“Why did you take me to this movie?”
Knuckles The Echidna #6
Archie Comics Publications (October, 1997)
“Lost Paradise” part 3
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Manny Galan
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
It’s the Critical Drinker. There will be swearing and booze…and considering the topic you may not want to be eating during parts of the explanation.
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How accurate is he? I’m not a scientist but I do know that lightsabers used to be more dangerous before the pet characters arrived.
Over halfway through the book and now only two chapters left in part 2 of 3. Last time we saw how ungrateful Jean Paul is, leaving Bruce on his own to stop Benedict Asp. He really is a jerk.
“Jean Paul or Benedict?”
Technically both. I’m curious if part 3 will allow me to come up with more to talk about. I think I’ve said everything about my opinion of the people involved, so let me show you this. Many of you have seen this moment before.
It may be a different continuity but this is a side of Batman that Jean Paul doesn’t have, even though he too lost out on a childhood. He’s compassionate. He isn’t doing this out of revenge or to make someone suffer and pay for their sins. He does it to keep another child from being him, even for a short while. It’s his heart, not his “pain”, that drives him to be Batman no matter what any of the writers will tell you. Now let’s see what Bruce is going to do with nobody to help him, an injured back, and captured by a madman. Or for Bruce…Thursday.
“Tony, have you been messing with my shield? It has a picture of me on it.”
Curious who’s going to get the caption gag. It involves toy collecting.
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars #1
Marvel Comics Group (May, 1984)
WRITER: Jim Shooter
PENCILER: Michael Zeck
INKER: John Beatty
COLORIST: Christie Scheele
LETTERER: Joe Rosen
EDITOR: Tom DeFalco
From the Lost Media Wiki:
Spider-Man Safety Series is a line of direct-to-video animated educational tapes by Coronet/MTI Film & Video that were distributed by The Learning Company. Released in 1990, four separate videotapes were produced: Don’t Hide Abuse, Smart Kids Play it Safe, What To Do About Drugs and Where Do You Go for Help. Created to be ran in an elementary classroom setting, each copy came with a lesson plan for teachers to instruct their students with after watching.
The VHS release has long gone out of print, and due to being sold exclusively to schools, copies are difficult to obtain. Two out of the four episodes, Don’t Hide Abuse and What To Do About Drugs, have been uploaded online. No footage exists of the other two episodes. An official re-release is unlikely, as it would have to be cleared by Disney.
Lost Media Wiki user RogueKnite contacted the publisher of these videos and got this message in return
“We received your letter and did some research. It looks like Phoenix distributed these for a while and then withdrew them. These were produced by LCA as the “Spider-man Safety Series” and most LCA titles, including these, were acquired by FOX which then licensed them back to Phoenix. The FOX contract shows that FOX rights were due to expire in 2005, but since we never heard whether FOX renewed those rights, we don’t know the current status. The contract also shows that all distribution is subject to underlying rights belonging to MARVEL. Your letter stated there were 3 episodes when in fact there were 4. You overlooked “Where Do You Go for Help” We have 6,000+ VHS tapes not all of which are fully documented. That is a project I am working on presently. If I come across these I will let you know however I suggest you try Fox first.”
As of this writing only one other episode in this series, “What To Do About Drugs”, is available while “Smart Kids Play It Safe” and “Where Do You Go For Help” have not. I wonder if one of those lost ones explains how these kids knows Spider-Man well enough to call him for help? I’ll probably use the other found one for a future Daily Video.
I know, some people don’t like Prager U, but the video below sums up events nicely. It’s the recommendation that came up on YouTube so that’s what I’m going with. I don’t want to hear it. Not today.
I had considered doing an article about 9/11 and other events and how it affects fiction, especially the stuff I usually talk about here at BW Media Spotlight. I may still do so this week but it didn’t feel right doing it today. I would like to know something else. This was the first time Al Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center. On February 26, 1993, terrorists drove a van into an underground and blew it up. Six people (seven if you count the unborn child) were killed in the explosion. It was suspected at the time that this could have caused unseen structural damage that caused the Towers to fall apart faster than expected when rescue workers attempted to evacuate the Tower along with the damage caused by the two planes and the burning fuel.
Now this is not an excuse to attack Muslims, and smart, compassionate people already knew that. These were a group of extremists, and that should also be acknowledged, not hidden to protect mainline Muslims. Extremism is always our worst enemy no matter the political, social, spiritual, or other types of worldview divisions. Every group has extremists, including those who claim to share my values (they clearly don’t). Evil is about actions, and these actions were evil. We should have gotten bin Laden after the first bombing. We did after the second and thus far there hasn’t been a third. It was the first big invasion (not counting spies and minor sabotage) since the Revolutionary War and we weren’t prepared. We should fix this but not by becoming extremists ourselves, and those who use it for personal political game be they Democrat, Republican, or Independent should be called out for their actions.
Remembering 9/11
I made that comic 10 years after and what’s said still holds true. Even when we know why we find it hard to accept. Evil exists and we can’t forget that just because we don’t want to punish the innocent with the guilty. I’m all for understanding and unity but it’s done as much by thought as by heart. This was a tragic event in American history, if not human history as a whole. Never forget what happened, but what happens now to ensure this doesn’t happen again should be done with compassion and wisdom together, not just feelings or just logic. I hope we never see this again in any country and still hope for a better world for us all.
Regular BW topics return tomorrow. Sorry for the ramble. I just wanted to do something for 9/11 and reading a Batman novel didn’t feel like it. This is what I had time for.
As mentioned previously, issue #8 was not up on Mirage’s old website, probably because it was a crossover with Dave Sim’s Cerebus and thus rights issues would have kept it off. It was the first time the Turtles would meet the time-travelling sorceress Renet, who we may get to see in a future story. If I ever get a hold of the issue I’ll reviewing but the Mirage postings was official until the purchase by Nickelodeon and thus I have no problem using that version versus going to one of…those sites, which I only use for research when I absolutely need to.
“Wow, if he acts like that with anchovies, how does he handle pineapple?”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #9
Mirage Publications (September, 1986)
“The Passing”
WRITERS: Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
PENCILER: Michael Dooney
INKERS: Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Michael Dooney, Ryan Brown, & Jim Larson
LETTERER: Lavigne
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