There was a surprise end to the race.
Invincible Iron Man #7
Marvel Comics (January, 2009)
“The Five Nightmare” epilogue: ” Clifton Pollard
WRITER: Matt Fraction
ARTIST: Salvador Larroca
COLORIST: Frank D’Armata
LETTERER: Joe Caramagna
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Alejandro Arbona
EDITOR: Warren Simons
Catch more Transformers: The Basics on Chris McFeely’s YouTube channel.
From the comment I made on this video:
What I love is that Transformers can be almost anything. Even Pretender shells are useful for disguise depending on the continuity, while the various Masters give us a human who can interact with other humans and help out the Autobots that way as well as linking up for battle. The alt mode could be for disguise, as an advantage in battle, or benefit in other tasks. It’s a great concept to explore.
And so we come to the final chapter of the book, and if not for a slightly longer than normal epilogue this would be our final installment of reviewing this book a chapter at a time. It’s the huge finale of…this part of the book, technically the third story in the book. Last time Joanna challenged Kerensky and how much of this was Ravill’s doing is up for debate. That’s the least spoilerly I can get for the intro.
For a series about people who fight in giant robots this is only the second such fight in the book. All the other fights have been between people not using giant robots and that feels like a shame. The characters and level of the fights make up for it, but can you truly make up for having giant robots and not using them? So this fight better deliver something amazing.
“We have to stop Ryan Reynolds from playing me before it’s too late!” (I still need to watch that.)
DC Nation Super Sampler/Superman Family Adventures Flip Book
DC Comics (June, 2012)
I didn’t list the Superman Family Adventures flip side of the book because it’s just the first few pages of issue #1 of regular series. Likewise Young Justice is just the first few pages of issue #16. Only the first story is a complete one…or at least feels complete as it’s just part of issue #9 of Green Lantern: The Animated Series, which I don’t own, so I don’t know what happens in the other half of the story.
“Myrwhydden” (pages 1-10)
WRITERS: Art Baltazar & Franco
ARTIST: Dario Brizuela
COLORIST: Gabe Eltaeb
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
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(Yes, this time I have the right title on the strip.)
One of the inspirations for Star Wars were old movie serials, and yes, there were rock monsters. I looked that up in like 10 minutes.
Throw in design and then actually drawing it, and you get to a half-hour. I read somewhere that the author of that particular novel let her boyfriend come up with the concept. That was her first mistake. I mean I can accept The Vessel as the pilot could be that unimaginative, but when you show your idea of a rock creature is just a rock you kind of fail. This dude, like the monsters I based him on, folds into a rock for hiding or sleeping. There’s still room to play while making him not suck. How “quick” is a living rock that has no limbs? Look up old sci-fi serials and Kurosawa films and you’ll have a better understanding of what your doing. I’ve only seen the former, but if I were hired to write something Star Wars I’d track a few Kurosawa films down.
Meanwhile I ended up wasting time on this week’s Clutter Report since my old art software isn’t liked by Windows 10. You’d think all the complaints about lacking backwards compatibility on Microsoft’s part would have been addressed by now. If you could play old X-Box games on a One-X, you’re sales would go through the roof!
So what’s happening this week? We’re almost done with the Chapter By Chapter review of BattleTech: I Am Jade Falcon as well as the DC comics I have yet to review. Soon I’ll have to dip into the comiXology library and then replace DC with a new series after years of going over my DC library for the Monday comic review. Marvel isn’t that far behind but one series will keep it going for quite a bit longer. I want to look at the Free Comic Book Day offerings and maybe do some other fun stuff. I should be here all week depending on when I can get a 2020 Plague shot and how that affects me. Wish me luck and have a good week!
Last week we looked at my favorite Kamen Rider series and naturally my favorite of the Showa Riders. (Yes, I’ve heard about the recent remarks the actor made about his time on the show. It doesn’t change the character or the show itself.) Tonight we look at my favorite of the Heisei Riders, Kamen Rider W (and there’s a debate if that should be read as “W” or “Double” that I won’t get into).
Inspired by American noir detective novels, Shotaro Hidari thinks of himself as a “hard-boiled” detective. His chief died as they rescued a man named Philip and the Double Driver, a device that uses “Gaia Memories” to merge them together into a Kamen Rider. Each of the two memories in a Driver offers different powers as well as power certain devices they have. They try to protect Futo, the Windy City (because there are so many windmills Captain Planet would faint), from Dopants, humans who use other Gaia Memories directly into their bodies to cause trouble. Shotaro and Philip are two parts of the same detective, but can they handle the late Chief’s daughter?
With each of their cases being two episodes long, at least in the early episodes (another one I need to finish), here is the first case we see that sets up the world, allies, gear, and character dynamics. An old friend of Shotaro’s comes asking for help finding her husband, but something sinister is going one, and it’s thanks to the Gaia Memory selling family that is the recurring threat to our heroes. Count up your sins and enjoy!
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