“Come on, we’ll get these poster makers to do a real cover yet!”
Sonic X #4
Archie Comic Publications (February, 2006)
“Boisterous Bot Battle!”
WRITER: Joe Edkin
PENCILER: Tim Smith III
INKER: Andrew Peopy
COLORIST: John Ray
COVER ART: Pat “Spaz” Spaziante
COVER COLORIST: Ben Hunzeker
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
Fans love seeing the Doctors meeting their other regenerations and having adventures together. It connects to our childhood play sessions of crossing toyline or just seeing how the Doctor reacts to his past and future selves (and the humor of how poorly they get along). Sadly Christopher Eccleston isn’t on board with that. Maybe it has something to do with the terrible history and hopefully not the same ego as Tom Baker when it comes to how they do their Doctor. It sounds like he won’t do the next anniversary reunion special, which is disappointing, and I guess even though he’s returning for Big Finish audiodramas we won’t get to hear him work with previous Doctors either. Well, at least there’s the comics.
Picard was never the hugging type.
Star Trek Unlimited #6
Marvel/Paramount Comics (November, 1997)
“Telepathy War” part 4: “Heart Of Darkness”
WRITERS: Abnett & Edginton
PENCILER: Ron Randall
INKER: Art Nicols
COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
Author Brandon Sanderson, who I saw at ConnectiCon one year and was part of a press junket he was in that year, has had some amazing success crowdfunding his next book with his new team, Dragonsteel books. While the old guard of course had their fits that someone went around the system and right to the audience with a surprise victory before the day was out, Fansided contributor Daniel Roman of “Winter Is Coming” goes over why this isn’t the end of traditional publishing, just yet another option to getting work out into the world. I like options.
The more I’m hearing about Matt Reeve’s The Batman now that people are starting to see it the less interested I am in doing so myself. The Riddler has gone from a criminal who likes to show off how smart he is through clues to his capers nobody can solve to yet another “serial killer out to prove society is the true evil”, and some stuff I heard in a podcast this morning sounds like Riddler (bet he isn’t Edward Nigma) has his own reverse Court Of Owls. Catwoman is now bi according to her actress, who probably never read the comic and only evidence is “has a roommate”. Apparently Robert Patterson plays a good Batman but a terrible Bruce Wayne because we have another instance of “he has to learn how”…WHEN THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT OF BRUCE TRAVELLING THE WORLD TO GAIN THE SKILLS HE NEEDS TO BECOME BATMAN! His early years as Batman should be about honing those skills and learning to use them in practice, not to use them at all. Then there’s the race swapping but I’ve long given up on Hollywood caring about a proper adaptation, especially for those silly little comics that the entertainment industry only cares about if they don’t have to come up with characters or a plot.
Basically, bringing out Batman’s detective side and making the Batmobile a car instead of a high-speed tank seem to be the only things he’s gotten right. Even the Bat-suit has the rather weird gun thing for the symbol that just looks weird to me. Every time I see it I want someone to finish drawing it.
However, he was supposedly influenced by some very beloved Batman comic stories. Supposedly. Owen of Owen Likes Comics goes over the history of those influences. No spoilers but I do have thoughts.
They just took the pose from the manga cover and gave it a new background. It’s like fighting the Sonic X covers to see who can be the most lazy.
Spider-Man: The Manga #4
Marvel Comics (February, 1998)
WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda & C.B. Cebulski
RETOUCHING/PRODUCTION: Dan Nakrosis
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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
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Stop Killing Characters At The End Of Your Story [VIDEO]
If you’re a comic book character or a Transformer death is rarely perminate (especially if you’re Optimus Prime…at least Bumblebee grew out of it), and in comics death can be overcome by any writer who just really wants to write a certain character or wants the shock value of killing a character they don’t like and isn’t popular enough to demand a return. In other media however death can be forever…especially if your book or movie series is over.
Why kill a character? In addition to the aforementioned shock value it can be used to heighten the drama or clear the board, or show how series the situation is. Done wrong, that death just becomes quick shock before moving on, and shows you may not really care about those characters. I bet I could put more weight into killing Wolverine, a character I’m on record as hating and has already done the death/resurrection bit recently, than some of the deaths YouTube poster Uniquenameosaurus does in the following video, where he takes the Harry Potter franchise to task for some of the many deaths in the books and novels, pointing out which were good writing and which were just kind of cruel to the characters. Oddly this also ties to Full Metal Alchemist and Disney’s Ratatouille. Note that there is swearing.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 9, 2022 in Book Spotlight and tagged commentary, Death, Harry Potter, writing tips.
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