Run before Dan DiDio and Tom King kill or evilize another one of us!
Justice League Adventures #1
DC Comics (January, 2002)
“Disarmed”
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Min S. Ku
INKER: Dan Davis
COLORIST: John Kaliz
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Kurt Hathaway
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Steve Wacker
EDITOR: Dan Raspier
Joel Schumacher is willing to take the blame for the failures of his two Bat-Films. However, it wasn’t easy working with some of his actors as this article highlights.
Now if the movie ends with a good kid with superpowers taking him down I might approve. Bonus if he wears bright colors.
That’s what I got from the trailer anyway, and I’m not interested in the life story of supervillains anymore. It seems to be all comic writers care about anymore. My old boss Ozzie Arcane from Reviewers Unknown would be calling this too much supervillains and he’s a supervillain fan. His character was even a supervillain. Note that I’m not speaking to the quality of the movie. The trailer makes the effects look decent enough and it may be well made. I’m just not a horror fan to begin with and making yet another evil Superman, this time as Superboy, is not going to win me over.
In this week’s Clutter Report I redid my list of clutter projects and made a few lists to organize information and prep projects for this site. If it sounds easy read the article because there are good and bad ways to go about it.
Fun fact: I found out a few different ad-sponsored streaming sites finally have the original broadcast versions of Robotech and not just the “put the blood and boobs back into it” remasters Harmony Gold made recently. The Robotech theme just looks weird over the unedited opening for Super Dimension Fortress Macross and other pre-Robotech shows. So now I don’t have to use illegal YouTube uploads anymore to compare the show with the Comico adaptation. Not that it’s going to matter for the next two weeks since there are two more issues of Vermilion to go. Meanwhile I need to get the captions up for the Clash Of The Bionoids review so I can get started on the next Video Review, which thanks to timing is probably going to be another Robotech-related review instead of the one I had planned to do next. We’ll see what time allows and where I am in the comic collection. I’d like to get this one posted on time unlike the last one.
Hope everyone has a good week and you enjoy the reviews and commentaries to come this week.
It’s been awhile since we’ve looked in on John Blackstar and his friends on planet Sagar. For those of you who weren’t here for the Filmation tribute week, Blackstar is about an astronaut who ends up in another dimension and for reasons never explained ends up with half of the PowerStar, a mighty sword split into Blackstar’s Star Sword and the Power Sword (not He-Man’s) owned by the evil Overlord, ruler of the planet. Allying with the Trobbits and their allies Blackstar fights to free the world from Overlord’s grasp. The whole PowerStar thing is why Filmation changed He-Man’s Power Sword from the original Masters Of The Universe lore but a lot of this show filters into both He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe and She-Ra: Princess Of Power, so I don’t know why they bothered.
In tonight’s episode, Blackstar’s ally Mara seeks their help in freeing her friend Amber from Overlord’s mind control before she leads him to a scroll of ancient secrets Overlord can use to further his control over Sagar. Enjoy.
What, I didn’t say I was done with Free Comic Book Day, just the ones from this year.
The joke I would have made the comic did for me.
Atomic Robo FCBD 2019
Red 5 (comiXology release date June 3, 2019)
Note that this version does not contain the extra sample stories from other Red 5 titles at the time. If you want to know my thoughts on the others in the sampler here’s the review from that year’s Free Comic Book Day haul. The comic store has moved since then.
“Flight Of The Terror Birds”
WORDS: Brian Clevinger
STORY/ART: Scott Wegener
COLORIST: Ronda Pattison
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
This story is also available for free on the official Atomic Robo website.
I’ve spent most of this week reacting to videos, so why not end on a reaction video. The gang at Corridor Digital brought in real martial arts stuntman and actor Gui DaSilva-Greene to react to martial art stuntwork. In this video the focus is on Jackie Chan, but they also take a moment to look at one of the fights that inspired one of Jackie’s fights, the famous battle from The Way Of The Dragon where Bruce Lee’s character takes on one of the rare bad guy appearances of Chuck Norris. They also look at a long fight scene from Old Boy and how the Spike Lee remake missed the point of the scene. Enjoy.
I hear it just came out in HD DVD.
Radioactive Man official movie adaptation (vol. 2 #8)
Bongo Comics (2004)
WRITER…I MEAN ADAPTATION: Batton Lash
PENCILERS: Jason Ho & Bill Morrison
INKER: Bob Smith
COLORIST: Joey Mason
LETTERER: Karen Bates
EDITOR: Bill Morrison
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
