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This is as much a scheduling thing as it is a logistics thing. Being lazy is just a bonus.
Scheduling is also why it took until Tuesday to go over my Free Comic Book Day haul…at least here at the Spotlight. I live-tweeted my reviews of this year’s haul, and I’ll be posting the tweets plus any other thoughts because I don’t know how much I can really add. This years comics were mostly short previews, sometimes even a set of previews, with only the rare stand-alone story packed in. I didn’t get the Disney or Ninja Turtles offerings because of how things turned out.
I went to the first comic store, my regular store back when I had income, to get some advice as to selling a bunch of comics I want to get rid of and he may take a look at what I have in the future. Also, two people were there selling art that I forgot to mention in the update for last Sunday’s Jake & Leon so let me fix that right now. The first was artist Tom Ryan, who had pins and posters for sale. Take a look at some of his stuff. I’ll put it in a gallery to save space. Click for a full-size look.
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- Artist Tom Ryan’s table at Legends Of Superheroes during FCBD 2022
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- Pins for sale by Tom Ryan at FCBD 2022
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- samples of Tom Ryan’s art
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- more samples of Tom Ryan’s art
The other artist was Frank Malec, who just had posters.
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- Frank Malec’s table at Legends Of Superheroes’ Free Comic Book Day 2022
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- samples of Frank Malec’s art
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- samples of Frank Malec’s art
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- samples of Frank Malec’s art
If you like something there, track them down. This store had a two comic maximum so I had to choose carefully. I’m not convinced I did. Max Meow: Cat On The Street I picked up because of this site. I wanted to see if this indie title was worth promoting since smaller and self publishers seldom get attention. I should have chosen Disney or Ninja Turtles for the other. I was curious what’s been going on in the Turtles title since I was forced to stop getting it as it was one of the IDW titles I still enjoyed, but the Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics in the style of the old Carl Banks comics (the Ducktales reboot took on more of that style) was also consistent. However, I’ve always enjoyed Udon Studios’ take on Street Fighter so I went with that one.
I went to the second store but by the time I got there between when I got to the first store and doing some shopping along the way most of the good stuff was gone. I picked up Dark Crisis from DC and the Incal Universe preview for review purposes and since they didn’t have a limit I also picked up a Sonic The Hedgehog and a Three Stooges comic. In both stores I bought comics you’ll be seeing in the usual “Yesterday’s Comic” spots once I have a opening because comic stores pay for these free-for-readers comics and make no money from them unless people buy stuff. I already reviewed a Robotech comic yesterday. The free comics I reviewed live via Twitter and I’ll be posting those tweets with a few extra thoughts since I’ve time to think about them. They were reviewed in alphabetical order, so let’s begin.
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I should have known Japanese Little Miss Muffet would be weird.
Spider-Man: The Manga #12
Marvel Comics (June, 1998)
WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami
TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda
RETOUCHING/PRODUCTION: Dan Nakrosis
EDITOR: Glenn Greenberg
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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 Colonel Wolff got to meet up with his former comrade Captain Carpenter. Meeting with representatives of the current government as well as Dana Sterling and Louie Nichols, Wolff proposed a radical idea of giving the Invid temporary power with willing aides in the hopes that they’ll leave once they have what they want, a plan rejected by the government in favor of their own plans which may play against Wolff’s own back-up plans. The Invid threat continues to loom but the ones appearing to take it seriously are those who have fought against the Invid directly or actually listened to the experts.
We’re now about halfway through this novel and so far I’ve found it interesting. The question is whether or not I could see these events happening. Robotech and the shows that make it up are all as grounded as you can get with aliens and transforming mecha so actions by fools in the government, business, and the military (that last one not exactly new to the franchise) like we see here is certainly a believable scenario. I wasn’t expecting a lot of mecha battles given that we’re between enemies, so the battles play out in the battleground of politics. Naturally, when that happens everyone loses, sometimes even the people in power. Let’s dive back in and see if we can spot the losers before they lose.
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Yeah, I’m surprised they’re still talking about a live-action movie, too.
Robotech II: The Sentinels book 3 #1 (“The Untold Story” special edition)
Eternity Comics (November, 1993)
“The Dance Of Death”
WRITER: Tom Mason
ARTIST: John Waltrip
COVER COLORIST: Moose Bauman
LETTERER: Mike Delapine
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Albert Deschesne
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Kara Lamb
EDITOR: Mark Paniccia
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Hollywood seems to be having trouble matching adapted characters with actors when they have a picture of them handy, so imagine how much harder it is when they don’t? Someone put the descriptions of Harry Potter characters into an artificial intelligence art program to see if we can get an actual look at what the characters would look like versus the actors in the movie and Buzzfeed’s Alexa Lisitza put the images against their actors.
