Back when professional wrestling wasn’t afraid to use comic book style storylines (or comic book movies for that matter) and World Championship Wrestling was still in existence before Eric Bischoff got a little crazy and challenged the WWE, there was a stable of dark monster gimmicks known as the Dungeon Of Doom. Led by Kevin “Taskmaster” Sullivan and his mysterious Master they made it their goal to end Hulkamania, a symbol of good in their eyes, and corrupt Hulk Hogan. (Maybe they should have formed the nWo. That seemed to do the trick.)
However, not all of the Dungeon’s ideas were good ones. Above you see the Yeti, who yes does look more like a mummy than a furry Bigfoot. Dinosaur Dracula charts the short-lived gimmick from snowman/mummy to Super Giant Ninja. It’s a role that I’m betting Ron Reis wishes he had passed on.
Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
Last time we had a new arrival, Zucker. Unlike Crede and Hal he needed help taking a form. In this week’s chapter we FINALLY get some explanation of what’s going on…just as we get hit with a new question. You’re just messing with me now, aren’t you, Theresa?
Godzilla learned to punch. Dum Dum is a good teacher.
Remember that animated Godzilla movie Toho announced? Well, The Good, the Bad, and Godzilla has word that after the Japanese theatrical release the movie will be available on Netflix. Which I remind you I don’t have, so I’ll be waiting for the home video release. And this not being a Netflix-produced series you can bet there will be one. By the way, this is now, what four movies just named Godzilla now?
You probably noticed there’s no Jake & Leon this week. I didn’t get a chance to work on the comic because ever since my outing on Thursday I’ve been tired and lethargic, plus I’ve been stiff all day. So while I have an idea what to do for the next strip (it’s still part of the “Webcomic” storyline but it’s not the part I want to do next) I didn’t get it done. It’s not exactly the most popular feature but I need the art practice.
But I do have an update. I upped the daily comic review to two in order to get through the old comic reviews faster, especially when I still had new comics coming in. The goal is to go through my comics and see what comics I want to keep and what to expel from my oversized collection. However, I’m noticing that, especially with other things I want to work on, the clutter of comics is creating a clutter of time as far as getting things done. I want to get the first BW Panelling from ConnectiCon 2016 (of which there are only three) done, I have other projects I need to work on, and I’m still tired a lot. Hopefully as the weather gets warmer and I can get to walking again I can boost my stamina but long car drives like Thursday’s takes a lot out of me.
So what I’m thinking of doing is taking away the second “Yesterday’s” Comic, at least until I can fit it back into my schedule, and still have time for other art and video projects. Or at least until I’m awake enough. It would be a slow departure. This week Masters Of The Universe and NiGHTS Into Dreams will be ending while Oh! My Goddess should end next week and Beast Wars is already done. I won’t be replacing those for the time being. Once I get them down I’ll be readjusting my posting schedule. For example the times will be a little different because I’ll have three posts (one comic, the Morning Article Link, and the longer reviews and commentaries) instead of four. The Marvel Adventures will be on Sundays until it ends, while the DC Adventures titles will take the Saturday spot, which means nothing from my comiXology bank for the time being. I’m hoping this is temporary because I do want to move through my comics quickly but until I can keep my eyes open that long I feel it’s best. But to be sure this is okay with you guys (since you may enjoy the daily comic reviews enough to keep them) there are two ways to keep that going. One is by checking it in the poll below and the other is becoming a $1 (at least) contributor to the Patreon. (Link’s in the sidebar at the top of the page.) That tells me it’s an important enough feature to keep going. What say you.
This time next week (with a new Jake & Leon I should have the answer. In the meantime there’s only one Transformers comic review this week, and this week’s Clutter Report (thanks to the aforementioned being really tired) was just a re-post of the last Free Comic Inside article on Transformers Armada vol. 3. Otherwise, business as usual for a while.
Tele-Games Pong IV, Sears’ version of Pong sequel (Pong Doubles), was one of the many consoles that flooded the market by 1977. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
VH-1’s I Love The 80s was a terrible show. Mostly because I’m not convinced they actually loved the 1980s. While the UK got a nice nostalgia show with people that were tied to those nostalgic elements, the US had a bunch of unfunny talking heads who couldn’t properly transform an Optimus Prime toy of all figures because they were too busy drooling over the nude scene in Fast Times At Ridgemont High. I really don’t like the show, although later versions tried to do it better.
But what if you combined the humor and nostalgia? And focused on the subject of video games? Gaming website Retroware decided to find out and created The Video Game Years, a look at the early days of gaming. Tonight we’ll be looking at the first episode, 1977. Originally released in parts, the show is now available as a full-length special and we’re going to look at the debut of handheld gaming, Chuck E. Cheese, Pong clones, cartridge-based game consoles, and the influence of Star Wars on early video games.
