In addition to a new game, there’s also an anime for the series. All we know for now is that it exists. Maybe it will help untangle some of the mess that is Kingdom Hearts lore. Or maybe it will make it worse, given this franchise. Considering Square Enix seems to do a better job with Disney properties than Disney is right now, I’m curious to see what’s coming.
Bill’s a good day. Knows how to use his connections.
Apparently we were supposed to lose gravity for a few seconds on Wednesday. All we got was an eclipse (a rather minor one in our skies) and a planetary alignment I think. Fine by me. This week’s Clutter Report was about me cleaning up one pile of VHS tapes in front of my pinball machine and the junk underneath it. Imagine how much clean-up I’d have to do if we lost gravity. Especially if that included the house itself.
Instead it’s the next Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic and whatever else comes up this week. One less article a day has hurt the view count but it’s given me time to do other things, and I’m still doing comic reviews. Just not every weekday like I was. I kind of miss it but it’s hard to do reviews when you have nothing to review except comics that take forever to review. Hope you’re still enjoying the Sunday Golden Age anthology reviews.
Have a great week, everybody!
I see some form of road rage still exists in the future.
Mystery Men Comics #9
Fox Publications, Inc (April, 1940)
I don’t have to look at the old reviews on this one. I know there are enough stories here to keep me reading. It makes me wonder why Fox Publications had to sell off their titles for a while, and it’s a shame that, at least with the Blue Beetle comics, they couldn’t reclaim the same writers. Those stories were terrible, but the original Fox run was darn good. Let’s see if that continues this issue.
I’m posting this one for the historical value…because I really couldn’t get past the first few minutes. No, not because Cosby was involved as narrator, young Bill, and Fat Albert.
Before the two Fat Albert shows we got, Bill Cosby made a NBC special for primetime. Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert only aired twice. Cosby then approached them to make a series that would give life lessons among the comedy. They turned it down, so they and new animation studio Filmation took it to CBS, and Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids was born. The Brown Hornet segments would be added to the revamped The New Fat Albert Show, and years later the show returned in syndication as The Adventures Of Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids with new segment Legal Eagle, and I have trouble believing that those kids would watch a show about an eagle lawyer over a black superhero and his team fighting bad guys in outer space.
I also don’t believe the show would have been popular with this animation and direction. The character models of the five characters that made it to the series–young Bill, his brother Russell, Weird Harold, and Dumb Donald–kind of resemble their show counterparts, and I didn’t stay for the two characters that didn’t make it, Weasel and Nolan, or other show character Rudy. Of course, Cosby already had Albert’s voice down as the show was based on the standup routines he did back then, based on his days growing up in Philadelphia. He later turned to comedy about being a parent, which inspired The Cosby Show. Now he’s in trouble for…let’s just say mistreatment of women because I really don’t want to get into that stuff.
Like I said, this is posted for its historical legacy as recently found media. The show itself looked better and was an important part of many childhoods, but it was just too off for me. Maybe you’ll find it more interesting. Enjoy.
Amazon is doing an adaptation of the Norse period of the God Of War video game franchise. Not sure if anyone out there would rather have started with the original Olympian period (might make a good prequel series) but only one producer had any ties to the games, and he wasn’t even the producer of the game, he was a writer. Christopher Judge, who voiced Kratos in the Norse games, discussed his confusion at not hiring the writers of the games to do their adaptation.
This led to That Park Place contributor Martin Montanaro building an article going over how Hollywood thinks they’re better than the mocap suited actors (who can also be their voices) and the writers who made the game popular as they seek to do either a shot-for-shot remake, as Judge notes with The Last Of Us, or an adaptation in name only (I think the next Resident Evil movie falls into that but you’d have to ask someone who likes the game and zombie movies.) He does acknowledge that there may be good reasons with some of the actors going live-action, but he has a good point about not including the writers, which Amazon’s God Of War will not have. I’ll also add if it has to be live-action, but at least the video game is already animated, so it does make it different from just watching the game cutscenes and someone else play the game. Partly.
With Totally Not James Gunn’s Supergirl movie being a hot mess and failing miserably, I’m only happy enough people with taste still exist in the world. Everything I’ve seen of it tells me nobody understood Kara Zor-El, but that’s been true since the New 52 spelled the end of DC Comics for me, after already having a Death Of DC category due to Dan DiDio’s darkening and destruction of what was my favorite comic universe. The last gasp of the Girl Of Steel I knew was in the internet version of DC’s Super Hero Girls by Shea Fontana. While I’m convinced that Lauren Faust was told to remake My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic rather than revisit her series of Super Best Friends Forever shorts, putting Kara in the “Rainbow Dash” persona rather than “Fluttershy” was a mistake, if she had to go with anything. But I’m getting off topic before I even got on topic.
Like with Starfire and what the aforementioned third full reboot of the DC Universe did to her (a sex fiend with the memory of a goldfish), my first introduction to Supergirl was from a free giveaway comic. I’d later get to see her origins in a black and white reprint collection Superman: From The 30s To The 70s that I used to get from the library constantly along with a counterpart book with Batman. However, while Starfire was trying to get kids off of drugs, Supergirl was a pusher…of computers. The second in a series of Superman comics by Radio Shack, in which DC heroes joined with him and Radio Shack’s original characters Alec & Shanna–the (then) TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids–Supergirl was listed as a guest-star but is more of the lead heroine. They could have just put her name on the cover instead, like a pro-seat belt comic would years later. So how could an ad comic given away at a now extinct electronics store to push their new computers make me instantly like Superman if he were a girl? No, not puberty. You put the creators who make good superhero comics on the title.
“Couldn’t we just use these kid-sized battlesuits?” “NO, GET ON YOUR 1980S COMPUTER WITH PRE-INTERNET! TRS-80 is our god now!”
Superman” Victory By Computer
DC Comics/Radio Shack (1981)
WRITER: Cary Bates
ARTISTS: Curt Swan & Vince Colletta
This fits into “Scanning My Collection” on a technicality. I had a copy but it was lost years ago. I still have my copy of the first one and the early TRS-80/Tandy Computer Whiz Kids by Archie comics before they started messing with the continuity. As it was the city got renamed maybe twice. I understand not being able to use Metropolis, but it went from Metro City to Coast City to I forget what after. This is also after Alec and Shanna managed to help Superman stop Major Disaster from causing his namesake. We’re getting the broken in Alec, who isn’t such a wise guy. Lucky Kara.
I have reviewed the first comic, and this one“Yesterday’s” Comic> Superman/TRS-80 Computer Whiz Kids #2, for “Yesterday’s” Comic, as well as the final issue that involved Wonder Woman that I’ve never owned. I only put this one together for the buffer after Supergirl’s missteps were being overshadowed by the mixed reaction to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, but it’s still worth going over why I liked Supergirl so much, because of everything DC Comics and Studios abandoned. I also really liked the first Supergirl movie from the Salkinds that gave us Helen Slater’s better portrayal. I know that’s a minor opinion as well, but that’s hardly a first for me, is it?
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