Never bring a knife to a Phantom fight.
The Phantom #14
Moonstone (2007)
“Walker’s Line” part 1
WRITER: Mike Bullock
ARTIST: Carlos Magno
COLORIST: Bob Pedroza
COVER ART: Joe Prado, Carlos Magno, & Rod Reis
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Joe Gentile
I’ve only recently been able to draw digitally, and here’s an issue I’m having. But it could just be me. Any help?
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It’s an odd decision for Hasbro and online animation group Machinima to do a series promoting a toyline on their way out, but that’s how they’ve been handling the Prime Wars Trilogy, the grown-up collector line featuring new takes on the classic characters. (Robots In Disguise is for the original kid target demographic, and that promotional cartoon only gets a poor showing because Cartoon Network’s scheduling is garbage. Meanwhile Discovery Family is still airing it’s predecessor, Transformers Prime, and the preschool-targeted Rescue Bots at decent times, and those lines are pretty much done. Rescue Bots is getting a spinoff line and tie-in cartoon…in TWO YEARS!) It wasn’t until the end of the first leg of the Prime Wars Trilogy, Combiner Wars, that we got an animated series of 5 minute shorts, and now they’re waiting pretty much before the start of the final chapter in the toyline, Power Of The Primes, before Titans Return, the second part, finally got released, coming next week.
The Titans Return toyline is basically “everyone are Headmasters now”, with some of the classic Headmaster characters not even getting to have their bodies, while figures who were never Headmasters now becoming them, even if they had originally been Targetmasters (the little guy turns into a gun instead of their head) or Powermasters (turning into the engine…for some reason) or if they hadn’t been any kind of “Master” but were just the popular characters. A plot to keep the copyrights perhaps? However, you won’t see any sign of that in the trailer that was just released on Hasbro’s YouTube channel.
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“Someone call Sideswipe. He has a new twin brother.”
Transformers: Devastation #2
IDW Publishing (October, 2007)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTIST: E.J. Su
COLORIST: Zac Atkinson
SELECTED COVER ART: Nick Roche
LETTERER: Neil Uyetake
EDITOR: Dan Taylor
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I did some great worldbuilding, had a concept that would have been lots of fun. So why did my webcomic fail so badly?
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Over the past few months we’ve been looking at Devil’s Due’s run of Voltron: Defender Of The Universe, their reboot of the classic series. And I have very much enjoyed the series. While it did it’s own thing the tone and spirit of the original series was intact. There was no unnecessary character additions or strange origins, like the Dynamite comics started out with. (You can find those reviews and see why I dropped the title back then. I don’t regret it. I think the classic Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers remake were the only recreated series I enjoyed from Dynamite. And even then Dynamite had basically the same plot every time for BSG while Buck’s stories lost focus near the end of the main series.)
So when I heard the Omnibus had the unpublished issue I stupidly went and bought it despite already having the rest of the series. The question is whether or not the final story was worth this money. SPOILER: Not really, but I’ll get into that. I want to start with a review of the collection itself. The Omnibus collects both of the Voltron: Defender Of The Universe series, both the miniseries (including the #0 preview) and the ongoing (volume 2). But is this collection worth tracking down, or are you better off skipping the final story and just getting the individual issues? Well, it’s partly down to personal preference, but let’s take an actual look for you to judge.
You have to be careful shaking hands with Voltron.
Voltron Complete Omnibus Collection
Devil’s Due (January, 2008)
WRITERS: Marie Croall, Dan Jolley, Mike O’Sullivan, & Mark Waid
PENCILERS: Mark Brooks, Ryan Browne, Clint Hilinski, Alitha Martinez, Mike Norton, Clement Sauve, & E.J. Su
INKER: Clayton Brown (in the issues that actually had an inker listed)
COLORISTS: Barbara Bargiggia, Danimation, Ben Hunzeker, Nate Lovett, Fredierica Manfredi, David Messina, Jeremy Robers, & Brett R. Smith
LETTERING: Crank! & Dreamer Design
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS: Sean Dove & Mike Norton
EDITORS: Mark Powers & Mike O’Sullivan
PRODUCTION: Jenna Dalgety & Sam Wells
SPECIAL THANKS: Ted Koplar, Tiffany Ilardi, Jeremy Dorray, & Everyone At World Events
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“I hate going into the basement.”
Voltron: Defender Of The Universe vol. 2 #11
FINAL ISSUE
Devil’s Due (December, 2004)
main story
WRITER: Marie Croall
PENCILERS: Alitha Martinez & Clint Hilinski
COLORISTS: David Messina & Ben Hunzeker
LETTERING: Dreamer Design
EDITOR: Mark Powers
“Midman 77723”
WRITER: Mark Waid
ARTIST: Kalman Andrasafsky
COLORIST: David Messina
LETTERING: Dreamer Design
