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Does this mean he also eats stars, Tanukis, flowers, cats….
I wish I could take credit for the art, but I can only take half-credit. Thanks to a time crunch I used official Mario and Luigi art as my roughs, but I did have to add original facial expressions and arm positions, plus I tried to make it as original as I could. So I still have one over Greg Land. 🙂 The point is still clear though. Not every character touching an item means he or she is eating it. Otherwise a lot of people eat first aid kits in shooter games.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I helped my dad reduce our overload of Christmas decorations. Because you can have too much of a good thing.
This week in reviews we have more from Op-Center, an original IDW Transformers movieverse miniseries that I haven’t reviewed (I think I reviewed the others when they came out as BW was active by then) and I think that will be it from Cybertron unless I get more comics in the…no, wait, there are some collections I might review for Scanning My Collection once I’ve run out of DC’s Secret Files comics. So I have maybe four days to dig out the next franchise to review. I think I know what’s next, but I say nothing now. It would be nice to get another movie review in but we’ll see about that. We are nearing the end of the story bible for Star Trek: The Next Generation and we still have more terminology to get through before that’s completed. I also have a commentary in mind I hope to flesh out in time but we’ll see about that as well.
And of course Art Soundoff continues. So we’ve got something you might enjoy this week.
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I know the Who fandom isn’t all that keen on the BBC/Fox co-produced Doctor Who TV movie that gave us the Eighth Doctor, Paul McGann, even though they’ve embraced him thanks to the Big Finish productions and various comics and novels that fleshed him out as the Doctor. However, while I do agree with a number of the flaws listed I do like him as the Doctor, the altered TARDIS console room has been a staple since New Who changes it with every showrunner or sometimes regeneration, and I see more potential in “restoring the mystery” of the Doctor with “half human on my mother’s side” than any intended variation of the Cartmel Master Plan or “the question that must never be answered”, but it seems that’s just me. Maybe because I thought Lungbarrow‘s answer was kind of dumb and “Doctor….who?” will never be answered satisfactorily. And I guess I’m the only person NOT bothered by Eric Roberts’ Master, especially after seeing John Simm’s two variations on New Who. Granted Simms wasn’t as over the top as Roberts but imagine Anthony Ainley or Roger Delgado prancing around dancing to “I Can’t Decide” (“if you should live or die”) or absorbing people while blasting energy out of his hands to fly around like an armorless Iron Man. They should have kept Derek Jacobi around a while longer.
At any rate SF Debris just released a fascinating look at the TV Movie. He points out the flaws, but also connects it to lore and meta histories. There’s a second (well, first on the page) video chronicling the events of how the movie was made and why it started on a bad foot. Now in the past when I’ve tried to get permission to post videos here (after hearing that had been an issue in the reviewing community–long story) he instead would rather I link to his website, which I would do anyway since that’s how this feature works, rather than post them here. Assuming this to still be the case, here is the link to the review. And look around for his other Who reviews, other sci-fi work, anime, cartoons, and of course the Star Trek franchise reviews he’s most known for.
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“Little girl, please tell me you sprang a leak?”
Batman: Gotham Adventures #21
DC Comics (February, 2000)
“How This World Goes!”
WRITER: Scott Peterson
PENCILER: Tim Levins
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Joseph Illidge
EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo
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Our trip through Trek terminology continues. For this installment I want to get through all the “S” categories. You know, shields, the saucer section, subspace, the works. By the time this installment is done you’ll swear Superman flew by to tell you S is his favorite letter. Like this:
See, it does stand for S. Man Of Steel and Supergirl lied to you. Would Sesame Street lie about the letter “S”? I think not. Star Trek also starts with S so let’s get back on topic before I pad out this lame intro even more!
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I was going to make a joke about “air mail” until I realized they spelled Karl’s name wrong on the cover. It’s the same artist!
Robotech: Academy Blues #4
Academy Comics Ltd (December, 1995)
“The Calm Before”
WRITER: Robert W. Gibson
ARTIST: Frances Birchfield
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I figured out the problem afterwards. The tool’s “blend mode” setting was set to “add (glow)” so it would only go on a space with color on it. Which means if I want to do it on a separate layer or an area surrounding the space I need to set it to “normal” and the layer to “add (glow”). This is what I mean about playing with the settings.
