“That was MY piece of carrot cake!”
Sonic The Hedgehog #203
Archie Comics (October 2009)
WRITER: Ian Flynn
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Matt Herms
LETTERER: John Workman
COVER ART: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Paul Kaminski
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
“Heavy Is The Head” part 1: “Surprise Visit”
PENCILER: Steven Butler
CO-INKER: Jim Amash
“Friend In Deed” part 1
PENCILER: Jamal Peppers
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I usually disagree with some of their interpretations, but credit where it’s due. This video was fair to the subject.
The above tweet caused quite a commotion when I woke up yesterday morning and I was prepared to write about it, and I still might for tomorrow. Then I went to the actual article for linking, Chrome decided to translate it for me, and then I saw a lot more to write about when it comes to Jim Lee’s comments. The article in question comes from Japanese entertainment site NikkieXTrend. Reporter Kaori Maeda asked the current DC Comics publisher/chief creative officer and the creator of the Wildstorm Universe about DC’s recent successes…and got a few facts incorrect. Then again, so did Lee.
Now, I don’t know if Lee was just trying to be nice but he’s not wrong in that currently Japanese comics are beating the daylights out of American ones in America. Before the fans get on my case, “manga” translates to “motionless pictures”, aka “comics”, and the previous name for the software I use to make my comics was “Manga Studio” in the US and “Comic Studio” out of Japan. Manga are comics. We favor no elitism here, even from fandoms. I will call them manga to set them apart from US comics easier and for the sake of argument, but if I mix them, deal with it! Yes, this is an issue with “manga” fans, including pronunciation for the really pedantic ones.
Credit where it’s due. Lee is a good storyteller and artist, which is why his work for both DC and Wildstorm has been praised to the hilt. His recent actions as COO, however, has left fans cold. The full interview is worth going over, but we’ll come back to the part the X-Twitter post focused on because that deserves its own article. The problem is so does the rest.
Wait, isn’t that an actual torch? As in lit with real fire? Dude’s dead.
Police Comics #2
Comic Magazines, Inc (September, 1941)
I’ve already reviewed the first issue thanks to DC’s “Millenium Edition” reprint. I was going to just do an issue or two and then move to Plastic Man’s solo series, but I forgot two other heroes in the book who never got their own comic (or at least Comic Book Plus doesn’t have them) are also here: The Human Bomb and Firebrand. I haven’t heard of #711 or The Mouthpiece showing up, but those weren’t total losses, while the Human Bomb was part of Uncle Sam’s Freedom Fighters if memory serves and Firebrand would get replaced with a woman taking up his name and cause after he died, again if memory serves. So we’ll see all of these characters in their formative years along with the stretchy fellow.
Catch more from (Phineas & Ferb and Milo Murphy’s Law co-creator) Dan Povenmire on YouTube
And because this so short (being a YouTube short), here’s Doofenshmirtz covering Bruno Mars’s “I Just Might”.
In our last installment our new quartet came together though they have yet to full become a team. Meanwhile, the enemy is finally going to show us how powerful he is and how desperate the measures will be to stop him. I apologize for nothing. I needed an intro.
Since I’m not sure what else to say and I need a bit more padding to the intro, let’s talk William Hartnell. Officially on TV there have been two other actors to play the First Doctor, not counting body doubles. Hartnell passed away in 1975, his last appearance being in “The Three Doctors”, with his Doctor stuck in a “time eddy” due to his failing health not allowing him to do more than sit and recite lines. Richard Hurndall would take over for “The Five Doctors”. He was a bit taller and didn’t quite have the same presence as Hartnell, but he did a good enough job under the circumstances. David Bradley did a better job, as he had just previously played Hartnell himself in the biopic An Adventure In Time And Space, which chronicled the making of the show. It’s also where they got the First Doctor’s TARDIS set, having been built for the TV movie and the original set long gone. He also joins Colin Baker, David Tennant (though non-canonized thanks to the live-action series restarted, he was a random voice in “Scream Of The Shalka” an animated serial on the Doctor Who website), and Peter Capaldi (who he worked with in his first Doctor crossover) as having done roles on Doctor Who prior to becoming the Doctor. There’s also Stephen Noonan in the Big Finish dramas, who did better in actual clips from the story than in early promotional clips. I think Bradley has taken over but I’m not as informed on Big Finish as I want to be.
The fact that Chris Chibnall tried to take his spot as the first chronological Doctor in order to retcon his spot into Who lore is a travesty, and I don’t care how good friends they are, Davies not fixing this is just another in a long line of mistakes.
We’ll get to the Companions in later installments. It’s time to get back to the story.
It really is tough to find a good job these days.
Prototype #10
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (May, 1994)
“Turf War”
WRITERS: Len Strazewski & Tom Mason
PENCILER: Roger Robinson
INKER: Scott Reed
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Patrick Owsley
EDITOR: Roland Mann
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