“Remember me? I still have a comic series.”
Prime #7
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (December, 1993)
“Moon Mission”
WRITERS: Gerald Jones & Len Strazewski
ARTIST: Norm Breyfogle
COLOR DESIGN: Keith Conroy
INTERIOR COLOR: Violent Hues
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITORS: Chris Ulm & Hank Kanalz
At least it keeps me drawing these characters.
With everything that’s gone in this year…including this weekend, unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to turn any of the Captain Yuletide plots I have into actual stories to turn into comics. So for this year the Jake & Leon Christmas storyline will be what the Workshop 25 elves and (for this article) Bryce The Green-Nosed Reindeer do when no villains are threatening Christmas. For Bryce, it’s spending time with Belle, his mate.
To end this year’s Clutter Reports of course I showed off the story around this year’s Transformers Christmas tree and the rest of the studio decorating. I won’t be able to do much until the decorations are down, so I’m going to focus the time on the RSS feeds and YouTube backlog and working on the Mega Man model. I can get at least one of my 2024 goals done.
As for this week, depending on various factors, we have another episode of Justice League: Heroes United to go over, more Star Trek writer’s guide terminology examining, and of course the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image. Because nothing says the holidays like communists, deadly towers, and space travel. Or…something. Have a great week, everyone!
This is just short of making my Christmas Special playlist, and the bias is all mine, but it’s still just good enough to star this year’s Christmas special edition of Saturday Night Showcase.
While Disney seem to fail to understand Star Wars and what makes it work, LEGO seems to have a bit more understanding. While the movies take more of a “kid playing with LEGO” tone the shows and direct-to-video movies go more for parody in a LEGO-y world. The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special is no exception.
It’s Life Day just after the final defeat of the First Order. It’s a time of peace and celebration, but Rey’s attempts to teach Finn how to be a Jedi is meeting with failure. (I’d say it’s because Finn doesn’t need to be a Jedi, but enough fans disagree that Atomic Cartoons is running with it.) Traveling to an old Jedi Temple, leaving her friends to set up a Life Day event, Rey ends up joined by BB-8 in a trip through time…and we all know what time travel in a comedy can lead to. Which it does. It’s not a battle to save Life Day but the history of the LEGO Star Wars universe, as both Rey and party planner Poe Dameron both need to learn the secret of Jedi training and the holidays. Enjoy.
“You are now flying Air Gamera. “
I know I should be doing a Christmas-themed article as December has begun, but Bounding Into Comics just posted an article by JB Augustyne about attempts to make a Godzilla Vs Gamera crossover and why it never happened, and I had to show that off.
I’m of two minds on this one. On the one mind, this would be one sweet monster battle, and Gamera is as much a Godzilla rival as King Kong. On the other I grew up with Godzilla during his “guardian monster” phase and always heard Gamera was one as well. The one time I tried to watch a Gamera movie as a kid was the one where aliens eat kid brains, and as a kid I dropped out of that as fast as I could reach the channel changer, but it was during the “friend to all children” period. I later got to see the first two movies in the 90s trilogy and the Dark Horse comics, where he was still protecting people. I don’t want to see heroes fight other heroes, I want them to fight villains, in this case the more evil monster.
Imagine if Gyaos and Ghidorah individually causing trouble, with Godzilla dealing with Gyaos and Gamera barely holding out against Ghidorah, both fights in a stalemate. At the climax the two threats are somehow merged into Superking Gyaosdorah, and it takes the combined power of Godzilla and Gamera to bring it down. Who wouldn’t want that story sitting underneath their Christmas tree?
It’s the first week of the Christmas season and I really don’t want to end it on a rant. So I thought I’d note that I have the three YouTube Christmas themed playlists sticky posted for you to enjoy this holiday season. It will on the homepage until the end of the month, but for those of you subscribed or just stumbling on things, here are the actual playlists to have on in the background to ready yourself for Santa’s arrival and Jesus’s birthday.
I’m hoping to add to at least the Yule Log and Christmas specials (probably won’t get to do a review this year) as the month goes on. Have a Merry Christmas, or at least a good December if you don’t celebrate. I’m also always willing to accept suggestions from the readership. If you know of any Christmas specials or songs not on the playlist, or something for the Saturday articles about Christmas, send them my way. If I like it, I’ll add it.
“When I say I want it sliced thin, I mean THIN!”
Keen Detective Funnies v2 #10
Centaur Publications (October, 1939)
The inside cover actually has old style photo developing tips. Neat.
I’m hoping to get to some Christmas themed issues by Christmas but it’s kind of the luck of the “pull” at this point. I’m going by what comes up in the virtual newsstand on Comic Book Plus that I’m interested to read, organized by month and year. We’ll see if we get there on time or if I’m doing Christmas comics in February.
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