With Netflix and other Hollywood studios corrupting Japanese properties with their live-action remakes, Toho appears to be following the One-Piece creator’s lead (although technically they did it first) and setting standards for how the King Of The Monsters Should Be Depicted. Bounding Into Comics contributor JB Augustine reports on the “Godzilla Room”, where they assure any version of Godzilla meets the standards for what makes good Godzilla.
Finally Watched week concludes with the second Sonic movie. The first movie, after changing out the character model the internet hated with one that was closer to the classic depiction while still working in the live-action world, gained a lot of positive support from game fans, but it also had to grab enough of the casual movie-going public who may not even know there was a game in order to do well. The fact that we’re talking about a sequel, another one is coming, and a spin-off Paramount+ series featuring one of the characters exists I’m going to guess they succeeded.
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 still had the same issues of any sequel while still convincing fans they could properly interpret the game rather than slapping brand names onto someone else’s script, like sewing a Levi’s label onto a Chinese knockoff set of pajama shorts. I rarely compare a movie to its sequel because all I want is for the story to continue, not whether or not it was better…unless they do some major mistake of course, like Marvel Studios are doing now with their “adaptations”. How did they do with only two years between them?
RELEASE DATE: 2022
RELEASED BY: Paramount Pictures
RUNTIME: 2 hr, 2 min
RATING: PG
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: MGM+ Hits
STARRING: Ben Schwartz, Colleen O’Shaughnessey, Jim Carrey, Idris Elba, and James Marsden
SCREENWRITERS: Pat Casey & Josh Miller (also story) with John Whittington
BOX OFFICE: $190,872,904 and $405,421,518 worldwide gross, according to IMDB
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $110,000,000 according to IMDB
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.
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 