Apparently this cover was recorded with OBS.
Superman vol. 2 #73
DC Comics (November, 1992)
“Time Ryders”
WRITER/LAYOUTS: Dan Jurgens
FINISHES: Brett Breeding
COLORIST: Glenn Whitmore
LETTERER: John Costanza
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jennifer Frank
EDITOR: Mike Carlin
Between Jake & Leon and Captain Yuletide I need to conserve.
Sometimes you take any gag you can come up with. But I do have to prepare for this year’s Jake & Leon Christmas tale and I don’t even know what to do. One four-panel strip a week limits things. It’s not like I can fit A Christmas Carol in three weeks. Four tops. Even if I could, I need to save that for this year’s Captain Yuletide and I still have to design this year’s villain. This dental thing really held me up, helped by it being hard to think about Christmas until after Thanksgiving.
Meanwhile over at The Clutter Reports I took a look at Cybertron Brakedown. This should be my last Transformers review for a little while. I don’t want to turn it into a Transformers review site even though they’re the latest collection I’m working on.
My friend Sean picked up the latest issue of Titan’s Robotech so we’ll be looking at that this week, plus something else next week I’ll be reviewing out of protest. I’ll hold off on that reveal until next week. I’m also hoping to resume Art Soundoff since that bone spur seems to have broken down a bit, but on Tuesday I see the dentist and hopefully that won’t be an issue anymore. But the challenge is almost over and I don’t feel like I’ve done my part whatever the rules are and regardless of what I have been able to do. I also didn’t get to do the Recovered I had in mind, but I don’t have to save that for Art Soundoff, do I? I hope everyone in the US had a happy Thanksgiving (and a good day for the rest of you), and now it’s time to get ready for Christmas.
Some time ago I posted the first two episodes of the webseries based on the Transformers “Combiner Wars” line, the first in the Prime Wars Trilogy series. At the time it was all I could post since, at least in the US, the rest of the series was only available at the free streaming site (if you can tolerate ads…you wussy!) Go90. Well, with the second chapter of the Prime Wars Trilogy finally getting it’s release…as the toyline has already started moving to the third series, Power Of The Primes…Hasbro has posted all eight short videos–roughly 5-6 minutes a piece–to their YouTube channel. So before we shift over to Christmas specials for Saturday Night Showcase, here is the full series. Since the intro last time was way too long this one will be short.
As a reminder: the Prime Wars Trilogy series is a co-production between Hasbro Studios and Machinima, the animation studio that was formerly the home of actual machinima, animation done with video game assets or gameplay. Part of the classic fan-targeted toyline, it follows the theme of combination. In Combiner Wars it’s robots joining into a larger robot. In Titans Return it’s a return of the “Headmasters” under the name Titanmasters. And the current Power Of The Primes seems to be an alteration of the Powermasters concept of G1 days plus elements of the previous two series. So how well does it translate to animation?
She just learned Batman is a dog person.
Batman: Gotham Adventures #4
DC Comics (September, 1998)
“Claws”
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Rick Burchett
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol (Seriously? That’s the name you went with for your coloring and separations studio? Sounds like a cold medicine or sleep aid or something.)
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo
The only picture I have of Batman 2 and Robin 2 is from the Captain America Elseworlds crossover
I didn’t realize we weren’t having a Friday Night Fight this week so I have to put something together quick. Luckily NerdSync gave me a good starting point. Is it illegal to reveal a superhero’s identity to the public? In the case presented it’s Hugo Strange who has revealed Batman’s secret identity to the world, but we’ve seen this happen in other continuities. Sometimes the hero did so willingly and sometimes not, but it’s an interesting bit of theorizing.
The secret identity is important to many superheroes for many different reasons, a topic for another time, but here are some immediate thoughts I’m having about this particular debate. But first let me show you the debate in question.
“I hate when my neck gets itchy.”
The Phantom #15
Moonstone (2007)
“Walker’s Line” part 2
WRITER: Mike Bullock
ARTIST: Carlos Magno
COLORIST: Bob Pedroza
COVER ART: Joe Prado, Carlos Magno, & Rod Reis
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Joe Gentile
Ratchet questioned accepting Sixshot’s offer to train for the Decathalon.
Transformers: Devastation #3
IDW Publishing (November, 2007)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTIST: Nick Roche
COLORIST: Zac Atkinson
SELECTED COVER COLORIST: Andrew Elder
LETTERER: Neil Uyetake
EDITOR: Andrew Steven Harris
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
