“Captain America didn’t have to put up with this evil counterpart nonsense.”
Judomaster #95
Charlton Comics Group (June, 1967)
“The Plot To Destroy Judomaster”
WRITER/ARTIST/LETTERER: Frank McLaughlin
Sarge Steel: “File 112: Case Of The Village Moneyman”
WRITER: Steve Skeates
ARTIST: Dick Giordano
LETTERING: A Machine
We has to do two chapters last time as Orlov, Jr got where he was going while we were introduced to another character just as he got nabbed by the Ruskies. Whether or not they’re on the pro-restore communism team or not we have yet to learn. It won’t be this chapter because we’re going to back to Op-Center.
One of the problems with this long books is running out of things to discuss comes earlier in the book than in other books. We are just barely near the halfway part of this 78 chapter, 436 page paperback novel, and we still won’t actually make the halfway point for another few installments. I try not to spoil things in the intro because this ends up on the homepage for a few days. It means I don’t have a lot to pad this out with, and there isn’t much to say outside of repeating how this has been an improvement thus far over the last book as our heroes aren’t coming off as total self-important putzes. The villains are, but they’re supposed to. They’re the bad guys. So I have been enjoying this thus far.
Can’t wait to see how they @#$#% this one over.
Discount Iron Man versus a discount kabuki dancer?
Prototype #7
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (February, 1994)
“Arena Of Doom”
WRITERS: Tom Mason & Len Strazewski
ARTISTS: Roger Robinson & Jeff Whiting
COLORING: Conroy/Pulve & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Rowland Mann
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Another childhood favorite gone. My condolences to his family and friends, and thank you for voicing one of my heroes. You indeed had the power.
I should have went with “Starring Cameo”, but I only thought of it as I went to put this post together.
At least you can’t accuse them of lying.
Can you tell that’s Jack Black without the dialog? Not used to drawing him.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I tried to get that retro Windows emulator going. Emphasis on tried.
Something weird happened this week. I got a huge influx of readers this week along with a new subscriber. (Hi, there. Hope you aren’t disappointed.) And at least some of it wasn’t spam! I think. For some reason one of my Super Mario Brothers comic reviews got a ton of reads, and I can’t understand why. The referer list just points to sites, not pages on that site, and some of them are search engines. Probably won’t lead to a huge influx since I went back down to normal, and even that’s higher than normal the past few weeks, but it’s still kind neat. Which I got money out of it, but at least people are interested. Meanwhile my article on the new Smurf movie for some reason got a bunch of likes on the Tumblr I promoted it on, more likes than usual. Would be nice if this was the trend.
At the Spotlight this week I have nothing major planned. No new DC Heroes United again, and I wonder if they’re just going to end on that cliffhanger or if they’re planning some second season nonsense. We do have the next Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image, the usual comic reviews, fun videos, and the rest will depend on what’s happening. Watch, now that I have so many free days nothing interesting happens. Ah well, have a great week, everyone! I’ll come up with something worth reading.
I love when YouTube gives me opportunities like this.
In America, people know about Speed Racer, the Japanese import animated series about a race car driver who gets caught up in some kind of dangerous adventure everywhere he and his friends go. That show might have gone into nostalgic obscurity if not for someone at MTV finding the show and airing it on their channel as they started moving away from just being Music Television. What was a product of its time, with the strange dialog to fill in the mouth movements, because kind of fun to watch. Parodies, sequels, and remakes would follow, and in its native Japan it would get something of a resurgence.
In Japan it’s known by another name, Mach GoGoGo, the story of Go Mifune and his amazing car, the Mach 5. In the US his name would change to Speed Racer in the 1960s, gaining the first name Greg in NOW Comics to explain the G on his shirt. It was based on a manga by Tatsuo Yoshida.
Tonight we have something I don’t get to do often enough, two videos comparing the two versions for your viewing enjoyment. The storiest took place in two-part episodes, but I’m just showing the first episode, so part ones all around, courtesy of Shout Factory TV and YouTube. “Mach 5, Let’s Go” and “The Great Plan” have different names but the same plot. An engineer ruins Go/Speed’s dad’s attempt to produce a new engine because he wants to betray the company and become rich on his own. Meanwhile, our hero wants to become a race car driver, which we later learn led to his brother’s apparent death, so dad is against it. Can our hero, his friends, his little brother, and the brother’s pet chimp protect the plans and get dad to let his son race? Well, you’ll have to get to the episodes themselves, but I’ll link to the YouTube playlists so you can. This is just a comparison sampler. Enjoy.
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