The Good, Bad & Forgivable: Damage #1
Damage #1
Tom Joyner – Writer
Bill Marimon & Tom McWeeny – Art
The Good:
How the Grant’s history teachers lecture ties into his soon to be discovered powers.
The Bad:
Grant asking Metalo “Why’re you frontin me?” AND Metalo’s lengthy description of his plans to tell Grant Emerson’s origin.
The Forgivable:
The art! It was 1994 after all.
WebComic: Deep Pockets
Its funny that today’s post deals with a video game and tomorrow I will be starting a new feature here that focuses on comic books and video games.
In high school and in college I was addicted to the point-n-click adventure games. My friend’s dad showed me Maniac Mansion and I loved it. I immediately began buying and beating every Sierra and Lucas Arts adventure games like: Zach McCracken, the Quest for Glory series, the Space Quest series, the Indiana Jones series, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit the Road, and the Leisuresuit Larry series.
Last year someone over at RacketBoy recommended a new game that looks and feels just like the classic point-n-click games: Ben There, Dan That! I bought the game and it’s sequel for $5. That $5 was well spent, but you can get the game for free from the creator’s website:
‘Ben There, Dan That!’ is a knockabout point-and-click comedy game, in the vein of the old classic Lucasarts adventures like ‘Guybrush Threepwood’s The Monkey Islands’ or ‘Sam and Max, Freelance Policemen’.
Written by and somewhat-narcissistically starring heroes Dan Marshall and Ben Ward, it’s bursting with bold cartoon graphics, laugh-out-loud dialogue, colourful characters, some frames of animation and nearly 100 different sound effects!
There’s no need for hand-eye coordination or split-second reflexes here; it’s a fun game that anyone can play as long as they don’t mind a few naughty words here and there and the odd dabble of mild racism.
Enjoy it today FOR FREE by clicking the download button (link)
Download and play “Ben There, Dan That!” immediately and don’t forget to check out the SpaceBooger comic strip!
- Ben There, Dan That Homepage: http://www.zombie-cow.com/?page_id=17
- This week’s comic strip: http://www.spacebooger.com/index.php?comicID=134
WebComic Eve: 6 Christmas Themed Comic Strips
While you prepare for Christmas Present, here are some SpaceBooger Comic Strips from Christmas Past (and Present) to enjoy before the hustle and bustle of the holiday is fully upon us:
- Stocking Stuff (2007)
- Gift of Gifts (2007)
- Gift Exchange (2008)
- Christmas 2008
- 8 More Shopping Days (2009)
- Christmas 2009
A Karate Kid Remake With Jackie Chan???
I guess it’s true… Where have I been to miss the announcement that one of my favorite movies is going to be remade?
DR. DOOM Want’s To Cook His Tater-Tots…
…And he’s next in line for the oven.
The Amazing Spider-Man – #350
David Michelinie – Story
Erik Larson & – Art
Readheads and Ruby Colored Glasses
Hey Cyclops, I heard you can focus that beam of light from your eyes from a beam large enough to level a skyscraper and small enough to punch a pin hole in a dime.
I also heard that you like to focus your regular vision with as much accuracy as your optic blast. Is that true?
I bet it’s safe to say that Cyclops is happy to have trained his optical ability at Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters.
X-Factor – #13
Louise Simonson – Story
Walter Simonson – Art
LexCorp Makin Money In The DCU
According to Forbes.com DC’s own Lex Luthor is the fourth wealthiest fictional character. Back when I read Forbes’ article I wondered how a career criminal who is always in and out of jail (sometimes by escaping) can still have so much wealth. You would think the court costs and federal fines he has accumulated during his years as a criminal mastermind would have bankrupted all his companies. At first I thought he just had some great money laundering schemes to protect his profits – until I noticed this in X-Factor #65 last Monday:
Here we have an image of Cyclops and Jean Gray discussing a recent training session, and while Cyke was ranting about the team not being able to afford mistakes in battle look closely at his computer:
The X-Folks buy their computers from LexCorp. It seems that Lex may be hiding some income in the Marvel Universe from the government and lawyers in the DCU. Now that’s how you launder money. No wonder he is the self proclaimed “Greatest Criminal Mind on Earth!”
