June 12, 2022

Jake & Leon #529> Our New Master

Well the fun part’s done, isn’t it?

Agh, I posted it to the gallery but forgot to make the article. I’m kind of tired today but everything should be up for tomorrow.

In this week’s Clutter Report, if you haven’t had enough about me talking comics this week, I look at the comic based on Dollar Tree’s “Final Faction” toyline. I just wanted to see how Churro got his robot battlesuit. Turned out it doesn’t live up to its awesomeness. So how was the rest of the comic? Read the review.

No Scanning My Collection this week, though Monday still gives us Robotech thanks to “Yesterday’s” Comic and the Chapter By Chapter review of Robotech: Before The Invid Storm. We’re almost done with this novel. The rest of this week has a couple of commentaries in mind so I just need to figure out what to do with the other two days. We’ll also have one last Saturday Night Showcase of G.I. Joe before the movie makes its long-awaited theatrical release (unless some local theater showed it at some point). So if you’re sick of that just wait one more week.

Have a good week, everyone!

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June 11, 2022

Saturday Night Showcase> A Few More G.I. Joe Episodes

As we head to the long-awaited theatrical premiere of G.I. Joe: The Movie there’s one comment that critics of the film have made that frankly I don’t understand. “Cobra-La doesn’t make any sense in a story about the military versus a terrorist group.” I mean…HAVE YOU WATCHED THIS SERIES? As it is the first three miniseries have included a teleportation device, a weather control device, and a set of devices that shut off all electrical power. This was always a science fiction series that also doubled as a war story. Tonight I want to further prove the idea that a secret underground civilization is actually normal for this show.

Tonight I’m posting a series of episodes from Hasbro’s YouTube channel and their official G.I. Joe channel with sci-fi plotlines on par with Cobra-La, and that’s not even counting the miniseries we’ll be concluding this series of Saturday Night Showcases where they build a new leader out of the the DNA of dead people. Even the Joes had machines that didn’t exist but Cobra committing crimes against nature is right up with committing crimes against humanity. Check out these prime examples.

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June 11, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Scooby-Doo Team-Up #46

“We need to defend this wall. Our lives depend on it!” “And our Scooby Snacks!”

Scooby-Doo Team-Up #46

DC Comics (March, 2019; as featured in the digital version of the trade “It’s Scooby Time”)

“Justice…Like Lightning”

WRITER: Sholly Fisch

ARTIST: Dario Brizuela

COLORIST: Franco Riesco

LETTERER: Saida Temofonte

EDITOR: Kristy Quinn

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June 10, 2022

Scanning My Collection> Robotech Defenders

I was going to save this as a fun little sendoff for Robotech but given this week has been full of Scanning My Collection Robotech comics…ah, what the heck. I really want to read this first issue. Therefore, while we’ve been looking at alternate futures for the Protoculture-powered mecha series it’s time to go back to the past to a very different odyssey of Robotech.

So…have you wondered where Harmony Gold got the name “Robotech” in the first place? Revell is a toy and model company still in existence today as of this writing. In the 1980s Revell had released a series of models and toys under the name Robotech. This included Robotech Changers, models based on the Valkyrie fighters from Super Dimension Fortress Macross, and Robotech Defenders, which mixed the non-transforming “Battroid” mecha that often served as cannon fodder. Other anime model kids were also released under this line from Fang Of The Sun Dogram and the anime that was originally in MOSPEADA‘s spot, Super Dimension Century Orguss. As you can guess this was an issue for Harmony Gold since two of these shows were planned to be part of their show; as I mentioned before Macross on it’s own didn’t have a good number count for a proper US season so they opted to use other anime to fill out the show. Eventually Harmony Gold and Revell settled on a licensing deal, which is why if you look at the end credits for the original TV version of Robotech (I don’t know about that dumb “remastered” version) they acknowledge Revell along with Comico The Comic Company. Other toys were also released by Revell under Robotech like the Robolinks but I’ll probably discuss that someday over at The Clutter Reports. Nobody cares here.

