You could just ask him what he wants for dinner.
Star Trek #11
DC Comics (February, 1985)
“New Frontiers” part 3: “Deadly Reflection!”
WRITER: Mike W. Barr
PENCILER: Tom Sutton
INKER: Ricardo Villagran
COLORIST: Michele Wolfman
LETTERER: John Costanza
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Robert Greenberger
EDITOR: Marv Wolfman
MANAGING EDITOR: Tom Condon
In hindsight I should have worked some red trunks into that image.
Martin Scorsese’s comments about superhero movies not being cinema has elicited a lot of conversation, or at least I hope it has since most of what I’ve seen is ranting about how wrong he is. Personally I disagree with him and a few other directors who prefer their kind of movie. They aren’t wrong for not liking superhero movies because that’s their preference and that’s fine. It’s when they trash those movies as “not cinema” that I start getting concerned. Movies, Movies, Movies contributor tjnsk makes the case that bashing superhero films while promoting your own (although Todd Philips purposely make Joker as a movie against superhero movies–maybe he should have made a Bizzaro film?) may not be not be good for the future of the movie theater. I would add that in poor taste but these directors strike me as the type that are too snobbish about their craft to care. Included in the post are links to other sites discussing this issue.
And no, linking to my site does not immediately get you a link back. It just happens so rarely and it happened to be tied to the type of storytelling discussions I have around here.
I was going to make this a V-Log but the first recording went wrong and I didn’t have time to try again if that pattern continued, so we’re going with an article. Over the past few weeks I’ve been posting videos from The Cartoon Cypher discussing anime dubs and countering some of the complaints made against it, either due to misconceptions or a particular complaint being outdated. Look, if you prefer a show subtitled in the original Japanese, that’s fine. Watch it any way you want. To attack the dub and those who prefer them as being “impure” is the point of the videos I posted. It also leads into a discussion I didn’t realize I needed to dig more into outside of the Robotech reviews until even the Cypher narrator seemed to be coming down against “hack dubs”, which is why I wanted to make it into a video but this is what I can put together.
So what is a “hack dub”? Unlike the more typical questionable dubs like Speed Racer a hack dub completely alters the show. You know, like Japan did with Beast Wars: Transformers and the US did with Ghost Stories or most 4Kids dubs. Now I’m not defending the practice as something that would work today; we live in different times. Anime is more popular and we have a better understanding of Japanese culture than we did. The case has been made that even modern Pokémon is still altered for kids in the US, which actually does lead into my point: if it wasn’t for hack dubs, you wouldn’t be an anime fan.
Ultron’s become a Chinese knockoff Iron Man.
Iron Man vol 3 #48
Marvel Comics (January, 2001)
“The Frankenstein Syndrome” finale
WRITER: Frank Tieri
art by Udon Studios
ARTIST: Omar Dogan
CHIEF: Erik Ko
COLORIST: Angelo Tsang
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Sumerak & Youngquist
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
When Disney+ announced all the shows and movies coming to their streaming service it was a huge bunch of one-title tweets on Twitter and a 3 hour long video of clips on YouTube. Luckily /Film just gives us the full list in an easy to read format. You know, the easy and smart way.
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:
When I first began this book I did warn you that my copy and how it’s laid out may differ from the version you have or the various public domain links in the intro. That’s very much the case here. Calling this “part four” is not completely accurate. I believe my copy is missing a part or two, and because I’m using a two volume set distributed in pocket-sized books for New York students in the 1940s what I have is actually volume 2 part 1 chapter 1. However, for the sake of easier to follow titling I’m going to continue the part numbering properly so while for me this is Volume 2 part 1 for this article series we are at…
It is told how Robin Hood met a sorrowful knight and brought him to Sherwood. Also how the Bishop of Hereford was more generous that he desired to be. Likewise telling how Sir Richard of The Len paid his bets in due season, both to the Prior Of Emmet and to Robin Hood.
Unless this is an earlier Sir Richard…well, he still isn’t King Richard The Lionhearted and we know that the king during this story was old Hank while Prince John is but a cute little baby. The only thing he’s taking is extra formula. Is Sir Richard our sorrowful knight? How much of the story was just ruined? Well, let’s get into this week’s tale and learn for ourselves.
This is how we ended up with Batman V Superman.
Justice League Adventures #6
DC Comics (June, 2002)
“Wolf’s Clothing”
WRITER: Dan Slott
PENCILER: Min S. Ku
INKER: Dan Davis
COLORIST: John Kalisz
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Kurt Hathaway
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Steve Wacker
EDITOR: Dan Raspler
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
