I don’t care that you can fly, if you have a chance to ride a dragon you need acrophobia to not do so. Like me.
Molly Danger/Princeless FCBD 2013
Action Lab Comics (May, 2013)
Molly Danger
WRITER/PENCILER: Jamal Igle
INKER: Juan Castro
COLORIST: Romulo Fajardo, Jr
LETTERER: Frank Cvetkovic
EDITOR: Adam P. Knave
Princeless: “Girls Who Fight Boys”
WRITER: Jeremy Whitley
ARTIST: Emily C. Martin
COLORIST: Soojin Paek
LETTERER: Dave Dwonch
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I already didn’t like the reveal in “Epilogue”. The plan for Catwoman would have been even worse.
Corridor Digital, the VFX company founded by Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski, started out as a simple YouTube skit channel working alongside Freddie Wong of Rocketjump. While Rocketjump’s YouTube channel went silent after doing projects for Hulu, Corridor Digital has focused on YouTube, expanding to the behind the scenes channel Corridor Crew, which does other computer animated special effects project, reactions to stunts and animation by actual stunt people animators. and side projects focusing on various topics. They’re very busy over there.
While producing shows for YouTube and their own subscription-based website for longer and more intensive videos, the team has decided to try their hand at animation, but not with the normal animation techniques. In addition to learning programs like Unreal for their animations they opted for a new process of AI animation as a new form of rotoscoping that they recently dropped a try-out for. I’ll show you that surrounded by two other videos. One came out before, highlighting the new technique, and after we see the results we’ll focus on how they made that particular animation. Then I’m going to judge the daylights out of it because I saw part of it on Literature Devil’s Morning Nonsense stream and frankly it’s a work in progress.
I’m jumping ahead because this book is a reprint of stories that appeared in earlier issues of the comics. This felt like a better point in the review cycle to go over it. Next week (barring incidents) it will be a Free Comic Book Day reprint of the first issue.
“Hey, what am I doing down there?”
Sonic Super Special #3
Archie Comic Publications (1997)
ORIGINAL EDITORS: Daryl Edelman, Scott Fulop, & Victor Gorelick
COMPLATION EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
“Don’t Cry For Me, Mobius!” (from Sonic The Hedgehog #0 [miniseries])
WRITER: Michael Gallagher
PENCILER: Scott Shaw!
INKER: Jorge Pacheco
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Dan Nakrosis
“Rabbot Development” (from Sonic The Hedgehog #3)
WRITER: Michael Gallagher
PENCILER: Dave Manak
INKER: Jon D’Agostino
COLORISTS: Linda & Daryl America
LETTERER: Bill Yoshida
“Lizard Of Odd” (from Sonic The Hedgehog #4)
WRITER: Michael Gallagher (if he had written all four this wouldn’t be as long)
PENCILER: Dave Manak
INKER: Henry Scarpelli
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Bill Yoshida
“This Island Hedgehog” (from Sonic The Hedgehog #13)
WRITERS: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders
PENCILER: Dave Manak
INKER: Jon D’Agostino
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Bill Yoshida
The David Crosby and Phil Collins song “Hero” has a line that perfectly defines my favorite type of hero character: “And the reason that she loved him was the reason I loved him too. He never wondered what was right or wrong. He just knew.” That’s the paragon, the hero who doesn’t need to “become” a hero, just an incident that starts him to his destiny, but he was already formed by loving parents or a fictional character that inspired him to want to be that kind of hero.
This archetype seems to be a lost art, and there’s a sadly loud chorus cheering the death of the paragon and the aspiration heroes in general because they refuse to believe anyone could just be inspired from the beginning to do good, if they ever are good at all. They embrace the anti-hero and want regular heroes to struggle not with a powerful foe but his or her own inner demons. Any hero to the contrary is “unrealistic”…in a world where everyone is wearing spandex flying around punching each other.
Professor Geek dropped a great examination of the paragon as part of his series on character archetypes, and I have a few thoughts of my own on the subject.
“Comic numbering used to be so much easier to follow. What happened, Jack?”
Captain America #4
Marvel (April, 2005; from the ComiXology digital trade Captain America: Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection)
“Out Of Time” part 4
WRITER: Ed Brubaker
ARTISTS: Steve Epting & Michael Lark
COLORIST: Frank D’Armata
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Nicole Wiley, Molly Lazer, and Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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