If only he could have found a food he likes.
Doctor Who Vol. 3 #8
IDW Publishing (April, 2013)
“Space Oddity” part 2 WRITER: Joshua Hale Fialkov PENCILER: Horacio Domingues with Andres Ponce INKER: Ruben Gonzalez COLORIST: Adrian Salmon LETTERER: Shawn Lee EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton
Only one of them can find a show dedicated to their interests. That’s wrong.
In a world with a few thousand channels, three primary home video game consoles, more comic books than you can count, and the internet you would think every audience has a show, network, comic, or game that targets them. You would be wrong. Niche channels are dead, finding kids programming on YouTube or Blip is a challenge (especially with kid show parodies clogging the view), and only a few publishers have any kids content, usually an independent or self-published. In the latest installment of The Jimquisition, Jim Sterling looks at the video game side, but what he says can be applied to other entertainment as well. Except music. Music seems to remember there’s more than one age group and genre, although older audience seldom see anything new.
So much for the last pirate.
Danger Club #5
Image Comics (April, 2012)
WRITER: Landry Q. Walker ARTIST: Eric Jones COLORIST: Michael “Rusty” Drake with Gary Black COLOR FLATS: Pannel Vaughn LETTERER/LOGOS: Jimmy Betancourt PRODUCER: Javier Jose Diaz EDITOR: Branwyn Bigglestone
Something interesting happened to one of my Reviewers Unknown colleagues recently that kind of has my attention. The Comic Strip Critic, whom you may remember from an Internet Spotlight article, found himself in a unique situation…getting to interview someone whose work he harshly criticized on his show, The Punchline. As a commentator who has at times gotten the opportunity to do interviews thanks to local conventions, this is a worry that I’ve had myself: how do you balance what you do as a reviewer with what you do as an interviewer. Where does the line between review/commentary and news begin and end? As people whose work I’ve reviewed find my site this is one I have to think about before I become Superboy Prime.
“I’ll just wait here for my pizza.”
Cyber Force Vol. 4 #4
Image Comics/Top Cow (April, 2013)
WRITER/CREATOR/ART DIRECTOR/CHARACTER DESIGNER/MASSEUSE: Marc Silvestri (heh, guess which one I made up) PENCILER: Khoi Pham INKER: Sal Regla COLORIST: Andy Troy FINAL ART POLISH: Stjepan Sejic RECEIVED COVER ART: Marc Silvestry & Sunny Gho LETTERER: Troy Peteri EDITORS: Bryan Roundtree & Matt Hawkins
If you’re reading this from the homepage you’re used to seeing the full article: comic, other stuff I’ve done, Best Scene winner, and some comment at the end. Well, we’re doing things a bit different tonight. Superman is my favorite DC hero so for his 75th I wanted to do something special. (Ironic considering how I treat my own milestones, huh?) So this comic took two pages, eight panels instead of my usual two, thus it will be after the jump. For those of you reading the article itself that means it’s at the bottom of the page.
Also, there were no Best Scene nominations this week. The comics were either too good, too bad, reprints, or an old comic I already own. So that happened…or rather, didn’t happen.
And if you still want to read the comic, here we go:
Now that’s what i call an airshow!
The Transformers #21
Marvel Comics (October, 1986, although for some reason the publishing info lists it as 1987. I’m pretty sure it didn’t take over a year to get this out.)
“Aerialbots Over America!” (I’m starting to think either Budiansky or Chiang really likes exclamation points) WRITER: Bob Budiansky PENCILER: Don Perlin INKERS: Ian Akin & Brian Garvey COLORIST: Nel Yomtov LETTERER: Janice Chiang EDITOR: Michael Carlin
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
