Jack isn’t enjoying Woodstock 2013 as much as he thought.
Samurai Jack #2
IDW Publishing (November, 2013)
“The Threads Of Time” part 2 WRITER: Jim Zub ARTIST: Andy Suriano COLORIST: Josh Burcham LETTERER: Shawn Lee EDITOR: Carlos Guzman “SAMURAI JACK” CREATOR: Genndy Tartakovsky
From Legends Revealed comes this movie legend that the Wampa scene in The Empire Strikes Back was to hide an auto accident Mark Hamil was in. I thought that was supposed to be the reason for the heavier make-up in The Star Wars Holiday Special? Are they mixing up legends?
“This is the last time I let you pick the vacation spot, Brock!”
Venom Super Special
Marvel (August, 1995)
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort GROUP EDITOR: Danny Fingeroth EDITOR IN CHIEF: Bob BudainskyFor this one I’m going to treat each story like a separate review. There are two on one side involving Venom, one while the symbiote was pretending to be just an alien costume. Then the book flips over for a Scarlet Spider story that has nothing to do with symbiotes. Which makes no sense to me.
Another relic from my defunct Transformers fansite, where I kept a bunch of writings from alt.toys.transformers. This one was the first fanfic I ever wrote. (I did draw a lot of fancomics in my younger days, though.) And you can guess what the topic is from the title.
In my defense, I never really followed the Pokémon TV show and I’ve only seen a few movies. Also, this was written November 20, 1999, so those of you who follow the show’s US airing closer than I do will know how many of this is countered by the show. Not that this has stopped every fan fiction ever. I’m also not the first person to mash Pokémon and Transformers, especially after Hasbro obtained the license for Pokémon toys. Sadly, while we’ve gotten Star Wars and Marvel Comics Transformers, we haven’t gotten Beast Wars-style transforming toys of everyone’s favorite pocket monsters.
I’ll say it right now, this fanfic isn’t very good. I don’t think it’s horrid, or I wouldn’t be posting it. That doesn’t mean I think it’s that good, and it is the worst of the fanfics I wrote for The Transformation Zone. This being Thanksgiving I guess not that many people will see it, so I’m not even going to update the thing like I will others. The best you’re getting are spelling and grammar errors that don’t match what I remember of the characters, as well as some formatting repair. Also, it’s in a script-style layout, just to warn you. So, here we go. I’d say enjoy but I know better than that.
If I’ve shown anything here at the Spotlight is how much I really like Superman. I like Batman, but Superman is still my favorite DC hero. Comics Alliance contributor and blogging legend Chris Sims’ favorite hero is Batman but he also enjoys Superman. He also has a successful career as a writer and enough money to get his hands on DC’s Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years. However, the book he read was filled with stories that are rather unflattering to the Man Of Steel. So he went through and found some replacements for some of the stories to balance out how it approaches Superman. I’m glad he included Superman Adventures because the TV tie-in comic has some of my favorite Superman stories. Also, he included Supergirl’s debut, which also makes me happy.
Ultima (series) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Events have got me in a bum mood tonight, so here’s a video link, because I know the reviewing community has issues with people posting their stuff. Noah “The Spoony One” Antwiler has been posting a series of interviews with Richard “Lord British” Garriott about his Ultima game franchise. The video I linked to shows all the books of character design that he had to hand-code since this was before the days of game engines and “what you see is what you get” graphics programs that did the coding for you. It’s a lot of work and shows just how much effort, creativity, and a little ripping off Garriott did to bring his world to life.
He’s also working on another game, Shroud Of The Avatar. I don’t follow Ultima so I don’t know if this new game is set in that world or not, but hopefully it will be good for the fans of his games.
If this series doesn’t have a Blue Falcon/Dynomutt team-up it will have failed at its job.
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #1
DC Comics (January, 2014)
“Man-Bat And Robbin’ “ WRITER: Sholly Fisch ARTIST: Dario Brizuela COLORS: Heroic Age LETTERER: Saida Temofonte ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jessica Chen EDITOR: Kristy Quinn “BATMAN” CREATOR: Bob Kane
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
