Kaiju BBQs are weird.
Godzilla #21
Marvel (April, 1979)
“The Doom Trip!” WRITER: Doug Moench PENCILER: Herb Tripe INKER: Dan Green COLORIST: Ben Sean LETTERER: Irving Wantambe EDITOR: Al Milgrom
I’ve discussed the webcomic Star Power before on this site and the 2013 ConnectiCon Press Junket video featured the creators, writer Michael Terracciano and artist Garth Graham. I also have the first two issues in print, but some of you would rather wait for the trade to come out. With their new Kickstarter for Star Power & The 9th Wormhole, you can get the first storyline (as of this writing the webcomic is on the second story arc) in trade form. I can’t post the video and the second link goes to my review (while the first goes to the webcomic itself) so I will just link to the Kickstarter here and do a brief description in the next paragraph.
For those who haven’t clicked on any of the links, Star Power follows a star watcher in the future who works on a space station library called Sanctuary Six. One night while doing some personal stargazing she is hit with the Star Power and chosen to become a Star Power Sentinel, who must learn what happened to all of the other chosen, protect the station, learn her new powers, and deal with the enemy of the Sentinels. It’s fun for all ages, with some great action. Check the comic out and if you don’t want to order the individual issues from the site’s store support the Kickstarter and maybe get the trade of the first arc. Either way you should see this comic and help out its creators.
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“This is for Atreyu, you jerk!”
Star Mage #6
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IDW (September, 2014)
WRITER/CREATOR: JC De La Torre ARTIST: Franco Cespedes ASSISTANT EDITOR: Cori Zaragoza EDITOR: Tom WaltzTell others about the Spotlight:
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Here’s an interesting bit out of Japan, proving that Western gamers are just looking for reasons to be angry. Thanks to misunderstanding an ad, gamers thought the next Super Smash Brothers for 3DS was going to feature playable versions of a Japanese pop band, AKB48 (a group who from what I can tell has more members now than Menudo did ever)…who were only demonstrating that you could use your own Miis to fight in the game. It would have been a stupid reason to boycott the game anyway. Don’t like them? DON’T USE THEM! And you thought stupidity was limited to Western gamers?
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Later, Dom fell into a vat of acid and his skin turned white.
Marvel Premiere #56
FEATURING: Dominic Fortune
Marvel Comics (October, 1980)
“The Big Top Barter Resolution” PLOT: Len Wein & Howard Chaykin SCRIPT: David Michelinie LAYOUTS: Haward Chaykin FINISHER: Terry Austin COLORIST: Glynis Wein LETTERER: Joe Rosen EDITOR: Jim SalicrupTell others about the Spotlight:
Somewhere in this clutter I have some old children’s books my mom got for me. The books are special ordered. The original story does not have names for the, to use an example, kids who get to visit Sesame Street. That’s because your parent puts your name and your friends or relatives names on there. You’re the star and your friends extra supporting casts as the Sesame Street citizenry welcome you to their happy home and tell you how special you are. Does that make the me in the book a Mary Sue?
Thus far we have covered two tropes here on Trope Shark. Jumping the shark can be shaken off and fridging is insulting to a character and happens mostly to female characters, thus insulting women. The first can be funny and the second the opposite. The “Mary Sue”, on the other hand, is just kind of irritating. Like “jumping the shark”, however, what truly classifies a Mary Sue (or the male counterpart, Gary Stu, although I see Mary Sue used for males more often than Gary Stu or the alternate “Marty Stu”) is up for debate case by case but the general idea is mainly agreed on. So who are Mary and Gary and why should we care?
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What is this, the third time the gang has dealt with multicolored ghosts?
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #6
DC Comics (November, 2014)
“A Super Friend In Need” WRITER: Sholly Fisch ARTIST: Dario Brizuela COLORIST: Franco Riesco LETTERER: Saida Temofonte ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jessica Chen EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
