Well, I finally lost any ability to match the comic with the episode without going to one of the more…questionable sites that may or may not be computer virus farms. Not only has Funimation not put up episodes of Robotech on their streaming service while removing all the videos Filmrise had up on sites like Tubi and VuDu (and I really wish Harmony Gold had stuck with Filmrise) but now the episodes on YouTube I was using are gone. Even the stupid “remastered” versions that put back all the nudity and blood (basically the Japanese series with the Robotech audio over it) aren’t available outside of foreign languages or weird editing to avoid the copyright bots.
Look, they’re within their rights to take it down, but I was using these to judge how well the Comico comics were adapting the episodes and now I’m missing that part of the review. Why Funimation hasn’t put the episodes up, or Harmony Gold left the others up until they did I don’t understand. Getting the home video release would be too expensive if I had money coming in, which I don’t, and much of the lockdown stimulus has gone to replacing dead or obsolete computers and a surprise repair job on my car that took a huge bite out of it. I can’t afford to get the home video version and with no streaming option I feel like I’m missing part of this review. For that I apologize and there’s one scene in this issue I really want that comparison. We’ll get to that in a moment.
A picture of the Teletubbies sun baby twenty years later.
Robotech Masters #19
Also I’m missing an issue for the first time in a while. It’s amazing how many issues I have from this series and it’s not even my favorite Robotech war. It’s like how my Marvel collection seems larger than my DC collection though I’m more of a DC fan…until recently when it’s tough to be a fan of either of them.
Comico The Comic Company (October, 1987)
“Crisis Point”
ADAPTATION: Mike Baron
PENCILER: Neil D. Vokes
INKER: Tom Poston
COLORIST: Tom Vincent
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Maggie Brenner
BW’s Filler Video: How Watchmen Ruined Superhero Comics
It would be a mistake to say that Watchmen. the 12 issue maxiseries that everyone knows as a graphic novel (yep, it’s a trade) or the only time Zack Snyder got a superhero movie right. Mostly because I never read the book or saw the movie. There was a time where I would have found the idea fascinating and would want to read it, a world in which superheroes are secretly more like supervillains in a cynical deconstruction of what superheroes are and what superheroes would be like and how they would affect the history of the world.
The problem is that everybody wants to write Watchmen, to produce the next Watchmen and you can’t convince me that The Boys or The Ultimates weren’t part of that goal. Everyone wants to deconstruct superheroes but nobody wants to reconstruct them, or at least not in the right way. In the following video Just Some Guy (so expect some cursing) goes over what made the comic work and the attempts to clone the concept by today’s writers don’t work at all and have led to the ruining of superhero comics.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 20, 2021 in Comic Spotlight, DC Spotlight, Marvel Spotlight and tagged Civil War, commentary, DC Universe, Identity Crisis, Just Some Guy, Marvel Universe, Watchmen.
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