I didn’t even know turtle hunting existed.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #12
Mirage Studios (October, 1987)
“Survivalists”
WRITER/ARTIST: Peter Laird
LETTERER: Steve Lavigne
Unless for some reason you count Void Rivals because it had a Jetfire cameo and started the so-called “Energon Universe” with an original title. He splits the video between non-spoiler and spoiler sections so you get both.
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My response after watching the video: So everything I don’t like about modern comics and most of what I don’t want in Transformers (plus what they did to my boy Bumblebee) they did. I was hoping this would be closer to Super Dinosaur than The Walking Dead but sucks to be me. Not shaming anyone for liking it but it’s a hard pass for me personally.
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Now everything else Rachel Ziegler’s complained about, that’s just lame.
Consider how many performers dressed as Snow White in the hot California or Florida sun for hours, walking around a giant theme park with at best lunch and bathroom breaks and Zeigler complaining that she should get extra “hazard” pay for wearing the Snow White dress is just pathetic.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I’m done organizing the Comics For Sale section. I still have more comics to list but at least now it’s easier to find something you’re interested in.
More of the same coming up this week. We’re concluding phase 1 of Beast Machine Hunters with the last part of Marv Wolfman’s confusing story treatment before moving to the actual Season 1 guide. Plus the continuing Chapter By Chapter review of Batman: Knightfall is still going on. In between depends on what grabs my attention. Have a great week, everyone!
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I don’t hate Halloween but it’s not my type of season. The spooky, the monsters, the scares…all of that just clashes with my hero-loving persona. I want to see the hero beat the monsters, not be the last person standing until the jump scare before the credits. I never wanted to be a monster for trick or treating. My mom made me dress as a monster for middle school once. It didn’t go well. Otherwise the only “evil” costume I had as a kid for trick or treating was an Imperial Stormtrooper costume, one of those cheap ones with the oversized bib and the cheap plastic facemask that barely lasted the night. Otherwise, I went for superheroes or silly costumes, like a cuckoo clock. That’s just how I rolled.
For this Halloween I was going to present four Halloween specials I actually enjoyed…except that’s a short list and my first choice isn’t up officially yet, nor could I find an unofficial post as a placeholder. So the heck with it, I’m just going to do Godzilla movies, specifically four that show his rise from villain to hero.
I’ve already posted the first two Godzilla movies, or rather the original Japanese sub and the English rework of the first movie. I also have the original King Kong crossover and Godzilla Vs. Gigan if you’re curious. The first two I’m posting for this month are the last times Godzilla was evil until the 1980s reboot of the franchise. Godzilla Raids Again features the return of Godzilla, or possibly a different Godzilla, though not the different Godzilla from Godzilla Vs. King Ghidorah that I did my first video review of and let’s not start that time travel headache again. I also posted the full movie when I could. As of this writing I can’t.
In this one Godzilla isn’t alone. This is also the debut of Godzilla’s Heisei era sidekick, the often abused Anguirus. Their first meeting, however, was as enemies, and guess who gets to be the battlefield. Can Japan find a way to stop two monsters without the weapon that didn’t solve their problems last time? Here’s where we hit an issue, and I apologize. The original Japanese sub is currently on YouTube with ads as part of their Movies & TV section, but to bring you the English dub I have to go to the Internet Archive, which embeds weird, but I’ll toss a link in there so you can watch it that way. Either way you choose, enjoy!
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They did warn this was the most dangerous ski slope.
The Blue Beetle #28
Holyoke Publishing (December, 1943)
Well, we’re almost done with the Holyoke period of Blue Beetle’s life and I won’t miss it. While Fox will probably still do the anthology thing because it’s the Golden Age I’m hoping they bring back better writers. I’ve made it no secret that I’m not a fan of this run, if only because I needed something to put in here for the homepage since credits on an anthology that often forgets the credits is not available to put here. There have been some odd choices and I’m curious what Fox keeps when they get the character back, if anything. We have this and two more issues to finish this run before we can find out.
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Two more to go and this one will be a bit short to make sure I have enough room to do all the deep character profiles together. That will end our look at Marv Wolfman’s original story treatment for Beast Hunters, the show that was reworked into Beast Machines.
Last time we had a small problem in that the file I’m using had a page in the wrong spot. I don’t know whose to blame and I wish I had spotted it before I was too far in to the article to find the right page in the wrong spot. I needed up by post time and didn’t want to rewrite a bunch of stuff. So we’ll fix that mistake in this installment and conclude the story side for Beast Hunters, a story clearly way too ambitious, based on watching season 1 from the looks of things, and really hated Rattrap. Like the kind of hatred reserved for Snarf.
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When they say “take a book, leave a book”, they mean it! Leave that book!
Star Power #10
(May, 2015)
“The Search For Black Hole Bill” finale
WRITER: Michael Terracciano
ARTIST: Garth Graham
