“Dude, I had a match!”
Space: Above And Beyond #1
Topps Comics (January, 1996)
“Out Of The Silent Space”
ADAPTATION: Roy Thomas
PENCILER: Yanick Paquette
INKER: Armando Gil
COLORING/SEPARATIONS: Digital Chameleon
COVER ART: Ken Steacy
LETTERER: John Costanza
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Jonathan Michael Baylis
EDITOR: Len Brown
Catch more from the Corridor Crew and Adam Savage on their YouTube channels
I can’t really say I “grew up” with Power Rangers. Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers began two years after I was freed from graduated high school. My worry would be that it would more resemble the parody dub of Dynaman, a few episodes of which I caught on Nickelodeon during a special showing because I kept missing the full series on Night Flight back when it was a past-my-bedtime package show on the USA network. Frankly it wasn’t my kind of comedy and hearing the heroes talk about their “gadget watches” constantly was annoying. Instead MMPR went for a more campy approach and it worked. Later shows have backed off from that with a few exceptions as the show became more serious, but wasn’t striving to be realistic. It’s science fantasy peppered with “kid logic”, which given that this is a show for kids is a good thing.
Now we’re hearing that Netflix has taken Power Rangers Dino Fury away from Nickelodeon, and there is question as to whether or not there will be another kids show…which I’m sure there will be or else Hasbro blew a lot of money for nothing. Rumor also speaks of the possibility of a “mature” take on Power Rangers, in their continuing quest to ruin everything remotely Japanese when the parent company isn’t involved. I saw one commenter excited by the news and I’m sure there are plenty of others that are. I am not one of them. Apparently fanfilms or creating an original Sentai-style team isn’t enough. Once again it’s about the marketing, using an already popular name rather than having faith in your own ideas to find an audience. This however is the least of my problems with the idea of “Power Rangers for adults”.
“Come on, we’ll get these poster makers to do a real cover yet!”
Sonic X #4
Archie Comic Publications (February, 2006)
“Boisterous Bot Battle!”
WRITER: Joe Edkin
PENCILER: Tim Smith III
INKER: Andrew Peopy
COLORIST: John Ray
COVER ART: Pat “Spaz” Spaziante
COVER COLORIST: Ben Hunzeker
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
Fans love seeing the Doctors meeting their other regenerations and having adventures together. It connects to our childhood play sessions of crossing toyline or just seeing how the Doctor reacts to his past and future selves (and the humor of how poorly they get along). Sadly Christopher Eccleston isn’t on board with that. Maybe it has something to do with the terrible history and hopefully not the same ego as Tom Baker when it comes to how they do their Doctor. It sounds like he won’t do the next anniversary reunion special, which is disappointing, and I guess even though he’s returning for Big Finish audiodramas we won’t get to hear him work with previous Doctors either. Well, at least there’s the comics.
Picard was never the hugging type.
Star Trek Unlimited #6
Marvel/Paramount Comics (November, 1997)
“Telepathy War” part 4: “Heart Of Darkness”
WRITERS: Abnett & Edginton
PENCILER: Ron Randall
INKER: Art Nicols
COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
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
Stop Killing Characters At The End Of Your Story [VIDEO]
If you’re a comic book character or a Transformer death is rarely perminate (especially if you’re Optimus Prime…at least Bumblebee grew out of it), and in comics death can be overcome by any writer who just really wants to write a certain character or wants the shock value of killing a character they don’t like and isn’t popular enough to demand a return. In other media however death can be forever…especially if your book or movie series is over.
Why kill a character? In addition to the aforementioned shock value it can be used to heighten the drama or clear the board, or show how series the situation is. Done wrong, that death just becomes quick shock before moving on, and shows you may not really care about those characters. I bet I could put more weight into killing Wolverine, a character I’m on record as hating and has already done the death/resurrection bit recently, than some of the deaths YouTube poster Uniquenameosaurus does in the following video, where he takes the Harry Potter franchise to task for some of the many deaths in the books and novels, pointing out which were good writing and which were just kind of cruel to the characters. Oddly this also ties to Full Metal Alchemist and Disney’s Ratatouille. Note that there is swearing.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 9, 2022 in Book Spotlight and tagged commentary, Death, Harry Potter, writing tips.
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