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Sonic The Hedgehog #87
Archie Comics Publications (October, 2000)
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
EDITOR: Justin F. Gabrie
Sonic: “Heart Of Hedgehog” part 2: “Lava Storm”
WRITER: Danny Fingeroth
ARTISTS: Sam Maxwell & Jim Amash
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
Monkey Khan: “Against The Haunted Past” part 2
WRITER/PENCILER: Frank Strom
INKER: Harvo
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
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Okay, how do we sell our dog food?
I know! The Blondie Song “One Way Or Another.” It’s catchy and anytime any nostalgic music fan hears it, they’ll think of us! Or Hyundai. Or Swiffer. It worked for them.
Isn’t that a song about a stalker?
Nobody pays attention to the story of a song anyway.
Hi.
Coming off their 1978 album Parallel Lines and released as a single in 1979 with “Just Go Away” as the B-Side, Blondie’s “One Way Or Another” was the fourth single off of the album and is one of their well known hits. Now it’s being used to sell dog medicine and occasionally other products, none of which have to do with stalking. Is that the oddest choice for advertisers to use as their music? We’ve had secret gay romance ballads used to push party cruises, and a girl about to leave prison talking about her and her boyfriend’s favorite music to push almost everything. There was even a song I apparently didn’t cover about how teachers are brainwashing kids used in an ad to celebrate teachers. Dumb choices are nothing new.
I mean, you can tell it’s about stalking, though the question is whether the singer realizes it or not. Her character could be a crazy person talking about how she’s going to win someone’s heart. Then I do research before even looking at the lyrics and find that is not the case. Not a first for this series. I’ve learned a lot of fascinating things about songs since starting this series, but this one was quite personal for Blondie frontwoman and future soloist Deborah Harry. She actually lived it.
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Some meteors are just jerks.
Space Adventures (volume 3) #38
Charlton Comics Group (February, 1961)
Well, good news for me. Captain Atom only appears in three more issues, with a break between #40 and #42, before we can drop this title for review purposes (and I will not be returning) and continue in his own title, after reprints in the title whose numbering he takes over. I’d still like to find out why this numbering takeover thing was going on in the 1960s. I don’t remember the weird rules that led to it happening in the past but I would hope they’d be gone by now.
So let’s get this over with. Most of the stories are with Captain Atom, though they aren’t going to be very long and this is still Space Adventures. I expect more weirdness, just with DC’s favorite punching bag. At this point he’d have been better off if he was Doctor Manhattan. At least he’d have cooler powers and a sexy ex-wife.
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The Slow Death Of Long-Running Franchises
I was checking the news sites to see if I could come up with a good article topic for today. Clearly I need more news sites, but sometimes they’re hard to get through. Some have very politically motivated writers, others had way too many ads. I used to have one for Variety but between glitches in the email, the RSS feed not even working, and ruining which celebrity is demasked on this week’s The Masked Singer when I’m a week behind meant I had to drop that one. I keep looking for openings to expand.
One of today’s articles came from Bounding Into Comics, who posted on poor Peter Parker getting hit with the retcon bomb. From what they’re saying, Peter’s history has been altered so that at least at one point another kids kept pulling him towards pranks, robbery, and nudie magazines before he was even a teenager. This is a terrible and unnecessary addition, and I even did an Art Soundoff V-Log about the dangers of the retcon bomb. Retcons have been a big problem, but like with activist writers is only a symptom of a larger problem. I was going to write about that “addition” to Peter’s history until I realized something important.
I don’t care.
I haven’t cared about main universe Spider-Man since even before One More Day due to all the annoying stuff being done to him. There’s a random story I might be interested in, but it’s possible being more DC than Marvel, I like Peter Parker but overall I just haven’t gone through the trouble of grabbing a lot of his adventures. I’ve enjoyed him more on television. Even Iron Man I finally stopped following when Tony Stark became Secretary Of Defense, as that series didn’t seem to know what to do with him. That was long before “woke” meant anything other than no longer being asleep rather than people who clearly went crazy from not getting enough.
And I’m not alone in no longer caring about franchises they like. I’m use to having a version of it I wasn’t into. Voyager and Enterprise were Star Trek shows I never got into while Deep Space Nine wasn’t as interesting as the similarly premised Babylon 5. I dropped out of professional wrestling in the early days of the “attitude era” for the WWF (now WWE for stupid reasons) and WCW lost me before it lost itself. I don’t even watch wrestling anymore, though I have tried the occasional smaller promotion out of curiosity. Star Trek hasn’t gotten me excited in years. I don’t need new Trek when there’s so much old Trek I still haven’t explored or revisited in years. That’s just some of the many things I grew up with that I don’t care for new versions of, and data shows I’m not alone in that.
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