Maybe because I’m tired today, but I’ve got nothing to really work with here.
Sonic The Hedgehog #206
Archie Comics Publications (January 2010)
WRITER: Ian Flynn
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Matt Herms
LETTERER: John E. Workman, Jr.
COVER: Pat “Spaz Spaziante
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Paul Kaminski
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
“On The Run” part 2: “Troubles By The Dozen”
PENCILER: Steve Butler
“Birthright” part 2
PENCILER: Jamal Peppers
To celebrate Mario Day on March 10th (so they were a day early), Nintendo Direct posted the final trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the sequel to the hit The Super Mario Brothers Movie and having nothing to with that live-action 90s movie that stole the names and nothing else. We ignore that movie around these parts, though I do understand why it developed its own cult following…which does not include the actors.
I still have yet to see the first movie, which is now supposedly free with ads on Fandango, so I really want to get a Finally Watched article out of it soon, before this sequel comes out. We’ll have to see what my schedule does. I had my own thoughts going in, including what I wanted to see, but they didn’t ask me. I still have some misgivings, not in the quality of the work because I have yet to hear a bad word from the fans, but versus what I wish they had done. The Nintendo Direct also includes some minor information about the movie, and is still a short video, just under eight minutes.
In addition to the trailer, each of the celebrity cast who aren’t the actual game voice actors because Hollywood get to tell you how excited they are because they got paid to. No, I don’t think they hated it. Jack Black just always comes off as exaggerating, and we’ll get to the rest after we see the trailer. So let’s see the trailer.
Fun fact: My grandfather ended up drafted into two different military branches due to a clerical error. Not at the same time, mind you.
Feature Comics #27
Comic Favorites, Inc (December, 1939)
I wasn’t planning to read this series again. Golden Age Friday is where I’ve been reviewing the anthologies of the period, and this one was lacking so I stopped. This might not be costing me money but it does cost time, which is kind of precious to me at the moment. However, this issue is the first every appearance of Dollman, before the company changed it’s name to Quality Comics. Actually, I’m not sure if Comic Magazines, Inc was part of the same company or if someone got acquired. I’m not a Golden Age historian. Anyway, the comic is important, so while I’m not going to continue with this series regularly, it’s an important chapter for pre-DC Tuesday.
One more thing to note is that Comic Book Plus’s scan of the comic is incomplete. I tried the Digital Comic Museum but they’re in the same boat. Only 27 pages and the cover survived, this is actually fine with me given my opinion of the comic. Luckily, the one we’re here to see is not only intact but at the start of the comic as a result, meaning no Mickey Finn starting us off. I just hope the full origin story is here.
I know they’re about to add stuff to this chapter and the epilogue. Our last chapter ended with only a couple of minutes left to the episode, and yet chapter 15 is nine pages. Even with the teaser for the next story arc (that’s what they did back in the William Hartnell years) and a slightly over one page epilogue there’s more book that there is episode left.
I’m not complaining about the padding in this one, mind you. I understand that they’re trying to extend two episodes to a novel length that usually handles 4 or 5 episodes, and I bet some really long serials in later years had to be cut down a bit to fit the same book size. It’s not even the shortest arc in the series. It’s the serial that’s just one episode that I’m curious what Target Books did with. I may never know.
What I do know is that I’ve run out of ways to pad out the intros for the homepage, so this is ending at just the right time. So let’s get into the last chapter, and the epilogue, and finish this book.
“My hand has this tingly feeling.”
Prototype #11
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (June, 1994)
“I’m On Fire”
WRITERS: Tom Mason & Len Strazewski
PENCILER: Roger Robinson
INKER: Scott Reed
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Susan Dome
EDITOR: Roland Mann
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