“I hope I don’t have to relive this moment in a mental delusion.” “That’s oddly specific.” “Welcome to my life.”
Star Trek: Early Voyages #3
Marvel Comics (April, 1997)
“Our Dearest Blood”
WRITERS: Ian Edginton & Dan Abnett
PENCILER: Patrick Zircher
INKER: Greg Adams
COLORIST: Marie Javins
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
There has been some question about how Netflix reports it’s numbers. FX chief John Landgraf is one of those people and voiced his concerns at a recent critics conference. I’ve heard other people question Netflix’s numbers who don’t share his bias by the way and in the article he doesn’t try to slam his rival (FX is owned by Fox which is soon to be owned by Disney and both own part of Hulu, plus people still call Netflix a TV channel when it really isn’t, it’s a streaming service.)
“SparkShorts” are a series of shorts produced by Pixar in which the animators have complete control (within the Disney limits I would assume except mild swearing shows up more than once in the video I’m highlighting tonight, so maybe don’t show this off to the younglings). Purl follows the story of a sentient ball of yarn going to work at a company whose business is never explained but it isn’t the point anyway. The point is how Purl Ball fits in at this company…eventually.
Cain’s bridge club gets a bit rowdy.
Juggernaut: The Eight Day (or according to the publishing info Juggernaut #1)
Marvel Comics (November, 1999)
“The Eighth Day” finale: “Eight Is Enough”
WRITER: Joe Casey
PENCILER: Terry Shoemaker
INKER: Scott Hanna
COLORIST: Mark Bernardo
LETTERER: Mike Heisler
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
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
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
