Part Iron Man, part Thor.
Steel #0
DC Comics (October, 1994)
“In The Beginning!”
WRITER: Louise Simonson
PENCILER: Chris Batista
INKER: Rich Faber
COLORIST: Gina Going
LETTERER: Patt Brosseau
EDITOR: Frank Pittarese
“STEEL” CREATORS: Louise Simonson & Jon Bogdanove
Robotech (TV series) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
You may have seen my friend Sean in the comments gushing over Titan Comics getting the Robotech license. There hasn’t been much to say about it so I haven’t mentioned it in a main article. Well, Previews has an interview with Brian Wood, the writer for the upcoming comic. I have to admit, when he talks about “modernizing” the first war and knowing what that’s meant for other properties as of late, I’m a little concerned, but still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until I get more details.
I’m still more of a Third War/New Generation fan myself.
Sorry, I couldn’t decide on a font for Thor.
My war on the misuse of “realism” continues.
This week’s intended Clutter Report project was less involved than I was expecting. So I got three really short, but time-taking projects. Sometimes it’s getting yourself to take on the smaller projects that’s harder than the big ones.
So now that we’re done with the Thundercats, what’s taking the Wednesday spot you may be wondering? I decided to go over a manga series whose anime counterpart you may have heard of: Dragonball Z! I picked up the first story arc in floppy form from Viz’s translation. How well does the comic do in the Western publishing style, yet still flipped to read right to left? Over the next few weeks we’ll be finding out. Meanwhile, the DCAU Saturday entry introduces The Batman Adventures: The Lost Years, a bridge between the Fox Kids and Kids WB version of Batman that is actually in the show’s canon. I hope to have some decent article this week, although I have some other stuff to do as well. I’m hoping to at least have another My Favorite Intros this week. Now if you’ll pardon me I have stuff to get done but BW continues to roll on.
Recently “Yesterday’s” Comic reviewed the first two volumes of the manga Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, an adaptation of the anime (usually it’s the other way around). I was bothered by how condensed everything was, like they were trying to compact everything into three volumes. Tonight we look at the first episode of the actual series. Like many, this show was my first taste of the Gundam franchise, airing on Cartoon Network’s Toonami programming block, as well as the uncensored version airing on the “Midnight Run” edition of Toonami, shows edited only for television, not audience. For example, one person gives the line in tonight’s episode “I’ll kill you”, which was in Midnight Run but the regular Toonami had to change it to “I’ll destroy you”. That brings up a whole other discussion I won’t get into tonight.
My only problem with this version of the dub is that the Japanese credits are left, rather than translating them into English. There was an English remake of the credits (with the theme song in Japanese) for Toonami and home video release so I know they existed. I just don’t know why it was dropped. (They did restore the Japanese closing rather than an instrumental of the opening that TV used.) Still, it should introduce you to the world of mobile suits and the “After Colony” timeline. I’ll get more into that later.
“What do you mean ‘the batteries all died at the same time’?”
Adventures In The DC Universe #10
DC Comics (January, 1998)
Legion Of Super-Heroes: “The Blobs!”
WRITER: Steve Vance
PENCILER: John Delaney
INKER: Ron Boyd
COLORIST: Tom McCraw
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
EDITORS: Frank Berrios & KC Carlson
Hero versus hero fights I really have no interest in. But villains beating each other up I can get behind. Tonight’s entry features Megatron doing what he does best: attacking his own troops with better success than he has with the Autobots. Although it’s somewhat justified. In this continuity his men have been hording a source of immense energy for themselves, and Megatron is a shoot first ask questions never kind of Transformer.
There appears to be an issue missing from the longbox that I’m sure I’ll find during one of the next comic organizing project phases. Sadly it’s the first issue I owned, and I might have even picked it up when it first hit store shelves while the others are back issues. So even when I’m done with this series I may not be finished.
“The only time I’ll team with Marvel heroes without having Howard The Duck’s attitude and thinking I’m a cartoon character.”
Peter Porker: The Spectacular Spider-Ham #12
Star Comics (Marvel; November, 1986)
“Edam And Weep” or “The Gouda, The Bad, And The Ugly”
Now I know someone who read this series will ask why I’m not reviewing the back-up stories featuring other animal-ized parodies of Marvel characters. I will mention them in each review but it’s the same gag every time: they suck and if they do win it’s because of dumb luck…if the problem gets solved at all. I think only in a few issues do the back-up stories break that mold. Those I might review.
WRITER: Steve Mellor
PENCILER: Joe Albelo
INKER: Pierre Fournier
COLORIST (both stories): Julianna Ferriter
LETTERER (both stories): Kurt Hathaway
EDITOR: Larry Hamma
EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Tom DeFalco
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
