I suppose a battle to the death is out.
Short on time today so here’s a random post of vaguely Halloween commercials from Dinosaur Dracula.
The fact that I put this long into anything not forced upon me by the law is always amazing.
I also did something neat to commemorate. It might not make Max happy but…
Then and now.
Over on my deviantART page I posted a remake of the one panel preview for the Jake & Leon comic to highlight how far I’ve come as a cartoonist. Do I have a ways to go? Sure, but I’m getting there. That’s what matters.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I reviewed another Transformer Universe team of Micromaster Combiners, loosely based on the Protectobots.
So we’re all done talking about anime dubbing for a while, but Robin Hood and the many MANY intros of Transformers continues. Other reviews and commentaries are coming up this week and I hope you find them interesting. Have a good week!
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With Halloween coming up next week I thought this one was pretty good timing. I hadn’t heard of this special but someone in a Facebook group I follow posted it and it’s something I wanted to share. Animated spin-offs of live-action shows are nothing new. Hanna-Barbera and Filmation both put out some pretty good ones. Others have tried. For example I saw a Coneheads animated special as a kid that served as a pilot for a full animated series. It was not successful and neither was tonight’s entry.
Then again, trying to reboot The Munsters has never worked. The Munsters Today wasn’t as funny and Mockingbird Lane looked so lame that I didn’t even bother watching it. In 1973 ABC’s Saturday Superstar Movie (renamed The New Saturday Superstar Movie for that second season) aired The Mini-Munsters, a pilot by Fred Calvert Productions later released in a half-hour cut down edit, which is sadly the only version I could find on YouTube at this time. Only Al Lewis returns from the series to play Grandpa Munster, who creates a machine that allows cars to run on music, while Eddie forms a rock bad with two of his cousins from Transylvania. Also Eddie gets his first car, a hearse (of course) that is haunted by the ghost of the funeral director (of course). This all puts them in trouble with mobsters who took over a local refinery and is selling bad gasoline because it’s a cartoon and only needs to follow kid logic. You can tell there are scenes missing but I’m only posting this for the novelty. I can believe it never made it to full series.
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” ‘You should wear a spacesuit’ my foot. I’m fine!”
The Talus Montage (preview)
Void Publishing (1997)
WRITER: Scott Mackillican
ARTIST: Mike Butcher
I don’t know for sure where I got this. I didn’t start going to conventions until the 2000s because I didn’t know Connecticut had them. This was either Free Comic Book Day or some other kind of free giveaway. I just recently uncovered it during my last clutter organizing project and thought it should be reviewed.
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Wow, thank God I don’t draw that bad anymore.
It started as me goofing around with a different art style. From there I was having trouble with coming up with new openings for the then weekly review of my latest comic haul, and Jake & Leon just stuck around until it ended up with the Sunday spot all to itself. Saturday will be the 10th year anniversary. 10 years. I think that’s the longest I’ve spent on any single comic project. TDA’s Galactic Adventures was only a few years, but as that was a “comic book” I did in a notebook for fun (I discussed it in an Art Soundoff), I’m not sure who had more pages. This was only the second comic I tried to put online. Tales From The Spriteverse is a failed sprite comic that didn’t last very long for various reasons. The only project that’s lasted longer is BW Media Spotlight itself.
Now as we head into the tenth year of my comic it’s time for my usual look back at all of the comics I made this year and choose my favorites, the ones that stand out most to me for various reasons. I’m not sure how many people actually care so this may just be self-indulgent but it does give me an idea of how far I’ve come. (Certainly better than strip #0 up there.) From October 26 2018 through last Sunday’s comic here are what I consider the best comics I made this year.
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You’re going to ruin your eyes looking into the spotlight like that.
Simpsons Super Spectacular #10
Bongo Comics (2009)
LETTERER: Karen Bates
EDITOR: Bill Morrison
Bartman: The Brave And The Bald
WRITER: Ian Boothey
PENCILER: John Costanza
INKER: Phyllis Novin
COLORIST: Robert Stanley
“Radioactive Man! Vs. Retroactive Man!”
WRITER: Batton Lash
PENCILER: Tone Rodrigues
INKER: Dan Davis
COLORIST: Rick Reese
“The Unleashed Legion!”
WRITER: Mike W. Barr
ARTIST: Mike Kazaleh
COLORIST: Alan Hellard
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One of the things lost when YouTube ended annotations were videos where you could choose where the story goes like a Choose Your Own Adventure book or some of those interactive Laserdisk things I think they tried and failed at. However, some are learning how to do the same thing with end cards. I haven’t followed if there even is a community for these interactive stories on YouTube (I stumbled across a couple in the annotation years) but Best Buy used it for an ad campaign and now YouTube is doing an interactive story with YouTube celebrity Markiplier playing a thief. Why not a good guy? I don’t know. That’s the story I’d rather play.
