All Request Hour: 50 Ft Mandy & Veronica plus Attack of the Giant Sluts

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Welcome back to There She Grows! The goal for today’s post is to satisfy a few requests for reviews. This is a bit of a sad occasion as the requests includes inputs from a now-defunct website. A person gave review suggestions via the Process Forum which went offline a few weeks or so afterward. To the requester Robopengy, I hope you will continue to give suggestions via some other means such as e-mail or here in the blog’s comments section.

Robopengy asked for reviews of “Attack of the 50-Foot Veronica” and “Attack of the 50 Ft. Mandy.” Additionally, a blog reader sent an anonymous message asking for “Attack of the Giant Sluts” by J. L. Hugh. Today’s post will combine all three requests into one long article.

First let’s begin with the oldest, Attack of the 50-Foot Veronica. This was the fifth episode of Archie’s Weird Mysteries and originally aired on October 30th, 1999.

Archie’s Weird Mysteries only aired for a single season with a total of 40 episodes. Archie and his friends are characters who have long been present in American popular culture. Archie, as well as his love interest Betty Cooper and his best friend Jughead Jones, debuted way back in 1941. M.L.J. Magazines initially featured Archie and crew in a monthly anthology called Pep Comics.

Archie became popular and soon overshadowed M.L.J.’s superheroes such as the Shield (a patriotic hero who predated Marvel’s Captain America) and the Wizard. Eventually, the publishing company changed its name to Archie Comics. In addition to Archie, Betty, and Jughead, the writers introduced several other characters over the years including, but certainly not limited to, Dilton Doiley (a brainy nerd), and Veronica Lodge (daughter of a rich businessman and Betty’s rival for Archie’s romantic affections).

In Archie’s Weird Mysteries, Archie worked for the high school newspaper writing about a number of fantastic events featuring well-established tropes such as aliens, ghosts, and werewolves. There was no overarching narrative and storylines never extended beyond a single half-hour episode. It used the monster-of-the-week approach to serialized content.

In Attack of the 50-Foot Veronica, Dilton constructed a growth ray to solve world hunger. That’s a common enough reason to make things bigger and Archie himself referenced H.G. Wells’s “Food of the Gods.” Lowbrow folks like myself are inclined to think more of the fetishistic uses of such a miraculous device. Perhaps the way to meet in the middle and make everyone happy would be to grow a farmer’s crops (and feed the world) and then ask if the farmer’s daughter would also like to spend a little time under the growth ray 😉

Alas, in a blow to Dilton’s altruistic intentions, the ray only worked on creatures like insects and humans. Dilton tried to enlarge an assortment of fruit and vegetables, but only enlarged a bug hiding among the produce.

Let me pause the description for now and discuss one of the problems, character motivations. Jughead and Veronica acted without clear reasons. To give one example, the aforementioned bug, a gigantic beetle, appeared on Betty’s doorstep and scared her. Jughead was also at Betty’s place and loudly told the huge pest to go away. Conveniently, the bug did as he said.

Then to my surprise Jughead jumped on the giant bug’s back! Unwilling to serve as a beast of burden, the bug quickly threw him off. What was Jughead trying to do? The bug had already turned away from Betty’s home and was no longer a threat. Did he think it would be fun to ride it like a horse? What was the objective driving his impulsive decision? Where did he see this admittedly brave act ending?

To give another example, Veronica had nothing to do in Dilton’s laboratory when Archie and Dilton were discussing the appearance of the supernaturally big bug. So, she turned on the growth ray and stuck a finger into its beam. Why on Earth would someone do this? Have they not seen that Harley Quinn episode, “Dye Hard” episode 10 of season 2, when Harley mistakenly shot a goon called Carl with a cancer ray? Veronica could have given herself an incurable disease!

Okay, the Harley Quinn episode aired two decades after Veronica’s mishap so it was unavailable in their time. Still, why would a person put their body in the path of an unknown ray? It looked like a laser and could have cut off a finger or delivered a lethal charge of electricity instead of enlarging her. There are several ways in which the outcome might have been bad. Of course, Veronica did it simply because the plot needed her to do it. That was not believable and the writer could have constructed a better reason for the incident. For instance, Veronica could have slipped on a banana peel.

