The Justice League finally brings Triangle Man down for the attacks on Particle Man and Person Man..
Justice League Unlimited #15
DC Comics (January, 2006)
“Urban Legend”
WRITER: Adam Beechan
PENCILER/COVER ART: Carlo Barberi
INKER: Walden Wong
COLORING: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Travis Lanham
EDITOR: Tom Palmer Jr.
In a recent interview Ahmed Best, who played Star Wars fan’s former favorite hate target Jar Jar Binks, discusses his new Jedi Temple Challenge kids game show for Disney Plus. During the interview, Best also brings up something missing in modern Star Wars, and it’s also something missed by both Rey haters and Rey supporters in how the Force is represented by DisneyFilm versus how LucasFilm approached the concept.
This is one of those times I worry I’m giving them bad ideas.
I could almost handle a movie with human Robin Hood though as others have pointed out what different will they bring to the table if they use the same tone or even script (ala The Lion King) if they did that? And it wouldn’t be a CG remake, except again like The Lion King because I doubt they’ll use make-up or animatronic suits. This really is a dumb idea, but that hasn’t stopped Disney with these other live-action remakes. When did Disney start hating their animation libraries?
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I got a little work done but I want to get back to doing some major clutter cleaning projects.
Apparently I was wrong about being out of Scooby-Doo comics. While looking for the next comic I found a whole bunch of them in the wrong spot so that’s continuing. It makes me wonder how badly I screwed up during the sorting project because this isn’t the first time this has happened. It’s getting on my nerves. So more Scooby this week. I haven’t quite decided what I want to do for the rest of the week but despite the shutdown on the comic and studio front due to the social distancing (and yet pro wrestling continues sans audience) there are still news coming out so I’m sure a topic will show up. Hope you had a Happy Easter somehow during all this.
After the screw-up by Toei when it came to activating their new YouTube channel early and thus subjecting it to a takedown from their own copywrite bots, they have it up and running so of course I checked it out. Japanese superheroes are a bit different from American ones, with exceptions like Gatchaman, Tiger & Bunny, and My Hero Academia outside of secret identities (and I could be wrong about MHA) not always being a concern. I think the Gatchaman team had them, which is funny when Battle Of The Planets, the first US dub, didn’t. Usually it features teens in spandex, guys in bug suits, or people in armor battling monsters. Of the shows on the Toei Tokusatsu channel I could have checked out at least three of them were used in Saban’s VR Troopers in the same way Sentai is used for the Power Rangers franchise. However, the one I decided to check out first was Jiraiya and I was a tad surprised.
World Ninja War Jiraiya (the show’s full name but not the one used in the video) follows the battles of a ninja in training forced to protect an important object from other ninja. Curiously, if the first episode is to be believed, our hero Toha Yamaji appears to be fighting other humans in different costumes, not space creatures. One of them is, I kid you not, a British knight on horseback who occasionally says something in English. I’m not sure if this is going to be unintentionally hilarious or actual good but a bit weird. Check out the first episode and see what you think. But remember, in order to get the English subtitles (sadly not including the opening and closing theme) you’ll have to turn on the closed captions. Just click the [CC] next to the gear in the player controls.
“Do you have a spare pare of sunglasses?”
Astro City Flipbook
WildStorm (posted to comiXology October, 2013)
Note that the maps and other extras listed on the store page are not in this digital comic. It does note that the other story that was included–probably where the flipbook comes in–is not included.
“On Mulberry Street: A Prelude”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
ARTIST: Brent Anderson
COLORIST: Wendy Broome
LETTERING: Comicraft
COVER ART: Alex Ross
If you’ve been with this site long enough you know that I love the classic movie serials, those multi-part stories that used to play in movie theaters. In the days before television the only way you could see anything was at the movies. You had shorts and cartoons, but to me serials were the closest predecessor of television, and we still see serialized stories today, but not in the same way. I’ll get to those in a future article. We’re just sticking with the classics.
Here at BW Media Spotlight, and over at The Clutter Reports, I’ve discussed a few of my series, The Adventures Of Captain Marvel, the first Batman, and the sequel Batman And Robin (not to be confused with the 90s debacle). I do have a few others I plan to look at in the future but my collection is shorter than I’d like. I used to watch the classic serials on a PBS show called Matinee At The Bijou and on our local cable access channel. Four TV shows I grew up with also followed the classic formula. Three of them are from Filmation, Jason Of Star Command, Flash Gordon, and the “Great Space Chase” segments of The New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse. The other was a Canadian series that PBS aired called Read All About It, that taught reading comprehension via a sci-fi mystery. (I hope at least one of those articles has a video that still works.) It’s a form of storytelling you really don’t see anymore outside of two-parters. The last one I ever saw was a tribute serial in 2005 called The Mercury Men. But what goes into making a good serial and why is it a semi-lost art?
Wasn’t there a toyline like this?
Scooby-Doo #75
DC Comics (2003–special New York Post giveaway edition)
COLORIST: Sno Cone
LETTERER: Tom Orzechowski
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Harvey Richards
EDITOR: Joan Hilty
“Ghost To Ghost TV”
WRITER: Karl Kress
PENCILER: Scott Jerralds
INKER: Scott McRae
“Lean, Mean Mystery Machine!”
WRITER: Robbie Busch
PENCILER: Joe Staton
INKER: Horacio Ottolini
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
