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Prime #10
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (March, 1994)
“Men From The Boys”
WRITERS: Gerard Jones & Len Strazewski
ARTIST: Norm Breyfogle
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: James Robinson
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Can’t wait for Avengers #200 to be adapted into the next Captain Marvel movie. After all, they tell us “it was in the comics” means they can do anything they want, even if it’s a bad idea or out of context.
Let’s be honest, though. Culture war nonsense is only part of the problem. Marvel Comics have been trying to get any character named Captain Marvel over for years because “we’re Marvel Comics” and keeping Billy Batson from getting his proper superhero name back. I think they even rushed the movie out while Shazam! was stuck in development hell. None of the others stuck and they either died or got their own hero name. Using Carol was hoping the culture war would work to their advantage, and it only made it worse for her.
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I’d love to have a comic this week, but I didn’t get to work on it until Saturday. Then today some annoying glitch is going on in Clip Studio Paint that is putting me in rage mode and I can’t finish it on time. Hopefully I’ll have it for next week and I am so sick and tired of these production stoppages. Shopping, doctors, tests….it’s pissing me off and I’ve about had it. I’m ready to just shut out the universe so I can finally get creative! I”m tired of being stuck in neutral because things won’t work, including my worthless body!
Anyway, over at The Clutter Reports, another victim of all these stinking distractions, I looked into yet another new method of decluttering called the Chaos Method. Given that decluttering is supposed to reduce chaos, I was curious just how this worked.
This week I’m going to try to get this comic done. Additionally, we’re continuing the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image, and Tubi decided to drop all six episodes of the new Robo Force on Saturday, so I’m going to watch the whole thing and give my thoughts on that. IF NOTHING ELSE GOES WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a great week, everyone…and say a prayer for my sanity if you would.
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Hey, want to see an episode of a 1980s kids show so prophetic it’s sad?
Granted even in the 1980s there were attempts to sanitize KIDS TV by the parent groups, but using computers to change movies? Questionable social message propaganda poorly disguised as storytelling? Manipulating the news? G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero saw it coming.
The episode is “The Wrong Stuff”, as the Joes must travel into space to stop Cobra’s satellite television network from spreading pro-Cobra propaganda. Why they didn’t already use Joes who know about space travel, given they had a space station in one of the early miniseries and there’s an astronaut on the team (unless he wasn’t added to the 1980s toyline despite being one in the original 1960s line) back when the only “U.S. Space Force” was part of a competing toyline and TV show I couldn’t tell you. It is interesting to note that how Cobra altered old movies and put together new movies involves technology that didn’t exist then but in today’s AI Deepfake world I’m surprised we haven’t seen happen in a world of altered dubs, censored dialog, purposeful mistranslations, and digitally extended hair covering naked buttocks. It’s probably coming, and we don’t have a highly trained special mission force to save us from current Hollywood. Let’s see if they can save the day here. Enjoy.
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I tried looking for videos of people playing through the story. All I found were builders and a weird game of hide-and-seek.
Against all logic, the lackluster A Minecraft Movie isn’t doing lackluster numbers, currently dominating in theaters. As usual, Hollywood’s press agents in the media are having trouble grasping this, but the director has an easy answer: people really like Minecraft. Someone in the comments also noted that it’s a kids movies adults don’t mind sitting through, meaning parent and child can go together. I hear it is more respective of the source material, even if it’s mostly references in a story with uninteresting characters. I’m not into the franchise so I have no plans to see it either way, but it is interesting that it kicked live action Snow White‘s butt as well as being one of the better received video game adaptations.
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I thought Nacelle just made documentary shows, but apparently they’re getting into the fiction game. I first noticed it when I started watching an old favorite, Skysurfer Strike Force, on Tubi and saw Nacelle was the distributor. I would have thought Hanna-Barbera would have that one since they bought the Ruby Spears Productions library, which is now part of the Warner Brothers Discovery library, but I guess Bohbot distributing it as part of their “Amazing Adventures” programming block put it with them. I don’t know. Point is the people behind the Icons Unearthed series is also doing kids animated series.
Now they’ve partnered with Tubi to release a cartoon based on the 1980s toyline Robo Force. Originally cylindrical robots with a suction cup, as we’ve gone over in the Free Comic Inside reviews of their minicomics, they were revamped in the 2010s with legs. The new rights owners, who put out a webcomic by virtual mentor Jerzy Drozd, opted for the “Glyos” system of interchangeable parts and little to no paint apps. Now Nacelle is putting out toys as well as shows and comic, setting up their “Nacelleverse“…because shared universes have been doing so well lately. Even Marvel Studios doesn’t know how to do it anymore under the current caretakers, Hasbro is making their second attempt via Skybound’s “Energon Universe” after the IDW one failed to get a strong audience thanks to various choices IDW made, and now Nacelle wants to bring in previously unconnected 1980s/1990s toylines that at best had a cult following and form their own universe. The line will consist of…
- Robo Force as step one in animation, though most of them already have had toys out for a while
- Biker Mice From Mars, which is the second season for the Nacelleverse but the third try for this series, and yet Robo Force is marketed as now being tied into this show
- Sectaurs, which has also had a Saturday Night Showcase and Free Comic Inside appearances–curious how they’ll work that around 2020 plague flashbacks
- The Wild West C.O.W.Boys of Moo Mesa, a rather odd edition, but doing Sectaurs I’m assuming means we’re not limited to Earth depending on what’s changed in these franchises
- The Great Garloo, a 1960s toy so obscure I had to look it up
- Power Lords, and I’m curious if they’ll bother with the transformation gimmicks of the original toyline in toy or toon form
- and the only thing that makes less sense than Moo Mesa…Barnyard Commandos!
With the cartoon set to post to Tubi on Saturday, a friend of mine stumbled upon two of the three issue Robo Force miniseries. Since I don’t have all three, and these are relatively new comics, I won’t be doing a spoilery summary like I do with Scanning My Collection. This used to be my new comic reviews back when I got them regularly, replacing the feature with “Yesterday’s” Comic for older comics. I’m just going to give my overall thoughts on the two-thirds of the story currently available to me.
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“Wait, Rang-A-Tang, that building’s on fire, too. Don’t take him there!”
Blue Ribbon Comics #2
MLJ Magazines, Inc (December, 1939)
I don’t know if it’s the anthology nature or lack of insanity, but some of these are getting hard to remember because I do so many every Friday. Then again, most of these characters are hard to remember and you begin to realize why they never stood the test of time. I looked up last issue’s review and I was kind of neutral. Hopefully this second issue does a better job. Let’s dive in and see.
