Taking cues from the Sonic X covers I see.
Speed Racer #2
WildStorm (November, 1999)
“The Prototype”
WRITER/ARTIST: Tommy Yune
COLORIST: Guy Major
LETTERER: Ali Fuchs
EDITOR: Eric DeSantis
How to explain isekai to non-anime fans? Think A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court. Or Captain N: The Game Master. Yeah, I may get yelled at for that one. Anyway, swearing in the video.
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“If we hurry we might find a cover artist who doesn’t just draw posters.”
Sonic X #2
Archie Comics Publications (December, 2005)
“See Sonic! Sea Battle! See Sonic Sea Battle!”
Okay, this isn’t the usual review portion but this title…really? This was the best you could come up with?
WRITER: Joe Edkin
PENICLER: Tim Smith III
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Ben Hunzeker
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
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Well at least someone at DC still knows how to have fun…although I’m still not convinced they won’t screw it up somehow. If you think the idea of the Justice League as anthropomorphic dinosaurs isn’t possible to get wrong look up Dino Squad, a show for kids about teens who can turn into normal dinosaurs to fight monsters. If they can screw that concept up with the most boring thing I’ve seen, then a more violent version of the Jurassic League in modern DC Comics isn’t out of the question.
My real question though is why this guy wasn’t brought in on the project?
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And that’s just one sample.
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For something that used to be a Friday series I haven’t worked on this in a while. For the new people, Art Of Storytelling is about looking at the various forms of storytelling to go over their strengths and weaknesses. Whether it’s been prose versus comics, animation versus live-action or even drawing vs computer (and that’s not even the complete list), I’ve noted that each does their own thing well and none of them are necessarily better than the other, just better for a particular story. We still have more to go before we start digging into genres and then whatever it is I think up next.
Last time I mentioned getting into puppets, so let’s do that for this installment. If you want to see a form of storytelling less appreciated than comics and video games, puppets would be it. Outside of parody you don’t see many adult productions that use puppets. It’s considered “kids stuff”, but if I’m not accepting that for cartoons I’m not about to let puppets get the negative treatment…because the ones who make that claim are the same people who look down at kids entertainment, which is a whole other topic.
There are two general types of puppetry, but we’ll discuss stop-motion in the future. I want to look at the more traditional puppets this round, the hand puppet and the marionette. I won’t get into the full history of puppetry because there are more learned discussions on that than I can give you, but we will look at how puppetry can tell a story in a way other forms can’t.
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Well, considering what their name means….
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #12
Marvel/Paramount Comics (December, 1997)
“Telepathy War” part 2: “Command Decisions”
WRITERS: Michael Martin & Andy Mangels
PENCILER: Tom Grindberg
INKER: Bob Almond
COLORIST: Glynis Oliver
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
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Why You Can Blame Amazon’s Not-Tolkien On Battlestar Galactica
Let me preface this by saying I am not doing a hit piece on SyFy’s remake of Battlestar Galactica. I haven’t even watched the show but I know enough about it to make my case. Honestly I could have used a bunch of different examples but choosing one makes it easier to go over, it’s one I’ve mentioned before, and it makes for a nice headline while I’m not just going to go for clickbait. There has to be something to it and I think will work fine.
Now you’re probably wondering what a science fiction series that’s a namesake adaptation of a classic science fiction series has to do with a fantasy series that’s a namesake adaptation of a fantasy franchise and are now realizing that particular phrasing just answered your question. I don’t know a lot about Lord Of The Rings. I’m not a huge fantasy fan and The Neverending Story being my favorite movie is more of a fluke than anything else. I do watch some fantasy but usually it’s more “science fantasy” like Star Wars before Disney took it over and made some questionable decisions. I see people pointing to the sociopolitical changes to the make-up of Middle Earth. We have black dwarves, probably not played by dwarfs, women who were never badasses in the original lore now being uber-badasses according to the previews, and black elves in contrast to how elves have been depicted in the folklore that JRR Tolkien was inspired by. One of the YouTube channels I follow is a black man who is steeped in Tolkien lore to the point that he can speak…one of the languages from the franchise, I couldn’t tell you which. Yes, Tolkien even created a fictional language complete with its own grammar and linguistics…just in case you thought the Star Trek movie people creating a Klingon language was just being geeky. It’s called worldbuilding.
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This is because Amazon Studios didn’t get the rights to the ACTUAL pre-LOTR history of Middle Earth, The Simarillion and the Unfinished Tales, but for some reason does have the rights to the same old books that both Peter Jackson and Rankin/Bass have already adapted. As more information comes out about the show it seems like they outright wanted to ignore the actual history in favor of their own take, and replace the familiar characters with their own version…which brings us back to Galactica.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on February 24, 2022 in Television Spotlight and tagged Amazon Prime, Battlestar Galactica, commentary, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Rings Of Power.
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