“This will help me save billions on my electric bill!”
Transformers: The War Within – The Dark Ages #6
FINAL ISSUE
Dreamwave (April, 2004)
WRITER: Simon Furman PENCILER: Andrew Wildman INKERS: Erik Sander & Rob Ruffolo COLORIST: Alan Wang LETTERER: Ben Lee
“For The Children.”
These three words have ruined industries, restricted advancements, and until recently restricted entertainment. Although that last one is debatable. I’ll get to that. Over the past few installments I looked at the individual tenants of the Comic Code and which rules were rather silly and which kind of worked…had the Code been about kid-friendly comics. But it wasn’t.
There should be multiple kinds of comics for every genre taste and age group, just like every other media type. While comics were forced to adopt standards that were good for kids comics, other forces pressured distributors to not sell comics without the Code. Thus comics for older readers, people who would buy horror or romance comics, were left behind. It’s this insistence that comics were only for kids that older readers of yesterday, who have become creators today, have fought back, so that titles that used to be kid-friendly aren’t today.
I didn’t start this article series to condone or condemn the Comics Code. There is something in between overly restrictive and protecting the children. In the previous installments I have gone over the Code itself, going over things that make sense from their point of view…that comics are for kids only and nothing there should be bad for kids because adults only read novels and magazines. It’s like they thought comics were a form of illustrated storybook. This may explain what went wrong with the Authority and with the Code itself.
“That mosquito is going down this time!”
Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire – Evolution #4
Dark Horse (May, 1998)
WRITER: Steve Perry PENCILER: Ron Randall INKERS: Tom Simmons & Ron Randall COLORIST: Dave Nestelle COVER ART: Duncan Fegredo LETTERER: Steve Dutro DESIGN: Scott Tice & Kristen Burda EDITORS: Bob Cooper & Peet Janes
Geek Tyrant‘s Joey Paur stumbled across something fascinating. From a 1979 match in All Japan Pro Wrestling we have the tag-team of robot R2 and Robot C3. If the names don’t tell you who their invoking, their terrible cosplay will.
“Sorry, sir. I’m only a protocol droid. You need an interior decorator.”
Star Wars: Droids Vol. 2 #5
Dark Horse (September, 1995)
“Season Of Revolt” part 1 WRITER: Jan Strand PENCILER: Bill Hughes INKERS: Keith Williams & Rick Perrotta COLORIST: Chris Chalenor COVER ART: Kilian Plunkett LETTERER: Steve Dutro BOOK DESIGN: Scott Tice EDITOR: Peet Janes
April 17, 1954 – July 31, 2015
In an interview with HBO Sports, Roddy Piper said that he didn’t think he’d make 65 due to how he lived his life. He made it to 61. Roderick George “Roddy” Toombs was born in Saskatchewan, which is in Canada, not Scotland. But he was of Scottish ancestry so he was build as being from Scotland when he took on his wrestling persona, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. Coming to the ring accompanied by bagpipe music, the Rowdy One would pound his opponent to the ground with both his hands and his voice. The man could talk, which is why the WWF would give him his own interview segment, Piper’s Pit. Other attempts were made to do interview shows when Piper left the WWF but none of them matched what Piper would do.
But many of you who don’t follow wrestling would best know him from They Live, as a man who finds a pair of sunglasses that filters out aliens’ attempt to hide among humans and manipulate their thoughts. I didn’t grow up with Dusty Rhodes if anyone asks why I didn’t do a tribute to him, because he came to the WWF from WCW later on in my time as a wrestling fan. Piper, however, was definitely part of my wrestling experience. Whether he was a heel or the rare times he was the hero, Piper maintained the same attitude and the same energy and like him or hate him, the fans loved him.
“Why do I have the urge to jump into a giant robot?”
Spider-Man Adventures #5
Marvel (April, 1995)
“The Menace Of Mysterio” WRITER: Nel Yomtov PENCILER: Alex Saviuk INKER: Sam Del La Rosa COLORIST: Tom Smith LETTERER: Steve Dutro EDITOR: Tom Brevvort & Sarra Mossoff
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
