The crew rejoices after getting them to fix the terrible character model for the first movie.
Sonic The Hedgehog #51
Archie Comics (October, 1997)
“Reality Bites”
Okay, comic, where are your credits? Sometimes the next issue fixes the mistake of the previous if they get a credit wrong or COMPLETELY FORGET TO POST THEM! If that’s the case I’ll fix this as soon as Archie did. Well, sooner because my reviews are weekly and the comic was monthly.
Next in my list is another one of the Spider-Man minicomics that were slapped on the Peter Pan peanut butter lids but I only own one and the rest I couldn’t find. So let’s go to the next minicomic series on our list and check in with the Starriors.
For those of you late to the party, Starriors was a toyline by Tomy that tried to do the Transformers thing with two factions of robots at war without the actual transforming. On this planet Man was forced to go underground, leaving the post disaster world to two groups of robots. The Protectors were supposed to rebuild while the Destructors were supposed to clean out the potential giant mutations. Slaughter Steelgrave, a name that makes me question what their creators were thinking, decided the Starriors alone should inherit the planet and tricks his fellow Destructors into stopping the Protectors from uncovering proof of Man’s continued existence and waking them up.
This is our third trip to this alternate future, thanks again to the website Virtualnaut scanning all six comics and making it available for everybody. So let’s see what our robot pals are up to this time.
“Think they’ll mistake us for Wheeled Warriors?”
Starriors #3
Marvel Comics/Tomy (1984)
No credits given yet again. You can check out the reviews of issue #1 and issue #2, though it’s not completely necessary.
“Okay, who stole New York City?”
Marvel Universe: Ultimate Spider-Man #1
Marvel Comics (June, 2012)
Because I don’t have enough anthologies in my reading schedule apparently, this has four stories, two of which are one-page “Marvel Mash-Up” gag pages where they rewrite a comic page into something out of the MST3K comic. I won’t be reviewing those (especially the second one that gives Peter diarrhea) but I’m going to review each full story individually because at least it’s ONLY two stories I need to review. By the way, this is not based on the Ultimate Spider-Man comics but the Disney XD TV show that is nothing like the Ultimate comics Universe. Check here for my review of the first episode, and I have watched the occasional episode since so I have some idea what the show is like.
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My response from the comments: The limited series are easier to collect into trades, and they still want to make graphic novels (the comic equivalent of movies) rather than ongoings (the comic equivalent of a TV show). They still don’t understand why the good trades, the ones that collected the important moments or spotlighted a particular creator, sell the way they do and so everything has to be a trade because they’re idiots.
Here we are, the last chapter of part two of the novel. Last time Jean Paul moved against a serial killer while Bruce began his final gambit against Benedict Asp.
One thing I noticed recently is that Jean Paul is barely part of the novelization. I know he had more adventures. For example an issue of Showcase ’93 had Valley as his Batman trying to take Huntress’ case as if only he should be fighting crime. I feel like part two focused more on Bruce than it did Jean Paul, to Jean Paul’s detriment, especially in the latter chapters of this part. Remember, the point of the Knightfall storyline and it’s various subtitles is to show that Jean Paul is the Batman some people in the 1990s said they wanted and to show why they didn’t understand who Batman is or why having a violent Batman doesn’t work. (A lesson that’s fallen on the deaf ears as some writers continue to lean into Bruce’s supposed anger issues and willingness to punch his way to solve a problem.) We only get hints of how more violent Jean Paul is since most of the focus has been on Bruce tracking down his doctor and solving her and Jack Drake’s kidnapping. It’s still a Bruce Wayne story more than it is about comparing and contrasting the two takes on Batman.
Perhaps we’ll see more of that in part 3 but for now let’s see how the Knightquest ends.
“For the last time I’m not putting on an orange track suit!”
Leonardo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Mirage Studios (December, 1986)
“What Goes Around…Comes Around!”
WRITERS/ARTISTS: Kevin Eastman & Peter Laird
CO-INKERS: Steve Bissette, Michael Dooney, & Ryan Brown
LETTERER: Steve Lavigne
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