Oh, sorry. I mean “S” #0 Maybe 5 #0.
Project Superpowers #0
Dynamite Entertainment (January, 2008)
“Last Gleaming”
PLOT: Alex Ross & Jim Krueger
SCRIPT: Jim Krueger
ARTWORK: Alex Ross, Doug Kaluba, & Stephen Sadowski
COLORIST: Captain Moreno
LETTERER: Simon Bowland
With the Marvel Cinematic Universe in full swing of course a video game would be made for the Avengers, Marvel’s premiere superhero team. The problem is that only the first Iron Man had come out so they didn’t have an MCU template. So they went with the comics…sadly choosing The Ultimates rather than the regular universe Avengers and the Ultimate universe version is a bit more on the bloody side. That was not the problem, however, as THQ’s Australian branch hit numerous issues trying to get the game made and ultimately (heh) it never would be. CNet’s Mark Serrels goes through the history of this first-person Avengers game, and I’m not sure that would have worked unless it was in VR, that found too many walls impeding its creation.
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Yep, it’s not just Disney anymore, though they are still the worst offender.
Loosely based on the novel series by Cressida Cowell, the How To Train Your Dragon franchise spans movies and television, both animated. However, someone in their lack of wisdom now wants to do a live-action version. This is after numerous flops by Disney in their attempts to replace their own animated legacy of the “Disney Renaissance” and even fun hybrid movies like Pete’s Dragon with totally photorealistic CG and live-action hybrid movies. While some of it can be blamed on the social reengineering being done by modern Hollywood, preaching to an audience who doesn’t want to hear it and playing to media snobs who won’t watch it despite demanding that message, the real problem is the translation itself. Even the pandering-free ones have ignored Disney’s animated roots, which means they’ve forgotten why they exist as a studio in the first place.
This is of course to play to the aforementioned media snobs, the ones who look down on cartoons, comic books, and video games as “lesser media”. Whiny actors and directors led the Oscars to shove animated movies into their own category less they dare end up on a “best picture” list alongside their live-action “superiors”. Studios replace voice actors with the “approved” Hollywood celebrities who are only doing it so their kids can tell them how awesome it is to hear mommy and daddy in their favorite shows. Making a live-action version of a kids book made into an already successful kids franchise is not surprising, but it shows how little modern Hollywood cares about any storytelling that isn’t about them.
“Can we talk about this over chili dogs?”
Sonic The Hedgehog #43
Archie Comic Publications (February, 1997)
“The Dream Zone”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Manny Galan & Pat Spaziante
INKER: Harvo
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
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So the live-action Super Mario Brothers was a crap movie but an important movie from a VFX perspective? And that one with the train was amazing.
“The Death And Return Of Superman” storyline existed in multiple parts: Death Of Superman, Funeral For A Friend, Reign Of The Supermen, and Return Of Superman. Since they were following the same idea with Batman, exploring the hero through tragedy, “Knightfall” is also a story in multiple parts: Knightfall, Knightquest, Knightquest: The Crusade, and Knights End. The novelizations on the other hand are only three parts. For The Death And Life Of Superman it only had three parts, if you recall from that Chapter By Chapter. So too does the novelization of Knightfall. Now we enter part two, Knightquest. I’m not sure how “The Crusade” will be split between Knightquest and KnightsEnd, the final part of this novel. This is the section that I actually have read and reviewed a few comics during the period. Which ones will show up and how well they’re adapted interests me.
It’s here that the real villain of the story will see action. Bane is essentially Doomsday in usage, a character created just to damage the hero so the real villain can take his place. I guess that makes the replacement Batman this story’s Hank Henshaw, the Cyborg Superman, or possibly the Eradicator, the “Kryptonian” as envisioned by John Byrne. The point is to explore what would happen if the hero was replaced by someone lacking the morals some readers complained held the character back. They insisted superheroes should be more violent, more willing to kill bad guys, and we saw that in action. Eradicator lacked many of Kal-El’s morals as it was programmed to only care about Krypton’s values while Henshaw was the Superman without morals, an evil Superman before that became passe. In the same vein, Knightquest Batman is a Batman who kills his enemies. Meanwhile, Doomsday gets weaker with every appearance because unlike Bane there wasn’t any real way to use the character in future stories. For better or worse, Bane has uses in further Batman stories. Point to Bane, but I wonder what would happen if Bane and Doomsday fought? Yeah, forget Batman fighting Superman, I want to see the villains beat the daylights out of each other for a change. I want more episodes of Death Match like that, Rooster Teeth!
Last time we ended part one with the infamous back breaking, though it didn’t happened where I heard it did. It’s rather brutal, but it is adapting a 1990s comic. This is a rather long chapter, 17 pages. I expect to have a lot to talk about here, so let’s get to reading.
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Transformers: Rise Of The Final Concerns
The time is coming. Next week Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts will hit theaters and we’ll finally learn if the movie is any good or if any of the early concerns I had will come to pass. Well, as I’ve been trying to make some headway in the YouTube backlog being sick gave me I came across a video by TJOmega from April that introduced a few concerns about the upcoming film.
This alleged prequel has already shown issues of continuity errors, but I found another TJOmega video that shows this isn’t new. The continuity of the live-action movies has been so screwed up that you start to realize why new Marvel Studios contributors hate the shared universe idea…because they can’t keep continuity straight with one series! It shows a level of not caring about not just the franchise but general storytelling and previous writers that continues to betray the Hollywood ego: my story is all that matters even when it’s a group project.
So let’s look at these two videos as TJ goes over potential problems going into the seventh Transformers film and I’ll thrown in a few thoughts of my own. After all, it’s still my website and he’s not even making content for my site. He makes content for his own YouTube channel that I linked to above and you should totally check it out. He’s also reviewing some of the early toy releases for the movie.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 1, 2023 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, TJ Omega, TJOmega, Transformers, Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts.
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