“Okay, maybe Edna Mode had a point.”
Radioactive Man #1000
FINAL ISSUE
Volume 1 kept with the fake numbering.
“In His Own IMAGE”
WRITER/LAYOUTS: Steve Vance
INKER: Bill Morrison
COLORIST: Cindy Vane & Vancoptics (Mike Sakamoto
no letterer credited
I’m getting the impression that Marvel has opted to reboot their universe one character at a time rather than DC’s universe-wide reboots, and usually to the detriment of classic characters. Well, except Carol Danvers, who is now half-alien by birth rather than space science gone wrong. First Nick Fury goes blowing up planets and constantly resurrecting his dead friend as a robot, said friend being Dum-Dum Dugan, ruining both of those characters in different ways. Then Tony Stark’s adopted for no good reason and Iceman turns gay for a dumb one. And now it looks like Frank Castle hid behind his wife when the mob shooting that led to his becoming the Punisher happened? The writer of this article tries to come up with ways to undo this nonsense from a recent Savage Avengers issue, but based on the above I don’t see them taking it.
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“I’m so glad I didn’t pointlessly die in some secret plot.”
Robotech: The Macross Saga #14
Comico The Comic Company (September, 1986)
“Gloval’s Report”
ADAPTATION: Jack Herman
PENCILER: Mike Leeke
INKER: Keith Wilson
COLORIST: Kurt Mausert
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
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One of the problems I’ve noted with comics today is that kids seem to be pushed away in favor of college kids, forgetting that not only did most of us get into comics as kids but there won’t be comics anymore, at least not superhero comics from the US, if the comics companies don’t at least try to reach the younger audiences the way Japanese manga does. John Trent of Bounding Into Comics goes over this problem and uses Seeley’s tweet above to explain why boys today seem less interested in modern US comics. The short version is they aren’t making comics for boys anymore, or at least DC and Marvel aren’t at a price they can buy them for.
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I just realized I spelled Commercials wrong in the banner for this article series. Why didn’t anybody say anything?
When television was first invented you needed an antenna either on the house or on the TV itself in order to get a decent signal. Then cable and satellite came along and for a fee you could not only get local channels but channels around the country. Then the internet happened and streaming services came along to steal much of their thunder. However, while most services paid and free alike tend to follow the “on demand” mold a few exist that actually run like a cable system, with constantly running channels in real time. They can be accessed through the internet, with a few available for free, or via a streaming box with a monthly subscription or an app through a smart TV. They have fewer channels but still serves as yet another alternative.
One of these services is Sling, a service that boasts 300 channels and somehow got Danny Trejo to do a bunch of skits for them. My favorite is when he’s working in a coffee shop and a girl who just got her heart broken suddenly starts coming on to him with an emotional whiplash Masters Of The Universe figures couldn’t keep up with. Unfortunately they went as far as they could with that gag and went with something new. I say unfortunately not because I thought they could do more because ending things before they get stale is a longstanding request for this article series. It’s the campaign that came after it, a play on their name by having owners refer to themselves as “slingers”. Yes, it sounds like “swingers” and that’s the joke. A joke that somehow got worse and worse as they stuck with the joke and tried to just refresh their approach. And I just want it to stop!
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Evil Kirk wishes he could grow a goatee this cool.
Star Trek: Mirror Mirror
Marvel/Paramount Comics (February, 1997)
“Fragile Glass”
WRITER: Tom DeFalco
PENCILER: Mark Bagley
INKER: Larry Mahlstedt
COLORING: Team Bucce
LETTERER: Jon Babcock
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
In Defense Of Clip Shows
TV Tropes defines a clip show thusly:
The clip show, like in the Robotech episode whose comic adaptation I went over this afternoon, is often a target of scorn as of late. They’re seen as lazy. “We already saw these episodes. Why do we care?” And fair enough, but to understand the clip show as something other than a way to save money (as if somehow properly using their budget to get a full season is a bad thing) we need to understand the other reasons behind them in the past and how they can actually serve a story today, even in our on-demand stream and binge TV and video watching culture.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 8, 2019 in Television Spotlight and tagged clip shows, commentary, Power Rangers, Robotech.
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