Firestar as she originally appeared in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Did you know that lyrics were made for the intro to Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, NBC’s pairing of Spidey with Iceman and original character Firestar? Brian Cronin posted it as part of his “Comic Book Legends Revealed” series. There may be a reason you’ve never heard of it.
The Avengers: Date Crashers
Secret Wars II #4
Marvel (October, 1985)
“Love Is The Answer!” WRITER: Jim Shooter PENCILER: Al Milgrom INKERS: Steve Leialoha & Joe Rubienstein COLORIST: Max Scheele LETTERER: Joe Rosen EDITOR: Bob Budiansky
We here at the Spotlight (all of me) has been pushing Justin “JewWario” Carmichael’s FamiKamen Rider project since the inception. Unfortunately, Carmichael passed away before he could complete his dream project. So his friend Kaitlyn “MarzGurl” Saucedo took up the challenge of at least bringing his dream to his fans. I’ve also thrown my support behind Farewell, FamiKamen Rider, Saucedo’s tribute to her friend’s fans, including our old pal Matt Burkett (a friend of JewWario’s and visual effects man on the original FamiKamen Rider Reviews as well as the planned series) as one of the suit actors.
Over the weekend, Kaitlyn and her husband, Josh, released a teaser for the tribute project.
Quick, burn it before it airs!
Captain Planet And The Planeteers #1
Marvel (October, 1991)
“A Hero For Earth!” STORY: Nick Boxer SCREENPLAY: Billy Ruebin ADAPTERS: Barry Dutter & Jim Salicrup PENCILER: José Delbo INKER: Mike DeCarlo COLORIST: Bran Vancata LETTERER: Jim Massara EDITOR: Rob Tokar
The Fantastic Four No.1 (November 1961). Cover art by Jack Kirby (penciller) and an unconfirmed inker. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’m not really into the Fantastic Four. They’re just not something that appealed to me all that much. And I’ve had plenty of non-comic adaptations of the quartet over the years to try. Newsarama contributor Zack Smith gives us a three-part look at all the adaptations of Marvel’s oddest family up to the upcoming reboot of the movie so 20th Century Fox can fool us into thinking they still deserve the rights (between changing family relationships and ruining the best villain in Marvel history they’re doing a poor job).
“You’re comic issue number is too high!”
Firestorm #100
FINAL ISSUE
DC Comics (August, 1990)
“Blaze Of Glory” WRITER: John Ostrander SPECIAL GUEST WRITER: Gerry Conway ARTIST: Tom Mandrake SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS: Al Milgrom, Joe Brozowsky and J.J. Birch, & Tom Grindberg COLORIST: Nansi Hoolahan LETTERER: J.W. Ghastly EDITOR: Dan Sapler “FIRESTORM” CREATORS: Gerry Conway & Al Milgrom
So there’s no comic strip today and Captain Yuletide will be lucky to be done by the end of the year, especially if I want to reflect my actual questionable art skills as opposed to the quickly drawn mediocrity of the previous issue. (Although the pages I’ve already completed are up on my Patreon for $15 “deluxe comic” tier patrons.) Right now my Mom is in the hospital for the second time this month. On top of that we have people coming to work on the house on Monday so I have some things I need to do in order to keep the clutter out of where they’re working. Along with that I’m trying to find some kind of income before my credit card bill goes to collections and screws up my credit rating more than it already has. Hopefully I can find a job…and fast, or God will grant me a lot of video viewers or Patreon supporters. While I’m still driven to work on this site, possibly out of foolishness considering my small reader and video viewing numbers, I have more important things to deal with right now. I apologize for what this may do to my posting schedule.
Basically, we have a Christmas so bad even I couldn’t find the drive to celebrate properly, and me not celebrating Christmas shows how bad things are. I don’t know how this will affect BW operations so please bear with me. I’m hoping to get a couple of commentaries, a Chapter By Chapter posting, and the next installment of Breaking The Comics Code in before the next Friday Night Fight. Maybe even a BW Chats this Saturday, but my mother and job hunting take a back seat.
As for next week’s bonus old comic reviews (since I still can’t buy new comics and I need to go through all of these anyway, we have a special treat if I can get it done, continuing on the GI Joe Extreme angle of finding comics better than the cartoon it came from. This week we’re looking at…
Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Yep, the cartoon version of Captain Planet And The Planeteers suffered from weak animation, weaker writing, a blunt object of a pro-environment whose “facts” are debatable, and some good celebrity and underrated voice actors poorly used. Marvel put out a comic tie-in to the series. I own the first seven and this week we’ll see the first five, with the last two next week followed by other comics, thanks to my posting schedule. Is this comic a hero to what was actually not that bad a concept or is it just as bad as the show? Join us all this week to find out.
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
