“Sorry, folks, this is the design we’re going with and Tronix will make fun of for years in comic caption gags.”
Transformers: Movie Prequel Special
IDW Publishing/Target (June, 2008)
WRITER: Chris Ryall
ARTIST: Andrew Wildman
COLORIST: Josh Burcham
LETTERER: Robbie Robbins
EDITOR: Ted Adams
CO-ARTIST: Don Figueroa (also cover art)
CO-WRITER: Simon Furman
Think about all the work put into those old Disney theatrical shorts.
Now that Disney has added the entertainment arm of 21st Century Fox to it’s evergrowing entertainment empire, what will be the fallout and how much power do they now have? Bleeding Fool’s Jamison Ashley goes over what Disney has absorbed. There is one line I do have questions about though.
However, the deal still needs to complete the regulatory process in several other countries, namely China.
What say does China or any other country have in this?
My friend Sean was nice enough to pick up issues #s 81, 82, and 83 of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics to see where the series has gone. It’s one of the comics series I was thoroughly enjoying when I still had money to buy comics and it’s been nice to see the same people involved and still able to keep the story interesting. When you put the right writer or writers on a comic they can go a long time, and 84 issues plus any spinoffs they might have been on (although others usually worked on those) and annuals is very rare in comics today.
When last we left our young altered martial artist reptiles Leonardo had a vision that the Rat King (in this reality a paranormal being devoted to chaos) was about to cause more mischief, which New York didn’t need seeing as it was still recovering from this dimension’s version of the Triceraton invasion. They went to Rat King’s home reality in hopes of finding answers to how to stop him. But while they made a new friend they didn’t learn much. Or did they? Meanwhile, Splinter now rules the Foot Clan and appears to be on the outs with his sons, who remain under the “banner” of the Hamato Clan. And with the Rat King comes a lot more rats and April has convinced Baxter Stockman to use his Mousers to solve the problem as a way of keeping him out of worse activities. When we ended the last issue Clan Hamato was confronting the Rat King just as he was about to “pied piper” a group of orphans off of the damaged bridge. (My dad’s the one from New York so I couldn’t tell you which one.) And thus we enter the final chapter of this story arc.
“Careful, one of these may be our uncle!”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #84
IDW Publishing (July, 2018)
STORY: Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow, & Tom Waltz
SCRIPT: Tom Waltz
ARTIST: Dave Wachter
COLORIST: Ronda Pattison
SELECTED COVER ART: Kevin Eastman (artist) & Tomi Varga (colorist)
LETTERER: Shawn Lee
EDITOR: Bobby Curnow
And so the Doctor created a virtual reality world that wouldn’t trap and kill its players. Japan rejoiced!
Marvel Premiere #60
Marvel Comics Group (June, 1981)
Doctor Who: “City Of The Cursed” part 2: “Night Of The Barabara!”
(Originally published in Doctor Who Magazine #s 12-16 as “City Of The Damned”
WRITERS: Pat Mills & John Wagner
ARTIST/LETTERER: Dave Gibbons
COLORIST: Carl Gafford
COVER ART (according to the TARDIS wiki): Earl Norem
US EDITOR: Jim Salicrup
I’m not a huge fan of the franchise mind you so I could have missed it, but I haven’t heard of a Pokémon movie hitting theaters in years, at least in the US. But it appears The Power Of Us (as opposed to “The Power Of One”, the subtitle for Pokémon The Move 2000) will get a limited theatrical run.
Disney/Lucasfilm has released the casting list for the upcoming ninth main story of the Star Wars Saga. (This is not counting side movies like Rogue One or Solo or the various TV shows…although Clone Wars is coming back.) This new installment sees J.J. Abrams return to the director’s seat with Chris Terrio joining him in the screenwriting. Last I heard this will be Abrams’ last installment with the now controversial Rian Johnson taking up the next one. And given what little knowledge he’s shown about the lore this might be a problem.
There’s also the problem that Johnson tied up so many of the story arcs and plot threads of this trilogy in The Last Jedi, meaning Abrams and Terrio have a lot of retconning to do if they’re going to tell their story. It’s a bit karma-esque since Abrams ignored what George Lucas had wanted to do with episodes seven through nine, but it means problems ahead that they’re going to have to undo. Note that there will be spoilers for the The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi if you were waiting until the trilogy is done or something before watching. I know how some folks like their binge watching.
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Just another day in the Marvel universe.
Avengers volume 3 #12
Marvel Comics (January, 1999)
“Old Entanglements”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
PENCILER: George Perez
INKERS: Al Vey & Bob Wiacek
COLORIST: Tom Smith
LETTERING: Comicraft
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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
