Catch more from TJ Omega on YouTube
He doesn’t have a full playlist just for the Transformers Tataki so here’s a link to the first episode of his playthrough. If you like it, try searching out the rest of the videos. Meanwhile here’s a link to a Saturday Night Showcase of three different playthroughs of the Transformers Armada based game, in movie form as well as a silent and hosted playthrough of the full game.
The video is a few months old but the list hasn’t changed much. Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, where various publishers create either an original story or just cheap out and make an excerpt of something they’re promoting, and force the comic stores to pay for them anyway so you get free comics. (So please buy something while you’re there.) You can see the full catalog over at their website. (Note that this link will only link to 2023’s offerings until they replace it with 2024’s.)
Going over the full list there’s actually nothing in the Gold Comics list that interests me this year. I’m not into horror, I’m disappointed with the current status of Star Trek and the DC & Marvel universes (though if there are any issues left I might at least look at them to see if it’s at least worth a review), and the Conan/Red Sonja universe was never one of my interests. On the other hand there are a few in the Silver Comics list that sounds interesting. Sadly they don’t have a lot of previews this year so I’m going on concept for a lot of it. Still, if I can get out this year (and that depends on whether or not I get a good night’s sleep, which hasn’t happened much this week) there are a few that I might want to check out. Here’s my list, and I’m curious what yours is.
“I’m sure it will pop up right about there.”
Sonic Quest: The Death Egg Saga #3
FINAL ISSUE
Archie Comic Publications (February, 1997)
“Over Easy”
WRITER: Mike Gallagher
PENCILER: Manny Galan
INKERS: Harvo & Jay Oliveras
COLORIST: Karl Bollers & Kyle Hunter
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
I recently made the mistake of checking out a trending topic on Twitter. Yeah, I know, what was I thinking? Anyway I found a new bit of controversy has become attached to the Thirteenth Doctor regenerating not into the Fourteenth but back into the Tenth. The tweets are long gone and I only saw the comments from defenders so for all I know this is Twitter pushing back on something that didn’t happen. Wouldn’t be the first time.
The controversy as I read it was that this is a regressive regeneration. Throughout the long history of both installments of Doctor Who and the TV movie, when a Doctor is gone, he’s gone unless they do a crossover story like “Day Of The Doctor” or “The Five Doctors”. Big Finish has done a few Doctor crossovers along with revisiting past adventures of the previous Doctors, and there were two comic miniseries involving the Doctor’s previous incarnations. On TV a Doctor doesn’t regenerate into their previous selves, though the Curator did suggest to Eleven that he might in the future, even hinting that the Curator may himself be a form of the Doctor like the War Doctor, the later Fugitive Doctor, or even the Valeyard to show off my creds. So there are folks who feel that going back to Ten and to a previous showrunner is a step backwards. John Nathan-Turner never returned to the show after he left.
The defenders however…are a curious lot. While as a comic fan I have to see new incarnations of classic characters and the old ones tossed out, I’m told it’s a good thing. However, the Doctor going back to a previous incarnation in their eyes is a good thing. One defender even posted a clip from the show How I Met Your Mother where one character is championing new things even after the champion of the old uses scotch as an example of how wrong he is.
For the record they were talking about the prequels as the Star Wars sequel trilogy hadn’t happened yet. The point of using this is that the older Doctor was better so why not bring him back…I think that was the argument. However I’d like to point out a few things on this topic myself. It should be fun to see who I end up agreeing with and who has a good point even though I disagree. First I think we need to remember a few details going in.
Not everybody appreciates Steve’s artwork.
Captain America #14
Marvel Comics (April, 2006)
“The Winter Soldier” part 6
WRITER: Ed Brubaker
ARTIST: Steve Epting
COLORIST: Frank G. D’Armata
LETTERER: Joe Carmamagna
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Aubrey Sitterson, Molly Lazer, and Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
I was once part of a group fan project creating a virtual fourth season of the original Transformers cartoon that continued on from “The Rebirth”. My story would have explored a Nebulan religion I made up with the theme of spiritual faith’s positive contributions to society. Part of the project was to keep it something you’d see in this 80s cartoon made for kids to sell robots. It’s not like the cartoon didn’t explore religion in the past, like Astrotrain being a false god or “Face Of Ninjika”. It didn’t push any one religion, and mine did not completely reflect my Christian beliefs but it was an interesting plot, or so I thought. Sadly the project fell through and I never finished anything more than the basic framework of the plot.
So I know that creating a fake religion, even in a project for kids you don’t want to push towards the occult or something, is not an easy task. However, if you’re going to have one you’d best know how to make it work in your world since it’s part of your world’s culture. Author Caroline Furlong goes over one book series, The Spirit Animals and how it created the concept of a religion but didn’t really follow through with making it work beyond existing.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Media Spotlight 