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.
So events this week are forcing me to run through my Finally Watched list because we’re changing television providers…again. Long story. Point is I don’t have time to do anything other than write Finally Watched articles for the feature, so I’m going to break out another one of those.
Valerian And Laureline is a French sci-fi comic series about two ” spatio-temporal” agents having adventures. I have not read this comic, save for a Free Comic Book Day release to promote the movie and the English translation of the series to coincide with it. It seemed okay but for the most part I cannot tell you how accurate an adaptation the movie is to the comics. Said movie was not received well by the sci-fi movie loving community, but it’s one that’s been on the list since it came out, and I finally had the chance to watch it. Given that I disagreed with the consensus before, what are my thoughts this time around? Let’s see.
RELEASE DATE: 2017
RELEASED BY: STX Films in the US, with a bunch of different distributors based on what country it was released in
RUNTIME: 2 hr, 16 min
RATING: PG-13
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: SyFy
STARRING: Dane DeHaan & Care Delevingne
SCREENWRITERS: Luc Benson (also credited are the comic’s writer, Pierre Christin, and artist, Jean-Claude Mézières)
BOX OFFICE: $41,189,488 US & Canada and $225,973,340 worldwide gross, according to IMDB
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $177,200,000 (estimated) according to IMDB
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.
Catch Transformers: The Basics on Chris McFeely’s YouTube channel
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.
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
