From an episode of Reading Rainbow:
We’ve all had that kind of week. I’ve had a few. In a row.
And it looks like the start of the week is going to be leftovers from last week, but hopefully the distractions will be all done and I can focus on…anything else would be nice.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I didn’t go for a pity Transformer for my troubles but a chiwawa in a flying mech suit with guns. It’s Churro and his FD-O from the Final Faction toyline. It’s the only thing in the line I’m interested in besides the flight gear accessory pack I picked up, though outfitting it with other things in the future is a possibility.
I don’t think the distractions should have a huge influence on my schedule this week but I’ve been wrong and disappointed and royally ticked before. We’ll still continue the Chapter By Chapter review of Robotech: Before The Invid Storm and the usual comic reviews but I don’t know what I’ll be up for the rest of the week. Every time I announce something there’s a problem getting in the way so until life stops punching me in the privates I can only promise something interesting this week…if I don’t get sick. Have a good week and I’ll do what I can.
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Super Giant is a series of short films about the titular hero protecting Japan from alien invasion. These were compiled into a series of movies in the US, the third of which is Attack From Space. Renamed “Starman” (not to be confused with the DC comics hero or the Mega Man video game villain–or the NES Pro Wrestling playable character), our heroes adventures are just campy and poorly dubbed enough that Rifftrax just had to make fun of it.
With the movie in public domain, the riff by former Mystery Science Theater 3000 veterans Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett can be posted on YouTube and thus we get to have something a bit more fun tonight. There’s not much to say (outside of the actor playing Super Giant/Starman, Ken Utsui, hated that they padded his crotch…for the ladies and the costume was thus uncomfortable) so pardon the short intro as we get right into the movie. Enjoy.
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Finally, a cat Scooby can be friends with.
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #37
DC Comics (June, 2018; as posted to comiXology, or Kindle Comics or whatever it is now)
“Nasty Tricks”
WRITER: Sholly Fisch
ARTIST: Dario Brizuella
COLORIST: Franco Riesco
LETTERER: Saida Temfonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
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I’m not a fan of the Halo franchise. I tried playing a demo of the PC port of the first game and I might be willing to play it in the future but I wasn’t able to get into it because I never had an X-Box. So I can’t really speak to the significance of the game’s hero, Master Chief, keeping his mask on, either for the narrative or on a meta level. The discussion around it, where fans are less than thrilled the new show from Paramount (I don’t know if it’s on their TV channel or the latest “plus”, which frankly is a discussion all it’s own) decided to have the main Spartan remove his helmet, revealing his face for the first time. I’m sure someone at the studio thought this was a big deal, not realizing that it was actually a bad deal.
This is another example of Hollywood types not connecting to stories the way other people do. We’ve seen actors defend their versions of character who bear little to no resemblance to the source material, and we’ve seen that comics and video games are on the low rungs of the media snob’s ladder and Hollywood is full of media snobs who fully support the pecking order that benefits them. This really isn’t anything new though. Why do you think so many superhero stories now have these helmets that collapse behind the hero? Why do they embrace the maskless hero as often as possible and some studios even fight for no mask altogether? It’s all marketing combined with their belief that the movie-going and TV-watching public are stupid. Movie makers have their own problem with masks because of how they were taught to movie make. As for the actors there’s a reason they go along with it: ego.
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“I don’t care if you got blown up, you still owe me $40!”
Space: Above And Beyond #3
FINAL ISSUE
Topps Comics (March, 1996)
“Whatever It Takes”
ADAPTATION: Roy Thomas
PENCILER: Yanick Paquette
INKER: Armando Gil
COLORING: Digital Chameleon
COVER ART: Ken Steacy
LETTERER: John Costanza
EDITOR: Len Brown
BW’s Daily Article Link: In Defense Of Families In Stories
There seems to be a growing trend of stories in which the cast of friends think of themselves as a family, as if being close friends isn’t good enough or something. The traditional family unit gets treated as a joke or something broken that isn’t nearly as good as the surrogate family of unrelated characters. And yet you can still do a lot with stories about families, either as who the hero associates with outside of heroing, or a family of heroes. Author Caroline Furlong goes over families in fiction and how settling down may actually be the beginning of the adventure.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 25, 2022 in Book Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged commentary, family.
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