While Iron Man has been a good character in team games like Marvel Vs Capcom or Ultimate Alliance, getting Shellhead his own game has not always met with success. Now EA is hoping to break that streak with a new Iron Man game. Being my favorite Marvel hero I hope he has better success this time around.
For those of you who missed part one…
Welcome back to my biggest introduction to superheroes not involving DC characters (though that one was also Hanna-Barbera so I have Joe and Bill to thank for my love of superheroes), Hanna-Barbera’s World Of Super Adventure. This collection of 1960s Saturday morning superhero shows were collected in 1979 as an anthology series airing weekdays in syndication. This was how I discovered many of Hanna-Barbera’s superheroes, and I would meet more on Cartoon Network’s early years as it used to be older cartoons until they could create their own. These were the shows I loved as a kid and the type of shows I wish modern kids had access to. Not even these shows or characters specifically but the lack of action and superhero shows for today’s kids makes me sad.
Still, I can go over the rest of the World Of Super Adventure lineup and remember when people cared about kids having superhero access before adults took their toys away.
That’s some detailed artwork. It looks almost real.
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Marvel/Paramount Comics (July, 1998)
“The Enemy Of My Enemy”
WRITERS: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton
PENCILER: Andrew Currie
INKER: Art Nichols
COLORIST: Matt Webb
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
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Wait, aren’t Colossus and Kitty supposed to be closer in age? They almost got married once. The whole line of dialog is paranoia and seems to just build on their hatred of comedy unless it’s being quirky with no real reason behind it. Granted, this isn’t so much a “joke” as something dumb said in anger or annoyance about somebody they don’t know, but that’s not how Piotr is framing this, is it?
Yes, I did do a “many intros” earlier this month and I have an even bigger “many, many intros” planned for October. However, reading the nostalgialess DC take on Space Ghost from the early 2000s made me nostalgic for the real thing. Instead of just talking about that though I felt inclined to go over the anthology series that introduced me to Space Ghost and many more Hanna-Barbera superheroes, so I’m taking this week to go over Hanna-Barbera’s World Of Super Adventure through the intros of the show.
Now, put yourself into the mind (not literally for any of you mad scientists and dark wizards in the audience, please) of a lonely five-year-old sitting in front of his television in 1979 AD when this hits the screen.
You don’t know who this “Hanna Barbera” guy is but you know awesome when you see it! This along with the stuff I was seeing on Saturday mornings and other shows in syndicated reruns before first-run syndication was a concept was my introduction to superheroes. Then I learn about comic books and I was never the same. Here you have an epic narration telling you that these heroes have amazing powers and use them to battle evil and right wrongs. Yeah, you have more than just my attention. And then the shows started. Some of my favorites included…
“Yep, it’s way past time to see a doctor.”
Spider-Man: The Manga #27
Marvel Comics (February, 1999)
WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda
RETOUCH: Dano Ink Studios
COVER COLORIST: Frank J. Viturello
EDITOR: Dan Nakrosis
The new Quantum Leap is so far intended to be a sequel series in which a new team tries to learn why Sam Beckett never leaped home, as stated in the final episode (then maybe they shouldn’t have given him a wife in that one episode?). Questions have been raised by fans as to why Scott Bakula isn’t returning to the show. Well, he just took to Instagram to answer that question. Dean Stockwell, who played his helper, Al, passed away last year so he can’t return either (not that’s not mentioned as part of the reason why Bakula isn’t returning).
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