I was kind of hoping MatPat’s fourth theorist channel was going to be Comic Theory to go along with Game, Film, and Food, but I thought it would be something like YouTube or Internet Theory since helping struggling channels is something Matt and his wife Stephanie also do. Instead they went with Style Theory. I’ve watched a few episodes in my backlog and it is surprisingly interesting thus far, so it out on the Style Theorists’ YouTube channel.
Yep, we’re doing this again, kids.
I’m not sure how you restore the Spider-Marriage and undo the devil deal that erased it at the same time. It’s gone on long enough that there are new readers as detached from the Parker spouses as I am from Gwen Stacy. However, she keeps popping back in so who knows? Comics are weird.
I was wondering what I was going to discuss at the end of the week, especially given the busy week I have and then Benny from Comicstorian gave me something to respond to. Put him on the list of people against the Spider-Marriage for reasons I don’t agree with. That means put me on the list of pro-Spider-Marriage people who don’t agree with him. I’ve had this argument with Kurt Busiek himself, one of my favorite writers (provided we never discuss politics), on Twitter about superhero marriages. Not every superhero should be married but Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson were made for each other and the disagreement comes to how we view what Peter stands for as the “everyman” and how that should be approached. As it turns out we also disagree on what role Mary Jane can have when it comes to her life with Peter. It’s actually quite easy to fit her in. Let me show you what Benny said and then I’ll offer my counter position.
An ashcan is a type of preview, reprinting a part of the comic with extra features. Usually the ashcans I’ve seen are in black in white, including the one I actually have for Ninjak during the Acclaim Comics/Valiant Heroes period. The version on comiXology here is in color.
Is it ironic that I can’t think of a good riff for this cover?
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic ashcan edition
Dark Horse Comics (July, 2018)
CREATOR: Joel Hodgson
DEVELOPERS: Joel Hodgson & Harold Buchholtz
WRITERS: Joel Hodgson, Harold Buchholtz, Matt McGinnis, Mary Robinson, Seth Robinson, & Sharyl Volpe
ARTISTS: Mike Manley (in-comic) and Todd Nauck (real world & cover art)
COLORISTS: Wes Dzioba & Mike Manley
LETTERER: Michael Heisler
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This plays well into the video earlier this week on Harley Quinn’s de-evolution in other media.
Does this mean he also eats stars, Tanookis, flowers, cats….
Yes, I cheated a lot making that comic.
When the animated Super Mario Brothers movie was announced I had hopes that it would be good. The concept wouldn’t have worked as well in live-action even if the creators cared…which we know they didn’t when that movie came out. They could recreate the world of the games and suspend our disbelief a lot better.
Now I’m not so sure. Animated adaptations are starting to get as bad as the live-action ones because the people working on it don’t care about the source material any more than they do about the animation format itself. Could this still break the trend of US-produced video game movies? Maybe, but after seeing the trailers and reading an interview with the creators I have my doubts. I’m going to show both the official and final trailers for the movie and then go over my problems. It may not be a deal breaker but considering not only the trend in Hollywood but the history of the two directors my hopes aren’t so high anymore.
This isn’t what they mean by AI art.
Sonic The Hedgehog #39
Archie Comics (October, 1996)
“Rage Against The Machine”
WRITER: Mike Gallagher
PENCILER: Pat Spaziante
INKER: Brian Thomas
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: Freddy Mendez-Gabrie
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