“Now to make Kevin Feige do my character properly!”
Thunderbolts #12
Marvel Comics (March, 1998)
“Endgame”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
PENCILER: Mark Bagley
INKERS: Vince Russell, Scott Hanna, Larry Mahlstadt, & Greg Adams
COLORIST: Joe Rosas
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
Last time the crew came up with a solution to continue on their mission, although the reason why wasn’t as satisfactory as the movie because it had more confrontation and less working together to a common goal. Nobody looked good in the book but they did in the movie. When Asimov uses the power of the novel to his advantage things work well, but there are times the movie did it better, or at least better to me.
Now the mission can continue to destroy the blood clot, but what other hidden dangers, both within and…the other within will our heroes face next?
It’s a long way there, you…no, never mind. I’m thinking of someplace else.
Well that was a short miniseries.
Nightwing #3
DC Comics (November, 1995)
“The Oubliette”
WRITER: Denny O’Neil
PENCILER: Greg Land
INKER: Mike Sellers
COLORIST: Cathi Bertrand
LETTERER: John Costanza
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Keri Kowalski
EDITOR: Pat Garrahy
It costs nothing to make a tweet, so when whichever cops runs their station’s Twitter get bored during a very cold winter making a fun post doesn’t cost the taxpayers anything. And so numerous states called for the arrest of Elsa, the ice-powered character from Disney’s Frozen. Geez, the poor girl can’t get a break from anybody. Persecuted simply because of her powers. I guess Disney owning Marvel and the X-movies means she’s a mutant now.
Of course, Jake’s organizing doesn’t include cutting the collection down.
The good news is I’m making huge headway with this project, as you can see in this week’s Clutter Report. I’m at the point where I can resume the daily comic reviews, which is nice. This Wednesday I’ll review the last of the Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest comics I have to review, since issue #12 was lost in the disaster but now has been found. The Friday Phantom reviews are going to backtrack a bit since I found earlier comics from the Moonstone run that I didn’t remember I had before returning to where I left off. (Luckily I finished the “Invisible Children” storyline, since Nightwing, Thunderbolts, and Transformers all stopped on cliffhangers before I started this project but I had to start sometime.)
As for this…last…year’s Captain Yuletide I’m hopeful that will go up Saturday depending on how things go. I missed the last Friday Night Fight so I hope not to miss the next one. Fantastic Voyage continues this week. Not sure what else I have to say here, so I’ll just get back to work.
Dragon’s Lair (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I don’t discuss game shows often here at the Spotlight because this is a storytelling review site, and it’s rare that game shows tell a story. However, I thought this would be interesting for SNS. Does anybody remember the video game competition game show Starcade?
Created and developed by James Caruso and Mavis Arthur, Starcade was originally intended to be a gaming competition, like you see today. However, that pilot didn’t go over well and the show was retooled into the game show we all know today. The show featured two contestants using video game trivia and skills to win their own home arcade game. For whatever reason, Shout Factory’s YouTube channel has a special episode as their only sample, in which the usual options for the game playing round had been replaced with Dragon’s Lair.
Dragon’s Lair was the first of the laserdisk games. You play Dirk The Daring, off to rescue the Princess Daphne from the dragon who kidnapped her. Ahead of its time, the game didn’t use game sprites but cartoon animation produced by Don Bluth’s animation studio. By following the proper prompts you send Dirk through various challenges in the dragon’s castle before finally defeating the dragon and saving the princess. It led to a sequel, Timewarp, a few unofficial sequels using regular game sprites or computer animation, and a second laserdisk game, Space Ace. Both also became animated series, Dragon’s Lair showing up on ABC while Space Ace was one segment on CBS’s Saturday Supercade, neither of them done by Don Bluth’s studio. I’m mainly posting this to spark memories of the show but this isn’t a typical episode. Nice choice, Shout Factory!
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Who’s Guilty? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I personally reject the idea of a “guilty” pleasure. If I enjoy something, even if it’s dumb, what do I have to feel guilty about. I mean, look at some of the stuff I’ve defended in the past nine years! But for the rest of you, what qualifies as a “guilty pleasure” and has the term lost it’s meaning? Chris Voyage at Galvanic chimes in on his perspective on guilty pleasures, “junk food” entertainment, and popcorn movies.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on January 9, 2018 in Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Video Game Spotlight and tagged commentary, guilty pleasures.
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