“That’s not how Vision does it.”
Iron Man volume 3 #47
Marvel Comics (December, 2001)
“The Frankenstein Syndrome” part 2
WRITER: Frank Tieri
PENCILER: Keron Grant
INKERS: Stull, Perotta, & Ketchum
COLORIST: Edgar Tadeo
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Youngqust & Sumerak
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
I looked up “black hole” in my media library and this was all I had.
This may be old news by the time you see it since we don’t know what Epic is planning for Columbus Day but right now it appears the world of Fortnite is unplayable as the entire map has been sucked into a black hole. Is this Epic’s way of redoing the entire map through the game’s story or did Canada hack their servers? Time will tell, I guess but CNet isn’t convinced they’re ending. By the time you see this it may even have been restored. Singularities are like the universe’s biggest pranks in sci-fi.
They’re even starting to admit they don’t care about the comics. It’s just a concept they can use to hide lack of creativity.
It’s true. In the new timeline Wonder Woman shows up around World War II (at least in post-Crisis that was retconned as her mother) because…I don’t know, “girl power”, the success of the movie, or maybe both. Outside of a brief glimmer in the Rebirth period the whole DC Universe has been one big re-imagining, not fun, and not the DC Universe in tone or quality. They’ve ruined cultural icons that existed before they were born and they’re pleased about it, and that goes for Warner Brothers and the folks behind Gotham, the not-Joker movie, and I’m betting that Alfred Pennyworth namesake over on Epix because that’s the trend. They had a free preview week last week of Epix but the only thing I got out of that was the Bumblebee movie. There’s a Finally Watched of that in our future, but no promises of this week.
Meanwhile I took time away from reviewing Transformers Universe toys to track down a case I wanted. It was both a success and a mild failure. See what I mean in the article.
As for what IS coming up this week? The last of the videos, and the one I was working up to, from Cartoon Cypher on the topic of dub versus sub in anime is up for Tuesday. We have another chapter of The Merry Adventures Of Robin Hood as well as the intros for Beast Wars II and Beast Wars Neo, two Transformers series we still haven’t gotten legally in the US. I’m not sure what else I’m doing yet but hopefully it will be worth your time and mine. Have a good week, folks!
“Mission To The Unknown” is interesting more for it’s place in the series rather than the story itself. It was Verity Lambert’s last as the producer of Doctor Who, and features none of the Companions nor the Doctor himself. Even today’s “Doctor lite” episodes have him (or currently her) in a cameo and focuses on a Companion or someone else caught up in the Doctor’s world. This was to give William Hartnell, Peter Purves (Steve Taylor), and Maureen O’Brien (Vicki Pallister) an extra week off. It’s also the only one-episode story in all of classic Doctor Who, though today’s incarnation is usually a bunch of one episode stories, one two-parter, and a season-long subplot arc.
It’s also one of the infamous missing episodes.
For those of you who haven’t heard, the BBC destroyed many of their shows after the season was over to make room for the next set of shows. This included Doctor Who until they realized reruns and syndication worldwide was something important. Many of the episodes that have been found were international releases, but there have also been attempts to use audio recorded by fans (who else up to my generation put the mic of a tape recorder to the TV speaker before home video was a major market?) and either combining them with photos from the studio or animation by Cosgrove Hall. (Some of you may remember them as the folks behind Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.) “Mission To The Unknown” was even released as an audio drama by Big Finish.
Tonight however is something different. The University Of Central Lancaster opted to remake the episode, using the closest thing we have to 1960s film-making techniques on a couch cushion budget (we’ve advanced so far that a kid with a computer and a smartphone can do better). The episode was posted to the BBC’s official Doctor Who YouTube channel along with a making of documentary that will be posted here right under the episode itself. Enjoy!
Apparently we STILL can’t Terry “beyond” Bruce’s era.
Batman Beyond 2.0 #1
DC Comics (uploaded to comiXology August 3, 2013)
“Rewired” part 1 of 8
WRITER: Kyle Higgins
ARTIST: Thony Silas
COLORIST: Andrew Elder
COVER ART: Sean Murphy & Jordan Bellaire
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Alex Antone
Takara thought Hasbro had a good idea there and started releasing the Beast Wars line in Japan, since they’re still the Transformers distributor in Japan. As far as I know there is no Japanese branch of Hasbro like there is in the UK. Naturally they also imported the Mainframe cartoon rather than create one of their own. Although they would make their own, but that’s for next time. Due to the episode count seasons two and three of Beast Wars: Transformers ended up as their own show. We still end up with three videos for this one however.
So why not combine this one with the two Japanese exclusive shows? Because this is the installment I’ve teased in the anime dub articles, the one that shows the way we do anime in the US is the same treatment they give our shows. Of course the anime purists say nothing about that but when you complain about the comedic dub of Ghost Stories you’d best not be the hypocrite and call them out too. If you didn’t like how 4Kids or Saban handled anime tonight I also get to introduce you to their Japanese counterpart, Yoshikazu Iwanami. What he’s done may actually be worse because he got to do a lot more of it. First…the intros!
Later they just went and read it online.
Bart Simpson #48
Bongo Comics Group (2009)
“The Best Radioactive Man Event Ever!” part 2
SCRIPT: Batton Lash
PENCILER: Tone Rodriguez
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Art Villanueva
LETTERER: Karen Bates
EDITOR: Bill Morrison
Wait, these are the same people from last issue. Seriously, all I did was copy/paste in the original review, too. It’s not a real modern crossover unless there’s fifteen different teams who have little contact with each other and mess up the continuity, with only one writer who has the “right” to declare what actually happened (as soon as he figures it out himself).
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
