“Quick, we must help that woman with her crossword puzzle!”
I’m not promising that every cover caption gag isn’t making fun of their name…at least unless the comic gets more interesting before I’m out of “essential” issues according to my list.
The S0lution #2
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (October, 1993)
“Showdown”
WRITER: James Hudnall
PENCILER: Darick Robertson
INKER: Mike Miller
COLORING: Tim Divar (design) and Violent Hues (interior)
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
It would save on HOA fees and headaches.
Over at The Clutter Reports I cut down another pile of comics. I seem to keep getting reminders of how huge my collection is, but no definitive way of selling them off with a decent profit because I need the money.
This is going to potentially be a packed week for me personally. It depends on what happens during the week. I haven’t had an eye exam in…well, since before I went in the hospital in 2016, so I’m long overdue. Should also see if I’m out of my standing with the dealership I got my car from about oil check and tire rotation, but I drive so little these days. I need to start driving again, too, if only to get comfortable with it again outside of town. Even there I’m a bit shaky, but I’m safe to drive. I’m just a nervous driver even at my best. I also need a haircut.
I should have no trouble getting this week’s Chapter By Chapter review done, as we begin Op-Center: Mirror Image. As for Tuesday, I finally found a “by year and month” listing at Comic Book +, so I’ll be using that to really make this “Yesterday’s” Comic (possibly considering renaming it “Yesteryear’s Comic”–what do you think?) and going over Golden Age comics that have reached public domain. As I slowly run out of the other comics to review, that will probably be the new direction going forward. Charlton’s Blue Beetle should end soon since apparently the Ted Kord comics aren’t public domain, at least to DC who has lawyers that made them drop a bunch of Billy Batson and family’s adventures simply because DC reprinted it or something. I don’t think they know how public domain works, but will fight it for their trademarks. Should be fun when Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman get there.
Otherwise we’ll see how things go, what topics interest me, and what I have time to put out. Have a great week, everyone.
This is one of those “I need something to post because I didn’t have time to find a proper Showcase” installments. It’s Mystery Science Theater 3000, so you know it’s going to be good…even if the movie they’re riffing isn’t.
It’s Mike Nelson’s first movie since he was knocked out to replace the escaping Joel. His rookie experiment is 1962’s The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, the tale of a scientist who tries to save his decapitated fiancee by finding a new body to attach her to. We also learn why Tom has to be carried into the theater within what passes for MST lore.
Enjoy, won’t you?
This is actually a follow-up to last week’s article link, and a two-for-one linking. Author Caroline Furlong uses an example left out of her first article on upping the stakes too much to further define the importance of spiritual conflict in the Star Wars franchise, using novels and one of the video games as her examples along with the movies. This inspired a follow-up of his own from Nate Winchester, further defining how spiritual conflict or the lack thereof helped and hurt the nine movies that currently make up the main Star Wars storyline.
Welcome to the first of the banked reviews, as I pushed through movies before cutting the cord and going full ad-sponsored streaming.
It looks like second time was the charm. I was actually able to watch Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse on my second attempt, the first time glitching during playback and only giving me about half the film.
This was Marvel trying to push Miles Morales and Sony trying to get something to actually be successful while trying to hold on tight to the rights of a character they haven’t gotten right since Sam Rami’s second film with Peter Parker. I’m actually watching the Icons Unearthed series on the Spider-Man movies. I’ve gotten through the two episodes that go over the making of the first Rami film, and it’s quite interesting.
For the record, I am one of those whateveryouwantocallmes that says Miles Morales is Miles Morales because that’s how he’s marketed more often than not. Peter is “Spidey” and Miles is “Spin” in the preschool show even though their suit-up stock sequence both has “Spider-Man” in the background text. Otherwise the Peter costume is marketed in merch as Spider-Man and the Miles costume as Miles Morales. You would think they’d want him to step out of Peter’s shadow by giving him his own superhero identity rather than being a white man’s also-ran, but that’s not how they think at Marvel. So does this movie at least earn Miles some respect? Is there something to this character once you get past the name issue?
RELEASE DATE: 2018
RELEASED BY: Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Avi Arad Productions
RUNTIME: 1hr 57 min
RATING: PG
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: I should have wrote that down. I’m thinking either FX or TBS/TNT if not one of the Starz Encore previews or that brief time we has MGM+
STARRING: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, and Brian Tyree Henry
SCREENWRITERS: Phil Lord (story) and Rodney Rothman
DIRECTORS: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman
BOX OFFICE: $190,241,310 domestic gross, $384,298,736 worldwide gross, according to IMDB
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $90,000,000 (estimated) according to IMDB
There are worse Blue Beetle villains I could think of to bring back.
Blue Beetle #53
Charlton Comics Group (December, 1965)
“The People Thieves”
no credits in the comic, and Comic Book Plus only lists the artist, Tony Tallarico
Sorry the scans are kind of wonky. They could have tried to straighten out the pages.
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