“Space hog!”
Gigantor #4
Antarctic Press (May, 2000)
“Doppleganger” part 1 WRITER/LAYOUT: Ted Nomura ARTIST: Ben Dunn COLORISTS: Nathan Lumm & Lee Duhig TYPESETTING/EDITOR: Doug Dlin
DC Comics is announcing a deal with Mattel to create a series featuring the DC superheroines and supervillianesses targeting women. Apparently it’s an origin story (of course it is) but as my friend Rowdy C Moore pointed out there was a time when you could find shows that catered to BOTH genders so I admit it’s a shame that the girls are being placed “over here” away from the boys. On the other hand, considering their treatment and depiction of the heroines it’s nice to see them do something positive with them. And that’s probably the best Supergirl outfit I’ve seen in years.
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“Can Gigantor come out to play?”
Gigantor #3
Antarctic Press (April, 2000)
“Friends And Enemies” WRITER/ARTIST: Ben Dunn COLORIST: Nathan Lumm EDITORS: Doug Dlin & Fred LaddTell others about the Spotlight:
I’m not trying to say that Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day is a good movie. I’m not an idiot. Okay, that’s debatable but what ID4 lacks in story it makes up for in fun, something Emmerich forgot along the way in favor of what he thought we liked, disaster porn. However, disaster movies have been around since before Emmerich was taking still pictures so he can only be blamed for screwing them up.
Or can he? I admit I haven’t watched a lot of disaster movies but they tend to follow a similar idea. Something bad happens when nature decides to blow stuff up and an all-star cast has to survive it…only they usually don’t and celebrities get to do their beloved death scenes. These things aren’t exactly heavy on plot, but something about ID4 tends to stand out beyond the celebrities. This will be short but quite honestly Independence Day may well be the best disaster movie ever produced.
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“Hey, the floor IS lava!” “Oh shut up!”
Transformers: Generation Two #11
Marvel (September, 1994)
WRITER: Simon Furman COLORIST: Sarra Mossoff LETTERER: Richard Starkings & Comicraft EDITOR: Rob Tokar “Dark Shadows” PENCILER: Manny Galan INKER: Jim Amash “Tales From Earth” part 8 ARTIST: Geoff SeniorTell others about the Spotlight:
I’m a Christian, and of course that means I enjoy Christian media. I can also accept the inherent issues in low-budget productions if the studio meets me half-way with a good stories and actors that at least seem to care about what they’re doing. And yet some of these productions fall a bit flat. Fellow geek Christian Halley Callahan (wife of fellow Reviewers Unknown refugee Charlie “Spazzmaster” Callahan) looks into why Christian media has a good message, but a bad story.
By the way, I was going to make this the filler video for Tuesday but she didn’t get back to me in time. She did want me to link to she and Spazz’s new home at Geekvision, which has some other RUers as well as BW fave The Isle Of Rangoon, as well as their personal site, which features her other show, Spazz’s review show, and their joint monster movie v-log reviews. So even though this is a link and not a posting I decided to do it anyway. Thanks, Halley!
There are some faith-based media that are learning but I think Christians, and this is true for Conservatives because I’ve seen it from them as well, have been pushed out of the movies for so long that we need to re-learn storytelling media. I’ll also copy/paste a comment I made on the YT posting: Christian comics have done a better job with this. Not that there aren’t some bad ones, but there are some real good ones who realize the message makes a good theme for your story but there needs to be more to make a GOOD story. And it’s a good Christian story with a good Christian theme that will get Christian and non-Christian alike to enjoy the story, which may leave them open to the message of the Gospel. Barring that, they may still get something good out of it or at least enjoy it, which is what any storyteller should strive for. This will make them follow your work and maybe the next one will touch their hearts with the message. But only if they’re entertained long enough to stay for the message.
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“Somebody get me a new globe.”
Transformers: Generation Two #10
Marvel (August, 1994)
WRITER: Simon Furman COLORIST: Sarra Mossoff LETTERER: Richard Starkings & Comicraft EDITOR: Rob Tokar “Total War” PENCILER: Manny Galan INKER: Jim Amash “Tales From Earth” part 7 ARTIST: Geoff Senior“Autobase Earth. A safe haven, far from the eyes and reach of Commander Jhiaxus and his second generation Transformer army. Not!” Two caption boxes. It took two caption boxes to block me from reading this comic for hours. I don’t know if that tells you anything about my mind even though I like the first Wayne’s World movie (haven’t seen the second and I’m not into having either in my media library but I like the first movie well enough) but this was so stupid I had to pull away from it. Later Grimlock has a bandana and “Big Grim” on his shoulder for one panel for no good reason. Tokar was really not paying attention this issue. Although to be fair this issue also contains the greatest Optimus Prime/Megatron conversation in history.
MEGATRON: “Why? That’s what they all asked me. Why him… why Starscream? Why, of all Decepticons, did I decide to revitalize the one whose record of deceit and betrayal is legend? Because I’m an idiot, that’s why!”
OPTIMUS: “While I’m tempted to record that last statement for posterity…”
Hey, I give credit where it’s due. It’s also the first official appearance of the word “combiner” for robots that combine, although it was two Transformers making fun of Cybertronians being cut in half by a trap. But that’s enough praise. Back to the complaints!
The Cybertronians continue their attack on Autobase, as that terrible first quote stated, while Starscream leads them to Warworld’s front door. We’ll get back to Starscream’s master plan in a moment. Realizing that Warworld is their best bet, Megatron to attack the Cybertronians and Optimus to try and convince Jhiaxus that they need to unite against the Swarm (I swear, Furman’s Optimus will do the dumbest things possible to unite factions when there are perfectly intelligent ways to at least temporarily form alliances), who by the way attack another Cybertronian ship and decides to follow the order in the computer to go to Earth, but someone has already taken it over…Starscream, who has used the Matrix to merge with Warworld and has decided to try that Underbase trick again.
Yep, Starscream is doing the same trick again, and I assure you he was a bigger threat using Underbase energy than merging with Warworld. This whole issue is death and destruction, something Furman seems to be a master at writing, and that’s not what I read comic for. Still, it was the in-thing in the 90s so Furman must have been right at home. There’s also the start of this subplot that Razorclaw thinks one of the Rotor Force, Manta Ray, is getting too friendly with the Autobots…you know, despite the fact that they are allies in a war that YOU ARE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF A BATTLE OF! This subplot is pointless, especially since we already have two subplots coming together. Furman needs to check into subplot addiction.
At least this is almost over. I really won’t miss this series.
