“Just throw characters everywhere. That’ll generate excitement.” [facepalm]
Archie Comics Publications (2000)
COVER ART: Spaz & Penders
COVER COLOR: Josh D. Ray
COMIC COLORS/SEPARATIONS: Josh & Aimee Ray
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: J.F Gabrie
Sonic The Hedgehog: “Law Of The Land
PLOT: Evan Skolnick
WRITER: Jim Spivey
ARTISTS: Suzanne Paddock & Harvo
Knuckles The Echidna: “The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times”
WRITER: Ken Penders
ARTISTS: Steven Butler & Pam Eklund
The strangest things can cause a stray thought in my head to become something. Not surprising, waking up and listening to a podcast is one of the potential causes of such things.
Yesterday (as this goes live) I was listening to Literature Devil‘s Morning Nonsense podcast that YouTube makes him archive behind a paywall because the algorithm is a joke. In yesterday’s episode, recurring co-host Stuart “Stu” Jones of The Loading Crew (autoplaying introductory video alert if you click on that), a tabletop RPG commentator and author, and Lit Dev were discussing love in Japan (long story). Stu mentioned that the Japanese language didn’t have a word for love until fairly recently because in ancient Japan loving your spouse was considered a weakness. My guess is this is because your enemies could target her to force you to bend to their will or to get revenge through her if she wasn’t a spy looking for a foothold to get to his master or a personal grudge against him directly, but he didn’t elaborate and it’s not really important to the conversation at hand.
He did say the following, and I’m paraphrasing from memory, so feel free to correct me: Stu noted that it was considered more important to be loyal to your emperor or shogun or lord or something around those lines. This would include if your master was on the evil jerk side, but then he makes the comment along the lines of “so when is it okay to turn on your master?” “when you can win”.
My response in the chat: “That suddenly explains Starscream.”
Much like I’m betting you are right now, both hosts were rather confused by that statement, and I don’t know if they saw my response since I had to leave and can’t afford to send a superchat. So I’m going to explain that statement to them…and to you. Note that as I worked on this article I ended up moving away from a direct connection to Stu’s history lesson, because sometimes a small thought just gets the ball rolling, and this is one steep hill. Decided to keep the article title because that’s how this got started. Pretty sure somewhere in there I explain my statement, though. Happy to clarify anything if I didn’t.
In this issue, the Little Prince turns traitor and spies on Earth. Or that’s what I got out of the cover.
Space Adventures vol.3 #35
Charlton Comics Group (August, 1960)
I’m not sure how many more Captain Atom stories there are in this comic before he gets his own series, but that’s as far as we’ll be going. I might return to the title if the Friday edition makes it to 1960 (we’re currently still in 1939), but for now this is still the Tuesday look at pre-DC versions of characters. Still, I’m not just going to read Captain Atom, which means we have four stories to review for this anthology. Let’s get to it!
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As one commenter put it, this is why they don’t invite Bruce to movie night. 🙂
Over 70 chapters but the last few are really short and will possibly run together. That’s how far we have to go until we’re done, and we’re currently slightly over halfway to the end. Last time we saw that Orlov is still very much in the dark about what’s going on around him. Not a good place to keep your operation center head in but Commie Op-Center is a fool’s project because a fool is behind it.
So far we haven’t seen that hurt Commie Op-Center but we’ve still got almost halfway to go, so I expect it will happen sooner or later. Right now we’re checking in with our two undercover operatives. I didn’t know soldiers would also work as undercover agents, but Striker isn’t exactly an official branch of the US military, they’re part of a crisis management team. Maybe it requires other skills and this is the story where we get to see it in action versus the previous novel. We’ll find out because it’s time to check out this week’s chapter.
“Somehow I know I’m going to get blamed for this.”
Prime #9
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (February, 1994)
“Atomic Lies”
WRITERS: Len Strazewski & Gerald Jones
ARTIST: Norm Breyfogle
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
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
BW Media Spotlight 
BW’s Daily Video> Disney’s Fillmore and How Fiction Is Not “Just Stories”
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The fact that this was produced and distributed by Disney for theIr Saturday morning block on ABC and ironic given how many Disney-purchased studios and Disney itself seems to have forgotten this message.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 2, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged ABC Saturday Morning, commentary, Fandom, Fillmore!, kids TV, Review, Shady Doorags.
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