B-9 Environmental Control Robot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Before I look at the Lost In Space comic based on the movie I thought I’d refresh my memory of that movie by taking a look at the Nostalgia Critic’s review. It has better special effects than the show, but none of the charm.
In case you thought “Superdickery” was reserved for the Silver Age.
The Adventures Of Superman Annual #3
DC Comics (1991)
“Beyond The Reach Of Time” WRITER: Louise Simonson PENCILER: Brian Hitch INKERS: James Sanders III, Joe Rubinstein, Bryan Hitch, Ray McCarthy, Nick Napolitano, Jerry Acerno, & Dick Giordano COLORIST: Glen Whitmore LETTERER: John Costanza ASSISTANT EDITOR: Dan Torsland EDITOR: Mike Carlin
If you missed my saying it yesterday my grandfathern passed away this week. The only thing I could come up with for this week’s comic was me punching death in the face, which felt like I was trivializing the deaths of my mom and grandfather, plus my grandmother and uncle two years ago and my cousin’s husband last year. I just don’t want anyone else I care about to die, or at least let us finish grieving for the ones that have passed! We’re in mourning enough as it is!
So there’s no comic or Clutter Report this week. As for the site, my grandfather (we called him “Poppy”) was in such poor health that we kind of expected it. The fact that he survived two years passed his wife (“Nanny”) passing away was in itself a surprise. So I do have the whatever to continue BW operations. This week it’s movie week in the afternoon “Yesterday’s Comic because I still can’t afford new ones” feature. It’s not an adaptation but a continuation of the Lost In Space movie, followed by an adaptation of Disney’s Tarzan. I have seen both movies so this should be interesting. Hopefully I can come up with a better Jake & Leon comic by next week.
With Leonard Nimoy‘s passing doing some kind of retrospective is kind of a given. However, I already have a lot of catching up to do on recent events and recurring series. Besides, I have few choices. You all already know about Star Trek so there’s no sense pointing to that. There’s Mission: Impossible but I don’t even know what his role was on that show. He did some cowboy stuff that I haven’t seen. I doubt I’d find an episode of In Search Of… that would fit with this website. Transformers: The Movie would be hard to get an embed for and the audio dramas he’s done aren’t online anywhere I can embed as far as I know. And that covers the stuff he’s done that I’ve seen or been interested in. That leaves me with Zombies Of The Stratosphere because it’s been too long since we’ve looked at a classic serial here at the Spotlight.
Zombies Of The Stratosphere is a 1952 serial from Republic, the last of the theatrical “Rocket Men” series. We’ve already looked at King Of The Rocket Men in a series of Showcases and it was…underwhelming. A serial lives and dies by it’s cliffhangers and King really didn’t know how to do it right. “Oh, look, the guy with the rocket pack is falling from the sky. How, oh how, will he ever survive?” Hopefully, this serial will have better luck. Nimoy is one of the minor villains but this is one of his first roles after all. You can’t expect him to have the lead already.
Now instead of posting the episodes individually every day for the next few months (I do want to get back to my own videos) I found a playlist of the serial…for as long as it remains up. So you get it all in one shot. Enjoy.
At least their colors match.
DC/Marvel: All Access #2
DC Comics/Marvel (January, 1997)
“Two Sides Of The Same Coin” WRITER: Ron Marz PENCILER: Jackson Quice INKER: Joe Rubinstein COLORIST: Lee Loughridge SEPARATIONS: Digital Chameleon LETTERER: Bill Oakley ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Chris Duffy EDITOR: Mike Carlin
March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015
I’m getting too acquainted with death lately. I just lost my last grandparent, my grandfather (whom we called Poppy or Pop), just a month after losing my mother. And today word came that Leonard Nimoy, passed as well. While he wasn’t as close to me as my family he was a part of my childhood thanks to Star Trek, Transformers: The Movie (still the Galvatron in my head), and Zombies Of The Stratosphere (thanks to our cable access channel playing old movie serials and the edited movie version on other local stations). He was also on Mission: Impossible (which I never watched) and TJ Hooker (which I mostly watched because my mom did).
So needing something to make me happy this week, let’s use my favorite Spock comic moment for this week’s fight. When I tell you it involves Wolverine you’ll know which one I’m talking about if you’ve read the comic.
And yet safer than flying with Launchpad.
Disney’s Darkwing Duck #4
FINAL ISSUE
Disney Comics (February, 1992)
“Brawl In The Family” part 4: “The End Of The Beginning” WRITERS: Tad Stones, Jymm Magon, & Jan Strnad ADAPTATION/PENCILER: John Blair Moore INKER: George Wildman COLORIST: Gaff COVER INKER: Brute Patterson COVER COLORIST: Gail Bailey LETTERER: Gaspar Saladino
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
