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Masters Of The Universe: Rise Of The Snake Men #1
CrossGen/MV Creations (October, 2003)
WRITER: Val Staples
ARTISTS: Jonboy Meyers (including cover) and Andie Tong
COLORIST: Tony Washington
LETTERER: Ed Dukeshire
EDITORS: Monica Lopez, Vicki Jaeger, Ian Richter, & Geoff Walker
Feeling heroic yet, guys?
We’ve all joked about Marvel heroes not always getting along, but in recent years it’s gotten out of hand. Sometimes it seems like superheroes are too busy fighting other superheroes to fight the supervillains they’re supposed to be protecting us from, doing more damage than the villains to the community and each other. Douglas Ernst of The Douglas Ernst Blog, takes a brief look at the aftermath of the event nobody asked for, Civil War II, and questions what Brian Michael Bendis and other writers are doing to the superhero concept with these hero versus hero stories. Most of his commentary is in the embedded video, which is well worth a watch.
Remember yesterday in our Chapter By Chapter review of Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire when I was talking about R2 and 3PO flying the ship and it made me want to see more adventures with them? Well, it made me nostalgic for the show so I thought I’d boot up the intro. And then I found this:
I should probably save this for Transformers Thursday, where I review Transformers comics for “Yesterday’s” Comic, but this is too good to hold on to. Let me introduce you to The Cybertronic Spree. This is going to get weird. That’s right, we haven’t even started yet.
“Do you smell something bad?” “Of course I do; we’re in a swamp!”
Adventures Of The X-Men #11
Marvel (February, 1997)
“Tower Of Despair”
WRITER: Ralph Macchio
PENCILER: Yancey Labat
INKER: Ralph Cabrera
COLORIST: Paul Becton
SEPARATIONS: World Color
LETTERER: Michael Higgins
EDITOR: Mark Bernardo
As indie publishers began to rise up after the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the comic, animation studios took notice of potential kids shows and toylines, just as the heroes in a half-shell did when they became a toyline and cartoon. CBR lists off 16 such series, which oddly doesn’t include the Turtles, but does include a show and comic I’ve never heard of. Then again most of Adult Swim’s original shows aren’t worth watching anyway. They also tossed in a movie I didn’t know was made just to pad out the list. And I’m not sure Defenders Of The Earth should count since that was based on comic strips by one of the big names in newspaper strips and hardly independent.
For some reason this reminds me I still haven’t seen Spider-Man 3 or the Amazing Spider-Man movies.
What If vol. 2#76
Marvel Comics (August. 1995)
“What If Peter Parker Had To Invent Spider-Man”
WRITER/INKER: Terry Austin
PENCILER: Stuart Immonen
COLORIST: Marie Javins
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
EDITOR: Marc McLaurin
When last we saw our heroes they were running around a sewer working their way to Xizor’s palace to rescue Leia. Meanwhile, Vader tells Xizor that he knows the Dark Prince is trying to kill Luke and to stop because the Emperor has plans for the fledgling Jedi. And yet, Xizie is still thinking he has the upper hand even as things fall apart around him. He’s kind of an idiot that way. What’s going to happen to the not-so-lovable rapist next?
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