I haven’t seen the cover of this comic in years so maybe this is right.
Popeye The Sailor #171
Western Publishing Company (1984)
“Blunder Road” and “Baseball Nuts”
WRITER: Nick Cuti
ARTIST: George Wildman
Professor OG Watasnozzle: “The Elephant Trunk”
WRITER: Nick Cuti
ARTIST: George Wildman
“Susprise Party”
WRITER/ARTIST: Bud Sagendorf
(reprinted from Popeye (Dell, 1948 series) #7 (June-July 1949) according to the Grand Comic Database)
The project they’re talking about is a similar fan-produced experience touring the Enterprise for Star Trek: The Next Generation, until CBS intervened. (I think on their Facebook they mentioned it was because of actor likenesses, something they plan to avoid with The Orville. However, the person to most be concerned with about that is all in favor of this new venture.
https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/1130652866358628353
Yep, Seth MacFarlane himself tweeted about the new project. Hopefully it will be a good one. Although I probably won’t be able to run it on this old computer and I can’t afford it anyway. (They can’t make a profit but they may have costs they can recoup through crowdfunding or something.) No word on a release date as far as I know but I’ve been out of it recently, which is why it took so long for me to post this after I found out about it.
First a programming note that will mean nothing to the archives but I have to do it. You may have noticed a few late posts the past few days. This is me trying to cope with the lingering side effects of a medication that’s been knocking me out. To that end there won’t be any posts on Wednesday and possibly even Thursday in an attempt to get back on schedule with both my sleep cycle and content production. Hopefully that will be all I need. Now on to the reason you’re here.
I should be annoyed with the fact that the three chapters of this week’s grouping are only two pages each but considering the above I’m willing to work with it rather than finish the book and call it a day. I want to at least have this up before midnight and it’s already Tuesday, 9:14 PM, BW Attic HQ as I write this, and it will be later by the time I’m done. Still, it’s kind of the problem with the way this book does chapters. I’m not against them trying something different but I personally don’t care for based on how I read for both fun and this article series. So I won’t bother listing the page count (since I just did) but here’s where we’re bouncing back and forth from in this section.
They didn’t even change locations! It’s a minute later. What is the point? Anyway, I’m just going to read through all six pages and give my overall thoughts due to time and short pages.
Last story line he fought Jabba The Hutt. This storyline it’s Bib Fortuna.
Iron Man volume 3 #34
Marvel Comics (November, 2000)
“Power” part 2: “Villains”
WRITERS: Joe Quesada & Frank Tieri
PENCILER: Paul Ryan
INKERS: Hunter, Ryan, Stull, & Mei (You really need FOUR inkers?)
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
One of the few running gags I have here at the Spotlight is the problem with time travel stories where messing about with time is the central theme as opposed to just using it as an excuse to set a story in the past or future. Time paradoxes, time travel theory, multiverse theory…it’s all very confusing and often very annoying. It’s convinced me that the only reason I know time travel will never happen is the fact we all still exist and having been wiped out of existence. Yet.
Author John C. Wright offers up a great commentary about the inherent problem with time travel stories, including his own, showing example of writers actually getting it right. I found this one through Bleeding Fool but I would rather link to the original so long as the website is usable.
For this year’s Memorial Day PBS livestreamed the 30th Annual National Memorial Day Concert, which I bring you tonight, in honor of those who sacrificed all that we could live free, as well as their families and friends who lost a loved one to keep America free. I hope you had a great Memorial Day and remembered the fallen.
By the way I know I missed today’s DC Comics DCAU comic review. I’ve been in recovery mode and will get to it next week.
Today is Memorial Day so this morning’s link is to a website all about Memorial Day and why it matters.
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
