I don’t have any images from this movie so, here’s a transporter. {shrugs}
Galaxy Quest is on my Finally Watch list. I’ve seen bits of it because it’s too popular to avoid but it does look like a lot of fun. If you’re one of the legion of fans (given the premise I’m not sure how close that comes to irony) you probably already know about the documentary coming out for it but did you know it will have a limited theatrical run as well?
Batman has a unique set of skills.
I’m not the only one who noticed this, right? Why does Batman have stubble all the time. It doesn’t make him look tougher. It makes him look tired, which is what he was during Bane’s first appearance. I should have given Bruce a mustache too but I was up against the deadline and didn’t notice I missed it.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I did some more organizing and got a stack of books restacked. Somehow the non-fiction stack got into a mess. I need to find a moment to go through that but I had to make an article feature just to let me read my fiction books again. My mind is weird.
I had a bunch of distractions last week and I have at least one next week, but this week it should be clear sailing. That means (hopefully) some good stuff this week and I really need the space. In addition to a personal follow-up to all the Cartoon Cypher videos I posted on anime dubs this weekend is the 10th anniversary of Jake & Leon, so it’s time for the yearly best of post. However, that falls on a Saturday and I have plans for a themed edition of Saturday Night Showcase, so I’ll be posting the best of collection on Friday. However again, Friday is when I’ve been posting the many, MANY intros of Transformers, which means the Beast Machines intros will be moved to Thursday. That leaves me one day unaccounted for since the usual Chapter By Chapter look into The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood Of Great Renown In Nottinghamshire is still going on for Monday. We’ll see what the week throws at me for Wednesday. Have a fantastic week, folks!
As a heads up I have a rather interesting one planned for next weekend, Halloween weekend. I won’t spoil it and hopefully it’s still up but it’s something different. So come back for that. All I’ll say is that it’s not Transformers related but a piece of early TV trivia I never knew about.
Transformers: Cyber Missions is a series of shorts set around the time of the movie Revenge Of The Fallen and is really just a way to promote the toys based on that line, with a cameo from the Power Core Combiners line. The animation was produced by TG Studios but thanks to what the TF Wiki refers to only as “circumstances” it was a rush job. Too bad because the models and backgrounds themselves aren’t too bad for a web series. Each episode is around four minutes, with the last two somewhat longer, with 13 episodes in total. It does mean that this playlist from the official Transformers YouTube channel will be bringing up the opening and closing bits every time, but you can skip the credits if you want.
“I’m recruiting a team to help rescue Rainbow Brite.”
Batman Black & White: A Black And White World
DC Comics (comiXology release date: June 23, 2010)
WRITER: Neil Gaiman
ARTIST: Simon Bisley
Batman: Black And White was an anthology of short stories where the writers got to do different things with Batman and cast. This story is an excerpt from the collection.
While waiting for seasons two and three of the American Beast Wars series to finish so they could mutilate re-dub it with a gag dub (never hear that mentioned from the anti-dub side of the anime debate, do you?) Takara produced two of their own shows. Unlike the American show, it was done with traditional 2D animation instead of 3D computer animation, but they didn’t go with Toei, producers of the original cartoon. In fact Toei doesn’t have anything to do with the rest of the franchise as far as I know. (Research for this series may prove differently.) Instead Beast Wars II (also known as Beast Wars The Second) and it’s follow-up, Beast Wars Neo use a different studio, and I’m not entirely sure who worked on Neo or the Car Robots show coming up in a couple of installments but I don’t think you’ll ever see the same studio work on a show again except for two-thirds of the Unicron Trilogy, even if it’s set in the same continuity. Tonight’s offering is it.
The curious thing for me, based on a handful of fansub and fandubbed episodes of these series, is that the shows were pretty similar to the US Beast Wars in tone, balancing serious moments with the odd slapstick or just fun character interactions. However, I don’t think either show had their own Waspinator to pick on. Tonight I’ll be looking at both shows, with two intros for Beast Wars II and a movie intro worth discussing, as well as Neo. (Look, I think Lion did the best cover of the classic Transformers theme ever but the intro to Transformers: The Movie is just a bunch of credits and a cool effect going through the classic logo.) Let’s see how well the intros came out.
The real question is why Burns has a Radioactive Man costume. Although I suspect it came from Smithers’ closet and then I stop wanting to know.
Simpsons Super Spectacular #9
Bongo Comics Group (2009)
“The Best Radioactive Man Event Ever!” finale
WRITER: Batton Lash
PENCILER: Tone Rodriguez
INKER: Andrew Pepoy (who I keep starting to write “Peopy”)
COLORIST: Art Villanueva
LETTERER: Karen Bates
EDITOR: Bill Morrison
Martin Scorsese doesn’t like superhero movies and made his thoughts known. While I think it’s a bit harsh to say they aren’t cinema, he’s not wrong to not like superhero movies. I don’t like the movies he’s made, and that’s a lesser problem I have with the Joker movie, that Philips was trying to do a Scorsese movie and basically has also said he doesn’t like superheroes. So don’t make superhero movies. Simple answer there. However, the fans of superhero movies took it poorly, especially fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe who were convinced he meant the MCU specifically because that’s how it was reported, at least in articles I saw. My fellow former Reviewers Unknown contributor Writrzblok makes the case that maybe the fans shouldn’t have treated this the same way they did when Roger Ebert make the mistake of saying video games aren’t art.
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
