The Phantom goes after Murky Dismal. (Congrats to anyone who gets the reference.)
The Phantom #16
Moonstone (2007)
“Forgotten”
WRITER: Mike Bullock
ARTIST: Silvestre Szilagyi
COLORIST: Bob Pedroza
COVER ART: Bret Blevins & Terry Austin
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Joe Gentile
American HBO brand logo. ® 2008 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The director of Kong: Skull Island and the director of Keanu (which I keep thinking is about Keanu Reeves but apparently it’s a comedy about a cat or something) both took to Twitter to complain about HBO’s mishandling of the aspect ratio for their movies. This was after Kong director Jordan Vogt-Roberts learned they aired the movie in the same aspect ratio as the “airplane edit”, which also censors language and content like TV stations do for in-flight movies. Keanu director Peter Atencio had the same problem with HBO for his movie. You’d think a premium channel devoted to movie fans would show the movie properly since modern TV screens allow for this, but maybe (and I’m just guessing here) they’re also thinking of their SD channel for guys like me who still have older TVs? Well, as long as home video and streaming services gets it right.
Robotech: The Graphic Novel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I miss reviewing modern comics, partially because it meant I was buying new comics and reading new stories, and partially because the new comic reviews were my most popular feature. Revisiting my old comics, some of which I haven’t had the chance to read again since I bought them is pretty close. I just remember as a kid re-reading the same old comics because I only owned a few of them. But with my current circumstances it’s only thanks to a friend of mine that I’ve reviewed any new comics since my money dried up.
We’ve already looked at the first three issues of Titan Comics’ reboot of Robotech, a show I grew up with and still enjoy when I can catch it. Sean also enjoys the show which is why he wants my opinion on these. This one is going to be rather spoilery I’m afraid, since I’m going to be using the Scanning My Collection format, but thus far the changes have been minor, so they’re spoilers for a TV series from the 1980s you can still watch on Crackle.com.
So far we have the SDF-1 in space, with Macross Island being rebuilt inside the ship as Macross City. Rick and Minmei were just rescued from the bowels of the ship after they were forced to make a hyperspace fold, but when they returned to normal space they were light-years from home and the fold engine vanished. And this issue is going to end with a big change which I’m not so sure about. Remember, I grew up with the original. The original was fine. I don’t see the need to change it. But they’re going to so we’ll see how this goes.
Usually it’s Roy that’s doing the collecting…of women’s phone numbers to Claudia’s annoyance.
Robotech #4
Titan Comics (November, 2017)
WRITER: Brian Wood
ARTIST: Marco Turini
COLORISTS: Marco Lesko & John Charles with Tony Holdsworth
SELECTED COVER ART: Blair Shedd, who I would rather see as the artist; sorry, Mr. Turini
LETTERER: John Workman
Yes, this version of Ramjet is egotistical enough to build a giant bust of himself.
Transformers Spotlight: Ramjet
IDW Publishing (November, 2007)
WRITER: Stuart Moore
ARTIST: Robby Russo
COLORIST: Josh Burcham
SELECTED COVER COLORIST: Kieran Oats
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITORS: Chris Ryall & Andrew Steven Harris
Except for the wizard.
No, I don’t know how he got the tail either.
I hope you enjoyed this year’s Art Soundoffs, or at least the few I was able to make this year due to my dental problems. Hopefully next year I can do the full set. Tomorrow the Morning Article Link returns.
Two things I love showcasing here at the Spotlight are interesting wedding proposals and Man At Arms: Reforged. Who knew I would get to do both? Matt Stagmer of Baltimore Knife And Sword used the opportunity of creating the axe used by Ragnar on the History Channel series Vikings (which isn’t my kind of show) to propose to his girlfriend. It’s just so sweet.
Kermit The Frog’s new body guard still won’t save him from Miss Piggy.
Voltron: A Legend Forged #2
Devil’s Due Publishing (July, 2008)
WRITER: Josh Blaylock
PENCILER: Mike Bear with Julia Bax
COLORIST: Wes Dzioba
SELECTED COVER ART: Tim Seeley & Jose Aviles
LETTERER: Crank!
DESIGNER: Sean K. Kove
EDITOR: Mike O’Sullivan
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
