Yu sets up the weirded diorama displays.
Spider-Man: The Manga #11
Marvel Comics (May, 1998)
WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda & C.B. Cebulski
RETOUCH/PRODUCTION: Dan Nakrosis
COVER DESIGN: Jeffrey Huang
EDITOR: Glenn Greenberg
In the last chapter of Robotech Colonel Wolff attempted to restore his family only to learn that bad decisions of his past and the previously unknown time dilation of travelling through folded space has ruined any hope of a reconciliation with his wife and son. What he doesn’t yet know is that he is part of a power struggle between the government and the military to become the leading authority before the arrival of the Invid. Meanwhile the Shimada family is dipping their own toes into the struggle by using the former 15th ATAC and the Starchildren to eliminate what they see is opposition to peaceful coexistence with the Invid, a plan doomed to failure.
I didn’t expect a whole lot of mecha fights in this book and I’m not sure how you’d do it. There are no surviving pockets of Masters’ forces loyal to the goals of the Elders, which were unsuccessful anyway. You couldn’t do their version of a “malcontent uprising” because they don’t have the same baggage as the Zentraedi…in fact you could make they case that they’re part of the Zentraedi’s baggage. According to the show the Invid’s attack was so swift and deadly that there was no initial opposition and it was only the first attempt at retaking Earth from the Invid that served as the first real battle in the war. As someone not usually into political intrigue I’m somehow still enjoying this book. Maybe it’s the characters I already know, but there are plenty of stories that make that unlikely. The presentation is better than the Op Center book I reviewed before. Whatever the case it’s time to see what happens to our heroes next…and which group is responsible for it.
“Hey, I’m only dragging a thirteen year old girl, an amnesiac, a former gang member, and a lounge singer into battlefield with a former POW and a civilian. Where’s the crime?”
Robotech: The New Generation #18
Comico The Comic Company (September, 1987)
“Ghost Town”
ADAPTATION: Lawrence Schick
PENCILER: Thomas A. Tenney
INKER: Bill Anderson
COLORIST: Kurt Mausert
LETTERER: John Workman
EDITOR: Maggie Brenner
I tried looking for videos of people playing through the story. All I found were builders and a weird game of hide-and-seek.
Considering a new hairstyle for Leon after a slightly off drawn line looked good to me. Let me know what you think or if you even notice.
A live-action version of Minecraft should be all the proof you need about something I’ve been bringing up in articles the past few years. Hollywood hates animation. Whether it’s cartoons, comics, or video games Hollywood thinks nothing is good unless it’s in live-action. However, whatever lore Minecraft may or may not have it’s the blocky art style that makes it Minecraft. It serves the look of various places, adds to the challenge of building things compared to a more “normal” design system in an online game like Second Life or a 3D graphic program like Blender, and even affects game play from what I can tell. Lose all that and is it even still Minecraft? Especially given how little Hollywood cares about accurate adaptation and just wants to use something popular as a cheap marketing gimmick. I hope the games fans are prepared to not recognize this movie. The rest of us learned that lesson the hard way, especially when it comes to bad video game adaptations.
Meanwhile, over at The Clutter Reports I finished up something I started two weeks ago by cleaning the rest of the bathroom. As usual lately my week of wasn’t all that restful. As I mention in the article I had more of those weird dreams that messed with my head all day, more atmospheric creepy than anything else but it was enough. I got over that only to have two separated days of insomnia. In one way it’s probably good I dropped out of last week, but I didn’t get done what I wanted to outside of banking a bunch of Finally Watched reviews for the future.
I was also saddened to hear about the passing of famed comic creator Neal Adams. I don’t really do the death announcements anymore for various reasons, all admittedly personal more than what passes for professional on this site, but he’s one of the greats of comic book art and I felt like acknowledging it.
This week we’ll see one of those as well as the next chapter of Robotech: Before The Invid Storm. I also finally re-linked Linkara’s first History Of Power Rangers episode as he tries to get past Toei’s copyright bots if you’re curious to check that out. Otherwise I wish I knew but who knows what other plans are going to get scuttled. I did manage to add a few old videos to BitChute and I’m hoping to caption at least one of the uncaptioned YouTube videos this week, but I seem to be in “we’ll see what happens” mode right now and it’s getting on my nerves. We’ll see how back to normal (see what I mean) and I hope you all had a good last week and have a good this week. God bless.
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
BW Media Spotlight 
Why A Proper Adaptation…Is Really A Good Thing
I was listening to a morning livestream yesterday and they showed part of a video by Nerdrotic about the continued failure of Amazon’s Tolkien “adaptation” that opens by making fun of a trend in articles by what’s increasingly being referred to as “shill media”. I’ve promoted stuff here in the past…it’s at least part of what Saturday Night Showcase and even the daily quickposts are about…but I’m not going to say positive things I don’t mean just to get review copies or special interviews. I’m not going to play favorites to get access (I’ve also heard them called “access media” and either name has gone to sites that used to be big in the geek entertainment news sphere) or to please the parent company. I’m also not looking for a target to attack for clickbait, so trust me when I saw BW Media Spotlight is about my actual opinion whether I’m promoting someone else’s project or doing my own.
I didn’t watch the full video before getting up to start my day or now as I prepare to make this article. The point is in the beginning; basically “here’s why a huge change to something is a good thing” when it really isn’t. I realize that the elitists and everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee crowd (often sharing members) don’t really care but if the goal is to make money maybe you darn well should. It’s not that I don’t understand where they’re coming from. They want to enjoy something (allegedly) and the source material wasn’t it. My all-time favorite movie is The NeverEnding Story, and they apparently got the message of the book wrong. However, I was not owed “my” version of The NeverEnding Story and if it hadn’t come out I would just have a different all-time favorite movie if I could find one with the themes I like about that movie with as much care put into it. What gets me is why they insist they have “their” version and then why they’re surprised the not-adaptation fails so badly or gets fans of the source material so heated. Yes, politics can play a role but I won’t be going on about “those durn SJWeses” because the current sociopolitical climate (look at me usin’ the big boy words) is only a symptom of a larger problem with bad adaptations, and that’s a level of low self-esteem that makes me look like a life coach in comparison.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 3, 2022 in Animation Spotlight, Book Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Internet Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight, web series and tagged adaptation, adaptation errors, commentary.
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