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Until I stop hearing how “terrible” Superman is these will continue to pop up intermittently. That’s not the same as “I don’t like the character”, but the reasons I hear are wrong. Also, the people writing Superman comics and making Superman TV shows and movies need to hear this stuff.
I’m posting this now so you can watch it live tomorrow. Or if you missed it hopefully this will be a replay that’s available for many years to come and not deleted once the event is over. I’m hoping they add some of the new paywall Gizmoplex episodes in with fan favorites of the original three (four?) versions.
You should see how he hides from his aunt.
Sonic The Hedgehog #30
Archie Comics (January, 1998)
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Bill Yoshida
EDITOR: Scott Fulop
(I’m guessing because they have no credits for the second story.)
“The Return Of Uncle Chuck”
WRITER: Angelo Decesare
PENICLER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Jon D’Agostino
“Who Keeps Stealing My Chaos Emeralds?!”
WRITER: Paul Castiglia
PENCILER: Pat Spaziante
INKER: Brian Thomas
If you were under the suspicion that Marvel Studios couldn’t give a lick about the source material, then we have proof you were absolutely right. Marvel Studios producer Nate Moore has come out and said for a fact that he only wants creators who know nothing about the comics and will just make movies that doesn’t care what the source material does. Meaning the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now more like the Marvel Namesake Universe, despite relative accuracy to the comics being one of the reasons the MCU was so celebrated until recently.
It’s more proof that there’s a pecking order in storytelling media and comics are too low on that list to even get novel-level accuracy. At least those changes (usually) are for the differences between formats. This is turning the comic characters into a bunch of namesakes…and they wonder why comic fans–THE REASON YOU HAVE THESE NAMES AND CONCEPTS TO MAKE MOVIES WITH BECAUSE THEY LOVED THE CHARACTERS IN THE COMICS SO MUCH–are pissed at them for ruining their favorite characters. If you don’t care about these characters we love, why should we care about your crappy movie? Apparently Moore isn’t a fan of anything, or maybe he’d think about what would happened if this happened to characters from a media type he actually thinks matters. This is what happens when you let media snobs take control of adaptations of media they look down on.
Check out [Insert Art], which is apparently the name he went with. So…somebody make a channel called Artistic Philanthropy and credit me. Not sure what the channel would be but I’m sure someone can come up with something cool.
EDIT: Just because I brought it up, I found out the “Shadowlands” episode is on Disney Junior’s YouTube channel. So be inspired!
Created by Sierra On-Line, the King’s Quest game series has a very large fanbase due to its humor, its character, and its utterly ridiculous “moon logic” puzzles that requires you to think outside the box and down the hall to your left. Or is it right? I’ve tried playing a couple different installments of this game. We had King’s Quest IV in the computer room at our high school and I think somebody I knew had King’s Quest II, but even my form of creative crazy isn’t enough to really connect with these games.
I do, however, find novelisations interesting. What was changed because of the transition between media, the latest available version of the script, and the whims of the author makes it a unique experience beyond “movie/game in book form”.
In the following video, Dave “Doggans” Ganssle does a deep dive into The King’s Quest Companion, a combination strategy guide and novelization that despite giving you the answer to all the puzzles you couldn’t figure out somehow finds a way to go even crazier than the games the book is based on, going as far as King’s Quest VII in the final edition. I hope you find this video as interesting as I did even if you never played the games. The decisions made are certainly unique for a strategy guide.
“You’re not the boss of me. I don’t have to save her if I don’t wanna!”
The Avengers #90
Marvel Comics (July, 1971: as featured in the comiXology digital trade “The Kree/Skrull War”)
“Judgement Day”
WRITER: Roy Thomas
ARTIST: Sal Buscema
LETTERER: Mike Stevens
EDITOR: Stan Lee
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
