“This is my favorite shirt!”
Keen Detective Funnies V2 #7
Centaur Publications (July, 1939)
This issue debuts a character called The Masked Marvel. Yeah, that’s all I have. Going through the Virtual Newsstand on Comic Book Plus involves me having to remember where I left off last time. I need to find a way to help me out with that.
At any rate I think I’ve done all the padding I can for the homepage. On to the reviews.
WARNING: Does contain swears and N-words, but he’s black so he can get away with the last one
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In our last chapter we learned that the British are fighting the commies through a comic book company. Not completely in context but I wanted to write it that way. 😀
This chapter appears to be heading to Washington, DC to check in on regular Op-Center. Readers who caught my review of the first book won’t be surprised to hear I’m going into this with concerns. Paul Hood, the head guy, was the only decent character among the in-fighters, the dude after his job who forced his way into a field team mission (leaving a perfectly good soldier to sit it out) for his own ends and was less than helpful, and the woman who wanted to sleep with her married boss because her ex-husband left her for another woman. They stumbled their way through that adventure, getting lucky while the competent characters were in Korea investigating a bombing. One man lost his wife to said bombing and he still managed to pull himself together long enough to be more helpful.
I’m hoping whomever is the writer or writers on this story went back, saw their past mistakes, and will work to fix it. All that is why I think it’s too early in the book series to introduce and evil Op-Center of sorts. Let’s see if anything has improved.
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.
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