Bizarro took up butter sculpting.
Superman Adventures #29
DC Comics (March, 1999)
“Bride Of Bizarro”
WRITER: Mark Millar
PENCILER: Aluir Amancio
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Marie Severin
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol
LETTERER: Lois Buhalis
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Mike McAvennie
Iron Man’s life has been a bit of a pain. He’s had to deal with assassins, arms merchants, kidnappers, and now aliens. It’s not easy being Tony Stark. And now his back-up ditched him after practically starting the problem.
Throughout these adventures the bad guys have a bad habit of escaping. Tonight Iron Man’s not letting this one get away. This one happens to be a Sentinel-sized robot, but that won’t stop him!
“Heloise, what did I tell you about drawing on the walls?”
The Phantom #7
Moonstone (2005)
“The Aviatrix” part 1
WRITER: Ben Raab
PENCILER: Pat Quinn
INKERS: Pat Quinn & Ken Wheaton
COLORIST: Joe Bucco
COVER ART: Doug Klauba
LETTERER: Jeff Eckleberry
EDITORS: Joe Gentile & Garrett Anderson
If this is late it’s because somehow the entire article just deleted itself and undo doesn’t want to work. Yes, I am pissed off about it!
My history with the original RoboCop franchise is as follows: I didn’t see the movie as a kid because it was too violent. I did watch and enjoy the cartoon and later RoboCop: The Series. I did eventually see the first movie, but it was the ABC TV edit, and even then they had the viewer discretion warning. I later saw the second and third movie, but I did have the comic adaptations of the first and second film, a few random Marvel issues (which I’ve also reviewed), the crossover with the Terminator from Dark Horse (also reviewed), and the Free Comic Book Day preview of Avatar’s run (I think I took a look at it but there was nothing to really review). I also saw the second cartoon, Alpha Commando, and the Sci-Fi Channel miniseries Prime Directives, and they were both crap. Of all of these I kind of liked the crossover, enjoyed the first cartoon when it aired but I haven’t watched it since, and really enjoyed the TV series. And my knowledge of the movies are still influenced by the comic adaptations.
So when they announced that the re-imagined RoboCop was going to be PG-13 it didn’t bother me a bit. And yet it seemed like that was the huge complaint against the movie before it even hit theaters, as if being ultra-violent was important to the theme. As if the movie would only be good if it was ultra-violent and gory. Well that wasn’t my first experience to the franchise or the story of the first movie so I never made that connection. There was also less social commentary due to space in the comic and it being based on an earlier draft so I was more interested in the “man in the machine” aspect, which I’ve always considered the central theme of the story. So how did the new movie handle that?
RELEASE DATE: 2014
RELEASED BY: Sony Pictures
RUNTIME:
RATING: PG13
STARRING: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, and Jackie Earle Haley
SCREENWRITERS: Joshua Zetumer, Edward Neumeier, and Michael Milner
Fun fact: the script was based on an early script for the first movie before director Paul Verhoeven opted for more comedic elements and a strong anti-corporation vibe.
DIRECTOR: José Padilha
GROSS REVENUE: $242,688,965 ($58,607,007 domestic) from an estimated budget of $$100,000,000
IMDB SCORE: 6.2 out of 10
ROTTEN TOMATOES SCORE: 49% (Audience Score: 49%)
“Do these look like rubber duckies to you idiots? I asked for…rubber…duckies!”
Transformers: All Hail Megatron #2
IDW Publishing (August, 2008)
WRITER: Shane McCarthy
ARTIST: Guido Guidi
COLORIST: Josh Burcham
SELECTED COVER ART: Trevor Hutchison
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton
English: Dwayne Johnson at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. Photographer’s blog post about this photo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson discusses his feud with Fast & The Furious co-star Vin Diesel. The link there is to ScreenCrush, but there is a link in the article to the full interview, which contains swearing, all about Johnson. However, there is a spoiler for his current movie Rampage, allegedly based on the video game except no it isn’t because few video game movies are any kind of good video game adaptation. It still looks like a cool movie. The full interview also discusses politics, because heaven forbid we get five seconds away from politics!
Scooter (GoBots) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I know I’m technically going to the same well early but when someone does a review on the GoBots that isn’t insulting I have to give them proper credit. By now long time readers know of my love of GoBots right down to doing video reviews of the original telling of their origin and the one everybody knows plus other postings. But among Transformers fans the Gobotronian rivals always get dumped upon.
As part of an April Fool’s gag Transformers: The Basics creator and host Chris McFeely went over the history of GoBots. It’s not a big praise fest but it’s also not a trashing. Instead he gives an straightforward, honest review of the franchise. So boost his view count and maybe he’ll make it a recurring feature or something.
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