On the plus side, Veronica underwent several growth spurts and the show’s creators represented the impact of her increasing size in various ways. At first we saw her hand grow when resting on Archie’s shoulder. Then he asked if she was wearing high heels. Later that day Veronica found herself too big for a red dress and had to wear a workout suit from her father’s closest. Her head also burst through the roof of Archie’s car and her weight flattened all four of the tires.

There was a fun rampage sequence during which maximum-sized Veronica crushed a car in her hand, smashed a trash can, bent a light pole like a pretzel, and peeled the roof off the Fresco dress shop. (As one does… 😉 ) There was also a positive, if ham-fisted, message about acceptance and why it’s not bad to be different.

The artwork was okay, but only serviceable. Drawings were crude. For example, a badge on the side of a police officer’s car was blank.

Backgrounds were often two-dimensional. A fence around Betty’s yard looked paper-thin, see below, and so did jugs on a shelf in Pop Tate’s Chock’lit Shoppe.

Additionally, Veronica outgrew her clothes, but surprisingly earrings always fit perfectly regardless of how large she was. Such an error is more understandable during live-action productions as those are situations in which the performers sometimes (always?) forget to remove adornments. However, in the case of animation the error actually created more work as the artists had to draw earrings when they could have omitted them and saved themselves some effort. Possibly the animators normally drew Veronica with earrings and did not consider that the earrings should have been much too small for a giantess.

Overall, Attack of the 50-Foot Veronica is recommended, but with the caveat that the animation was nothing special and the story was basic. Still, watching a gigantic Veronica rampaging through Riverdale was a fun enough viewing experience and the cartoon can be watched for free online.

Next, let’s examine Attack of the 50 Ft. Mandy. It was the seventh episode from season 4 of Totally Spies! and first aired on March 26th, 2006.

Totally Spies! focused on three teenage girls: Alexandra a.k.a. “Alex,” Clover, and Samantha “Sam.” They lived in Beverly Hills, California, and worked as spies for the World Organization of Human Protection (WOOHP). The group operated like the private detectives in the American TV drama “Charlie’s Angels” which aired from the late 1970s until the early 1980s. Only instead of a man called Charlie assigning missions, Totally Spies! had an elderly gentleman named Jerry directing their actions. When not battling criminals the trio attended school (high school until season 4 and college beginning in season 5) and it was at school where they had a nemesis called Mandy.

David Michel & Vincent Chalvon-Demersay created the show in France as a production of Marathon Media (now a part of Banijay Kids & Family). Canadian company Image Entertainment Corporation co-produced the animated show during seasons 3 to 5. Marathon Media released a prequel movie in French theaters during 2009 (and on Cartoon Network in the U.S. during 2010) and a spin-off series, “The Amazing Spiez!,” ran from 2009 until 2012. Related media included chapter books, comic books, and video games. (NOTE: One of those comics, seen below, recreated Attack of the 50 Ft. Mandy scene for scene.)

The original run consisted of six seasons, but reporting from late January 2022 claimed that a seventh season was scheduled for 2023. Of course, 2023 has come and gone without that new season, but according to the Totally Spies! YouTube channel the seventh season will air in 2024.

In Attack of the 50 Ft. Mandy, Clover and Mandy were competing to win the annual Miss Beverly Hills pageant. At the same time a doll-sized crook called Diminutive Smalls had escaped from prison. Smalls previously encountered the three secret agents in an episode called “Shrinking,” episode 13 from season 1. The ladies imprisoned Smalls, and his also tiny siblings, for their crimes. He escaped prison (guess Smalls didn’t want to free his family) and sought revenge. Revenge took the form of turning Clover into a giant. For reasons, I guess? <shrug>

He planned to insert a magnification chip into a tanning booth-looking machine called the “Beauty-mizer” which gives full-body makeovers. However, Smalls mistakenly placed the chip into the booth used by Mandy. The chip worked as intended and Mandy steadily grew. At first her height increased by a relatively small amount, just enough to give a decisive edge in volleyball and for a toe to stick out of her shoe. Then Mandy swelled larger reaching monstrous proportions and she proceeded to attack a local shopping mall called “The Groove.” (As one does… 😉 )

While the trio of spies confronted Mandy, Smalls arrived on scene and finally achieved his original goal of enlarging Clover. That led to a 50-foot scuffle between Clover and Mandy which continued even after they became shorter than a leaf of grass. I will not disclose the final conclusion since a little mystery may enhance the viewing experience.

