“I shouldn’t have hired J’onn as my contractor.”
Iron Man volume 3 #52
Marvel Comics (May, 2002)
“Jane Doe”
WRITER: Mike Grell
PENCILER: Michael Ryan
INKER: Sean Parsons
COLORIST: Arsla Rozegar
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Marc Sumerak
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
Remember, the book is in public domain. Download or read the ebook online legally and for free at Project Gutenberg, Google Books or the Internet Archive among other sites, or check out the audiobook from LibriVox. You can also use a print copy. In either case my copy may not match up with yours chapter-wise. Follow along with the very-long subtitle. For this chapter:
In Which It Is Told How Queen Eleanor Sent For Robin Hood To Come To The Court At Famous London Town And How Robin Came At Her Bidding. Likewise It Is Told How King Henry Chased Robin Through The Land, Yet Caught Him Not
In the previous chapter we saw Queen Eleanor pull Robin, Little John, and Will Scarlet as ringers in her bet with her husband, King Henry (Hank to his friends and I’m not even kidding), over an archer contest. Allan comes along for moral support. Robin and John won and for some reason Will didn’t. Two out of three isn’t bad, unless you’re the one losing the bet, so Hank isn’t happy. Throw in the fact that are trio are outlaws her highness won a grace period for with trickery, and they better get out of London Town before the grace period ends and they become permanent residents of the dungeon.
“I swear this isn’t the wallpaper I ordered.”
Justice League Adventures #10
DC Comics (October, 2002)
“Must There Be A Martian Manhunter?”
WRITER: Josh Siegal
PENCILER: Chris Jones
INKER: Christian Alamy
COLORIST: John Kalisz
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Kurt Hathaway
EDITOR: Steve Wacker
I really should take my own advice.
No, this wasn’t the topic I planned to discuss. I had the whole Art Soundoff planned but this is the only week I forgot.
The background for the long shots of Jake and Max I admittedly cheated and used a background, but for Max’s close-up I decided to draw the bookcase on my own. Also this time they’re using a tripod instead of someone holding the camera.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week all the time that was stolen from me during the week only left me time to do a quick pile shifting. It was kind of important if I wanted to make sure I had room to decorate the studio for Christmas this year.
This week I start a new Robotech series and end Radioactive Man’s comics (or at least the ones I have.) I’m also hoping I can get a Finally Watched in because the Starz preview weekend just flooded me with review content. There’s also more Art Soundoff coming this week. The most important thing this week though is that this week starts the 11th year BW Media Spotlight has been posting stuff…whenever there wasn’t a power outage or illness getting in the way. I want to design a new background and alter the banner, although this being the 10th year of Jake & Leon it technically still works. What will I accomplish before the madness sets in and what will step forth to oppose my destiny? Let’s all find out together! Won’t that be fun?
The Rocketeer is a comic book series that began in the 1980s. Created by the late Dave Stevens, it tells the story of airplane pilot Cliff Secord, who finds a rocket pack stolen from its inventor, Howard Hughes. (Yes, THAT Howard Hughes, before he went nuts due to numerous medical conditions.) After defeating the crooks Cliff is allowed to keep it to fight criminals and Nazis, since this took place around World War II. The series was inspired by the old “Rocket Men” serials, although since we actually saw King Of The Rocket Men during a Saturday Night Serials experiment I’m betting it was closer to the spinoff heroes like Commando Cody than Jeff King. (Seriously, that serial turned out to be terrible.) The comic inspired a 1991 movie produced by Disney. I guess somehow they still have the license because here in 2019 they made a cartoon…for Disney Junior…that isn’t about Cliff but his descendant. As I’ve said in past articles previewing this show it seems a shame that Rocketeer fans didn’t get a cartoon about their beloved hero (outside of a fan film I found once for the character’s 20th anniversary) but kids who know nothing of the comic or the movie gets one with a great, great granddaughter.
To their credit though they do show respect to the original source material, more than a few other recent reinterpretations I could mention. In modern times the original Rocketeer is loved and remembered as the hero of Hughesville. The design is even right. For reasons not yet explained someone sends Cliff’s old helmet to Kit Secord. who shares her ancestor’s love of planes and flying. This is a signal to her grandfather that she is to inherit his rocket pack as the new Rocketeer, I’m not sure why the pack fits when the helmet doesn’t. Both were designed for an adult but why send a rocket pack to a seven-year-old in the first place? Then again it’s a superhero show on the Disney preschool channel. It still makes more sense than the lore of P.J. Masks. In the first episode (split into the stories “First Flight” and “Pilot Error” we meet Kit and her grandfather Ambrose, her bulldog Butch (Cliff’s mechanic had a bulldong as well), and her best friend and tech guru Tesh. Ambrose helps out both of them in their roles as the new Rocketeer and her technician. However this is not the episode Disney Junior posted to their YouTube channel so it’s not the one I’m showing tonight. We don’t even get the second episode, where Tesh gets his own cool vehicle as “ground support”.
Instead we have “Carnival Caper/Songbird Soars Again”, the third episode, in which the Rocketeer deals with a criminal magician (I think The Magician is one of the only magician superheroes out there besides the blue Ninja Steel Power Ranger) and in the other Kit tries to convince a famous stunt pilot to return to the skies. I was worried going in but despite my early issues I ended up enjoying the end product and I hope you do to.
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