No, we’re not getting it…but we almost did. Bounding Into Comics has part of an interview that movie director Chris Columbus did, bringing up that at one point he wanted to make a Fantastic Four movie, and maybe even a Daredevil one. Instead he went on to Harry Potter…so I think he did okay. Still it shows that failing to respect the source material isn’t a new mistake by Hollywood. The pecking order has existed for a very long time.
Now that things are finally calming down (I hope), I can finally get the latest story bible/pitch review series going.
Recently the fine people at the Sunbow/Marvel Archive, a website dedicated to finding information from the alliance between Sunbow Productions and Marvel Productions, recently found and posted a series of pitches and concepts for the Transformers cartoon as they tried to put together for CBS’s Saturday Morning lineup in the 1980s. This was after More Than Meets The Eye, the three episode miniseries, aired in syndication. Hasbro had hoped that this would help boost knowledge of the Japanese toyline hodgepodge they had put together with Marvel Comics and boost sales of the toys.
This production did not happen.
The whys and wherefores were already chronicled by Christ McFeely of Transformers: The Basics. Back when I had more important things to concentrate on, I did post his video on the show that would have been quite different from what we ended up getting. You can see it here if you’re interested. I’ll be going over the highlights as I set up this article series.
Just like I did with Star Trek and Doctor Who, I’m going to go over this material with the goal of seeing if this is something we were better off without in favor of what we got or if we missed out on something good. Spoilers: after McFeely’s video I’m not convinced we aren’t better off with the three season plus three episodes we got. Still, it’s fun to think about what could have been and see what let up to the cartoon we all know and love. Welcome to CBS Transformers, my new article series.
Someone brought a gun to a swordfight.
Keen Detective Funnies volume 3 #1 (#17)
Centaur Publishing (January, 1940)
There are pages missing from the beginning of the comic. I hope there aren’t any missing from inside the comic. Yes, we are back to the not-funny funnies. So far this has been a good anthology. Let’s hope the trend continues this issue.
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This game could have been really cool. Shame we never got it. Meanwhile I still need to finish War For Cybertron.
Explain how the show from the video above turns into the characters from the video below.
Yes, a goofy kids show about four guys in mascot costumes clowning around, allegedly playing music, introducing cartoons, and running from pre-teen gogo dancers became Five Nights At Freddy’s. I want to state right at the start that nothing I am complaining about is a discussion about the quality of the work itself. Maybe these are all good movies. I don’t know and I don’t care. I don’t watch horror to begin with and I wouldn’t watch these one way or the other. I keep saying here that being good technically shouldn’t be the only requirement to enjoy or not enjoy something. It’s not even that they exist. I’d roll my eyes and move on. Depending on how you view fairy tales, Snow White and Hansel & Gretel beat these guys to the punch. It’s actually a trend that started with Winnie The Pooh the moment the original A.A. Milne books (NOT the Disney version) went into public domain, and it’s a trend that just annoys me personally. Consider this the vent of the week: why are we turning kids entertainment into horror movies?
Unless you’re new here (hi!), you probably see my answer coming.
“Shouldn’t we be inside the ship while in deep space?”
Starburn (trade collection of issues #1-4)
Mankindx3 Books (uploaded March, 2022)
CREATOR/WRITER: Kelly Bender
PENCILER: Brian Balondo
INKER: Cristian Docolomansky
COLORIST: Laura Lee
LETTERERS: Nic J Shaw (#1 & #2) & Micah Myers (#3 & #4)
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The media pecking order continues to be wrong.
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