“Look, I can’t adopt all of you and I wanted a mouse. I hear they make good superheroes.”
Iron Man volume 3 #16
Marvel Comics (April, 1999)
“Scale Model”
PLOT: Roger Stern & Kurt Busiek
SCRIPT: Roger Stern
PENCILERS: Patrick Zircher & Anthony Williams
INKERS: Andy Landing, Larry Mahlstedt, & Scott Koblish
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
COVER ART: Sean Chen & Mark Morales
LETTERER: Wes Abbott
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
Sony-owned Funimation and WarnerMedia owned Crunchyroll had a partnership going before they were bought out. Now they’re going their own way. No mention of what happens to VRV, the streaming service I think they both own.
Here we are, the end of another book. Just eleven pages and a short epilogue to go and another book has been read. We had the anticlimactic battle last week but there are still a few loose ends to deal with. Superman is back, but what happens to Clark Kent? What about Superman’s teen clone and the guy in the armor? If Eradicator is really gone how does he show up in later comics? How annoying will the Superman cult be now that he’s pulled a Jesus? (Took him longer than three days and he’s still not the most in-your-face Superman-as-Jesus analog.)
This will tie up the loose ends but the adventures would continue in the comics. But this has been a long story arc and a long experience for everyone. We’re going to need a satisfying ending before we move on.
Does not happen in the book. If anything, the two teams spend more time disagreeing with themselves.
JLA: Year One #5
DC Comics (May, 1998)
“A League Divided”
WRITERS: Mark Waid & Brian Augustyn
PENCILER: Barry Kitson
INKER: Michael Bair
COLORIST: Pat Garrahy
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Ken Lopez
EDITOR: Peter Tomasi
image source: Wikipedia
That doesn’t mean this isn’t a weird idea to me though. Apparently Dynamite, the comic publisher who currently has the rights to 007 is telling his origin story in the pages of Playboy. Well, that’s one way to get comics back on newsrack’s I guess.
I’m just curious if fellow Friday Night Fighter Brian Snell of Slay Monstrobot Of The Deep is going to try to convince his wife he only wants to get the issue to cover it for his James Bond blog? “I know I haven’t updated in a year, but this will get me to. I swear!” 🙂
If you’re Simon Furman or Geoff Johns you try to use them all anyway.
I hate last-minute comics, but I had ideas that just didn’t work. This is usually a good venue for short ideas that don’t make full articles but these were too short. Sure, I could make each joke it’s own panel or two but that’s not how I want to run this strip.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I started organizing my site’s media library. There are images I didn’t remember I had on here, while also having images I knew I had but weren’t coming up in searches. This week I started the process of fixing that.
Okay, I need to clear some DVR space so I really need to do a Finally Watched this week. As for the new lady Doctor episode two still isn’t available on demand as of this writing and isn’t airing on BBC America again until Thursday. I may put Star Trek: The Next Story Bible on Thursday and (if this episode is finally enough to judge the new Doctor) the Doctor Who review on Friday. Putting it on Wednesday matches the comic reviews but I’ve discussed DC and Marvel stuff on different days. Speaking of the comics, I’ll be finishing Saga Of The All-Spark, which means getting into the Transformers movie adaptation and closer to ending Transformers Thursdays because we’re again close to comics I’ve already reviewed when they originally came out. Plus a commentary connected to the Robotech comics I promised in Friday’s review. Here’s to another week of reviewing stuff.
There are surprisingly few magician crimefighters in media. I’ve seen my share of guest villains in shows like Wonder Woman and Charlie’s Angels, or regular magicians who are usually the victim, but magician heroes are rare. I’m talking about stage magicians, although the magician heroes I know of are stage magicians who also have real magic. Zatara and Zatanna come to mind, and maybe some of you have heard of Princess Tenko (loosely based on a real-life Japanese stage magician and her signature prop, the Tenko box). The only other crimefighting stage magician I can think of is Ace Cooper, the Magician. And he also has real magical powers.
Here in the US it aired on Fox Kids, but it’s actually a French made cartoon, one of the few to hit US TV. The series follows Ace, his assistant and computer expert Cosmo, the computer Angel (which runs Ace’s home and headquarters, the Magic Express), and his show panther Zina. He operates out of Electro City at the dawn of the third millennium (so this takes place in the future) and aids police lieutenant Derek Vega in solving various crimes involving corrupt officials, his rival “Black Jack”, and various other assorted villains. When he needs full magical power Ace speaks the words “magic force, reveal the power within”, and changes to a superheroic costume instead of his usual performing costume and unleashes his full magical might!
We don’t get to see a lot of that magic force in the episode Mondo World (who if not the official YouTube channel for this and other shows does a great job faking it) chose as episode one, although online episode guides I found call it the third episode. In this one Ace must deal with a crazed former city employee out to prove the corrupt senator and mayor (I don’t know how he’s both but according to my research he serves both capacities) is embezzling from his latest project, and the results could be deadly.
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