I guess you can use this as a color guide for the characters. That’ll make sense soon.
The Adventures Of Aspen Mascots (Halloween Comicfest)
Aspen Comics (October, 2018)
WRITER: Vince Hernandez
ARTIST: JOie Foster
LETTERER: Micah Mayers
ACTIVITIES & RIDDLES: Gabe Carrasco & Corinne Chuah
EDITORS: Gabe Carrasco & Frank Mastromauro
Sorry, I don’t have one of just Hal and John together in my media library. Kyle’s continuing to get the shaft.
So, the new trailer for Lanterns dropped. Still doesn’t have “Green” in the title, which isn’t surprising from the guy with the same mindset that brought us Greenless Arrow. No, he didn’t work on it, but he also hates bright colors, as the last trailer and the new one both demonstrate.
Lanterns took a cool sci-fi space cop premise and made it a gritty torch passing procedural set totally on Earth. Points for not being another James Gunn style show like everything else that’s come out of Gunn’s DC Studios like Creature Commandos, Peacemaker, and James Gunn’s Superman By James Gunn, with Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow following the trend despite not being made by Gunn. So few projects and they’re already in a rut.
After a joke about thinking the “green” part was “stupid” resurfaced on the internet brought backlash from fans and creators who actually care about the Oa based heroes, showrunner David Lindelof wanted to prove that he was totally not against the color. You wouldn’t know it from this trailer. Quite a bit of swearing, just to warn you. Like so many superhero shows, the age group most responsible for making superheroes popular are left behind.
Some kid at the comic store thought Venom’s kid-friendly stand-in here was an ant. Not kidding.
Spidey & His Amazing Friends Comic Giveaway Day
Marvel Comics (2026)
COVER ART: Paco Medina & Andrew Dalhouse
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Farah Javed & Katlyn Lindtvedt
EDITORS: Lauren Bisom & Nick Lowe
I didn’t pick this one up physically. I only got the digital version on ComiXology to finish off this week with Free Comic Book Giveaway Day offerings. I didn’t have the best offerings digitally and still none of the ones I really wanted, even from…those type of scan sites. Oddly, Globalcomix had the Flash Gordon but you have to pay to read the FREE comic? Was that their decision or Mad Cave’s?
Ah well, run with what you got. Let’s see if the younger readers got something cool for a change. Three stories, the last two with the same creative team.
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It took syndication to bring action shows back to kids. Hanna-Barbera’s World Of Super Adventure collected the 60s action shows into an anthology and I loved it as a kid. Still do. Ruby-Spears, DIC, and Filmation among others made some of their best action work in syndication, and even Hanna-Barbera got into it, though not as strongly as the 60s shows. They knew how to give kids action without giving them nightmares. The depiction of violence alone isn’t the problem, it’s how it’s depicted that makes it safe for kids while still exciting them.
That’s what Sony Pictures Releasing UK‘s YouTube channel is titling the latest trailer for the latest live-action take on our favorite Eternian warriors. With the movie scheduled to come out next month that’s probably accurate. Tomorrow we’ll be looking at a trailer for a series that looks worse and worse with every update, which sadly has become the norm form Hollywood, while every new trailer and interview for Masters Of The Universe has looked better and better…with one exception we’ll get into in this article. The point is they seem to care about what they’re doing.
The first trailer was bogged down in comedy, the second trailer added more action, and this new one still has action, a better look at the costumes, make-up, and CG character designs, and still some comedy. Plus almost no signs of Earth, which they should have done the whole movie. The whole movie should be taking place on Eternia, which I’ll also come back to, though that’s also been discussed previously.
Plus the movie made by Travis Knight, who made the only really good live-action Transformers movies. The Michael Bay ones got worse and worse while Rise Of The Beasts was just okay compared to the praise Bumblebee got. Then again look at what it’s surrounded by. There are only a few theatrical Transformers movies. One was a Japanese exclusive clip show of the Mainframe shows while the classic one is only good for nostalgia. Still, he did a good job with that movie, which also gives hope, but let’s see this final UK trailer.
“No, a lot of people wonder where the webs connect to sometimes. Even me.”
DC/Marvel Superman/Spider-Man
DC Comics/Marvel Comics (May, 2026)
SELECTED COVER ART: Clayton Crain because that’s what they had. And considering how many @#%#$^ variant covers this had most of the good options were gone. The only one I remember seeing was the main Jorge Jiménez cover but it’s not like any of them were all that fantastic. Might make nice posters, but most were terrible comic covers or didn’t star the two main characters. Or both.
EDITOR: Marie Javins
There are too many consulting editors listed for the back-ups but I think they just wanted their names in the book so I don’t care. Yes, this ends up being an anthology, at $8.99. So I’m going to speed through the back-ups and do the normal review on the story we’re actually here for, which is normal comic-sized. The back-up team-ups take up the rest of the book. This is also the last of the new comics for awhile. I’m out of Free Comic Book Giveaway Day comics for 2026 and this is the last of the purchased comics.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 22, 2026 in Animation Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, modern Disney vs classic Disney.
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