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“Kit! Heloise! Who’s been playing with the light bulbs?”
The Phantom #2
Moonstone (2004)
“Stones Of Blood” part 2
WRITER: Ben Raab
ARTIST: Pat Quinn
COLORISTS: Ken Wolak & Dawn Groszewski
COVER ART: Pat Quinn (designed by John Cassaday)
LETTERER: Jeff Eckleberry
EDITORS: Joe Gentile & Garrett Anderson
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Sonic the Hedgehog has been Sega’s mascot since his introduction in 1991. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Fansided is reporting that a live-action Sonic The Hedgehog movie is in the works, with Sonic and friends in CG and Robotnix/Eggman, the only human you expect to see in the story, done with an actor. Unless they’re going to use cities of humans like in more recent stories what is the point of even doing that? The live-action status symbol of course.
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I was hoping to do a Finally Watched this week. I even spent the last two days trying to decide which movie to do, but I can’t let this week go without discussing the latest DC news.
DC Comics recently announced two new imprints aimed at younger readers, feeling that kids and teens have not been properly addressed in their comics. Because making comics friendly to kids like the ones I grew up with (and it wasn’t exactly kiddie comics in the Bronze Age–this is when Speedy was on drugs and my first Batman comic was about a crazy man who murdered the homeless) is too difficult. Not that I would mind a kid-targeted DC Universe mind you. As long as they get exposed to superheroes. Kids need superheroes. Kids…are not getting a lot of superheroes from these lines.
Well, only one of them is for kids, DC Zoom. The other, DC Ink, targets teenage readers. And there are some interesting ideas here, but not a lot of superhero ideas, and none of them really featuring classic superhero adventures. In a time where superhero movies and cartoons (if not on Cartoon Network because it interferes with showing another episode of Teen Titans Go, which they only interrupt to show some other wacky comedy vaguely about fighting bad guys) are quite active kids are getting superheroes elsewhere. This could have been DC’s chance to get more kids interested in superheroes. And that’s not what we’re getting. There are some good stories, some I might even check out if I had money, but superhero adventures? We aren’t even getting a Justice League Action tie-in, because I don’t think Cartoon Network is even airing the show right now. So what are we getting?
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“I don’t want a hug. Go see Firebrand.”
Transformers Spotlight: Cyclonus
(Revelation part 1)
IDW Publishing (June, 2008)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTIST: E.J. Su
COLORIST: Kris Carter
SELECTED COVER ART: Nick Roche
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton
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Album cover of Lost in Space Original Television Soundtrack, Volume 1 CD, with music by John Williams (ASIN B000001P1R). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I should be stuck home the next two days so I’m hoping to have Worldbuilding Project updates. But here’s something interesting. Netflix has been doing a lot of reboots of classic shows because creating new things is hard and it’s easier to market a name everyone knows and slap it on something different than actually try to modernize an old show. Added to that list is Lost In Space, the 1960s sci-fi show that had a sub-par reboot movie in the 90s. Let’s hope this one goes better. ScreenCrush has the teaser and a few photos and information about the new take.
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Totally Doctor Who (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I think every showrunner is going to come up with his or her own Doctor Who logo, which I guess is them putting their own stamp on the show immediately. Of course the new Doctor is going to be a woman (and I listed my problems with that before Capaldi was announced and I’m sure I’ll be accused of being a dirty sexist who won’t give Jodie Wittaker a chance, even though I plan to) but that has nothing to do with the logo change. Incoming showrunner Chris Chibnall and the BBC have revealed their new logo for the beginning of his run, and this I’m not giving any quarter. I don’t like it.
