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“And you wanted to go bird watching.”
Star Power #15
(July, 2016)
“Star Power & The Mystery Of The Zel Gux Dynasty” finale
WRITER: Michael Terracciano
ARTIST: Garth Graham
From the 1959 Bugs Bunny cartoon “Wild & Wolly Hare”. Written by Warren Foster, directed by Friz Freleng.
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Transformers: The Movie is an interesting footnote in media history. A TV show getting a movie while the series was still on the air and ties in to the TV continuity? That doesn’t happen very often, and I don’t remember an example of one before this. There were movies based on finished shows, some of which continue the TV show rather than being a reboot but there weren’t too many. A toyline getting a movie? This is the first one I can think of. When I saw the above ad on TV I was really looking forward to going, and for various reasons I was never able to. For me personally it was also the first comic adaptation I picked up, although it wasn’t the first ever made. Between this and the novelization for ET The Extra-Terrestrial I started to see the differences between format as well as movie adaptations not always matching the movie 100%. I would learn years later why that happened.
Adaptations are based on the latest available version of the movie script so that they can come out the same time. Enjoy the movie? In the days before home video was cheap this was your only way to see it again between the final screen date and appearing on TV, this also being the first time it was edited into episodes of the show. The He-Man & She-Ra movie was the opposite, episodes of the show re-edited into a theatrical movie to capitalize on Transformers’ success…if you ignore the fact that the movie was not a major success until home video and nostalgia boosted viewership. It wasn’t until a few years ago that I finally got to see it on the big screen during the movie’s anniversary, but by then I had two versions of the movie on home video–a VHS tape I had to get from Canada and a recent DVD release, seen it on television multiple times in both movie and episode editing, and have two different comic adaptations, one from the 80s by Marvel and a redo with the final script by IDW. It didn’t hold the same excitement, but it was still cool to finally do.
The advertisements announced that Transformers: The Movie was “two years in the making”, but what happened during those two years? Chris McFeely of Transformers: The Basics on YouTube has gathered together information dropped over the years and has all we know thus far about the making of this milestone in animation and the Transformers. This includes visualisations of early drafts, which I’ll be reviewing based on what Chris summarizes in the video.
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Just assume I made a Toy Story joke and move on.
The Stuff Of Legend volume 1
Th3rd World Studios (2009)
WRITERS: Mike Raicht & Brian Smith
ARTIST: Charles Paul Wilson III
DESIGN/COLOR: Jon Conkling & Michael DeVito
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Well, I couldn’t find the next Superman Sugar Smacks comic…at least the one I was looking for from the 1960s. Found a 1980s one I need to research. At any rate we’re still going DC but instead of the Man Of Steel it’s the guy a version of him once put a fist-sized hole through. I guess this counts as payback?
For those of you who missed our previous trips into this toyline’s minicomics, Super Powers was a Kenner produced line based on the DC Comics superheroes, made popular for kids thanks to Superfriends and being more fun. The last two seasons of Superfriends even rebranded to help push the toys, first as “The Legendary Super Powers Show”, the last season to be titled Super Friends, and Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians, an end of series rebrand with upgraded animation and new character models but retaining the same actors and what little continuity this series ever had. (Although Adam West took over as Batman for these two seasons while previous Batman Olan Soule took on the role of Professor Stein, one-half of Firestorm.)
“Blast it, this is Harley’s perfume! I’d smack her for the mistake if she had been created yet!”
Each action figure, hero and villain alike, received their own minicomic and we’re up to the seventh in the series, focusing on the Clown Prince Of Crime himself, the Joker. (He would have his only appearance in the show in the last season, but he spent most of it playing a different character.) So what is the villain up to since he appeared in the Batman minicomic? Let’s find out. Once again, no credits so let’s hop into the action.
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“This guy has surprisingly sweaty hands.”
Knuckles The Echidna #9
Archie Comics Publication (February, 1998)
“Dark Vengeance” finale
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Manny Galan
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
Also, here’s all three covers from issues #7-9 collected into one image.
I don’t mind when these poster covers happen over consecutive issues. Just not as variant covers for the same issue, which I’ve seen at least twice and it’s twice too many!
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