Captain Kirk runs into Santa’s elite guard.
Star Trek: Year Four #2
IDW Publishing (August, 2017)
Look, I know IDW doesn’t really like giving their stories titles, but this is STAR TREK! Even crappy episodes have had good titles! Screw it, I’m calling it “The Crystal Cold”.
WRITER: David Tischman
ARTIST: Steve Conley
COLORIST: Leonard O’Grady
LETTERER: Neil Uyetake
EDITOR: Dan Taylor
Darth Maul seems to be to the Prequels what Boba Fett was to the original series, a character so popular that his death was undone so they could give the fans more. For Fett it was in the novels, while Maul got to come back in official media, namely the Clone Wars and Rebels animated series and from what I hear the Solo film. It turns out they planned a video game that would focus on Maul’s fall to the Dark Side. Whether or not that story would have clashed with the origin we’re given in The Clone Wars I couldn’t say.
The various Double Dragon adaptations, including the comic above, have not really been faithful to the video games. The comic was really good, the movie okay, and the cartoon at the bottom of the scale. None of them really do justice to the game series. The games themselves, first appearing in the arcades, made famous on the NES and Super NES, and getting themselves into as many gaming sources as possible (I’m pretty sure there was a board game and the trading cards came with scratch tickets that didn’t win prizes but was still a fun game as scratch-offs go), the franchise follows the estranged brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee in their various adventures both together and as rivals. Billy is usually treated as the hero although often both get to save the day. They’ve had numerous allies and enemies in the games alone, even teaming with the Battletoads. No, I don’t know why.
In this episode of Slopes Game Room, Daniel Ibbertson takes a look at the full history up to the posting date of October 12, 2016, and the many games under the Lee brothers’ belt. He also goes into how it all started thanks to a juvenile delinquent and Bruce Lee. Wait, what?
The fashion police are getting vicious!
Iron Man vol. 3 #42
Marvel Comics (July, 2001)
“The Big Bang Theory”
WRITER: Frank Tieri
PENCILER: Keron Grant
INKERS: Stull, Story, & Perotta
COLORIST: Edgar Tadeo
LETTERING: Sharpefont
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Andrew Lis
EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
The comic world was hit with sad news over the weekend with the announcement of famed artist Ernie Colon (this is from one of his earlier works, as is the featured image for this article) had lost his battle with cancer at 88. Condolences to his family and friends. I think the latest work of his I reviewed was Richie Rich: Rich Rescue in the early 2000s so he stayed working a long time. You have to admire him for finding what he loved and keeping with it.
Remember, the book is in public domain. Download or read the ebook online legally and for free at Project Gutenberg, Google Books or the Internet Archive, or check out the audiobook from LibriVox. You can also use a print copy. In either case my copy may not match up with yours chapter-wise. Follow along with the very-long subtitle. For this chapter:
Giving an Account of Robin Hood and His Adventure With the King’s Foresters. Also Telling How His Band Gathered Around Him His Good Right-Hand Man, the Famous Little John.
The preface of this book has Pyle warning the readers that this is not a fantasy land but a land of fancy. If you don’t want to see a fun story of people making merry, then close the book and go do something in the mundane world. I can’t speak for the 1800s but considering the cynical concept of “realism” that permeates even Robin Hood stories as of late you have to have guts to make that declaration. Well, since fun stories with happy people battling evil forces is what I go to fiction for let us see if we get that here. The prologue in this book is like my last one, the length of a chapter, so we’ll be spending our first installment just on that as we set-up the story to follow.
“Sorry, Batman, but I owe him money.”
Batman: Gotham Adventures #41
DC Comics (October, 2001)
“A Tale Of Joe”
WRITER: Scott Peterson
PENCILER: Tim Levins
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Albert T. de Guzman
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Harvey Richards & Nachie Castro
EDITORS: Jan Hilty & Bob Schreck
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
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