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The Phantom: The Ghost Who Walks Book 3
FINAL ISSUE
Marvel Comics (April, 1995)
WRITER/COLORIST: Dave DeVries
ARTIST: Glenn Lumsden
ART ASSISTANTS: David Heinrich & David G. Williams
COLOR ASSISTANT: Rod Tokely
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: John Costanza
EDITOR: Tom Daning
The Star Trek Trek franchise created a future in which nobody cared about skin color or gender, where every belief at least got along thanks to mutual respect. But in the myriad of problems we’ve seen involving Star Trek Discovery behind the scenes, could how it’s being promoted, at least in the early days, go against those ideals?
We all have those movies that we’ve been wanting to catch for the longest time, but for whatever reason have failed to do so. Either we keep missing it or nobody plays it anymore and you can’t find the home video release or streaming version. Well, I have a few of those, so I decided to make an article series about finally watching those movies. Introducing a new article series here at BW Media Spotlight:
As it says on the tin (semi-literally since it’s a drawing) Finally Watched is about finally watching those movies. And for our first entry we start with one that I haven’t seen despite ties to other versions of it. 1966’s Fantastic Voyage spun off an animated series (loosely based) from rising animation studio Filmation, and a video game which I own for the Atari 800. And yet I’ve never seen the movie. At my late grandfather’s house there was a copy of the book, the only sci-fi book I recognized in the bunch, so when we were dealing with their effects I was able to obtain it for my library. It was written by Issac Asimov, a legend of science fiction, so I assumed the movie was based on the book. But when I went to examine it for a Chapter By Chapter review, I noticed it is actually a novelization. As such, I didn’t read it until I saw the movie. Which I haven’t done for years.
Recently Cinemax did a free preview weekend and I happened to see the name in the television guide so I recorded it. I think I caught part of it once as a kid and wasn’t too impressed, but I’m an adult with…some…different tastes. And I’m really looking forward to watching this movie. Then you get a review of it to see what I thought. So it’s time to finally see this movie. I’ll try not to spoil too much in case someday you want to finally watch this movie as well.
RELEASE DATE: 1966
RELEASED BY: Twentieth Century Fox
STARRING: Raquel Welch, Arthur O’Connell, William Redfield, Steven Boyd, and Arthur Kennedy
SCREENWRITERS: Harry Kleiner, Jerome Bixby, Otto Klement, Donald Pleasence, Edward O’Brien, & David Duncan
DIRECTOR: Richard Fleischer
GROSS REVENUE: $12 Million
IMDB SCORE: 6.8 out of 10
ROTTEN TOMATOES SCORE: 93%
Yep, this is when the numbering disappeared.
Take your protoform to work day.
Transformers Spotlight: Hot Rod
IDW Publishing (November, 2006)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTIST: Nick Roche
COLORIST: Liam Shalloo
SELECTED COVER ART: James Raiz
LETTERER: Robbie Robbins
EDITOR: Dan Taylor
Here at BW Media Spotlight I use articles, comics, and (when I get the chance) videos to examine storytelling. Trying to use more than one medium to tell a canon story (most licensed works are not canon or at least not integrated with the show) is hard work. There are a lot of elements, which is why few TV shows have tried, although some have, even letting game players affect a story’s outcome. So kudos to Jon Chad, who put together an original graphic novel that also utilizes other media in it’s story. I just hope it’s a good story.
Usually when I do a Today’s Comic it’s in the same format as “Yesterday’s” Comic since the latter is a spinoff of the former. I haven’t done a lot of new comic reviews since I haven’t been able to get a new comic outside of a gift in years. I went for a job interview today and we’ll see how it goes and how that will affect BW operations if I get it, but I still have no money coming in. This was donated by my friend Sean because we were both big fans of the show.
I’m also doing an extended review because this is a new take on the classic series, although this first issue is a modified adaptation of “Boobytrap“, the first episode of the original Robotech show. Originally it was simply going to be an English dub of Super Dimensional Fortress Macross but they were too many episodes short of a full weekday season at the time. So Carl Macek grabbed two other shows, Super Dimension Calvary Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospedia, and weaved them together through Robotechnology and its power source called “protoculture”. If you never saw the original shows this comes off as three long tales of three different wars over protoculture and the various sciences that can be created from it.
While previous licensed Robotech comics (except for the two-issue special from DC, which came before the show and was based on the Macross model kids Revel brought over under the name Robotech) built off of the TV show or directly adapted episodes, Titan Comics decided to create a “bold new vision for the Robotech saga” and you guys all know how badly this has gone in the past. The first issue recently came out and today we’re going to take a look at it. There will be spoilers since I want to talk about the changes.
“Ugh! Morning Breath!”
Voltron: Defender Of The Universe #4
Devil’s Due (August, 2004)
“Revelations” part 4
WRITER: Dan Jolley
PENCILERS: Mike Norton & Clint Hilinski with Tim Seeley
INKER: Clayton Brown
COLORIST: Brett R. Smith
LETTERING: Dreamer Design
The Clutter Reports Atop The Fourth Wall Comics Are Great Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep Crisis On Earth Prime Four Color Media Monitor Spacebooger
