Bruce tries to create a new sport, the cowl toss.
Batman: Gotham Adventures #33
DC Comics (February, 2001)
“World Without Batman”
WRITER: Ed Brubaker
PENCILER: Brad Brader
INKER: John Lowe
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Fran Berrios
EDITOR: Bob Schreck
While zombie-smash The Walking Dead will continue on thanks to AMC and…are they still planning to finish the game Telltale Games never got to before it shut down?…the comic has ended. Robert Kirkman gave no warning and even pretended it wasn’t because he likes surprises. And The Hollywood Reporter ruined that almost immediately last week. The article gives the reason why and shows some fake art for future cover issues created by artist Charlie Adlard.
So why am I showing art from one of Kirkman’s other comics, Super Dinosaur? Well, now he has time to go back and do more of those stories. Please bring back Super Dinosaur. It’s the Kirkman comic I actually enjoyed and there’s certainly more to the story that they have to tell. Mostly this post exists to remind you Super Dinosaur exists, and he brought missiles.
No Autobots were harmed in the making of this comic.
This sort of happened to us many years ago. A power transformer blew on our street took out our power for…I think longer than two day. No light show that I recall though.
In this week’s Clutter Report I look at the untranslated Speed Racer reboot manga to see if I can somehow still enjoy it.
Saturday is my 46th birthday (getting older and having less to show for it) and although I still want to continue my clutter maintenance I won’t be doing a Saturday post unless I find something you might enjoy. I’ll do a special Today’s Comic for the next Free Comic Book Day preview I’m doing a deeper review set for on Friday in the usual feature article slot since I’ve already missed one when life events got to me. I also need to renew my driver’s license this week so depending on how long I take at the DMV there may not be much of an article the next day. (I usually write my articles a day in advance.) Hopefully I’ll at least have a good Jake & Leon gag come from it. Have a good week.
Tonight’s offering may not run on Vista and sooner operating system-friendly browsers. Every time I tried to run it on my computer it pauses during the lion roar and I get a message saying “Sorry, there was an error licensing this video.” and yet on my old Android tablet and my dad’s computer (running Windows 8) it ran just fine, at least as far as the credits. If it doesn’t work my old Reviewers Unknown colleague the Blockbuster Chick did a review of the movie before she retired, so check that out. Between this and YouTube getting rid of the current upload system for one that doesn’t run on Vista it seems Google really wants me to upgrade but won’t give me the money to do so and doesn’t care I don’t have it on my own. So I don’t know how I’m going to edit videos in the future or even upload them. A rant for another time perhaps. Let’s get to why you’re here tonight.
Speaking of things Google and YouTube do wrong, did you know they have a channel where they stream movies and TV shows legally for other companies? You didn’t? Maybe because they barely promote the thing if at all. It’s done in the style of Vudu: some movies/shows free with ads while others you have to pay for. They also have exclusive programming on YouTube Premium. If you ever wondered where that Karate Kid spinoff series Kobra Kai is, now you know. One of the movies is one that I wanted to put on Saturday Night Showcase but the rights holders dropped it from their YouTube channel in favor of this service. So with all the talk about a new Masters Of The Universe movie, I thought it would be a decent time to show you the old one.
Released in 1987 this movie is not a very good adaptation of the source material, namely the toys, or even the cartoon. The costumes are way off, Frank Langella’s Skeletor and Meg Ryan’s Evil-Lyn being the closest to other incarnations of the time. Dolph Lundgren was given a cape and a sword that looks cool but doesn’t resemble any version of the Power Sword from the time. Teela and Man-At-Arms have the wrong colors, as does Beast Man, and Teela is now a blaster-wielding badass instead of a sword or staff wielding badass. They travel to Earth to meet Courtney Cox, who takes time away from dancing with Bruce Springsteen to mourn her dead parent before she and her boyfriend stumble across a portal device that Skeletor wants…as if creating intra and interdimensional portals was some new thing on Eternia. I will at least give the movie credit for being fun, though not always in the way intended. Still, if you can run it, enjoy.
Glowing eyes is a raging epidemic, but you…can help.
Malika: Fire & Frost
YouNeek Studios (2019)
CREATOR/WRITER/ART DIRECTOR: Roye Okupe
ARTIST: Sunkanmi Akinboye
COLORIST: Etubi Onucheyo
COVER/CONCEPT ART: Godwin Akpan
LETTERER: Bode Joseph
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Vomoz Communications, Inc
Industrial Light & Magic was created for Star Wars. Literally. George Lucas created the company to innovate special effects to make his movie look the way he wanted it. There were a few limitations, which would lead to the Special Edition edits a couple of decades later, but that’s what they were designed for, going on to do other movies afterwards.
What the prequel trilogy lacked in dialog and performance didn’t change the innovations in the new field of computer effects that were made in the three films. Some of them are amazing and hold up, while others kind of don’t. YouTube VFX stars The Corridor Crew takes a look at these effects to see what still looks amazing and what they screwed up.
“Look, if you would stop eating the dino treats I would haven’t lock them up. It’s not my fault the key is stuck.”
Radioactive Man #106 (volume 2 #6)
Bongo Entertainment (November 2002…I mean 1963)
“The Hallucinations That Weren’t Real” and “Isle Of Irregular Dinosaurs”
WRITER: Batton Lash
PENCILER: Dan DeCarlo
INKER: Bob Smith
COLORIST: Jason Latour
LETTERER: Karen Bates
EDITOR: Bill Morrison
(full credits according to comics.org, the Grand Comic Database)
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
