I could have sworn I posted this but I can’t find it. I even have the title card in my media library! Have to fix that.
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Admittedly I would have watched that as a kid. Not sure about the “giving you cancer” part. @#$% cancer!
Update added the following afternoon:
The original Assassin’s Creed concept was a man in the future who had to learn the skills of his ancestors via ancestral memory in his DNA or something to fight against the Knights Templar, and actual Catholic group that has suffered bad PR ever since Dan Brown’s book The DaVinci Code, if not sooner. However, fans found themselves preferring the stages set in the past, and thus the only remaining science fiction aspect were the various artifacts the Assassin’s Guild tried to keep out of the hands of the Templars to protect the world. Yes, the murderers were the good guys and the villains were Catholics. You imagine that I, as a non-denominational Christian raised in a Catholic family and raised on heroes who found non-killing solutions to stopping evil, am not the target audience. Take anything I say here with that in mind. I ain’t playing this thing regardless and I have no eagle in this fight. I’m just a fan of storytelling who has been confused with Ubisoft’s mindset starting with the most recent game, Shadows. I did a few articles on that whole nonsense, but here’s some NEW nonsense.
Game File is reporting that Ubisoft canceled their next idea for an Assassin’s Creed game in light of the response to Shadows. While there is no name attached, the game would have been set after the US Civil War, a period no doubt discussed often in France (the country Ubisoft is based in) and taught in French schools due to the importance to French history. It would have followed a just freed slave since the anti-slave North had won the war, for those you who weren’t there that day. That Park Place allegedly got past the paywall and read the whole thing, but there is a bit of commentary in there. Heck, there’s a bunch of commentary right here, so you should be ready for it anyway.
This does sound like it could be a good game…in a different time and place, and not in light of some of Ubisoft’s recent decisions, like adding a black character to a game that shouldn’t have had one, while making a concept long desired by the fans turn into a monkey’s paw as they went for political points. So would this game be any good? Clearly the best people to talk about the biggest race-related event in US history…
The creative team behind Assassin’s Creed: Shadows.
…is an army of the whitest French people they could put together.
I know there’s an airline joke I should be making right now.
In-Flight Service #1
About Time Comics (2014)
STORY: Lee Jiles & Peter McLeod (writer)
ARTIST: Youmin Park
COVER PENCILER: Oski Yanez
COVER INKER: Eric Dotson
COVER COLORIST: Nate Tingen
FRONT COVER ART: Neil Chenier
LOGO DESIGN: Eric Bowen
Yesterday I mentioned that Ana Nogueira, the screenwriter for the upcoming Supergirl movie in the DC Gunninverse, had trouble believing Supergirl could be so upbeat after seeing her planet die. Kal-El was a baby and saw nothing, while Kara, depending on the continuity, was either on a Kryptonian colony or a chunk of the planet that somehow maintained atmosphere and gravity. Some versions still have Argo City alive but out of phase with the regular universe, or in a pocket dimension or warp or something. The official comic story however is that Kara is as much a survivor of a doomed world as Kal is. While Kal-El was raised on Earth as Clark Kent and only learned about Krypton later in life, Kara has to see her people die, with knowledge of her cousin being alive on Earth her only benefit…only to find that thanks to cosmic shenanigans he was already grown, thus taking care of her instead of the other way around. Not how one wants to spend their teenage years.
I was thinking about this after writing yesterday’s article and remembering that’s kind of why Geoff Johns remade Billy Batson’s personality, or so I theorize. Billy Batson lost his family in a car accident, in his earliest version having his uncle steal his inheritance (I’ve never heard how big that actually was…were the Batsons rich?) and kicking him into the streets. In the original Golden Age version Billy survived as a newspaper boy until he was brought to the Wizard and given the power of Captain Marvel, today going by Shazam for a bunch of we don’t care for this article reasons but don’t be surprised if I end up using both interchangeably or “Captain Shazam” because to me he’ll always be THE Captain Marvel. He ends up with a job in a radio station, then they retconned in a sister who was thought dead but found and later raised by a loving family who also took Billy in.
So what’s the problem? Billy, like Kara (who was also adopted by a loving couple after taking on the identity Linda Lee, depending on continuity), didn’t react the way current writers think he should. He was good natured, caring for others, and so optimistic that Captain Marvel would be called the “Big Red Cheese”, though I don’t think that’s the actual origin of the nickname. I’ll find out when we start looking through the old Fawcett comics. According to the writers, they should be despondent, angry, weighed down by the huge trama of how terrible their backstories are. Except they aren’t, and the fact that they don’t understand why shows they don’t understand how DC used to operate.
In order to get the daily comic reviews up on time I have to do them by the night before at the latest. Well, yesterday (depending on your timezone, writing today for me) I spent the day running around with various tasks and I’m just not up to doing a review today. Still, if you come for Sonic Wednesdays there will be a slight difference in how we’ll be doing this, though it’s mostly on my end.
I didn’t realize that the third attempt at following Archie’s Sonic The Hedgehog comics coincided with the debut of BW Media Spotlight. When I first started the site, new comic reviews came out in a group on Sundays, in the “This Week’s Reviews” feature. (This feature would soon debut the Jake & Leon comic as I was running out of fresh intros for the feature, and now the comic has taken over the Sunday slot along with updates of my week’s plans and that week’s The Clutter Reports posting.) Proving to be more trouble that it was worth, I moved to daily as Today’s Comic, and when I stopped buying comics I decided to review all my old comics under “Yesterday’s” Comic.
Well, from this point onward most of the Sonic comics have already been reviewed, with maybe one or two I still haven’t or at least can’t find the old This Week’s Reviews posting for. I could stop there, but since I am going through these comics to see which if any I still want, I’m going to be re-reviewing these comics. “Yesterday’s” Comic is less concerned about spoilers that Today’s Comic was because they’re old comics. So I may update a summary to reflect that or just make a new one. The usual “What they got right/wrong” segments will be updated from the original review, which I’ll link to for comparison and update thoughts versus the original, replacing the “recommendation” from the new comic reviews with a “What do I think overall” final review like I do with “Yesterday’s” Comic. Wow, that’s a lot of quotation marks.
This week is a bit nuts but next week we’ll resume the proper reviews with Sonic Universe and alternate between that title and Sonic The Hedgehog, broken up by Free Comic Book Day re-reviews and the crossover with Archie’s Mega Man, which led to finally cutting ties with the series for reasons you can find now by looking up those Today’s Comic reviews or just wait until I get there. I did enjoy the Mega Man run by the way, so worth looking into. Regular reviews should come back tomorrow so long as my brain is working again.
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 Media Spotlight 