Variety has an article about an event in France celebrating cartoon co-productions between France and other countries simply called Cartoon Movie. The 21st installment will highlight 66 complete and in-production co-produced movies ranging from kids to family to adult fare. (I don’t think it means porn but this is France. I’ve seen the lines blur.)
By the end of this set of chapters I’ll finally be half way through this book, which is good but I still have the other half to go. Look, this isn’t my genre to begin with, and I picked up the book many years ago out of curiosity and wanting to expand my library a bit, but so far I have not enjoyed this book. Between the odd chapter structure and the mostly unlikable heroes this just isn’t doing it for me. The story is competent enough. Whether it’s Clancy, Pieczenik, or Jeff Rovin doing the writing here he/they is/are good at what he/they do. I’m just not really feeling it whenever they leave Korea.
Last time we saw that extremists on both the North and South side of Korea are hatching a plan to cause a war because they can’t get along…despite currently getting along. I guess when you have a common goal, even if it’s “kill each other”, you can put your differences aside. It may seem irrational, but such hatred is itself irrational, isn’t it? And it’s sure to get even more irrational before we’re through.
I wonder if anyone out there is keeping up with all the time zone changes to make sure this is accurate?
“Why does J’onn keep having barbecues?”
JLA #56
DC Comics (September, 2001)
“Terra Incognita” Part 2: “Harvest”
WRITER: Mark Waid
PENCILER: Mike S. Miller
INKER: Dave Meiks (another issue I bought from him at Brass City Comic Convention years ago)
COLORIST: Dave Baron
LETTERER: Ken Lopez
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Steve Wacker
EDITOR: Dan Raspler
I don’t live in Chicago and I don’t have a lot of business experience, so what I would do with a comic store may not be business savvy even if I think (read: “hope”) it would be good for comic fans. However, if you do live in Chicago and know what makes a comic store great, this “win a free comic store” contest may be something you’d consider entering. You have until the end of February, 2019 to convince the owner you’re the right person for the job, so get going.
In case you forgot I wanted to do this.
This is still a thing I want to do. I just need to get to it. On top of everything else I want to get to. At least in this week’s Clutter Report I cleaned up the art corner some more.
I didn’t get to the He-Man newspaper review last week, which means I will this week, or at least try to. I also found some interesting Thundercats-related info (nothing on Thundercats Roar because I’m scared enough of this slamming of a childhood favorite as it is) that you might find interesting. Nothing really else to update because outside of the comics, the next Finally Watched, and the Chapter By Chapter novel I have nothing else actually planned. So hope the week works out for you.
You’ve roared with Thundercats and maybe flown on wings of silver with the SilverHawks. But have you ever gone swimming with the TigerSharks?
The Comic Strip was an anthology series created by Rankin/Bass, the last of their full series. (There was another special or two but that was pretty much it for series.) It contained four shows in rotation during the week. Camp Mini-Mon was about two human children who end up at a summer camp for actual monster kids because their parents misunderstood the “little monsters” part. (I guess they were a couple of brats.) I’m not really into the “Universal” type monsters so I barely watched it. Street Frogs was one of two anthropomorphic worlds, this one inhabited by amphibians. The title frogs are a rap group and while most of the kids were voiced by actual black kids you can tell the writers weren’t. The raps weren’t very good and neither were the stories. Those two shows I tended to avoid.
On the other hand you had Karate Kat, about an all-feline anthro world. The title character (and that’s his actual name) works for a detective agency that always seems to run into the same three would-be mobsters and foiling their schemes. It was actually pretty good and I enjoyed it. All three of these shows were on the comedic side, but then you had TigerSharks, an adventure show in the same vein as Thundercats and SilverHawks. While the others would be features in self-contained 10+ minute adventures, this show would air in two parts, with part two including the epilogue. I wonder if Rankin/Bass was worried they were getting into a rut and used the other three shows to make this look more appealing to stations?
The story follows the adventures of the TigerSharks, an intergalactic salvage team whose specialty is underwater salvage. Their latest assignment takes them to the planet Water-O to recover a crashed ship. They just invented a machine that may help them in this and future missions, but they’re really going to need it when the space criminals Mantennas join forces with the crazed pirate Bizarlly and his crew. The solution is for our heroes to transform themselves into…fish?
“Seriously, Dick, who cares if it’s a pit or an oubliette?” “Let’s just say I have issues with rats.”
Batman: Gotham Adventures #24
DC Comics (May, 2000)
“Missed Connections”
WRITER: Scott Peterson
PENCILER: Tim Levins
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo
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
