Sadly we do not get Man-Bat Beyond.
Batman Beyond volume 2 #7
DC Comics (May, 2000)
“McGinnis’ Secret”
WRITER: Hilary J. Bader
PENCILER: Min Ku
INKER: Sean Parsons
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Joseph Illidge
While I’ve always been more of a DC fan than a Marvel fan, there are some Marvel heroes I like and grew up with. Spider-Man is one of them. I grew up with the 60s cartoon thanks to reruns and Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends was one of my Saturday morning staples. I also used to watch USA Network’s Thanksgiving marathon of the live-action series with Nicholas Hammond. Also one of my first comics was a Spider-Man comic, just not the best one to come in on. I do enjoy a good Spider-Man story.
I haven’t seen the Spider-Man movies from Sony that people are often down on, the studio-interfering Spider-Man 3 and the two Amazing Spider-Man movies, and I can’t get to the theater to watch Into The Spider-Verse but I’ve heard good things about it. I did finally get to see Spider-Man: Homecoming, the long-awaited debut of the web-head into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While Sony still holds the license on the Spider corner of the Marvel multiverse they decided to partner with Marvel Studios so fans can finally see Marvel’s original flagship character in the continuity he belongs in. The question is how well did the transfer go? Well, since I reviewed the trailer for the sequel earlier this week it seemed right to review the movie at the end of it.
RELEASE DATE: 2017
RELEASED BY: Marvel Studios and Sony Pictures
RUNTIME: 2 hours, 13 minutes
STARRING: Tom Holland, Jacob Batalon, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Marisa Tomei, and Robert Downey Jr.
SCREENWRITERS: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, & Erik Sommers
DIRECTOR: Jon Watts
GROSS INCOME: $880,166,924 out of an estimated budget of $175,000,000
It would have been more fitting if it had been doing a James Bond pose, because at least it would tie to SOMETHING in the issue.
Robotech: Return To Macross #33
Academy Comics, Lt. (June, 1996)
“Overboard”
WRITER: Bill Spangler
ARTIST: Dusty Griffin
George Pérez is one of the best artist in comics. He was able to do huge, distinct crowd scenes in the days before computer software offered layers. He was one of the co-creators of the definitive Teen Titans memberships along with long time storytelling partner Marv Wolfman. The man is a legend in comics. So hearing that he’s retiring from comics due to health reasons is a sad time for the comics industry.
A Multichannel Network (MCN) is supposed to benefit creators by helping with YouTube’s messed up Content ID system, one that doesn’t benefit reviews and video essay creators as well as “let’s players”, as well as making sure other channels aren’t uploading your videos to a different channel like they do old and even recent TV shows. However, the MCN only works when the people behind it do their job correctly. Defy Media was one of those MCNs until it recently shut down.
However, this isn’t the full story. Defy Media’s quick shutdown caused a lot of trouble for YouTubers using their services, because MCNs do not operate the way you’d expect, and this led to, intentionally or otherwise, Defy stealing from their now networkless membership. MatPat of the Game and Film Theorists put a video up on the Game Theory channel talking about how Defy basically screwed them over at a very bad point in their lives to do so, just after Matthew Patrick and his wife had a newborn son. In this video he discusses how multichannel networks operate, the flaws in the business model, especially for creators under them, and how this let to $1.7 million being taken collectively from the channels that were part of Defy Media’s network both big like the Theorists and small. If you’re thinking about using an MCN to help fight Content ID and preserve your own content, you may want to see this cautionary tale so you go in with the facts and join an actually helpful network.
“I wonder if Superman ever has days like this.”
Transformers Animated: The Arrival #2
IDW Publishing (September, 2008)
WRITER: Marty Isenberg
SELECTED COVER ART: Irineo Maramba
SELECTED COVER COLORIST: Kersti Myrberg
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton
“Attention Surplus Disorder”
PENCILER: Dario Brizuela
INKER: Leandro Corral
COLORIST: Liam Shalloo
“Whatever Happened To Whatisname?”
ARTIST: Marcelo Matere
Tyler Perry mixes it up with the media on the red carpet at the 82nd Academy Awards. [image source: Wikipedia]
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