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And I’ll have more to say on the subject myself in tonight’s feature posting.
The New Teen Titans anti-drug special wasn’t my introduction to the Teen Titans. It was in reruns of Filmation’s DC superhero shows collected into what the local channel at least called Superman/Batman/Aquaman, though it also featured the Justice League Of America’s joint and individual adventures and the Teen Titans. However, it was my exposure to the “definitive” roster of the team, minus Robin due to weird rights issues I mentioned in my review, which having just browsed I think I want to do over someday because I didn’t do the usual deep dive that Scanning My Collection tends to be and I don’t think the overview really highlights why I like it. However, we’re not here to talk about that one story but the concept overall.
Originally created in a Brave And The Bold story, the idea soon led to their own series. However, it was the late George Pérez and Marv Wolfman responsible for the lineup you see from the characters today, though a few have been taken out of the lineup in the more recent shows, sticking to Robin (not Nightwing but still Dick Grayson), Cyborg, Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy, the middle ones created for this comic. Since I’m trying to get my schedule on track this week with so many late posts for the feature article this week I’m pulling the retrospective card on this one. However, I already used my allotment of He-Man for this week so I’m swiping from Lewis “Linkara” Lovhaug and his collected “March Of The Titans” retrospective. I’ll also link to the individual videos in case you don’t have over two hours right now and just want a sample to review later.
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Sonic X #14
Archie Comics (January, 2006)
“Hare-um Scare-Um!” part 2
WRITER/LETTERER: Joe Edkin
PENCILER: David Hutchison
INKER: Jim Amash
COLORIST: Josh Ray
COVER ART: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
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It’s time for the last of my banked reviews, which I had hoped would get me back on track this week. This week had other ideas. I seem to be able to keep to my own schedule for only a few weeks at a time. Getting sick stinks, but most of you don’t care about that.
So…Pacific Rim 2: The Kaijuing. If you recall from the Finally Watched of the original movie, I went into it being told this movie would cure cancer, AIDS, and hoof-in-mouth disease. So there was no way it was going to match the hype, which led to me being disappointed in the final product. I kept waiting for that big wow moment that got so many of the people I knew declaring this the best giant monster movie ever…and I just never saw it. The whole experience was ruined for me and yet I thought it was a pretty good movie. Luckily Uprising came with none of that baggage. If anything it kept being referred to as not as good as the original, which meant it had nowhere to go but up in my perception. So how did it turn out?
RELEASE DATE: 2018
RELEASED BY: Legendary Entertainment and Universal Pictures
RUNTIME: 1 hr, 51 min
RATING: PG-13
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: Cinemax “ActionMax” channel
STARRING: John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Kira Snyder, Burn Gorman, and Tian Jing
SCREENWRITERS: Steven S. DeKnight, Emily Carmichael, Kira Snyder, and T.S. Nowlin; based on characters created by Travis Becham
DIRECTOR: Steven S. DeKnight
BOX OFFICE: $290,930,148 worldwide, $59,874,525 domestic according to IMDB
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $150,000,000 according to IMDB
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Shatner finally gets his payback on Takei.
Star Trek Unlimited #8
Marvel/Paramount Comics (May, 1998)
This issue coincides with an event the novels were doing at the time, Klingon Day Of Honor. They’re stories that focus on the Klingon view of honor.
WRITERS: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton
COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
“The Boy”
ARTIST: Steve Push
“The Warrior”
PENCILER: Ron Randall
INKER: Randy Elliot
“The Veteran”
PENCILER: Tom Morgan
INKER: Scott Hanna
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I disagree with their assessment of He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe. I don’t think their plots were any more silly than some of the stuff in G.I. Joe. That was part of the fun for us kids, a mix of the serious and the silly. They knew how to make things cool by kid logic back then. Now they just want kids to be little adults and today’s kids are slowly losing out. They also don’t explain how C.O.P.S. takes place in this universe. DIC made the show based on that toyline and it was made by Hasbro and had the same distributor but I don’t remember any evidence that G.I. Joe or Cobra existed in the same uses as C.O.P.S..
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