“What other two caballeros?”
Kotto Kotorra
Arcana Studio (2003)
“Legend Of Sweetfoot”
(plus a series of one or half-page short strips I won’t be reviewing individually)
WRITERS: Dave Alvarez & Sean O’Reilly
ARTIST: Dave Alvarez
They died so we might live. Remember to honor that in between the hot dogs and parades.
Yes, Memorial Day is coming tomorrow, which means the feature post will be a Memorial Day Tribute I can find on YouTube. That will move the Chapter By Chapter review of Batman: Knightfall to Tuesday. It’s part two of the book as Dennis O’Neil begins adapting the “Knightquest” story arc.
Also, over at The Clutter Reports it’s just a quick update on where I stand in the next phase of the Comic Organizing Mega Project.
Have a safe Memorial Day weekend and a great week overall, everyone. Remember to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice so we could have all these events.
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I don’t know why I’ve gotten so much Batman material lately, though it’s oddly timed as I review the novelization of the Knightfall storyline. At least this one I went looking for information about as I had mentioned it in…one of the articles I’ve made lately.
Produced by Warner Brother Records, Batman: Legends Of Robin is a two cassette audio drama from 1996 adapting various issues of the comic detailing the journey of then new Robin Tim Drake. It features a great cast, including John Shea (Lex Luthor in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman as King Snake and Mark Hamill as the Joker. It covers how Tim Drake became Robin, the death of Jason Todd, the sad fate of Tim’s parents because heaven forbit at least one of these characters keeps both parents if any, Tim’s training, and his encounters with Two-Face and the Joker.
The rest of the voice cast is also excellent. Jim Soriero is a great Tim Drake, Don Leslie is a worthy Batman, oddly it doesn’t say on the box who played Nightwing, a good use of Peter Waldren as Alfred, and Aaron May gets a turn as Superman. I’ll post the full cast list after the recording which I hope you enjoy as much as I do.
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“The good news is that it’s not mice in your walls.”
The Blue Beetle #13
Holyoke Publishing Company (August, 1942)
The version scanned into Comic Book Plus isn’t in the best of conditions, though not the worst I’ve seen, but hopefully we’ll still get through this one. Also interesting is that the Grand Comic Database doesn’t have titles for some of the early Blue Beetle stories in this issue so they won’t have titles. For some reason the Blue Beetle stories are actually scattered through the comic, but I’ll still list them in the review as the Blue Beetle stories and the guest comics for the sake of formatting convenience. I’m still trying to decide on a layout for these Golden Age reviews.
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4Kids Entertainment gets a lot of flack from the anime community. They took anime and re-edited it for Western audiences, which they feel is somehow artistically wrong. I’m not saying they don’t have a point, especially given recent shenanigans where translators are inserting their views into characters’ mouths, like a crossdresser who still identifies as a boy being turned trans in the translation (no pun intended) when that’s not what he was in the original manga, or adding references to Gamergate into an anime made by people who never heard of Gamergate. I think there’s a difference however. 4Kids never sold their stuff as a anime dub studio. It was a studio who made TV shows and the occasional movie for kids. It was right there in the name.
It just so happened that Pokémon was big in the US and it was 4Kids, originally in syndication and then on Kids WB if memory serves, who brought it to Western kids. Their goal wasn’t to present anime to Western anime fans, it was to make a kids show just like all their other non-Japanese kids show. I’ve gone over 4Kids long library of shows in my defense of the studio years ago including my favorite version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the prematurely canceled WMAC Masters. Anime was popular and cheaper to dub than create shows like this or Cubix: Robots For Everyone and that’s what they did.
Some time ago YouTuber Saberspark went over the demise of 4Kids and why the company failed. There’s more to the story than their anime but did he touch on that? Let’s find out. It’s been a while since I dropped it into the potential article playlist. Also features a cameo by Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged.
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“For the last time I’m NOT MODOK!”
Tron #4
SLG Publishing (July, 2007)
WRITERS: Landry Walker & Eric Jones
ARTIST: Michael Shoyket & Guru-eFX
LETTERER: Eleanor Lawson
EDITOR: Dan Vado
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 29, 2023 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comic books, Comics By Perch, commentary.
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