It’s “Take Your Baby-fied Arch Nemesis To Work” Day.
Space Ace #1
MV Creations (September, 2003–more on that in a moment)
WRITER: Robert Kirkman
ARTIST: Paulo Borges
COLORISTS: Pat Duke & Grafik Sismik
LETTERER: Lithium Pro
ART DIRECTOR: Matt Tyree
EDITOR: Leanne Shaw
With talk–again–of a fourth movie in the “Kelvin” timeline of Star Trek movies, will they learn from the failures of the last three movies? While you can talk about the political issues and Bad Robot wanting to get part of the merchandising rights, and all the problems with the licensing when Viacom split Paramount and CBS, actor Chris Pine has another reason to add. In this summary of a Deadline interview (which they also link to), the second official Captain Kirk portrayer suggests that trying to reach a larger audience at the expense of what made Star Trek beloved enough to make a movie in the hopes of increasing their wallet size may have backfired against the three movies he was in. Although I have heard good things about the third movie, I’ve only seen the first and thought it was a good Star Wars movie (that’s not a typo), while the more I hear about Into Darkness the less I want to.
I’ve made it known that I wasn’t thrilled with Russel T. Davies original run on Doctor Who and I’m not excited to see him come back. Credit where it’s due. I do believe he grew up loving the old series and while I’m still convinced he only brought it back to TV–the BBC were considering an animated webseries, “Scream Of The Shalka” being the only result of that–so he could get Torchwood made as sci-fi had a worse history until some BBC heads than at Fox, he did bring it back. Gone was the serialized format and the budget was larger and benefited from new special effects techniques like computer generated effects. It doesn’t feel like the same show despite being in the same continuity, but at least it wasn’t Chris Chibnall’s run. Still, put me among those who enjoyed Moffat’s run more despite having some issues with that one as well.
Meanwhile, Christopher Eccleston was a rather good Doctor. The last survivor of the Time War, this Doctor was trying to recover from the PTSD of that war and his time as the War Doctor. However, the War Doctor only exists because Eccleston didn’t want to return to the character. He had a terrible time during his run and didn’t want to return to the role, one of the reasons being his treatment by BBC Wales as well as some personal issues he was going over at the time. Well, someone at Big Finish was able to convince him to continue the Ninth Doctor’s adventures in audio form…and NO ROSE TYLER!
I hope I get to check this out, but today we’re looking at a Panini Books’ collection of comics from the Ninth Doctor that appeared in Doctor Who Monthly…and sadly there is Rose Tyler.
Okay, enough of that nonsense. The collection contains five stories so this will be short summaries of all of them.
They seem pretty happy they’re about to smother from lack of air. Unless the Time Vortex has an atmosphere.
Doctor Who Magazine Special #13: The Ninth Doctor Collected Comics
Panini Publishing (April, 2006)
LETTERER: Roger Langridge
CONSULTING EDITOR: Scott Gray
EDITOR: Clayton Hickman.
Further credits will be given as I get into the reviews themselves.
“Next time use a camera so I don’t have to wait as long to tie your goons up.”
Sonic X #8
Archie Comics (July, 2006)
“Wicked Sweet Shuttle Shenanigans” part one
WRITER/LETTERER: Joe Edkin
PENCILER: Tim Smith 3
INKER: Al Milgrom
COLORIST: Tom Chu
COVER: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
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Why was this a list? Anyway, this video is good timing considering what’s coming up tonight.
So it appears the article I intended for tonight is going to take longer than I thought. So I’ll work on that for tomorrow and do more filler as the deadline is coming up.
The Wonder Twins get a lot of hate from people who hate anything made for kids, most of it going to Zan because his powers frankly weren’t thought through well enough. Liberties had to be made because they didn’t know what to do with a hero in training whose power involved the three stages of water (solid, liquid, gas) while his sister turned into animals from Earth and occasionally from their home planet Exor when the plot needed it. Gleek was…there. Frankly I like Zan and Jana and Gleek and as much undeserved hate I feel Wendy and Marvin get three superheroes in training make more sense than three normals who just hung out with the superheroes, but that’s been covered.
This would have been a quick post as well but that deadline and this comic taking more time to go through than I expected shot that down, so let’s return to Casually Comics and host Sasha Wood to go over the history of the Wonder Twins, which actually takes more than one video. Some swearing in the quotes.
No love for Captain Pike. Guess he doesn’t get his own omnipotent being.
Star Trek Unlimited #7
Marvel/Paramount Comics (January, 1998)
“An Infinite Jest”
WRITERS: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton
PENCILERS: Ron Randall & Tom Morgan
INKERS: Art Nichols & Scott Hanna
COLORISTS: Kevin Tinsley & Kevin Somers
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
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