You can get the book here. It’s a bit dark and violent for me personally (plus it follows an unapologetic villain) but as a fan of the Literature Devil I want to help see his work successful. It does look like a fun book and some of you kids may like it (just don’t give it to YOUR kids). You can back the Indiegogo here.
And don’t think I missed the lack of capes in these new costumes. Can you really not think of anything better than a jacket?
Fun fact: Tom Taylor is fun to draw. Wish I thought the same about his superhero stories.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I posted an old Scanning My Collection article about the Transformers UK comic magazine because the project for this week was a bust.
So I guess we’ll have to talk about the latest Superman news, given that they continue to ruin my favorite superhero and of course I’m going to call DC out on it. I don’t even hate the Supertwins (because I haven’t seen them in action yet) but it is tied to the continuing failure of treating their former flagship character and icon to many, many children around the world. Of course that’s working around the latest Chapter By Chapter review installment for Tekwar and the Many, MANY Intros Of Scooby-Doo bidding farewell to ABC and hello to Kids WB if time allows. That depends on what other stupid thing happens in Hollywood this week. Have a great one, folks!
In the circles I end up with this may be heretical but I was never into Phineas And Ferb. On the odd chance you haven’t heard of it, the show follows two stepbrothers, guess their names, as they try to squeeze as much fun as they can into the summer before school starts. That usually involves some wild gadget or setup that concerns Phineas’ biological sister Candiace who tries to bust her brothers for their own good but the problem solves itself before getting the chance. That solution usually comes in the form of the show’s subplot, where their pet platypus Perry is secretly Secret Agent P, charged with stopping manchild mad scientist Doctor Doofenshmirtz from taking over the tri-state area or getting revenge on his more successful brother…though as the show goes on you kind of see Doof’s reasoning for wanting revenge. Instead he becomes Professor Time, the creator of time travel, on previous Saturday Night Showcase entry Milo Murphy’s Law, a show set in the same universe that is one of my favorite shows, even the crossover with this one. (Fun fact: this show is apparently so popular that spell check knew how to spell “Doofenshmirtz”. Saved me from looking it up.)
With Disney XD’s official YouTube channel posting episodes of Phineas And Ferb I get to bring you the one episode I do enjoy. True, a Star Wars special is nothing new. Robot Chicken did it. Family Guy did it. The Muppets did it…twice if you count the “Pigs In Space” crossover and three if you add in a Muppet Magazine comic alongside the original Muppet Babies. However, this one takes a different turn from the Family Guy episode. Instead of playing the characters from A New Hope, Phineas, Ferb, Candice, and their friends take part in a side story that may not be canon…but does fill in a few gaps. Although they’re still harping on the exhaust port. Exactly how are they supposed to vent their exhaust if the thing is closed? It’s big as a moon with a planet-destroying supercannon on the front. Those things heat up you know. So let’s watch as the gang create their own Star Wars musical. It will be better than anything DisneyFilm will come up with if they ever try it.
Turns out that thing is frozen solid and the person who put up the sign was just paranoid.
Gallant And Amos #1
Fair Spark Books (2018; as posted to comiXology)
“The Valley Of The Snowmen” and “Follow The Leader”
CREATOR/WRITER/ARTIST: Rob Barnes
For two seasons anyway.
The problem with the early Scrappy years wasn’t the appearance of Scrappy or even the rest of the gang besides Scooby-Doo and Shaggy. I mean, nobody would do a Scooby-Doo story without Scooby. That would just be silly. The problem was the absence of a mystery that the viewers could solve along with the characters. Shaggy did go to work for his uncle’s detective agency with Scooby and Scrappy in tow but it still wasn’t the mysteries we fans wanted.
So ABC finally returned to the mystery format…although they would still be doing shorts instead of a full episode mystery the majority of the time. And while they didn’t reunite the entire gang Daphne returned to join Shaggy and the dogs in the globetrotting mysteries. SO WHY IS NOBODY SUGGESTED SHAGGY AND DAPHNE WERE A COUPLE? What, Shaggy was allowed to keep Fred’s supposedly beloved Mystery Machine (as shown by more recent writers he’s as obsessed with that van as he is traps, which also wasn’t classic Fred) but he adhered to the “bro code” when it came to the hot redhead? Food only goes so far, folks.
The next two series, The New Scooby-Doo And Scrappy-Doo Show and The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, would see at least part of the team back together. We’ll discuss this as we get into the intros.
I think I’ll stick with my surgeon.
Mystery Men Comics #1
Fox Feature Syndicate (August, 1939, as scanned here)
The Green Mask: A Modern Robin Hood
WRITER/ARTIST: Walter Frehm
Rex Dexter Of Mars: “Interplanetary Adventurer”
WRITER/ARTIST: Dick Briefer (apparently Comic Book Plus isn’t sure about that credit)
Billy Bounce: “How To Be A Detective”
WRITER/ARTIST: Norman Lee
Chen Cheng: no title
WRITER/ARTIST: Cecilia Munson (apparently the pen name of Munson Paddock–a male using a female pen name in comics in 1939?)
Wing Turner: “Skullduggery On Smokey Mountain”
WRITER/ARTIST: George Tuska
Zanzobar The Magician: “Trapped At The Top”
WRITER/ARTIST: George Tuska
Hemlock Sholmes & Dr. Potsum: “The Case Of Tintype’s Will”
WRITER/ARTIST: Fred Schwab
The Waco Kid: “Trouble At Gun Hollow”
WRITER/ARTIST: Arthur Peddy
Inspector Bancroft: “Another Bombing Outrage”
WRITER/ARTIST: Art Franklin
The Blue Beetle (finally): no title
WRITER: Will Eisner (though Comic Book Plus isn’t sure) ARTIST: Charles Nichols
D-13: “The Panama Canal Affair”
WRITER: Will Eisner (again, not sure) ARTIST: Bob Powell or S.R. Powell (also not sure)
Captain Danny Scott: “The Valley Of The Dead”
WRITER/ARTIST: John Lindermayer
Lt. Drake: “Saboteurs On The S.S. Regina”
WRITER/ARTIST: Klaus Nordling
Grab a seat, folks. This one is going to take a while, but if you want to get to the Blue Beetle story you’ll have to scroll down pretty far. I marked the paragraph.
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I looked up the other 1996 Beast Wars figures, the first wave, and checked out their tech specs. Blackarachnia apparently shares Tarantulas’ perverse feeding styles, but otherwise there aren’t a whole lot of changes to Inferno or Tigatron, though old Tig only has a intelligence spec of 3. I’m guessing Polar Claw was the brains of the polar defense region. Oddly none of that year’s non-show character tech specs had anything further about the Earth they were on, but Buzzsaw, who shares Waspinator’s mold, was supposed to be Waspinator’s combat partner.
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
