“Aw man, it’s one of those Chinese knockoff guns.”
Transformers Spotlight: Jazz
IDW Publishing (March, 2009)
WRITERS: Josh Van Reyk & Shaun Knowler
ARTIST: E.J. Su
COLORIST: Priscilla Tramontano
SELECTED COVER ART: Andrew Griffith
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITORS: Denton J. Tipton & Andy Schmidt
The first installment of my Worldbuilding Project updates. I introduce you to my binder and the plans I have going into this project.
I’ve been wanting to do more art-related projects. After issue #3 of Captain Yuletide introduced an origin and I actually made character sheets I started thinking of adding more details about the characters and lore. Not deep or sophisticated mind you (it’s an annual superhero Christmas comic for kids) but something that gives me a proper framework to work with. This is something I’ve mentioned during Art Soundoff, creating a story bible, even if all of the information doesn’t show up in the story. At the very least it affects how you write the characters and creates some consistency. My solution?
Inspired by comic challenges like 100 Days Of Making Comics or 30 Characters In 30 Days I decided to give myself a little extra push in finally creating a Captain Yuletide story bible. In this v-log I explain how this will all go down.
Apparently I don’t have issue #3, although given yesterday’s comic was in the wrong spot who knows?
Lady, that is a terrible outfit for flying.
Gargoyles #4
Marvel Comics (May, 1995)
“Blood From A Stone”
STORY: Martin Pasko & Mort Todd
DIALOG: Mort Todd
PENCILER: Amanda Conner
INKER: Alberto Saichann
COLORIST: Anthony Tollin
LETTERER: John Costanza
EDITOR: Hildy Mesnik
English: Mort Walker’s signature (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mort Walker, the creator of the family comic strip Hi & Lois and military comedy strip Beetle Bailey, passed away at 94 years old. The two comics share a continuity as Bailey has shown up in Hi & Lois, I think as Lois’ brother. The strips will continue on but my sympathies to his family and friends.
And this is a sad one to go off of. The Morning Article Link will be taking a break in February. You’ll see why later tonight, but if any interesting articles pop up I’ll try to make an article or slip it into the Jake & Leon posting.
Robotech CCG VF-1J (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Thanks to my friend Sean we have two more issues of Titan’s run on Robotech to look into. They seem to have jumped right to a two-issue re-imagining of the episode “Bye-Bye Mars”, in which the ship lands on Mars and psycho Khyron sets a trap. I’m curious but as I prepare to read these issues I’m admittedly not as interested as I want to be.
On the one hand it’s a different take on the show, but on the other what have they really changed? One character that survived a lot longer than this was killed and some personalities were altered, and not necessarily for the better. Add in the dull expressions and I’m not really seeing the advantage here. And now we have Simon Furman added to the mix. You know, the guy who has robots forced into sex changes because he doesn’t think they should have gender naturally, has multiple plotlines whenever possible, and loves as much death and destruction as he can put into a story. I’m not all that fired up right now. In fact this two-part story is this comic’s last chance to keep me interested in this book. This could end up being my last look at this series. Let’s find out for certain.
This one ended up in the wrong spot in my longbox, just to keep messing with me!
Just another fan hating on the Silver Centurion armor.
Iron Man #230
Marvel Comics (May, 1988)
“Stark Wars” chapter 6: “The Day The Hero Died”
WRITER: David Michelinie
BREAKDOWNS: M.D. Bright
CO-PLOTTER/FINISHES: Bob Layton
COLORIST: Bob Sharen
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
EDITOR: Mark Gruenwald
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
