Is the cover artist not shown what characters in the story look like?
The Phantom: Valley Of The Golden Men
Moonstone Books (2004)
WRITER: Tom DeFalco
PENCILER: Lou Manna
INKERS: Art Nichols & Terry Pallot
COLORIST: Mike Kowalczyk
COVER ART: Joel Naprstek
LETTERER: Erik Enervold
EDITORS: Joe Gentile & Dave Ulanski
(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
JJ Abrams “get the band back together and slowly kill them off” trilogy isn’t even done yet, the next “ignore the original cast” trilogy is yet to even start, and already a THIRD trilogy has been announced by Disney. And quite frankly between all these trilogies and the stand alones I have to ask…are we getting too much Star Wars now?
Maybe not for the die-hard fan base. After all they were used to comics, novels, and video games coming out constantly while the movies weren’t even done. I mean the general audiences, the casual fans. (For the record I rank somewhere in between because I can only dedicate so much of my random brain to any one thing.) The ones who enjoy the various Star Wars films but want to watch something else sometimes, too. And this may spell trouble for the franchise. And I kind of wonder about who they chose for this. First, here’s the announcement from the official YouTube channel’s The Star Wars Show.
“You didn’t see nothin’!”
Transformers Spotlight: Grimlock
IDW Publishing (March, 2008)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTIST: Marcelo Matere
COLORISTS: Zac Atkinson, Liam Shalloo, & Andrew Elder
LETTERER: Amanda Osorio
EDITOR: Andrew Steven Harris
Previously we’ve looked at the first three Transformers Armada minicomics Dreamwave produced for Hasbro, but there’s one more to go. So it’s time to finish this series. Dreamwave also produced minicomics for Energon so we aren’t done yet but we’ll put this series to bed.
At this point the toyline introduced the subline “The Unicron Battles”. This featured the first ever Unicron toy, long desired by those who grew up with the original toyline and Transformers: The Movie. While the toy had been planned twice in the past, once when the movie came out and once by Takara for the Japanese-exclusive line Beast Wars Neo, neither were ever produced. Finally for this line we got our Unicron and it was worth the wait seeing as the other two designs didn’t really capture the essence of the big villain Simon Furman re-imagined into a god of chaos nearly as well. (When it comes to Unicron I’m actually neutral as to which origin is better, cartoon or comic, but I still prefer the Quintesson origin over Primus.)
It was decided to make Unicron the big threat of the subline and tie the version of him in this continuity to the Mini-Cons, and so the “Unicron Battles” began. And this was the comic that introduced the idea to toy buyers who didn’t see the show or read the regular Dreamwave comics. So how does it do? The first two comics were not that great since they had to force three translations of the same dialog into the panel. The third issue was better for only needing one language but still not that great, so what does this series end on?
“Hey Galactus, the rest of us want to see, too. Wanna move to the back seats?”
Transformers Armada volume 4
CREATED BY: Dreamwave for Hasbro
PUBLISH DATE: 2003
WRITER: Chris Sarracini
PENCILER: James Riaz
COLORISTS: Felipe Smith & David Cheung
Only TWO colorists, Dreamwave? Are you finally realizing you don’t need five colorists on one book, especially a minicomic? Since none of the Energon minicomics have credits we’ll never know.
LETTERING: Dreamer Design
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Matt Moylan
SPOILER: This is not the Medusa Project, but it is a teaser to something important.
Gargoyles #5
Marvel Comics (June, 1995)
“Venus In Stone”
PLOT: Martin Pasko & Mort Todd
DIALOG: Mort Todd
BREAKDOWNS: Amanda Conner
FINISHES: Alberto Saichann
COLORIST: Karl Bollers
LETTERER: John Costanza
EDITOR: Hildy Mesnik
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