“Yes, I’m here. Where are you?”
Captain Atom Vol. 2 #85
Charlton Comics Group (March, 1967)
Captain Atom: “Strings Of Punch And Jewlee”
WRITER: Dave Kaler
PENCILER: Ditko
INKER: Rocke Mastroerio
LETTERER: Herb Field
New Blue Beetle:
CONCEPT/ART: Steve Ditko
WRITER: Gary Friedrich
Spoilers for The Lion King. I’ve seen it and there’s a banked Finally Watched review in the future. Not sure about today, though.
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I tried looking for videos of people playing through the story. All I found were builders and a weird game of hide-and-seek.
In the time since I have heard that there is indeed lore in Minecraft. The idea of a live-action Minecraft movie is still dumb, however. However, it seems that while Jason Momoa is actually in this movie it will be Jack Black playing the live-action Steve, and this is not an improvement.
The annoying thing is that I planned to never to a teaser review again because teasers tell you nothing. We don’t know the plot, we don’t know who is playing whom outside of Jack Black…oh, wait, there’s the plot in the description for the teaser post I’m using. Well, this should be easier then…to go over everything this is doing wrong as an adaptation thus far.
The funny thing, which is not something that would otherwise be said about this teaser, is I’m not really a Minecraft player. There is the main game, some side stories, comics, books, and a lot of people streaming it online. I’ve seen some really interesting done with the mechanics of the game despite having less to work with than games like Second Life or Roblox. Don’t jump on me for mentioning Second Life by the way. I find it interesting that new G4 took time to make fun of it when old G4 was the one that introduced and thought it was amazing. If someone can make giant private parts in Minecraft, you shouldn’t be surprised that open source virtual worlds would do worse. Meanwhile I own a Tim Burton Batmobile, at least three different TARDIS types, a Colonial Viper, and more cars, planes, helicopters, boats, spaceships, and combination vehicles than I’ll ever have in real life. Granted I’ve never heard of a working phone that can connect to the real world in Second Life, so points to Minecraft. I’ll salute you from the cockpit of one of my 1970s Buck Rogers starfighters.
No, I’m not giving you my SL name.
Okay, enough front page padding…which is totally not a delaying tactic no sir. Let’s watch this teaser and see just what this thing does wrong when it comes to promoting a movie based on a kids game where you build with block that isn’t LEGO related.
“Wait, where was I going?”
Silver Sun #1
UMC Comics (no cover date given)
“High In The Sky”
WRITER: Evelin Von Eckenbrecher
ARTIST: Juan Pablo Massa
COLORIST/COVER ART: Max Cereijido
EDITORS: Jonh Curcio & Luis Sanchez
(yes, Jonh, not John, and no letterer credit)
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I was not aware of this character, and we know mister “there are no good female villains” didn’t know about her, but Sasha has a point. If you’re going to do an homage to the Golden Age, why not look for Golden Age characters instead of surface level aesthetics? I mean besides that being the kind of shallowness we’ve come to expect from modern Hollywood? Batman: The Brave & The Bold went looking for things to use in their Silver Age homage despite setting the show in present day (like with who was Blue Beetle at the time). Bruce Timm really didn’t know what he was doing with this show.
I don’t know about Golden Age Harley, but the proto-Royal Flush Gang (Joker was even involved in their first appearance outside comics, in Super Powers Team) does make a bit more sense. Queenie isn’t the loyal sycophant stooge. Batman ’66 probably had a few proto-Harleys because they were molls who were just there to help the Joker, not ally with him as a fellow criminal.
I saw an article in my RSS feeds from Bleeding Fool titled “Elon Musk’s Vision For A Starfleet Academy Meets Resistance From ‘Star Trek’ Star“. At first I thought Musk had come up with some ideas for what he might want to see in the announced Starfleet Academy show, which I’m betting won’t be nearly as good as the original comic set at Starfleet Academy. Sadly, that wasn’t the topic, but it would have made for an interesting article. In case you’re interested, it’s just Robert Picardo mad at Musk for wanting to create a real Starfleet Academy because political internet drama and I don’t care. Although, I do now wonder how the US Space Force is trained. I still think they should have called it Starcom but…oh, apparently that’s what they call their Academy. I’m flexible.
Even if Paramount’s new owners manage to get rid of Alex Kurtzman and Secret Hideout, and they can’t do it fast enough, I don’t think they’d accept a story pitch from Musk, who is not really known for making science fiction. Space X is science reality. Still, it would be fun to break down his idea for a Starfleet Academy storyline or series. Denied this article topic I had an idea during lunch: replace Musk with me. Not at Space X. I can’t even run this place. I mean what would I like to see in a Star Trek show if I was allowed to develop one? Starfleet Academy itself would be easy. Just do the comic and continue the story from there. Not sure how you’d handle Nog, as Aron Eisenberg passed away in 2019. Still, I want to do something a bit more general Star Trek. So I wouldn’t be bringing back any of the previous crews outside of cameos, though it might be fun to get the fan films and fan series to cameo to build out the universe, also as cameos. I wonder how Skydance feels about fan films?
No, this will be an original ship, let’s call it the USS Elon in honor of the article that sparked this off-the-top-of-my-head dive. I actually considered USS Musk but considering…other definitions of the word “musk, Elon sounded a bit more spacy. So don’t expect this to be some deep, thought out pitch like I did years ago for Godzilla. That’s three links, by the way, which I bring up only to show off an old article and pad out the homepage. What I’m doing here is just coming to me as I write. More of a first concept than any real draft. So what would I do?
It’s more about how you have to read it that makes it strange.
Sonic The Hedgehog #50
Archie Comics Publications (June, 1999)
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: J.F. Gabrie
Tails & Amy Rose: “In The Beginning”
Why is the back-up feature at the start of the comic? I’ll explain when I review the main story, but it’s playing into the gimmick for said story, which thankfully didn’t include this one outside of placement.
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Jim Amash
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
“Retro Activity”
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Steven Butler
INKER: Pam Eklund
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
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 