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For comic writers it’s worse in comics because you have limited panel space and the letterer doesn’t want to ruin what the artist(s) worked so hard on. So consider that when you write your dialog as well.
If you’re an orphan and don’t share Leon’s perspective, that’s fine. You’re not Leon.
Thought I’d add that to the caption because anyone real who aged out of an orphanage or similar childhood may not share his response to the experience. I figure that this would be Leon’s, though.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week: I’ve covered Swedish Death Cleaning and Komori Cleaning but this time I used MatPat and Style Theory to find out about the most famous form of decorating and decluttering, Feng Shui. I’m not sure it’s going to work out in my office/studio but I was never really sure what it was about outside of a fad that wouldn’t die.
What’s coming this week in the Spotlight? The conclusion to Batman: Knightfall in this week’s Chapter By Chapter. That means a full book report for The Clutter Reports next week followed by the selection of my next Chapter By Chapter review book. There’s also more from the season one Transformers: Beast Machines story guide for Beast Machine Hunters and perhaps another installment of the Many, Many Intros Of Spider-Man. Also, the last of the Mirage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics I have access to gets reviewed tomorrow, but there’s still other Turtle comics I haven’t reviewed to cover. I’m still running out of old comics so the future of “Yesterday’s” Comic is getting iffier all the time.
EDIT: It looks like I may also be doing the last Marvel comic in my ComiXology library, meaning this will be the last Marvel Tuesday. It’s time to start figuring out what I’m going to do next because I’m out of physical comics and almost out of ComiXology comics, while I have a few comics hosted at Drive Thru Comics to go over. Then that might be it. A lot to decide this week.
The big one in light of recent events is a special editon of Scanning My Collection. I haven’t seen the latest Doctor Who episode but I’ve heard about it, seen a few clips, and may look up a few more…but only because I’m going to do a deep review of the actual story and compare what my non-Disney+ having self knows about it versus the original story. There may be some sidebar ranting in it but it will all fit into the review. Anyone who has actually seen the episode is welcome to fit in any adaptation gaps I have in my knowledge.
Have a great week, everyone! Christmas is coming in a few weeks, December by the end of the week, so the call for Christmas themed videos, articles, and audios are already welcome.
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Professional wrestling has an interesting history outside of the actual wrestling shows. With the exception of the occasional sitcom (anyone remember Learning The Ropes?) wrestling is treated as real in fiction as it is in actual wrestling events, like kayfabe was bleeding into the world of stuntmen. This does make for interesting drama and action at least. Real professional wrestlers may have set results and do improv based on how the match is going, but those bruises and injuries are real. People have died in the ring from injuries not involving a lame stunt hanging over the ring. The matches may not be legit the but wrestling is quite real.
One of the lost Saturday Night Theater/Showcase entries over the years was Bodyslam, where Roddy Piper played one half of a tag team whose manager was having issues with villainous wrestlers and crooked businessmen while being played by Dirk Benedict. You know, the original Starbuck and second Templeton “Face” Peck. His character was in line with those two. Piper of course gained fame in acting from They Live and some stuff he probably didn’t want to add to his resume. I liked him on RoboCop: The Series personally. You may also know the name Jessie “The Body” Ventura. He was a WWF wrestler and commentator before doing movies like Predator, then leaving entertainment altogether to go into politics. So what if we put those two together for a failed TV pilot?
Tagteam is a 1991 pilot for a series that would have starred Ventura but Piper was considered a good fit. Billy The Body Youngblood and Tricky Rick McDonald (guess who played which role) are a good wrestling tag team. Unfortunately the wife of the owner of apparently the only wrestling promotion in this universe wants their opponents to win (never says why), so when they don’t throw the match, she comes up with a lie to end their careers. Looking for work, events will turn them into cops. I would have gone with private investigators but what do I know?
As a bonus the person who uploaded this one-time aired TV special left some old commercials on there. Enjoy.
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The day Mike Mulligan went crazy!
The Blue Beetle #35
Fox Features Publication (October, 1944)
Let’s see. During the second Fox run this title has been back and forth in quality. Two issues ago was good, last issue…was not. What fate awaits our blue-clad hero in this issue? I’m ignoring the O’Brine Twins because they’re annoying, but I will go over the multi-part stories (plural) from the previous issue. I can only hope part two of those two stories comes out better.
And according to Comic Book Plus this issue was distributed by Fawcett. I guess Holyoke wasn’t going to trust them again even after getting paid back and giving them Blue Beetle and friends again. Then again I’m not sure I want them involved after their run.
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Last time on Beast Machine Hunters we concluded our look at the Vehicons, but there’s more season one guide left.
There is a section of the guide set aside for the lore of Transformers: Beast Machines. It’s probably my favorite part of worldbuilding…which reminds me, I really do need to finish the Captain Yuletide story bible. The interesting part here will be seeing what parts of the lore being established here matches what we saw in Beast Machines: Transformers, what made it into this show, what we can see only in how the writers’ approached the characters based on what we see…and what was tossed out completely.
In previous story bible examinations we’ve seen times where the writers went in different directions. For example in the Batman: The Animated Series story bible we saw they intended to keep to Mr. Freeze’s original comic book origins only to come up with a brand new one that has now become his comic origin. Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s first season guide didn’t include Worf and had Picard talking about how great France is, like Chekov does for Russia. Worf was added in the first episode and Picard’s believe of French superiority (not Francian superiority–sorry, Fizzbin) never really materialized.
With that, let’s see what was in the show, what wasn’t, what should have been, and what we were better off without.
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“Captain, the GPS is broken again!”
Star Power #17
(January, 2017)
“Star Power And The Last Jump Gate” part 2
WRITER: Michael Terracciano
ARTIST: Garth Graham
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Recently, recordings were made of Tim Curry’s original recording as the Joker for the Batman: The Animated Series episode “The Last Laugh”. YouTube channel The Hamill Who Laughs posted a comparison of the two takes, adding music and sound effects from the regular episode to better compare the two versions.
No offense to Curry, who was a partial inspiration for the DCAU’s take on the Joker, but I think switching to Hamill was the right idea.
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