For those of you not reading the Monday Malibu “Yesterday’s” Comic reviews, Malibu wanted their own shared superhero universe. They created the Ultraverse, a reality where people with superpowers, or “Ultras” exist. Some are created by technology, some by mad science, some by space science, and there’s some magic thrown in there for a bit of spice. Malibu’s Ultraverse titles didn’t get a lot of post-comic appearances. There was a live-action version of The Night Man by Glen A. Larson, a one-season Ultraforce cartoon as part of Saban’s weekend “Amazing Adventures” programming block, a direct to video movie I’ve looked at before, and a video game starring their Captain Marvel/Shazam stand-in, Prime!
Malibu Interactive only had 19 games to their name, and only one of them was featuring one of their Ultraverse characters. Oddly, the list includes Batman movie tie-in games, a Battletech game, and a Joe Montana Football game among others. Prime, released in 1994 for the Sega CD and published with Sony Imagesoft, was co-developed with Psygnosis Limited. In it, you play our overmuscled hero (he’s 13 and this was the 1990s) as he searches for his would be girlfriend, Kelly. The game was packaged with another game, Microcosm, and a pack-in minicomic that I don’t recommend trying to track down unless you know what sites to avoid. My usual site that I use for the Ultraverse comics (it’s out of print and I doubt Disney or anyone at current Marvel knows or remembers they have them after Marvel bought Malibu for their now out of date computer coloring process and slowly tossed the rest of it) doesn’t have it, one had so many pop-ups I have to pray I don’t have a virus, and the one I finally found had to shove it into a collection of other comics just to get access to it. Well, at least I can finally review it.
“That stop sign will ever hurt anyone again!”
Prime: Sega CD Edition
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse/Sony Imagesoft (1994)
“The Deadliest Game”
WRITERS: Len Strazewski & Gerald Jones
ARTISTS: Joe Staton & Steve Mitchell
COLORING: Moose Baumann & Violent Hues with Emily Yoder
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
It’s rare to see a full creator list like this on a minicomic. It pays when it’s owned by the same company.
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Dissecting The Current Star Wars “Iger Vs Kennedy” Rumor
As much as I prefer to look at the end product and see its strengths and weaknesses, the backstage on this one is almost as hard to ignore as the culture war invasion. Seeing how often “woke” gets brought up because a few critics out there don’t know what the term is supposed to mean–not being garbage in general but the specific cause being extremist sociopolitical ideology based on pushing stereotypes and attacking anyone outside the hive mind–the formerly known “political correctness” now called “the right side of history” is only one issue with the current Hollywood climate and any media it has corrupted along with itself. The corporate nonsense is also an issue. I didn’t put corporatists above activists in the SEECA acronym just because it sounded better when spoken. The other three–snobs, elitists, and egoists–do fight for first place and that WAS a pronunciation decision. Just for the record.
Now YouTuber Den Of Nerds just dropped a major rumor bomb that changes the corporate discussion about how poorly the Star Wars franchise has been maintained…but not the way the host thinks it does. From his livestream channel podcasts came a rumor from his most trusted leak source that the most hated changes in the Star Wars lore came not from LucasFilm head Kathleen Kennedy but Disney CEO Bob Iger. This supposedly changes the entire narrative. Iger is the real villain and all the hate that Kennedy has gotten has been misplaced and she’s actually the one trying to fix Star Wars. Yeah, pressing X to doubt on…some of this. I think there’s plenty of blame to go around here. Still, let’s give the host a chance to make his case. There’s also a clip that comes from one of his more recent streams, hosted at the clips channel for his livestreams because YouTube is a mess onto itself you need three channels for the same show to get the algorithm to play nice with you.
From the three I grabbed his regular video apologizing to Kennedy for his own comments, which discusses everything that he’s put together after getting this report. Note that what is about to be said is rumor and should be treated as such. Also, there is swearing, which is not a regular thing here at the Spotlight, which is why I bring it up when it’s there.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 28, 2025 in Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight and tagged Bob Iger, commentary, Den Of Nerds, Disney, Kathleen Kennedy, Lucasfilm, movies, Star Wars, streaming series.
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