“Warning sign? At the garbage dump?”
Robotech: Return To Macross #23
Academy Comics, Ltd (July, 1995)
“War Of The Believers” part 2: “Passing The Torch”
WRITER: Bill Spangler
ARTIST: Wes Abbott
LETTERER: Alphabet Soup
Thanks to a relatively new channel called TBD and their “Kids Click TV” morning cartoon lineup I’ve finally gotten to see Miraculous: The Adventures Of Ladybug and Cat Noir beyond the Free Comic Book Day samplers that just focused on their civilian identities and never showed it was about teen superheroes who protect Paris from a supervillain who preys on angry people and turns them into revenge-seeking supervillains. It’s actually a really good show, so of course Skydance wants to make it into a live-action movie. A kids cartoon turned into a live-action movie by people who odds are have never seen the show. Let’s see how badly they screw this one up! Why not just let the creators make an animated movie?
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At long last Da Bee is getting his own movie! I’ve looked at the last trailer and there wasn’t a lot to tell there. This time we have a more telling trailer for Bumblebee, the prequel movie about Bee’s early days on Earth. (The movie is set in 1984.) This time it’s Travis Knight instead of Michael Bay on directing duties but since this isn’t a reboot he’s still stuck with what he has to work with from the last five movies. So what are my thoughts on this now? How does he appear to be working around it?
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Optimus is taking out the frustration of not getting his own movie before Bumblebee.
Transformers Movie Prequel #4
FINAL ISSUE
IDW Publishing (May, 2007)
WRITERS: Simon Furman & Chris Ryall
ARTIST: Don Figueroa
COLORIST: Josh Burcham (assisted by Mark Bristow)
LETTERER: Robbie Robbins
EDITOR: Dan Taylor
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There is a big problem with modern copyrights for media. It’s based on an old system that doesn’t factor in the internet for example. Well, music creators at least are about to see a change in music copyright that will benefit them, which is a good thing. I wonder how this will cover “fair use” for reviewers or people using a certain song as a tribute to their friends and not some monetized YouTube show?
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First about the Dark Horse collection I’m using. There’s only one Sunday strip in color, and there’s one Sunday strip missing. There is however a synopsis of what was in that strip so I still know what happened, and it wasn’t an action scene so I didn’t miss a whole lot besides Clamp Champ being tripped up by an Eternian opossum and finding footprints. However, as the book goes on there are more strips lost to time. A quick flip-through shows only one more colored Sunday strip in the book. Still, it’s nice to have this collection.
And this one features yet another returning character, this time one I wasn’t expecting because she was barely in the previous story she was in. Trooper Dian, now a lieutenant, is a solder from “When You Need An Extra Something” who thought she was doing the right thing by taking up a collection for He-Man. A few stories later and she’s back, and whatever respect she had for He-Man does not extend to his alter-ego. Too bad that’s not Adam’s biggest problem right now. Last time I made note that we actually had a story where Adam had to use his normal non-Grayskull talents AND a story without Skeletor or even an actual villain, two things I didn’t expect separately never mind together. Well, Skeletor is back with a new scheme and his new hobby of collecting statues. It turns out it’s not such a safe hobby.
At The Edge Of Darkest Night
WRITER: Chris Weber | ARTIST/LETTERER: Gerald Forton | COLORIST: Connie Schurr | EDITOR: Karen Wilson
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When they say “don’t feed the animals”, they mean it!
Doctor Who Classics #7
IDW Publishing (June, 2008)
ARTIST: Dave Gibbons
EDITOR: Paul Neary
IDW COLORING/SELECTED COVER ART: Charlie Kichoff
IDW EDITOR: Chris Ryall
“Dogs Of Doom” part 2
(originally published in Doctor Who Weekly #s 31-34)
WRITERS: Pat Mills & John Wagner
“The Time Witch”
(originally published in Doctor Who Weekly #35)
WRITER: Steve Moore
