Well, he had to fight dinosaurs eventually.
Judomaster #98
FINAL ISSUE though at this point I wouldn’t be surprised to find out another title took over the numbering like this one did
Charlton Comics Group (December, 1967)
“The Isle Of Dragons”
WRITER/ARTIST: Frank McLaughlin
Sarge Steel: File 115 “Case Of The Key West Caper”
I didn’t see credits in the comic.
Last time we looked at two short chapters, one that comes off as filler and one that’s a character building moment for Striker members.
Hey, we might finally be halfway through the book by the time we’re done. However, I’ve run out of things to say so….here’s a preview of the audiobook of this novel, going after the prologue and first chapter.
Will we ever learn why these guys were killed? Probably not this chapter, but it’s time to get back to where we left off. Let’s see what our more competent Op-Center is up to now.
“Oh, he is going to be so surprised…”
The Night Man #4
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (January, 1994)
“Who Is The Night Man”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
PENCILER: Kyle Holtz
INKER: Thomas Florimonte
COLORING: Tim Divar & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
TWO NOTES: The drunken Scotsman curses, and this video was made two years prior to posting. It got lost in the backlog. Sorry, but the point still works.
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We’ve all had that happen at least once.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I found a TEDx Talk about feeling like a failure at decluttering. Given the week I’ve had, I needed to hear it.
This was not a good week, and I went over why there. I’m hoping for a better week. One where the comic is on time perhaps. No, I can’t blame Daylight Savings Time. This week I’m hoping to have time to actually write and create stuff. Right now all I have are comic reviews and the next Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image to mention.
Have a great week, everyone. Hopefully I will.
On Thursday I showed off five of my favorite suit-up transformations, so I thought it might be fun to see one of them in action. I’ve already done a number of He-Man and She-Ra adventures, as well as the animated Filmation version of Captain Marvel. That left Skysurfer Strike Force, which doesn’t have an official posting anywhere I can embed from, and Kamen Rider Kabuto, my sampler for the Masked Riders, which I can embed since the first two episodes were posted to Toei’s abandoned Tokusatsu World YouTube channel.
I chose Kabuto based off a video compilation of Heisei era Riders even though I have a mixed relationship with the period. Some lean too far into the drama, some into the comedy, but the big issue is how little sense some of this is. With the original Showa era riders and movies it’s easy. Evil organization turns people into mutants, one of them turns out to not be evil and fights back as a bug man with a motorcycle. There weren’t as many ancient civilizations, mysterious monsters, mystical enemies that still use technology, or any of that. Just science gone wrong. Having to push the gimmicky toys with numerous features doesn’t help because they put play and coolness above making sense more often than not.
Then you have the protagonist, with some kind of quirky personality that could be silly or just obnoxious, and from these two episodes I find our hero more towards the latter. Still, work with what you got and some of you might find this more interesting and worth exploring if Shout Factory ever gets the license for the full series or Toei remembers they have this channel and learns how to use it. Since it is Toei, you’ll have to use the captions to subtitle in English and for some reason French. Japanese is also an option. Enjoy.
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
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BW’s Daily Video> Why Comic History Is Critical
NOTE: Perch is getting kind of curse-y these days.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 11, 2025 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comics, Comics By Perch, commentary, History.
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