If “The Cage” had been a successful pilot.
Star Trek: Early Voyages #1
Marvel/Paramount Comics (February, 1997)
“Flesh Of My Flesh”
WRITERS: Dan Abnett & Ian Edginton
PENCILER: Patrick Zircher
INKER: Greg Adams
COLORIST: Marie Javins
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
“You’ve got the wrong Rogers.” “Blame Tronix’s media library.”
Mike Rogers left big comics for indies because the big publishers were focusing on the speculator market in the 1990s. We all know how that turned out. In this article he gives advice on how indie creators can widen their market. While I think he’s a little too down on digital comics (I love my print comics too, but the point is to get it out there for people to read) there is some good advice in there.
“I hate these new escape rooms”
Iron Man volume 3 #22
Marvel Comics (November, 1999)
“The Eighth Day” part 2: “The Thrill Of The Chase!”
WRITERS: Kurt Busiek & Roger Stern
PENCILER: Sean Chen
INKERS: Hunter, Morales, Nelson, and Cannon
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
Last time we learned the identity of “Eyepatch” and just what his evil scheme is about, one born of fanaticism due to his previous life experiences. I’d feel sorry for him if he didn’t just blow up a bunch of people, including one of the few GOOD characters in this story thus far and they’re hard to come by, and blame it on the North. Sorry, I’m not rooting for you under any circumstances. Too bad the people I’m supposed to be rooting for have three likable people and you’re about to attack one of them. So congratulations on being just as awful as the people you hate.
This book gets harder to enjoy. That and time is why I’m only suffering three chapters this week. My goal is to have at least 11 pages but normally I won’t mind going a little over. I just don’t feel like going over this week, so here’s the page count for this week’s group:
Well at least this week we’re in the only area I don’t mind reading about. Because reading about what’s going on with the title bureau is just not pleasant, and that’s the spot without the deadly bombing.
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
BW Versus Variety: Defending Video Game Nostalgia
Video games are harder to review because they take longer to go through than other media and not all of them have more than a base story to explain the goals, even today when so many story-based video games come out. I can’t really devote the time I need to really assess those stories (this being a story review and commentary site), and I don’t have the money to get all the games I’d want to play even if I had time. I have games here I haven’t finished whether they have a story or not.
While I’ve never been a “hardcore” gamer I do enjoy playing video games. I grew up with video games. Video games came into existence during my youth. I was a gamer before most of you internet dwellers both in the arcade and at home…mostly because a lot of you weren’t born yet. Sure I enjoy playing newer games when I have the chance, but those older games, that only needed a brief amount of time in comparison to even the storyless games of today, still hold play value beyond the nostalgia, and modern games are also formed from that nostalgia, playing the kinds of games the creators grew up with. They just have modern art styles and improved level design that benefits from advances in gaming.
As we’ve seen in other media lately nostalgia is often used for marketing and otherwise discarded. Movies, TV shows, and even comics take old names and slap them on new characters. That’s not a problem of quality but of adaptation, but that’s for another discussion. Video games occasionally get their not-stalgia productions, like Bionic Commando, but not as much mockstalgia. Yet, Jon Irwin wrote a piece for Variety voicing his displeasure for nostalgia in video games, believing there’s too much of it. I disagree but read the article first before seeing my thoughts.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on January 23, 2019 in Video Game Spotlight and tagged Atari, BW versus, commentary, Nintendo, nostalgia, Super Mario (series), video games.
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