Yogi finally met someone hungrier than him.
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #35
DC Comics (April, 2018; as posted to what’s left of comiXology in vol. 6 of the trade)
“Bear-ly Scared”
WRITER: Sholly Fisch
PENCILER: Walter Carzon
INKER: Horacio Ottolini
COLORIST: Silvana Brys
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
Almost forgot about this one. I guess we’ll save the finale for next week, because I almost forgot Smallville…possibly because Smallville forgot to be Superman’s early years a few seasons in and became the origin of The Blur. Created by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the show decided to do yet another origin story for Superman, or rather Clark Kent as the closest we ever get to seeing him in costume (I guess Tom Welling thought the costume was the source of the “Superman curse”) was a bit of special effects work in the last few minutes of the series finale. I lost interest in the show after a few seasons so I don’t know a ton of what happened after they started creating the Justice League early, having heros that should post-date Superman’s first appearance coming in while Clark wasn’t an open superhero, and looking less and less like he would ever become Superman. Killing off Jon Kent didn’t help matters any, since this was still a movie thing (Jon and Martha are supposed to die together, something even the comics eventually forgot–Snyder couldn’t even get that right with Jor-El and Lara). So I don’t have a lot to say about the show this time around.
I’m also not going to break out ten intros, since the show lasted for ten seasons. I found a video (and hopefully it’s still up when you’re reading this) that puts them all side by side. I’ll break that out and then grab three specific intros to talk about them directly. This is mostly because I don’t want to run this theme song so often that we forget how awesome it is.
“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
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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.
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Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
