Stan Lee (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore)
OK, that may not be an accurate title. But it’s Stan Lee teaming with web series How It Should Have Ended to show how HE would have ended various movies. And haven’t we all sat around and done that?
In case anyone has been wondering what happened to this article series, I had received an e-mail from a political satire blog of the same name curious about the usage. I replied, stating that I was writing about Simon Furman and his questionable altering of the Transformers comics. I didn’t hear back from him, but while I was waiting I was distracted by other events and just never got back to it.
One of the other things that held me back was trying to decide what I wanted to talk about next, his ruining of Optimus Prime or his total destruction of Arcee. However, while posting the previous installment over to Reviewers Unknown I discovered what I had already planned for the next installment: Unicron and Primus. This is probably my least harsh rant because I admit it’s more of personal taste but it does get to the heart of my general issues with Furman’s take on Transformers, right at the origin of our favorite robots in disguise. But can I find reconciliation with this issue? After all, there are TWO origin stories for the Transformers and I don’t think they have to be mutually exclusive.
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“Baconalia? I’m heading to Denny’s! (Yes, I know that joke will dated right quick}
Super Dinosaur #18
Image Comics/Skybound (April, 2013)
WRITER/CO-CREATOR: Robert Kirkman PENCILER/COLORIST/CO-CREATOR: Jason Howard INKER: Cliff Rathburn LETTERER: Rus Wooton EDITOR: Sean MackiewiczTell others about the Spotlight:
OK, those of you demanding realism in your superhero stories. Cracked.com is back to remind you that you’re idiots. 7 Awesome Super Powers (Ruined By Science) takes a look at some of your favorite superpowers and tells you why Superman, the Invisible Girl/Woman/Person, Vandal Savage, He-Man, the Flash, the McCloud family, and Professor X COULD NOT EXIST AT ALL. Maybe you just don’t want to read about superheroes at all. So stop ruining superheroes with “realism” and try for “believable while reading/watching”. But these powers shouldn’t exist in a “real” world.
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“Oh no, it’s former game fans!”
Sonic The Hedgehog #247
Archie Comics (May, 2013)
“At All Costs” part one: “Fate Interrupted” WRITER: Ian Flynn PENCILER: Evan Stanley INKER: Terry Austin COLORIST: Matt Herms LETTERER: John Workman COVER ART: Lamar Wells, Terry Austin, John Workman, & Matt Herms ASSISTANT EDITOR: Vincent Lovallo EDITOR: Paul KaminskiTell others about the Spotlight:
Memes can be fun sometimes. Take a picture, work in a funny caption, and you have a cool image to share with the internet. Well, someone collected a bunch of them and had Josh Keaton, a former Spider-Man voice, to read them off in Spidey’s voice. Most of he images come from the original Spider-Man cartoon from the 70’s (a few seem to be from one of the Sunbow shows–yes there was another besides Amazing Friends) and one is fan-art (and that one will be very obvious) while the theme appears to be from the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon, where Josh voiced our Mr. Parker. Some of the images have censored swears, but sometimes Spidey’s a bit of a voyeur. Just thought I should warn you.
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Godzilla: The Half-Century War #5
FINAL ISSUE
WRITER/ARTIST: James Stokoe COLOR ASSISTS: Heather Breckel EDITOR: Bobby Curnow2002: Artarctica. The world is in bad shape thanks to more space monsters, Gigan and Ghidorah, arrive behind Space Godzilla. The new Mechagodzilla, piloted by an aging Murakami, is forced to team with Godzilla against them, but a new “Dimension Tide” weapon” (only in this continuity it’s a cannon rather than a bomb) will end this war.
What they go….You know what, forget the format. THIS COMIC WAS GREAT! Mega monster battle! That’s what we came to see! Godzilla. Mechagodzilla. Gigan. Ghidorah. That was awesome! I can’t even choose a Best Scene. Sure the human race having a black-hole producing cannon is worrisome and there’s the obligatory “did Godzilla survive” teaser, but who cares? That was one of, if now the best, kaiju battle in an IDW Godzilla comic!
Recommendation: Pick up the mini-series or trade of this comic. Watching Murakami age with this world and the fight in this issue are all worth it. This was a great mini-series. And sorry James, but that’s what I want it to stay. This story was great the way it was.
