They can’t even get a card game adaptation right.
Solitaire #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (November, 1993)
“The Pleasure Principle”
WRITER: Gerald Jones
PENCILER: Jeff Johnson
INKER: Barb Kaalberg
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
I’m also not impressed with the glove straps.
I’m Leon isn’t kidding. There were a couple of Batman and Robin segments made for Sesame Street, just as Filmation did with Superman. I actually don’t remember seeing the Batman ones, though I do remember Superman talking about the letter S.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week, I did a few smaller projects, with a side goal of continuing to create a work flow that will help me work on my projects. It’s a step forward.
On the site this week, the next Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image, and more commentaries, reviews, and whatever comes up that interests me in the examination of storytelling. Have a great week, everyone!
In a previous Showcase we watched the first miniseries for the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. Tonight the second miniseries, minus the episode that brought Shredder back to Earth. In case you missed the aptly titled “The Return Of Shredder”, Oroku Saki is sent back to Earth minus his Foot Soldiers and mutants, Krang refuses to help any further until he destroys the Ninja Turtles.
Instead we jump to the next storyline, the “Eye Of Sarnath”. In these four episodes, Shredder sees the Turtles rescue a dying alien, learning of a shattered crystal from space called the Eye Of Sarnath. The individual fragments already have unusual and dangerous powers, but if brought together it’s even worse. At this point the show ramps up the comedy elements a bit more, but not as much as the show would continue to be in syndication. Also, for some reason Nickelodeon’s official YouTube channel doesn’t use the original theme song. Still, I think you’ll enjoy.
I wasn’t going to do any more Star Wars than we were already getting from Nutsa’s reviews in the Daily Video, but something interesting crossed my path.
The Acolyte was not well received by classic Star Wars fans. They pointed to lore breaks, bad writing, a poor attempt to make the Sith the real heroes and the Jedi the baddies, which backfired because between “The Stranger” and the not-Nightsisters they actually looked rather bad. (Yes, I know the not-Nightsisters didn’t call themselves Sith, but like the actual Nightsisters, these knock-offs seemed to use the Dark Side, so I’m counting it.) And of course it was blamed on “toxic fans”, bigotry, and everything else they could use to hide the real complaints: the writing and direction, plus the acting, but I haven’t seen any of them in better roles to know if they’re any good. All I hear about is the dude who used to be in Squid Games was good as Master Sol, but even if I had Netflix, that’s not my kind of show.
Of course, Amandla Stenberg, the actress also known for an anti-fan “diss track”, took to social media to blame the “alt-right” for the show’s cancelation, the supposed minority perspective that somehow had the power to get the show canceled simply by not watching it. It’s funny because when the “other side” claims majority status (probably in Hollywood but not necessarily in the real world) they reject the idea that a minority could influence such things simply by taking charge of the outlet of shows, movies, and other media.
I’m going to bounce off a video by YouTube channel Midnight’s Edge, going over what Stenberg said. However, it seems host Andre doesn’t have my perspective on what’s wrong here…and why I can point to the failed attempt at DC’s Titans as an example of why she has that perspective.
“A new beginning” apparently means “a new costume and silver sleeves”.
Captain Atom #84
Charlton Comics Group (January, 1967)
LETTERER: Herb Field
“After The Fall A New Beginning”
WRITER: David A Kaler
PENCILER: Steve Ditko
INKER: Rocke Mastroserio
New Blue Beetle:
PLOT: Dick Giordano (I think it’s plot; I hate when gag credits make you guess who did what)
WRITER: Gary Friedrich
ARTIST: Steve Ditko
why no colorist credits?
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 
BW’s Saturday Article Link> The Educational Value Of Comics
Fredrick Wertham will haunt me and this site for as long as we both exist. I took a whole summer just dissecting Seduction Of The Innocent, based on his snobbish beliefs that comics would ruin reading. On the opposite and more logical end of the discussion comes this article from Bleeding Fool contributor Ammie Barger making the case that comics actually improve literacy skills. From my own experience I can’t really tell because I’ve always enjoyed reading in any form, prose or comic, but she makes a better case in one article than he did in an entire book.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 31, 2024 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comics, commentary, graphic novels.
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