Turns out you really do turn blue if you stay in the water too long.
Robotech: Aftermath #12
Academy Comics, Ltd (March, 1995)
Megaroad: “Ghost Machine”
WRITER/ARTIST/SERIES CREATOR: Bruce Lewis
INKER: Robert Perchaluk
They’re using the Geoff Johns reimagining as the core of their Shazam movies and even got that right.
Dwayne Johnson really wants his Black Adam to fight Superman, but he’s a Captain Marvel/Shazam foe. Black Adam even starred in the Marvel Family comics created by Fawcett Publications…and died in his premier issue. DC brought him back as an opposite number for Captain, Mary, and Captain Marvel Jr and now for some reason they want to make him an antihero. Gets your facts straight.
Over at the Clutter Reports this week I began organizing my back-up drive. The sooner that’s all set up the sooner I can start backing up important information on this computer, but I got to see a few things I haven’t seen in years. It was a bonus nostalgia trip, though I didn’t bring that up in the article.
I’m waiting for the full release of information on “BatmanGate” before talking about it but it should be noted the guy charging Matt Reeves with stealing his work isn’t some random person. He worked at DC Comics when he alleges he offered his pitch and while he could be lying it’s not like stealing other’s ideas and reworking them has never happened in this industry before. If we get to see the full pitch…I still have no interest in the Matt Reeves film because he got nothing right adaptation-wise but I’m curious to see this evidence. Right now that’s my only statement on that big news.
Meanwhile in this week’s BW outings we have the next chapter of TekWar for Chapter By Chapter, I’m still trying to finish up a new Captain PSA, and we’ll see what comes up this week for discussion. Have a good week, everyone!
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Yep, it’s more Ultraman. While I was out a new Ultraman series started being released on the official YouTube channel so time to jump in. Actually, a few weeks late in jumping in but I was out.
Ultraman Decker is the latest Ultraman series as of this writing, with the latest in the “Ultra Galaxy Fight” series sadly behind the paywall at the official website. Continuing from Ultraman Trigger and celebrating the 25th anniversary of Ultraman Dyna as Trigger did with Ultraman Tiga, Decker uses cards in the same way Trigger used “Hyper Keys” to change forms. The show takes place years after the previous show. There haven’t been a lot of monster sightings for a while and GUTS-Select, the alternate universe copy of GUTS, doesn’t have a lot to do. That is until a new threat arrives and a new Ultraman is required to save the world. Check out the debut of Ultraman Decker.
Oh, and if you don’t speak Japanese make sure to turn on the captions for English subtitles.
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Does that mean she has to adopt an annoying gravely voice that doesn’t make her sound as threatening as she thinks?
Batman: Arkham Knights–Batgirl Begins
DC Comics (digital first; 2015)
WRITER: Tim Seeley
PENCILER: Matthew Clark
INKER: Wade Von Grawbadger
COLORIST: Rob Schwager
“COVER” ART: Matthew Clark & Rod Reis
LETTERER: Travis Lanham
DESIGNER: Randy Mayor
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Brittany Holzherr
EDITOR: Alex Antone
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You may want to scroll down to the paragraph that starts “Rant over…” because I need to vent a bit before we begin.
So, I was trying to find a second issue for Legions Of Power, the next mini-comic on the list. Trying to find that only brings up a few auctions, stuff on the toy itself, and my review of the first issue. Look up “Legion Of Power minicomic” on Google and I’m second on the list, right after an eBay listing and if it wasn’t for eBay I would dominate the image search’s top line. It’s such a cold topic that Google is throwing in Legion Of Super-Heroes just to have something to talk about.
So I went to the next series on the list, the second series of Masters Of The Universe minicomics. Now I actually own “The Ordeal Of Man-E-Faces” but my copy is so old and overread that I wanted to find a better quality scan than I’d be able to do, though I’ll probably use some shots from a Friday Nights Fights I did with the comic years ago. Well, that was a chore. He-Man.org took all their minicomic scans down, probably because they worked with Dark Horse to produce the hardcover collection (I would rather have the actual minicomics I’m missing), but what gets me is that unless you just like the forum there is nothing on that site any more. All the toy archives, all the lists of books and audio dramas, it’s all gone. Just a forum, a shade of it’s former self. Long rant short it took me forever but I found a decent scan to use for this article, which is still one up on Legions Of Power, which I may never get to finish reviewing.
Rant over and now it’s time to get to the review. If you bypassed the rant we’re on Masters Of The Universe series two and “The Ordeal Of Man-E-Faces”, one of the two action figures I got the Christmas my grandmother ended up in the hospital. Thankfully this wasn’t the year we lost her but it makes him and Ram-Man (I’ve already reviewed that comic) a bit more special because despite being sick she still made sure us grandkids got something on Christmas. I had the best grandparents on both sides of the family and I miss all four. Additionally this is one of the first two minicomics and first two Masters Of The Universe action figures I ever owned. It’s also surprisingly important to Man-E-Faces history because how he’s introduced here has for the most part made it into other incarnations, despite being his only major appearance in the minicomics as far as my collection knows. So let’s see where he came from.
“There’s four of us and two of you…but we’ll win anyway!”
Masters Of The Universe series 2 #2
DC Comics/Mattel (1982)
“The Ordeal Of Man-E-Faces”
WRITER: Gary Cohn
PENCILER: Mark Texeira
INKER: Tod Smith
COLORIST: Anthony Tollin
No credits for letter or editor
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Enjoy the covers. They’re the most you get of Space Ghost until the final issue of the miniseries.
Space Ghost #1
DC Comics (January, 2005)
“Crucible”
WRITER: Joe Kelly
ARTIST: Ariel Olivetti
LETTERER: Richard Starkings
EDITOR: Joey Cavalieri
BW’s Daily Article Link> Good Guys, Nice Guys, Paladins, and White Knights
One of the complaints made by people who don’t know any better is that nice guys are boring characters. They aren’t complex enough, not three dimensional. Well, that’s not really true at all. Author Caroline Furlong discusses a number of “nice guys” in fiction, including a couple from our neck of the proverbial woods, who are actually quite interesting because of how they approach their beliefs and either succeed or fail…though who decides which is which isn’t always the hero.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 15, 2022 in Book Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, writing tips.
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