I don’t see this Ben-Hur remake working out.
Doctor Who #9
Marvel Comics Group (June, 1985)
WRITER: Steve Moore
US COLORIST: Andy Yanchus
COVER ART: Dave Gibbons
COVER COLORIST: George Roussos
Doctor Who: “The Life Bringer!”
(originally presented in Doctor Who Monthly #s 49-50)
ARTIST: Dave Gibbons
Star Tigers part 1
(originally presented in Doctor Who Weekly #s 27-28
ARTIST: Steve Dillon
I really should have showed this in the article of the Jake & Leon comic it came in (click to see that). Maybe because it looks like they’re perving on the girl in bed?
I’m not a horror person and most of my Halloween costumes have been superheroes, not monsters. That’s just the way I am. But considering I have something Halloween-ish planned for tonight I thought I would bend a bit. Screen Crush lists the 10 most horrible ways victims in a slasher movie met their end. I didn’t watch any of the video but I bet they’re graphic. Don’t let your kids watch or they’ll be too scared to trick or treat.
Also this will be the last Morning Article Link for a while. If you missed the announcement, November starts up the Art Soundoff Challenge again this year and that will be taking up the morning slot. If something really good shows up I’ll post the link in the midnight slot I haven’t been able to use lately, but only as a special occasion.
“Fine, I’ll stop singing Elvis Presley songs!”
Thunderbolts #26
Marvel Comics (May, 1999)
“Lockdown”
FRAMING DEVICE:
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
PENCILER: Mark Bagley (also cover)
INKER: Scott Hana (also cover)
MAIN STORY:
WRITER: Joe Casey
ARTIST: Leonardo Manco
COLORIST: Joe Rosas
LETTERING: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
Production on #TheMandalorian, Star Wars’ first live-action series, has begun!
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Star Wars (@starwars) October 04, 2018
The next Star Wars character movie was supposed to be about Boba Fett. However, with the live-action series The Mandalorian in production, they opted for his homeworld rather than Fett himself and canceled the movie in favor of the series.
As I’ve stated before I don’t understand the Fett worship to begin with. Yeah, he has cool armor, but now so does his whole planet. Otherwise what did he really do in Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi that made him so popular the novels even tried to un-kill him?
Superman #75 is one of the most important stories in comics, and of course it means attempts to emulate it have been far and wide. Not only with Superman himself in two separate animated movies, one of which has a sequel, but in the recent Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Injustice Against Characters You Love And Grew Up With. Superman’s death at the hands of Doomsday was big news. At the time Superman was still DC’s flagship and most popular character. Now they use some dark and broody version of Batman but even now Superman is usually the superhero standard. He’s the highest we can achieve as being not because of “powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men” but because of his love for people, his courage to press, his desire to instill hope and justice in others, and other things that come from his heart instead of a yellow sun. That’s why those of us who are Superman fans love him so much and wish we were him.
Granted, being able to fly through space and shove planets around helps. 🙂
I don’t think anybody actually believed Superman was going to stay dead even outside of comics fandom. Superman meant way too much back then. It was a marketing gimmick, but really what story isn’t? It’s all about coming up with a story that will draw in readers. “The Death Of Superman” was in turn followed by “Funeral For A Friend” and “Reign Of The Supermen”, the latter indeed finding a way to bring back the original Man Of Steel while also introducing three new character: a heroic version of The Eradicator, Steel, and a new take on Superboy, this time a teenage clone with telekinetic powers instead of typical Kryptonian ones. It drew a lot of attention…which sounds just wonderful to modern writers. They want the praise and adulation. They want to be able to say “I wrote the big life-changing event that everyone loved and changed comics forever”. The problem is they and their editors don’t understand what made the “Death & Return Of Superman” storyline work. Let me see if I can explain it.
Jade auditions to be the next Bond Girl.
Green Lantern & Sentinel: Heart Of Darkness #3
FINAL ISSUE
DC Comics (May, 1998)
“Father’s Day”
WRITER: Ron Marz
PENCILER: Paul Pelletier
INKER: Dan Davis
COLORIST: Jason Wright
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Dana Kurtin
EDITOR: Kevin Dooley
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
Apu And The Stereotype Issue
The Simpsons began as a series of short appearing on The Tracy Ullman Show, a skit show in the style of Carol Burnett. The shorts followed a family that was a bit dysfunctional but in the end loved each other. Imagine if Married…With Children had less annoying people. The shorts did so well that the family got their own Christmas special, which began fleshing out their world. That did well enough that a full series was created, which meant more characters. One of those characters was Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the owner of the local convenience store in the town of Springfield, the Kwik-E-Mart, a take on stores like 7-11 (more of a guide than a commentary), but easily the cheap and legally questionable version. 7-11 even ran a promotional campaign for the theatrical movie by becoming Kwik-E-Marts so I guess they didn’t have a problem with the gag.
However, somebody had a problem with Apu. They say the character is a horrible stereotype. This came to a head after Indian comic Hari Kondabolu put out the documentary The Problem With Apu, which showcased the exact problems. I haven’t seen this so I can’t comment. I do know that I really haven’t watched the show in years and even when I did, in the show’s early years, I only watched it occasionally. So to put this in perspective before I give my thoughts here’s a reason v-log by one of my fellow Reviewers Unknown contributors, Joey Tedesco of the Cartoon Palooza. He’s working to get into animation and sets up my thoughts on the whole debate.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 30, 2018 in Animation Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, commentary, The Simpsons.
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