“Forget Iron Man and prepare for…Mouser Man!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villain Micro-Series #2
Featuring Baxter Stockman
IDW Publishing (May, 2013)
WRITER: Erik Bunham ARTIST: Andy Kuhn COLORIST: John Rauch SELECTED COVER ART: Tyler Walpole LETTERER: Tom B. Long EDITOR: Bobby Curnow
Oh, the things I review sometimes.
SheZow is the latest from the Hasbro/Discovery Networks collaboration The Hub, co-produced by Australia and Canada. You pretty much saw the series concept, even if the singer is hard to understand having to talk at superspeed. You can also guess the controversy on this show. Conservatives freaked out about it, liberals called it a good thing for transgendered kids…at an age where kids barely understand the concept of gender? I’m not even going to get into the transgender debate because frankly…it had nothing to do with the show. Or at least not the episode that popped up on the Hub’s website last night.
Possibly as a response to the controversy, the Hub posted the first episode of SheZow on their website…or at least part of it. From the run time I’m guessing this is one of those shows that has multiple short adventures rather than a full-length story. The episode only goes about 12 minutes and I don’t think the advertisers have taken that much time for themselves. Yet.
So if SheZow isn’t some commie-liberal attempt to subvert our youth (and despite my exaggeration there, I’m sure there are plenty of people who will push alternate lifestyles on kids past their parents because who cares about parents) is this then a good show? Wellllllll……………
Is he wearing pants?
Iron Man: The Coming Of The Melter
Marvel Comics (July, 2013)
(Also includes a reprint of Iron Man #72, which I won’t be reviewing here–it’s just your typical “superhero attends comic convention, gets attacked by actual supervillains” story. The main story takes place in the Marvel Movieverse.)
WRITER: Christos Gage ARTIST: Ron Lim COLORS: Sotocolor LETTERER: Joe Carmagna EDITOR: Sana Amanat
Cover of Matilda (Special Edition)
Mara Wilson has become surprisingly popular in the reviewing community, due in large part to her cameo in a Nostalgia Critic review of A Simple Wish (commentary track here) and a review by his counter part, the Nostalgia Chick, of Matilda, of Wilson’s most “controversial” film. (By controversial I mean you either like it or hate it and the two sides have very strong opinions on the matter. I never saw it. Oh, and commentary track.) So when she posted an article to Cracked.com, it was retweeted by that corner of the BW circles. And frankly I’m glad it did. This isn’t a filler like most BW Article Links. 7 Reasons Child Stars Go Crazy is an honest look by the former child actress turned writer as to why other child stars have such messed up lives and why she’s glad she got out when she did. It’s definitely worth checking out.
“This is why I hate fireworks on my birthday.”
Iron Man #258.1
Marvel Comics (July, 2013)
“The Thought That Killed” PLOT: David Micheline & Bob Layton SCRIPT: David Miceline BREAKDOWN ART: Dave Ross FINISHED ART: Bob Layton COLORIST: Chris Sotomayor SELECTED COVER ART: Dave Ross, Tom Palmer, & Chris Sotomayor LETTERER: Dave Lanphear ASSISTANT EDITORS: Michael Christatos & A.J. Fierro ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Tom Brennan EDITOR: Justin GabrieWhen you think of Powermasters, your probably think of this.
The third of the “Masters” Transformers, the Powermasters were toys that couldn’t transform without their little engine guy to connect to them. Now I could go on about the flaw in that toy design, it’s possibly being a precursor to the “Armada” figures, or question how a person can power a Cybertronian robot, but none of that matters because we aren’t talking about them.
The logo for Power Masters, a toy line that shouldn’t be confused with the Transformers Powermasters.
The Power Masters (two words) were created for Lionel, a company known more for their model trains, highly sought after by enthusiasts. The concept was created by Victor G. Reiling and would have originally been titled Motor Masters.
Which would still bring up Transformers when I went to find anything on it, but the odds would be more in my favor.
The caption’s not wrong. Trying to bring up information on the toyline and TV show met with a lot of Transformers sites, and for some reason a lot of Masters of the Universe sites. And apparently I’m not the only one trying to find information about this. Lucky for me, some research and a bit of help from a fellow reviewer allows me to tell you what little I remember.
“Now you boys get right to school….”
Fury Of Firestorm #20
FINAL ISSUE!
DC Comics (July, 2013)
“Problems Multiplied” part 3 WRITER/PENCILER: Dan Jurgens INKER: Adam Rapmund COVER INKER: Ray McCarthy COLORS: Hi-Fi ASSISTANT EDITOR: Anthony Marques EDITOR: Mike Cotton GROUP EDITOR: Eddie Berganza “FIRESTORM” CREATORS: Gerry Conway & Al Milgrom
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
