“Yesterday’s” Comic> Speed Racer: Chronicles Of The Racer #3

Speed Racer Chronicles Of The Racer #3

Sorry, comic. It’s too late to convince me this is a good Speed Racer story.

Speed Racer: Chronicles Of The Racer #3

IDW (March, 2008)

WRITER: Arie Kaplan
ARTIST: German Torres
COLORIST: Jason Jensen
SELECTED COVER ARTIST: Diogenes Neves
SELECTED COVER COLORIST: Debora Carita
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Chris Ryall

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Godzilla #12 (Dark Horse)

Godzilla #12 (DH)

Volcanoes are jealous of Godzilla.

Godzilla #12

Dark Horse (June, 1996)

WRITER: Alex Cox
PENCILER: Brandon McKinney
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Perry McNamee
COVER ART: Bob Eggleton
LETTERER: Clem Robins
DESIGNER: Mark Cox
EDITOR: Randy Stradley

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Trope Shark: Chekhov’s Gun

Trope Shark logo

This is your only Star Trek reference: this trope has nothing to do with Pavel Checkov. In fact the term predates the show and even the term “trope”. It’s an old theater term, and one that I’ve used a bit more lately. So I thought it would make a great installment of Trope Shark. It’s one you may have heard of before but tonight we’re going to give it a proper once-over.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Speed Racer: Chronicles Of The Racer #2

Speed Racer Chronicles Of The Racer #2

Speed seems to be having a hard time believing this nonsense as I am.

Speed Racer: Chronicles Of The Racer #2

IDW (February, 2008)

WRITER: Arie Kaplan
ARTISTS: Robby Musso (including selected cover) & German Torres
COLORIST: Jason Jensen
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Chris Ryall

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Morning Article Link: I, Book, Take This Movie…

The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey

The Book of Mormon Movie, Vol. 1: The Journey (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Atlantic‘s Dashiell Bennett takes a look at the trend of novels of all age groups being turned into movies. She seems to have ignored the comics, and only links to another article about novels adapting or based on movies and television shows but it’s still a good read.

 

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Secret Wars II #6

Secret Wars II #6

Are the lasers pelting him with rocks?

Secret Wars II #6

Marvel (December, 1985)

“Life Rules!”
WRITER: Jim Shooter
PENCILER: Al Milgrom
INKER: Steve Leialoha
COLORIST: Minny Hands (?)
LETTERER: Rick Parker
EDITOR: Bob Budiansky

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Chapter By Chapter: The Black Stallion’s Ghost ch. 5

Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.

Chapter By Chapter Black Stallion's Ghost

In our last installment we saw Alec do something very stupid. Despite every evidence that something was wrong he took his horse and rode off with a strange man in the swamp, went into his house, and now finds himself with two guys who may want to do him harm. We, the readers, know the actual goal is to get Black to mate with Ghost. Would that make the colt grey?

Chapter 5: The Professionals

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