Wait, they can’t find the Hand. Marvel won’t buy them for years yet.
The Strangers #2
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1993)
“Hey! Hugh! Get Off’A McCloud!”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
PENCILER: Rich Hobers
INKERS: Tim Burgard & Larry Welch
COLORIST: Keith Conroy
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
You’ll no doubt notice there’s no Jake & Leon. I had trouble sleeping this week thanks to a hurt shoulder and for some reason today I woke up early, couldn’t fall back to sleep, and the short version is while I have a comic clearly in mind I didn’t get to start it.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I put together my plan for decluttering this year. How much of it I’ll accomplish we’ll have to wait and see.
This week at the Spotlight we’re nearing the end of the Many, MANY Intros Of Spider-Man. Depending on what I can fit in this might even be the last installment. If not, next week. We also start reviewing Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders for Chapter By Chapter and finish season one of the Transformers: Beast Machines writer’s bible. Have a great week, everybody! Hopefully I’ll get a decent night’s sleep in to do all this.
Four videos tonight, but the same two episodes in different formats.
Beast Wars II: Super Robot Lifeform Transformers is a Japan-produced sequel to the Beast Wars: Transformers cartoon, produced while waiting for season two (known as Beast Wars Metals over there and comprising the last two seasons of Beast Wars). Using toys that didn’t make it into the previous show as new characters as well as some Generation Two and unreleased figures from the time, Beast Wars II only had two original molds until later in the series, that for Lioconvoy and Galvatron. Everyone else were previous molds not seen in the US show.
The plot finds the Cybertrons (the joint name for Autobots and Maximals in Japan) learning of a Destron (Decepticons and Predacons’ shared name) operation on the planet Gaia. It’s up to Lioconvoy and his team to stop Galvatron and his team from uncovering the Angolmois energy and using it for evil, while two mechanoids named Artemis and Moon bicker and usually serve no use in the plot in the episodes I’ve managed to check out. I think they were supposed to be watching over Gaia and the mysterious energy within the planet.
So why are there two episodes for four videos? The first two are fan-translated subtitles while the others are two different fanDUBS, neither of whom got past episode two but I thought seeing the difference between the two groups would be interesting. The fansubs are unique among fansubs I’ve seen in the past as they actually translate the credits of the people and companies who worked on it. Some official subs don’t even bother doing that. The dubs we’ll get into. This way no matter how you prefer your anime, you have options. Enjoy!
Apparently this issue Blue Beetle takes the kids on a ride with a Mike Mannigan parade balloon. Not the weirdest thing I’ve seen in this comic.
The Blue Beetle #39
Fox Feature Syndicate (Fall, 1945)
I’m sorry to keep ending these weeks on a low note. I want to get through these to get to the Charlton ones, and every now and then there is a decent issue. Still, on the plus side the O’Brine Twins are gone. Scared to see what’s replacing it. I’m just saying don’t be surprised if I eventually leave this run and go to the Charlton comics. Remember, “Yesterday’s” Comics are comic I bought or would have bought were I able at the time. I’m not sure any of the Fox Feature’s second run would fall into that category. We still have that “Invaders From Saturn” nonsense after all.
Okay, let’s start by seeing if he’s still endangering kids who have to apologize to their classmates their story was so lame.
Last time on Beast Machine Hunters we started going over the planned episodes for season one of Transformers: Beast Machines, and then we went on Christmas break. I was hoping to finish before then but that didn’t happen. So this week we’ll go through episodes 10-13. Next week we should be finishing our look at the season 1 bible…with a preview for season 2 before going over the season 2 bible. That’s just how this worked out.
The plot for 11-13, the second multi-part episode, is given all in one section, unlike “Revelations”, which was chronicles in three parts. I’m not sure why they did that. Episode 10 is listed as “title to be determined”, so for some reason this was the only episode they didn’t have a title for by the time the guide was written. That’s also weird and I don’t know how that happened. The episode is called “Survivor” by the way, so at least they came up with a name by airtime.
With all that, let’s see if any memories are jogged by reading what they wanted to do in the episodes. Again, I didn’t have time to watch it despite a number of ad-sponsored streaming services having it and my owning the DVD. That’s just how the past few weeks went.
“Who replaced my hair spray with spray starch?”
Star Power #21
(November, 2017)
“The Choir Of Doctor Hymn” part 1
WRITER: Michael Terracino
ARTIST: Garth Graham
COVER ART: Kristilyn
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
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I posted this mostly for that early part, where he clarifies that one of the statements being used against the new Rey movie director is being taken out of context, the part about making men uncomfortable. Like he says, we need to be fair in our critiques and there’s no need to misquote them because that’s what Hollywood does with their critics. Don’t play their game, folks. It makes you as bad as they are. Plus I’m sure there are plenty of in-context stupidity they’ll be saying eventually. It’s Hollywood, baby.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on January 8, 2024 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Rey Palpatine, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Star Wars.
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