Technically this should be a Today’s Comic given how new it is, but the heck with it. Let’s keep the current branding going.
“Look, I’m allowed to like Terminator: Salvation if I want!”
Samara And The Rangers Of Centaria #1 preview
Snowyworks (2014)
WRITER/LETTERER: Drew D. Lenhart
ARTIST: Dell Barras
COVER COLORIST: Nestor Redulla, Jr.
CONCEPT ARTWORK: Rowel Roque & (colorist) David Aravena
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I’m going to keep posting these for as long as I keep hearing people insist “Clark Kent” is just a pair of glasses.
Lot more DC videos than I was planning this week.
Our travels through the original sales pitch for Star Trek continues. Not to be confused with the pitch for fan series Star Trek Continues. In our previous installment we saw the ship was originally planned to be named the Yorktown rather than the Enterprise, as well as seeing prototypes of what became episodes of the original series and the first pilot, which we can’t call unaired on a technicality. “The Cage” was reworked into “The Menagerie”…and then many years later “The Cage” was finally aired in its original form on The Sci-Fi Channel.
In part two of our look at the pitch before moving on to the writer’s guide, we’ll meet the crew of the Enterprise Yorktown. It should be fascinating to see which specific characters and general character ideas made it to “The Cage” and into the series we finally got. Of the original crew, only Mr. Spock made it to the series, though I thought Dr. Boyce (or at least his actor in the medical officer role) was in one of the early episodes, maybe the first approved pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before”. He did appear in novels, and of course everyone showed up in the comic Early Voyages and in the Prime Timeline’s Strange New Worlds, though he would be replaced for probably “modern” reasons.
With that, let’s meet the crew we almost had, including a captain who did finally show up on TV.
“Will someone turn off that water faucet already?”
Sonic The Hedgehog #73
Archie Comics Publications (August, 1999)
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: J.F. Gabrie
“The Truth Is Out There”
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Steven Butler
INKER: Pam Eklund
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
Tales Of The Great War: “The Big Bad One”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Jim Amash
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
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Also, convince them to do a follow-up with the animated Jokers. Curious if Filmation Joker is worse than the Kids WB The Batman Joker. At least Superfriends would be a short list. He only appeared in one episode of Super Powers Team due to weird rights issues.
In a recently deleted tweet on XTwitter, Ubisoft’s monetization director (covered by Bounding Into Comics) showed his disgust at fans celebrating the failures of their recent Star Wars: Outlaws game, a buggy mess with an odd story and yet another unattractive female protagonist, and the fallout of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows and the recently buried Concord. His ire was pointed towards fans (frankly I could stop the sentence there) who are happy to see Ubisoft in financial trouble and possibly being forced to go private with Chinese (government) gaming group Tencent just to stay afloat. Rocksteady has had similar issues after their Suicide Squad game, which continues to disappoint with every new DLC..for the handful of people still playing it.
Then of course there are the various box office and streaming failings of the Disney acquired Marvel and Star Wars properties falling apart. I’ve heard other commentators, whose opinion I’m usually in alignment with, make the same decree of disappointment, and all of them blaming fan commentators like The Critical Drinker or Gary and the team at Nerdrotic for the failures, calling them out for celebrating the layoffs and firings in the entertainment industry at large. Those two specifically have been named due to breaking out of YouTube commentary and appearing on a couple of Fox News’ broadcasts. Put them on Gutfield! or one of the other main channel shows and I’ll be impressed.
However, the reasons given for their cheering by the critics of Drinker and Nerdrotic comes from the usual talking points of blaming racism, bigotry, and misogyny. “They’re horrible people” the naysayers insist “because they want to see us unemployed and cheer us on!” As someone who actually watches their videos and occasionally their livestreams, I can tell you the actual reason for these and other YouTube commentators laughing at the failing entertainment industries. Have a seat and let Uncle Tronix explain, because the problem isn’t on the side of the drunken Scotsman or guy who used to own a comic store and did a spell in prison. It’s the quality of what’s coming out of the entertainment industry.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Media Spotlight 
Hollywood’s Fading Colors
There’s going to be a lot of images and videos on this one. Just be prepared.
In 1939, The Wizard Of Oz did everything it could to show off a new film coloring technique called Technicolor. That was two years after Walt Disney Pictures created all new colored paints to embrace the process, which actually dates back to at least 1916 according to a quick search, possibly a couple of years older. It helped make colors on screen look bright and vibrant.
Look around you. Does color still exist? I’m betting it does unless you have some particular decorating tastes or somehow reading this in a closet or something. However, you wouldn’t know it by watching a lot of TV shows and movies, or playing certain video games. Don’t get me wrong; I know you could point to examples that counteract this commentary, but overall, in the genres I’m mostly interested in, it seems that bright colors are dying off. Action, sci-fi, fantasy, and even some dramas seem have the color saturation turned down low, even properties that used to be bright and colorful. Frankly, it’s a disappointing trend. There are times where this may make sense for a certain visual style, to boost the story, but maybe the problem is too many of this kind of story. At this point I’m trying to pad out for the homepage, but you’ve seen video games that seemed so lacking in color they might as well be black and white. It’s just a sea of browns and greys. Brighter colors are a thing of the past while even darker colors don’t have the vibrancy it used to. And what’s happened to the sun lately?
I just feel the need to vent on that. Oh look, this is good for the homepage, so let’s get into it.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 10, 2024 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Video Game Spotlight and tagged commentary, Television and Movies.
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