I feel the same about reading your comic again, buster, but here we are.
Firearm #6
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (February, 1994)
“Missing Child”
WRITER: James Robinson
PENCILER: Cully Hamner
INKER: John Lowe
COLORING: Moose Baumann & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
I remind you this is the man who wanted to make braille comics for the blind.
All the way back in Jake & Leon #19 , Max’s first appearance. That was when I was doing Weekly Wrap-Up on Sundays.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I decided to post something fun as I did minor maintenance. Comic Drake went hunting for the Final Faction comic as it seems to have gone out of circulation, even when it’s still on the Dollar Tree store shelves. Since it’s a series I’ve discussed over there I thought it would be more interesting there than here.
This week I have one distraction. So far. I might be able to get some work in this week and not just making deadlines. We’ll see as we continue the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image, the usual comic reviews, and see what else comes up. So far there are a couple of trailer to discuss I hear. As for the Monday Malibu Ultraverse reviews, that’s getting harder and harder. I found a good site but I guess the anti-pirates got to it and I have to find a replacement that isn’t shoveling porn and unwanted downloads at me. Remember, Marvel is doing absolutely JACK with the Ultraverse with no plans to do anything in the future with it, and Pre-Disney Marvel only wanted Malibu for a now outdated computer coloring process everyone was jealous of at the time, so it’s the only reason I’m willing to do this, but I might have to drop out if this becomes enough of a pain. Shame as I kind of like some of the titles.
Have a great week, everyone!
Eh, why not?
I never really got into Phineas & Ferb. Not that I have anything against the show. I certainly understand it’s fanbase, I did like the Star Wars parody, the multiverse TV movie, and crossover with Milo Murphy’s Law (a show I wouldn’t mind seeing make a comeback), but the show itself just never clicked with me whenever I tried to watch it. I can’t say I know why specifically, but it just didn’t work. Even the Marvel hero crossover I’m kind of neutral on.
Still, with a returning season recently announced on Disney Channel and Disney Plus (can’t wait to see how they screw this one up), and since I stumbled on it looking for a Saturday Night Showcase entry, posting the first episode of the original series might be fun. The original aired on Disney XD, and it’s their YouTube channel this is coming from. Some of you might not have seen the original show but heard about it, and others might want a refresher since the series has been off the air for a few years outside of the Milo Murphy’s Law crossover where Doctor Doofenshmirtz started a path of reforming I guess the returning show will undo. Pity, but I can see why. Doof’s antics with Perry The Platypus/Agent P was the only part of the show I had any interest in.
For those of you who somehow missed the whole experience, Phineas and Ferb are stepbrothers who invent the craziest things to help them and their friends get over summer vacation. These are somehow really big and potentially dangerous things, which is why Phineas’ biological sister, Candice, keeps trying to bust them to her mom, but…well, let’s not tell you everything. “Rollercoaster” is the first episode, as the boys create a rollercoaster in their backyard. “Candace Loses Her Head” finishes the episode as she has a birthday and the boys have a rather unusual present for her.
Even I wasn’t ready for Phineas to have a less nasally voice than he’s usually given. I guess they were still trying to find his proper voice. Ferb rarely talks and Perry/Agent P never talks, so they were easy. 😀 Enjoy!
He’s going to have an awful headache in the morning.
While not the original “Termite Terrace” (that was taken down in 1940), the studio which later housed the Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies creators is now scheduled to be torn down. Not because it was condemned like the original (it earned that name for a reason) but to make room for more HBO studio space. As the linked-to article notes, it hasn’t been used as an animation studio for years. Warner Brothers Animation operates elsewhere. Still, many Bugs and Daffy fans are upset because of its place in history. I suspect all of the other odd decisions David Zaslav has made regarding their animation library and new creations (I remind you that Warner Brothers Discovery has arguably the largest animation library on the planet) has them riled up.
I don’t see them making it into a Looney Tunes museum or something, and it hasn’t been a historic anything in years. It’s not even the original building the cartoons started in. I’m more bothered with how they treat the stuff that came from the studio rather than an unused building that is only famous for what it used to put out. It’s a shame to see it go for historic significance but only die-hard “toon heads” would want to see a building that isn’t even set-up as a studio.
image source: Wikipedia, with color modification to match the official look
Yesterday we did an overview of the promotion for the newest version of the Nintendo Switch, lazily called Switch 2. Yes, they gave their reasons, but it still feels lazy to me even if there’s a huge change from Switch 1. Since then I did manage to watch a few videos to get an idea of what the response is.
I’m going to go over that, but then I want to focus on my own thoughts, things I’d like to see out of the system. The biggest praise seems to come from the size, while the biggest complaint is coming from the prices. Fair enough, but I can’t afford the current Switch or any of the games no matter how cheep they are, so I guess I don’t have a huge dog in this fight.
BW Media Spotlight is a storytelling analysis blog, and I’ve gone over how video games can tell stories. So I want to come at the discussion from that angle. What potential do I see for this as interactive entertainment, and does it really advance anything or it only made so Nintendo can make more console selling money? Well, it’s being reported today that the US’s current plans to tariff what they’re being tariffed in the name of fairness that there may be a delay, causing worries of a price increase. Please note that I don’t want to discuss the tariff situation. This is not the site for that. I have my views and they are just that, MY views. You’re entitled to yours but this is not supposed to be a politics blog, and sociopolitical extremism is already coming up too much lately by force. I understand both sides and I see good and bad points by both sides whether I ultimately agree with them or not. We’ll discuss the prices but that’s not going to be a focus for this site.
Okay? Good? If not I might break out the edit scissors if I have to. I’m all for free speech but we will NOT HAVE A POLITICAL FLAME WAR IN MY COMMENTS, UNDERSTOOD!!!!!!!!!
tHEN LET’S…. I mean then let’s get on with this.
Best Comics #2
Better Publications, Inc (December, 1939)
Wish I could tell you what this is going in besides the obvious, but with a name as generic as “Best Comics”, you can imagine research is not easy and I don’t have the time to devote to the only issue in Comic Book Plus‘ library. There’s this from Comic Vine:
Published from November 1939 to February 1940 with 4 total issues numbered 1-4.
An early experiment in the size and shape of comic books, unlike the other comics, of which there were few at the time, this one took the size of 68 pages in the form of a panel comic from the news paper.
It was made up of mainly of humor strips, having only one adventure series The Red Mask, which featured the first black mystery man, who while shown as white on the covers was shown colored darker.
This comic also is the reason that DC’s World’s Best Comics had to be re-titled World’s Finest Comics with the second issue, even though they had not published a Best Comics in over a year when WBC came DC thought it better not to fight them for it.
And someday DC/National Comics would become sue happy and kill Fawcett Publishing. Interesting, I thought Lobo (no relation), the black cowboy, was comics’ first black hero but here’s one from the “mystery men” period of superheroes. I’m guessing somebody wanted to fool someone into reading it so whitewashed the character because this was 1939. As stated, Comic Book Plus only has the one issue and it’s mostly comedic comics, the stories I tend to ignore in Golden Age comic reviews because they aren’t very good. Still, I’m curious to see this experiment to see if the size is the only reason it didn’t make it past four issues.
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