“The Sun feel a bit close and robotic today. That wasn’t in the forecast.”
Robotech Masters #4
Comico The Comic Company (November, 1985)
“Half Moon”
WRITER: Mike Baron
PENCILER: Neil D. Vokes
INKER: Rich Rankin
COLORIST: Tom Vincent
LETTERER: L. Lois Buhalis
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
The 1960s were a more creative time than today’s gloomy “realism” addicted creators. For example there was almost a movie crossover…as in “I went to a movie theater to see this” between the Adam West Batman and Godzilla! I’m not really sure the American treatment would have worked and I would love to hear about the full Japanese treatment but I’m sure curiosity alone would have led me to see this. I’m not sure I’d be into the modern take of this concept given how fun-impaired modern writers on both properties can be.
I can count the primetime adventures shows I know of on one hand:
What do you know, I have fingers left over. The pilot for Superman: The Animated Series aired in primetime and that was it. Otherwise it was sitcoms. Stations other than Fox tried to do something other than ripping off The Simpsons or Family Guy, but that only gave us Capitol Critters, Fish Police, and Father Of The Pride and I’m betting some of you only heard of those just now. I wish more action adventure shows were done in animation but you only get that for kids or out of Japan. This makes Jonny Quest a rarity. While reruns have treated it like a kids show it’s more of a family action show. People die in this series, sometimes in rather nasty yet off-camera ways. It’s sad more people don’t talk about it really. It’s one of those shows modern anime fans might want to try out.
Three different incarnations of this series exists along with the TV movies. All but one of them share a style but all of them have amazing intros that are classic and really darn good. Tonight we’re going to look at all three.
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy #2
Marvel/Paramount Comics (January, 1997)
“Liberty”
WRITER: Chris Cooper
PENCILER: Chris Renaud
INKER: Andy Lanning
COLORIST: Kevin Somers
LETTERER: Jim Novak
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
Leave It To Beaver is still a fairly well-known sitcom, and even had a spin-off years later that showed the Beaver as an adult. What you may not realize is that the series finale, the clip show (used properly), and sitcoms focused more on the kids than their parents, all started with this show. Me-TV makes the case, though it also mentions a certain puppet show that also got a final episode, a rarity with TV shows no matter when they’re told this is their final season.
It’s time to return to Symbion, a planet where scientists unleash a plague that doomed the world. Yeah, I know, but that’s what’s in the rotation. Besides these guys end up turning on each other in a great civil war…wow, the Sectaurs toyline really did predict 2020 didn’t it? Well, at least we didn’t turn into bug people while all of civilization died. Yet.
The team of Skulk and Trancula fall into the action figure and puppet. Skulk could ride Trancula and instead of just jumping the Trancula figure around you put your hand inside it and controlled his head and pincers. This is the third comic in the list at Sectaurs.com but the scans on this one aren’t the best for reading, so you have to zoom in and the text sometimes get pixelated. Luckily it isn’t so bad that I can’t follow the story, so let’s see how this villain story works out. Hopefully not well for the villain.
“Dang it, Tony, now’s not the time to show off your pecs!”
New Avengers #18
Marvel (June, 2006)
“The Collective” part 2
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILER: Mike Deodato, Jr
INKER: Joe Pimentel
COLORIST: Dave Stewart
LETTERER: Albert Deschesne
PRODUCTION: Tom Valente
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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