Catch more Midnight’s Edge on their YouTube channel.
Sorry, no Jake & Leon this week. I spent the week finishing up Captain Yuletide and today taking down the Christmas decorations. New comic next week though. I have it written down, I just need to draw it. Meanwhile over at The Clutter Reports I have the final review of The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood if you want to see what I thought of the book overall.
As for this week the plan is to get back to BW normal, but you know how my plans go. There will be comic reviews, the debut of the NEXT Chapter By Chapter book review subject, and more Transformers intros. I’d like to start work on the next BW Video Review and maybe get a Finally Watched movie review and/or a Free Comic Inside review up, and there’s something I’ve been trying to review for Scanning My Collection for the past few weeks. As to what I’ll actually get, I can only promise the book review, Transformer intro, and comics. Have a good week folks!
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Well, it’s less late than last year’s I guess.
Have you ever heard the tale of Captain Santa Claus and his Reindeer Space Patrol? If not you must have missed the time I posted it. Here you go.
Well Dr. Carbonoid’s heard it and he’s after the Rocket Sleigh–and he’s found a way to enter Christmasland despite being on the naughty list! If Carbonoid’s here then Mitch is the right elf to team with Bryce the Green-Nosed Reindeer as Captain Yuletide this Christmas. But can old enemies and new robot snowmen help the Christmas-hating mad scientist to pull off…”The Rocket Sleigh Heist“? Find out by clicking the image above or the link below. (PDF reader like but not limited to Adobe Acrobat required.)
Captain Yuletide #6
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We’re getting closer to the end of this series and we get to a series I’ve discussed before. The original Robots In Disguise was a dub of Car Robots while this incarnation was a spinoff of Transformers Prime. For whatever reason (and a bad decision if you ask me) the show moved from Discovery Family, which was still airing classic The Transformers at the time and continues the Aligned continuity as I’ll get to next time, to Cartoon Network, who barely advertised it and buried it in the early morning. Somehow they still have a Transformers series but more on that in a later installment. The show aired for three seasons plus a six episode…what would call it, sub-season? It wasn’t a miniseries so I don’t know what to call it. There was also a series of shorts produced for the Cartoon Network and Transformers official YouTube channels. They put a lot into a series they barely acknowledged.
It’s also the one that threw what was left of the Aligned plan out the window. Grimlock is at best a namesake of the G1 style version seen in the Cybertron games and related IDW comics. Bumblebee still has his voice for the first time in any series since the movie came out since he got it back near the end of Prime and kept it for this show and Rescue Bots, a trend I wish had continued but Cyberverse ruined that goal. It was just a continuation of Transformers Prime (forgetting they had human allies and requiring a junk dealer and his son to keep their secret) and ignored anything except Prime and Rescue Bots, which was still back over on Discovery Family. And yet somehow it may be my favorite incarnation since the original series. It’s fun, it has character development, and it had good characters. It’s really good.
Japan on the other hand only brought forth the first two seasons, redubbing the show Transformers Adventure (much as the original Robots In Disguise was a renamed redub), and toning down some of the injected humor of the previous dubs since Beast Wars thanks to a new person in charge. In total we have four intros to go over, so let’s start stateside with the first one.
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Shaggy stole Scooby’s line from the second story splash page.
Scooby-Doo #4
Archie Comics (January, 1996)
“Royal Canadian Mounted Scooby!” and “Close Encounters Of The Scooby Kind!”
Mike Kirshenbaum
Gordon Morison
Alfredo Alcala
Sid Jacobson
(hey we have first names for a change)
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You may be wondering what a jazz legend is doing here considering how little I know about jazz musicians. (I do enjoy smooth jazz from time to time, including when I’m writing stuff or relaxing, but I know little about jazz beyond that.) Jack Sheldon is a bit special though as his works included being one of the singers for a big part of my Saturday morning childhood, Schoolhouse Rock. (He’s Bill in the above video.) So that’s another piece of my childhood gone.
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My media library is missing a lot of things.
I’m one of those who grew up with Mister Rogers Neighborhood. It was a show that didn’t talk down to children but allowed them to occasionally pull the veil on what goes into making a show, even breaking the illusion of his own show as well as visiting the set of The Incredible Hulk, and knew how to mix music and storytelling. I’m sad not more kids got to grow up with Fred Rogers or ride the Neighborhood Trolley into the Land Of Make Believe. (And the show didn’t merchandise anything that I know of beside home videos so count me among those disappointed we never got those cool set toys Fred ended up getting for the Land Of Make Believe.) The closest out there now is Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, an animated spinoff about a younger Daniel Tiger and the kids of those puppet characters. It’s okay but not the same. Rogers was a promoter of imagination and I can get behind that message among pretty much every other message that was on his show.
In this episode of Owen Likes Comics, Owen decided to go into the history of Fred Rogers and the impact he made on kids. What does it have to do with comics? Nothing, but watch it anyway.
