Oh thanks, Logan, you ruined my comic cover. Jerk!
X-Men: The Manga #3
Marvel Comics (April, 1998)
WRITER/ARTIST: Koji Yasue
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda
RETOUCH/PRODUCTION: Dan Nakrosis
EDITOR: Glenn Greenberg
I think the only reason I’m doing a report on both my sites is I want to make sure my readers know I didn’t forget or haven’t gone back to the hospital or something. So there’s no regular article here today. We had to replace the TV that had the sound dropping so we could hear what we’re watching and that took up some of my time as I had to set up. It didn’t help that I had sleeping issues two nights in a row and spent the whole weekend in a funk. This would be the same weekend my friend had to go through and fix my project drive, which I still need to go over to see what happened and if anything got lost in the glitch or the transfer to a new removable drive. So add that to the electronics issues I’ve been having. Also I got a nosebleed out of nowhere tonight. Fun.
Unfortunately this means no posting on Monday. I did have a Daily Video quickpost scheduled…for the wrong day because that’s the kind of weekend I’ve had. This will unforunately lead to one less Art Soundoff, the Chapter By Chapter review of Tekwar either going to Tuesday or missing a week, no Robotech comic review on Monday, and frankly there’s nothing I can do about that. I’m not really up to doing any of that tonight and I don’t want to ram something through, which is why I missed Jake & Leon again. It’s just been a terrible weekend and I’m cutting my losses before I lose my mind. Have a great week, everybody. Hopefully Tuesday will have better results.
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Here’s a twist: which of these cliches do you actually want to never go away and are just fine the way they are?
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DragonBall Z Abridged is possibly the most well-known of the Abridged series. An Abridged series is really a fan-based parody of a regular TV show, keeping the same story beats but lovingly poking fun at the series that’s being abridged. It’s not quite the same as, for example, DragonBall Z Kai, which fits the dictionary definition of abridged but is really a more compact version of the series with no added jokes making fun of tropes and memes connected to the series or adding minor alterations to the characters for the sake of humor.
In tonight’s showcase you may have seen Team Four Star’s parody but on their Four Star Bento channel co-creators, vocal performers, and writers Scott “KaiserNeko” Frerichs and Nick “Lanipator” Lani are doing a commentary track of sorts for the series one (or two if they’re short) episode at a time and discussing their thoughts on it, how it holds up, what they would do differently, and sometimes remembering things they don’t want to. Tonight we’ll look at the first episode to get you started.
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BW’s Daily Video> The Writing Trap Of Current Day References In Comics
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This isn’t a new phenomenon either, and I don’t just mean that this was recorded in 2020. Look back at comics from the 1970s, or earlier/later. Old people trying to write teenagers (read a Teen Titans comic from the 1960s), plot points based on current events that we look back upon with new information, the clearly dated references (even worse when someone is writing about the past having never experienced it and just references, say, a particular TV show that was popular in the past)…it all horribly dates when the comic takes place and kills a bit of that timelessness. Not as many people will get the Frasier and Niles Crane reference if they don’t know the show but was only put in there because the writer wanted to move Tony Stark to Seattle for his run. Reference responsibly, writers. The best comic stories are the ones that are still relevant years later.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 8, 2022 in Comic Spotlight and tagged Comics By Perch, commentary, writing comics, writing tips.
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