That’s not what they mean by “Shattered Glass Universe”.
Transformers: All Hail Megatron #7
IDW Publishing (January, 2009)
WRITER: Shane McCarthy
ARTISTS: Guido Guidi & E.J. Su
COLORIST: Josh Burcham (assist by Benjamin Maier
SELECTED COVER ART: Trevor Hutchison
LETTERERS: Chris Mowry & Robbie Robbins
EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton
Official cover art of the TV movie’s 2001 DVD release in the United Kingdom from BBC Video. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Add the BBC to the list of media companies using Twitch to stream shows instead of video game play. On May 29th they’ll be streaming the original Doctor Who. And it will be available outside of the UK, with a repeat of the day’s episodes for other countries.
Inking and painting an animation cel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Computers have offered us a huge advance in many arts. Less paper is really the only advantage to writing prose but when it comes to comics, cartoons, live-action, and naturally video games there are some good things digital art can bring us. I know it’s been a benefit to me and comic making. However, cel animation does have it’s advantages. It’s been mostly dropped because of the higher cost of cels (Japan partly switched to digital after cel creation became expensive) but it does offer a look and style you can’t replicate as well digitally. Every tool has a much advantage and disadvantage notations as the formats they’re used for.
YouTube creator “Mother’s Basement” takes a look at cel versus digital animation in anime to see how the Japanese animation style is both aided and hurt by the switch to digital. Note his catchphrase does have a swear in it but this one is otherwise clean.
When the Iron Giant learned he had to settle for a lame cameo instead of a sequel he took it poorly.
The Incredibles #2
Dark Horse (December, 2004)
SCREENPLAY: Brad Bird
ADAPTATION: Paul Riden
PENCILER: Ricardo Curtis
INKER: Ramon Perez
COLORIST: Dan Jackson
COVER ART: Ricardo Curtis
COVER COLORIST: Kate Moo King-Curtis
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulous
DESIGNER: David Nextelle
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Katie Moody
EDITOR: Dave Land
Stan Sakai (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I like the fact that there is an award for storytelling, although since it comes from a famous comic art school it’s probably exclusive to comics. Still, comics get ignored unless they can make a live-action movie out of it so what do I care? Anyway, the Joe Kubert School Of Cartoon And Graphic Art has awarded their first storytelling award to Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai. While it’s usually an honor to win an award that isn’t a Raspberries type award, it’s a bigger honor to be the first recipient. So congratulations to Mr. Sakai.
My first reaction to the video you are about to see, after a couple of minutes of coming up with anything to say was “WHY?”.
Thundercats was a series created by Ted Wolf, the first of three animated action TV series produced by Rankin Bass. While they had done a few movies like adaptations of Tolkien and The Last Unicorn, there were only three action series–Thundercats, Silverhawks, and for The Comic Strip they made Tigersharks. Yes, they fell into a naming rut but they were each good shows and the only thing not unique about the three were the names. Thundercats was about a group of space refugees trying to survive on a hostile alien planet, a mix of science and magic that was around quite a bit in the 1980s. Silverhawks was about a team of cyborg space cops fighting a galactic mob in a galaxy with weird space physics. Tigersharks was about a team of deep-sea explorers that could temporarily turn themselves into fish people brought into a fight between pirates and would-be conquerors for the fate of an innocent water world. There was action, good characters, and more often than not well thought out story ideas.
In 2011 a remake of Thundercats was produced. Now it was their ancestors who were space refugees along with the other natives of the planet, a victim of a near-immortal slaver, and the current team tried to survive outside their ruined city and make up for past evils by their forefathers. It was also an action show, and while I lost interest in it I thought it was a really good show and I think it’s worth checking out.
Now coming in 2019 we will have a third cartoon, Thundercats Roar. This is going to be a more comedic take on the franchise and fans are not happy with it. As the title of this article suggests I’m one of those fans. But please hear me out. This isn’t some kneejerk nostalgic reaction. I have good reasons why I am not happy with what we’ve seen thus far. But first we need to watch the video explaining what the producers have in mind. Let’s be fair about this after all.
“I said I was sorry I ruined the movie. I didn’t think it was that big a spoiler.”
Thunderbolts #18
Marvel Comics (September, 1998)
“Career Opportunities”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
PENCILER: Mark Bagley
INKER: Scott Hanna
COLORIST: Joe Rosas
LETTERING: Comicraft
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Greg Schigiel
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
At least these are the credits from the Grand Comics Database since all we get are a bunch of last names with no connection to who did what. Schigiel isn’t even listed so for all I know they’re guessing based on other issues. I hate when comics do this!
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Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