Revell however did try to put out their own Robotech Defenders comic to tie into the models. Partnering with DC Comics a three issue miniseries was created…and promptly dropped down to two. What happened? Tonight, to end the Scanning My Collection Robotech Week we’re going to find out. I managed to find a copy of the first issue during this year’s Free Comic Book Day as part of my paid for comics and I found a back issue for #2 years ago. Now I finally get to learn how this alternate adventure ends.

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June 10, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Superman #2 (post-Crisis)

Even in 1987 you’d think Lex could afford a monitor with better graphics.

Superman #2

DC Comics (February, 1987)

“The Secret Revealed!”

WRITER/PENCILER: John Byrne

INKER: Terry Austin

COLORIST: Tom Ziuko

LETTERER: John Costanza

EDITOR: Andrew Helfer

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June 10, 2022

BW’s Daily Video: How DC Comics Erased Jack Kirby’s Superman

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Don’t get me wrong, Jack Kirby had every right to be upset. As was said in the video, if you don’t like how Superman looks in Kirby’s signature art style (and personally I don’t, as it just looks like a younger Kirby dressed as Superman) why would you hire him to draw a comic in which Superman is at least a supporting cast member like Jimmy Olsen’s comic? And the result looks weird as everyone else still looks like Jack Kirby’s style, including Jimmy.

On the other hand, I can see DC’s point as well, given how off Kirby’s design is at a high point in Superman merchandise. As a kid I had a Superman bedroom set like the ones you see now. Bed sheets, pillow cases, and curtains. (I still have one of the pillow cases, which I use on my bedside table.) Having him not look like Superman doesn’t seem like a great idea.

I’m ignoring the guys who took the DC/Marvel rivalry way too far when they should be saying “we have one of Marvel’s legends working for us, we win”. That’s just being a jerk and the “king” deserves better treatment.

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June 9, 2022

Scanning My Collection> Robotech: Prelude To The Shadow Chronicles

Robotech Trade Week continues as we look at the other trade in my collection, and this one is actually a tie-in to a canon work if not canon itself. I had hoped to review this alongside the actual movie but as of right now I haven’t even gotten to Robotech II: The Sentinels because video production has been frozen for sadly too long. And yet I just got another YouTube subscriber recently so I really need to get a move on there.

Robotech: Prelude To The Shadow Chronicles sets up events of the 2006 animated direct-to-video movie Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. I don’t know if this comic is canon but going in it has a few obstacles, something the movie also had. For one thing, which version of The Sentinels do you go with, the Waltrip Brothers comics or the Jack McKinney novels? Which does Harmony Gold consider canon? I don’t know how much of the failed show Carl Macek had come up with, though five episodes were produced before backstage problems hit and thus Robotech II: The Sentinels does have a movie release. This comic wasn’t produced by Academy Comics but WildStorm, who seemed to ignore all comics prior to their run, be it Eternity/Academy or Antarctic Press. It also came out after Macek’s passing (there’s even a dedication) so we don’t know what into they have. That means going in all we know for sure they’re using are the show, whatever notes Macek had (he did serve as a consultant before his death in 2010) but ask George Lucas how that sometimes goes.

So understand I do have continuity questions going into this. Additionally there will be spoilers for the novel we’re currently reading for Chapter By Chapter, Robotech: Before The Invid Storm, but it’s not like you don’t know this is going to happen. Still, if you want to wait, that’s fine. I’m going to try to squeeze this into one article so if you’re reading this sentence you know I succeeded. If not, well you wouldn’t know this was here anyway, would you? 😀

“I’m the megalomaniac. I should be in the front.”

Robotech: Prelude To The Shadow Chronicles

WildStorm (2010)

STORY: Tommy Yune

SCRIPT: Jason Waltrip and John Waltrip, who never got to finish their series and we don’t know what they were instructed to go by.

LETTERER: Travis Lanham

MAIN ARTIST: Omar Dogan

CHAPTER 4 & 5

PENCILS & INKS: Jason & John Waltrip on some pages, Dogan on others, Tommy Yune with two pages on chapter 5

COLORIST: Miguel Troncosco

EDITORS: Kristy Quinn & Ben Abernanthy

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