Trying to play with the WordPress blocks editor a bit here on this one, though I couldn’t get the video to post where you can get to the controls. Clicking on the video will take you to the Reddit post by Sarsaparilla in the “Lost Media” Reddit, where you can bring up the volume. Meanwhile clicking on this link takes you to the article by The Retroist I learned of it from. In it the Wicked Witch from Oz, played by Margaret Hamilton, ends up on Sesame Street. Apparently some parents complained as did members of the Wiccan community, as the Retroist goes over. Although it does have Big Bird fighting the Wicked Witch Of The West.
“I’ll give these icons what for!”
Spider-Man: The Manga #18
Marvel Comics (September, 1998)
WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda
RETOUCH/PRODUCTION: Dan Nakrosis & Rob Kuzman
COVER DESIGN: Jeffrey Huang
EDITOR: Glenn Breenberg
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I’ve written numerous times about how fiction heroes can be a positive influence on us, especially as children, and why children need superheroes. Well, here’s another example. Time Magazine’s website posted an excerpt from a foreword for a collection of Spider-Man stories. Writer Jason Reynolds discusses how his brother Allen benefited from Peter Parker’s life through the comics. This is why we need more superhero stories for kids, and why comics needs to get over their self-loathing and take their place alongside every other storytelling form out there in the world. These weren’t even made for kids but they were accessible to them. Today’s writers seem to want to shove kids media in a corner so they can be more “mature” but kids are the reason superheroes are still around.
That goes for you YA writers who use superhero characters in non-superhero stories. Give kids superheroes!
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Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the 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 last chapter of Robotech, Dana Sterling and member of the 15th won the race and are now taking the refugees of the Second Robotech War home, leaving behind Nova, Louie, Colonel’s Wolff and Carpenter…and a bunch of people I frankly don’t care about. We still have two chapters and epilogue to see what happens to them before the Invid kill them all. Won’t that be fun?
I sound harsher than I intend. So far the story has been good as a whole, just with a few nitpicks I wish the writer hadn’t done. So let’s get into this chapter and see the beginning of the fallout of Dana’s latest scheme.
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“Isn’t this overkill to find a lost dog?”
Robotech: The Sentinels–Rubicon #1
Antarctic Press (July, 1998)
“A Sort of Homecoming: Prologue”
WRITER: Alan Nepomuceno
PENCILER: Vithoon Kamchareon
INKER: Michel Lacombe
TONING: Ben Dunn
LETTERER/PROOFING: Doug Dlin
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The original Predator movie is a fan favorite, often quoted and imitated. However the attempts to turn it into a movie franchise has hit a few snags. Granted I’ve only seen the first two and while Predator 2 was okay I do agree the original was better. So what went wrong? Slade Hale of Bounding Into Comics looks at all the movies to see why the sequels never matched up as proper sequels, never mind standing alongside the original.
BW Vs. ScreenRant: Black Adam Is A SuperVILLAIN!
There are times I’m convinced some contributors make up odd notions to troll people or out of some strange “I’m making you think” reasoning. Yes, sometimes this is MatPat but not today. For one thing this makes less sense that some of his odder story theories.
When you title your article “Black Adam’s Cannibalism Proves He Can Be DC’s Ultimate Hero” you’re telling me “please tell me what a moron I am”. I can’t promise that will be my harshest comment but I’ll try. Thanks to this Bounding Into Comics post I learned of an commentary on ScreenRant that came from someone who is just shilling for The Rock’s questionable take on Black Adam. Dwayne Johnson has been tied to play Black Adam almost from the first time any kind of Captain Marvel/Shazam movie was considered. Now they don’t want him to be a villain, as the character was created to be, they want him to be an “antihero” or even a full-fledged superhero. Sorry, ScreenRant contributor Todd Petrella, but you do not make a good case when you invoke cannibalism.
Black Adam first appeared in The Marvel Family #1, which would also be his last appearance under original publisher Fawcett Comics. Basically he died at the end. DC would have Doctor Silvana resurrect him after “Earth-S” moved to the DC multiverse…where he again dies, but got to live longer than half a comic. He also appeared in the original Shazam cartoon as part of the Kids Super Power Hour on NBC Saturday Mornings and most recently appeared in Justice League Action. In all of these incarnations he was a supervillain, the opposite number to Captain Marvel and the Marvel Family. (Kiss off, Marvel Comics and give Billy back his name. Even Carol Danvers isn’t making it work for you.) For whatever reason DiDio’s brigade had they decided to turn Teth-Adam into Doctor Doom, making him ruler of an Egyptian nation, and ruining one of Filmation’s other superheroes in a way that would only be surpassed by a real world terror group. ScreenRant wants to make him a hero because we can’t hate The Rock or something. (It’s not like he didn’t play a villain before, you know. The Rock used to go by Rocky Maivia before joining and taking over extremist wrestling faction the Nation Of Domination, which is when he became “The Rock”. Then again they’d probably consider the Nation Of Domination heroes too.) This is not how you do it.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 21, 2022 in DC Spotlight and tagged Black Adam, BW versus, commentary, Screen Actors Guild, Superman.
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