“Also, it smell like me being hit with rotten eggs.”
The Transformers #76
Marvel (March, 1991)
“Still Life!” WRITER: Simon Furman PENCILER: Andrew Wildman INKER: Steven Baskerville COLORIST: Nel Yomtov LETTERER: Rick Parker EDITOR: Rob Tokar
The Star Wars fandom is comprised of some of the scariest fans I know of.
Not because they dress up as characters when they see the movie. Heck, they do the same thing for Rocky Horror Picture Show, and that scares me for completely different reasons. And there are good fans that I hope are the majority. The 501st dresses up for conventions and charity visits, the latter making them some of the best people on this planet, even if they do dress up as the Imperials. (Admittedly they have the cooler outfits.) As a (hopefully) majority Star Wars fans are decent, average, good people.
And then there’s that one group. The one every fandom has, but some how this group finds a way to overshadow the others like none I’ve ever been exposed to. There are three reasons why. One is the first time I ever heard about fans making death threats was a news report in the local paper about Star Wars fans angry that Chewbacca was going to die in the novels. I don’t know what led to the decision but at least it wasn’t a weak shock death. He went out sacrificing himself to save Han & Leia’s kids, but that’s all I know about the story.
The second is when I went into a science fiction chat server and checked out the Star Wars room. I had a Power Rangers screenname at the time and the people in there berated me for it, which none of the other rooms on that server did to me.
The third is the article behind this long intro, sparked by this op-ed at Entertainment Weekly. Apparently even when George Lucas is no longer part of the franchise he put his heart into, he’s still a bigger villain than Palpatine.
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Which is exactly what I’d have if an army of animals came racing to tear me apart. Even the turtle.
Captain Planet And The Planeteers #3
Marvel (December, 1991)
“The Power Of Heart” WRITERS: Barry Dutter & Jim Salicrup PENCILER: Pat Broderick INKERS: Bruce Patterson & Ralph Cabrera COLORIST: Sarra Mossoff LETTERER: John Costanza EDITOR: Rob TokarTell others about the Spotlight:
Mar 08, 1922 – Dec 06, 2014
Our friend over at The Draconic Verses refers to someone dieing as being summoned by Prince Sirki, a reference I admit I don’t get. However, the prince was really busy this year, wasn’t he? In fact he was so busy that a lot of artists, creators, actors, and writers probably slipped your noticed and really shouldn’t. Cracked even needed two whole articles to list them all, and those are two pages each.
- Part 1: Including a Japanese soldier who didn’t watch the clock, a grumpy cat, we don’t cover porn but there’s a famous one (I guess on there), two members of Devo, a Star Wars novelist, one of the oldest YouTube v-log stars, a D&D artist, one of the 1960’s Batman writers, The Ultimate Warrior, and the creator of the xenomorph’s look.
- Part 2: Including some druggie maker that I don’t care about (outside of a humanitarian wish to not see people die), one of the unsung champions of World War II, the creator of Spot The Dog, a movie poster creator, one of the Hey, Arnold voice actors, the last Ramone, a popular graffiti artist, a saxophonist you may not know but whose work you will, the creator of Choose Your Own Adventure books, and the man at the top of this article.
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Only Godzilla would go swimming during a lightning storm.
Godzilla #10
Dark Horse (April, 1996)
“The Spanish Armada” WRITER: Alex Cox PENCILER: Brandon McKinney INKER: Andrew Pepoy COLORIST: Perry McNamee COVER ART: Bob Eggleton LETTERER: Clem Robins DESIGNER: Mark Cox EDITOR: Randy StradleyTell others about the Spotlight:
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.
So what do we know so far? A French captain wants the Black Stallion to mate with his white horse, Ghost, so he can breed the colt. He somehow knew to travel all the way to the Everglades where Alec and the Black were vacationing, and hid in the swamp knowing an in-heat Black would come along this way because Alec was bored. Or maybe this chapter will make more sense and I’m just being snarky for the sake of an intro.
Chapter Four: “The Captain”
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Hey, I do the cover jokes around here, Planet!
Captain Planet And The Planeteers #2
Marvel (November, 1991)
“Smog Gets In Your Eyes!” WRITERS: Barry Dutter & Jim Salicrup PENCILER: José Delbo INKER: Stephen Baskerville COLORIST: Sarra Mossoff LETTERER: Jim Massara EDITOR: Rob Tokar
