Given that the Clone Saga was going around the same time as this cover I suspect whomever wasn’t reading the series got the wrong impression.
Spider-Man: The Manga #30
Marvel Comics (June, 1999)
WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda
RETOUCH/PRODUCTION: Dano Ink Studios
COVER COLORIST: Frank A. Kadar
EDITOR: Dan Nakrosis
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It’s just more cheap marketing. As the hosts says, they could have just given Mindy Kaling her own show with her own characters and nobody would have a problem unless the show itself was terrible. Maybe try to make good shows instead of cheap marketing gimmicks, political messages, and calling critics terrible names because they didn’t like your work. If you don’t care about these characters we love, why should be care about the stuff you’re making? Because you’re you? Because you have a “good message” even though you told it so badly you actually ruined your own message? That’s not how this works.
We’re about 1/3rd into the book, the twelfth chapter, and the investigation is only just starting. Last chapter Jake Cardigan finally met his new boss, Walter Bascom, and got the latest information on the man and daughter he’s trying to find, who may have a new weapon in the war against the digital drug Tek. Somehow I don’t think the book is quite ready to stop showing us how in The Future they are but at least the story is finally moving forward past showing off. It’s about time.
The question I have at this stage is what role will the ex-wife and son play in this story or is that set-up for a future story. So much of what we have has been more worldbuilding than plot, and while I’m sure Shatner was hoping for a series of novels (which we do now have) it made the same mistake as Op Center in that it was more interested in setting up the series (when it wasn’t setting up The Future) than in moving the plot along. And yet Tekwar has still managed to move the story forward more at this stage of the book than Op-Center did. So let’s see what direction the story is going to take…because when we ended things Jake had just been kidnapped by a robo-cabbie
I think you hired the wrong decorator for the baby’s room.
Robotech: Clone #5
FINAL ISSUE
Academy Comics, Ltd. (August, 1995)
“Cradlesong”
WRITER: Rosearik Rikki
ARTIST: Tavisha Wolfgarth
Today’s writers so badly want to be first that they’ll ignore the past to pull it off. One of those are “we finally have a strong woman in sci-fi and you don’t like it”. It’s more like “we have a woman acting like a man in sci-fi because we can’t write strong women” because sci-fi already has a rich history of strong women in leading and supporting roles in the story, both hero and villain. Of course novelist Caroline Furlong sticks to novels in her list (a couple of which have been made into movies or comics, or ignored by the new owners) of sci-fi’s strong heroines. Additionally she also makes a short defense of adventure sci-fi as the elitists have pushed the hard sci-fi back into the spotlight. Although can you call it hard sci-fi when the science makes less sense than the intentionally made-up variety sometimes?
They aren’t even kind to their own characters, so why would they care about mine?
So next week’s comic we’ll talk about the Super Family news because there isn’t enough to talk about at the moment for a full article. Besides, this week is continuing the Many, Many Intros Of Scooby-Doo for October and that’s going to take time, while I still working on Captain Yuletide. Then of course there’s Monday’s Chapter By Chapter review of Tekwar still going on.
Meanwhile, over at The Clutter Reports I had dusting to do, so I simply reposted my old review of Superman: War Of The Worlds, with some minor tweaking since that isn’t the same crowd over there as here and they may not have heard of the Martian Manhunter or some of the other references I don’t have to explain to most of the BW readers.
So we’re done with Star Trek comics until I get any more in. That leads to the question of what do I replace it with? I’m starting to run out of old comics. Robotech still has a long way to go, once Spider-Man: The Manga is done I have some Marvels hanging out on ComiXology while I go over other ComiXology series on Saturday. Star Blazers is just in my “shorter series and one-shots” position on Friday, and while I can go on in that route and just make Star Blazers its own spot that will only hold for a few months and I still need to have something ready for when Robotech finally ends.
Therefore Friday is going to be something new and something I’ve wanted to review at least around the time I was pushing through Seduction Of The Innocent. Comics in public domain are available online legally and I’m going to start reviewing them. So the current pattern starting this week Monday thru Saturday is….
Hopefully you’ll find the new “Yesterday’s” Comic schedule to your liking. If not, enjoy the ones you like and have a great week!
Yep, it’s another Ultraman series. It’s a franchise I like promoting, and Ultraman Dyna is a series that ties in to both Ultraman Tiga, a direct continuation of set in that universe, and the current Ultraman Decker, as they share an enemy. Plus the creator of the GUTS-Select in that universe, shared with Ultraman Trigger, was transported from the Tiga and Dyna dimension…unlike Marvel’s multiverse I don’t think these have designations. Apparently these two particular Ultraman universes have a link.
After Tiga’s final victory the Earth is at peace and going forward to Mars…because another link between these two universes is setting up colonies on Mars for some reason. Then the Spheres attack a group of trainees…including headstrong Shin Asuka, who will become the next generation of Tiga…before Trigger officially took the name. Enjoy.
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
