“This is not a substitute for parachutes!”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5
Dreamwave Productions (October, 2003)
“Shadows Of The Mind’s Eye”
WRITER: Peter David
PENCILER: Lesean
INKER: Erik Sander
COLORIST: Shaun Curtis
FLATS: Henry Li
LETTERER: Matt Moylan
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I’m almost out of the MatPat backlog. Should finish by the end of this week, if not next week.
The previous chapters were mostly funeral and mourning, but we did get hits of character moment and building our suspect list…and yet our heroes haven’t had time to find the titular murders yet.
Last week gave us two chapters, but it also gave us insights we need into the original characters for this story. That’s still important. The Vulcans are a bit complex versus what we would have seen by the time this novel came out (first printing: November, 1984, but by my copy “Encounter At Farpoint” was the only listed Star Trek: The Next Generation novel, adapting the pilot episode from three years later) without being the jerks from the Enterprise television show. This is a good thing. McCoy doesn’t even hate Vulcans, he’s just set in his way and bit of a crotchety country doctor. That’s why we love him.
I’ll keep the mystery side of the story past the jump, but so far our heroes don’t know about the mystery of the title, just that something’s gone wrong and they have two patients they’re protecting.
“Come here and say that again.”
Prime #2
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1993)
“Hunted”
WRITERS: Gerald Jones & Len Strazewski
ARTIST: Norm Breyfogle
COLORIST: Keith Conroy
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
I should note, based on Malibu being raided for their coloring process, that the colorist/color designer is usually listed on the bottom of the credits. They really had that much faith in computer coloring back then. Now even I do it.
I also recommend YoungRippa59’s previous, more detailed videos on the topic:
X-Men and the Social Justice Myth from 2019
Let’s Listen to the man himself: Stan Lee On X-Men also from 2024
Also, I’ve gone over why Marvel’s mutants are a bad analogy for bigotry in article form.
Never did make that show, did I? It’s not currently one of the ones I’m thinking about, as mentioned in passing with the future plans article. I did mention my “work” schedule is way muddled, hence no comic this week. I want to slow down the smaller BW stuff and focus on the big article and other projects as I slowly run out of comics to review. Well, I’ll never really “run out” of comics but ones I can currently review.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I did some digital declutter and not much else. I’ve been out of sorts the past week.
I’m hoping to start clean with my schedule this week, and work to get into the rhythm I want…which has been a problem thanks to various distractions. We’ll still have Chapter By Chapter on Monday, with the next chapter of The Vulcan Academy Murders. For now the comic reviews will be what you’ve been used to. I have considered bringing back Friday Night Fights, but as a personal continuation of the concept rather than a multi-blog contest. This would be interrupted whenever a better topic came along but at least I’d totally have an article for Friday’s, a new way to discuss old comics after “Yesterday’s” Comic runs out besides Scanning My Collection and Free Comic Inside, and a way to build up my image library. We’ll see.
Hopefully there won’t be any issues this week, which is unusual for me lately. Have a great week, everyone! I’ll try to get Jake & Leon back for next week…so long as I can stay in reasonably good health.
I used this for a Christmas Showcase and a My Favorite Intros, but let’s go back to the beginning. Well…the beginning of the series.
Men In Black was a 1990s comic published by Aircel Comics. I would love to read it because I hear the movie took a lot of liberties, to the point that the movie would be propaganda in the comic universe. (MIB are actually not the good guys, or so I’ve heard.) It was made in to a comedy movie franchise in the late 1990s, and the first movie was popular enough to create an animated spinoff, Men In Black: The Series, airing on Kids WB.
Unlike the movies, K doesn’t leave the organization, he and J are still partners, and L is now in the lab and more experienced than J, so the show took its own liberties from the source it was working on, despite using the movie version of J and K, as well as using Will Smith’s movie song as an instrumental for the closing credits. I wonder if that’s why the second film brought K back instead of continuing J and L from the end of the first movie. As much as I enjoyed seeing Smith and Tommy Lee Jones play off each other, I would have rather seen Smith and Linda Fiorentino would have done versus simply doing Smith and Jones (I wonder if that was intentional at some point late in casting?) simply reversing their roles from the first movie.
Still, the series is really good, so let me start you with episode 1, as J’s inexperience leads to him being marked for death by an entire planet. Enjoy.
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
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