Oh god, look at Snarf’s eyes!
Thundercats: The Return #5
PRAISE JAGA THIS IS THE FINAL ISSUE
WildStorm (August, 2003)
WRITER: Ford Lytle Gilmore
PENCILER: Ed Benes
INKER: Rob Lea
COLORING: WildStorm FX
SELECTED COVER ART: Ari Garza & Richard Friend
LETTERER: John Layman
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
EDITORS: Ben Abernanthy & Alex Sinclair
After reading and watching superheroes in action, some people want to be those heroes, but don’t feel like setting up a fake city and playing with action figures. The solution? Superhero video games of course. There have been a lot of them over the years, as far back as Superman and Spider-Man on the Atari 2600. Arcade Sushi lists some of their favorites, which is heavily Marvel biased if you ask me, as well as posting three videos about superhero games that for whatever reason were never made.
Indiana Jones’ worst nightmare.
Masters Of The Universe vol. 3 #4
MV Creations (July, 2004)
STORY: Emiliano Santalucia & Val Staples
WRITER: Lori Ann Scott
ARTISTS: Emiliano Santalucia & Enza Fontana
COLORISTS: James Offredi, Joe Keatings, Thomas Mason, Rex Stabbs, Ali Tavakoly, Diedre Vance, & L. Jamal Walton
COVER ART: Emiliano Santalucia & Jeremy Roberts
LETTERER: Ed Dukeshire
EDITORS: Monica Lopez, Vicki Jaeger, Ian Ricther, & Geoff Walker
I’m going to keep bringing it up until Marvel stops screwing it up and no, an alternate reality isn’t enough. You still have the main reality featuring a deal with the figurative devil undoing a marriage that people support just because the Spider-Writers prefer…
Speaking of things I won’t get over. You know what’s funny? Stan Lee created Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch as the offspring of superheroes and someone changed it. Stan Lee created Gwen Stacy as Peter’s love interest and someone changed it. And yet it’s the former they keep trying to restore. Even the Maximoff’s origins haven’t returned to the Whizzer and Miss America as their parents even though Marvel Studios wants to swipe them from the mutant wing that Fox won’t release the rights to. And yet since her cameo in an alternate universe episode of the 90s Spider-Man cartoon it’s become impossible to escape the woman! Now alternate media tries to turn Gwen into something closer to Peter on the geek scale, which oddly was done for MJ in the Ultimate Universe. The Spider-Writers, and some other superhero writers, are so against superhero marriages, or just so infatuated with Gwen Frickin’ Stacy that I can’t escape her.
I didn’t grow up with Gwen as Peter’s love interest. Heck, the first love interest I saw was Starfire (and an ill-fated romance with a girl from the future) and later a rival newspaper photographer on the live-action series. But since I started really following the comics, Gwen Stacy was some girl a one-shot villain named Carrion rambled on about and Peter was either involved with Black Cat or Mary Jane. I don’t have a nostalgic tie to MJ, but as this video from NerdSync shows, neither did Stan Lee, and even he couldn’t stop the marriage that was destined to happen. And the part a simple doorway plays in that.
I hate Wolverine on THIS Earth. Why would I demand one on Counter-Earth?
Spider-Man Unlimited #5
FINAL ISSUE
“Claws On Counter-Earth”
WRITER: Eric Stephenson
PENCILER: Andy Kuhn
INKER: Harry Candelario
COLORIST: Mark Bernardo
LETTERING: Sharpefont & PT
EDITOR: Ralph Macchio
Scan of a Valentine greeting card circa 1920. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
James Harrington posted a Valentine’s Day article about one particular trope in romance movies that annoys him, and it gets to me as well. Look, I have nothing against the underdog, the misunderstood rebel, or whatever getting the girl. But far too often it’s at the expense of the guy she was going to marry. But you don’t feel sorry for him, let’s make him evil. Or you know, try something different. Maybe the underdog rebel wakes the both of them up and then have a better relationship. Or does that only happen in those late-night movies you only watch when you can’t sleep and want to see boobies?
Dislikes: Hedgehogs and Mexican mice.
Uncanny Origins #2
Marcel Comics (October, 1996)
Quicksilver: “The Son Of Magneto”
WRITER: Glenn Herdling
PENCILER: Dave Hoover
INKER: Bill Anderson
COLORIST: Bob Sharen
LETTERER: Jack Morelli
EDITOR: Mark Gruenwald
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
