February 10, 2013

Jake & Leon #147: The REAL Heroes of Star Wars

Or maybe I just wanted to draw R@ and 3PO. Either way MAKE THIS MOVIE HAPPEN!

Or maybe I just wanted to draw R2 and 3PO. Either way MAKE THIS MOVIE HAPPEN!

Sorry, but I loved the Star Wars Droids cartoon as a kid and I still do now. That said, I’m not sure individual character movies is the best thing for the franchise. It feels like they’re diluting the franchise by making too many Star Wars movies. That’s not to say there aren’t some good stories to tell in the Star Wars Universe, but these seem like something better suited for comics and novels. A Star Wars movie should be epic in scale, which the prequels at least attempted to do. I like Clone Wars but there’s a reason the theatrical release of the pilot didn’t do so well.

  • The Clutter Reports: Remember the convention video where I finally found a Sonic Screwdriver? Well, I put together a small video to review it.
  • Reviewers Unknown: The RU exposure to Liefeld’s Galactica continues with the second part of Richard Hatch’s story. I also posted a copy of the BW Super Bowl Ad Awards 2013 that I posted here on Wednesday.

Best Scene of This Week’s Reviews

He-Man & The Masters of the Universe #6

This is why you always have at least one female on your team.

This is why you always have at least one female on your team.

I’m back to the paying job this week so I won’t have time to wow you with videos. I will try to get some decent articles this week, as readership appears to be slipping.

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February 9, 2013

Today’s Comic> Superman Family Adventures #9

Superman Family Adventures #9

Wrong comic to make a hentai joke.

Superman Family Adventures #9

DC Comics (March, 2013)

CO-WRITER/ARTIST: Art Baltazar
CO-WRITER: Franco
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
“SUPERMAN” CREATORS: Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster

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February 8, 2013

Friday Night Fights: Dress For Success

Lately a lot of discussion has going into hero costumes. For example, some people have issues with the “underwear” look, although I always thought it was one piece with one area a different color to break up the look. The armored look kind of works for Batman but looks silly on Superman and ridiculous on the Flash. Then there’s the whole issue about bright versus dark colors, shorts vs. pants, and so on and so on. It’s weird for grown men to be this interested in fashion, isn’t it?

A superhero’s costume/uniform must be functional, to survive in a fight and allow the hero to fight in a style that best suits him or her. In tonight’s fight, Dick Grayson gets a reminder.

Friday Night Fights clean logo

“Assassin” round 3

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February 8, 2013

Today’s Comic> MacGyver: Fugivite Gauntlet #4

MacGyver - Fugitive Gauntlet #4

“Break out the Glee marathon.” “I’ll talk I’ll talk!”

MacGyver: Fugitive Gauntlet #4

Image Comics (January, 2013)

WRITERS: Lee David Zlotoff (series creator) and Tony Lee
ARTIST: Will Sliney
COLORIST: Owen Jollands
LETTERER: Aditya Bidikar
COVER ART: Andie Tong & Ciaran Lucas
CONSULTING EDITOR: John Potter

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February 7, 2013

Chapter By Chapter: Total Recall adaptation Ch. 8

Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were a reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.

Chapter by Chapter - Total Recall logo

Poor Quaid. All he wanted was to get away from it all without going away in the hopes that his dreams would go away. Instead, his nightmares haven’t even begun yet.

Chapter 8: Harry

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February 7, 2013

Today’s Comic> Masters of the Universe: Origin of He-Man

Masters of the Universe - He-Man

“Man, I needed a shave.”

Masters of the Universe: Origin of He-Man

DC Comics (March, 2013)

“The Beginning”
WRITER: Joshua Hale Fialkov
ARTIST: Ben Oliver
COLORIST: Jose Villarrubia & Kathryn Layno
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Michael McCalister

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February 6, 2013

BW Super Bowl Ad Awards 2013

BW trophy

It’s that time again. The Super Bowl came and gone and with it we have a whole bunch more new ads. Somebody tell Blip. Maybe they’ll stop playing the same ad over and over again. Speaking of Blip, I did something different for this year’s ads by making a video review of the ads rather than just posting the clips and hoping they’ll still be up.

One thing I’ll say for this year’s offering is that they were really weak this year. Usually Super Bowl ads have a lot of production value or do something different, but while there were some fair ads, I think more money was spent on getting on the Super Bowl than on the production of the ads. I’m not sure if we should blame the NFL or CBS because I don’t know who controls the cost of being on but if they’re just using ordinary ads it’s not the same. Although GoDaddy seemed to finally dropped the fake controversy campaign that drove me nuts.

So here are this year’s BW Award winners. Feel free to add your changes in the comments.

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