“What do mean the Grey Ghost movie is still in development hell?”
The Batman Adventures #36
FINAL ISSUE
DC Comics (October, 1995)
“The Last Batman Adventure” WRITER: Ty Templeton ARTISTS: Mike Parobeck & Rick Burchett COLORIST: Rick Taylor LETTERER: Tim Harkins ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo EDITOR: Scott Peterson
Jurassic Park Adventures: Flyers (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I like Independence Day. The characters may be weak and there are some odd plot moments but I still find myself rooting for them and the effects are pretty good for the time and budget. I do not “turn my brain off” for it. I simply accept it’s an alternate universe similar to our own but with some minor differences. It stays consistent to its world (if not always ours) and while I can still see things wrong I accept the movie as a whole.
I bring this up because Matt Singer of Screen Crush is tired of being told to turn his brain off when it comes to mindless “popcorn movies” when it does so many things wrong. As an example he uses his review of Jurassic World and the complaints of the movie’s defenders, versus the original Jurassic Park.
Cancelled Comics Cavalcade was a two-issue collection of comic stories never published, usually due to a series being cancelled early. One of those was Firestorm, although his adventures would continue in the pages of The Flash. The Firestorm adventure we’ll be looking at was intended to be the sixth issue of Firestorm. For this review we’ll only look at the Firestorm story since it comes from the Firestorm The Nuclear Man trade and not the actually comic, which also featured unpublished Black Lightning, the Ray, Claw The Unconquered, the Deserter, Doorway To Nightmare, and Green Team tales.
Canceled before it was even inked. Shame.
Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #1/Firestorm #6
DC Comics (Summer, 1978, would have been published December, 1978 I would imagine)
“The Typhoon Is A Storm Of The Soul!” WRITER/CO-CREATOR: Gerry Conway ARTIST/CO-CREATOR: Al Milgrom COLORIST: none, the collection was all in black and white for both issues LETTERER: Jack Abel EDITOR: Jack C. Harris COLLECTION EDITOR: Mike Gold
I’m pretty sure the main villain for more shooter characters is Rainbow Brite.
The game footage came from an online playthrough of the demo since I don’t own a Wii U. Somebody (I want to say the Game Overthinker or Enigma, my former Reviewers Unknown colleague) brought up the fact that Splatoon was a third-person shooter with more color than the usual third or first-person shooter, and he’s right. Nintendo is really good at making colorful games and I hear more praise for this game than other shooter games coming out lately. Maybe it’s just the circles I’m running with. Also, this game isn’t technically violent. Your beings made of colored ink shooting other beings made of colored ink with your color and painting the landscape as much as you can in your color before the timer stops. Even the game feels like the characters are playing a game instead of being in some end-of-the-world or real(ish) war scenario. I applaud this game, even if I can’t play it.
I posted something at The Clutter Reports this week. It’s just a repost of the Free Comic Inside article with the second Marvel Comics/Drake’s Snack Cakes miniseries mini-comics but at least it’s something. I’ve also missed Saturday postings, even doing a Saturday Night Showcase. These past few weeks have been really busy but hopefully I can start putting stuff together again…at least until I can fix whatever computer issue is making it hard to finish my cousin’s videos.
Finally, I put myself into a corner, didn’t I? I said that the midnight Monday comic review would be the Firestorm story from Cancelled Comics Cavalcade that was reprinted in the Firestorm trade I’ve been using, and it will. I also said I would be covering the Flash backup stories also reprinted in the trade…but as I recall I said it would be on Monday. The same Monday that I’ll be dedicating to Batman: The Animated Bible. Idiot. So the Flash backups will be part of Scanning My Collection on Tuesday and Monday’s installment of B:TAB will feature the superheroes of Gotham City, Batman and Robin, as well as Alfred who might as well be a superhero by the time the DCAU is done. I’ll also have the next Chapter By Chapter of The Black Stallion’s Ghost I said I’d do to catch up (and to see how the book will disappoint me with the Kovi reveal) possibly on Wednesday unless something comes up. Then it should be Thursday. That should be good for the week.
Leave it to Katie to be happy during a picket march.
Moon Freight 3 Volume 2: Sisters And Union Brothers
WRITER/ARTIST/PUBLISHER: Luke Foster
This volume collects the strips from August 17, 2009–August 16,2010
Star Wars Droids: The Adventures Of R2-D2 & C-3PO appears to no longer be canon despite it being treated as such for years. I don’t know how much involvement Lucasfilm had but Disneyfilm appears to only treat The Clone Wars and the current Rebels series as the only cartoons in canon. This disappoints me but I will always consider the cartoon canon. Star adapted the cartoon to comic form and allowed further adventures. Dark Horse would later do their own Droids stories but the look now matched the movies, which is fine.
In tonight’s entry into the Friday Night Fights tournament we get to see something even the cartoon never really gave us. There have been times when we’ve seen C-3PO accidentally stop a bad guy. R2 is usually the action hero. However, the comic gives us Threepio kicking butt and I love this comic for that moment alone.
“I’m starting to think lava surfing was a bad idea.”
Dodekain #6
Antarctic Press (April, 1995)
WRITER/ARTIST: Masayuki Fujihara TRANSLATION: Kuni Kimura ENGLISH ADAPTATION: Elin Winkler TOUCH-UP ART: Pat Kelley COVER COLORIST: ARNie LETTERER: Shon Howell
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
