“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.
Apparently that’s the word on the “street”. Sony, who has had a live-action Masters Of The Universe movie in development hell for as long as they’ve had the license, may be in talks to go straight to streaming by partnering with Netflix. Netflix, through their agreement with Dreamworks, already has the re-imagined She-Ra cartoon and will have the Kevin Smith run alleged continuation of the classic cartoon. Dreamworks doesn’t have the live-action movie, Sony does. To have a trifecta of sorts might be good for Netflix.
However, this does come with some questions. Why would Sony not want to bring this to theaters? Would Mattel, who has been putting together their own studio like Hasbro has for their properties, be okay with this? Andre over at Midnight’s Edge goes over all these questions and explains what would and wouldn’t be beneficial for all parties concerned.
I’m hoping the paint job is a prototype as well.
Robotech: Wings Of Gibraltar #1
Antarctic Press (August, 1998)
WRITER/ARTIST: Lee Duhig
EDITOR: Herb Mallette
Kevin Feige has taken the Marvel movies and surprised everyone with how faithful the movies have been to the spirit of the comics, although not without a few questions about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Still, he has done so well that he is not the Chief Creative Officer for Marvel comics as well. While I think this article by the Nerdist overstates his importance and question some of their beliefs for a joint continuity between the comics, movies, TV shows, and web shows (the last three of which should be connected but aren’t), there may actually be some benefits to this union, if he can solve some of their other problems that the MCU has started taking on themselves lately. I’m taking the same wait and see approach I’ve discussed in Jake & Leon every other time there was a big shake-up in Marvel leadership. Bumping Quesada up, bringing in Axel Alonso and later replacing him with C.B. Cebulski didn’t make things better, and it might even be worse now. Let’s not get our hopes up yet until we see what Feige actually does.
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
