The Elders like to watch their citizens on their dates.
Robotech Masters #7
Comico The Comic Company (April, 1986)
“The Trap”
ADAPTATION: Mike Baron
PENCILER: Neil D. Vokes
INKER: Keith Wilson
COLORIST: Tom Vincent
LETTERER: David Cody Weiss
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
No, it’s not about the two American cartoons. They don’t even acknowledge them do they do mention the anime movies.
Catch more Tell It Animated on YouTube.
Godzilla, the 1998 Roland Emmerich movie, is not a fan favorite for fans of the Big G. I do understand why, and yet while the monster deserved the fan name of GINO (Godzilla In Name Only) and the Japanese “Zilla” (minus the “god”) as seen in Godzilla: Final Wars, I still very much enjoy the movie. While Emmerich claimed it was a return to the classic 1960s movie I think it’s more accurate that it resembles an update of the 50s giant monster movies that inspired Ishiro Honda to create the monster. The atomic bomb test more imitates The Beast From 50,000 Fathoms and movies of that kind that how it was treated in either the original Japanese or the US interpretation of the original Godzilla/Godzilla: King Of The Monsters. It’s a fun movie even with the questionable shot at Siskel & Ebert or the fact that it’s an early example of Hollywood not caring about the old source material, which has become the norm out of Lalaland’s theatrical landscape of not-stalgia and mockstalgia. As an original property it actually works.
However, the best defense of the movie is what came out of it. Godzilla: The Series was created for Fox Kids by Adelaide Productions, the same people behind Men In Black: The Series and Jackie Chan Adventures, and while not breaking away from the movie (unlike the aforementioned MIB, which ignored the end of the movie, here they actually continued off of it, using the teaser of a baby Zilla not found by the humans, aka Zilla Junior by fans according to the Godzilla fan wiki) managed to fix most of the movie’s errors.
I have two videos from Godzilla fan and commentary YouTube series Up From The Depths, which I still believe is a reference to that other Godzilla cartoon whose theme song starts with those words. The first discusses just what the Tri-Star produced movie did wrong while agreeing with me that the movie itself isn’t bad, just not Godzilla. The second goes into what the series did right and how it turned Zilla into a monster worth celebrating.
“Well, they didn’t mention this in the Risa travel brochure.”
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #3
Marvel Comics (February, 1997)
“Loyalty Test”
WRITER: Chris Cooper
PENCILER: John Royle
INKER: Tom Wegrzyn
COLORIST: Kevin Somers
LETTERER: Jim Novak
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
Catch more videos from Lord Aussem on his YouTube channel.
Then again that would have killed Leia and made the whole movie a moot point. No need for plans for something that went boom.
If someone were to ask you to think about superheroes and peanut butter I imagine not enough of you would think of this:
And yet this is legit. Superman had his own peanut butter and I remember it was rather good. I’m a Skippy man myself these days but I’ve tried many a peanut butter along with jelly or crackers in my 47 years of eating peanut butter (minus those years I didn’t have teeth and such…very few 4 month olds have had peanut butter). One of them was Peter Pan, and unlike the Man Of Steel’s creamy peanuty goodness is still around today. I don’t know the history of Peter Pan peanut butter but it’s an interesting choice for a mascot given that the public domain character isn’t known for eating peanut butter. Or riding buses, but there is a bus line with him as well. Probably because the punk kid first appeared in 1902 in a book by a British author, The Little White Bird and peanut butter was invented in….1884? I don’t know if I trust Wikipedia on this one. Further searching…may have actually been invented by the Incas. Wow, there’s more to peanut butter history than I thought. However, this isn’t about our favorite food, but the superhero connected to it…Spider-Man.
Yep, not Superman. In 1994 Peter Pan teamed with Marvel to create four mini-comics packed in with their peanut butter. No, they didn’t dip the comics into the peanut butter; they stuck them inside the lids. You will not be surprised to learn these are not your usual shaped comics. Peanut butter lids are round things that tend not to be all that large, even if you buy them at a warehouse store like BJs or Costco. I can’t find a proper order. Some listings say the one I’ll be reviewing today is #1 in a series, others say #4, but it’s the only one I own and I can’t find complete scans online so for now it’s the only one I’ll be reviewing.
It looks like Spidey is about to become peanut butter.
Spider-Man: The Vulture’s Nest
Marvel Comics/Peter Pan peanut butter (1994)
WRITER/COLORIST: Mark Bernardo
PENCILER: Bob Gordon
INKER: Bill Anderson
LETTERER: Ken Lopez
EDITOR: Glenn Herdling
It’s sad that it still takes guts to write an interracial marriage. Except in ads for medication.
The New Avengers Annual #1
Marvel Comics (June, 2006)
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILER: Olivier Caipel
INKERS: Drew Geraci, Drew Hennessy, John Livesay, Rick Magyar, Danny Miki, Mark Morales, Mike Perkins, & Tim Townsend
COLORISTS: Jane Chung, Richard Isanove, & Jose Villarrubia
LETTERER: Albert Deschesne
PRODUCTION: Kate Levin
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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
