Peacemaker goes in search of his inked lines and colors.
Peacemaker #6 [FINAL ISSUE…kind of]
Charlton Comics (unpublished)
Okay, so what apparently is going on here is that this is an unpublished comic. Comic Book Plus really doesn’t tell you more about it than that, so I don’t know how they got their hands on it. It’s also just a Peacemaker story, no back-up, so it’s going to be shorter than usual.
“The Golden Pharaoh”
WRITER: Joe Gill
ARTIST: Pat Boyette
EDITOR: Dick Giordano
NOTE: Another person who forgot the S bomb is still a swear
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So our heroes were screwing up last chapter even though they were winning, but at least in this book it made more sense than all the screw-ups in the last novel. Still have a chance to fix all of this.
We’re almost done with this book and I can’t wait. It’s not that I don’t like long novels, but I don’t remember being this bored most of the time reading the E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial novelization, or the few long Star Trek novels I have. It could be all the unnecessary padding, the odd chapter lengths, the clock bouncing between time zones…these are problems that still remain with this novel that showed up in the first one. I almost prefer the shorter chapters at this point because I can get done with it faster, but that’s due to restrictions I placed on myself for the review format. However, I’m not sure I’d enjoy it even if was reading this just on my own. Even with Chapter By Chapter I want to have fun with what I’m reading, then analyze it critically. This has not been that book.
One chapter this week, so let’s get to it.
What’s that you say, people who have been following along? I was going to move Ultraverse Premiere up here to finish the Prime story? Well, funny thing. Apparently I can wait on that based on how its structured (though it does leave a cliffhanger on how there’s more than one Prime), while a Lady Killer story will continue into the next few issues. So I’m back to this irritating order rather than a proper release order. It’s actually taking the fun OUT of reading the Ultraverse, so I don’t recommend following it. Anyway…
“That fly won’t bother anyone else!”
Warstrike #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (May, 1994)
“The Heart”
WRITER: Dan Danko
PENCILER: Hoang Nyguen
INKER: Bob Downs
COLORING: Tim Divar & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
I was going to make an article, but that would be equally redundant.
There are times I feel like I’m repeating myself. Sometimes I’m sure I discussed something and haven’t, sometimes I discuss something I already talked about and forgot. The problem is so many of the same mistakes are being made throughout the entertainment industry, but simply linking to or reblogging old posts would be a waste of both our times. Every article is somebody’s first, especially the way Sarah at Instapundit is sending people my way. I just got another boost from Friday’s post, but I think I want to pull away from that level of heavy commentary and try to have more fun with my commentaries and review. It’s just the SEECAs are making that more and more impossible.
I got to do a Clutter Report this week, after last week’s insomnia. I thought backing up my computer files would be easy. I spent time before reorganizing the back-up drive. Apparently I didn’t categorize it enough. Now I just hope I don’t overdo it the other way. I think it’s a bit rambly in spots. This kind of article I haven’t done in a while during my dad’s operation and recovery and I’ve been getting rambly here as well lately even before it. Time is what I really need to organize.
This week we only have the one chapter to review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image. I do want to find time to make a new batch of articles that aren’t time-sensitive to bank for when I need it, as well as continuing the Transformers lore I’ve been putting together. Speaking of the Cybertron warriors, with things a bit calmer there’s that CBS Transformers cartoon pitch I still need to go over. That’s going to be multiple articles as well. It depends on what happens to me and my dad this week, plus whatever the idiots ruining storytelling wand to screw up next. Have a great week, everyone!
While I often defend fealty to the source material, I do understand how people can prefer the changed version. I still maintain that after a certain amount of changes you might as well go ahead and create something new so fans of the original can get a better adaptation. I understand defenders of the changes because The NeverEnding Story is my all-time favorite movie but not a very good adaptation of Michael Ende’s book. Having heard the story of the book I’m not sure I would have enjoyed it given that the two versions are practically mirror opposites of each other. That’s why I say Man Of Steel is a decent superhero movie (that opinion sinking with every attempt by Zach Snyder to defend his changes) but a terrible Superman adaptation. It might have worked better as an original superhero with clear Superman inspirations.
Disney’s Big Hero 6 movie also goes on that list. Like The NeverEnding Story, I didn’t know about the original Marvel comic (at a time before Disney bought Marvel so we can’t blame Kevin Feige’s group of morons for once). The original Earth-616 version (the comics universe for those of you who only know the movies that should be Earth-199999) bares little resemblance to the movie that came after, though like many other comics turned into movies elements would later fill in from the movie and TV series (Earth-14123). Still, 616’s Baymax is a dragon. Nobody really talks about this except in comparison to the movie and series, so I guess they felt they could change whatever they wanted…which it turns out was practically everything. Unlike most Marvel Studios output or anything else from Iger’s Disney, it actually works. It’s a really good movie, which is why I gave the series a chance, and now you can, too.
Tonight I bring you the two part first episode of Big Hero 6: The Series, which is starting to come out on Disney Channel Animation’s YouTube channel. The story sees the restoration of Baymax the inflatable medical robot, and what became of the heroes after the movie. Hiro is going to college because he’s a child genius, and finds that Baymax 1 sent his chip back to Hiro at the end of the movie, a teaser for a potential sequel. Instead we get a 2D stylized series in which San Fransokyo (a fusion of the better parts of San Francisco and Tokyo–long story listed in their Marvel Database entry linked in the previous paragraph) has another supervillain. While the teens (except for Fred) are all ready to resume their normal lives, events will pull them back into the superhero business. Also, Hiro must adjust to college life and the institute’s new principal while trying to restore Baymax, a situation made worse by old and new enemies. It’s a really good series, though not a good adaptation of the comics. Like current Marvel Studios output, except it doesn’t suck.
Wait, I’ve done this before. However, that was the first ongoing episode, essentially the second or third episode depending on how you count it. This is the first actual story for the series as it’s all going on YouTube legally as the full series and I don’t have time to do another Showcase. Ah, well. Enjoy.
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