What’s she putting in her garden?
Fables #1
DC Comics/Vertigo (July, 2002)
Chapter One: “Old Tales Revisited”
WRITER/CREATOR: Bill Willingham
PENCILER: Lan Medina
INKER: Steve Leialoah
COLORIST: Sherilyn van Valkenburgh
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol
COVER ART: James Jean & Alex Maleev
LETTERER: Todd Klein
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Mariah Huehner
EDITOR: Shelly Bond
If you were an 80s kid like me you couldn’t escape Pac-Man and his Pac-Family…and you didn’t want to. The game was fun, I enjoyed the Hanna-Barbera cartoon on ABC, and while I didn’t collect a ton of pac-merchandise I do have a picture album, some of of those wind-up walkers, and I used to have a t-shirt that actually came from Underoos if memory serves. Pac-Man and the ghosts (I still call them “ghost monsters” thanks to the cartoon) were easy to draw whether you were going with the in-game or out of game designs (the cabinet art but I mostly tried to go for the show’s design but in my then “can’t draw for spit” art style) so I did that a lot and sometimes still doodle the little guy now and then. It was the first video game to have a song playing on the radio–yes, “Pac-Man Fever” actually played on the radio, a move you wouldn’t see for what’s essentially a novelty song since novelty songs on the radio had died out in the 50s outside of shows like Dr. Demento’s program. Pac-Man was everywhere and joins the likes of He-Man and the Transformers as something that came from the 1980s and never truly went away.
Slopes Game Room chronicles the early history of the franchise, and while it doesn’t cover everything in this hour-long video it does go over all the various arcade games and drops some history on the game’s origins you may not have heard of before. I thought I had heard it all but there’s stuff I didn’t know until this video. Get ready for a lot of pac-trivia.
“Scoob, your road sign collecting is getting out of hand.”
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #41
DC Comics (March, 2014; as posted to comiXology)
COLORING: Heroic Age
“Annunaki”
WRITER/ARTIST/COVER: Scott Gross
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jessica Chen
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
“Chupacabra-Cadabra”
WRITER: Keith Champagne
ARTIST: Scott Neely
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
EDITOR: Jeanie Schaefer
Catch more Hero Journalism on his YouTube channel.
The odd thing is this isn’t the last time we see a mob get involved in video games. Wait until you see Pac-Man’s history later tonight.
When a sequel to Space Jam was first announced, people were confused. It’s not exactly a praised movie and nobody understands why it was made outside of Warner Brothers wanting to do something with Michael Jordan as he was returning to basketball after a short-lived baseball career. In fact the movie “attempts” to explain why Jordan went back to the NBA since nobody wants to believe he was getting burned out and wanted to try something new. I don’t know why people don’t want to believe that but it doesn’t really matter to this discussion.
LeBron James didn’t have anything to build a movie off of, but from what I can gather in the trailer above either this is about his son learning to love basketball or James realizing his son is allowed to not follow in his footsteps. Either way it’s relatively accepted in my circles that this movie doesn’t need to happen. And yet it is so let’s play the hand we’re dealt. What has popped up in recent days, including my forced downtime, are some rather unusual decisions by replacement director Malcom D. Lee concerning three characters in particular: Lola Bunny, Pepe Le Pew, and Speedy Gonzales. Of course you’ve probably read viewpoint after viewpoint both defending and roasting these decisions but if you clicked on this you somehow want to know mine. I do try to think these things out more rationally, and I’ll agree with whoever I want to. That’s the beauty of this being my site. I do question these decisions but it’s not that I don’t understand where they’re coming from. Well, all accept the last one. The last one is just plain stupid no matter how you look at it.
Before I start the review, apparently Funimation’s license with Harmony Gold over Robotech has started. Vudu no longer has the episodes available to watch (yet they’re still listed) in either original TV broadcast or the “remastered” editions. (That is just all the nudity and blood shoved back into the visuals but with the Robotech audio. It seems like a waste of time to me.) And yet as of this writing they aren’t up on Funimation’s site either. I had to use a technically illegal upload to compare the comic to the original episode. Get a move on, Funimation! Now…the review.
Zor squared off against his nemesis…paper targets.
Robotech Masters #12
Comico The Comic Company (November, 1985)
“A New Recruit”
ADAPTATION: Mike Baron
PENCILER: Neil D. Vokes
INKER: Rich Rankin
COLORIST: Tom Vincent
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW’s Daily Article Link: Sci-Fi Needs Moms
There’s an annoying trend in stories to have dead parents. We’ve joked for years about Disney’s habit of killing parents, they keep killing off Superman’s Earth parents along with his Kryptonian ones after the post-Crisis DC Universe brought them back, and the Flash had his dad framed for killing his mom despite both being in continuity prior. Apparently dead parents or dead kids are becoming a science fiction trend so author Caroline Furlong goes into why this is a bad thing and explains what “happily ever after” really means versus what modern writers seem to think it means.
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