In the ever continuing trend of the live-action status symbol continuing the war on animation and being stupid while doing it (I’m surprised this isn’t coming from Disney) it looks like they’re working on a live-action version of Frosty The Frickin’ Snowman! And who will voice Frosty? Jason Momoa. I did a quick IMDB search and it looks like the only voice work he’s done are cameos where he also played Aquaman or himself…being Aquaman. I do not understand any decision in this movie.
When Mattel first started putting mini-booklets into their Masters Of The Universe action figure packages they didn’t have mini-comics but little illustrated booklets that told the story of He-Man and his friends (and not-so-friends). We learned that originally He-Man was just a guy in a village who was never prince of Eternia, who got up one morning and decided to protect Castle Grayskull without any prompting while Skeletor wanted to bring his fellow skull-headed people to Eternia to invade the planet. In this continuity the Power Sword is split in half along the blade and putting the two halves together will open the jawbridge of Grayskull, where absolute power awaits. Although Skeletor’s only been inside there for maybe five minutes at a time. After the next two stories, one final booklet was produced, and tonight we finish series 1 by checking out this one. It’s Skeletor’s last chance to win. Will he? Of course not, there wouldn’t be much of a toyline if he did.
“I didn’t even order calamari!”
Masters Of The Universe series 1 #4
FINAL ISSUE
Mattel (1981)
WRITER: Donald Glut
ARTIST: Alfredo Alcada
credits and images from He-Man.org
“Why does everyone keep calling me ‘Sarek’?”
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Celebrity Series: Blood & Honor
Malibu Comics (May, 1995)
WRITER: Mark Lenard
PENCILERS: Leonard Kirk & Ken Penders
INKERS: Terry Pallot, Scott Reed, Larry Welch, & Ken Penders
COLOR DESIGN: Moose Baumann
INTERIOR COLOR: Prism Riot
COLOR EDITOR: Andy Walton (geez, I know Marvel bought Malibu because of their coloring process but did they need that many people to make it work?)
COVER ART: Ken Penders, Leonard Kirk,Terry Pallot, & Renee Pulve
LETTERER: Roxanne Starr
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Clarissa Manansala & Chris Pelton
EDITOR: Mark Paniccia
From the video description:
Nerdist, TokuSHOUTsu and Team Kamen Rider are teaming up to bring fans the U.S. / Canada premiere of Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever! This screening event is part of the Nerdist House 2020 programming slate, kicking off July 11. The film will also be preceded by a special message by a Kamen Rider actor that you won’t be able to see anywhere else! Along with the film, there will be a special virtual panel featuring Team Kamen Rider, Tokunation, Tokusatsu Network and special guests. This momentous premiere will be carried simultaneously on Nerdist’s YouTube Channel and the Geek & Sundry YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/nerdist
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The panel will also be featured on Geek + Sundry’s Twitch Channel, but the exclusive screening will only be on YouTube. To get you ready for the film, Team Kamen Rider is creating a digital event called “Heisei Week” with livestreams every day from July 6-11, on every Kamen Rider in the film. Head to the Team Kamen Rider website for more info and exclusive new merchandise for sale: https://www.bluefinbrands.com/kamenrider.html
Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever will be coming to TokuSHOUTsu on Pluto TV and Shout! Factory TV August 1. Watch TokuSHOUTsu now:
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Who hasn’t seen this image used in memes? It’s rather popular, and I used a meme generator to make this image. That’s how popular it is. But where did it come from? The story itself, an “imaginary story” outside of canon (in DC this would be called an “Elseworlds” tale nowadays, their version of Marvel’s “What If?”), is actually crazier than the memes involved.
Sasha Wood of Casually Comics takes us on a journey back to the Silver Age to see that time when Batman teamed with Lex Luthor, mindwiped Robin, and planned to kill Superman. Strange how some of that has become canon in separate events. (Except Batman was the one mindwiped.)
“This armor was not designed for sitting.”
Iron Man vol 3 #77
Marvel Comics (April, 2004)
“The Best Defense” part 5: “Unsuited”
WRITER: John Jackson Miller
ARTIST: Jorge Lucas
COLORIST: Antonio Fabela
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Sumerak, Schmidt, & Wiley
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
Advance Comics was better to the smaller comic shops I tend to use.
I reference Advance Comics, the ordering catalog my comic store at the time was using, in the above comic when discussing DC’s decision to end their exclusivity deal with Diamond Comic Distributors, who releases the Previews catalog every month. That original decision killed Advance’s parent company, Capital City Distribution and as former CEO and current founder/CEO of comic and game news site ICv2 Milton Griep notes it’s an interestingly timed choice once you know more about what goes on behind the scenes and the timing involved. Like Leon said, it took them long enough to realize an exclusive distributor may not have been the best thing for them.
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
