Annie picked a bad day to join Rook’s old biker gang.
Robotech: The New Generation #14
Comico The Comic Company (March, 1987)
“Annie’s Wedding”
ADAPTATION: Jack Herman
PENCILER: Reggie Byers
INKER: Rich Rankin
COLORIST: Kurt Mausert
LETTERER: Ed King
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
Also, it’s still a ring that hurts when a fist hits your face.
I usually do an Easter themed comic on Easter, but frankly it snuck up on me and this was partway done so I didn’t even come up with a story idea. As it is panel two did everything it could to try to get me to not make anything. It probably could have been done better but I was happy just to get the stupid thing finished.
Anyway, happy Easter. Hope your egg hunts went well and that you remembered this was the day our Savior rose from the grave, breaking the force field of sin between us and the Lord in Heaven. That or you enjoyed beheading chocolate bunnies. I SAID CHOCOLATE BUNNIES LEAVE MR. HOPPER ALONE!
So what big clutter assignment did I do this Easter weekend? Dusting, and I’ll be doing more dusting. I talk about what will be going on in this week’s Clutter Report because dusting is rather boring to talk about.
Right, Finally Watched Week was a bust! Not a total one as I got three reviews out but I’m doing one more this week out of sheer stubbornness. Otherwise we have some commentaries and the next chapter of Robotech: Before The Invid Storm as well as the usual comic reviews and quick posts. Have a good week everyone.
Warning: The following Saturday Night Showcase entry includes gore, the most awesomely stupid things the creators could get away with, and enough F-Bombs to level Miami, which is where the movie kind of sort of maybe takes place. If you can handle all that, welcome to the crowdfunded insanity tribute to low-budget 1980s movies that is…Kung Fury!
In an alternate 1985 a rookie cop is chose to become the legendary Kung Fury, the chosen master of an ancient kung fu art that apparently nobody has to teach you. However, Adolf “Kung Furher” Hitler wants to be the Kung Fury. To stop him, our Kung Fury has to call on allies to hack time, find his way to Nazi Germany, and kill Hitler. Because everyone wants to kill Hitler…mostly for being Hitler. If any of this is your bag, then enjoy the next half-hour. Apparently due to age restriction you’ll have to go to YouTube itself…probably the aforementioned mild gore and F-bombs and not the laser raptors, half-naked giant Thor, and barbarian women with machine guns. Yeah, this is not a kids production at all. The video embed does serve as a link to the actual video though. Click the “Watch on YouTube link, or click this one and come back to read me talk about it some more.
“I’d call for a gardener but they’ve been evil, too.”
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #40
DC Comics (September, 2018–as shown in volume 7 of the digital trade)
“How’s Bayou?”
WRITER: Sholly Fisch
ARTIST: Dario Brizuela
COLORIST: Franco Riesco
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn’
So if you’re reading this clearly I didn’t get the last Finally Watched movie I planned for this week. So I’ll do it next week but I’m completing this operation. The goal is to get some space on the DVR as much as finally doing these articles after saying I would. Saturday I have a lot of cleaning to finally do, I finally have this week’s Jake & Leon roughed out and I need the strip by the end of the week, and there’s only so much time I can finally do it in. This sentence is the last use of “finally” in this post.
So I’ll do that movie next week and then I have other stuff to discuss. There will be a Saturday Night Showcase in the theme of…well, you know.
Typically I am not a fan of dystopias, mostly because that seems to be all modern sci-fi creators want to do anymore. When balanced with more utopian stories I think it’s just fine, but just as I don’t want all science fiction to be utopian I don’t want all science fiction to be dystopian. Each has their own thing to say or their own way to tell a fun story. However, Hollywood fears bright colors and sunlight…which is odd given they’re in California, which is loaded with both. Maybe they see it too often outside the windows of their mansions?
The fact that I was interested in Alita: Battle Angel is then something of a fluke, but given that my all-time favorite movie is in a genre I don’t typically follow AND is a poor adaptation of the source material stranger things have happened. I don’t know if Guillermo del Toro saw the original Battle Angel Alita manga by Yukito Kushiro or the original video animation by KSS Inc., Movic, Animate and famous (in the west) anime studio Madhouse. The story goes that he showed one of them (possibly even the novelization given Hollywood types and their lack of interest in anything with drawings nowadays) to James Cameron, who loved it. It took a few years for other projects to give him the opening, tapping Robert Rodriguez to direct. In 2019 the movie hit theaters…and the “fun” began.
I would be remiss not to discuss how the movie was drawn into the current internet arm of the culture war, which I swear has gone nuclear by now. When critics of Captain Marvel, the Bree Larson movie part of the MCU, were being called misogynists because they supposedly didn’t want to see a movie starring a woman Alita: Battle Angel was used as a counterpoint of how to tell the story with a female hero right. Instead of discuss the issue and try to learn from the perspective of others, a dying art on the internet, defenders of Captain Marvel decided to attack Alita, probably without actually watching any version of it because nuance is dead. I actually considered reviewing the two movies together but I’ve decided not to take part in that nonsense. It is not fair to either film and the people who worked hard on it to judge two unrelated movies based on each other. Heck, I don’t even do that for sequels. While not-Billy Batson is on the Finally Watched list (and Billy Batson in name only isn’t…sorry Shazam! but you shouldn’t have used Geoff Johns’ comic version as your guide) I’m going to review this movie based on its own merits.
RELEASE DATE: 2019
RELEASED BY: Twentieth Century Fox, Lightstorm Entertainment, and Troublemaker Studios
RUNTIME: 2 hour 2 minutes
RATING: PG-13
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: HBO2 during a free preview weekend
That’s a new category frankly I should have added long ago.
STARRING: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Keenan Johnson, Mahershala Ali, and Jennifer Connelly
SCREENWRITERS: James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis
DIRECTOR: Robert Rodriguez
BOX OFFICE: $404,980,543 worldwide, $85,838,210 domestic according to IMDB
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $170,000,000 according to IMDB
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