This is tough for Superman. He’s a dog person.
Superman For The Animals
DC Comics (2000)
“Dear Superman…”
(Not to be confused with one of my favorite Superman stories, but there is a similarity I’ll be addressing.)
WRITER: Mark Millar
ARTISTS: Tom Grummett & Dick Giordano
COLORIST: Glenn Whitmore
SEPARATIONS: Digital Chameleon
LETTERER: John Costanza
CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Richard De Angelis
EDITOR: Paul Kupperberg
Long time YouTube channel Machinima, which started out as a home for videos done with video game assets but evolved into a regular video channel and multi-channel network, surprised a lot of people by leaving YouTube. This is because of the acquisition by Fullscreen, after parent company Otter Media was taken by WarnerMedia. Unfortunately this has led to headaches for the independent creators who had been working with Machinima and are now scrambling to regain their content on their own channels.
Also Machinima was the production company who made the Prime Wars Trilogy set of Transformers cartoons and with Go90 down (I wish I had known) I can’t finish watching Power Of The Primes and there’s no word of any of the three series getting a home video release. This is why I prefer physical media!
Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures is part of my head canon.
I don’t know if it would save anything, but the more I’ve thought about it since I started this the more I’m thinking that a semi-canon inclusion of the events of The Freemaker Adventures might actually benefit the franchise. If I can I may actually write that commentary this week. The problem is we have to switch cable and internet companies again because this one turned out to not be as beneficial as we would have liked right out of the box. I won’t go into it, but we may be headed back to the previous one, hopefully without any further problems. I’m still not getting back my phone number though. This may affect my working but it shouldn’t affect content. With luck I won’t be doing another video on here for a while (unless it’s my own, and that’s not even scripted thanks to the disruptions getting this situation dealt with) unless I have an actually commentary of my own to add to it.
Speaking of my work, The Clutter Reports this week has the other Mutant Beast Wars toy I can find (I still don’t know what happened to my Soundwave and I didn’t want Poison Bite) as I review Razor Claw.
Meanwhile I am hoping to get more content of my own done this week. In addition to another Finally Watched and the next set of chapters for Op-Center and hopefully that Rowan Freemaker article I’m not sure what else I want to do but I need to get on with things. Meanwhile in comics we’ve completed the Doctor Who comics I hadn’t reviewed, not counting larger collections, and I also have novels to do, one original story and some adaptations I want to watch the episodes alongside if possible. However, that’s a long way off. So what’s replacing the TARDIS? Well, remember when I said it was where the Doctor had been before? Who guessed…
Leslie Charteris‘s The Saint is a series of novels in the UK starring Simon Templar. He’s a criminal technically, but so is Robin Hood. In fact Templar is a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing not from the corrupt government but those who got those riches by victimizing others. While he will keep an expense fee at times (around 10 %) the majority of the money he takes goes back to the victims or to charity. The character has been in movies since 1938, and radio since 1940. (Britain still makes radio dramas.)
He has also appeared on television, the latest being in 2017. The earliest however was in 1962. Roger Moore tried to get the rights but happily settled for playing the role on TV, even delaying his more famous book adaptation when he finally took over as James Bond in movies. His last movie was a role in the 2017 movie, a failed series pilot.
Tonight we’re looking at the first episode of that series, produced by ITC. It had decent success outside of England as well. In this episode Simon has come looking into a man whose previous wives died under mysterious circumstances, and his friend may be next.
“These chains are enchanted and just enough Kryptonite mixed in to only slightly weaken his powers. How will he break them?”
Superman Adventures #42
DC Comics (April, 2000)
“Living (Scott) Free”
WRITER: Mark Evanier
PENCILER: Neil Vokes
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Marie Severin
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Joey Cavalieri
The Lego Movie was a surprise hit. What was initially tossed aside as a promotion for the popular building toy turned out to be a really good movie about the importance of imagination and play. This led to a series of “shared universe” type movies, and coming soon the sequel. One of those spin-offs was The Lego Batman Movie. This isn’t the first movie re-imagining popular characters as Legos. There are shows and direct-to-video movies about Lego-ised parodies from Star Wars to…Batman, actually. This isn’t even the first Lego-fied Batman. This is however the one that hit theaters. I recorded this during one of the HBO free preview weeks so I don’t know what if any editing changes were made. But what do I think now that I’ve seen it? I have mixed feelings.
RELEASE DATE: 2017
RELEASED BY: Warner Animation Group, DC Comics, Lego, and a bunch of other places…seriously, how many companies and studios does it take to make a theatrical animated movie nowadays?
RUN TIME: 1hour, 44 minutes
STARRING: Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson, and Ralph Fiennes
SCREENWRITERS: Seth Grahame-Smith, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jared Stern, & John Whittington
DIRECTOR: Chris McKay
GROSS INCOME: $311,950,384 ($175,750,384 domestically) out of an estimated budget of $80,000,000
“Finally got that fly. Of course, I need a new wall now”
Robotech: Return To Macross #32
Academy Comics, Ltd. (May, 1996)
“Storm Warnings”
WRITER: Robert W. Gibson
ARTIST: Dusty Griffin
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
