“I didn’t know she was your wife!”
Iron Man: Bad Blood #1
Marvel Comics (September, 2000)
“A Gathering Dark”
PLOT: David Michelinie & Bob Layton
WRITER: David Michelinie
ARTIST: Bob Layton
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
Marvel has two “parents”, Atlas Comics and Timely Comics. Timely became Atlas and Atlas became Marvel. So then why does Marvel not own the Atlas name and IP? This is another of those confusing rights issues but one that’s kind of sorted itself out without Marvel’s involvement. Maybe they know how Billy Batson fans feel? Yeah, they probably still don’t care.
We’re at the last nine chapters of this book. Nine really short chapters, as most of the book has been. Thanks to a recount if I do three this week, three next week, I’ll have three for the final week which means I’ll be starting June by ending this book. It balances out nicely that way, so that’s what I’ll be doing. Hopefully the next book will have proper length chapters and I’ll be able to have the title of this article series be accurate again, at least until the next book in this series comes up for review. Since I’ve run out of stuff for the intro, let’s get right to the chapter/page count.
The goal is in sight. Hopefully Korea and Japan will be by the time this is over.
Luckily it’s 6 hours in Namekian time. He has until at least next Tuesday.
Batman: Gotham Adventures #29
DC Comics (October, 2000)
“Six Hours To Kill”
WRITER: Chuck Dixon
PENCILER: Joe Staton
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
EDITOR: Bob Schreck
Now if we can just stop Stan Lee Media from misappropriating his name and image he’d get all the justice.
In all seriousness though I applaud Paramount, Blur Studios, and director Fowler for actually listening to fans complaints.
Whether or not they’ll actually do a redesign, or even a better redesign, we of course have yet to see as of this time. Hopefully they’ve listened to the complaints. I know the actual character design needs some alteration for live-action but compare the Bay version of the Transformers to Travis Knight’s version and you see it can be done right. (I also really want to see Bumblebee. I’m still taking suggestions for a Patreon you guys would be willing to sponsor. I should do something with that page.) Granted they don’t fix my main problems in that it’s live-action, appears to have upped the ante on Eggman’s incompetence as Jim Carrey goes retro, and we’re doing the live Smurfs things with the human characters befriending the CG usually cartoon character. Take the victories we get, I guess.
Anyway, over at the Clutter Reports it’s another one of the other Dinobots team with Airraptor. I need to figure out what to do with Striker since an important part broke but I’m not sure I wanted to keep it in the first place. Anyone know what Striker goes for with one of his body pieces broken off and the back panels probably not positioned correctly?
Events stopped me from doing the final He-Man newspaper comic review last week so I’m going to try to do it this week. It’s a final thoughts wrap-up of the series, plus a review of the collection for The Clutter Reports. I also might try to get a Free Comics Inside done this week but I’m really hoping to get some video editing done. It hasn’t been easy since everybody’s been getting sick around here. Hopefully we’re out of danger for awhile. We’ll find out what happens this week.
Roger Corman is not exactly known for high quality, big budget movies. Low-budget but fun schlock is more like it. His work on a Fantastic Four movie, mostly meant to keep the movie rights until they figured out what to do with him, has become infamous now that it’s sneaked out of the rights holder’s movie vault. However, this isn’t the only superhero production Corman has worked on. Have you heard of The Black Scorpion?
Created for Showtime’s Roger Corman Presents, the movie stars Joan Severence as the title heroine, who takes on the identity in order to avenge her father’s death at the hands of the evil Breathtaker (imagine a more evil version of the Asthma Monster that Captain America fought in those PSA comics and played by Adam West using Dark Helmet’s tailor). This is not easy as she also has to escape the police besides really being Angel City police detective Darcy Walker and has a complicated relationship with her partner, Michael Russo. She’s aided by former thief Argyle Sims, who created all of her gadgets but is also the brother of the Gangster Prankster, a sort of Joker/Two-Face hybrid merged with a gangster rapper (I’d give a name but I’m not up on my gangster rappers) the Black Scorpion fought in her second film, Black Scorpion II: Aftershock, alongside the title villainess. These two movies did well enough that Sci-Fi (oddly not Showtime) greenlit a one season TV series.
Lintel takes over from Severence as Darcy/Black Scorpion, Bruce Abbot’s Michael Russo is replaced by Steve Rafferty, played by Scott Valentine (having played a thug in the second movie) rather than either of the movie actors, and Garrett Morris is replaced by Brandon “BT” Terrell as Argyle. West would return as Breathtaker in a later episode, (fun fact, Frank Gorshin, the Ridder of West’s Batman, would appear as another supervillain in the series) and there would be one or two returns, but most of the cast changed. While some of Black Scorpion’s enemies would return (through resurrection by a well-meaning mad scientist–which gives you some idea what you’re in for) the first episode has the hero dealing with a gun nut with a gun for an arm. Yes, it is that kind of show.
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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