“I said back to the future, not the past!”
Transformers: Maximum Dinobots #5
FINAL ISSUE
IDW Publishing (April 2009)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTISTS: Nick Roche and James Raiz
COLORIST: Joana Lafuente
SELECTED COVER ART: Nick Roche & Priscilla Tramontano
LETTERER :Neil Uyetake
EDITORS: Denton J. Tipton
In my Finally Watched review of the 2000s RoboCop remake I said I rather enjoyed it but I’m on a short list of people that did. I think it just played to my tastes more than the original. Well, if at first you don’t succeed and all that because MGM wants to try again with yet another reboot of the movie, this time by the director of District 9. I don’t see myself getting into this one, but I’ll withhold judgement until it’s, you know, actually made. Still, only four years and they’re rebooting again? What is this, Spider-Man?
UPDATE: My friend and old Reviewers Unknown boss Ozzie Arcane just pointed out that it’s not a reboot but a continuation of the original. My mistake. Still not looking forward to it. What was interesting commentary then is a contentious family-breaking argument nowadays.
I did say this series would include the occasional TV show, right?
I’ve kind of lost touch with Doctor Who over the years. Not only because of the various life problems that have messed me up lately but while I don’t hate it, the show lacks some of the charm of the original. Sure the sets and special effects are better, but they dropped the serial format in favor of season long subplot arcs and while I’ve liked some TARDIS consoles better than others I’m just too nostalgic for the original look. I once saw a really good fan-designed update that retained the classic feel with a modern look but the site doesn’t seem to have any pictures anymore. I also don’t like that every showrunner has their own theme that runs through their rendition since in the past it took a number of different styles with one director at most choosing to be darker or more gothic, a shared tone rather than a shared theme, if you understand what I mean. I still like the new show and it’s still Doctor Who in many aspects but I’m not as drawn to it as I am the old stuff.
So I didn’t see the actual episode where Peter Capaldi’s Doctor got whatever was making him regenerate. However I had to catch this one because it was the first time since “The Five Doctors” that someone playing the first incarnation would show up on the show, interacting with the 12th or 13th or whatever Capaldi’s Doctor is supposed to be. Steven Moffat confused things with Matt Smith’s regeneration episode. So even though it’s Summer I’m reviewing a Christmas episode. It’s my site and I can do what I want. 🙂
This is the part where I usually put a lot of movie credits, but since this is an episode of a TV show I’m not going to bother. Plus I don’t know if IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes rates single episodes or not and I’m writing this close to deadline considering how messed up my schedule is this week. Or as of late really.
“Hello, I seem to have misplaced the ground.”
Marvel Premiere #57
Marvel Comics (December, 1980)
“Doctor Who And The Iron Legion”
(original presented in Doctor Who Weekly #1-8, including the next issue)
WRITERS: Pat Mills & John Wagner
ARTIST: Dave Gibbons
REPRINT COLORIST: Andy Yanchus
No letterer mentioned
I really haven’t been talking about the DC movies I just don’t care. While Wonder Woman is on my Finally Watched list most of what I’ve heard of the other films have not been very good and I have my problems with Man Of Steel. However, I do support the actors using their superhero personas to make sick kids happy, if only because someone actually remembers kids love superheroes. (Goodness knows DC and Marvel the comic producers have forgotten. So this story about Gal Gadot going to a Children’s Hospital as Wonder Woman is just nice to see, I don’t care if the movie’s Twitter feed used it as promotion or not. It’s a good thing to do so good going!
See, I knew it was a matter of time.
Thunderbolts #21
Marvel Comics (December, 1998)
“Decisions” part 2: “Trust”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
PENCILER: Mark Bagley
INKER: Scott Hanna
COLORIST: Joe Rosas
LETTERER: Sidbhan Hanna
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
Dissecting The “Toxic Fanbase” Narrative
Judge Judy wasn’t available.
Are there toxic fans out there? Of course there are. We’ve all seen it, from “fake geek girls” to death threats whenever you don’t like a certain creator on a project or changes made to the project. There is a reason I have no interest in fandoms anymore. But there are plenty of good fans (I daresay a majority of them are awesome) who do have legitimate problems, be they critical or just personal preference. Is the toxic fan problem as big as some other fans and now the corporate and creative fields make it out to be? Tom and Andre from Midnight’s Edge group each has a editorial on that I want you to hear.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on July 10, 2018 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Fandom, fans, Star Wars.
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