I’m sure this won’t turn into a storyline that lasted so long I got bored waiting and then the universe was rebooted thanks to legal nonsense and YES I’M STILL BITTER!
Sonic The Hedgehog #29
Archie Comics (December, 1995)
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Mindy Eisman
EDITOR: Scott Fulop
“Steel-Belted Sally”
WRITER: Angelo Decsare
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Rich Koslowski
Tails: “Growing Pains” part 2
WRITER: Mike Gallagher
PENCILER: Dave Manak
INKER: Harvo
Spoilers for a few episodes for those of us in the US because Disney Plus or Disney Junior hasn’t posted/aired them yet.
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There are two episodes that could use some focus as well. “Bumpy And The Wise Wolfhound” is my favorite (yes, I’m almost 50 and have no kids, what of it?) from both a creative and relatable standpoint. (See the previous parentheses.) Bingo is in the hospital, and while I was an adult for my first long hospital stay I can relate to how she felt, even with her mum staying with her. Then to cheer her up Bluey and as much of the cast as they could logically work in make a movie that shows that being sick is just something that happens and usually you get better. It’s a great message for any kid in the hospital or just really sick but will recover. Creatively they animate it like a bunch of rank amateurs making a movie on a cellphone or something, which just adds to the presentation.
“Double Babysitters” introduces Bandit’s brother Rad, who works on an oil rig and so doesn’t see the family as often, and Chilli’s friend Frisky. Reading between the lines of 20 Questions and the bedtime game they play with the girls, they hint that Frisky had a boyfriend who left her (possibly running off with another woman) and she’s not ready to date again despite an attraction to Rad (and in a later episode they do indeed get married). This is how you tell a story that both kids and adults can get something unique out of and this show is proof that “it’s just a kids show” is NEVER AN EXCUSE FOR CRAP WRITING! This is meant for preschoolers and yet is better written with more heart and detail than some grown-up shows I could mention plus it’s creative and fun. The creators of Bluey clearly want to make a good TV show, not just a good kids show, and thus succeeds at both. That’s why as an adult I totally love this show
In our last chapter Jake headed towards Mexico…which raises even more questions about the legal system in The Future! I’m no expert but if you just got out of “the joint” you really aren’t allowed to go outside the country for a while, right? At best it’s been a couple of days for Jake, and that was after spending years frozen solid, waking up to his friends missing and his family leaving him…how much pull does Bascom have here? I know he needs Jake to go to Mexico because of his history with a warlord who runs the territory the target may be at but still, that’s some serious influence he has.
Well, now Jake is in the thick of it. Another chance to either meet an informant or getting blown up, meeting a woman he was…involved?…with and her jealous psycho boyfriend, and at least his son is here, too. Yeah, I wouldn’t want to be this Jake right about now. I’d rather be more like my Jake and work on comics. Especially right now, because in all the confusion I had last week I forgot…Jake was being attacked by a cyborg with a knife hand when we left off.
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
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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.
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
Hollywood’s Continued Elitist Media Bias
Do you know why I don’t spend as much time as commentators I follow discussing “them durn SJWs” and their “woke agenda”? I mean, I totally believe that’s happening because I can see it and they celebrate the fact that they’re putting tokenized stereotypes that make them look good to their fellow clueless morons who also don’t understand how human beings who aren’t as high on the societal ladder and media pecking order as they are and just see a bunch of skin colors and lifestyles without really understanding them and just want to look good for the praise and to win at the latest award show, as well as use the people they claim to be a voice for to hide their terrible writing and major changes to established and beloved characters and properties whether the “voiceless” agree with their perspective or not.
That was cathartic.
The reason is this is only challenging one problem, but it doesn’t solve HOW the political ideologues and “hacktivist” writers got into that position in the first place. These are the social climbing elite using the current cause du jour for their own ends, the same types who looked down on the geeks in school before realizing that with all the new technologies that a geek is exactly what you need, and of course ignores that “sports geek” is still a geek. If you know the RBI for every current and past player of your favorite baseball team…sorry, you’re a geek. Pick up your card at the desk, and some of us DO use hand sanitizer and bathe regularly. (I just got out of the shower a little while ago.)
So they hate the idea that science fiction, fantasy, and superhero stories–treated as “geek genre” by the more snobby social cliques, are now being seen as a viable market by the studio execs and almost seem to be on a mission to scuttle anything in those genres. This seems especially truly when they’re based on comics and video games, the lowest rungs of the media pecking order along with tabletop RPGs. At least anime, which they also hate because cartoons don’t feature the actors in person, gives card games a decent adaptation. I mean, you won’t learn how to play by watching most of them, and the idea of a world obsessed with one card game is kind of insane (looking at you, Yu-Gi-Oh), but at least it’s treated as something fun instead of mocked. Hollywood’s solution is to “make it better”. Make it live-action, make it more “mature” (even when the source material already is, Netflix), make it more grounded in their skewed version of reality, and if you disagree you’re a “hater” and a bigot. They ignore the rules of the fictional world previously established or the regions and periods that inspired them in order to make it more like their view of the “real world” because they don’t care about the source material, if not outright oppose it. As if “people in tights flying around punching each other” is in any form “realistic”. Let’s look at a few examples.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 9, 2022 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, writing movies, writing tips.
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