“First Metropolis, now Smallville. Is Julius Schwartz back at DC?”
Superman Adventures #46
DC Comics (August, 2000)
“The Fallen”
WRITER: S.C. Bury
PENCILER: Neil Vokes
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Marie Severin
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Joey Cavalieri
I’m just wondering what she was going to use it for?
Over at The Clutter Reports this week my search for a place to put my software led to finding…more software. At least I found that game I was looking for.
I’m close to being done with the video review but as usual I’m having trouble reaching the deadline. On the plus side I am trying to work out a system that will speed me up in the future. That may be part of the delay but in the long run I can put stuff out faster. Now if I can just do that with everything else. I may try to get a Sing Me A Story article in this week but no splashy reports beyond that. A lot of the time I’m pretty much deciding what I want to talk about “today” and that defines what’s coming out, and sometimes it’s based on current events.
Meanwhile I experimented a bit last week with video clips instead of just article links. I’m trying to diversify content here at the Spotlight while remaining true to the mission of examining the art of storytelling. Did it work for you folks or do you just want article links? I’m not getting rid of those, I just want more options. I like having options.
Many moons ago I went looking for information on a show called Power Masters, a cartoon based not on the Transformers Powermasters figures but a Lionel toyline that had little to do with the toy trains they’re mostly known for. The concept is credited to Victor G. Reiling, who originally titled the toys Motor Masters, which still would have brought Transformers sites up given the Stunticon commander was also called Motormaster, another two-word Lionel/one-word Transformers situation During the one time it aired around me either the station, the cable, or (ironically as you’ll soon see) power went out, or something happened to the recording. Either way I never got to see more than a few minutes of it. Finding information on Power Masters isn’t easy due to the Transformers and their one-word Powermasters dominating the search results. Even finding the show’s intro required me to outsource to someone better at finding obscure stuff. That posting has gotten me a surprising number of hits. If you read the comments the man who posted the intro to YouTube, Professor Doc, stated that he’s wanted to post the full miniseries but has been reluctant to. I also brought in Douglas Booth, who wrote the episodes. Neat.
Well, while backtracking one of the links coming to that post I learned that Professor Doc finally decided to upload the episodes, figuring the rights owners must not care or something. However, he rant into a snag as the videocassette (who remembers those?) he used is not in perfect condition. The result was that he wasn’t comfortable uploading everything and just posted long clips from the three episodes that were released, filling in the gaps with text to catch people up. While I’ve been waiting for him to post either the last act of episode three or another text synopsis it doesn’t look like we’re getting either, so here’s what he has posted, just to show you what the show was like.
Ever since Two-Face and Ivy starred in the Arkham remake of “A Star Is Born” they can’t go anywhere. Also because they’re crazed killers.
Batman Adventures #1
DC Comics (June, 2003; digital edition I’m not sure of because comiXology’s credits on this and last week’s are kind of messed up)
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Phil Felix
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Harvey Richards
EDITOR: Joan Hilty
“No Asylum”
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Rick Burchett
“Who Am I?”
WRITER: Dan Slott
PENCILER: Ty Templeton
Yesterday I went over the first batch of Batman show intros, and tonight we go through the rest. I’m not counting movies or video games. Video game intros are kind of rare and movie intros don’t have to sell the same show week after week or day after day so mostly exist to get viewers through the credits that make the movie-making unions happy.
In the last installment I covered the serials, the Filmation shows, and the first of the DCAU shows. I’m still not counting team-up shows like Justice League and Super Friends…with one exception you’ll see coming up. First, let’s complete the DCAU intros and get to the other stuff.
Isn’t this how Samson’s story ended?
Monolith #3
Comico The Comic Company (February, 1992–the comic has the indicia from the previous issue)
“Monster!!!”
WRITER: Mort Castle
PENCILER: Mitch Byrd
INKER: David Mowry
COLORIST: Holly Sanfelippo
COVER ART: Kelley Jones (artist) & Neil Trais (colorist)
LETTERER: Susan Dorne
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
