Just yesterday Vamfire got a fortune cookie warning she’d go all to pieces. She didn’t think it was literal.
E-Man volume 4 #1
Comic The Comic Company (January, 1990)
“Desperately Seeking Vamfire”
WRITER/CO-CREATOR: Nicola Cuti
ARTIST/CO-CREATOR: Joe Staton
COLORIST: Rick Taylor
LETTERER: Willie Schubert
EDITOR: Shelly Roeberg
Here’s a cute little fan-trailer, using video from Marvel’s TV past and other footage where needed, to create a what-if scenario where the Marvel Cinematic Universe existed in the 1980s. See if you can spot which ones were actual Marvel productions. Here’s a hint: Kamen Rider Black wasn’t part of Marvel comics.
We return to Kenner’s Super Powers Collection, where the DC heroes were both influenced by and influenced Super Friends. Kenner did something different with this line. Each character given a toy had his or her own minicomic, and that included the villains. As we complete the rest of the line in proper order we reach Brainiac. Throughout the various continuities Brainiac has gone back and forth between alien humanoid and robotic android, but his mission is usually the same, even if his reasoning has also changed. Brainiac usually shrinks cities for his collection. In his first appearance he was trying to repopulate his planet, in some other versions he collects cities of dying worlds or like in Superman: The Animated Series is satisfied with taking the planet’s sum history and knowledge and then blowing up the planet so that he alone has that knowledge. Because coming back in a decade and noting all the changes and advancements is too much like work or something. Maybe he hates his job?
In the Super Friends Powers world Brainiac is an android looking to enslave humanity because robots are superior. This version has him losing his humanoid body in favor of a fully robotic design. I don’t know if it was DC, Hanna-Barbera, or Kenner that chose this new design but while it’s certainly off for the character I rather like the design itself and I guess it does make for a more stand-out figure in the toy line. So what does old chromedome want to do to us this time, and how can Batman and Superman put a stop to it?
Brainiac’s milkshake brings all the heroes to the yard.
Super Powers Collection #5
featuring Brainiac
DC Comics/Kenner (1983)
As usual no title or credits given. It’s too bad because I’d love to know who writes and draws these comics. Such is the norm with mini-comics.
It’s like Roy couldn’t decide between his angry face and his derpy face, so he went for both.
Robotech: Return To Macross #37
FINAL ISSUE
Academy Comics, Ltd (October, 1996)
“Never Can Say Goodbye”
WRITER: Bill Spangler
ARTIST: Dusty Griffin
Rifftrax, the show created by the survivors of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (it’s a long story involving planes, a bag of sugar, and a picture of Raquel Welch in a platypus costume) has just launched their Kickstarter for the three movies they want to riff live in a theater and on movie screens across the country. One of them is a rework of an MST3K classic, one a more recent low-budget sci-fi film featuring a Starship Troopers alum, and the other I thought was going to be Japanese until I watched the preview video. See if you can guess which is which.
Nintendo is making a modern remake of the Game Boy Legend Of Zelda: Link’s Awakening for Nintendo Switch. It has a different visual feel from their hit game Breath Of The Wild, updating the art style of the Game Boy game and looking closer to the Mario games. (Of course this annoys the same crowd who hated the art style of the Wind Waker set of games.) And it’s kind of fitting since Mario enemies actually show up in the original game…sort of kind of. Lockstin from Gnoggin goes over the various cameos in the original game.
T’Pring isn’t the only one challenging for Spock’s hand.
Star Trek: Early Voyages #5
Marvel/Paramount Comics (June, 1997)
“Cloak & Dagger”
WRITERS: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton
PENCILER: Patrick Zircher
INKER: Greg Adams
COLORIST: Marie Javins
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
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