“Man, not another multiversal incursion. This is the third one this year! And it’s only April!”
Spider-Man: The Manga #10
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: We got caught up with events in the Local Group up to Colonel Wolff’s arrival. Then we got political grandstanding as a senator decided now is a good time to wave his beam saber around (wait, wrong mecha war series) and take control of Wolff’s ship away from the Army Of The Southern Cross, who wants to use the vessel on a mission Dana still hasn’t told anybody the Zentraedi insist is a waste of time. Now instead of coming together to prepare for the Invid it looks like what remains of the structure of civilization in the shadow Robotechnology and its Protoculture power source is about to fall apart. Already I’m beginning to understand why the Invid won.
We already know that there will be a number of factions involved. Apparently the government will be fighting among themselves between the senators and the military. We also have the Shimada Family who think they can maintain their power base by making friendly with the Invid, a plan that might have worked with the previous two groups except Zor forced the hands of the humans in the first war and retcons have tried to turn a fool into a power monger xenophobe that led to the second. Meanwhile we have the Starchildren, who so far have only been mentioned in passing, and you can bet Dana is going to pull some shenanigans of her own with the goal of getting the Tirolians back home. Frankly I’m only interested in this story because of the characters involved. Usually this really isn’t my kind of tale. Still, we’re here so let’s find out where it’s headed.
Annie picked a bad day to join Rook’s old biker gang.
Robotech: The New Generation #14
Comico The Comic Company (March, 1987)
“Annie’s Wedding”
ADAPTATION: Jack Herman
PENCILER: Reggie Byers
INKER: Rich Rankin
COLORIST: Kurt Mausert
LETTERER: Ed King
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
Also, it’s still a ring that hurts when a fist hits your face.
I usually do an Easter themed comic on Easter, but frankly it snuck up on me and this was partway done so I didn’t even come up with a story idea. As it is panel two did everything it could to try to get me to not make anything. It probably could have been done better but I was happy just to get the stupid thing finished.
Anyway, happy Easter. Hope your egg hunts went well and that you remembered this was the day our Savior rose from the grave, breaking the force field of sin between us and the Lord in Heaven. That or you enjoyed beheading chocolate bunnies. I SAID CHOCOLATE BUNNIES LEAVE MR. HOPPER ALONE!
So what big clutter assignment did I do this Easter weekend? Dusting, and I’ll be doing more dusting. I talk about what will be going on in this week’s Clutter Report because dusting is rather boring to talk about.
Right, Finally Watched Week was a bust! Not a total one as I got three reviews out but I’m doing one more this week out of sheer stubbornness. Otherwise we have some commentaries and the next chapter of Robotech: Before The Invid Storm as well as the usual comic reviews and quick posts. Have a good week everyone.
Warning: The following Saturday Night Showcase entry includes gore, the most awesomely stupid things the creators could get away with, and enough F-Bombs to level Miami, which is where the movie kind of sort of maybe takes place. If you can handle all that, welcome to the crowdfunded insanity tribute to low-budget 1980s movies that is…Kung Fury!
In an alternate 1985 a rookie cop is chose to become the legendary Kung Fury, the chosen master of an ancient kung fu art that apparently nobody has to teach you. However, Adolf “Kung Furher” Hitler wants to be the Kung Fury. To stop him, our Kung Fury has to call on allies to hack time, find his way to Nazi Germany, and kill Hitler. Because everyone wants to kill Hitler…mostly for being Hitler. If any of this is your bag, then enjoy the next half-hour. Apparently due to age restriction you’ll have to go to YouTube itself…probably the aforementioned mild gore and F-bombs and not the laser raptors, half-naked giant Thor, and barbarian women with machine guns. Yeah, this is not a kids production at all. The video embed does serve as a link to the actual video though. Click the “Watch on YouTube link, or click this one and come back to read me talk about it some more.
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