“That’s not what I meant by ‘mysterious eyes'”.
Spider-Man: The Manga #13
Marvel Comics (June, 1998)
WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda
RETOUCHING/PRODUCTION: Dan Nakrosis
EDITOR: Glenn Greenberg
Sid and Marty Krofft produced a lot of kids shows still fondly remembered by those who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. Now they first ever “Kroff Kon” is making its debut in Orinda, California. Check it out if you can.
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Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
In the last chapter of Robotech, Terry and Misa made contact with the Starchildren, hoping to use them in Shimada’s insane ploy to make friends with the only enemy in the three wars that would never work on. Meanwhile, Dana finally got to ask Wolff about her family as Louie was in a position to foil Wolff’s plan to get back to Admirals Hunter and the REF.
It seems we’re at that part of the book where it’s getting tougher for me to come up with anything to write. I don’t want to spoil too much, and yet any flavor text about the stories and Robotech as a saga is starting to run out. That means these intros get shorter as we push forward into the next chapter. In total there are eighteen chapters and an epilogue, giving us seven full chapters and said epilogue before we move on to the next book. So let’s see what happens in this one.
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Corg’s taking the “crab” insult towards the Invid a bit too literal.
Robotech: Escape
Antarctic Press (May, 1998)
WRITER: Aslum Khan
PENCILER: Jean-Sebastien Duberger
INKER: Pierre-André Déry
LETTERER/PROOF: Doug Dlin
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Here’s the link for the web page referenced in the video. This includes full scripts as well as the mentioned outline and other images related to the episode.
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This is a go-to plot in so much anime.
I’m getting better at the shading. Not good, but better. The villain’s costume is ridiculous on purpose because I couldn’t think of anything good. He doesn’t even have a name. I just called him villain. I needed a dedicated style sheet for Herodude but it’s neat to bring him out again. Also still deciding on Leon’s altered hair style.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I’m getting some comics ready to bring to my local comic store with the hopes of lightening my load. Whatever I don’t sell to him will end up on the Clutter For Sale section of the site, where there are a few things you can pick up right now. We’ll see what happens there.
Back on this site this week it’s the next chapter of Robotech: Before The Invid Storm, another of the banked Finally Watched reviews if I have an opening, and a bunch of other stuff. I don’t want to plan everything because I want an opening to talk about new things. Space Ace the comic series should finish reviewing this week and I know what will be taking its place for a while, namely the paid-for comics I picked up for Free Comic Book Day like last week’s Star Trek: The Next Generation and Robotech II: The Sentinels. This mostly takes the form of some DC Comics that I wanted to complete those collections, but I’m still getting rid of more than I’m getting so that’s a good thing. I would like to do some more artistic stuff but we’ll see how that works out.
Have a good week, everyone. God bless.
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Ultraman 80 is not the eightieth show in the Ultra series, it’s #9 and the last of the “classic” Ultraman shows, at least in Japan. (The name comes from being the first Ultraman show of 1980.) Hanna-Barbera tried the animated Ultraman: The Adventure Begins but only got to five episodes, later collected into a movie. America would try again in live-action with Ultraman: The Ultimate Hero but it oddly never aired in the US. (Japan got it as Ultraman Powered.) Australia even got into the game with Ultraman: Towards The Future (Ultraman Great in Japan), but Japan would have to wait until Ultraman Tiga to have their own Ultraman series again. I think they did get some movies in-between though. All of these are canon to the franchise by the way.
Ultraman 80 is secretly Takeshi Yamato, a schoolteacher for the first few episodes who believed monsters were formed by “Negative Energy”, the negative thoughts of humans. In this first episode Takeshi is trying to protect his students but his ability to see monsters before they show up makes him a laughing stock of the school…until he’s proven right.
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