“I knew I should have set the alarm clock.”
Nightwing #11
DC Comics (August, 1997)
“Fear Takes Flight” WRITER: Chuck Dixon PENCILER: Scott McDaniel INKER: Karl story COLORIST: Roberta Tewes SEPARATIONS: Jamison LETTERER: John Costanza ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo EDITOR: Scott Peterson
I don’t think I’m alone in that.
I was going to have Leon do my venting for me, but then I remembered he lives in an apartment building. If you’ve noticed, articles have been late lately. Between helping my parents out more while my dad’s laid up or the snow storm upon snow storm where I have to do all of the shoveling myself (or not, thanks to some great neighbors, especially one who has helped me out every time) I’ve been delayed on pretty much everything and it’s working my nerves like you can’t believe.
This week’s postings to Reviewers Unknown and The Clutter Reports were just repostings of the RoboCop adaptation reviews because that’s all I had time for. I hope not to do that again because I like to at least try to post something different to each. I know I said I wouldn’t promote the Tumblr anymore but I did write a dissection of a persistent spambot. So that’s something else of mine to read.
No new comics so no Best Scene and that’s happening again this week. I couldn’t make it to the comic store and there was only one comic I wanted. So we’re going to continue the bandwagon and look at the six issues of Marvel’s RoboCop ongoing series that I have instead. I just hope I can get everything out on time this week.
The Brady Kids (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There are two things Filmation enjoyed doing, animated spin-offs and having the characters perform a song at some point in the show. So when they had a chance to merge the two, they did. Fat Albert and the gang, the Archies…I’m surprised they didn’t have the Gilligan’s Island characters break out the instruments at some point. Therefore it should come as no surprise that they were happy to create an animated spin-off of The Brady Bunch once the kids started performing their own music.
Instead of the debut episode, however, I thought this would be more interesting, for the episode “It’s All Greek To Me” features (as far as I know) the animated debut of Wonder Woman before she showed up the next season on Superfriends. The kids also teamed up with Superman and the Lone Ranger, both of whom had Filmation shows because I’m sure I didn’t dream those episodes up. (Wikipedia at least confirms the Superman episode.) I could only find the episode in 3 parts so watch what happens when the Bradys and the amazing Amazon are transported to ancient Greece by the kids’ magic bird. What, you don’t remember him in the show?
Too….much…snow!
Since I didn’t do a Yesterday’s Comic on this like I planned yesterday, I thought I’d do a short Scanning My Collection, something I could quickly crosspost between BW and RU with little effort, since it’s all going to shovel snow. Additionally, I’m taking advantage of the new RoboCop remake I won’t be able to see for at least a while by looking at Marvel’s adaptation of the original movie. I’m going to assume the majority of people coming across this article are already fully aware of the original movie, so I’m just going to do a quick review of the presentation.
“Also a little bit country and a little bit rock & roll.”
RoboCop
Marvel Comics (October, 1997)
I won’t call this #1 because they would later release a full series, and this isn’t the first issue of that.
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Edward Neumeier & Michael Miner ADAPTATION: Bob Harras PENCILERS: Javier Sallares & Alan Kupperberg INKER: Tony DeZuniga COVER ART: Mark Texiera LETTERER: Agustin Mas EDITOR: Michael Higgins MANAGING EDITOR: Craig AndersonWith the new RoboCop movie out there what better time to review the comic adaptation of the original? Well that’s happening tomorrow due to snow shoveling, but that’s where tonight’s fight is coming from.
Now I know most people would go to the final battle between RoboCop and Boddicker’s gang but you should know me better than that. How often do I have “ends with death” in a Friday Night Fight? Now blowing up a robot…that I can handle.
I keep saying that what people want isn’t realism but believability. Because if they wanted realism women wouldn’t have perfect hair at the apocalypse or wear catsuits that don’t let them go to the bathroom. They’d hit real Los Angeles traffic instead of driving like they live in my town. (Heck, just going through larger towns–not even the cities–I hit the occasional traffic line without a school bus in sight to blame.) Check your grooming because that also matters to “5 Questions That Movie Plots Never Answer“. Seriously, there’s a reason finding the bathrooms in Mr. Scott’s Guide To The Enterprise amuses me so.
“Staring contest…GO!”
Bio-Booster Armor Guyver Part 5 #3
Viz Comics (1989)
originally published by Tokuma Shoten Publishing
“Resurrected!” WRITER/ARTIST: Yoshiki Takaya TRANSLATION: Fred Burke & Koaru Hosaka TOUCH-UP ART/LETTERER: Bill Spicer COVER DESIGN: Viz Graphics ASSISTANT EDITOR: Toshifumi Yoshida EDITOR: Annette Roman
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
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