Steven Spielberg’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
While Steven Spielberg doesn’t hate television or streaming series (he has and continues to make productions for both platforms) he is concerned with how they may be affecting the movie theater. In this interview he talks about why streaming movies (which somehow keeps getting called television in the industry) shouldn’t get Oscars and why, as well as why he thinks TV and streaming are a threat to movies.
I prefer to ignore social media on April 1st. Somehow it’s easier to stop on April 2nd.
Hope everyone made it through this Easter without April 1st ruining it for you. I do not like practical jokes.
I have a new photo set-up. You can see it in this week’s Clutter Report.
I don’t have much to preview this week. I’m going to lose a lot of productivity this week, especially on Tuesday, but I’m going to do my best to cover the Morning Article Link, “Yesterday’s” Comic, and nightly feature article. That’s all I have. Enjoy the week!
BraveStarr: The Movie (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
They needed a thousand lawmen.
They got one.
He was enough.
A backdoor pilot is when you use a current show to promote another show. Some are more obvious than others, since they use the current character as background characters who pretty much do nothing while the pilot characters take center stage. That’s kind of the case for a two part episode of Bravestarr, the western in space series by Filmation. Readers from the early days or who run around the archives will remember the last time I looked at this show it was an episode involving murder. Bravestarr had guts for a kids show folks.
For those new to the party the show is set on the planet of New Texas, where the new gold rush is Kerium, an ore that’s important to space travel. The planet is threatened by Stampede, a Horde Prime wanna-be, who sent his lieutenant, Tex Hex, to cause all kinds of problems. Protecting the Old West-like town of Fort Kerium is Marshal Bravestarr–with the powers of hawk, wolf, puma, and bear–his sentient steed Thirty-Thirty, and Deputy Fuzz, one of the planet’s native species. However, this episode, the only two-parter for the series, takes place on Earth as a rift in time and space drops famed detective Sherlock Holmes into the future. And gives him superpowers because why not?
I’ve got the perfect name for Harley’s tell-all book: Fifty Shades Of Mistah J.
Batman: Gotham Adventures #10
DC Comics (March, 1999)
“Mightier Than The Sword”
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Rick Burchett
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo
Dr. Harleen Quinzel, alias Harley Quinn, the poster child for abusive relationships. She used to be a normal person until the Joker found a way to prey on her insecurities and now she takes abuse after abuse for not understanding the Joker’s concept of comedy. It’s often painful to watch, but that’s kind of the point. However, in at least one story she got to give a little of that pain back.
The details I’ll save for tomorrow’s comic review, but this will make you sad the tie-in comic isn’t canon to the TV show. And that she’ll end up right back where she was. But for the moment, one moment, she fought back against her abuser, and that should put a smile on your face. Not the way the Joker would want, but who cares?
“I may be too old for teenage girls doing this but this isn’t an improvement!!”
The Phantom #6
Moonstone (2005)
“Damnation Games” part 2
WRITER: Rafael Nieves
ARTIST: Jerry Decaire
COLORIST: Art Lyon
COVER COLORIST: Mike Koalczyk
LETTERER: Nate Pride
EDITORS: Joe Gentile & Garrett Anderson
Fantastic Four #358, art by Paul Ryan, © Marvel Characters, Inc. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
With Disney closer to buying the entertainment arm of Fox it means they’ll be getting the Fantastic Four license back into Marvel’s hands, which could mean Marvel Studios will make the next (and hopefully good for a change) movie. I guess they’re confidant enough to allow Marvel Comics to restore their first family to comics. I was never really a fan, but the treatment of their first superhero team is really disappointing. For one thing they wouldn’t have had Black Panther, their current biggest movie, without the FF since that’s where he debuted.
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
