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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Neumatic Date: March 29, 2016, 7:34 pm
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Preview for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Number 2
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I'm sure no one else here really cares, but I gotta say, this is
the way to do a reboot/remake and it's so obvious that it feels
weird that it's not done more often (maybe it is more common in
comic books, I dunno).
They chose a moment that pretty much everyone who's heard of
Power Rangers is familiar with, the evil Green Ranger episodes,
and built off of that. It feels like you saw an episode as a
kid, then decided to turn on the show as an adult, and it
somehow kept pace with you. The dialogue is bette,r the
characters have more going on, the scale is bigger... they
didn't even bother to redesign or re-imagine the suits or the
robots or anything, they just gave it better lighting and put it
in more impressive locations and sequences. So many reboots try
to re-invent the wheel, you know? Transformers and so on. Some
use the visual iconogrpahy but don't really understand what lies
beneath (like Star Trek), but this feels like they just took
apart the machine, cleaned all the parts, then put it back
together so that it runs better than it did the first time.
Even the kind of quasi-anime art style they kicked the series
off with is kind of perfect, a mix of Japanese design style but
done in western execution... if that makes sense. Which is
pretty much what the show was, Japanese stuff filtered through
an American sensibility.
It reminds me of what Boom! did when they did Darkwing Duck all
those years ago. And it makes me wonder what other properties
from the past are in store for us, that could benefit from this
kind of restoration.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Neumatic Date: June 29, 2016, 10:42 pm
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Oh man ,for 25 bucks I got an insane amount of Star Trek graphic
novels on Hunble Bundle... heck, 19 GB and I haven't even
downloaded them all yet! PDF format, no DRM, gotta love it.
Only issue? They didn't merge the two-pace spreads, so I gotta
fix that myself! At least I got a BUNCH of new books to read.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 29, 2016, 10:44 pm
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Sounds like a great score.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Neumatic Date: June 30, 2016, 12:41 am
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There's a couple issues in there that I recall from my youth, so
it's nice to have those again... with the parts that I had
missed the first time around.
The blacked-out DC logos, though... other comics do this when
they republish work from other companies, I keep thinking "what
if they just did the new company logo in the other company's
logo style? Like an "I" in the DC bullet, or "Image" in the
Marvel comics style. I'm sure there's rules against that, but
my mash-up remixing brain keeps going there.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: September 23, 2016, 9:33 pm
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Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn - Adapted by Mike
Baron (2009)
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Neumatic Date: June 17, 2017, 6:48 pm
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Two weeks late to the party, but I got the 2017 Annual of
Boom!'s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and what a step up from
last year. The big story is "Perfect," the backstory for
Finster and holy COW was that awesome. Little onion sculptor
guy? Total pyschopath. And the artwork for it was amazing:
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I mean seriously, LOOK at that.
The other highlight was the incredible artwork in "Forever
Black," a short but sweet and easter-egg filled adventure
featuring Black Rangers from various universes.
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Seeing 90s Zack and Adam in there and looking just like the real
people, treated with that amount of care... that's awesome (plus
female Zack is pretty cute, too).
What's nice about the annuals is that we get these character
moment stories, which the main series doesn't get to do and that
the show never had time to do right. It's making me really
excited for the "Go go!" line, which will be more
character-driven, focusing on what happened right after their
first battle and how they adjusted to their new lives.
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Re: What Are You Reading?
By: Chiprocks1 Date: June 17, 2017, 6:56 pm
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Digging the art.
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