Too many hammer jokes.
Steel #1
DC Comics (February, 1994)
“Wrought Iron” WRITERS/CREATORS: Jon Bogdanove & Louise Simonson PENCILER: Chris Batista INKER: Rick Faber COLORIST: Gina Going LETTERER: Pat Brosseau EDITOR: Frank Pittarese
No offense, internet, but there are areas of you that hold dark things.
Max means well, and audience participation (what little audience I have) is something I wish happened more here at the Spotlight. On the other hand, I fear some of the suggestions. I’ll still take them as I’m having trouble deciding what they should dress as this year, but I still fear them.
Hey, an actual review over at The Clutter Reports! Now that we’re done with the Firestorm: The Nuclear Man trade it’s time to review the book itself.
Trying to work on a project for my cousin has been taking up time and I’m still trying to figure out how to get my broke self to ConnectiCon this year. So things are still in flux (except for my income, which is still nonexistent). I am hoping to have a short video that wasn’t done in time for the failed anti-debt livestream done for Saturday but who knows? Meanwhile, some new comic reviews are coming. The Batman Adventures are being rechristened The Batman & Robin Adventures and we’ll start that tomorrow, as well as returning to DC in the 90s with Steel’s first issue. Star Wars Droids moves from the cartoon-based Star run to a more movie-connected Dark Horse, but still stars R2 and 3PO searching for masters and having adventures.
Fridays are done with Dodekain but I found that once ALF comic that went missing, so we’ll finally review that before getting into the next series: Issac Asimov’s I-Bots! Based on a concept by the late science fiction author that he was working on before his passing I-Bots is superheroes as written by the master of robotics fiction. I remember enjoying it and it should hopefully still be good now. The Saturday trade review begins its first manga series with one of my favorites, Magic Knights Rayearth, combining cute girls (they’re minors, so that’s NOT what I mean), giant robots, and magic with twists M. Night wishes he could pull off. (Just don’t let him adapt this, or we may get another The Last Airbender!) Well, back to work!
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Dec. 9, 1928-June 23,2015
Any time I start to question why I still work on this site I learn something I only would have learned about doing research for this site. For example, in memory of Dick Van Patten’s passing I wanted to show the first episode of the show that made him a household name, the comedy/drama Eight Is Enough, about a family with eight kids (later beaten in spades by reality TV with even more kids). When I went to track down the pilot I found there were a few changes to the cast between pilot and series…like the eldest son being played by Mark Hamill!
The show was based on the same titled book, based on the family of Thomas Brayden (the family was called the Bradfords and Tom was Van Patten’s character’s name). The series lasted for five seasons, from 1977 – 1981. I was never really drawn into the series but it was quite prominent during my childhood as the reruns were all over syndication. Let’s watch the first episode to learn why you should “Never Try Eating Nectarines Since Juice May Dispense” (the episode’s title, and it will make sense early on). Continue reading
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I’m guessing Larry couldn’t believe that Katie and May stole and mounted Bolts’ brain.
Moon Freight 3 Volume 3: Messing With Heads
FEATURED COMICS: Aug. 18,2010 – Aug. 17,2011 WRITER/ARTIST: Luke Foster COVER COLORIST: Tom Chu LOGO DESIGN: Brian CrossTell others about the Spotlight:
There are a few villains who are must-haves for certain characters through various translations. For Iron Man, one of them is Ultimo, the giant robot who wants to destroy the Earth for no discernible reason. For the 1990s Iron Man cartoon they used a good character on the bad season, which is a shame. But there was a comic adaptation and good fight came out of it, so at least something good happened.
“Wildcat” round 8
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I will remind anyone leering at Koyori there that she is supposed to be TWELVE YEARS OLD!
Dodekain #8
FINAL ISSUE
Antarctic Press (June, 1995)
Again there are no credits so I’m using the one from two issues back.
WRITER/ARTIST: Masayuki Fujihara TRANSLATION: Kuni Kimura ENGLISH ADAPTATION: Elin Winkler TOUCH-UP ART: Pat Kelley COVER COLORIST: ARNie LETTERER: Shon HowellTell others about the Spotlight:
Firelord (comics) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Remember a while back when I did a whole article about how fans aren’t racist for wanting to see the characters they enjoy on the screen instead of some namesake? (If not, this isn’t today’s link but here it is anyway.) Well, that argument’s come up again thanks to a reporter from the UK Telegraph who doesn’t seem to know a lot about comics except for the fact that the Avengers that didn’t star Patrick Macnee came from there. Four Color Media Monitor dissects the article and explains what fans really are upset about.
