Apparently the underwater people never heard of shirts.
Michael Turner’s Fathom #1/2
Aspen Comics (digital copy–January, 2011)
WRITERS: Michael Turner & Olivia Chadha
PENCILER: Michael Turner
INKER: Jonathan Sibal
COLORIST: Peter Steigerwald
LETTERING: Dreamer Design
EDITORS: Frank Mastromauro & Vince Hernandez
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I like pudding pie. Chocolate.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy the streaming series only has a second season because they made it while the first season was starting. Otherwise the show is officially done…and nothing of value was lost. There is even questions about Alex Kurtzman’s future in the franchise, having produced failure after failure, the rare success occurring with projects he wasn’t part of, like season three of Picard. Kurtzman himself has said that his mission wasn’t to make Star Trek but to use Star Trek to send a message, meaning being part of the Hollywood-approved sociopolitical viewpoint was more important than making a proper continuation of Star Trek, while still proclaiming that he was following Gene Roddenberry’s vision of Star Trek. The same way Frank Miller treated Wil Eisner’s vision when he ruined The Spirit, maybe.
So what do to with the franchise now, even if Kurtzman does leave? Les Moonves gave him a strong contract as he went out the door because he hated Sherri Redstone for remerging Paramount and CBSViacom, weakening his authority as a result, and he hated Star Trek. Maybe he knew Kurtzman was going to ruin the brand, but I only otherwise know him from the Bayverse Transformers movie and Transformers Prime, where he’s only partly responsible for what happened with the Bay movies and was kept in check by everyone else making Prime. There’s been talk that Kurtzman has damaged the brand, and the best solution would be to disavow Kurtzman Trek and put the franchise on hiatus, burying his shows and hoping reruns of the classic shows and movies (the ones not made by JJ Abrams or called The Final Frontier or Nemesis) will find a new audience like they have since the original series hit syndicated reruns.
I think something a bit more proactive on everyone’s part might be the better option, and it’s something Disney was about to do: let the fans fix the brand. Star Trek fan films are something I’ve posted to this site before. The following video by Trek Vault on YouTube goes over what happened to the Star Trek fan film, and from there I’m going to show that it could be used to bring the brand back to its former glory.
“I hate when the fans try to break into the race.”
Sonic The Hedgehog #207
Archie Comics Publications (February, 2010)
WRITER: Ian Flynn
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Matt Herms
COVER ART: Pat “Spaz” Spaziante
LETTERER: John Workman
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
“Blackout”
PENCILER: James Fry
“The Iron Queen
PENCILER: Renae De Liz
Some songs just make you feel good, relaxed, because of the music, but it’s nice when the lyrics also take hold. Sometimes, getting that hit requires a bit of luck.
Take for example “Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl)”. Coming from the debut, self-titled album by the band Looking Glass, it was the B-Side of a single they were trying to promote from the 1972 album. A DJ was encouraged to check out the B-Side, a story heard quite often in the days of vinyl records and disk jockeys who had to manually change records at the end of each song. He liked it, but more importantly the audience liked it, and the rest is history.
There’s not just good music attached to the album. While the music is relaxing and feel-good, you have to feel sorry for the title protagonist. It would be easier if the man she loved were happily married already because it would be a good reason. This isn’t one of the cheating songs. Unfortunately, our barmaid has a far larger problem: the man is married to his work, or rather where he works.
Plastic Man is good at finding keys. He just becomes one.
Police Comics #5
Comic Magazines Inc (December, 1941)
Here’s a fun game for you. Count how many times the enemy is a Nazi or part of the Axis versus a regular crook. We have our first costumed villain, though proper supervillains are still a ways off in this series. And of course the cops are still not the main heroes of the story, but at least they show up in the story.
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