No colors, very dark…now I’m worried this cover will convince them to let Zack Snyder make the movie.
X-O Manowar #2
Valiant Comics (June, 2012; digital edition)
“Escaping Eden”
WRITER: Robert Venditti
PENCILER: Cary Nord
INKER: Stephano Gaudiano
COLORIST: Moose Bauman
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Josh Johns
EDITOR: Warren Simons
You can tell this is from 2021 because Disney was trying to save money making films and their theme parks were doing well.
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This is one of those shows where I split off from “the group” as I just never got myself into this show. Granted, some of this is a personal lack of connection as it came at a bad time: my first hospital stays, thanks to Crohn’s Disease, that started the events that led to this website you’re reading now. However, it also features some of my personal issues with modern Spider-Man adaptations. It features teenage Peter Parker because they want to tell the origin story, but starts just after Uncle Ben’s passing AND uses the supporting cast Peter shouldn’t meet until college since they want their cake and eat it, too, even when it isn’t properly baked. It shows you that for all the talk about wanting Peter back in high school he didn’t truly peak as a hero until he graduated and went to college. Not that the comic was bad before that or Pete would never have made it to Empire State University, but that a lot of his villains and supporting cast came when he went to college.
It also altered a lot of the characters. Harry’s a dweeb and pining for Gwen Stacy, who is designed to be geekier than Peter and yet both Liz Allen (did they change her race because I don’t remember her skin being that dark…though it does make her look cute) and later Mary Jane are both into Peter, who is only interested in Gwen. Flash…is still Flash, but credit where it’s due. When this show did their version of the symbiote storyline Flash is actually the voice of reason. It may be the version with the most character growth without tossing out the usual cast, which is a credit to co-creators Greg Weisman and Victor Cook, but it also changed the characters quite a bit.
Still, I may not have watched a lot of this show, which interestingly came from Kids WB long before Disney bought Marvel and Fox, because of my situation and lack of connection, but this may be one of the better intros of this series, if not the best.
Apparently I missed a Sonic Super Special somewhere along the line. My Sonic section is apparently still a mess. This will factor in the back-up story. Also the credits are a bit messed up in this issue. Both sets are credits are listed in the first story, one at the beginning, one at the end. So these are the people who worked on the comic, but I don’t know which story they’re attached to for certain. Even the Grand Comics Database wasn’t helpful. Sorry.
Saving the world is a very hands on job. (Sorry, it’s all I could come up with.)
Sonic The Hedgehog #58
Archie Comics Publications (May, 1998)
WRITERS: Ken Penders; Clayton Emery
PENCILERS: Manny Galan; Art Mawhinney
INKERS: Jim Amash; Ken Penders
COLORIST: Ken Penders
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
And what if you misspell it?
Apparently the answer is that you have to be thinking about the exact person whose name you’re writing down, or so I’ve been told. Considering Death Note is not really my type of show, I’m the wrong guy to ask. However, I can respect something that has garnered a fanbase based on the story.
For people even more uninitiated than me, Death Note is a manga series that branched out into anime and live-action adaptations, following teen genius Light Yagami, who “finds” a notebook owned by a “death god” named Ryuk. (At least I think that’s what “shinigami” translates to.) If there’s someone you want dead, you write their name in the book and it happens. If you want a specific cause of death, that’s also possible. Light starts to use it only on criminals, only for the power to go to his head and warp his mind as the police pursue his alter ego, “Kira”. The story is about how he may have started out intending to do good, only to turn evil himself, ruining not only his life but the lives of others in the process.
Since I don’t want to be late like last Tuesday and need a schedule reset, I’m posting the following video from anime YouTube channel Glass Reflection. The host, Arkada, goes over all the various adaptations and interpretations of Death Note, pointing out the positives and negatives in each version of the franchise. Hopefully I can get my schedule right and not have to do this again for awhile. I found the review interesting in my initial watch, but again this is totally not my type of story. It is longer than a Daily Video posting, so at least I have a space to bring this out. Enjoy.
At long last! April versus Storm Shadow!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles presents April O’Neil #2
Archie Comics/Mirage Studios (February, 1993)
“The Chinatown Connection”
STORY IDEA/EDITOR: Dean Clarrain
WRITER: Steve Sullivan
PENCILER: Chris Allan
INKER: Brian Thomas
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Gary Fields
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