An initial costume concept for Jack Sparrow before Depp’s ideas took hold (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It’s not rare for something to go wrong on a TV or movie set, or during a reality show. However, Cracked.com contributor Jim Avery found seven examples of popular shows and movies that resulted in some form of criminal charges. Will you be surprised to learn that Game Of Thrones, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Vanilla Ice are part of this list? You’ll still be surprised why.
If you think the art’s bad here you should see the inside.
Troublemakers #5
Acclaim Comics/Valiant Heroes (August, 1997)
“Hero Worship” WRITER/CO-CREATOR: Fabian Nicieza PENCILER/CO-CREATOR: Kenny Martinez INKER: Anibal Rodriguez COLORING: Atomic Paintbrush LETTERERS: Dave & Siobhan EDITOR: Omar BanmallyI finally found out how to spell “Wenceslas”, although I still can’t say it easily and I will still be using copy/paste on that name.
I have to admit that for a long time I have wondered why “Good King Wenceslas” is a Christmas song. What words I’ve made out for this song I’ve never understood. So for this year’s Christmas edition of Sing Me A Story I’m finally going to learn what I can of this song’s history and the full lyrics. It’s a personal journey and you get to come along with me.
I’m not sure what history to throw on this prior to research. I know nothing about this song and I don’t know of any one version that stands up in my mind or the general public as the definitive version. I’m basically choosing whatever lyric video YouTube or the poster hasn’t taken down yet that comes up first and readable. So let’s do this.
“Tag! Your it!”
Transformers Energon #28
Dreamwave (October, 2004)
“Multiplicity” part 3 WRITER: Simon Furman PENCILER: Alex Milne INKERS: Elaine To & Perd Poblete COLORISTS: Jong-im Lee & Josh Perez LETTERER: Ben Lee
The good news: Star Trek is returning to series format. The questionable news: It’s based on the JJ Abrams movies. The bad news: it’s only going to be available on CBS’s pay-to-stream service. The video I link to comes from Pixel Dan’s podcast where he and co-host Johnathan Leonard discuss why this is a mistake and then get into their histories with the show. Sadly the Animated Series is never brought up.
“Hey guess what? I CAN deal with that now!”
Transformers: Generation One #2
Dreamwave (May, 2003)
“Brothers’ Burden” WRITER: Brad Mick PENCILER: Pat Lee INKER: Rob Armstrong BACKGROUNDS: Edwin Garcia LAYOUT ASSISTS: Ferd Poblete COLORISTS: Espen Grundetjern & Alan Wang LETTERER: Paul Villafuerte
As longtime readers know, I love the Phantom. It’s my favorite newspaper strip, which is why I took that berry juice thing I mentioned yesterday so seriously. In an episode of Comic Misconceptions Scott brings up a rather fascinating bit of trivia as to how far the fictional legacy spreads into the modern world.
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