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What Sonic did on his summer vacation.
Sonic & Knuckles: Mecha Madness Special
Archie Comics Publications (1998)
COLORIST: Kyle Hunter
EDITOR: Freddy Mendez-Gabrie
“Mecha Madness”
WRITER: Michael Gallagher
PENCILER: Pat Spaziante
INKER: Harvey Mercadoocasio
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
The Chaotix: “Don’t Let The Island Hit You On The Way Down”
WRITER: Kent Taylor
ARTIST: Harvey Mercadoocasio
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
Forty Fathoms Freedom Fighters: “Eel Of Fortune”
WRITER: Michael Gallagher
PENCILER: Dave Manak
INKER: Rich Koslowski
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
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It’s Tail’s growth as a character, his brains and technical skills, his flying skill, and his good nature that makes him my favorite Sonic character.
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It’s not easy being Tony Stark these days.
He lost his parents, he gets made into a bad guy whenever writers have an opening because they hate that he used to make weapons–which is funny when you hear Stan Lee claims to have done that on purpose to see if he could make a weapons designer pitied in the type of the hippie movement, and Marvel writers don’t seem to know what to do with him outside of making women dump on him or send him into space to die (thank you, MCU). Frankly though…it’s never been a good time to be Tony Stark.
Alcoholism, being paralyzed by his girlfriend, have a girlfriend killed just when they found a writer who can make her a good character, becoming Secretary Of Defense to protect his technology because the current one holds a personal grudge, losing and regaining his company multiple times, that old heart problem returning now and then, his armor turning sentient and wanting to merge with him like a creepy stalker, and that time he was replaced by his alternate teenage self after one of his many turns to evil only to somehow become the Tony again because of Onslaught and Heroes Reborn. It’s kind of a mess, but Owen of Owen Likes Comics attempt to dig through the mud of Teen Tony and the whole Crossing event.
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Well, that will prove to the guys at the bar he was a superhero.
Captain America #7
Marvel Comics (July, 2005)
“The Lonesome Death Of Jack Monroe”
WRITER: Ed Brubaker
ARTIST: John Paul Leon
COLORIST: Frank G. D’Armata
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Andy Schmidt, Nicole Wiley, & Molly Lazer
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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…it originally aired on Fox Kids as a five-part miniseries simply titled Dark Water. The show aired as a five episode weekday miniseries. Here’s the original intro…
…compared to the ABC rework.
As a sort of mini “My Favorite Intros” review the original has more flavor to it. Having Ioz’s voice actor do it just sounds like Ioz out of character telling the show’s plot.
The Fox Kids version also had a different voice as Niddler the monkey bird.
Yes, that is Roddy McDowall as Niddler. No offense to Frank Welker but…
…the bird-like voice he went with didn’t match other monkey birds and I like McDowall’s version better. Dark Water is basically the first five episodes of what most of you know as The Pirates Of Dark Water and I was kind of disappointed in the full series. The one who got it worse was Tula. They softened her up too much when they made her an “ecomancer”, someone who could control the elements, like ABC couldn’t handle a swashbuckling woman thief. It’s still a good show but not as good as it could have been.
Sadly there’s no clear version of the original version. It’s almost been lost to time and if you find it the footage comes from an old VCR recording. If they ever put the full series out on home video again I wish they’d add the original recording cleaned up as bonus footage.
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