Compiled from stop-motion toy reviews by The Lazy Eyebrow on YouTube
I was going to save this for Friday or possibly next week, but I’m having trouble focusing today. Either I didn’t get enough sleep last night, the weather is messing with me. or something. Maybe both. So let’s drop this so I can make deadline.
At San Diego Comic Con, Nickelodeon dropped the new intro for Tales Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, because apparently Nickelodeon can’t stop rebooting itself. No, I don’t think it’s a sequel to Rise, but I could be wrong. Instead it’s a spinoff to the recent Mutant Mayhem movie, including girl-voiced Donatello and overweight black April O’Neil, only now black man Bishop who was basically Amanda Waller lite is now an obnoxious white woman Amanda Waller. So…white Amanda Waller on the New 52 diet. And yes, that title has been used before. Apparently Nick is taking cues from Hasbro’s Transformers and reusing names for series. (Robots In Disguise comes to mind as that had two TV shows and a comic that are completely unrelated to each other.)
Enough about the show and why I probably won’t watch it when I had no interest in the movie. The new series, according to a Nickelodeon fanwiki though it will be a Paramount+ exclusive, actually has an interesting idea, with the brothers separated by each other and having to fight on their own while making their way back home across the city. If that is the premise, how does the new intro demonstrate it?
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“What do you mean, copy? We debuted at the same time!”
Lucky Comics Preview #1
Lucky Comics (December 25, 2017)
COVER: Dan Solano
This is the second time this week I won’t be doing a normal review, but for different reasons. Lucky Comics uses Golden Age pulp and comic heroes, or their relatives if you’re in Dan Garret’s family, since they’re in public domain, giving the characters new life and potentially a new audience. The comic story in this issue is only four pages, a sample from The Bat #1 since DC has used the Black Bat name recently in their Gotham heroes, most notably a new identity for Cassandra Cain I don’t think she’s using at the moment. Last I heard she was going by Orphan, a slap in daddy’s face really. Although, Moonstone used Black Bat for their take on the character.
There are also some one panel previews of other Lucky Comics releases from around the time and I want to take a quick look at them to see if anything seems interesting just from the teasers. First let’s look at the Bat in action.
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Check out my own thoughts on this one. I wrote an article. I do that a lot.
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Just when we thought the caped crusader’s TV time was done, we get…Batman: Caped Crusader. It’s a return to animation for Batman and the return of Bruce Timm. That should be a good sign except this is the guy who added in Batgirl and Batman hooking up because he has a weird obsession with them dating, and let’s not forget how people who weren’t me got excited for Russell T. Davies returning to Doctor Who and what we ended up with. He also brought J.J. Abrams, who started the decline of Disney Star Wars, and Matt Reeves, who had his own take on Batman I don’t really care for.
Still, a teaser for the Amazon Prime series was dropped that claimed it was the new intro for the new show. Intros are a dying art, so it’s nice to see the new Batman brought it along, which means I have a new entry in this series. Admittedly it looks pretty cool. Too bad it’s attached to this show.
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Hey, we still got back to him faster than we’ve gotten back to poor Prime. He’s still on the moon in the Ultraverse reviews.
Knuckles The Echidna #22
Archie Comics Publications (February, 1999)
“Dark Alliance” part 1: “You Say You Want A Revolution…”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: JIm Valentino
INKER: Harvey Mercadoocasio
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: J.F Gabrie
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