I've been readings lots of Mike Grell's Green Arrow run lately.....and then I noticed -
I already talked about some Green Arrow origin stories (Year One and Year One again) but not of Grell's own classic (and mostly definitive) revisited origin!! (note: the modern 2007 Year One was mostly based and expanded upon Grell's take, it doesn't retcon it but adds upon it)
So here's yet another origin story for the Emerald Archer!
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You might have seen me do a lot of Zelda parodies lately... Here's one and one more.
Well, checking out some good ol' Zelda material had me thinking about the series....
Anyway, since I posted the intro of the old Mario cartoon not long ago, I wanted today to also post the Zelda cartoon intro now!
Here it is, in all its full HD glory nonetheless!
Say want you want, don't make your own opinion if you don't want to and follow some generic popular internet rants instead, you mindless sheep, you!... but speaking from facts.. this cartoon was actually pretty good.
Sure, it gave a personality to Link, which you might not like...
But the cartoon for an early adaptation, was pretty faithful. And fun. And had adventure!
It's not your NES Link, mind you... It was like in most games, just another incarnation of Link (and Zelda, and Ganon). The Princess even used to kick ass most of her screen time (which can't be said much of the in-game Zeldas...no, Sheik!Zelda or Tetra-Zelda *late-spoiler alert!* don't count!! I'm speaking of the Zelda-Zelda character!!)
And everything from the ambient music to the sound effects, character designs and plots contributed to the Zelda atmosphere...which can't be said much of other 80s/90s cartoon adaptations.. (Captain N, Karaté Kid, Rambo, etc...to name but a few other adaptations from the same era)
And, excuuuuuuuuse me, but I actually liked this Link!
He kinda suffered from what I call "Venkmanisation", which is a trend, following the successful Ghostbusters cartoon, which consisted in turning all main characters in kids cartoons into Peter Venkman, with all his characters traits from design/hair style/comportement/lazy attitude. See Captain Plane or James Bond Jr. for other examples! XD
Man..are some of those logos pretty bad.. And I'm speaking as someone who's had graphics & visual communications lessons (and the diploma that goes along).
Funny though, the Superman and Green Lanterns family of logos won't be changed! ha!
And here's another review for my "Studio Ghibli Marathon"!~
Some nerds would love to nitpick, and scream at their computer screen saying "this isn't a movie! it's an OVA/OAV!!" well, check out my tags, notice my "OVA" tag? Good. Okay, now calm down, sit, relax and enjoy....
I was kinda bored today, so I decided to "fix" the cover of the upcoming relaunched Justice League International.
They took out Donna TroyGypsy that black-costumed girl from the cover in the last minute and now it looks kinda empty and disorganized...
Okay, so it's kinda silly :P
Not because of the way I drew Ted Kord, but because I didn't fix Booster's awful costume...
UPDATE!
Okay so I ended up fixing Booster Gold as well:
I should stop right here, or I'll end up fixing Tora!Ice as well, adding the Elongated Man, Captain Marvel too, and....
It's all 3 Star Wars movies... playing simultaneously, side by side! °___°
I wouldn't recommend watching this all the way through, but skipping bits and checking out some scenes...it's funny to notice how pwerfectly synchro some moments are mirrored from a movie to another.
I specially love the opening of both A New Hope and Return of the Jedi, how perfectly synchronized they are.
Neat find! Check it out:
Now, can someone make the same with all 10 Friday the 13th/Jason Voorhees movies? XD
So, some Aliens, probably even some of you guys, are awaiting for Aliens: Colonial Marines for Xbox 360, PC and PS3, right?
But surely, not a lot of you know that there's another Aliens game coming up for around the same time.
This one called Aliens: Infestation and developed by WayForward Technologies! (also getting published by Sega)
Now, WayForward is a company I really dig. They're one of the few studios left that is still able to work with beautiful 2D sprites, and make some great fun arcad-ysh titles. And I'm not speaking of all the lousy flash-like games people rush on the Xbox live or for Iphones, I'm speaking of beautifully animated real sprites, old school! Their more mainstream titles include Contra 4 or that DS Thor tie-in game.
But I prefer to mention their awesome gorgeous A Boy and His Blob remake on the Wii, Batman: The Brave and the Bold – The Videogame or Shantae.
This Aliens game is done like your typical old school 16-bits action shooter. Some call it a throwback to the Contra series.
I prefer to say, it looks similar or even inspired by that old awesome Alien 3 game.
It is set for September 30. (in most countries)
You'll be able to recruit and play as a bunch of various Marines through the game. The goal will be obviously to face hordes of Xenomorphs, while traveling across memorable sceneries from the movies such as the USS Solaco and more!
Okay... he doesn't really defeat them that much, as it looks more like he runs away from them.
But better free than captured, am I right? Flee to fight another day!
Goes to show the Taskmaster isn't simply a C-listener, and he's more one of the few "guys" of the Marvel U than is able to hold his own against some of The Avengers themselves!
Remember those DC Comics shoe ads that have been appearing in lots of DC and Marvel comics lately?
Well, I found another one while reading an issue the other day...and thought I should try uploading all of them on the blog just to have a look!
It's kinda silly, sure, but a neat way to have a quick look at various designs of some DC characters over the years, including their all-new look of the reboot/relaunch/retcon-thingie.
Here's all of those I could find.
Are there more? Wonder Woman seems to be seriously lacking here..and don't "It's a girl"-me. Catwoman's got a pair of shoes of her own below!
With this review, I'm gonna start what I've been wanting to do for quite some time now... what we will call the "Studio Ghibli Marathon"!
But instead of going through the usual Spirited Aways and other Totoros right from the start like everybody else, I wanna take a look at the more obscure Pre-Ghibli movies as well.
So without further ado, let's start from the very beginning...
