Sneak Previews (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
While I’m hoping to do my own analysis of what’s being offered for Free Comic Book Day in 2018 and what I’d like to pick up, it depends on what free time I have. In the meantime you can check out the catalog of this year’s offerings and make your own checklist.
Shouldn’t we be living by the good examples others set anyway?
Big name directors, TV celebrities, comic book editors, and even internet personalities have been really showing us a darker side. The latest is the continually worsening fallout from Channel Awesome that has led to more revelations than mismanagement, including allegations of harassment both sexual and otherwise, by people I’ve promoted on this site before learning what they really were. That news can often send someone off a positive path or destroy a positive message they were sending. But it shouldn’t. Just because they didn’t live up to their own talk doesn’t mean what we thought they were was wrong. Just that they didn’t live up to them. Don’t give up your dreams just because your heroes prove to be false. I can understand re-examining what you thought you wanted to do with your life, and that can put you off a bad path, but if what you were pursuing was a positive for your life, keep at it. Don’t give up your dreams because others turned out to be horrible people. The reason they inspired you hasn’t changed, just that they didn’t live up to it.
Over at The Clutter Reports I decided to clean up my Twitter feed and Amazon wishlists. It’s all I had time to do last week.
My friend Sean got me the next two issues of Titan’s Robotech, and this may be their last chance to impress me enough to continue on with it. I haven’t connected with this new take, and with every other version I’ve seen finding ways to tell new stories without altering what made the show good I’m not sure they needed a new take. Also Casablanca is airing on TCM (Turner Classic Movies) on Wednesday night (8 PM ET). It’s one of the movies on my Finally Watched want list because it is such a huge classic so you may get that article on Thursday. I’ve seen plenty of homages but not the movie itself so that’s long overdue. And I’m hoping to do work on the Captain Yuletide story bible and the last panel from ConnectiCon 2016 but we’ll see if those happen. Here’s hoping for a creative week because I’m losing time again next week.
That’s one noogie nobody wants.
Batman Beyond #2
DC Comics (April, 1999)
“I Am Batman”
WRITER: Hilary J. Bader
PENCILER: Rick Burchett
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo
Tonight we take a trip to the future, to see how a new Batman takes on the bad guys. Terry just learned who killed his dad, and that his dad’s old boss is about to sell a deadly toxin that delivers a slow death. You’ll get the full story tomorrow and I don’t know how to pad out this intro, so let’s just get into things. I know it’ll be short on the homepage, but we’ll see who’s paying attention.
When candy doesn’t agree with the Phantom, it really doesn’t agree.
The Phantom #20
Moonstone (2007)
“Worth Beyond Measure”
WRITER: Mike Bullock
ARTIST: Zeu
COLORIST: Bob Pedroza
COVER ART: Marat Mychaels
LETTERER: Bernie Lee
EDITOR: Joe Gentile
Cannes Film Festival (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Variety is reporting that Netflix will be pulling out of the Cannes Film Festival altogether after a new rules bans their movies from taking part in the competition side. This comes after Netflix films won last year, upsetting French theater owners. Is this another sign that theater and streaming are in a battle or is Cannes right for not including films not seen in French theaters given the history and purpose of the festival?
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
Saturday Night Showcase: The Day Mass Effect Died
Mass Effect Galaxy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I tried playing Mass Effect but I couldn’t figure out how to move the darn ship. So I basically won the game by joining the secret government crimefighting group. However, those who could move the ship and made it through the other two main games enjoyed it…until the ending of the third game, which BioWare had to race to change. Not having played it (I can’t even get out of dock, remember) I can’t speak to the quality. Someday I would like to finish it.
But all of the love the main trilogy got couldn’t help the intended next trilogy, Mass Effect: Andromeda. The game released with play and animation bugs that were hilarious to watch but from what I hear frustrating to play. But even when they fixed that and the true visual beauty of the game shown through…there was still something wrong. YouTube gaming commentator Henry Sharpe, aka “Ruskie” put out a video essay as to why the game didn’t work even when the software did. It clocks in at an hour so it’s not filler material. That’s why it’s this week’s Showcase.
Note for readers not used to swearing on this website there’s some in this video. Enjoy.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 14, 2018 in Saturday Night Showcase, Video Game Spotlight and tagged BioWare, commentary, Mass Effect, Mass Effect: Andromeda, Review.
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