Totally Spies! was geared toward an older audience and consequently its stories had more meat on their bones compared to Archie’s Weird Mysteries. The artwork was also more detailed. Accordingly, it should comes as no surprise that Attack of the 50 Ft. Mandy is recommended! It also can be watched for free on YouTube.

Lastly, let’s turn our attention to a short story by J.L. Hugh entitled Attack of the Giant Sluts. As per the Amazon entry, Hugh published the aforementioned story in mid-October 2013.

Attack of the Giant Sluts recounted the erotic adventure of a prudish mayor called Ezra Barker who appeared to single-handedly rule the town of Straightville.

He was an unimaginative fellow who almost felt guilty when his wife quietly suggested that they make love doggy style instead of their regular, presumably missionary, style. An unexpected event disturbed Ezra’s mundane life when a van carrying a girls basketball team ran into a truck carrying nuclear waste. The mayor investigated only to discover that nuclear waste spilled by the automotive accident mutated college co-eds into Amazons “over seen fell tall” with “huge tits.” Furthermore, the Amazons wanted nothing but sex. (SIDE NOTE: Perhaps unexpectedly they demonstrated a desire to not just receive, but also to give oral sex. Amazons are generous lovers!)

As mentioned already, Attack of the Giant Sluts was a short story. Thus, I will not describe the plot any further in order to avoid spoilers.

However, the plot itself lacked details. Earlier I quoted the author’s descriptions of the mutated ladies. Namely that they were over seven feet tall with huge tits. Unfortunately, there were very few additional details given. A person might expect unique characteristics such as eye color, hair color, names, personalities, scars, tattoos, etc. to differentiate the women. Alas, Hugh did not provide such information.

To be fair, Hugh did describe one woman as taller than the rest. However, the author did not specify by how much. Presumably, she was noticeably taller. The difference in height between the taller woman and the rest of the women in all probability was at least a few inches (7.62 cm or more) or possibly more than a foot (30.48 cm or more). Although, to be pedantic, it’s possible that when Hugh wrote that one woman was the tallest he meant by a trifling amount. Maybe she was 0.03938 inches (1 mm or so) bigger than the rest which technically meant she was the tallest although the gap in stature was merely minuscule. Greater clarity would have made it easier for readers like myself to imagine the different characters and locations.

Additionally, the story itself was even shorter than the description stated. The Amazon entry stated that it was 33 pages long. That claim was not completely accurate. The author dedicated about 36% of the total length to advertisements for other stories. Attack of the Giant Sluts ended at the 62% mark, according to the desktop Kindle app. Then a series of advertisements began at the 64% mark for Hugh’s other stories.

I would not have objected to a page or two of ads, but when the author devoted a third of the entire eBook to ads that was excessive.

It would unfair to claim there was nothing good about Hugh’s erotic tale. Parts of it were entertaining. One can see where a person would enjoy the fantasy of growing a giant cock and slamming that powerful phallus into an appreciative Amazon, but there was not enough here to justify the $2.99 asking price. Size fans can read stories of comparable length and quality for free at places like Giantess City, Giantess World, and Literotica. Therefore, I do not recommend Attack of the Giant Sluts.

That’s it for today folks. Tune in next time for a look at a 1960s black and white Japanese TV series called “Ultra Q.” A few of the Ultra Q monsters later appeared as antagonists in the Ultraman franchise. The upcoming review will examine those times when Ultra Q showcased a giant man and tiny people. Until then, keep growing!

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