You can follow the webcomic the upcoming short films is based on at the official website (I wish they actually had an RSS feed that tells you when the comic updates instead of everything else involved with the project BUT the comic) and I’m guessing see the movie when it debuts on its YouTube channel.
It’s been too long since we opened up a toy and read the comic it came with. I mean, what do we need toys for when there’s a comic to read?
I thought the next installment would be a return to Etheria for the Princess Of Power minicomics, but I looked on the list. Apparently somewhere along the line I learned that ManTech had a minicomic that came with it’s six figures. What’s ManTech?
Being only slightly less terrible in this gimmick than LEGO’s Galidor a few years later (not that the show it was based on was any better, mind you), ManTech attempted to be the Centurions to the punch of a franchise with part-swapping as a feature. Considering The Centurions is best known for the show and not the action figures based on the show tells you how well that went. Only The Centurions, while not a toyline I was interested in despite liking the parent show, was actually a decent looking toy. ManTech really wasn’t. Outside of six cyborgs, the good humans and evil aliens, who could exchange limbs and weapons I really didn’t know anything about it. Apparently a cartoon was planned but given how quickly Remco’s toyline phased out of existence it never got the chance.
Apparently it did have a short-lived comic from Archie and tonight’s mini-comic, so join me in visiting I remember as “that thing that existed”.
Apparently this is the layout we’re going with. Better than the Spider-Man Peter Pan lid-shaped ones I guess.
ManTech
Remco (1984)
“Siege Of The Robots”
WRITER: Rich Margopolis
PENCILER: Dick Ayers
INKER: Jon D’Agostino
COLORIST: B. Grossman
LETTERER: R. Ollerenshaw
EDITOR: Vic Gorelick
I’m guessing these were too long a name to fit into the credits box. It’s why my pen name is just “Troy A.” in my comic work
“Does this get all the local channels?”
Sonic’s Friendly Nemesis Knuckles #1
Archie Comics Publications (July, 1996)
“Rites Of Passage!”
WRITERS: Ken Penders & Mike Kanterovich
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Harvo
COLORIST: Kyle Hunter
LETTERER: Mindy Eisman
EDITOR: Freddy Mendez-Gabrie
The price of getting a comic made and distributed is something I’m interested in given I want to make and sell comics. July had his own money from other projects that he could tap for this project. Not having that option I won’t be able to go the route he has and I’m coming up with different options (so far using Burning Star Comics‘ system seems to be the only I chance I have to make money on this in the hopes of someday making this a career so I can focus on making comics and other media-related projects) but seeing his success and others through self-publishing does give one hope.
We’re down to the last ten chapters of this book. That means if Jake’s going to find the Kittridges he better do it fast. Last time secured an alternate route to his contact, so we’ll see how that works out, possibly in this chapter.
I try to pad these things out for people going through the homepage and to put some decent length into the article but as we get closer to the end I run out of things to say, which I’m doing now. So let’s just get to reading.
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BW Versus Comicstorian: Digging Deeper Into His Comic Backlash Theory
With my current YouTube backlog still in December and being a month behind seems like a hill I can’t climb (I now understand Sisyphus’s plight and I don’t even have a boulder) I haven’t watched as much Comicstorian as I used to. Readers from the early days may recall I used his “complete story series” as a discussion point or just filler, especially after I lost my job and couldn’t buy new comics. I’m hoping that I can watch some of the stories I’m interested in out of actual love of the story or morbid curiosity.
Recently, Benny (formerly known as Eligible Monster) posted a commentary on the current state of comics, or the perception of same as it turns out. Entitled “Why You May Have Stopped Liking Comic Books” (or according to the thumbnail “Why You Hate Comics Now”), Benny goes over the reasons he feel is causing a wave of malcontent when it comes to current US comic stories, specifically at the big two, DC Comics and Marvel. I listened to the video and while he makes some good points the complaints he list doesn’t quite jibe with what I’ve heard from other storytelling reviewers and commentators who discuss comics either exclusively or as part of the wider range of “genre” media. (You know, the stuff us geeks read, watch, and play.) Of course I will play the video first. We’ll listen to his commentary and then go over why the critics I follow have taken issue with US comics in 2023…and my own issues. There’s one big one he dances around but never quite sticks the landing, and it has nothing to do with our current “social” climate.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on January 19, 2023 in Comic Spotlight and tagged BW versus, comics, commentary, DC Comics, Marvel Comics.
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