“Escape that letter O!”
Justice League Task Force #0
DC Comics (October, 1994)
“The Gathering”
WRITER: Mark Waid
PENCILER: Sal Velluto
INKER: Jeff Alerect
COLORIST: Dave Grafe
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Ruben Diaz
I know some of you have already heard about this but I’m low on links for today, so this is for those who haven’t. One of the next planned DC movies will star Batgirl. The interesting thing is the director, Joss Whedon, who has previous worked on the Avengers movies for Marvel. I wonder what he’ll bring to the table, and how dark DC/Warner Brothers will force him to go?
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Tell me you haven’t thought the same thing when you’ve seen this ad?
For reference:
I keep waiting for her to snap if someone ever defends Oxy Clean.
I didn’t get a clutter report in this week as I’m still trying to clear out this congestion. I am planning to get one done sometime this week as well as the usual Saturday posting but it depends on how my week is going. Frankly I’m a little tired of this nonsense.
Adding to this week’s comic reviews are the NOW Comics run of Astro Boy (I have about two or three issues and I’ve already reviewed the IDW version based on the American CG movie) and the last Thundercats miniseries…or rather the last one I picked up. After Thundercats: Hammerhand’s Revenge I pretty much gave up on the WildStorm run, and it’s probably the least offensive of the miniseries (not counting that last one that I haven’t read) so we’re almost done with this series. The party rolls on.
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“You not take Hulk’s last piece of pie!”
Marvel Adventures #4
Marvel Comics (July, 1997)
The Hulk: “Captive Audiences”
WRITER: Ralph Macchio
PENCILER: Ben Herrera
INKER: Armando Durruthy
COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley
LETTERER: J. Babcock
EDITOR: Mark Bernardo
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English: Squad 51 from the Television Show Emergency!, 1972 Dodge D-300 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Emergency! was a 1970s TV series created by R.A. Cinder and Harold Jack Bloom, and produced by Jack Webb, who co-created Adam-12 with Cinder. The show followed Los Angeles firefighter paramedics Roy DeSoto (played by Kevin Tighe) and John Gage (played by Randolph Mantooth–what a name), their fellow firefighters at the then fictional Station 51, and the ER doctors of also fictional Rampart General Hospital, who were also the focus of the show. DeSoto and Gate would serve as paramedics (a relatively new idea at the time, which also played into some episodes) but would also fight fires, treating victims at the scene and if need be preparing them for an ambulance ride. Like Adam-12 and Webb’s own Dragnet details were followed to make it as close to the actual experience of firefighters, paramedics, and the ER. My dad, a former firefighter, can confirm the first one and some actual firefighters were among the cast.
Fred Calvert Productions, teaming with Mark VII Limited and Universal Television decided to give the show a spin-off on Saturday mornings with the goal of giving safety tips to kids as well as the fact that kids enjoyed the regular show. Enter Emergency +4, in which a quartet of kids would aid Squad 51 and learn those aforementioned tips. The only episode I can find online, however, is an average rescue episode from season 2, “S.O.S. Help Us!”. In the episode a wildfire causes trouble for our heroes. While Squad 51 has to rescue some of the chopper crew going to fight the fire, the +4 kids (minus one for some reason, as one of the kids is missing this episode) try to help a boy whose camper fell down a cliff trying to escape the fire with his father somehow ending up under it. Can our heroes save the day? Well duh, it’s a Saturday morning kids cartoon from the 70s. Let’s see how they do it though.
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25th & final issue, and this is the cover you went out on. Weak!
The Batman And Robin Adventures #25
FINAL ISSUE
DC Comics (December, 1997)
“Demon In The Sky”
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Bo Hampton
INKERS: Rich Burchett & Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Darren Vicenzo
EDITOR: Scott Peterson
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It’s been far too long since mini-comics have been represented in the Friday Night Fights. Let’s fix that, shall we?
If you saw this week’s review you know where I’m going with this one. Li-San O’Rourke, half Irish (with the accent to match), half Chinese, Phantom cosplayer. Throughout the first two issues of Atari Force she keeps referring to herself as a “mere slip of a girl”, and granted she’s not on the chunky side. Not too many fat ninjas after all. It’s just weird she KEEPS calling herself that. Well, let’s see what she can do already.
