Please, we know her classmates are making fun of that hat.
W.I.T.C.H.: The Graphic Novel Free Preview
Yen Press/Disney Comics (October, 2017)
“The Twelve Portals” part 1
CONCEPT: Elisabetta Gnome
CO-WRITER: Francesco Arribani
ARTIST: Alessandro Barbucci
COLOR/LIGHT DIRECTION: Barbara Canepa
INKER: Donald Soffritti
COLORIST: Mara Damiani
TITLE PAGE COLOR: Andrew Cagol
Wait, what color? The preview at least is in black and white.
Well, here we are. Last time we saw Pocket Vinyl complete their quest to play 50 states in less than 50 days, unofficially breaking that record. The final time: 44 Days, 13 Hours, 50 Minutes. Remember that the duo Devon Allman and Donavon Frankenreiter went for a 49 state tour in 2023 while the official record was held by Adam Brodsky. So if accurate, it means they actually win, but due to the requirements to get recorded by Guinness it’s unofficial.
However, we can’t end there. We saw them complete their tour in Hawaii, but in 45 days (rounded goal) we also saw them go through the stresses of the tour, throat issues, and the ups and downs of each venue and place to sleep. Elizabeth especially chronicled the toll it was taking on her sanity. That means we have to see how they got over what they went through so that they’re still together and still touring and performing today.
This is also the chapter where we finally get to the misprint of the “Misprint Edition”, the reason I even have a copy because the dude who ran the comic store thought I’d like it. Turns out he was right. Due to this misprint they had to redo all the copies, but because they already had a huge stack of the misprinted books they opted to give them out in the hopes of getting good reviews. In addition to my comic store they gave them to libraries and those “give one/take one” street libraries, printing out the corrected page and shoving it into the book. Was that necessary? We’ll find the answer to that as well as we look at chapter 11, the final chapter of this graphic novel.
I’m the one who should be mad! You took a hero I created and gave his name to the villain!
The Strangers #14
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1994)
“The Man Of Power”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
PENCILER: Rick Hoberg
INKER: Tim Eldred
COLORING: Tim Divar & Prisms
LETTERER: Kevin Cunningham
EDITOR: Roland Mann
Note that this is an English dub of a French produced fan film.
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A colonoscopy will do that.
I just caught the typo. It’s been one of those weeks. It’s also why I missed the Friday comic review. So I’m going to put that one in Tuesday’s slot so I can still have the return of Golden Age Friday.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I spin off from the Comic Organizing Mega-Project into the Comic Digitizing Mega-Project. Here’s the preview of what’s coming there.
Back here it’s the final chapter of How To Completely Lose Your Mind, meaning that will be reviewed in full at The Clutter Reports next week. Still deciding on the next licensed novel for review. Hopefully this will be a more productive week full of interesting topics and maybe building my buffer. We’ll see. Have a great week, everyone!
War Planets was a Trendmaster toyline, which tried to (all puns intended) master the trend of the mini playset. Most people nostalgic for this period would think of Polly Pocket for girls and Mighty Max for boys. They’re playsets that fold up for easy transport. For example, visiting a relative that doesn’t have kids? You can bring this along rather than lug a bunch of your toys if you’re not much of a reader and there’s no place to play or the weather’s too lousy to go outside.
A tie-in animated series was produced to help promote the toys, made by Mainframe Entertainment, the company who rose to fame in the computer animated field with Reboot, which I was going to do tonight to tie in to last week’s Showcase, but apparently I already did that when Shout Factory posted the pilot to their YouTube channel. After going by Rainmaker for a while for some reason, the now branded Mainframe Studios has their own channel, and are uploading their own productions there.
However, in Canada, where putting “war” in a show title is forbidden (Mainframe had to air the Transformers series Beast Wars as Beasties, which is unintentionally humorous), the show would gain a different name, and that’s the title in the intro: Shadow Raiders. The show follows emissaries from a group of planets whose governments don’t get along with or trust each other. That suits the invading force of the Unicron-like world Beast Planet as it makes them easier to absorb. However, a survivor from one of their previous victims will find an unlikely ally who will try to unite the rest of the toyline planetary system against this foe. Unfortunately, they don’t call it WAR Planets for nothing. Enjoy.
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