I feel sorry for those four that didn’t get to be superhuge like everyone else.
Dark Horse (August, 2003)
originally published by Jade Dynasty
“Arrival” WRITER: Tony Wong TRANSLATION: Ken Siu-Chong & Michelle Lee DESIGNER: Darin Fabrich ARTIST: Khod Fuk Lung COVER ARTISTS: Alvin Lee, Alan Tam, Arnold Tsang LETTERING: Sno Cone Studios EDITOR: Jeremy Barlow PUBLISHER: Mike Richardson
With Botcon, the annual Transformers convention, happening this weekend I thought I’d break out another piece from my late Transformers site.
Back when I was still part of the alt.toys.transformers Usenet group I made a few Transformers fanfics. You may have caught the last one I posted. Well, this was different. While I wrote another parody that I’m saving for the week before ConnectiCon because it’s in parts I had planned for a huge serious one. Tentatively titled “FanFic: The Series”, it would be a series of fanfiction series with my own take on Transformers, spun-off from the original television show. I only had time to make one, the “unsold pilot” to the first series, Transformers: Vortex. Originally I wrote it in script form.
For this BW posting, however, I did some tweaking. It’s now regular prose (but if I missed a tense change you know why) and because it’s so long without any pictures to attach to it I’m going to make it a multiple page posting. I worked hard on this one in the past and in reformatting it now so I hope you enjoy it.
“I see someone’s had your meatloaf, April.”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #34
IDW (May, 2014)
STORY: Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow, & Tom Waltz WRITER: Tom Waltz ARTIST: Mateus Santolouco COLORIST: Ronda Pattison LETTERER: Shawn Lee EDITOR: Bobby Curnow
As comic fans you may know how Marvel Comics screwed over Billy Batson so they could control the name Captain Marvel. As music fans you may know that Bob Dylan went through a rush job to keep copyright on behind-the-scenes audio in England. As Star Trek fans may know, Gene Roddenberry screwed over the theme song writer. If you didn’t know about these, the original Hobbit movie (even before the Rankin/Bass one) or the story behind the worst Pinhead movie (so the article says; it’s not my kind of movie at any point), Cracked.com contributor Scott Elizabeth Baird has some surprises for you.
Just it works in a summer amusement park…
The Transformers #51
Marvel (April, 1989)
“The Man In The Machine!” WRITER: Bob Budiansky PENCILER: José Delbo INKER: Dave Hunt COLORIST: Nel Yomtov LETTERER: Bill Oakley EDITOR: Don Daley
TV Tropes is a great website to learn about tropes. You know, those characters, archetypes, or other elements that show up in virtually every story ever! The problem is that every article also includes mentions of every other trope even remotely related to the one your reading. You can get lost there for hours going through them all. But what if you’re just there because everybody in your Game Of Thrones forum starts bringing all of these terms up and you have no idea what they’re talking about?
That’s where BW Media Spotlight has you covered, people. I had thought about doing a video series called “Trope Watch” but that would take a lot of editing and hunting clips and images. So I decided on the article route and while trying to come up with a logo I decided it had to have a shark connection. To make a long story short the title became “Trope Shark”, a bite-sized (:) ) examination of a trope, featuring a definition, origin, and some examples that the average person might be aware of. And what better trope to start with than the one everyone knows about and influenced the title and logo you see above? Our first trope for this new series?
“This is why I hate petting zoos.”
Star Mage #3
IDW (June, 2014)
WRITER/CREATOR: JC De La Torre ARTIST: Franco Cespedes ASSISTANT EDITOR: Cori Zaragoza EDITOR: Tom Waltz
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
