You already made the joke so why should I?
Solarman #2
Marvel (May, 1990)
“This Silent Death, This Hostage Earth” WRITER: Stan Lee (which you guessed from the title) PENCILER: Mike Zeck FINISHER: Hector Redondo COLORIST: Bob Sharen LETTERER: Janice Chiang EDITOR: Bob Budiansky “SOLARMAN” CREATOR: David Oliphant
Urban renewal, Godzilla style!
Godzilla
(adapting The Return Of Godzilla, aka Godzilla 1985, minus the US changes)
Dark Horse (May, 1995 second printing)
collecting the six issue Dark Horse miniseries, originally published by Shogakukan, Inc
WRITER/ARTIST: Kazuhisa Iwata ADAPTATION: Randy Stradley & Mike Richardson COVER ART: Bob Eggleton LETTERERS: Dan McKinnon, Jean Simek, & David Jackson ART TOUCH-UP: Jim Bradrick, Chris Chalenor, Chris Warner, & Jerry Prosser EDITORS: Randy Stradley (mini & 1st edition) & Robert V. Conte (2nd ed COLLECTION EDITOR: Lynn Adair COLLECTION DESIGNER: Brian GogolinStar Wars: Rebels had its debut Sunday on Disney Channel before it begins proper on DisneyXD. Taking place after the prequels and some time before the original trilogy, Rebels follows a group of, obviously, rebels trying to fight back against the Empire as best they can. When the show starts there are only five members. (Yes, I include the droid.) It ends with six, and I don’t think I’m spoiling the obvious. It’s more about how he joins rather than will he.
I can say without spoilers (although to be honest a lot of trailers spoiled the big reveal..idiots!) that if you were put off by the prequels and The Clone Wars because you knew what was coming, Rebels might work out better for you. If you wanted a ragtag group opposing the Empire in your Star Wars then this is also what you wanted. The rest of this review will contain spoilers, but if you haven’t seen it, give it a watch. For the rest of you who don’t care about spoilers or already saw it, read on.
He doesn’t even have a sun tan. I cry fowl!
Solarman #1
Marvel (January, 1989)
WRITER: Stan Lee PENCILER: Jim Mooney INKER: Dennis Janke COLORIST: bob Sharen LETTERER: Diana Albers EDITOR: Bob Budiansky “SOLARMAN” CREATOR: David Oliphant
The Beat‘s Torsten Adair put together a great tribute to Saturday morning. I still have plans of my own, but they’re going to take a while.
Fraternity initiation is getting worse.
Master Of Kung Fu #123
Marvel (April, 1983)
“The Sins Of The Son!” WRITER: Alan Zelenetz PENCILER: William Johnson INKER: Mike Mignola COLORIST: George Roussos LETTERER: Rick Parker EDITOR: Denny O’Neil
Optimus Prime leads Jazz, Over-Run, Prowl, Rad, Rollout and Wheeljack into becoming Action Masters (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Most adults who grew up with the original Transformers line probably remember them best from the toys and the cartoon, produced by Sunbow. While the die hard fans or at least comic fans remember the comics the majority are probably not as connected to them. I remember there was a time when Transformers fans would try to merge the comics and cartoons (thanks to the movie adaptation) into one continuity but that doesn’t work because they follow two different paths. Toon humans accepted the Autobots easily as their allies against the Decepticon assault while that’s never happened in any Transformers comic I’ve read. Origins and other histories are different, as are personalities at times.
While Transformers fancomics are rare, at least compared to prose fanfics, a couple have continued on past the cartoon, with art very much inspired and one fanartist, whose work looked like a high-quality still from the cartoon, ended up with a career making Transformers comics for a while. (He was one of the guys screwed over by Dreamwave, as I recall.) I have a printout of it somewhere and if I can find it online I’ll do a review. Another is one I’ve reviewed here before. It is possible to make a Transformer comic with the look and feel of the old TV show. And someone is petitioning current license holder IDW Publishing to do just that.
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
