Big Nate: Game On! (Photo credit: Vernon Barford School)
Lincoln Pierce’s newspaper strip Big Nate made a push to win the Guinness Book of World Records award for the longest newspaper strip by a team. With the help of fans from around the country they were successful. Congratulations, Mr. Pierce.
For anyone paying attention at home, I didn’t forget issue #43. I’m passing it by. It’s an adaptation of The Big Broadcast Of 2006, one of my least favorite episodes of the original series. I don’t know why they went with that or why then needed filler, but I’m so biased against the episode that I don’t know if I could be fair to the comic. Some day I’ll review the episode.
“I’m not here for hugs.”
The Transformers #44
Marvel Comics (September, 1988)
“The Cosmic Carnival” WRITER: Bob Budiansky PENCILER: Frank Springer INKER: Danny Bulanadi COLORIST: Nel Yomtov LETTERER: Bill Oakley EDITOR: Don Daley
Shark (Photo credit: StormyDog)
I put the quotation marks in this because it isn’t filler, but it’s short enough that it’s what it would be. However, this was too cool to wait for filler time. Plus I plan to watch “Super 7” tonight and finally get that review done. Instead, it’s a shark versus an alligator using the power of LEGOs.
Oh, I should probably mentions that THEY’RE BOTH WEARING ROBOTIC BATTLESUITS! The Asylum couldn’t make this stuff up! But Austin Birch did.
You’d think creating a small sun would be a GOOD thing? Right?
Star Mage #1
IDW Publishing (April, 2014)
WRITER/CREATOR: JC De La Torre ARTIST: Ray Dillon ASSISTANT EDITOR: Cori Zaragoza EDITOR: Tom Waltz
It’s “believable versus realistic” time again. Although I wouldn’t read this installment while eating. It has a detailed explanation of scurvy’s symptoms. Cracked.com contributor Ian Fortley looks at the fantasy versus reality of pirates, cowboys, knights, samurai, and private investigators. If these stories were realistic, they’d be boring as heck. Also, I know Cracked has a lot of articles with swearing but this one of the heavier swearing articles. Plus a picture dramatization of seppuku. And that scurvy thing.
“What, I don’t rate the real Avengers? Just some knockoffs?”
Godzilla #3
Marvel Comics (October, 1977)
“A Tale Of Two Saviors” WRITER: Doug Moench ARTIST: Herbe Trimpe INKER: Tony Dezuniga COLORIST: Don Warfield (still black & white reprint) LETTERER: Wohl E. Wantanabe EDITOR: Archie Goodwin
I’ve been wanting this up for a long time.
If you didn’t catch me saying it when it debuted, the concept for new set for Jake & Leon was something I had struggled with until the Comic Strip Critic debuted his new set. This got the ideas flowing again, proving you never know what can jump start your brain.
In the time since John Weber and The Punchline‘s appearance in the Internet Spotlight feature, John and I ended up on Reviewers Unknown (and we both have Eli “The Cartoon Hero” Stone, who you may remember from the Scooby-Doo review, to thank for our nominations) and we became friends. Both my Twitter feed and the site have appeared on his show. Sadly, I have not personally done so and for the 50th, where he was looking for cameos, time was my enemy and I didn’t get to film anything.
However, I did want to do something for his big 50th episode and BW Media Spotlight loves promoting stuff I like, so here’s the 50th, including cameos from reviewers and the comic strip creators John has made friends with over the past 49 episodes. Dude’s famous and junk in the comic strip community now since he’s the only video reviewer discussing newspaper strips. Not a lot of competition and he reaches out to creators of the stuff he enjoys to show them how much he loves their work. Well I enjoy his work so here’s some extra promotion for him.
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
