Two for the price of one. Both come from Midnight’s Edge on YouTube and has some swearing. The first is Andre attempting to explain why A Minecraft Movie did so well at the box office. The second is what Hollywood THINKS is the reason because they only care about marketing and think we’re stupid.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to have as much political commentary as the last chapter, but I kind of had to comment due to how closely it mirrored (no pun intended) current events. It’s time to check back in with the rest of Strike this round.
I know I harp on all the extended trivia about locations, weapons, vehicles, and even unnecessary background on the characters. I also know that at least the first three are one of the things fans of Clancy’s franchise are totally into that. I’m not, so not learning this until I had gotten three Op-Center novels and a Net Force means I wasn’t prepared for it, and probably wouldn’t have gotten more had I known. Also, I thought the series regulars were terrible in the first novel, though that’s improved in this one thus far. What works for some people doesn’t work for everyone and that’s fine. That’s why I look for things I like or thought were at least done well in something that otherwise wasn’t made for me (a loaded term these days), to be fair about my assessment. I don’t want to write something off that isn’t to my taste unless it’s ruining something that was “made for me” in the past. Sometimes a choice isn’t bad overall, just not something everyone likes, or sometimes it is a bad idea and you would have been better off not doing it. For the target audience, this is an improvement over the first one and there’s stuff I can get behind.
With that, let’s check in with our field team and see what they’re doing to save the world from the commees.
It’s a bullet exchange.
Prime #10
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (March, 1994)
“Men From The Boys”
WRITERS: Gerard Jones & Len Strazewski
ARTIST: Norm Breyfogle
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: James Robinson
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Can’t wait for Avengers #200 to be adapted into the next Captain Marvel movie. After all, they tell us “it was in the comics” means they can do anything they want, even if it’s a bad idea or out of context.
Let’s be honest, though. Culture war nonsense is only part of the problem. Marvel Comics have been trying to get any character named Captain Marvel over for years because “we’re Marvel Comics” and keeping Billy Batson from getting his proper superhero name back. I think they even rushed the movie out while Shazam! was stuck in development hell. None of the others stuck and they either died or got their own hero name. Using Carol was hoping the culture war would work to their advantage, and it only made it worse for her.
I’d love to have a comic this week, but I didn’t get to work on it until Saturday. Then today some annoying glitch is going on in Clip Studio Paint that is putting me in rage mode and I can’t finish it on time. Hopefully I’ll have it for next week and I am so sick and tired of these production stoppages. Shopping, doctors, tests….it’s pissing me off and I’ve about had it. I’m ready to just shut out the universe so I can finally get creative! I”m tired of being stuck in neutral because things won’t work, including my worthless body!
Anyway, over at The Clutter Reports, another victim of all these stinking distractions, I looked into yet another new method of decluttering called the Chaos Method. Given that decluttering is supposed to reduce chaos, I was curious just how this worked.
This week I’m going to try to get this comic done. Additionally, we’re continuing the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image, and Tubi decided to drop all six episodes of the new Robo Force on Saturday, so I’m going to watch the whole thing and give my thoughts on that. IF NOTHING ELSE GOES WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a great week, everyone…and say a prayer for my sanity if you would.
Hey, want to see an episode of a 1980s kids show so prophetic it’s sad?
Granted even in the 1980s there were attempts to sanitize KIDS TV by the parent groups, but using computers to change movies? Questionable social message propaganda poorly disguised as storytelling? Manipulating the news? G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero saw it coming.
The episode is “The Wrong Stuff”, as the Joes must travel into space to stop Cobra’s satellite television network from spreading pro-Cobra propaganda. Why they didn’t already use Joes who know about space travel, given they had a space station in one of the early miniseries and there’s an astronaut on the team (unless he wasn’t added to the 1980s toyline despite being one in the original 1960s line) back when the only “U.S. Space Force” was part of a competing toyline and TV show I couldn’t tell you. It is interesting to note that how Cobra altered old movies and put together new movies involves technology that didn’t exist then but in today’s AI Deepfake world I’m surprised we haven’t seen happen in a world of altered dubs, censored dialog, purposeful mistranslations, and digitally extended hair covering naked buttocks. It’s probably coming, and we don’t have a highly trained special mission force to save us from current Hollywood. Let’s see if they can save the day here. Enjoy.
I tried looking for videos of people playing through the story. All I found were builders and a weird game of hide-and-seek.
Against all logic, the lackluster A Minecraft Movie isn’t doing lackluster numbers, currently dominating in theaters. As usual, Hollywood’s press agents in the media are having trouble grasping this, but the director has an easy answer: people really like Minecraft. Someone in the comments also noted that it’s a kids movies adults don’t mind sitting through, meaning parent and child can go together. I hear it is more respective of the source material, even if it’s mostly references in a story with uninteresting characters. I’m not into the franchise so I have no plans to see it either way, but it is interesting that it kicked live action Snow White‘s butt as well as being one of the better received video game adaptations.
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