I decided to make a v-log to update YouTube on what’s going on with video reviews and captioning old reviews. So here that is.
And no, I’m not saying what the new video review is. Hopefully you’ll see it on time when it’s done.
Worst Mysterio cosplay ever?
Transformers Animated: The Arrival #3
IDW Publishing (October, 2008)
WRITER; Marty Isenberg
COLORIST: Liam Shalloo
SELECTED COVER ART: Marcelo Matere
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton
“Stiletto”
PENCILER: Dario Brizuela
INKER: Landro Corral
“Bots Of Science”
ARTIST: Boo
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I know, Star Wars isn’t Lion King, but I don’t have any images from The Lion King. However, it does tie into the discussion in today’s article link. Ever since Disney bought Marvel they canceled their comics with other publishers. This includes the Boom Studios “Duckverse” titles (Darkwing Duck and Uncle Scrooge-related titles) and pulling Star Wars away from Dark Horse, who have a very successful run. One wonders what will happen with the Aliens and Predators franchises (Dark Horse created the idea of putting them together and unlike the movies the comics were well received) since they bought Fox, especially after taking the Conan The Barbarian Franchise away from them, and they don’t even own that.
And yet their kid-targeted titles for Marvel heroes are being made by IDW, and now their own Disney properties are being made into comics not by Marvel but by Dark Horse, the latest being a Lion King story. I honestly don’t know what Disney is doing these days. I thought they wanted to move everything in-house?
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Yes, I know that’s not the name of the song. Before you yell at me ask yourself how many people that song about high school sweethearts introduced by a song about ordering wine at a restaurant was called “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”? I needed to make sure those music lovers had some idea what I was talking about. So here we go again with a Billy Joel song.
“Scenes From An Italian Restaurant” is one that confused me because I couldn’t understand what those other two songs were doing bookending “The Ballad Of Brenda And Eddie” (the official name of the song that takes up the majority of “Scenes From An Italian Restaurant”). Why couldn’t that song stand out on its own? As in times past this led to a Sing Me A Story article so I could take time to find out. Coming off of Joel’s 1977 album The Stranger, it’s actually three songs in one. The title piece, officially just “Italian Restaurant”, is the opening and closing of the song, about ordering wine. After that comes an unnamed piece that bridges “Italian Restaurant”and “The Ballad Of Brenda And Eddie” (a reworking of a song that Joel made long before The Stranger). What is the point and does it affect the actual story here?
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The sad thing is you can’t get a Number One action figure, can you? I’m not even sure you can get Captain Pike.
Star Trek: Early Voyages #2
Marvel/Paramount Comics (March, 1997)
“The Fires Of Pharos”
WRITERS; Ian Edginton & Dan Abnett
PENCILER: Patrick Zircher
INKER: Greg Adams
COLORIST: Marie Javins
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
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Here’s another one from the Retroist, although my focus is less on Rich Hall’s appearance in an Atari commercial but rather his famous “sniglet” routine. One of my school classes even took part in a sniglet contest. We didn’t win, and that’s all I remember about that. The commercial, in case you’re interested, tries to make the case that playing Atari games is better than going to the movies. Interestingly, Atari in its original form never realized the day when video games became movies or at least cinematic. (We’re still waiting for the days video game movies are as good as book adaptations. Look how long it took comics.) Also, discussion of the Atari 5200.
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I rarely showcase live-action intros in this article series because most of them are kind of dull. Cartoon intros don’t need to show a cast and are more willing to create original footage rather than use clips to show off the show’s cast. There’s little design put into them. At best they have a nice theme song, but this isn’t “My Favorite Theme Songs”, it’s “My Favorite Intros”. Therefore an intro has to have more to them than names and a theme song.
In The Heat Of The Night doesn’t really have a lot of flash. It’s a low-key intro with a low-key theme song. That works because it was a low-key show. Based more off of the movie (and possible the two sequels, They Call Me Mister Tibbs and The Organization) than the original novel by John Ball, the series took place in the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi. (There is an actual unincorporated community in Mississippi named Sparta but the movie was shot in Sparta, Illinois, while the TV series was filmed in Hammond, Louisiana and later Covington, Georgia. Interestingly the novel was also set in a fictional town with an unincorporated community sharing the name…unless the book is actually set in that community. I haven’t read it.) The series began on NBC but later moved to CBS. Apparently there was a lot of backstage drama as well but that doesn’t matter here. I’m interested in the intro.
