I’m assuming the full series will post to Team Four Star’s YouTube channel.
Nice to see them coming up with good originals since deciding to end Dragon Ball Z Abridged. So far most of their stuff has been quite good, though I wasn’t a fan of Unabridged to be honest. I watched a couple of episodes and it wasn’t bad, just not my brand of comedy.
As a Godzilla fan there are a few movies I haven’t caught. The recent animated trilogy is on Netflix and I don’t have Netflix. Shin Godzilla (and I still say Funimation should have use Toho’s international title, Godzilla: Resurrection, instead of the Japanese title to not confuse casual fans of the movies) hasn’t aired anyplace I can catch it and I didn’t see it in the theater for the same reason I don’t have a Netflix account. The last shot of income I got came from the virus stimulus, which is the only reason I have a working computer right now. Then there’s other G-Media like the remaining IDW comics, more than a few clips of Zone Fighter, and that series of shorts done with a set of Godzilla and friends toys that were being promoted. I hear that’s one’s a bit strange.
I have, however, been able to keep up with the Legendary Pictures “Monsterverse” (why not “Kaijuverse” to tell them apart from other monsters?). I’ve seen and reviewed their first Godzilla when I bought the DVD, and Kong: Skull Island, which I saw through one of HBO’s sneak previews. In one of the other previews I recorded Godzilla: King Of Monsters but didn’t get to watch it until today. So now that I’ve finally seen it, what do I think of it?
RELEASE DATE: 2019
RELEASED BY: Warner Brothers & Legendary Pictures
RUNTIME: 2 hours. 12 minutes
RATING: PG-13
STARRING: Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Ken Watanabe, and Charles Dance
SCREENWRITERS: Michael Dougherty & Zach Shields, (story by Max Borenstein, Michael Dougherty, and Zach Shields)
DIRECTOR: Michael Dougherty
GROSS REVENUE: $386,600,138 from an estimated budget of $170,000,000
“Hey, where are our bodies?”
Robotech II: The Sentinels book 3 #19
Academy Comics, Ltd. (July, 1995)
“To Walk Among Giants”
WRITER/ARTIST: John Waltrip
LETTERER: Michael DeLepine
When you’ve been here as long as they had, the view of a wormhole opening isn’t as spectacular anymore.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine #1
Malibu (August, 1993)
“Stowaway”
WRITER: Mike W. Barr
PENCILER: Gordon Purcell
INKER: Terry Pallot
no colorist credited
LETTERER: Patrick Owley
EDITOR: Tom Mason
Hasbro has unveiled the name and a (very) brief synopsis of their next Power Rangers series, Power Rangers Dino Fury. This the second time “Fury” has been used to name a Ranger team (at least it’s not “Force” again) and has a joint theme of dinosaurs and knights. (This comes from the sentai being used, Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulger.) I’ve some fans are upset because they didn’t go with the name fans had created, Dino Knights, but while I see where they’re coming from with the joint theme “Dino Fury” isn’t bad and maybe they think kids will get more excited over their name? Personally I think it works, depending on the tone of the show.
As for the logo (you knew I was going to discuss it if you’ve been here long enough) Hasbro’s rework of the regular “Power Rangers” logo still lacks the oomph of the classic one Saban and Disney both used but their “Dino Fury” logo isn’t that bad. We’ll learn more about the show when they have a cast and a better idea of the direction they want to take their incarnation.
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
The Mysteries Of Scooby-Doo
This goes on for several hours. You have to figure someone was sweating like crazy that day.
The Scooby-Doo franchise is built on one key formula. A group of teens and their talking dog (speech impediment aside) travel around their hometown or around the world and find ghosts, aliens, and monsters scaring the crud out of usually innocent people. As they investigate they learn it’s really just bad guys in costumes using devices that aren’t quite real but just believable enough for a kids show.The formula has lasted for a very long time now and has made the talking dog and his friends some of most beloved characters in animation.
However, sometimes the monsters are real. As far back as the original (not the first one mind you) Saturday morning period, various incarnations of the franchise has shown that every now and then a real ghost or alien, usually among those being terrorized but not always, pops up to thrown a little shade into the gang’s life. When just traveling with Scooby and Scrappy, Shaggy was running from bullies, minotaurs, aliens, and other weird stuff, when he wasn’t teaching at a girl’s school for monsters or hiring ghosts who watched way too much Three Stooges to bust other ghosts. Sometimes, even among these actual paranormal situations they’d still find baddies in masks. Scooby once saw the spirit of an ancestor finally rest peacefully after solving a years-old mystery AND dealing with a current attempt at theft from someone in costume. The question is, doesn’t this confuse just whether or not a mystery is real or fake?
In a video from NerdSync, Scott Niswander goes over the history of the franchise, the times the monsters were real and the times they weren’t, and while the presence of the fantastic, the marvelous, and the uncanny benefits the franchise for the audience. Not so much for Shaggy and Scooby’s nerves, mind you. And while watching this I had a minor unrelated revelation of my own.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 20, 2020 in Animation Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged analysis, commentary, Mystery Incorporated, NerdSync, Scooby-Doo.
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