Excuse me, sir? You’re not anywhere in this comic. I think you’re on the wrong cover.
Thundercats: Hammerhand’s Revenge #3
WildStorm (February, 2004)
“Lion-O’s Fate”
WRITER: Fiona Avery
ARTIST: Carlos D’Anda (who also drew the cover–did he get two comics he was working on confused too close to press time?)
COLORISTS: Wendy Fouts-Broome, & Carrie Strachan
LETTERER: Nick Napolitano
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
EDITOR: Alex Sinclair
Feeling heroic yet, guys?
DC may be finally getting their act together, but considering the people who caused the problem are doing it makes me wonder how long that will last? After all Marvel seems to have traded their “heroic age” for one very much less heroic. Heroes fighting each other at Marvel used to be the joke, not the rule. And of course, the original Captain America was turned into a Nazi…I mean Hydra agents after the Red Skull turned the Cosmic Cube into a little girl and tricked her into making Cap evil. Because comics.
You may remember my previous reviews of Star Power, the webcomic about a superhero in a Star Trek style world (which is similar to an idea I had, but only in concept so it’s not off the table for me just yet and proof that it can work). It’s a great comic and you really need to check it out. Currently it updates on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with blogs by the creators on Tuesday and Thursday. The writer, Michael Terracciano, talks about his problems with the current state of the big two superhero comic companies and encourages indie superhero comics. There’s a bit more cursing than you see here at the Spotlight but I’m totally with him on this.
If you recall my Chapter By Chapter review of the novelization of the original Total Recall you may recall me going over how Cohaagen’s plan was really kind of stupid. Not that the plans of the aliens who made the machine (original to the novel) made any sense. Movie or novel they were plans that shouldn’t have worked. Cohaagen’s plan only failed because it was Arnold Schwarzenegger. The aliens plan succeeded…I think…because you’re guess is as good as mine.
Seriously, what was even the No’ui’s plan?
However, this is nothing new as plans that shouldn’t work in movies somehow do. And I think the reason Cracked contributor Daniel O’Brien threw the Ocean’s Eleven remake and The Dark Knight in there is that he ran out of Star Wars plans that didn’t make sense but he really just wanted to do that series.
“Hulk able to walk. Not need to be carried.”
Marvel Adventures #7
Marvel Comics (October, 1997)
Hulk: “The Monster And The Immortal”
WRITER: Ralph Macchio
PENCILER: Andy Kuhn
INKER: Harry Candelario
COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley
LETTERER: Michul Higgins
EDITOR: Mark Bernardo
The Movie Monster Game (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In the month of May Turner Classic Movies will be doing a monster movie marathon on Thursday nights. Some will be smaller monsters like the Creature From The Black Lagoon and the first movie adaptation of Swamp Thing, but there will also be a lot of giant monsters, both from Japan and the 1950s US movies. Draconic Versus, who will host some of the live tweets under the hashtag #TCMParty, has the full list of what will be airing.
They’re even including The Giant Claw, which features an ugly bird monster (and by ugly I mean the prop–the effects were laughable bad even for 1957) that I swear I had nightmares about long before I even heard of this movie. Serious, I had a few dreams as a kid of this monster movie involving a large, stinky bird creature that captured cars with people still inside them. Weird, right?
Our trio of travelers, who came here only to learn about this whole physical existence thing, now find themselves the only chance for saving Earth. They’re best hope is to master a teleporting technique that requires two or more of them working together. Meanwhile one of our heroes appears to be falling for a local Earth girl. How will this all come together to stop a brother who turned himself evil? Perhaps we’ll find out more in today’s chapter.
Our image for this chapter is a simple Earth key but I suspect it is only a metaphor. My prediction is this has something to do with the key to the Omega Capsule.
“Somebody hit our new team members with a shrink ray!”
Legionnaires #0
DC Comics (October, 1994)
“Close Encounters”
PLOT: Mark Waid & Tom McCraw
WRITER/COLORIST: Tom McCraw
PENCILERS: Jeffery Moy
INKER: Ron Boyd
LETTERER: Pat Brosseau
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Mike McAvennie
EDITOR: KC Carlson
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
