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Blizzard Entertainment, the company that brought you the Warcraft and Starcraft franchise has decided to get more directly involved with bringing these and other video games they produce to the world of sequential art. Betzy Gomez of ICv2 reports that Blizzard is starting their own publishing arm. Not surprisingly, World Of Warcraft comics are first on the list.
“Every time we have a picnic…..”
Transformers: Generation One vol. 3 #7
Dreamwave (August, 2004)
“Infestation”
WRITER: James McDonough & Adam Patyk
PENCILER: Don Figueroa
INKER: Elaine To
COLORIST: Espen Grundetjern
LETTERER: Ben Lee
He had to learn somewhere, right?
Ever since Space Ghost popped up in Batman: The Brave & The Bold I was hoping to see a crossover between the DC Universe and Hanna-Barbera’s “Super Adventure” superheroes. And I’m not the only one as you can find plenty of photoshopped covers and hand-drawn fanart featuring same. Well DC, owned by the same people who have and squander the Hanna-Barbera library, are finally giving the people what they want. I think. After all, DC has done the gritty remake of Wacky Races and other HB comedic shows, so all bets are off frankly.
Outside of the Super Friends showing up in Scooby-Doo Team-Up we haven’t gotten a lot of forces joining between these superhero groups, but in some upcoming annuals we will see the DC and HB superheroes finally get together…at least that’s what I was hoping and in part we are getting that. But there’s more of that squandering going on and outside of one choice they really dropped the ball. My information comes from this article by ICv2’s Becky Gomez, and I’m hoping this isn’t all of it. I did grab the covers from DC’s site though.
“Can we just buy another pizza cutter? The cheese is hard to get off of the sword blade.”
Thundercats #2
WildStorm (November, 2002)
WRITER: Ford Lytle Gilmore
PENCILER: Ed McGuinness
INKER: Jason Martin
LETTERER: John Layman
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
EDITOR: Jeff Mariotte
Oh, not from the Justice League, from the UN. Apparently the whole campaign where Wonder Woman would be the spokeswoman for women’s rights internationally ends before it began. This article speculates as to why, and it’s a dumb reason if they’re right–and sadly I wouldn’t be surprised.
Sorry, Man-At-Arms, you’re no Cylon.
Masters Of The Universe vol.2 #6
FINAL ISSUE
Image/MV Creations (August, 2003)
WRITER: Val Staples
ARTISTS: Emiliano Santalucia & Enza Fontana
COLORIST: Kevin Senft (assisted by Shaynne Corbett)
COVER ARTISTS: Emiliano Santalucia & Val Staples
LETTERING: Dreamer Design
EDITORS: Monica Lopez, Jeremy Padawer, Ian Richter, & Geoff Walker
From what I can tell this song has less connection to Christmas than “Frosty The Snowman” or “Winter Wonderland” in that it’s hardly even about winter. I’ve discussed before that for a song to be a Christmas song certain criteria have to be met. 1942’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” meets none of them. Originally written for a gala event by Frank Loesser and performed by him and his wife, the song first went public for the movie Neptune’s Daughter, a romantic comedy that from what I can tell doesn’t even take place on Christmas and is about the comedy of errors involving a visiting polo player, a male masseuse, and the two sisters they’re trying to woo.
That leads to the question of just what the heck this is doing as a Christmas staple, which is granted the only way 1940s music usually gets kept on the radio. It’s also a song that has a number of critics, mostly against the male in the piece. The song is what’s known as a “call and response” song, in which two characters are playing off each other’s comments. Another example would be “The Girl Is Mine” by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, which is about as Christmas as this song. In it, one person is trying to convince the other to stay despite the second party thinking they should go home. A little research softened me a bit on the song, at least compared to harsher critics, but I still have misgivings despite it’s lack of holiday connection.
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