“He owed me 50 credits.” “Your people don’t use money anymore.” “Oh, um…he slept with wife.” “Nobody believes that one, Kirk.”
Star Trek #80
DC Comics (February, 1996)
“The Chosen” finale: “Collision Course!”
WRITER: Kevin J. Ryan
PENCILER: Rachel Forbes Seese
INKER: Pablo Marcos
COLORIST: Ray Murtaugh
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITORS: Margaret Clark & Jim McCann
This time the cheerful art fits! (image source: Wikipedia)
Somewhere among the death of over thirty creators at Kyoto Animation and the destruction of their studio comes some good news. One of the biggest tragedies besides the loss of life was the loss of the work those creators had worked on. Well, not all of it has been lost. If it was sent to the company’s servers, then their work lived on because they were able to recover the data from those servers. It’s not much and it won’t bring back the dead but if their work can be completed, if the company can recover and still bring about those stories, finding new creators seeking to live their own dream (KyoAni is known to be very good to their workers, including female creators), then we’ll take whatever good news we can out of this.
Keep praying for the company and for the family and friends of those who were lost to the fire, as well as those still recovering from it. Sentai Filmworks, who distributes much of their work outside of Japan, has a Go Fund Me page for the staff and loved ones and this is the last day for it. They’ve already gone way beyond what they were hoping to raise.
Superman (and Lois Lane, people forget that) was created in the 1930s and when something goes that long the lore, as well as the external history, can get a bit confusing. That isn’t helped with DC constantly doing soft and hard reboots every time they screw things up too much. Who Superman is, who his supporting cast is, and even what his powers and abilities are, have varied over the years.
Ewan from What Culture? takes a look at 10 questions about Superman’s external history people find confusing. How many Supergirls are there? What about Superboys? He tries to answer those questions and the Clark Kent glasses. Because I will not stop showing videos and writing articles defending the glasses until that stupid debate ends! I even brought in a tag-team partner for that one. Here’s the videos.
“WHAT happens to me in the movie? Thanks for the spoilers, jerk!”
Iron Man vol. 3 #40
Marvel Comics (May, 2001)
“Remote Control” part 4
WRITER: Frank Tieri
PENCILERS: Martinez, Wieringo, Pollina, Romita, Layton, Shanower, & Grant
INKER: Candelario, Layton, Morales, Hunter, & Shanower
COLORS: VLM
LETTERING: Comicraft
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Andrew Lis
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
Amazing what breed controversy nowadays. Cats is a Broadway show that has been around since before Thundercats was on television. I mean the original, so it’s been around at least since I’ve been a kid. The movie has brought about two bits of controversy. The first comes from people upset that the half-black woman (who is also half-white) who is playing the character of Victoria The White Cat was given all white fur, claiming it’s whitewashing for a white cat to be a white cat even if not played by a white woman. Despite everybody having fur that isn’t the color of the performer’s skin and the play the movie is based on probably being older than she is. This article goes into more detail.
Meanwhile, the other controversy is that a play known for really great make-up effects for a stage play has gone CG (although apparently there is some actual costume work here) for the movie and the problems that causes. The Corridor Crew did a video that includes the problems with the CG and the costumes plus some further VFX reactions. Since the article link above opens in a new window you can read that and watch this.
Why not just use the same makeup as the play? It always looked good in the ads. They look more like Thundercats than actual cats. And no, I don’t think a Thundercats movie would be a good idea given the current Hollywood mindset. It would be a terrible movie and a worse adaptation. History bares that out.
So a little extra this morning for you.
Here we are at the wrap-up. Shorter than usual but (and this should be the last time I bring it up until the next Tom Clancy book…way in the future) after the last book I needed it. The bad guys are gone but what do the good guys do now? And how will the bad guys return? The first two books came out roughly the same time if memory serves, so it’s all set-up for the next book in the series from here. We also have a two page epilogue, so I’m just going to toss this in here.
“Wait, I’m too young to gamble!”
Batman Beyond volume 2 #23
DC Comics (September, 2001)
“Family Day”
WRITER: Paul Storrie
PENCILER: Craig Rosseau
INKER: Rob Leigh
COLORIST: Shannon Blanchard
SEPARATIONS: Digital Chameleon
LETTERER: John Costanza
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Michael Wright
EDITOR: 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
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
