When you’re using actual panels from the comic as your cover, that’s not a good look.
Blue Beetle #50
Charlton Comics (July, 1965; still using the numbering from Unusual Tales for some reason)
“The Scorpion”
WRITER: Joe Gill
PENCILER: Bill Fracchio
INKER: Tony Tallarico
LETTERER: Sha-ro-ine
I’m used to some comics not listing the editor, but ignoring the colorist?
The Finally Watched marathon continues with a two-parter of sorts, as I go over the two currently out Sonic The Hedgehog movies.
Video game adaptations have not been that great, since they’re so often put into the hands of people who don’t care about video games in general and the game being adapted specifically. All they care about are their stories and will happily use the brand to trick people into seeing their vision, positive that they’ll come around and see what they created is superior to that crap that usually uses the name. These egoists are then surprised when that doesn’t happen because you ticked off the actual fans while the audience you really wanted saw the brand and went elsewhere. That is why they fail.
The question becomes whether or not Sonic The Hedgehog and it’s sequel fall into that trap. Note that I am unable to watch the Knuckles solo series and the third movie isn’t coming until later this year at last check.
RELEASE DATE: 2020
RELEASED BY: Paramount Pictures
RUNTIME: 1 hr, 39 min
RATING: PG
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: Pluto TV
STARRING: Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, and Jim Carrey
SCREENWRITERS: Pat Casey & Josh Miller; creator Yuji Naka also gets a credit
BOX OFFICE: $148,974,665 US & Canada and $319,715,683 worldwide gross, according to IMDB
ESTIMATED BUDGET:$85,000,000 (estimated) according to IMDB
Someone is bringing back the Golden Age heroes in public domain, and the first two issues of this comic were released free. So I decided to check it out. So we have new comics here for at least the next two weeks.
In this issue: Golden Age heroes team with Rainbow Brite to reclaim their colors!
Heroes Unleashed #1
PD Comics (2024)
ARTIST: Jay Piscopo
EDITOR: Christopher Watts
Captain Midnight: “The War To End All Wars”
WRITER: Bryan Augustyn
Commander X:” Wake Of The War Beast” and Blue Scarab: “Sword Of The Blue Scarab” part one
WRITER: Jay Piscopo
Taken from one of the audio logs in the Gotham Knights video game with video clips added by TheManDeeDubs.
Sounds about how it should be. Batman may need a Robin, but it was Dick that helped Batman gain a bit of his humanity, taking him off of the edge. Even in the comics, the character was created to soften Batman as more kids were getting into the character.
So events this week are forcing me to run through my Finally Watched list because we’re changing television providers…again. Long story. Point is I don’t have time to do anything other than write Finally Watched articles for the feature, so I’m going to break out another one of those.
Valerian And Laureline is a French sci-fi comic series about two ” spatio-temporal” agents having adventures. I have not read this comic, save for a Free Comic Book Day release to promote the movie and the English translation of the series to coincide with it. It seemed okay but for the most part I cannot tell you how accurate an adaptation the movie is to the comics. Said movie was not received well by the sci-fi movie loving community, but it’s one that’s been on the list since it came out, and I finally had the chance to watch it. Given that I disagreed with the consensus before, what are my thoughts this time around? Let’s see.
RELEASE DATE: 2017
RELEASED BY: STX Films in the US, with a bunch of different distributors based on what country it was released in
RUNTIME: 2 hr, 16 min
RATING: PG-13
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: SyFy
STARRING: Dane DeHaan & Care Delevingne
SCREENWRITERS: Luc Benson (also credited are the comic’s writer, Pierre Christin, and artist, Jean-Claude Mézières)
BOX OFFICE: $41,189,488 US & Canada and $225,973,340 worldwide gross, according to IMDB
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $177,200,000 (estimated) according to IMDB
Wrong game, Sonic.
Sonic The Hedgehog #67
Archie Comics Publications (February, 1999)
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: J.F. Gabrie
“Tomb Raider”
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Steven Butler
INKER: Pam Eklund
Tales From The Freedom Fighters:”Lupe & The Wolfpack: Shadows In The Dark”
WRITER/INKER/CO-COLORIST: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Sam Maxwell
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Media Spotlight 