July 1, 2020

Free Comic Inside: The Last Of The Illustrated Masters Minis

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

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July 1, 2020

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Star Trek: Deep Space Nine–Blood & Honor

“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

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July 1, 2020

BW’s Daily Trailer: Kamen Rider Heisei Generations Forever

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

https://www.youtube.com/geekandsundry

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:

https://pluto.tv/live-tv/tokushoutsu

TokuSHOUTsu™ is dedicated to all things tokusatsu, featuring TV shows and live-action films with eye-popping special effects, vicious monster brawls, superhero stunts and spectacular sci-fi. The TokuSHOUTsu channel streams on Pluto TV, with select titles also available on demand at Shout! Factory TV. http://www.TokuSHOUTsu.com

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June 30, 2020

That Time Batman Slapped Robin

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.)

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June 30, 2020

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Iron Man vol 3 #77

“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

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June 30, 2020

BW’s Daily Article Link: The New Comic Distribution Conflict

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.

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June 29, 2020

Chapter By Chapter> Doctor Who: The Time Travelers prologue

Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.

Lucky for me the prologue is short because I don’t have a lot of time tonight. “Short” is relative to the rest of the book, where the smaller type could make for a longer chapter. We’ll see how it goes.

So what I’m expecting is the Doctor not being the savior of the universe but a cantankerous old man who by this point is at least willing to help but still tries to be uninvolved, like the other Time Lords. His problem was that he stole a TARDIS and left with his granddaughter because he wanted to explore time and space (plus we later learn he had to hide a Time Lord weapon and chose Earth for whatever reason, which is what the Doctor and Susan originally ended up near Coal Hill for). However, being the prologue I’m not really expecting the regular cast so much as a set-up for what they’re about to find, a teaser opening if you will. No images and no titles so we’ll just be jumping right into these chapters.

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