Fun fact: Zentraedi are not a fan of noogies.
Robotech: Mechangel #1
Academy Comics, Ltd (January, 1996)
“One On One”
WRITER: Bill Spangler
ARTIST: William Jang
“Fury From The Deep” was the last appearance of Victoria and the first appearance of the iconic Sonic Screwdriver, which would go on to be the Doctor’s signature tool. That is until John Nathan Turner thought the Doctor relied on it too much and it was destroyed, remaining so until the TV movie with Paul McGann. The serial is one of the lost episodes but thanks to fans recording the audio and animation by Cosgrove Hall, this moment has been recreated.
Check out more at the Official Doctor Who YouTube channel.
Kind of mundane for something so important to Who lore. It’s also one of the rare times it was actually used AS a screwdriver. Here’s a video with a little more history on the serial and the Sonic Screwdriver’s origin.
Catch more Josh Snares on his YouTube channel.
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He was going to buy it…but then remembered he lives on a planet that hates money.
Star Trek: The Next Generation Special #3
DC Comics (Winter, 1995)
COLORIST: Pamela Rambo
EDITOR: Margaret Clark
“Pandora’s Prodigy”
WRITER: Michael DeMeritt
ARTIST: Ricardo Villagran
LETTERER: Willie Schubert
“Old Debts”
WRITER: Kevin J. Ryan
PENCILER: Ken Save
INKER: Shephard Hendrix
LETTERER: Ken Lopez
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When I took part in the Transformers newsgroups many years ago (surprisingly it still exists) every election year some putz had to post a variation of the following question: are the Autobots conservative/Republicans and the Decepticons liberal/Democrat, or the reverse: are the Decepticons are conservatives and the Autobots liberals. This to me was intended to gauge the political affiliations of the other posters. Clearly you would try to claim the Autobots as part of your political perspective because they were the good guys (unless you were part of that small group that tried to make the case that the Decepticons were the real heroes–I’m totally serious and so where they). First off, my official political leanings…though I have said in the past I’m conservative with a friend claiming I’m closer to libertarian, but I’ve grown to not care about labels in general…are nobody’s business. They do not affect my affection for Transformers then or storytelling today. Plus, for the record, some Autobots would be liberal, some would be conservatives, some would be moderates, and others apolitical based on their tech spec profiles. Meanwhile the Decepticons, embodiment of the worst aspects of humanity as most villains are and a product of the 1980s, would be fascists, tyrants (Megatron’s tech spec quote is “peace through tyranny” after all), and anarchists, punks, and other criminals. It’s one of the worst questions Transformers fandom has had to put with, and they still argue “Unicron Vs. the Death Star”. (Unicron up close, the Death Star far away. Now stop asking.)
I bring this up because political divisiveness in geek communities is hardly anything new, and as politics have wormed their way into every aspect of our lives, especially our entertainment as of late, claiming a hero for “your side” has also ramped up. I see them now and then on various subjects but someone was “kind” enough to spread an image on Facebook bringing them all together in one happy rant of dumb, and all for the liberal side. Admittedly “author unknown” did get a few things right, but he (or she, I’ll stick with he because that’s one less letter for each time I have to write the pronoun so it’s out of laziness really) also got a whole lot wrong. Since I know some responses will be longer than others I’ve decided to break this down into two parts so this article doesn’t run forever. I hate when sites do that (especially the ones just trying to eek out more ad revenue, none of which I currently get) and this intro has been long enough.
One last thing before I get into this: I’m going to attempt to be as apolitical as possible given that this is skirting away from the usual types of discussions I have here at BW Media Spotlight, where I want to bring everyone together to examine the art of storytelling. However, there are going to be points where my political views will show up in the name of clarifying. That doesn’t mean I’m going to immediately disagree with everything here, nor is this about the right-winger attacking the SJW since as I said before there are things the writer got right. It’s the stuff that he got wrong that brings me here today.
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The worst part about these poster covers in modern comics is how little many of them give me to work with.
The New Avengers #10
Marvel Comics (October, 2005)
“The Sentry” finale
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILER: Steve McNiven
INKERS: Mark Morales & John Dell
COLORISTS: Morry Hallowell & Laura Martin
COVER ART: David Finch, Danny Miki, & Frank D’Amata
LETTERER: Albert Deschesne
PRODUCTION: James Taveras
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
No wonder comics cost so much. Look at all the people working on them! I think I spent less time reading the comic than I did writing the credits!
BW Vs Author Unknown: Is Geek Culture Left-Wing? (part 2 of 2)
You came back. I’m surprised part one didn’t chase off more readers. That’s one of the reasons I try to avoid politics in these discussions. To me political commentary trumping good storytelling (you can have good storytelling and still do social commentary if you try) is one of many problems I have, but this commentary is one that I felt needed to be had. Gatekeeping, excluding fans because everything needs to be made for you–especially if the original wasn’t, is not good storytelling. It’s also being a horrible person but hate is more important these days. It’s like a new take on the Monkees song “Randy Scouse Git”.
That was going up against stuck up snobs who looked down on hippies because in their mind they were all the same and not in a good way. I guess they just changed party affiliations. So we have “Author Unknown”, who put together a rant someone posted in image form on Facebook insisting that all geek media was immediately liberal and all conservatives are alt-right Nazis. This isn’t a political site nor do I intend to make it one. Tomorrow I’m discussing a song that have nothing to do with politics and getting back to the topics I love. However, you have to have an understanding of what a property is and what the intentions are if you’re going to do it justice, and that includes if the show or comic in fact IS liberal-minded or conservative-minded…or (*gasp*) completely neutral and just wants to entertain everybody because that’s where your heart (or at least your wallet) finds fulfillment. I’ve looked at half of this list and made my case. Let’s burrow through the rest. This time only some of them are the short sentences as we have some longer paragraphs to dissect. So let’s get this over with. Like how my dad pulls off adhesive bandages.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 23, 2020 in Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged Captain America, Captain Marvel, commentary, political commentary, Stan Lee, Star Trek, Superman, The Falcon, Wonder Woman.
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