This is not a safe way to make chilli dogs.
Sonic The Hedgehog #87
Archie Comics Publications (October, 2000)
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
EDITOR: Justin F. Gabrie
Sonic: “Heart Of Hedgehog” part 2: “Lava Storm”
WRITER: Danny Fingeroth
ARTISTS: Sam Maxwell & Jim Amash
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
Monkey Khan: “Against The Haunted Past” part 2
WRITER/PENCILER: Frank Strom
INKER: Harvo
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
Okay, how do we sell our dog food?
I know! The Blondie Song “One Way Or Another.” It’s catchy and anytime any nostalgic music fan hears it, they’ll think of us! Or Hyundai. Or Swiffer. It worked for them.
Isn’t that a song about a stalker?
Nobody pays attention to the story of a song anyway.
Hi.
Coming off their 1978 album Parallel Lines and released as a single in 1979 with “Just Go Away” as the B-Side, Blondie’s “One Way Or Another” was the fourth single off of the album and is one of their well known hits. Now it’s being used to sell dog medicine and occasionally other products, none of which have to do with stalking. Is that the oddest choice for advertisers to use as their music? We’ve had secret gay romance ballads used to push party cruises, and a girl about to leave prison talking about her and her boyfriend’s favorite music to push almost everything. There was even a song I apparently didn’t cover about how teachers are brainwashing kids used in an ad to celebrate teachers. Dumb choices are nothing new.
I mean, you can tell it’s about stalking, though the question is whether the singer realizes it or not. Her character could be a crazy person talking about how she’s going to win someone’s heart. Then I do research before even looking at the lyrics and find that is not the case. Not a first for this series. I’ve learned a lot of fascinating things about songs since starting this series, but this one was quite personal for Blondie frontwoman and future soloist Deborah Harry. She actually lived it.
Some meteors are just jerks.
Space Adventures (volume 3) #38
Charlton Comics Group (February, 1961)
Well, good news for me. Captain Atom only appears in three more issues, with a break between #40 and #42, before we can drop this title for review purposes (and I will not be returning) and continue in his own title, after reprints in the title whose numbering he takes over. I’d still like to find out why this numbering takeover thing was going on in the 1960s. I don’t remember the weird rules that led to it happening in the past but I would hope they’d be gone by now.
So let’s get this over with. Most of the stories are with Captain Atom, though they aren’t going to be very long and this is still Space Adventures. I expect more weirdness, just with DC’s favorite punching bag. At this point he’d have been better off if he was Doctor Manhattan. At least he’d have cooler powers and a sexy ex-wife.
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Last time we spent some quality time with Striker’s leader before he got his next set of orders.
Here’s another problem with reviewing this long a book. With normal length novels for this series I have trouble finding spoiler-free ways to introduce the upcoming chapter and discuss the book thus far for people who haven’t been following along and just want my thoughts, or people coming in on the homepage and not wanting to be spoiled. I usually find something for the homepage, but just barely.
However, we are not quite two-thirds in, and at the 39th chapter I’m out of things to discuss. It’s more of the same: it’s been an improvement and without the cast to complain about all the issues are mine, as the Clancy approach doesn’t quite work with me. I think the chapter a week plan is the only reason I’ve stuck with it, because half the book interests me but most of the trivia that doesn’t factor into the story just doesn’t interest me, and the stuff that does I want to write off because I don’t know if fits until I get past it and into the story. That’s all I have to say, so let’s get into this chapter. It’s a longer one and we’re back to Commie Op-Center.
Well I couldn’t jump on before if this is the first issue, now could I?
Wrath #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (January, 1994)
“Outcast” chapter 1
WRITER: Mike M. Barr
PENCILER/PLOT: David Ammerman
INKER: James Fascoe
COLORIST: Tim Divar (what, no other group marked “interior colors”?)
LETTERER: Patrick Owsley
EDITOR: Dan Danko
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