If this comic doesn’t have Shaggy in an eating contest with Matter Eater Lad, Fisch need to apologize.
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #33
DC Comics (February, 2018; as posted to comiXology in part 6 of the trade)
“The Ghost Of Ferro Lad!”
WRITER: Sholly Fisch
ARTIST: Dario Brizuela
COLORIST: Franco Riesco
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
Superman And The Mole Men was the first full-fledged Superman movie, but it was also the introduction of George Reeves as the Man Of Steel. TV viewers would be getting used to him because he would be playing the role in Adventures Of Superman until his suicide in 1959, just four seasons into the show’s run. They opted not to replace him and that was the end of the show. A pilot for a spinoff featuring Superboy (in the comics at the time these were the adventures of Superman in his teen years, which finally showed us how John and Martha Kent raised the future hero) was made but not picked up, the story later being adapted into the Superboy comics. There is also something called Super Pup, a very bad idea.
Later, another animated Superman series would come about, but this time on television. These are the intros we’ll be examining in this installment because they’re kind of tied to each other. You’ll see what I mean.
There’s a face that screams “why are your kidneys still inside you?”.
Speed Racer volume 2 #1
NOW Comics (July, 1992)
“Best Laid Plans…”
WRITER: Tony Caputo
PENCILER: Joe Roziarski
INKER: Kyle Hotz
COLORIST/LETTERER: Patrick Williams
COLOR ASSIST: Suzanne Dechnik
SELECTED COVER ART: Joe Koziarski & Mark Stegbauer
EDITOR: Joan Weis
I’m guessing Japan doesn’t have its own version of Siskel & Ebert, the movie reviewers who used to have a TV show for years. I can understand being protective of your intellectual property (IP for short) in light of fansubbers releasing shows without the rights holders making any money, or even straight-up untranslated recordings. On the other hand Nintendo went after Let’s Play videos of their games until they were shown that a game play may actually benefit sales…and the guy who did that is no longer at Nintendo Of America so I wouldn’t be surprised if Japan’s corporate headquarters do that again.
However, it’s worse for video reviewers and parody makers given that Japanese studios still go after their anime reviews with the same rage they go after illegal full uploads, even if you’re trying to encourage people to watch the full thing. A deep dive like my Clash Of The Bionoid review is covered under US rules but they’re still an issue. Trying to do a review at all since Hollywood has taken notice (and has fits over negative reviews) is not easy.
However, ShoPro, the anime studio behind shows like Pokémon, has just figured out a way to use (or rather abuse) the international and Japanese legal systems to go after any anime reviewer. One such reviewer is Suede, who’s Pokémon reviews have been going on for years but now is under direct target by Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co, ShoPro’s parent company. In the video below he goes over the legal maneuvers they have done to ensure this one New Zealand reviewer on YouTube will lose his career in reviewing their product. Note that Suede loves the show and I’m betting his reviews (I’ve seen a few and some crossovers he did with other reviewers I follow but I didn’t really catch a lot of his videos) were mostly positive or pointing out errors in the hopes they’re avoided in the future.
Running a bit late today. Yesterday wiped me out and of course this is the one I watch two shows for comparison.
“I told you to call a plumber!”
Robotech: The New Generation #5
Comico The Comic Company (January, 1985)
“Curtain Call”
ADAPTATION: Jack Herman
PENCILER: Jeff Dee
INKER: Sam Keith
COLORIST: Kurt Mausert
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
Here’s another victim of how DisneyFilm approached Star Wars badly by not having a shared vision in a trilogy. Bounding Into Comics has an article up in which Pablo Hidago has let people know that J.J. Abrams wanted to destroy Coruscant, the city planet capital of the Republic, but one of the later directors wanted to use it for his movie before being removed. I don’t know if that was a slap at the prequel trilogy (which have been reassessed in light of the disjointed mess of the sequel trilogy) or just the same “blow up famous stuff” that led to him wiping out Vulcan in the first Star Trek movie of the Kelvin timeline. Either way it shows both how three directors working on no shared vision (see also Rian Johnson not knowing what a trilogy is by ending plot threads better left to the third movie, like Finn’s final battle with Phasma) can derail a trilogy and another example of how little concern Abrams has for what came before.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on February 4, 2022 in Comic Spotlight and tagged Comics By Perch, commentary, deconstruction.
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