A bit late but the video for the first half of Saturday is ready. I was trying to make up for not getting cosplay footage on Friday with extra Saturday footage, and ended up with enough for two day. Tomorrow will be the second half and I’m still trying to decide what to do for Sunday’s footage. Enjoy.
Nice action shot of Luke. Too bad he has nothing to do with this issue.
Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire–Evolution #1
Dark Horse (February, 1998)
“After The Fall” WRITER: Steve Perry (who wrote the original novel this spins off from) PENCILER: Ron Randall INKER: Tom Simmons COLORIST: Dave Nestelle COVER ART: Duncan Fegredo LETTERER: Steve Dutro BOOK DESIGNER: Scott Tice EDITOR: Bob Cooper
Batman: The Killing Joke (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I admit that I haven’t read The Killing Joke, Alan Moore’s one-shot that DC decided to make canon, thus making the former Batgirl crippled. (Note that she retired the superhero identity BEFORE she was shot.) While many like her as Oracle and were disappointed that she went back to being Batgirl, some fans want the shooting, which in the story was part of Joker’s attempt to drive Commissioner Gordon as insane as he is (I don’t know for sure if this is what changed Joker from “clown prince of crime” to “murder-crazy psychopath”), removed from an upcoming animated adaptation announced at San Diego Comic Con. Ari Green of Four Color Media Monitor suggests that feminists look at far worse use of hurting women, like Identity Crisis and the retconned rape of Sue Dibney by Doctor Light that didn’t even really matter to the story as much as her murder did. Meanwhile, Reggie James of Reaxxion wonders why it’s okay to torture a man but not injure a woman?
I kind of see James’ point. Sure, she was shot as part of Gordon’s story, a semi-fridge if you will, but since it became canon (to Alan Moore’s regret) the writers used it to make Barbara/Oracle a stronger character, getting out of being the “girl version of a male hero” and into an important part of the Bat family…until writers decided Batman was leaning too much on her…and had him lean on Alfred instead.
“This case has less legs than I do!”
Star Wars: Droids Vol.2 #2
Dark Horse (May, 1995)
“Rebellion” part 2 WRITER: Ryder Windham ARTIST: Ian Gibson COLORIST: Perry McNamee COVER ART: Kilian Plunkett LETTERER: Ellie DeVille BOOK DESIGN: Scott Tice EDITOR: Peet Janes
Satoru Iwata
December 6, 1959 – July 11, 2015
It’s the biggest hit to the video game world since it lost Ralph Baer, the founder of the video game console. On July 11th, Satoru Iwata passed away due to a bile duct growth. Iwata played a large part in Nintendo’s history, from programmer to president. Nintendo Impact Gaming looks into the history of a man who loved video games and shared that love with the world. I picked this one at random because YouTube is filled with tribute videos. This is the impact he had on gamers as well as gaming.
While I was only able to attend ConnectiCon for two days (explained in the unboxing video of my new tablet) I did manage to show up for Saturday and Sunday. Again, most of my cosplay footage is in video form but as I get to work on that, here are some of the photos I managed to snag.
The first of two new sets of business card strips
If you want to see the second set, contributors to the Jake & Leon tier over at my Patreon can see it. Otherwise, it will be at BW this time next week.
I’m disappointed in how things turned out on my end. ConnectiCon was great as usual, but I had problem after problem. A special Monday posting of The Clutter Reports will feature the unboxing of a new tablet I received from my dad as an early Birthday present after the old one (which belonged to my late mother—four months after she passed so I’m rather disappointed in myself) ended up falling and having a cracked screen. The folio case is to blame but that won’t be an issue now as I worked around it. It’s still a good case otherwise.
Anyway, the events I mention during the unboxing (and I’ll link to or re-discuss those events in a ConnectiCon video) led me to be up at Friday’s events for about an hour, and I didn’t record anything because I left my camera behind (the short version). So there will be video from Saturday and Sunday, including a meet-up with a regular con acquaintance, two fellow Reviewers Unknown members, and someone from Channel Awesome as we went flipping tables. That’s a teaser, by the way. I didn’t run into them again but it was still cool to actually meet with reviewer colleagues, much less ones that were on the same site I was. There will be fewer press junkets and panels but some were recorded by others so hopefully I can still bring you the panels I wanted to cover. I didn’t get to do a single interview and only showed up at a handful of junkets. I didn’t get to pass out a single business card. It’s just a mess this year and everything is beyond my control. I hate bringing an inferior experience from my end. Everyone should come to ConnectiCon if they can and I want to prove that. Plus I want to put together the best content I can for you folks.
As for articles, I’m afraid there won’t be any on Monday except for the convention photos. DC reviews will return next week while I’ll get back to Magic Knights Rayearth on Saturday. I’ll get to the walking around footage next, then the teased video. Sorry I’m not better organized but you know how my year has been and getting ready for ConnectiCon took a backseat to a project I was actually paid for. I’d like more of those if I could, but it’s always good to be paid to do things you love. We should be back to normal here at the Spotlight next week, in time for the Brass City Comic Convention at the end of July. Now I need to go back to bed. Took a nap when I got home and I’m still tired, with a big blister on my foot. That’s conventions for you. You’re half-dead but loving every moment you’re lucid enough for. 😀
One final paragraph: I did catch some of the news out of San Diego Comic Con, one of three or four other conventions that happened this weekend and I may discuss some of it as soon as I have an opening. Meanwhile, I also just heard that Satoru Iwata passed away. The man was very important to video game history and I’ll try to get into that once the immediate convention stuff is done. And now…bed!
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