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Would have been awesome if any of these fights really happened.
Street Fighter Vs. Final Fight #1 (Free Comic Book Day edition)
Udon Studios (May, 2024)
WRITER: Chris Sarracini
ARTISTS: Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz, Edwin Huang, Joe Ng, & Joshua Perez Panzer
LETTERER: Marshall Dillon (somebody’s parents were Gunsmoke fans)
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NOTE: Contains swearing
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While I don’t completely share Perch’s comments on spoilers, my biggest issue with this is what happens when you want to read the comic but can’t because the QR code no longer works years down the line? That makes the comic useless over time, scanned or physically purchased. Does the official digital version have it? Of course not because it doesn’t need to, but unless that’s downloadable you lose out on reading that if something happens. So this is actually going to lead to LESS sales instead of more because if you can’t read the end of the story, why get the comic?
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Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
Here we go with the last chapter in this book, Chapter 35. The killer was caught in our previous chapter, the only victim we care about survived and all is well until the sequel, where a disease that strikes multiracial people suddenly pops up. That’s the book that led me to this one, as I read that one first.
We’ll go over this chapter, drop a few final faults, before doing a proper book report over on my other website, The Clutter Reports, followed next week by the reveal of the next book in the Chapter By Chapter review series. First, we need to wrap this one up.
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In case you missed it, and while you might be better off because it was crap, this story continues from a promotional live-action short film. I posted it for the previous Saturday Night Showcase if you want to be up on current events or just need some riffing fodder. It makes FMV game videos look good.
Guess he saw the video, too.
Firearm #0
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (November, 1993)
WRITER: James Robinson
PENCILERS: Mike Wieringo & Rob Haynes
INKER: John Lowe
COLORING: Keith Conroy (designer) & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
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Please Save Webcomics From Hollywood
A recent article from Variety may sound like good news for webcomics as they’re finally getting noticed by the bigger media as sources of adaptation. That means in theory there will be more exposure for your comic and more money coming in for the rights to the comic being adapted into a movie.
In theory.
Considering what modern Hollywood has done to mainline comics, video games, nostalgic properties, and even world history, are we really sure we want this era’s Hollywood anywhere near a new thing to mess up? Even before the current nonsense you had directors slapping someone else’s names onto a script with little connection to the source material and telling the Hollywood suits it’s totally accurate, knowing they won’t check. We talked about this last week. Bad adaptations have been going on since the 1940s Captain America serials at least.
Now, as if they have run out of other properties to ruin, the lazy sods want to steal webcomic ideas, and probably twist them to their preferences. They like the plot, but rather than take time to create new characters they hope to get a short boost for opening weekend (the period movie studios care about most because it looks better to investors or something) from a popular webcomic’s readership. If you think they’re going to care, I have some bad news. If they can’t properly adapt the bigger name cultural icons of comics, especially at Marvel Studios where they don’t want you to have even read a comic book you’re adapting, what makes you think your favorite webcomic, something even more obscure than Iron Man and Black Panther before they got movies, is going to come out of this unscathed? Read on and heed my warnings, fellow webcomic makers.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on July 30, 2024 in Animation Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight, webcomics and tagged adaptation, commentary, Hollywood versus comics, web comics, webcomic to movie adaptation, webcomics.
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