Star Trek fans show their response to CBS All-Access’s Picard series.
Star Trek: The Next Generation–The Modala Imperative #3
DC Comics (August, 1991)
“Prior Claim”
WRITER: Peter David
ARTIST: Pablo Marcos
COLORIST: Tom McCraw
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Robert Greenberger
When have the heroes NOT been in crisis since DiDio took over?
Dan DiDio is no longer editor-in-chief of DC Comics, and this is a good thing. With DC and every other comic company currently offlined by the current crisis they have a good chance of course correcting and fixing what was wrong with the DC Universe under his reign (of terror). However, DiDio recently gave an interview defending his New 52 and the things he did. Ari Green of Four Color Media Monitor rightly skewers DiDio’s view of things because DiDio’s idea of changes and growth were not good changes or growth.
When a remake of the cinematic intro to Final Fantasy VII was made as a tech demo for the latest version of Sony’s Playstation fans of the game went crazy with hope that a full remake with modern graphics were coming. From what I can tell it’s still the most beloved game in the franchise, with fans still discussing their love of the story, and the main hero and villain, Cloud Strife and Sepheroth respectively, never leaving gaming consciousness. They show up in conventions and even the Kingdom Hearts franchise more than once. It also have a sequel movie, Advent’s Children. The popularity of this game is hard to avoid if you follow gaming at all.
Having never owned any generation of Playstation I’ve never played the game. I saw a few episodes of Team Four Star’s “Machinabridge” series and had planned to finish it but never did. However, I have a “better offer” in the form of Dan Floyd from Play Frame playing through the remade game, focusing on both the story and the update in animation as he plays through the remake. Dan is an animator, having worked on movies for Pixar as well as a few video games, and has a second channel, New Frame Plus, dedicated to animation in games. In preparation for his FFVII playthrough Dan did a video going over the original opening to the game as well as the changes made to the remake beyond the graphics and how they add to the storybuilding.
“I need to stop throwing these wild parties. Especially when I can’t drink at them.”
Iron Man volume 3 #68
Marvel Comics (July, 2003)
“Manhunt” part 4
WRITER: Robin Laws
PENCILER: Michael Ryan
INKERS: Sean Parsons & Rich Perrotta
COLORING: Avalon Studios
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Marc Sumerak & Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
This was bad timing given what’s going on out there right now, with New York being one of the hardest hit areas. Back when I started the book, and yes I remembered the novel’s plot at least (plus it’s right there on the back cover) our current viral supervillain wasn’t bringing up any more concern than the flu, and now it and the reaction to it have us all locked away scared. So here’s a story enforcing that. Sorry about that.
Carnage is loose and with a dangerous chemical in his possession and Spidey needs to stop him. We’re only 13 chapters in so I’m betting it won’t happen today. We have enough time for things to get worse, so let’s see how worse it gets.
(obligatory hentai joke)
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
Daisy Ridley’s Defense Of The Sequel Trilogy Highlights The Perspective Difference
I don’t know why I’m doing so much Star Wars related stuff this week either, for the record. Let’s see if the rest of the week surprises us. Or subverts something. With this franchise right now that’s possible too.
Let’s start by saying for the record that I have no problems whatsoever with Daisy Ridley. Well, maybe that hip hop song she did on The Tonight Show that MechaRandom42 keeps digging out because it’s kind of lame, like everything the dance game from Star Wars Kinect wasn’t. Those parodies rocked, man! My favorite is “I’m Han Solo” and I’m so happy there’s a clear version out there now.
Sorry, had to. I’m not even a Jason Derulo fan.
Anyway, I don’t even have a problem with Rey as a character on her own. Granted I’m still waiting for the quarantine is over so my friends and I can finally watch The Rise Of Skywalker so maybe that will change my opinion, but what bothers me is how the character had little if any challenge and learned her Force powers so easily compared to every other male AND FEMALE Jedi character in the franchise. That’s on the writers and directors though. Rey had good potential but we live in a culture that we’re afraid to have women shown struggling except against the patriarchy. Some of the best woman protagonist struggled just like their male counterparts, and while sexism was part of it back then it wasn’t the only thing they fought against.
In the past we looked at the actors from the DC Universe Titans show and highlighted one key point about their defense: it didn’t come from a connection to the source material but that they loved making the series and portraying those characters. They didn’t care if they were inaccurate, they just really enjoyed it. It’s a disconnect because they couldn’t understand why fans were annoyed with a show they thought was well done because they didn’t care about the universe or its characters.
Now as far as I know Ridley is not a huge Star Wars fan or at least I haven’t heard her say she was prior to getting the role of Rey in The Force Awakens, so I’m not surprised she shares this disconnect when it comes to the sequels and this franchise. In a recent DragCast podcast (yes, hosted by a drag queen–really the only other choice was a drag racer though for all I know the drag queen could also drag race, RuPaul competitions aside) Ridley appeared during her birthday to discuss her career and her Star Wars character–and the reaction to her character. I wasn’t going to listen to the whole hour long podcast because the important details for our discussion was posted to other website, the most substantial of the newssites I follow being this article by Bounding Into Comics, and I’ll pull the quotes from there. I understand Ridley’s position but only because I know where it’s coming from while she doesn’t understand where the opposition is coming from. Let me help with that.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 15, 2020 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Daisy Ridley, Rey, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker.
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