“I just got this costume!”
Phantom 2040 #4
FINAL ISSUE
Marvel Comics (August, 1995)
“Vision Quest”
WRITER: Peter Quinones
ARTISTS: Steve Ditko & Bill Reinhold
COLORIST: Mike Worley
COVER ART: Neil Hansen
LETTERER: Pat Brosseau
EDITOR: Mariano Nicieza
While looking into old cartoons on YouTube I’d heard of but never watched I stumbled upon something I hadn’t heard of before, and I consider myself pretty knowledgeable on Filmation TV shows. The post I’m embedding from as of this intro’s writing debuted on YT in 2010 but I don’t know when this was located or how. So I’m guessing many of you out there still haven’t heard of Dick Digit.
The show had to have been created in the 1960s or 1970s since it has the look of cartoons from that time as well as some of their stock voice actors of the time. While Filmation is mostly known for their licensed work their original ideas are seldom acknowledged, which is too bad. As I’ve chronicled here at the Spotlight they were capable of coming up with their own superheroes, from Space Sentinels to the Super 7 to Hero High. Then there are their live-action shows, which never get mentioned. So how well would Dick Digit, the Jester, and Macaw the bird have fared alongside these forgotten champions of justice?
“This is my autographed Stan Bush CD and you can’t have it!”
Transformers Spotlight: Kup
IDW Publishing (April, 2007)
WRITER/ARTIST: Nick Roche
COLORIST: Andrew Elder
COVER COLORIST: Josh Burcham
LETTERER: Robbie Robbins
EDITORS: Chris Ryall & Dan Taylor
Leonardo DiCaprio at the Body of Lies film premiere in London (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The reports about this Joker origin movie, produced by Martin Scorsese, that fails to understand the Joker by the very nature of its existence just got a little stranger. Apparently Leonardo DiCaprio is in talks to be the Joker for this movie. Don’t get me wrong, DiCaprio is a good actor. However, there are plenty of good actors who are the wrong choice to be the Joker, and DiCaprio is one of them. And I had no problem believing Michael Keaton could be a good Batman and thought Robert Downey Jr. was perfect for Iron Man when they were first officially announced. In a related note there’s a bonus article just brought up by Zemanta (welcome back!) where he wants to play Stan Lee. That one I’m not as certain of.
No, there isn’t some YouTube meme about turning every 70s giant robot from Japan into Voltron (that I’m aware of). However, there are two shows that were intended to become a Voltron but for different reasons did not. Last time we looked at Albegas, the intended second Voltron, but there is one more forgotten chapter of the legend that you may have heard nothing about. He never got a toy. He may never be homaged. But Future Robot Daltanious was intended to be a Voltron. Specifically the Lion Voltron of the Far Universe.
It’s the 1980s and World Events Productions has chosen three giant robot shows to create their “Voltron Trilogy”. We already know about DaiRugger and Albegas, but why did Daltanious fail to make the grade? Well, blame a translation error in ordering. When whomever at World Events ordered the series did their asking they requested “the one with the lion” and Toei ended up sending them Beast King GoLion. The Voltron producers preferred that one over the one they first saw and the rest is history. So what was it about Daltanious that initially inspired them and did World Events Productions make the right move?
“Crap, that housed the animation studio that was doing the Mighty Orbots remake!”
Voltron: Defender Of The Universe vol. 2 #3
Devil’s Due (March, 2004)
“Paradise Lost” part 3: “Pursuit”
WRITERS: Dan Jolley & Marie Croall
LAYOUTS: Mike Norton
PENCILERS: E.J. Su & Clint Hillinski
INKER: Clayton Brown
COLORIST: Ben Hunzeker
COVER ART: E. J. Su, Andrew Peopy, & Val Staples
LETTERING: Dreamer Design
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
BW’s Morning Article Link: Stop Applauding!
English: John Butler Trio Standing Ovation Boston 2007-11-11 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Here’s an interesting commentary from ScreenCrush’s Matt Singer. He’s questioning the overuse of the “standing ovation” in modern biopics. I don’t watch a lot of biopics but I understand what he’s saying.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 15, 2017 in Movie Spotlight and tagged biography, biopic, commentary, movie.
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