“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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Seemed appropriate as we end the Doctor Who novelisation of The Rescue over at Chapter By Chapter.
Wait until you see the tiddlywinks movie.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen tiddlywinks.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week my project was half-finished and next weekend I’ll be reviewing our current Chapter By Chapter book, as Doctor Who: The Rescue finishes this week. So I just posted a video about using the GPS method of organizing to make your home match your flow, rather than altering how you do things to fit the house. No smashed walls required.
Besides finishing our novelization, we’re also finishing our next document of the CBS Transformers failed pitch. However, while we’re going over sample plots, there’s still a full sample script to examine and afterthoughts before I put that away. If I have time I might also get the first issue of Watchmen read, but that’s still a continuing series rather than another weekly one. There may be other things to talk about as the next big movie cycle is coming. Hope you all remembered to set your clocks ahead for Daylight Savings Time and have a great week.
I forgot to do a Saturday Night Showcase last week. So this week it’s a two for one, which also clears out my waiting library a bit.
Mechagodzilla is my favorite Godzilla enemy. Space Godzilla barely shares anything with the King Of The Monsters besides looks and has had the least of the recurrences. Ghidorah is pretty much everyone’s threat, and they even made him a heroic monster once, mistake as that is. MechaG (to his homies) is the best anti-Godzilla, awesome as those other two are. Whether used by humans to protect the planet or aliens to destroy the planet, Mechagodzilla is just cool to me.
Tonight we look at both versions of the mechanical nightmare. I posted his first appearance, Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla once for a previous Saturday Night Showcase, but it’s no longer available. YouTube, via Shout Factory using the Janus Films dub, does have the sequel, Terror Of Mechagodzilla, as the mechanical menace returns thanks to a different group of alien invaders. For the human side, which has been how he’s been depicted ever since, we have, courtesy of YouTube’s licensed postings, the wrongly named Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla II. It’s a sequel to nothing and is the first time the bot was used to protect Earth rather than conquer it. Personally, I prefer the alien version but the franchise rarely uses alien invasion anymore, as it helps keeps Godzilla on the evil side rather than the Guardian Monster I grew up with. It’s sad. Whatever your preference, enjoy.
Terrance Howard was a better James Rhodes than Don Cheadle. I’m not changing that opinion, and that’s not a swipe at Cheadle. He’s a good actor, just not the best Rhodey we’ve had. Admittedly the best Rhodey was the late James Avery but that’s if you include animation, which I usually do. For years the story we heard was that Howard wanted too much money to return for Iron Man 2 and that Ike Perlmutter figured any black man would do, a clear attempt to paint him as racist so Bob Iger looked better having bought Marvel and got rid of him and his people. You know, the ones that made Marvel Studios so profitable that Iger wanted it for his Disney.
Now comes a podcast appearance by Howard, chronicled by Geeks & Gamers contributor Alex Gherzo, that says the real problem might have been Howard’s ego when he has a verbal spar with one of another film’s producers…a movie also produced by Robert Downey, Jr.’s wife. No, he didn’t yell at her, but one of her other producers. Still, could the recast have been payback? Read the article (they also posted the podcast) and decide for yourself.
I love when these guides do this.
Last time we looked at how the show would have been formatted under this pitch. Now we get sample episodes. When it comes to shows we got I like to match up these plot ideas with the episodes we got in the final product. Did they make them? Were there any serious changes? Were ideas just tossed out completely? And are we better off without the ones dropped or would the episodes have been better going in the original direction?
This is a bit different from other times I got to do this. We DID get a Transformers cartoon, but not this one. This pitch kept only the bare minimum from the original miniseries, while what we got was a proper continuation, complete with the original cast of Transformers and humans. The rules of Saturday morning didn’t apply to weekly, later weekday, syndication. And yet both were done by Marvel Productions and Sunbow. The only writer attached to the project currently is Jeffrey Scott, who wrote both drafts. While working on the main series isn’t in his lengthy writing credits, and I don’t know how many other writers were involved in making these episodes, they would still have this bible. Elements would be picked up for the show. So who’s to say the episodes wouldn’t?
When we finish this document we even have a full script to go over, but for this and the next installment of this article series we’ll take a look at the plots suggested for the show. In total there are 13 episode ideas (and we do start off this section continuing to break the fourth wall but in the same “computer file” format we’ve seen throughout) plus some final notes. 13 episodes is in keeping with the amount required for a weekly show: thirteen weeks worth of episodes. So I’ll see how many I can get in this article before getting to the larger word count, and figure out how long this will take. Either way, this series is nearing the conclusion.
He was embarrassed to find out it was the wrong boat and this was her idea of a good time.
Jumbo Comics #12
Real Adventures Publishing Company, Inc (February, 1940)
I apparently missed this one. I was neutral but hopeful in my review of the previous issue. Hopefully this one is worth the time. Doing these Golden Age reviews takes about as long as a regular article, which is why I avoid the gag pages and text stories to speed these along. I only have so much time in my day so I’m trying not to review every Golden Age comic, just the ones that interest me. It’s how stuff gets into “Yesterday’s” Comic otherwise, so why not these as well?
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