CriticWire contributor Sam Adams makes the case that the word “overrated” has lost all meaning…if it ever had it.
First, an explanation. Readers of The Clutter Reports last Sunday saw my review of the Mini-Con Assault Team. Packed in, as with many of the 30th anniversary Generations figures is an IDW comic that is just one that was on the shelves, but with a cover invoking the toy it comes with…even if it doesn’t show up in the comic. It doesn’t here, for example and I’ve heard this is not unique to the Mini-Con Assault Team, but you’ll see why it was chosen and it’s a very stupid reason.
It’s Dark Cybertron #4. Trust me.
Transformers: Dark Cybertron #4
IDW (with special Hasbro cover and no publishing date)
WRITERS: James Roberts & John Barber ARTISTS: Atilio Rojo, James Raiz, Nick Roche, Livio Ramondelli, & Robert Gill COLORIST: Romulo Farjardo, Jr. & Livio Ramondelli COVER ARTIST: Phil Jimez COVER COLORIST: Romulo Fariardo, Jr. LETTERER: Gilberto Lazanco EDITOR: Carlos GuzmanTell others about the Spotlight:
The Fall Guy (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The stuntman, or stuntwoman, is one of the most under-appreciated people in the movie business, somewhere above the Foley artist I think. We see them do the stunts and sometimes we can tell when they aren’t using the actor if the stuntperson doesn’t look enough like the actor or actress he or she is substituting for. However, are any of them ever famous? Unless your a stunt performer like Evel Knievel, nobody will have heard of you. So it’s nice that Larson not only made a show about stuntmen but made one into an action hero. Although I’m betting Lee Majors didn’t do his own stunts, either for the fictional movie or the show’s action scenes.
Majors played Colt Seavers, a freelance stuntman, who runs Fall Guys Stunt Co. To pay the bills inbetween gigs, Colt, his partner Jodi, and in the pilot, joined by his cousin Howie, takes on the role of bounty hunter. And of course they aren’t easy bounties, or this wouldn’t be much of a show about a stuntman/bounty hunter. Again I bring you the pilot, as Colt and Jodi put up with Howie while trying to find a friend of Colt’s, Country Joe Walker, who bailed. The pilot actually has two stories, but Walker pops up in the second one as well.
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It’s as silly as you think.
Dynomutt #4
Marvel (May, 1978)
WRITER: Mark Evanier ARTIST: Paul Norris COLORIST: Carl GaffordThe credits were in the first story so I’m only guessing it’s for both.
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Most MMORPGs are designed for college kids and up. They also go towards dark and various levels of bloody violence. That’s not a put-down, that’s just how they operate. Entertainment Weekly’s Joshua Rivera found an MMO hoping to reach a larger age group called Overwatch, produced by Blizzard, the leader in MMOs. I wonder how long it takes for the everything for meeeeeeeeeeeee crowd ruins it because it allows non-them to join in?
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I wonder what Godzilla tastes like, but not enough to find out.
Godzilla #4
Dark Horse (September, 1995)
“Godzilla Vs. Bagorah” WRITER: Kevin Maguire PENCILER: Brandon McKinney INKER: Scott Reed COLORIST: Albert Deschesne COVER ART: Arthur Adams LETTERER: Pat Owsley EDITOR: Richard Vincent Conte DESIGN: Mark CoxTell others about the Spotlight:
Going over the various shows he’s created, one theme I see Larson returning to is redemption, stories where criminals go straight and sometimes even become crimefighters themselves. The oldest creator credit I can find (if IMDB is right it’s the third thing he did) was Alias Smith And Jones, two bank and train robbers who never shot anybody. When one of their operations goes horribly wrong, Hannibal Heyes (Pete Duel) and Kid Curry (Ben Murphy) agree to the governor’s amnesty plan (as there are more crooks than the law can handle, lesser criminals are granted amnesty if they stay clean for one year). And with the banks and railway companies not on their side they take the names Joshua Smith and Thaddeus Jones respectively. But can they keep their noses clean?
This is the pilot, showing how Heyes and Curry became Smith and Jones. This is from a time when Westerns were still allowed to be fun and directors still believed in letting people know sunshine existed. Nowadays it’s all dark and gritty unless it’s a comedy. And even some of them. I was never big into Westerns (although like cop shows sometimes an episode grabs me) but nothing about modern Westerns impress me enough to spend time and/or money on them.
