“Let’s shake hands and be enemies.”
Sonic Universe #11
Archie Comics (February 2010)
“Echoes Of The Past” part 3
WRITER: Ian Flynn
PENCILER: Tracy Yardley
INKER: Jim Amash
COLORIST: Jason Jensen
LETTERER: Teresa Davidson
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Paul Kaminski
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
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We have a new trailer today for Amazon MGM’s new live-action Masters Of The Universe movie. While not the story I would have wanted, and that’s where I’ve been the most critical, it looked good visually when they finally got off that silly dirt planet and back to Eternia where the story belongs.
Unlike the previous trailer, the focus is more on the drama and action. We have a better look at the effects, the characters, the Power Sword, and something I wanted to see for a while: a really good look at Nicholas Galitzine as He-Man, not just (former) Prince Adam. We still get a joke at the end, but this one is all about the stuff we want to go to a Masters Of The Universe story for: the heroic warriors versus the evil warriors.
Does that mean it’s good? Not necessarily. It also doesn’t mean it’s bad. It just means we finally get the important part and at this point I’m out of interesting ways to pad out an intro, so let’s look at the darn thing. Sorry, homepage.
Sure this isn’t the summer issue?
Uncle Sam Quarterly #2 (Winter Edition)
Comic Magazines Inc (Winter, 1941)
Uncle Sam is one of those characters that even in post-comics media exist in an alternate continuity, and for good reason. Even with all the potential weirdness that exists in a less cynical and superserious DC universe I don’t really see him fitting in. The concepts he was created in, and at this point I don’t see signs of a Comic Magazines/Quality shared universe (maybe as we continue down this path), just doesn’t work within the DC mythology…and we have a dude that’s essentially “what if Billy Batson was Captain America and really, really old while having the same power source as Lady Liberty” in the form of General Glory. (Not to be confused with Major Glory from Dexter’s Laboratory, though I suspect they’d be best buds with each other and Sam.) It certainly doesn’t fit modern DC lore since today’s writers hate anything remotely silly outside of quirky dialog that makes you want to shoot someone.
For those of you who missed chapter 1, we’re looking at the husband/wife performance group Pocket Vinyl as they planned to do all fifty United States in 45 days, a breaking of the previous 50 days record. While they planned to do this unofficially due to money and logistics, it will still count to them.
This is a longer chapter than last time, at 25 pages. As a prose novel that would drive me nuts. As a comic that’s still a pretty long chapter in a graphic novel that is still 11 chapters long. Still, it might not be as bad as it sounds. Considering how many novels I had to do two or even more chapters for because they were so short, it’s only my personal time that concerns me. That’s not a criticism. Nobody expects a reader to be reviewing a book one chapter at a time. Chapters are supposed to be a good place to take a break in case you have to do other things like go to the bathroom, go back to work, go to bed, prepare for open heart surgery…I don’t know what you guys do for fun. Sometimes there are even breaks in the chapter because for whatever reason they want to have more than one scene in one chapter.
That’s one thing I’ve never really figured out: why writers (or in this case comic creators) put breaks where they do. Is there a formula or is it just where the writer thinks it’s best…and why? Maybe someday I’ll find out, but for now let’s see our duo prepare to officially begin their tour.
The Night Man’s true arch enemy: The Day Man.
The Night Man #10
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1994)
“Chalk”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
ARTIST: Kyle Hotz
COLORING: Mickey Rose & Foodhammer
LETTERER: Kevin Cunningham
EDITOR: Roland Mann
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 31, 2026 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, gender swap, Hollywood, race swap.
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