“I’m going to beautifully win this costume contest.”
Every now and then the obvious analog character rises past knockoff status and becomes popular in his or her own right. Chris Sims of Comics Alliance looks at five such successful knockoffs.
He looks like he’s going to tickle them to death.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1
Like Street Sharks, there was no indication that this was a continuation of a previous miniseries except for a “II” next to the issue number, which is more than Archie did. The publishing credits tell you nothing.
Hamilton Comics (June, 1995)
COLORIST: Summer Hinton CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Cheryl Saban EDITORS: John Clark & Gary Leach “While The Cat’s Away” WRITER: Donald D. Markstein ARTISTS: John Heebink & Aaron McClellan “Unstoppable Force!” WRITER: Nat Gertler ARTIST: Sparky MooreTell others about the Spotlight:
Recently Marvel Studios, the not-comics arm of Marvel, released news of “Phase 3”, the next chapter of the expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe (or as I call it for consistency the Marvel Movieverse). Iron Man 3 surprisingly is part of Phase 2. I don’t get how this works either. The next edition of Guardians Of The Galaxy was no surprise to anyone, however. I don’t feel the need to talk about it and there isn’t any real details. I think the only Phase 3 we really know about is Ant-Man, and I’ve already gone over what little we know in detail. There are sequels with subtitles hinting at the plot (Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 has no subtitle) and four new additions to the family. All release dates are intended by Marvel Studios but anything can happen to push dates forward or on occasion backward.
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Overdoing the extreme close-ups. That’s the 1990s for you.
Street Sharks #1
(It’s not officially marked as volume 2, I’m listing it that way to tell it apart from the adaptation miniseries.)
Archie (May, 1996)
“The Age of Aquaria” part 1 “Just a Big Crab!” WRITER: Evan Skolnick PENCILERS: Nelson Ortega & Manny Galan INKER: Jay Oliveras COLORIST: Kyle Hunter LETTERER: Jeff Powell EDITOR: Fred MendezTell others about the Spotlight:
One (of many) thing(s) lost to the New 52 is Supergirl’s history with the Legion Of Superheroes (and Braniac-5 in particular). As part of his Who’s Who series Siskoid of Siskoid’s Blog Of Geekery takes a brief look into the Maid Of Might’s past pre-and-post-Crisis.
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Funny, I said the same thing while reading this comic.
The Transformers #70
Marvel (September, 1990)
“The Pri¢e Of Life! (Yes, with the cents sign) WRITER: Simon Furman PENCILER: Andrew Wildman INKER: Stephen Baskerville COLORIST: Nel Yomtov LETTERER: Rick Parker EDITOR: Rob TokarTell others about the Spotlight:
All this week I’ve been reviewing the Street Sharks comics, based on the toyline and adapting the three-part pilot. That means I’ve had to watch the intro to the show all three times. And all three times I didn’t care for it. The show was produced by DIC and if you’ve seen the intro to their GI Joe cartoons you know their intro quality dropped pretty hard in the 90s. Sadly, Street Sharks was no exception, and they had three tries to do it!
