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I haven’t played a lot of Sonic The Hedgehog games. I played one of the Game Gear games once, some emulation of Sonic Spinball, and I own a collection that features PC ports of the second and third game along with Sonic & Knuckles as well as Sonic Heroes but like a lot of games I never really finished them. The games are beloved as a franchise but mentioning certain games to certain fans and they’ll curl up in a ball without doing a spin dash move. Sonic ’06 comes to mind given the responses I’ve seen.
I have however seen many cartoons based on the games…well, loosely based. There have been a number of them, four created in the US and one in Japan that I’m aware of, not counting the movie which isn’t a TV show and thus won’t be on this list. And these shows have intros. Long time readers know I love a good intro, so I decided to do one for the Sonic shows. (Doing the games would take too long and the early games were just Sonic and either Tails or Knuckles popping up in the logo.) Unlike my Transformers intro-spective from last year this one will be rather short, but due to not overloading someone’s device (a problem I was worried about with all the Transformers intros) I’ll be doing this in two parts, which I’ll be splitting into the “White” years and the “other years”.
By “White” I’m of course referring to Jaleel White, mostly known for playing Steve Urkel on Family Matters, who had tried to break out of his potentially typecasting famous character though voice acting. His portrayal of Sonic even continued to a fan film I have yet to watch. He also played the blue hedgehog in the three shows we’ll be looking at tonight, all of which were produced by animation distributor DiC Entertainment, so I could also call this the DiC portion of the list. Since he didn’t play them in the other two I’ll look at them tomorrow, one of which has a Japanese intro. That means three videos per part. I like how that worked out.
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At least somebody’s buying Spider-Man comics lately.
Spider-Man Family #3
Marvel Comics (February, 2009)
“The Punch”
WRITER: J.M. DeMatteis
PENCILER: Val Semeiks
INKERS: Lanning/Olazaba/Justice
COLORISTS: Mossa & Crossley
LETTERER: Dave Sharpe
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Tom Brennan
EDITOR: Stephen Wacker
Mr. & Mrs. Spider-Man: “Common Ground”
WRITER: Tom DeFalco
ARTIST: Todd Nauck
COLORIST: Rain Beredo
LETTERER: Dave Sharpe
EDITOR: Tom Brennan
SUPERVISING: Wacker & Brevoort
“The Amazing Spider-Ma’Am”
WRITER: Abby Denson
ARTIST: Colleen Coover
“Bridge And Tunnel”
BUNCH OF CREDITS: Moore, Semise, Irwin, Mossa, & Sharpe
EDITORS: Wacker & Brennan
Grab a seat, folks. This is going to be a long one, and I’m leaving off a reprint of Spectacular Spider-Man #200 that I’ll save for next week given how long this thing is. This is apparently a full series instead of the specials I’ve been reviewing under the Spider-Man Family title.
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When you kill off a character be very careful. If you can avoid it, consider it if you know the character has a lot of fans. Just ask Hasbro. Resurrecting a character is also tricky to the point where death has become meaningless to superheroes…and Optimus Prime, who has seldom gone through a continuity WITHOUT dying and coming back to life. I can’t even think of one off-hand. This cheapens death as a dramatic storytelling tool. This may be why author James Harrington makes the case for leaving the dead…dead.
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Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
And so we’ve come to the end of another book. We’ve Joanna’s highs and lows…when I wasn’t too sick to review. All we have now is the eight page wrap-up of this book. So while the intro is now going to be short let’s see what happens to our favorite Star Commander after her amazing battle last chapter.
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“I keep tripping over super-deformed kids today.”
DC Nation Super Sampler
DC Comics (July, 2013)
COLORING: Heroic Age
Beware The Batman: “Rough Seas”
PLOT: Mitch Watson
WRITER: Scott Beatty
ARTIST: Luciano Vecchio
LETTERER: Wes Abbot
EDITORS: Alex Antone & Sarah Gaydos
Teen Titans Go!: “Magic & Misdirection”
(featuring pages originally printed in Teen Titans Go! #12)
WRITER: J. Torres
PENCILER; Todd Nauck
INKER: Lary Stucker
LETTERER: Phil Balsman
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jeanie Schaefer
EDITOR: Tom Palmer, Jr.
