January 12, 2024

Beast Machine Hunters> First Season Guide finale

Last time on Beast Machine Hunters we finished looking at the plots for season one. Before we go to season two’s guide, we’ll look at their initial plans for season two to see if it matches up with they ultimately did.

I’m not sure what else to say about season one at this point. Season two we’ll go over when we get there, but I need to pad out the homepage view of this article before the “Read More”. I don’t know, how about this? Here’s the full version of “Phat Planet”, the song used for the Beast Machines intro.

That takes care of that. On to the article.

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January 12, 2024

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Star Power #22

The picture isn’t upside. She actually sleeps that way. Life on a space station.

Star Power #22

(February, 2018)

“The Choir Of Doctor Hymn” part 2

WRITER: Michael Terracciano

ARTIST: Garth Graham

COVER ART: Kristirlyn

[Read along with me here]

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January 12, 2024

BW’s Daily Video> Reacting To Older Animated Hits

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January 11, 2024

Did Elmo Kill Sesame Street?

I’m old. I stopped watching Sesame Street before Elmo was part of the cast, when the show was still an hour long on PBS. Created by the Children’s Television Workshop, now called Sesame Workshop, there are few people in the US born after 1970 who didn’t grow up with the show. It’s an icon of kids television and until recently was proof that a show didn’t have to change a lot to be relevant.

Times have changed. Now it’s on HBO and only a half-hour long. Many of the classic skits are a thing of the past. Is the show good? Maybe, but I do find it rather weak compared to what I grew up with. The question is whether or not Elmo is to be blamed. Granted, I really don’t care about Elmo since my favorite Sesame Street resident is Grover, but this video by YouTube channel Entertain The Elk is pointing to the red tickle addict as, if not the killer of Sesame Street, at least the marker for when the show took a downturn in what it was supposed to be. Let’s hear his case, and I have a few thoughts of my own.

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January 11, 2024

“Yesterday’s” Comic> X-O Manowar #1 (2012)

“I so have to pee right now.”

X-O Manowar #1

Valiant Comics (May, 2012)

“Blades And Open Fields”

WRITER: Robert Venditti

PENCILER: Cary Nord

INKER: Stephano Gaudiano

COVER ART: Esad Ribic’s cover is the one used by ComiXology, seen left

COLORIST: Moose Bauman

LETTERER: Dave Lanphear

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Josh Johns

EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Warren Simons

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January 11, 2024

BW’s Daily Video> Impossible Takes On The Impossible Man

Catch more from Comics By Perch on YouTube

Which just goes to show you, surface viewing defies the political barrier.

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January 10, 2024

The Many, MANY Intros Of Spider-Man: I Want My MTV

As Sam Rami was successfully dropping his take on Spider-Man and showing that a fairly adapted comic story could work in movies (frankly, he took more from Ultimate Spider-Man, and the organic “webshooters” still make no sense), MTV saw a way to cash in. By this point “Music Television” was no longer about music, so they could show anything. Reality shows and teen drama like the re-imagined Teen Wolf seems to be all they’re known for now, and their take on Spider-Man, known as Spider-Man: The New Animated Series to set it apart from the Fox Kids show, was their way of doing it.

The show itself comes from Mainframe Entertainment, the folks behind the 1990s Transformers cartoons and Reboot. However, MTV wanted to get as many celebrity voices as they could. So you had Neil Patrick Harris doing a fair job as Peter, singer Lisa Loeb doing a surprising turn as Mary Jane, and Ian Ziering showing his voice acting is better than his live-action (he did a better job as Nick Tatopoulos in Godzilla: The Animated Series if you ask me) as Harry Osborn. Guest voices would also feature a lot of celebs, but my favorite Peter, Rino Romano, did cameo now and then as a food cart vendor. Even Christopher Daniel Barnes got in there, and it would have been a nice nod to get other previous Peters in there at some point. Maybe if it had made season two?

Beats me, we’re here for the intro. From the start you see that this show had a slightly different art style from other Mainframe shows.

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Posted by on January 10, 2024 in Animation Spotlight, Marvel Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged , , , .

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