It’s not easy putting a suit of armor in “time out”.
Iron Man volume 3 #28
Marvel Comics (May, 2000)
“The Mask In The Iron Man” part 3: “My Own Worst Enemy”
WRITER: Joe Quesada
ARTISTS: Sean Chen & Rob Hunter, Alitha Martinez & Rodney Ramos
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
For a limited time (one report I saw said until March 29, 2019) DC Universe’s streaming service is offering up the first episode of their three original shows–Titans, Doom Patrol, and Young Justice: Outsiders or season three of Young Justice for free in the hopes of drawing new customers. I may try to sneak in a review or two before the time is up. Although from what I’ve seen and heard Young Justice is the only one I actually care about.
At this point I should be talking about how the story is progressing although this is usually around the time when I start running out of new ways to open the review. In this case it’s been the same intro for a while now, how the stuff at Op-Center is usually annoying and taking time away from the more interesting story in Korea, plus how things are going slow as they try to introduce characters for the series with annoying padding that does nothing to advance the plot. If you cut out all the stuff from the US this would be a faster and more interesting book. The chapter count makes it look worse than it is until you look at the actual page count for most of the chapters, but reading it doesn’t make it any better.
Fourteen pages, slightly over a normal chapter but the sooner we’re done the better and there’s still too much to go.
This is when Corrine decided to buy an appointment book.
Superman Adventures #45
DC Comics (July, 2000)
“Mateless In Metropolis”
WRITER: Jeff Grubb
PENCILER: Aluir Amancio
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Marie Severin
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Joey Cavalieri
Sanford And Son was and still is a pretty popular sitcom about a junk dealer and his son trying to make ends meet and get along. It was based on a UK sitcom called Steptoe And Son. Did you know that it also had a bunch of spin-offs? One I hadn’t heard of until this article is Sanford Arms, an attempt to continue the series despite neither of the title characters returning. It didn’t do well.
Sorry I’m a bit late. The computers kept fighting me to get this done and I was so upset that I forgot to post it beyond the archive page.
I realized I’m way behind on my Power Ranger parodies. I’m making up for lost time.
You decide if it was worth posting. 🙂 After the Beast Morphers review I realized I hadn’t done a Power Ranger parody in a long time and I’m a few series back. So now we’re up to Jungle Fury.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I managed to complete more of the video game testing. I finished Windows 95. Now I just have to see if any of my XP games work, and were on to the other software.
This week I’m going to do the Scanning My Collection article I was going to do last week before a trailer dropped I wanted to discuss more. (And I’m still taking Patreon reward suggestions.) While I continue to work on the video review (hoping to do the on-camera recording this week) I hope to do other articles as well. In the daily comic reviews I’ll be looking at the first Robotech episode adaptation, but not the ones from Comico. That will be coming later. Academy Comics did their own adaptation of the first episode and I’ll be starting there, and I’ll be returning to Academy periodically as they also made a few original stories set during the first Robotech war, while my Comico collection has some big gaps. I may be returning here in the future as I try to plug those gaps. Nothing from the Elemental universe for awhile either as the Friday “random” comics continue (I’m just going through my alphabet for one-shots and shorter series), and the Saturday comiXology review will be an Atomic Robo comic I have yet to review. It should be an interesting week.
The Lone Ranger was a popular radio drama set in the Old West. It followed the story of a man named Reid (no first name given although later interpretations favored the name “John”), the last survivor of an attack on him and his fellow Texas Rangers. Reid’s brother Dan Reid was also killed but Reid was saved by Tonto, a…don’t yell at me, it’s the word they used back then…Indian whose life Reid had saved as a boy. Now both men the two form a friendship and Reid decided to pursue the gang that attacked them, donning the mask of the Lone Ranger. And then he decided to keep fighting crime, the mask sometimes getting him into trouble since usually it’s the bad guys who wear masks. He is also the ancestor of the Green Hornet, since they had the same creator although both properties were sold to different people and thus the connection has been lost to time.
The characters were popular enough that numerous interpretations exist, some more faithful than others. Serials, comics, cartoons, and various live-action interpretations followed, the most famous of which being the TV series that can still be found on TV on various retro channels. Clayton Moore (replaced for one season) was the man in the mask and there’s a long history there involving his trying to wear the mask at events. Jay Silverheels, an actual Native American, portrayed Tonto throughout the series. Two cartoons were produced, including one in 1966 that ran for three seasons and tonight’s showcase, Filmation’s The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger. Because of course we’re going with Filmation.
Airing alongside Tarzan and later Zorro (I discussed the Tarzan version in a previous Saturday Night Showcase but I still can’t replace the video as of this writing), this take on the Lone Ranger starred famed actor William Conrad (who for some reason was credited as J. Darnoc) as the title hero, and his voice isn’t bad but it’s a huge difference from Moore or his sub, John Hart. Just like the live-action series however is the fact that an actual Native American, Ivan Naranjo, voiced Tonto. It’s an extra step that might not have been needed but it’s welcome just the same. In the first episode The Lone Ranger and Tonto, along with their famed horses Silver and Scout, come upon a mystery worthy of Scooby-Doo, complete with Frank Welker providing voices. I wonder if the whole series was like that? At any rate, enjoy “Hanga, The Night Crawler”.
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Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
