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Are you sure you Pika-fans want realism that badly?
The black costume is my favorite Spidey costume…when it isn’t a brain-eating symbiote. In the past we saw that the black costume eventually grew on people but it was too late to save it. It just makes him look more spider-like, and if Spidey by nature is part ninja then it’s an even better choice (by cultural standards anyway). Unfortunately it will always be tied to the aforementioned symbiote.
But before that kid sent in black costume concept we could have had a black costumed wall-crawler on the 70s Spider-Man live-action series. No, not the Japanese show with the giant leopard robot–because Japan. I’m referring to the CBS series with Nicholas Hammond as Peter Parker that is underrated while the pilot does get most of Peter’s lore wrong…which didn’t stop Spider-Man: Homecoming from being a success. Hero Journalism, while interviewing John Romita Sr., gets a look at how the makers of the TV show tried to change even more, including Spidey’s classic red and blue duds, because of course they know better than those silly comic makers that created him. Yeah, that didn’t start with Todd Philips.
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“Yep, you definitely have the power up too high!”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Ultimate Annual
Malibu Comics (December, 1995)
EDITOR: Phil Crain
“No Time Like The Present”
WRITER: Laurie Sutton
PENCILER: Leonard Kirk
INKERS: Scott Reed, Saleem Crawford, & Leonard Kirk
COLOR DESIGN: Moose Baumann
INTERIOR COLOR: Malibu
LETTERER: Tracey H. Munsey
LINE EDITOR: Mark Paniccia
“The Nagus’s New Clothes”
WRITER: John Vornholt
PENCILER: Patrick Woodrow
INKER: Larry Welch
COLORIST: Ruth Yarshapour
LETTERER: Edd Hendricks
“Small Victory!”
WRITER: Mariano Nicieza
PENCILER: Anne Timmons
INKER: Scott Reed
COLOR DESIGN: Mike Heliemann
LETTERER: Patrick Owsley
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It’s nice to see someone else saying the same thing I’ve been saying on this site for years.
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Veggietales is one of those unusual Christian shows in that it’s also enjoyed by followers of other faiths and no faiths. From the lovable characters to the fun stories to the wholesome entertainment the show does amazingly well considering it started out as a series of direct-to-video 30 minute episodes about sentient vegetables released using 1990s CGI. So what happened?
Animation reviewer Saberspark goes over the rise and fall of the franchise, how one man’s quest to create wholesome, pro-God entertainment lost its direction and nearly killed a beloved franchise, and how it may actually be making a proper comeback.
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“Why are the lights so yellow?” “What light?”
New Avengers #9
Marvel Comics (September, 2005)
“The Sentry” part 3
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILER: Steve McNiven
INKER: Mark Morales
COLORIST: Morry Hollowell
COVER ART: David Finch, Danny Miki, & Frank D’Armata
LETTERER: Albert Deschesne
PRODUCTION: Deborah Weinstein
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Aubrey Sitterson & Molly Lazer
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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Yeah, I’m trying to figure this one out myself. Usually I complain that Hollywood has this weird obsession with doing live-action versions of shows and concepts created with animation in mind, but here’s a case of the reverse being true as they want to make a cartoon out of Good Times. The original show was a live-action sitcom about a black family trying to escape poverty, focusing the maid from the show Maude, which was about the cousin of Edith Bunker from All In The Family. Yes, it was a spin-off of a spin-off that took the same idea that Perfect Strangers did with Family Matters by spinning off a popular character into her own series by showing her with her family. I wonder if that makes JJ Evans their Steve Urkel?
Good luck, Norman Lear. Animated spin-offs of shows are rarely even close to being as good as the sitcom they’re based on.
