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
If you don’t understand Klingon, hit the closed captions for a translation. If you DO understand Klingon, tell us in the comments if they’re actually doing it right or just made stuff up. Yes, there is official Klingon available to the general public. The movies were that dedicated.
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In our previous installment in this series we took a look at 1966’s Our Man Flint, starring James Coburn as secret agent Derek Flint. While it’s been said that Our Man Flint was a James Bond parody, I didn’t see it. Flint is nothing like Bond outside of how he draws women to him and even reforms the villainess with his raw sex appeal. It was more like a campy spy picture rather than a parody of spy pictures. One year later we get something closer to parody with In Like Flint, with Coburn returning for another adventure with the Zonal Organization World Intelligence Espionage group.
This time Derek is dealing with a whole villain group of women…well, mostly women. They need a few men to complete their goal. What is their goal? We’ll get into that in a moment. First, we have the usual stuff to do.
Thanks, trailer. Now I don’t have to worry about spoilers because you put most of them IN THE TRAILER FOR THE MOVIE! Sadly, we haven’t learned our lesson enough in modern day.
RELEASE DATE: 1967
RELEASED BY: 20th Century Fox, so now it’s owned by Disney (nobody tell them!)
RUNTIME: 1 hr, 54 min
RATING: the DVD is rated PG but I don’t know if that came from the movie
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: Fox Movie Channel (FXM, during the “Retro” block)
STARRING: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Hale, & Andrew Duggan
SCREENWRITER: Hal Fimberg–yes, just the one
BOX OFFICE: $11 Million USD according to Wikipedia
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $3,775,000 according to IMDB
This is why nobody invites Megatron to parties.
Energon Universe 2024 Special (Free Comic Book Day)
Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment (May, 2024)
COVER ART: Ryan Ottley & Annalisa Leoni
LETTERER: Rus Wootan
DESIGNER: Andres Juarez
EDITORS: Sean Mackiewicz & Jonathan Manning
This comic features three previews for the titles currently part of Hasbro’s latest attempt to create a shared universe from their properties–Transformers, G.I. Joe, and the Skybound original series Void Rivals. We’ll take a brief look at each story.
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GoBots Magazine was also available on newsstands. That was how I got my few copies. I may discuss those magazine comics someday. I still don’t understand why Rock Lords get hate the but Comet Warriors are cool. Maybe it has something to do with the backstory, or how little transforming (not counting He-Man, She-Ra, their steeds, and the Sorceress) goes on in the Masters Of The Universe…universe versus the GoBot universe. Don’t underestimate the power of storytelling to sell us on toys. It’s why we like Transformers so much.
Only a few chapters remain. Last time, Kirk had himself a serious battle in the desert, but in his shape, he’s still going to need help.
So have I been calling our killer this whole time? I don’t know. I haven’t read the chapter yet, at least not since I originally bought the book. That’s the trouble with mystery stories. Once you’ve read it, you already know whodunit, and that is lost. What a good mystery story has to do is give you a reason to come back if you didn’t forget the killer. That’s harder with something that gets famous, like the classic Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple series. People talk about those books, but notice how few spoilers there are from Sherlock Holmes stories unless you see the adaptations. Admittedly this may not be the case in actual mystery fan circles, but unless Professor Moriarty shows up, and in adaptations you’d think Moriarty ALWAYS shows up even when he didn’t in the novels, I couldn’t tell you any of the criminals. Moriarty overshadows and becomes the cultural meme and awareness.
So what brings you back is seeing the character interactions, how they go about solving the case, and maybe spotting clues you didn’t your first readthrough. This story has been heavy on the character interactions, but at the expense of the murder mystery. When it does remember the mystery, it’s all procedural. You learn the clues along with Kirk but because you have the same time away from the case as Kirk you don’t really get to try to solve anything. I only spotted a few clues because I went back to check on information for the review of a later chapter. Decide for yourself if that hurts the story, but it’s time to dive back into it.
I hope this isn’t Grenade and Electrocute’s first date.
The Strangers #6
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (November, 1993)
“The Tao Of Physiques”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
PENCILER: Rick Hoberg
INKER: Dave Simons
COLORIST: Robert Alvord and Prisms
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
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