The cover makes this scene look much cooler than it actually is.
Steel #38
DC Comics (May, 1997)
“The Gambler”
WRITER: Priest
PENCILER: Denys Cowan
INKER: Tom Palmer
COLORIST: Stu Chaifetz
LETTERER: Pat Brosseau
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Ruben Diaz
EDITOR: Frank Pittarese
Records offer a different listening experience to digital. It goes to show that any format of any medium comes with its own strengths and weaknesses. ScreenCrush’s Matt Singer makes the case that the movie theater experience is no different, and there are some pluses to seeing a movie in the theater versus the living room.
I wonder if this is what it’s like to be a My Little Pony?
I don’t think this style is a good fit for Jake & Leon (at least the main character model style) but it has potential elsewhere.
Over at The Clutter Reports I went through more email because that’s all I had a chance to do. It’s been really warm, humid, or muggy or some combo of the three all week and this is an attic I “work” from.
In the comic reviews this week I’ll be completing the adaptation of the first Incredibles movie so we’ll be moving on to a new series after that. Meanwhile Robotech moves forward in my collection’s chronology to a series set during the 10 years the SDF-1 was being readied for a return to space. While I don’t have any of the Eternity run, I have Return To Macross from Academy Comics starting with #15, which also includes a flip book #0 preview of the miniseries Robotech Warriors. That features an adventure with Breetai during his trip to Earth. We’ll be alternating between the two until the miniseries ends, and then it’s all Return To Macross until the spin-off series begins. Don’t worry, we’ll get to the Comico episode adaptations eventually.
I’m also hoping for a Sing Me A Story feature this week and a Finally Watched if I can fit it in. We’ll see what happens. Hope it’s a good week for everybody!
He was calling her “pretty lady” a little while earlier. I wonder if Marlena ever told Adam about the movie Star Wars?
One of the reasons He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe was so good was the way it treated its female cast. They were all just as strong as the male heroes without giving up their femininity or being all angry and snarky; just the occasional one-liner matching their characters. So I wouldn’t be surprised to see the show was a hit with little girls as much as it was little boys. However, the toy industry has this issue with girls liking “boys toys” and vice versa, leading to the toy shelves being about as integrated as an elementary school dance–boys over there, girls over there, occasionally only meeting to get punch and snacks.
So when Mattel launched a girls version of Masters Of The Universe, entitled Princess Of Power, I’m sure that they planned to give girls their own Masters-type fantasy action line. But don’t play with those boys.
These are the only commercials I know of in which She-Ra is actually depicted fighting evil. Usually it’s about how strong she is and how fun it is to comb her hair. Fans of my Free Comic Inside article series has also seen how girly She-Ra and her friends are depicted as the minicomics is basically She-Ra and Catra fighting over Bow, jewels, and dress-up clothes with one story having her conquer anything. Which I still maintain was Catra getting confused over what a “prom queen” is. Throw in how psycho She-Ra and Castaspella have come out thus far in my readings and I don’t think Mattel understood what drew girls to this franchise.
Compare that to the cartoon, as She-Ra and her friends are fighting a war for control of Etheria against the Evil Horde, a group who on the toy shelves were part of the Masters Of The Universe line. This was a show that was filled with the same action and morals as her brother’s without getting too girly or too butch. And it all started with The Secret Of The Sword. This was later edited into the five part She-Ra: Princess Of Power episode “The Sword Of She-Ra”, with each episode having their own title. I had this in a previous Saturday Night Showcase, but for some reason Dreamworks (who now owns this portion of Filmation’s library–which was sold all over like Rankin Bass’ works) took those down and have been posting She-Ra episodes over on the He-Man channel and it looks like they’re slowly shutting down She-Ra’s channel. With a NEW She-Ra cartoon coming to Netflix (I’ll comment when they release more info about it to see if it will be good or another Thundercats Roar in terms of respecting the source) you’d think they’d push the original channel to give fans a look back…unless they’re hoping to subplant the old show like so many others. They have, however, posted The Secret Of The Sword to the official channel, which means I can now free and clear bring it to you. Enjoy!
I hope you enjoyed this scene because it isn’t in the comic.
Superman Adventures #32
DC Comics (June, 1999)
“Sullivan’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane”
WRITER: David Michelinie
PENCILER: Neil Vokes
INKER: Ron Boyd
COLORIST: Marie Severin
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol
LETTERER: Phil Felix
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Mike McAvennie
My continuing look at the best fights I’ve posted from my collection…continues. This part will go into “Fight Life”, another free-for-all but I actually went themeless for the first time. From there it’s Repeat, Rehash, REVENGE!, which you may not get the full scope of because it was about using someone from the last fight in the next fight and I won’t be posting all of them. This is only about the favorites of the fights I’ve used. The final tournament we’ll check out is “Smokin’ Joe”. The theme was usually reserved for the championship, later the Prize Fight, and each tournament named for a famous boxer, real or fictional. So let’s see what we have from these three.
If they ever do make that Robotech movie, and I both doubt it and don’t really need it, this should be the movie poster.
Robotech: The Graphic Novel
Comic The Comic Company (1986)
“Genesis: Robotech”
PLOT: Carl Macek
WRITER: Mike Baron
PENCILER: Neil D. Vokes
INKER/COVER PAINTING: Ken Steacy
COLORIST: Tom Vincent
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
PRODUCTION: Bain Sidhe Studio
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
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