget comedy/drama about the life of a third rate superhero down on his luck. It was completed in 2012, ran the festival circuit for a couple years, and was released online early this year. Even though it is yet another one of those questionable release dates. Berglund-edited online zine Nightscapes #9 in September 1998.Finally, my quest to watch all of the films released in 2014 (that I know of) is finished with Squid Man. "Hear the Squidman Speak" was published in the E. Geoffrey Tucker, a disgraced former low-budget movie star.Arthur "the Squidman" Ashbourne, a man who developed an inexplicable connection to Cthulhu after investigating an abandoned house as a child.He complies with their demands and is convicted of the murder, serving his sentence in a lunatic asylum. However, the screenplay has come to the notice of the Deep Ones of Innsmouth who do not like what they have read: soon a group of Innsmouth heavies abduct Ashbourne and show him a Shoggoth, telling him that he will be fed to the creature if he does not kill Tucker (the exact reason for their desire to see Tucker dead is not explained). In an effort to revive Tucker's career, Ashbourne writes a screenplay for him based on his dreams, but Tucker believes him to be nothing more than another crackpot groupie. Tucker's career is covered in brief, from his glory days, through succumbing to his addictions, subsequent rehabilitation and return to the screen, to his final fall from grace and retirement to his hometown of Arkham. One of the distractions he uses is the release of the movie theatre, and this is where he first discovers his hero, a B-movie actor named Geoff Tucker. ![]() The story is told as an interview between a man incarcerated in a lunatic asylum for killing a former movie star and a second, unknown party although the man first denies the murder, he confesses at the conclusion.Īrtie Ashbourne has dreamt of Cthulhu and the coming of the Old Ones his entire life, and has spent years trying to shut the insidious voices out of his head. " Hear the Squidman Speak" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by author Mike Minnis.
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