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)
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?
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.
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
Also the villains were taken out, so no face turns in this Elseworld.
Seriously, the only time I can remember the heroes being run off only to learn the villains were more powerful was in an episode of The Transformers where the Decepticons tricked humans into thinking the Autobots were the real bad guys. Otherwise, we don’t get to see a story where there is no hero left to oppose the superpowerful villain because the people or one self-righteous moron chased or killed them off. That would leave nobody to save the world. Does anyone really think Waller’s people, sans any superpowered people, would be able to handle Darkseid? Or Mongul? The Yellow or Red Lanterns? I want to see the Elseworlds story where Waller realizes she #$%#$ed up badly and there’s nothing she can do about it, if only to remind us why we have superheroes.
Speaking of DC, I did see that they’re returning to the 1970s-1990s logo. They’re really hoping nostalgia will bring the readers back…except when it comes to the reasons they actually left in the first place. That nonsense they’ll keep doing. It’s really just another gimmick and I don’t see anybody buying into those anymore.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week, I reorganized a shelf to properly store my A/V gear…and left a piece out like an idiot.
I have a couple of article ideas thanks to the fools at Variety, so that should be fun. We also the final chapter of Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders for Chapter By Chapter, which will mean a book report at The Clutter Reports next week. That’s in addition to the comic reviews, fun videos, and whatever else comes to mind and I’m able to put together. Have a great week, everyone!
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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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