“We’re busting out of this comic!”
Sonic Universe #8
Archie Comic Publications (November, 2008)
“Mobius: 30 Years Later” finale: “The Freedom Fighters Of The Future”
WRITER: Ian Flynn
PENCILER: Tracy Yardley!
INKER: Jim Amash
COLORIST: Jason Jensen
LETTERER: Teresa Davidson
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Paul Kaminski
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
Due to necessity of being in “speed mode” again, the original review doesn’t say much. So welcome to a brand new and proper review of the comic.
The original Space Sheriff Gavan had the same idea, that the transformation itself took milliseconds, with the first episode showing the transformation in real time then going back to show the sequence. I only got to see the first episode of that so I don’t know if they kept the suit-up transformation in the rest of the series, but the change doesn’t happen in real time, like other Japanese and Power Ranger “morph” sequences in tokusatsu and anime. This is my theory on why the monsters never attack them mid-transformation, because it doesn’t last long enough in real time.
So Bob Iger is on the way out and Josh D’Amaro is in. Ask Bob Chapek how that went.
By now I think we’ve all come to realize that sending the wrong person out doesn’t mean the right person is coming in. Dan DiDio left DC but Jim Lee hasn’t fixed any of his mistakes outside of what minor repairs Rebirth already did to the New 52 while he was there. Joe Quesada left Marvel Comics but none of his replacements since have changed much of anything in Quesada’s “lifestyle brand” and I’m debating discussing the doubling down on One More Day. The list could very well go on throughout the entertainment industry…like taking Star Wars from George Lucas and giving it to Disney made it worse instead of better.
I wasn’t sure how to approach the future of D’Amaro’s Disney. I didn’t really follow his running of the Disney theme parks. I was neutral about him and the new creative officer as I don’t know her works and can’t even remember her name. I only remember D’Amaro’s name due to making this article. I lacked a good way to go over the situation. Then the following video came out from JesterBell with some good opinions on the situation and it plus a recent interview with a former CEO helped me channel my thoughts. D’Amaro may not be the savior of Disney unless he fixes some of Disney’s mistakes. I’ll let Theresa (her real name according to her X-Twitter) go over everything and then add a few concerns of my own.
At least today’s covers are trying to look like something.
The Doll Man Quarterly #1
Comic Favorites, Inc (Autumn, 1941)
Technically DC owns Doll Man, the pint-sided hero predating the Ray Palmer Atom. All the stories in this comic features Doll Man, so while there are multiple stories it’s not an anthology. That should work into the rotation. I have enough trouble getting time to do everything without all of these anthologies in the retro comic review. They take longer to review than they do to read due to formatting and tagging.
We are, however, ignoring the lame comedy pages, one of which features a midget named Poison Ivy for some reason wearing nothing but a toga and bowler hat, with the gag being about how he has super strength. I didn’t find it or the others funny.
Last time we got more scenes not in the episode, or at least not in the episode we recently watched before starting this review of the novelisation.
This is where we should start talking about Vicki, Susan’s replacement. Problem is I barely knew her. It wasn’t long after this episode that Ian and Barbara would leave and where the lost episode count came into play. So what few episodes I’ve seen with Vicki are few and I’ve only seen them once. Thanks to Tubi losing the license before I could get to them, Sling coming out with them in the same way as YouTube, and the 24/7 streaming channel jumping between Doctors even if I had time to sit there and watch them live, I probably won’t get to for a very long time. What little I’ve seen shows she was a lot more bubbly than Susan, if I’m using the right word, and she did fulfill the “granddaughter” role without Susan’s knowledge as a space/time traveler (the show writers not yet deciding they were aliens called Time Lords). Apparently the actress got along well enough with William Hartnell.
You may have also noticed if you actually read the tags she’s listed with a last name she never had in the show, Pallister. This first appeared in one of the later non-adaptation original novels, Byzantium!, and later novels and Big Finish all ran with it as her now semi-official last name. According to the TARDIS fandom wiki they were going to name her Tanni at first, and later considered Millie (after a pop singer of the time), before finally settling on Vicki. Another piece of trivia:
She was written out of the show after Maureen O’Brien complained about her dialogue. This came as a shock to O’Brien, as she had not expressed any desire to leave. Both William Hartnell and Peter Purves (who played later Companion Steven) were upset at her departure and (script editor) Donald Tosh later admitted that it could have been handled better.
But enough trivia. We last left the Doctor about to have his throat cut out, so we really should check on that.
“Dang it, I DID leave a cake in the oven!”
Hardcase #13
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (June, 1994)
“Turning Point”
WRITER: James Hudnall
PENCILER: Kelly Krantz
INKER: Jeff Whiting
COLORING: Moose Baumann & Foodhammer!
COVER ART: Scott Benefiel (penciler), Jasen Rodrigues (inker) & GCOX3 (colorist)
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
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