“Are you sure this is how baseball is played?”
The Transformers #28
Marvel Comics (May, 1987)
“Mechanical Difficulties!” WRITER: Bob Budiansky PENCILER: Don Perlin INKERS: Ian Akin & Brian Garvey COLORIST: Nel Yomtov LETTERER: Janice Chiang EDITOR: Don Daley
Not you, Ms. Lion. This time we’re talking about a different dog.
Brian Griffin (Photo credit: rafitorres)
I don’t watch a lot of Family Guy, mostly because I just don’t get the show as a whole. There are the occasional gags I find funny and I like the first Star Wars parody but I never really got into the regular series. And from what I hear about the show I don’t think I missed much in recent years. A friend of mine who used to really like the show lost interest in it.
So what does Brian Griffin have to do with Aunt May? The answer is Rowdy C Moore. Recently my Reviewers Unknown colleague took a look at Brian’s death. While Rowdy also doesn’t like the show and Brian was a huge part of the reason why, there was something about his death that rubbed him the wrong way. In the video below, Rowdy compares Brian’s death to the request that Aunt May should have died instead of the Spider-Marriage being erased during “One More Day”, the event that won’t die and stands as a neon sign of Joe Quesada’s failings as editor-in-chief of Marvel. While I’m with him about Brian, both as Seth Macfarlane’s mouthpiece and as an unnecessary “shock death”, I disagree with him on Aunt May. I mean, I like Aunt May but there are good reasons her time should have been up. Continue reading
The Amazing Race is getting cutthroat.
The Fox #2
Archie Comics/Red Circle (January, 2014)
LETTERER: John Workman EDITOR: Paul Kaminski “Freak Magnet” part 2 “Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend” PLOT/LINE ART/SELECTED COVER ART: Dean Haspiel SCRIPT: Mark Waid COLORIST: Allen Passalaqua The Shield: “The Face Of Hate” part 1 WRITER: J.M. DeMatteis PENCILER/COLOR ASSISTS: Mike Cavallaro INKER: Terry Austin COLORIST: Steve Downer
Every now and then a movie poster sneaks out with something cool, but today’s posters, like comic covers and a lot of novels I see now that I think about it, are kind of weak. Nate Winchester pointed me to a video discussing the failing of movie posters by Good Bad Flicks contributor Cecil which led to this article by The Furious D Show answering Nate’s question as to why. After all, creative fans have put together better stuff on Cracked‘s “Photoplasty” contests. the answers make sense, and I wonder if that explains how bland a lot of comic covers have been, or at least why the New 52’s logos are so uninteresting.
They just saw the art from Monday’s Wonder Woman review.
The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest #3
Dark Horse (October, 1996)\
“Net Of Chaos” part 2 WRITER: Kate Worley ARTIST: Francisco Solano Lopez COLORIST: James Sinclair COVER ART: Bo Hampton LETTERER: Tracey Hampton-Munsey DESIGNER: Scott Rice ASSISTANT EDITOR: David Land EDITOR: Philip Amara
How does Herobear do that without breaking his spine? Oh, right.
Herobear And The Kid: The Inheritance #5
FINAL ISSUE
Kaboom! (December, 2013)
WRITER/ARTIST/CREATOR: Mike Kunkel ASSISTANT EDITOR: Whitney Leopard EDITOR: Shannon Watters DESIGNER: Hannah Nancy PartlowI know my reviews are a bit spoiler-y to begin with, but this issue I can’t discuss without the big reveal about Tyler and the origins of Herobear and our villain. So if you want to read the book first, do so. I enjoyed this so much that I couldn’t pick one moment for Best Scene.
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
