Early sketch for Marvel vs. Attack On Titan. (I think they actually made that.)
Iron Man vol. 3 #14
Marvel Comics (March, 1999)
“The Challenge The Fantastic”
CO-PLOTTERS: Kurt Busiek & Roger Stern
SCRIPT: Roger Stern
PENCILER: Sean Chen
INKERS: Larry Stucker & Eric Cannon
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
LETTERING: Comicraft
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Chris Claremont
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
I wonder if a trend is starting attempting to make a modern version of The Rocketeer? First Disney Junior announced a series where a little girl (not even a teen or adult woman) inherits the legacy of the jetpack (I discussed that in this post) and now IDW wants to do something similar with a modern day story where someone finds the Rocketeer gear in modern day and people are after it like when Cliff Secord first found it. It’s nice that they’re at least respecting the original version by making it the history rather than replacing it outright and IDW, who has published Rocketeer comics in the past, at least has a better…”claim” isn’t the right word…to doing a modern Rocketeer than the first ever Rocketeer cartoon. It might be interesting if it isn’t just “the first story but in modern day”.
I said I’d show you the bookmark when I got my computer back.
No, it isn’t a work of art, but I’m happy with it for hand-drawn. It’s also the best rendition of the “S” shield I’ve ever drawn, and sadly it’s the one that’s half-bleeding. I think I should have switched shades of red, but it’s not bad for my first bookmark. Now back to the story.
Last time we saw the destruction of Coast City, which narratively speaking was a bad idea considering it was a story in which the city’s protector has no connection to the story whatsoever. I made that rant last week, so let’s continue on to see what Hank and Mongul have planned. But it’s a party and everyone’s invited…to die!
“Can’t even go bowling without the paparazzi showing up.
JLA: Year One #2
DC Comics (February, 1998)
“Group Dynamics”
WRITER: Mark Waid
PENCILER: Brian Augustyn
INKER: Barry Kitson
at least I think that’s how it breaks down…the 90s love combining the writer and artist(s) so you don’t know who to blame
COLORIST: Pat Garrahy
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Ken Lopez
EDITOR: Peter Tomasi
Have you considered that you have different tastes in humor?
Just when I thought I couldn’t be less interested in Quentin Tarantino’s Joker origin movie (because not having an origin before his acid bath is part of his character), director Todd Philips releases a camera test of “Arthur” (I guess that’s supposed to be the pre-Joker’s name in this movie) that makes it worse. For one thing he looks like he’s wearing makeup. This is one of the problems I had with Christopher Nolan’s version. The Joker doesn’t wear makeup. The bleached skin, green hair, and red lips that make him resemble the joker card designs is a result of the chemical bath he fell in that warped his mind as well. And it looks like an actual clown rather than the Joker. This isn’t Pennywise, it’s the Joker! Apparently Philips just hates clowns or something. Well, this is BW Media Spotlight. Around here clowns are awesome.
Don’t mind me. Just clowning…no, I won’t do that to either of us.
And their “clown” is no Joker.
I have my main computer back and running thanks to my friend, so BW can resume operations. I was hoping to have a Jake & Leon comic up today to celebrate but I had some software issues I had to wrangle first. That’s done so next week our crew will return.
This week, however, the comic reviews and morning article links can return. I can also work on some feature articles that I couldn’t do on my dad’s computer so wins all around! Except most that stuff I wanted to do during my downtime didn’t get done and I can’t take more time off so sucks to be me I guess. I’m still going to have to find a way to do that and keep up content. So this whole break was entirely pointless! No, I’m not happy about it. But at least I can get back to work (and finding work that actually pays me so I have money coming in again) so I’ll take the victories I can.
So I guess we’re back in action, unless something else goes wrong and there’s certainly precedence for that.
When the BBC hit gold with the original Doctor Who other British TV networks did what Hollywood does and try to ride the bandwagon. However, they were more willing to try new things, only looking to imitate the creepy, near-horror vibe. ITV had The Tomorrow People, which aired for the US on Nickelodeon, who would later revive the show in the 1990s as part of their UK version starting. Then there was that sub-par remake on the CW that frankly should have been a remake of Jumper.
Another of ITV’s attempts focused on its own take on time compared to the guy in the blue box. Sapphire And Steel treated time as an invading force into the present, but also claimed other forces also threatened the “corridor of time”. Each season, at least as Shout Factory posts it, was it’s own serial. The first one, referred to as “Escape Through A Crack In Time” (apparently the names came from a magazine and aren’t otherwise official), has two guardians of time, the titular Sapphire and her partner Steel, investigating a disappearance in a house that takes two children’s parents right in front of the sister. Enjoy.
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
