This story doesn’t take place in the summer, but here’s my stretch. Here in Connecticut smaller towns have free outdoor concerts in the Summer and this story happened during a concert and involved the manager. That’s what I’m going with.
I’d make a Romper Room reference if I though most of you know what that is.
The Phantom #4
DC Comics (June, 1989)
“Hate” part 1
WRITER: Mark Verheiden
ARTIST: Luke McDonnell
COLORIST: Anthony Tollin
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Robert Greenberger
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A long time ago I brought you a fan movie based on the Mega Man game franchise. It’s no longer available since Lockerz bought and destroyed Vodpod. Now Lockerz no longer exists, so thanks for nothing guys! At any rate, Eddie Lebron may never get to make his version into a theatrical movie, but The Hollywood Reporter is reporting (obviously) that an official Mega Man movie is in production and is in talks to acquire a director. To be honest, I expect the low-budget fanfilm to be more accurate. Plus THR is using artwork for Mega Man X, not the original game. They also don’t say if it will be live-action or animated. Personally, animated would allow it to be closer to the games, but you know how Hollywood hate cartoons.
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If memory serves I was planning to return to the Super Powers Collection this round, but during a recent Saturday Night Showcase, I featured the cartoon miniseries Sectaurs: Warriors Of Symbion. When my friend Sean posted that the toys the show was based on had mini-comics I looked into it and found a website that carries the old mini-comics, the fan site Sectaurs.com. It seemed like a good idea to add this to the lineup of mini-comics along with Masters Of The Universe/Princess Of Power, Super Powers Collection, Atari Force, and the Dreamwave Transformers mini-comics.
For those of you who missed that, the Sectaurs toyline takes place on the planet Symbion, where a group of scientists accidentally set free a virus that mutated the entire planet. (And you wonder why some people fear science?) The people are turned into bug people and the local bugs into giant insects they ride called Insectoids, to whom they are psychically linked or “telebonded”. The Insectoid toys were actually puppets the figures could ride (except for a few non-ridable Insectoids that had other features), thus giving them a sense of life which is not bad for a riding beast in a fantasy/semi-science-fiction toyline. The story features two sides (of course), the good guys of the Shining Realm led by Dargon and the villains of the Dark Domain led by Spydrax, who seeks the lost science of the ancients, kept in a place known only as The Hive.
The Sectaurs mini-comics are similar to the Super Powers toys. Each figure has his own comic showcasing his adventure that demonstrates their character and talent. Today we’ll start with the leader of the good guys, Prince Dargon, and his Insectoid, Dragonflyer.
“I’d call the exterminator, but..well, you know.”
Sectaurs: Dargon And Dragonflyer
PRODUCED BY: Coleco
no credits that I can find, which is a shame, yet typical for mini-comics. Masters Of The Universe and Dreamwave’s Transformers are kind of a fluke that way.
Read along at Sectaurs.com and let’s get started:
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“Hey, I won that carnival game fair and square. The terrorist plushie is mine!”
Transformers: Escalation #6
FINAL ISSUE
IDW Publishing (April, 2007)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTIST: E. J. Su
COLORIST: Zac Atkinson
LETTERER: Robbie Robbins
EDITORS: Chris Ryall & Dan Taylor
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One of the comics I miss getting to pick up in my current state of unemployment is IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And with what Co-Creator Kevin Eastman and co-writer Tom Waltz have coming up I’m even sadder. Plus IDW gets to boast about having the longest running comics iteration of the franchise. That’s pretty good.
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Here it is, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the part of the book that talks about Batman and Robin being gay. Now I know some of you are excited to read about 1950s attitudes on homosexuals being ripped a new one while others of you are worried that this is all this will be. Well, you’re both wrong.
Homosexuality is still a “hot button” in the culture war. However, BW Media Spotlight isn’t here to discuss any culture except geek and media creation culture. I don’t want to see the comments section turned into a debate on homosexuality or to have anti-gays screaming against the gays or LGBT trying to insist you’re the Antichrist for not agreeing with them. You have your opinions, I have my opinions, let’s just leave it at that. This gets in the way of what I’m trying to do while going over this book.
Yes, the 1950s had their problems with homosexuality and plenty of people today hate that. But the way I’m approaching this book is to see if Wertham’s comments stand up to 1950s perspectives and what if any solution there was without censoring the comic industry, thus driving certain publishers out of business even though there was a market for their product in the name of “protecting the children”, a tactic for restricting or destroying things you don’t like as far back as possible. So if you’re expecting to comment on Wertham’s opinions on LGBT you’ll be disappointed. If you think one section on Batman makes up for all the ignored strikes against Superman, you’ll be disappointed. I instead want to judge Dr. Wertham’s comments based on his own views and 1950s standards to see if any of this has any basis even on that level. So far that’s been brought into question on other issues, so why not here?
Read what he actually said first, and then come here for my commentary on his commentary.
