Interesting scenario while not having read the comic yet. The gang’s usual routine is going to end Penelope’s series.
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #41
DC Comics (October, 2018, as featured in volume seven of the digital trade)
“Perils Before Swine”
WRITER: Sholly Fisch
ARTIST: Scott Jeralds
COLORIST: Silvana Brys
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
For the last movie in last week’s intended Finally Watched list I wanted to watch something a bit different from the other three movies. Batman Ninja and Ant-Man & The Wasp were superhero movies while Alita Battle Angel was a sci-fi action movie. I had wanted to finish on something a bit more fun and less action heavy. My first thought was M*A*S*H*, the movie loosely based on the novel that inspired the famous TV series. Unfortunately it had the same glitch that messed my first choice for the Marvel slot, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, where the recording cut out half way through. So I looked at Kubo And Two Strings, but it had the same problem. It’s good that I checked this out before committing to watching it so I don’t have to worry about seeing only half of it until another option appears.
While a few movies on the DVR that we’re awaiting a replacement for from the cable company were working, that replacement means I’m going to lose movies, so I wanted to grab something from the HBO, Cinemax, and Starz preview weeks to get the full movie without ads. So eventually I settled on Pokémon Detective Pikachu, a 2019 movie based on the video game spin-off of the popular Pokémon game series. I haven’t played it but I do know it’s not your typical pocket monster hunting game, but some kind of mystery solving game. So as an adaptation I can’t tell you if it’s any good, except for how it adapts Poké-Earth in general. I’ve heard good things about it from the community so I guess it is a good adaptation but I can give my thoughts on the movie itself.
RELEASE DATE: 2019
RELEASED BY: Warner Brothers, Legendary Pictures, and the Pokémon Company in association with Toho
RUNTIME: 1 hour44 minutes
RATING: PG
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: HBO Family during a free preview weekend
STARRING: Justice Smith, Ryan Renolds, Kathyrn Newton, Bill Nighy, Chris Greere, and Ken Watanabe
SCREENWRITERS: Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, and Nicole Perlman as writers, joined by Rob Letterman and Derek Connoly on screenplay with Hernandez and Samit
DIRECTOR: Rob Letterman (just had to get into the screenplay credit, Rob?)
BOX OFFICE: $433,477,601 worldwide, $144,174,568 domestic according to IMDB
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $150,000,000 according to IMDB
“Don’t worry, Kimberly. We’ll find another publisher.”
Space Ace #3 [almost the final issue]
CrossGen Publishing and MV Creations (November, 2003)
WRITER: Robert Kirkman
ARTISTS: E.K. Miyaura & Cid Norbert
COLORIST: Jeremy Roberts
LETTERING: Lithium Pro
Remember when I wrote about one of the comics Fredric Wertham claimed to have read but clearly just looked at for a few minutes? Well, and I really took too long to post this, it turns out that was an adaptation of a Rex Morgan comic strip story about a kid on drugs and Rex Morgan’s mission to help his girlfriend save him when everyone around him either wanted him hooked or already gave him up for dead. D.D. Degg of The Daily Cartoonist even linked to the review I did as part of my very deep dive into Seduction Of The Innocent, a book that will haunt me forever. Sorry it took so long to reciprocate, D.D..
Rights issues are a confusing but fascinating mess and tonight I have a video from Comic Drake that’s a doozy. Interestingly it starts with Captain Shazam up there, follows through into British comics, drags in Spawn, and involves DC and Marvel comics both directly and indirectly. Plus there’s more of that superhero deconstruction I do love so much…oh right, sarcasm doesn’t work as well in text since I actually want it to die or at least take a break until there’s a status quo to discuss because it’s ALL deconstruction now.
The central figure is Marvelman, or Miracleman depending on which point in the character’s life cycle you go with. The history of the series itself is one to be explored at a later date, or just watch this video by Owen Likes Comics, who makes a cameo here along with another BW recommended show, Sasha of Casually Comics. It’s interesting how this tale of lawsuits, mostly between Todd McFarlane and Grant Morrison, that involved Miracleman, variants of Spawn and the angel Angela, and the issue with the character’s name.
You’d think I could come up with some kind of lame cake joke.
Sonic X #10
Archie Comics (August, 2006)
“No Thanks For The Memories” part one
WRITER: Joe Edkin
PENCILER: Tracy Yardley!
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Josh Ray
COVER ART: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante
LETTERER: John Workman
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
Catch more from MatPat and Game Theory on YouTube
If you’re curious here’s that first Game Theory episode he tried to warn you away from. Fun fact: the ACTUAL first video on the channel comes from his stage acting period before he started Game Theory. Maybe he was hiding that, too?
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
