“The Wayne Family dropped me off after seeing that nice Ben Parker off to New York.”
Action Comics vol. 43 #507
DC Comics (May, 1980)
“The Miraculous Return Of Jonathan Kent!”
WRITER: Cary Bates
PENCILER: Curt Swan
INKER: Frank Chiaramonte
COLORIST: Gene D’Angelo
LETTERER: Milt Snapinn
EDITOR: Julius Schwartz
Taylor Swift may no longer care about country music (though tonight’s Sing Me A Story entry is so modern it’s barely country) but there are still people who really enjoy the songs of her earlier career. Now most of her stuff is more sexual, attacking critics, and defending her LGBT friends but her older songs…well, one of my reviewing colleagues at the time didn’t think Swift was authentic so it’s not like she’s never had critics.
“Teardrops On My Guitar”, from her debut album and her second single after “Tim McGraw”, which maybe should end up here someday, is about unrequited love. And you don’t need to be a teenage girl to know what that feels like. I’ve gone through it twice, and made the mistake of asking out the wrong one. (This was years apart, one in high school and one at work.) However, she made the mistake of actually naming the dude in her song…which would come back to say hello.
“Oh good, because it’s radioactive.”
Sonic X #18
Archie Comics (May, 2007)
“Rouge Goes Rogue!”
WRITER: Joe Edkin
PENCILER: David Hutchinson
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Josh Ray
LETTERER: John Workman
COVER ART: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
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If you’ve been here long enough you may be wondering why I’m making a bigger deal about the debut of G.I. Joe: The Movie in theaters thanks to Fathom Events when I didn’t do likewise for Transformers: The Movie finally returning, also thanks to Fathom Events, earlier this year. After all I’m more into our favorite robots in disguise than our favorite special mission force. With the first showing tomorrow night and the other Saturday afternoon (check your area for actual times and locations–some theaters here in the Connecticut area are only showing it once) it will be the first time the movie is getting a national theatrical release, though I’m sure some smalltime theater somewhere may have shown it at one point. That’s how I saw The NeverEnding Story in theaters during a ConnectiCon. When the aforementioned Transformers movie as well as one based on the My Little Pony show of the 1980s didn’t do well in the box office Hasbro and Sunbow sent it directly to home video in the hopes of at least recouping losses they didn’t think they could in a theatrical release.
However, that’s not the only significance of this movie versus the Cybertronians. There are a lot of things that in hindsight makes this movie important for 1980s kids. I’m not usually into war stories but the show had enough sci-fi elements (including a character named Sci-Fi) that I was on board for it. Looking back this past month at the various Saturday Night Showcase lead-ups I’ve picked up on something else that makes this more significant than the movie based on my favorite fictional franchise. Note that I’m kind of tired today so sorry if this reads more like a ramble.
“You’ll never be rid of us!”
Star Trek: Voyager–Splashdown #1
Marvel/Paramount Comics (April, 1998)
WRITER: Laurie S. Sutton
PENCILER: Terry Pallot
INKER: Al Milgrom
COLORIST: Matt Webb
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
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
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW’s Daily Video: Representation Vs Tokenization
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