X-Factor – #65
(from the “Wraith of Apocalypse” collection)
Lee, Portacio, and Claremont – Story
Portacio & Thilbert – Art
The Hulk Must Have Lost…
… A Contact Lens!
The Incredible Hulk – #141
Roy Thomas – Story
Herb Trimpe & John Severin – Art
Six facts I didn’t know about Marvel
With this year being Marvel’s 70th anniversary the TimesOnline published a list of 70 facts that people may not have known about the comic company. Many of us comic fans are aware of numerous items found on the list, there were that I was not aware of or found interesting enough to share.
2 X-Men No 1, published in 1991, is the world’s biggest-selling comic book. It sold close to 8 million copies.
I knew people were buying comics hoping that they would be worth enough to pay for their child’s college education, but come on this stat is ridiculous since most people bought at least five copies of this issue to get one of each variant cover.
17 The Hulk that appeared in the classic TV series starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno was almost made red in colour. In an interview with film website IGN, the show’s executive producer, Kenneth Johnson, said: “I asked Stan Lee, ‘Man, what’s the logic of green? Is he the envious Hulk? Is he green with envy or jealousy?’ The colour of rage is red, which I was pushing for because it’s a real human colour – you know, when people get flushed with anger.” Lee told him that the Hulk had in fact started out grey but due to problems with colour separation, grey would simply not print the same way each time. “Our printer came to us and said we can do a pretty consistent green, so we decided to go with green,” Lee said. Thus the Hulk was coloured green from issue two of the Incredible Hulk onwards, although without any explanation…
I always thought the Hulk was green since nuclear radiation/waste is usually portrayed as green in popular media.
24 Marvel once owned the rights to the word zombie. As improbable as it sounds, Marvel attempted to trademark the word zombie in comic book titles after publishing Tale of the Zombie in 1973. By the time the trademark was approved two years later, the series was coming to an end. Marvel lost the trademark in 1996 but it wasn’t long before it was once again trademarking the armies of the undead, registering the words Marvel Zombies to protect its comic series of the same name. With DC, Marvel also trademarked the phrase ‘Super Hero’.
I knew that Marvel and DC share the rights to ‘Super Hero,’ but had no idea about zombies…
33 The strip Stan Lee is most proud of is the one he wrote for the Incredible Hulk/Spider-man toilet paper.
Hmm… I don’t think I’ll be searching ebay for a used copy of comic!
34 Artist John Romita Jr based the Daredevil villain Typhoid Mary on his ex-wife.
I hope that was after the divorce and all settlements were signed off on.
44 A Fantastic Four film exists that is so terrible it will never reach a screen. In 1992 the production company Constantin Film was in danger of losing the film rights to the Fantastic Four unless it started production on the movie by the end of the year. Lacking the $40 million it needed to make a full-budget film, it turned to low-budget movie supremo Roger Corman for help. He spent just $1.98 million to crank a quickie Fantastic Four movie. Constantin never intended to release the film but it never told the director or the actors this. “Oh, that was a tragic event. I feel so sorry for the people involved,” Stan Lee remembered years later. “The director really tried his best, and so did the actors. They all thought that this was their big chance. But the movie was never supposed to be seen. Most people thought, “Jesus, what a terrible job that is! How corny! How cheap!” They didn’t realize that it wasn’t meant to be any better than that. Unfortunately, the people working on the project didn’t know that, and they tried their best. Really, I feel so bad for all of them.” Other low-budget Marvel misfires include the 1989 Punisher film starring Dolph Lundgren and the 1990 Captain America film – starring no one you’ve ever heard of.
Many of us knew about the FF film and have seen clips from it (if not check out below,) but what I never knew was that the actors and crew never knew that this film was ‘never supposed to be seen.’
Here are the trailers for the 1994 Fantastic Four, the 1990 Captain America, and the 1989 Punisher movies:
Bonus Video: OSCAR WORTHY SCENE FROM THE 1994 FANTASTIC FOUR MOVIE!
Some Jokes Never Get Old
The original “I’m Batman!” – Michael Keaton 1989
David Michelinie & Todd McFarlane 1990
The Amazing Spider-Man – #328
David Michelinie – Story
Todd McFarlane – Art
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