“I knew I’d hit one of them eventually!”
Batman: Gotham Adventures #6
DC Comics (November, 1998)
“Last Chance”
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Rick Burchett
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo
“I swear, I have a ticket!”
The Phantom: The Ghost Killer
Moonstone (2002)
WRITER: Ben Raab
ARTIST: Fernando Blanco
COLORIST: Paul Mounts
COVER ART: Joel Naprstek
LETTERER: Terri Boyle
EDITORS: Garrett Anderson & Joe Gentile
It’s rare that I find myself reading a comic where this is always the first screen you get when you visit the site.
This one is going to be a bit different from the webcomics I usually promote here at BW Media Spotlight due to the subject matter. So if you find anything in that warning disturbing you may want to come back tomorrow for something else or look around the site for something you might like. However, note that if I’m promoting this in Internet Spotlight it’s a comic worth checking out.
Also this comic involves anthropomorphic animals, also referred to as “furries”. If THAT bothers you, this won’t be for you either. But I bet some of you are curious as to how you can do a frank discussion on child abuse with “funny talking animals”. It actually might be the best way to cover this story.
T. Rodriguez’s Forest Hill doesn’t make light of this topic, nor it is for “shock value”. And there is also more to the comic than that, as Rodriguez has created an interesting mythos outside of the subject matter involving “Man” and their relation to this world. Humans do not appear anywhere in this story. The comic ends up the better for it and it’s approach to the subject, while not what Rodriguez had planned when he started, is pretty much where it should be. But this is probably not a comic for most kids.
Freakazoid!
This one is more of a curiosity (plus the article I planned for today got delayed and I really need to get this one right) although the story of Tom, everybody’s MySpace friend, is an interesting one. I remember when some of my co-workers used to badger me to get on MySpace (and my account still exists, although the site is now about promoting music creators and all the blog posts I made are now gone), only to join those abandoning it for Facebook, which I initially got on to promote BW. The webseries Today I Found Out chronicles the history of MySpace, why everyone started out with Tom for a friend, and what he did after MySpace.
Fighting to stay in one of the stories.
Transformers: Devastation #6
FINAL ISSUE
IDW Publishing (February, 2008)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTIST: E.J. Su
SELECTED COVER ARTIST: Nick Roche
COLORIST: Josh Burcham
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Andrew Steven Harris
Terminator (franchise) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Here’s an interesting thought exercise for you. I’ve only seen the first two Terminator movies and an episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles plus Dark Horse’s RoboCop team-up so my knowledge of Terminator lore is limited. The franchise has spawned a few more movies, comics, novels, and video games. The question the writer poses is…can Skynet truly be stopped in the Terminator universe? Head over there and discuss, because posting here won’t be seen by the person actually posing the question and you should read his short thesis first anyway.
English: Photograph of Roku XDS player with remote. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I did say this was a commentary in itself.
There are probably more streaming services out there than any of us know about. How many of you heard of Go90 before the Prime Wars Trilogy reviews? Or maybe you haven’t read them and you’re only hearing about it now? Or knew that Shout Factory TV or Pluto TV existed before I mentioned them in the MST3k Turkey Day announcement? I’ve also mentioned Crackle, Sony’s own streaming service, a few times as well as Vudu. The ones everyone probably knows are Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. Meanwhile the CW has CW Seed, yet another streaming service in addition to the videos on the official network channel that carries their normal shows. If you’re an anime fan you already know about Crunchyroll, and the VRV service they co-operate with Funimation, who also streams their subtitled and dubbed Japanese animation on their own site. YouTube even streams original content not created by the community via YouTube Red and their streaming TV and movie rental services.
These are just the ones off the top of my head. There are others I know of and still others I probably don’t, and that’s not counting the various TV networks that also stream their shows via their website. Where once streaming was relegated to a handful of sites and YouTube clones (some of…questionable safety) now tons of ad and subscription based services are available. While I’m not convinced cable and satellite are going anywhere just quite yet, many of Millennials and even older generations are just using the internet for their “TV” and movie entertainment. Streaming boxes, Smart TVs, tablets, smartphones, and the computer are the way these people now get their visual storytelling. And now Disney is trying to expand their own service with Fox’s TV and movie library, while DC Entertainment has announced their own plans for a streaming service, both with original programming. Where once Hollywood studios seemed to shy away from the internet they now seem to be trying to utilize it…but are they now going too far the other way?
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