Japanese Spider-Man meets Japanese Elsa.
Spider-Man: The Manga #25
Marvel Comics (December, 1998)
WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda
RETOUCH/PRODUCTION: Dano Ink Studios
EDITOR: Dan Nakrosis
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You forgot “took one of Tronix’s favorite Bat-villains and turned him into just another serial killer out to expose the truth instead of the guy who just loves mental challenges”.
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Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a 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 previous chapter we finally got Jake Cardigan out of the freezer and I didn’t do a sweater joke. Seriously, who gives an action sci-fi hero character a last name like Cardigan while giving a proper first name for such a character?
With a name like “Dirk Slade”, I’m thinking dentist.
Even by third chapter standards we haven’t learned anything the back cover didn’t already tell us. Jake was put in cryosleep for a crime he swears he’s innocent of and released four years early. The rest has been how in the future we are. Let’s see if the fourth chapter is more worldbuilding or if we’re getting into the story.
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Even the man in the moon is getting gender-swapped.
Robotech: Aftermath #13
FINAL ISSUE
Academy Comics (May, 1995)
“The Girl In The Moon”
WRITER/ARTIST: Bruce Lewis
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This is what happens when you spend your formative years trapped in hypertime instead of being trained by Superman.
Jon’s symbol may be harder for me that his father’s. I also don’t know what his new rainbow flag cape looks like because that’s not the current reference image I have for Superjunior and his outfit.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I did a little more organizing and cleaning of my back up drive.
This week here at the Spotlight, more with TekWar for Chapter By Chapter, the conclusion of Robotech: Aftermath for the Monday installment of “Yesterday’s” Comic, and the rest depends on what happens during the week. Have a good one, everybody.
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Since I keep talking about the mistakes we already know about when it comes to The Rock’s take on Black Adam, I decided this week’s Saturday Night Showcase would show you how to do it right. First, we need to briefly discuss The Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam!.
Airing on NBC in the 1981-1982 TV season The Kid Super Power Hour was split into two shows. Shazam! of course was one but as the second segment, following Hero High. Before My Hero Academia or even Sky High this is the first time I saw a show about a school that trained future superheroes. The comedy and the whole hour would also feature live-action skits with the main cast in front of an all-kid studio audience in addition to their animated misadventures at the titular Hero High. The characters even had a few crossovers with the Shazam! cast on both segments. However, that’s not what we’re here to go over.
This would be Filmation’s second Shazam! series, the first being the three season live-action series on CBS that crossed over with previous Saturday Night Showcase entry The Secrets Of Isis. However, the animated series was closer to the DC Comics and the original Fawcett Publishing concept. Instead of traveling in an RV with some dude named Mentor while talking to animated versions of the famous and mythological figures that make up the acronym S.H.A.Z.A.M., Billy Batson stays home with his sister Mary Batson, their friend Freddy Freeman, lovable Uncle Dudley, and the talking tiger Mr. Tawny. When trouble strikes, Billy becomes Captain Marvel, Mary becomes Mary Marvel (not even trying on that name, were we Fawcett?), and Freddy Freeman makes the mistake of naming himself after his hero which is also his magic word because he got his powers from Captain Marvel. (Long story.) If they need a mentor they summon the ghost of the Wizard who gave Billy and Mary their powers.
The episode I’ve chosen, tied to recent discussions, is “Black Adam Returns”. You can guess what happens in the episode. The story, written by Dennis O’Flaherty, adapts The Marvel Family #1 “The Mighty Marvels Join Forces”, originally written by Otto Bender. However, in this show they had already been joining forces for a while now as a superhero team family. (Imagine if the Fantastic Four got along.) Plus the length of the comic story would come up short in the episode so they throw in an odd bit where Adam is a henpecked husband, his hypnotising Mary into his slave bride (maybe that’s where DiDio’s crew got the evil Mary Marvel obsession?) despite her being at best in college, and adding an extra vilain death because as I’ve gone over before Filmation wasn’t afraid to kill characters off in a kids show just because it was a rare occurrence. They even killed a kid once in an anti-drug story.
BW’s Daily Article Link> Defending Escapism Against False Realism
I’ve gotten to a point that I feel like I’m at war with “realistic” when it comes to fiction that isn’t set in a real world. The more liberties you take with how the real world work the less you can defend something or call for something as “realistic”. What it needs to do is make sense to the rules set up for that fictional world. You can’t have an actual Captain America meeting Hawkeye Pierce or spaceships invading Middle Earth…though that last one could spark an original property (or possibly the next season of Amazon’s Rings Of Power) and be an interesting story.
Some people chose the shows, movies, books, comics, games, etc. in question to escape the real world for a while and recharge their mental and emotional batteries for what the real world is going to toss against them next. Author James Harrington defends this escapism against the “realistic” defense when used in a world that isn’t realistic by nature.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 22, 2022 in Uncategorized and tagged believable versus realistic, commentary, escapism.
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