This is what happens when you don’t get the weeds out of your garden.
Robotech Masters #21
Comico The Comic Company (January, 1986)
“Final Nightmare”
WRITER: Mike Baron
PENCILER: Harrison Fong
INKER: Bill Anderson
COLORIST: Tom Vincent
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Maggie Brenner
During a recent court case involving a rather ineffective class action lawsuit on Wesson Oil’s previous owners, the judge in the case likened how useless the case was to Lucas promising not to make bad Star Wars movies after selling to Disney…and then continued to come down on The Last Jedi and The Rise Of Skywalker. Then the attorney general chimed in agreeing with the judge. It’s kind of weird yet amusing that the judge and AG took time to play movie critic.
Ever since Superman first graced the pages of Action Comics people of all ages have fallen in love with superheroes, mighty champions who choose to use their great powers, abilities, and skills to better people’s lives. They’re an inspiration for the young and the source of catharsis for the old. However, in the dawn of the 21st century superhero stories have been in the hands of those inspired by books like Watchmen and what was intended to be the exception has slowly become the rule, darkening the bright lights of our great fictional heroes.
I’m probably overselling that a bit because I don’t know for sure that’s what Variant Comics is thinking with what they’ve called not an anti-Watchmen so much as a reverse Watchmen. While Alan Moore’s amazing work wondered what if superheroes weren’t as cool in real life, Variant Comics is going the opposite route with their comiXology original, Astounding Times. The YouTube channel is usually the host of videos discussing comic characters and stories but just recently host Arris Quinones announced he is working with some great talents in mainstream comics to create his own superhero universe, one that has forgotten to look up after a dark event takes the heroes down a few pegs. What is the incident? Well, that’s not explained in this promotional video but what it sets up is something I’d really like to read.
Really? In the comic it looks like a random monster.
Star Trek: Voyager #7
Marvel/Paramount Comics (May, 1997)
“Relicquest” part 2
WRITER: Ben Raab
PENCILER: Jesus Redondo
INKER: Sergio Melia
COLORIST: Matt Webb
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
EDITOR: Tim Tuohy
Just as we were getting use to “WarnerMedia”, Slashfilm is announcing that the merger with Discovery Networks has led to a new name, “Warner Brothers Discovery”. A bit of a longer name but I guess Discovery Networks wants some of that promotion. The logo…is a slight improvement. It’s got more life to it than the previous logo but it’s still just a font with some fancy design to it.
However it lacks something compared to the classic Warner Brothers logo.
Last time we learned what happened to Uhura and still not much about McCoy, while we know a lot of where Kirk and Scotty ended up after “the incident” at Talin IV. With the revelation that Spock’s quitting had a negative impact for Uhura and the inciting incident for Scotty’s own resignation from Starfleet you’d think now would be a good time to find out what’s going on with Spock. However, if this story is going to make you wait for the important events of the story itself I’m not surprised we’re waiting on this one as well.
Instead we’re checking in with Sulu and Chekov for the next two chapters. This chapter is only about five pages long, usually too few for a one-chapter review article but the next one is fourteen pages, so I’m going to hold off on it until next week. Plus I should be in bed right now as I write this because my schedule is worse than usual lately so a short one is to my benefit. Then I forgot this didn’t need to be up until Tuesday and I wrote this Sunday night…well, technically early Monday morning.
Yes, someone thought THIS made Strange look more like a magical badass than the flowing cloak. I don’t get it either.
Someone was early for Avengers Vs. X-Men.
Defenders/Avengers: X-Sanction Preview Book
Marvel Comics (2011)
This is going to be a bit different, more like last week’s look at A Planet’s Cry in that this isn’t a full comic but a preview, one that if memory serves was not given away at Free Comic Book Day or Halloween ComicFest but one of those free promos by the door. Coming off the event “Fear Itself” came another attempt at The Defenders by Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson. The other is Avengers: X-Sanction, a preview for a story by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness setting up either a miniseries or a storyline in The Avengers. Who can tell anymore in the “trade writing” days of comics?
The preview is presented as a flipbook, with The Defenders on one side and the Avengers story on the other. Both include an excerpt but most of the real estate of both sides are interviews with the creators.
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