You’d think Rocky would learn after fighting a wrestler to avoid AMA fighting.
Judomaster #97
Charlton Comics Group (October, 1967)
“This One’s For Pop!”
WRITER/ARTIST: Frank McLaughlin
Sarge Steel: Case File 114 “Case Of The Widow’s Revenge”
WRITER: Steve Skeates
ARTIST: Dick Giordano
LETTERING: A Machine
WARNING: Some cursing…and I don’t just mean Kennedy
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I’ll believe it one way or another when I see it. My thoughts on her reign (of terror) as Disney LucasFilm remains. Even if she does (finally) leave, who succeeds her will affect my opinion on anything past the original trilogy, the prequels, the Droids cartoon and comics from Star and Dark Horse, the first Ewok TV movie, the early Clone Wars cartoons, and Shadows Of The Empire…the only canon I know because I haven’t read all the novels/comics or played most of the games.
We didn’t have much to talk about last chapter since it was just an interrogation. At least it was a full chapter. Today’s chapters are two pages and five pages respectively, so I’m going to combine them.
I did say back when I started this book that I wouldn’t be able to avoid political discussion due to the nature of the book and current events. As I write this, Russia is going after Ukraine because Vladimir Putin is trying the same thing that Dogin is in this book: restore communism and the Soviet Union to Russia whether the people want it or not. I’m not going to defend or trash Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader, because that’s too political for this site. I just find it interesting how I unintentionally started a book that almost predicts current events despite being published in paperback form in 1995. This is the first time I’m reading this novel and I totally didn’t see it coming. Still, it turns out to be surprisingly good timing, or would be if I were more politically minded on this site. (In real life I am but as far as BW Media Spotlight goes I’m more focused on the end result, not the creator’s politics or the reasons it failed beyond the preachiness in today’s entertainment.)
So realize I did not choose this book on purpose. God, fate, or cosmic coincidence are responsible here, as we go back to the book to see how they resolve things. Maybe President Trump should pick this up and take notes.
“Or at least it will feel that way with this new sneakers!”
The Strangers #8
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (January, 1994)
“Taken By The Sky!”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
PENCILERS: Rick Hoberg & Steve Skroce
INKER: Tim Eldred
COLORING: Rick Schmitz & Psychodelic Prisms
LETTERER: Dave Lamphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
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Like I said yesterday, they are talking about a crossover of some kind, or maybe just reprinting all their old ones, when they had writers who could write superhero stories. In the comments I had to ask why would Spider-Man and Batman have to fight? In their existing crossovers they teamed up pretty fast, and I wish that was the norm instead of the exception. The first crossover was my favorite because it looked at how both dealt with the murders that led to them becoming heroes and how similar and different their lives were.
I don’t know if it would renew lost excitement in either character. You’d need a writer who cares about both characters enough to write a good adventure but still be willing to make them earn it. I don’t know many of those there are left, and both Warner and Disney, who see the comics as movie fodder rather than a storytelling media format on par with their shows and movies, are too much rivals to make that happen no matter how much they claim otherwise. Re-releasing DC Vs Marvel was a fluke, though it would be nice to see heroes join together to fight their respective villains.
Guess we don’t need Access to keep them apart anymore.
Yeah, apparently DC and Marvel are talking about doing a new crossover after the success of the DC Vs Marvel re-release. Personally I’ll believe it when I see it, since both companies are now owned by rival movie studios who only see the comics as potential IP for the “important” media, TV and movies. I’d rather see them just reprint the older crossovers, from the days when they had writers who wanted to make good stories with both properties.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I worked on cutting down the large pile of comic art I’m not going to do anything with and don’t have a special connection with, including Jake & Leon pages from the Bristol board days. I didn’t toss out all of it, but I did declutter.
This week we have more comics, the next Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image doing two chapters at once, and whatever else goes on this week. Have a great one, everyone!
I’m not sure if this is going to go to everyone on the world. Rights issues are a pain sometimes. For those that don’t, there are other options to watch the episode. In the UK you have the BBC i-player. For those of us in the States there’s Tubi. For everyone else I hope this works.
For people without i-player and not knowing about Tubi, the BBC reworked their classic Doctor Who YouTube channel, previously a place for classic Who fans to find clips of the original show without digging through the current era channel, into a home for full episodes. They actually started with truncated movie edits of the serials, but there were complaints. I guess now they’re going for full serials edited into a single video, but with the full video restored right down to all the opening and closing credits.
Funny enough, the first time I got to watch the show regularly since the Connecticut PBS station aired it at dinnertime were Sunday movie edits (only removing credits between episodes) from the Massachusetts station before our state was forced to make a law that got rid of network channels from out of state even when we had the state option alongside it. Then there was the VCR and changes to both our schedules. My first real exposure was the Fifth Doctor, but it’s Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor that gets all the big fan support.
Tonight I went with the episode that debuts my favorite Companion. K9 might not have been Tom Baker’s favorite but there’s a reason the BBC kept him on after “The Invisible Enemy” as he was a hit with the kids, the target audience of the original series (not so much currently). However, he isn’t the focus. A viral lifeform wants to use the Doctor to spawn a new generation, but he and his current companion Leela (a favorite with the dads) need to stop him. And they’ll have help from my favorite robot. Enjoy.
Also, trying to do this with the block editor. Let me know if anything goes weird.
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