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“Man, am I the only one who showered today?”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #14
Mirage Publishing (May?, 1988)
“The Unmentionables”
WRITER/ARTIST: Kevin Eastman
CO-INKER: Eric Talbot
LETTERER: Steve Lavigne
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In case you missed yesterday’s comic and update, I’ll be doing commentaries from Perch all week as I have a big backlog of his commentaries and want to lighten my load. So I hope you enjoy his commentaries and trivia because he actually will be here all week, folks.
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I’m surprised I remembered I have an anniversary.
More on that in a moment. First, this week’s Clutter Report as I continue to price comics for sale. Now with DC offerings.
Yes, Jake & Leon is another year older and deeper in debt, so this week I’ll be doing another Best Of post for my favorite comics between last year’s anniversary and this one. Also this week I’m going to use the daily quickpost to cut down some of my backlog of Comics By Perch commentaries so I hope some of you are fans. Meanwhile another Chapter By Chapter review of Batman: Knightfall and Beast Machine Hunters has the next part of the season 1 story guide for Transformers: Beast Machines.
We’ve got a full load coming up, and I just lost a tooth so we’ll see what goes on with that. Have a great week, everybody.
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So when did Godzilla become the “Guardian Monster” I grew up with? That would be the fifth movie in the franchise, Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster. This was also the second team-up of Toho monsters. While the Showa era films didn’t have the tight continuity of the Heisei films, there is still progression. At this point Godzilla hasn’t been depicted as a menace by choice. He mostly just keeps walking in whatever direction he chooses, and smashes anything in the way. He’s a menace because…he’s a 50 meter monster that’s nearly indestructible and fires a nuclear laser beam out of his mouth when he gets mad. So there actually is room to grow as the franchise was less about warning about atomic testing and to a kaiju superhero story.
Known as Ghidrah, The Three Headed Monster in the US (note the spelling of the monster’s name), a couple of shooting stars crash on the planet. One comes from Venus (Mars in the dub because Venus isn’t as sexy for US space people or something) and warns of the other…take a wild guess who’s in it. Unfortunately the Venusian/Martian is also a princess targeted by traitors to her country, and running around claiming to be an alien prophetess is a terrible way to stay incognito. Meanwhile, Mothra’s priestesses are visiting Japan so they can be in the movie (the last appearance of music siblings Emi and Umi Ito, aka The Peanuts, in the role) just as a new Rodan wakes up and Godzilla also gets drawn in even though his name isn’t in the movie. When the three-headed lighting-spitting dragon appears it’s up to Mothra (apparently one of them died off-screen or they forgot the last Mothra had twins in her last appearance) to convince the other two monsters to join forces and defend the planet. I guess Anguirus and Kong were busy that week.
Again we have the Japanese sub available to post here thanks to YouTube Movies & TV, but this time I have an official link for the English dub…with the usual rights nonsense showing up. See, Shout Factory TV has the original Japanese on their streaming site but if you want the English version they’re hosting it through Tubi. Unless they took it down and I have to scramble through the Internet Archive again. I prefer official releases when I have them. So use that link for English, watch the Japanese here, and if you do both note all the changes.
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As Dan drove back to Fox Features he “accidentally” left Spunky behind. I wish.
The Blue Beetle #30
Holyoke Publishing (February, 1944)
This is the end of the Holyoke period of Blue Beetle comics. I did a look ahead into the Fox run and only saw Spunky show up once but the Grand Comic Database didn’t call it his final appearance. Still, it means I get a few issues without him.
There’s also a question as to whether or not Fox Features did the same think the Holyoke run did and publish the remaining issues of their predecessor. It made sense with Holyoke publishing the remaining produced Fox comics during the early issues of their run as they purchased all of Fox’s stuff, but did remaining Holyoke comics come with Fox’s reacquisition? I guess we’ll find out.
We’ll also be saying good-by to some of these characters. Holyoke continued a few of the characters’ adventures in the new Sparkling Stars, which I will not be covering even if Comic Book Plus has them available. I was not a fan of this period and there weren’t many stories I cared to continue anyway. That’s the problem with anthologies from a reading perspective. If you only like one or two you still have to pay for the full comic, which is a plus to the publisher but not the publishee. So wave good-bye as we leave the Holyoke stories. Read along with me here.
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Last time we finished off Marv Wolfman’s rather confusing story treatment. However, I have THREE bibles to work with here. Given that I wanted to do another of these story bible/writer’s guide reviews ever since I finished the Star Trek: The Next Generation guide and it’s been a long time since I had the opportunity I’m more than happy to continue.
The first season guide is over 40 pages and for some reason the cover page is the last page in the available PDF file. Since the pages are numbered this time I should have an easier time about it. Also, this file will allow me to copy/paste rather than having to transcribe from the original transcript, with some minor formatting fixes on my end. That means I can speed up things on my end and you’ll be sure any typos are theirs and not mine. Mine should be easy to spot as it will be in the regular text. I should also note that it’s the third draft, dated May 12, 1999. The final show aired in September, 1999. I don’t know if that’s a long enough turnover but if not it would explain some other flaws. Now you may want to get a copy for yourself and read along. I can currently help you there.
Depending on what nonsense TwitterX does by the time you read this, there you go. With that let’s get on to the actual story bible for the first season of Transformers: Beast Machines, this time written by the show’s head writers, Marty Isenberg and Bob Skir. I mention in the past that a lot of the anger and disappointment against this show was pointed at Skir since at the time he was doing Q&A articles on a Transformers fan site while Beast Wars head writers Bob Forward and Larry DiTillo did a mostly loved show and talked to fans directly on the newsgroup alt.toys.transformers, even hiring ATT member Ben Yee of Ben’s World Of Transformers as a consultant. Beast Machines however fell into the hands of Dan DiDio, who in DiDio fashion wanted something darker and displaced from previous continuity despite being a direct continuation with many of the same characters. Between this and Alex Kurtzman on Transformers projects you get an idea of how someone will approach another franchise by what they do to Transformers. That’s how we ended up with DiDio’s Darker DC and Secret Hideout’s Star Trek. So how does this new guide start out?
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Shi Lalis needs to go on a diet.
Star Power #12
(November, 2015)
“The Mystery Of The Zel Gux Dynasty” part 2
WRITER: Michael Terracciano
ARTIST: Garth Graham
If you do so, note that as of this writing page 14 is down. It goes from 13 to 15 and if you try to get there manually you get a link down message with a confused Star Power.
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