“I forgot how much this hurts!”
Batman: Gotham Adventures #7
DC Comics (December, 1998)
“Dagger’s Secret”
Man, again with the gag credits. It’s a good thing I remember first names from previous issues or look up their reviews to double-check.
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Rich Burchett
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
EDITOR: Darren Vicenzo
The box art for the PC version of Portal. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I forgot that Friday Night Fights wasn’t happening this week, plus I have a family gathering this weekend and need to get as much work done as I can. So here’s a video from Did You Know Gaming. Since video games started embracing storytelling there have been times when ending have been changed to suit the story, or in the case of the original Portal to better set up the sequel game. From the show Did You Know Gaming? Extra comes a few other examples. So obviously there will be spoilers if you haven’t finished the game, including both Portal games. And one game created an ending the creators didn’t even know existed. How does that happen? Watch and see.
“Sorry, we’re closed for the night.”
The Phantom: The Treasures Of Bangalla
Moonstone Books (2002)
WRITER: Ron Goulart
PENCILER: Mike Collins
INKER: Art Nichols
COLORISTS: Ken Wolak & Dawn Groszewski
COVER ART: Joel Naprstek
LETTERER: Chuck Maly
EDITOR: Joe Gentile
Archie and Me (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Whether you like the new style Archie Comics is doing with their namesake character or prefer the Riverdale gang as they were created, you may find this interesting. CEO Nancy Silberkleit is not happy with a lot of things at the company lately and there’s been some internal struggles going on for some time now. However, something good can come out of something bad and Silberkleit is working with classic Archie creators to create a special story in the classic style about Autism awareness, introducing a new character named Scarlet. (I wonder if she’ll show up in the new style and TV show?) According to the comments it’s only $1.99 for the digital comic (and yes I can’t even squeeze that until I get some money coming in) and you can email her directly (link is in the article) to pick it up.
A movie in which giant robots fight giant monsters, and it’s not anime? You’re darn right I want to see this! Unfortunately when 2013’s Pacific Rim hit theaters I was busy with ConnectiCon and other goings on (like being stuck on the night shift and my manager at the time loving to mess with me) so I didn’t get to see it. Then I lost my job and life started going to heck so it wasn’t a priority. I happened to catch it on TNT and record it, but it wasn’t until last night that I finally got to watch it. And good thing with the sequel, Pacific Rim: Uprising coming in March.
There was a lot of hype for this movie given the circles I associate with. Kaiju, giant robots…it wasn’t a movie I wasn’t going to hear about. Most of my internet friends loved it although not everybody. I don’t know the details because I never watched or read the reviews, trying to keep myself from being spoiled. So if you still have to see this there are spoilers in this review, but I’ll keep them minimal.
RELEASE DATE: 2013
RELEASED BY: Warner Brothers & Legendary Pictures
RUNTIME: 131 minutes
RATING: PG13
STARRING: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi
SCREENWRITERS: Travis Beacham (screenplay & story), Guillermo del Toro (screenplay)
DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro
GROSS REVENUE: $411,002,906 from an estimated budget of $190,000,000
IMDB SCORE: 7 out of 10
ROTTEN TOMATOES SCORE: 71% (Audience Score: 77%)
Let’s just get this over with.
Transformers Spotlight: Arcee
IDW Publishing (February, 2008)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTIST: Alex Milne
COLORISTS: Josh Perez & Kris Carter
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Andrew Steven Harris (he approved this story; he’s just as guilty–the art team was just doing their job)
Superman and Action Comics #1000 is quite the conversation source lately. Now word is that a formerly lost Superman story will be part of the oversized issue. Sadly it isn’t “The K-Metal From Krypton”, the rejected Superman #8 that would have introduced what we know as Kryptonite years earlier and allowed Lois to learn Clark is Superman long before people started insisting it wasn’t a good identity. (If you haven’t heard of this story, the partly restored comic is a must-read for Superfans. I reviewed and linked to it here.) Instead, according to this article by ICv2’s Betsy Gomez, it’s a story Marv Wolfman found as a young man touring the place. (Or stole depending on your point of view.)
Frankly “Too Many Heroes” doesn’t look nearly as interesting as “The K-Metal From Krypton” and if DC were to restore that instead I would totally spend the money I don’t have to get that comic. Hopefully there will be enough sales from #1000 that we can keep Superman’s classic costume.
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
