This is how far behind I am on the YouTube backlog. On Saturday (10/16) I finally saw this video from 8/27!
Catch more Variant Comics on his YouTube channel.
Well it’s about time DC Comics made a retcon that actually makes things better! Usually they use it to ruin characters. Sadly, the Protector is still ruined…and dead…but at least they cleared Wally West of bad things!
Just stop before you get to Snugglegator.
Hasn’t stopped Family Guy.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I organized my electronics manuals. Or as best as I could under the circumstances.
This week we begin part 3 of our Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: Prime Directive. I’m not sure I even care what’s come out of DC Fandome because it looks like they stopped caring about these characters. I’m sure there will be other things to discuss, and if I can get a Finally Watched in this week I’ll…be surprised actually, but I’ll get to that. I’m sure there will be enough discussion topics to make your return worth it. Also, we’re done with Beth’s Snugglepets so I’m going to come to something as we head for our next year of Jake & Leon in two weeks. Have a good week, folks!
Plenty of TV shows make a pilot that fails but still impresses the network enough to call for a rework or a whole new pilot. Star Trek is rather famous for that, when the pilot episode “The Cage” was rejected but NBC asked for changes and we ended up with “Where No Man’s Gone Before”. We also saw a pilot for Justice League yesterday that ended up not being used. Well, add to that list Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, the kids series that somehow has managed to last through three owners (one of them twice) and numerous incarnations. Owing a lot to the “super sentai” series in Japan where the action footage and most of the costume design (and when possible actual costumes and props) came from, the show has gone through numerous changes but not only keeps members of the audience who grew up with it but drawing in a new generation of kids. Usually without chasing off current fans, so stop acting like that isn’t possible to keep old fans and create new ones. If kids shows can do it and adult shows can’t, maybe the kids show is the better product, you snobs!
Tonight we have a rare treat for Saturday Night Showcase. From a fan posting as the original pilot did air once on Fox Kids as a special event, and from a posting of the actual episode on the official Power Rangers YouTube channel, we can compare both versions of the first episode, both titled “Day Of The Dumpster”. While a number of beats and even dialog remains intact, there are also a lot of changes and it’s worth talking about. Enjoy.
I’d make a joke about why Harley is chasing them with a mallet, but it’s Harley Quinn. I don’t think she need a reason.
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #21
DC Comics (February, 2017: as posted to comiXology in volume 4)
“Harley Dazey”
WRITER: Sholly Fisch
ARTIST: Dario Brizuela
COLORIST: Silvana Brys
COVER COLORIST: Frank Riesco
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn (no relation)
Justice League the animated series was born out of the DCAU and the success of shows on Fox Kids and Kids WB. I mentioned when I reviewed the intro that in my opinion the same strong stories and tightly followed world was great for the show but unlike previous versions of the Justice League Of America it didn’t really draw you to the DC universe to learn more. Everything was right there, so its greatest strength was also its greatest weakness. In all the incarnations however (Superfriends still being the longest running), there are of course ideas that didn’t come together. Before the show you know, there was another attempt at a Justice League cartoon.
In a pilot video called “The First Mission”, Bruce Timm and his team produced a proof of concept for a different team. I don’t know if they wanted to shoot for hour long stories as they attempted with Cartoon Network but there are a few matching elements and a few that they thought would be a good fit for Kids WB. (Interestingly Justice League Unlimited would end up on the CW’s Saturday morning lineup.) In the following video a host sits down with Bruce Timm and co-producer James Tucker to discuss the history of this alternate take on the Justice League and see the pilot itself. I have to wonder though…would this version have worked?
This wasn’t the remake of Young Samson And Goliath I was expecting.
Samson
The Covenant Presbyterian Church Of New York (1998)
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Notice that they aren’t just saying Teela and Evil-Lyn are overmuscled. Even He-Man overdoes it. Their kiddie and somehow less accurate version they’re putting out is even worse but at least they’re going for an unrealistic style. Though now that he mentions it He-Man looks worse in that version. His chest alone looks like something Rob Liefeld spit out and someone at least tried to improve, but again that’s a “cartoony” style. Netflix just likes heir overmuscled heroes, don’t they?
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
