Tell others about the Spotlight:
Because even I can’t escape the Clone Saga.
Spider-Man #51
Marvel (October, 1994)
“Power And Responsibility” part 3: “A Heartbeat Away!”
WRITER: Howard Mackie
ARTIST: Tom Lyle
FINISHES: Scott Hanna
COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley
LETTERER: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
EDITOR: Danny Fingeroth
Tell others about the Spotlight:
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.
In our last installment Leia managed to shake off Prince Xizor’s rape hormones and buy Chewbacca time to escape and get help. Get help where I wonder, since we’re on the Imperial capital world and there’s only a few people there Leia can trust. How will our heroes get through this mess?
Tell others about the Spotlight:
I’m suddenly reminded of the different Superhero cookies they’ve released over the years.
Superman Adventures #8
DC Comics (June, 1997)
“All Creatures Great And Small” part 2
WRITER: Scott McCloud
PENCILER: Rick Burchett
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Marie Severin
LETTERER: Lois Buhalis
EDITOR: Mike McAvennie
When we last left our hero, he was action figure sized while Jax-Ur was Ultraman-sized. (The Japanese one, not the alternate universe villain.) As we come in, Mara manages to get to the shrink ray and gets back to normal size. Jax-Ur swallows the shrink ray so that nobody else can use it (not even Mara to her disappointment) and begins a path of destruction all the way to the White House. Thanks to a off-hand comment by Turpin, Superman comes up with the idea to go right down Jax-Ur’s throat and retrieve the device, re-shrinking the Kryptonian criminals and getting himself back to normal size.
What they got right: Somehow in this chaos there are some good moments. Hamilton trying to repair the shrink ray not realizing that mini-Superman and mini-Mara were fighting, leading to him accidentally restoring Mara. Then there’s Turpin shooting at mega-Jax-Ur because that’s just Dan in a nutshell.
What they got wrong: The story still hinges on breaking away from the show by having Superman pull them out of the Phantom Zone, shrinking them, and putting them in a anti-Kryptonian prison. This didn’t happen in the show and while a decent story causes the kind of continuity breaks that the “Adventures” comics keep doing.
Recommendation: A fun little adventure that’s worth getting both chapter four despite the continuity problems with the show it’s based on.
Tell others about the Spotlight:
Tell others about the Spotlight:
Can we get one of THEM to eat Wolverine?
Team Titans #24
DC Comics (September, 1994)
“All Good Things”
WRITERS: Jeffery Jensen & Phil Jimenez
PENCILER: Nigel Tully
INKERS: Andrew Peopy, Rus Sever, & Dan Davis
COLORIST: Adrienne Roy
LETTERER: Albert De Guzman
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Chris Eades
EDITOR: Rob Simpson
Tell others about the Spotlight:
Besides, my legs aren’t usually that stubby. If anything they’re way too long.
I either can’t work anywhere near the Teen Titans Go! style or my mind and body refuses to. I haven’t decided which.
Today’s Clutter Report is just a repost of my Batman #307 review, the first Batman comic I owned. I was going to review a smart phone I go because my carrier dropped 2G and offered a free (budget of course) phone, but all I kept saying was “it’s good for a budget phone” or something along those lines. I was bored just recording it, and I posted that tablet review still.
Now that we’re all done with the few Valiants I own, what’s coming on the Friday afternoon posting? Well,with all the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand talk recently I’m going back to my incomplete DC run (although I do have all four issues of the miniseries–and doubles of #2 & #3 if you’re interested) and fill up the spot there. That will be five childhood-related comics (the remake of Masters Of The Universe, the God-help-me WildStorm run of Thundercats, two different runs of Transformers comics, and now MASK) I’ll be looking at probably into the New Year. Hope you like nostalgia because the comic reviews will be full of them for a while.
