The Dawn of Dave

Hello. I will bet anything that you have just came here by a link from my genius father's blog, Booksteve's Library. You came expecting something similar to it. Guess what? You've found it.

However, this is the Booksteve's Library of a different topic. Dad deals in the 50's-80's. I, however, am a teen. I deal in the 90's-2000's. This is not for you. However, if you have kids around thier teens and 20's, whom you've passed pop culture onto, this is for them.

As a demonstration of what we'll be talking about here, I will now connect Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Star Wars, going through all sorts of things that will be mentioned on this blog. Ready? Let's go.

One episode of Buffy had a villain who was a shapeshifting assassin whose true form was a hivemind of worms in a human form. The big-bad, or main antagonist, of The Nightmare Before Christmas was kind of like that. He was called Oogie Boogie (alias "The Boogieman") and was a hive of insects, worms, and arachnids inside a burlap sack. The director of TNBC, Henry Selick, also directed Coraline.

The villain of Coraline, The Other Mother, is essentially a fairy-spider that appears "better" than a child's real mother to lure them in and take control of them to keep as her children. The idea of a spider-like shapeshifter gaining your trust to do unspeakable things to you is somewhat similar to the "Spiderwitch" in Ghostbusters: The Video Game. The Ghostbusters game has two different versions sold separately. This is vaguely similar to the setup of the Pokemon games. Some Pokemon characters crossed over with other Nintendo characters in the Super Smash Bros series. Among these characters are Mario and Luigi.

There's a new Super Mario Bros game coming out; Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. I'm really looking forward to it, as it's being exported early in my school year. Another game coming out in the states soon is Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days. Fans of Kingdom Hearts have recently found that the weapon the games revolve around, the Keyblade, was originally going to be a chainsaw without blades, essentially a conveyor-belt-on-a-stick. Y'know, with some wheels attached to fixated shapes and rectangles connected with rotating joints, one can make a conveyor belt in the online game Incredibots. One of the most popular games made in Incredibots is a Star Wars simulator.

There. That's what Bookdave's Shelf is.