More Animated Star Wars!
Remember Tales of the Jedi and Tales of the Empire? Those animated shorts from the past few years, that highlighted a couple of special characters? I barely do! But they were alright. Definitely watchable. Well we’re getting more! Tales of the Underworld! Featuring a pair of really cool bounty hunter characters.
I can take or leave Cade Bane. Never been all that interested in him, for whatever reason. He’s fine. I’m far more interested in Asajj Ventress! I’ve always liked her. And I just recently finished Bad Batch, and this version of her appeared for a single episode. I’m all for having her exist as a badass ronin with a yellow lightsaber. I’m perfectly happy with that being her place in the Star Wars Universe!
We don’t have long to wait for this one. Tales of the Underworld comes out on May 4, Star Wars Day.
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Severance for Introverts, by Only Leigh
One of my favorite internet cartoonists is Only Leigh, on YouTube! She does fun work, with great voice acting, but she doesn’t post often because (I hope) she’s busy on a bunch of other big projects and work! But she came out with a random video to celebrate the end of Severance the other day!
Don’t worry, there are no spoilers for the TV show Severance on AppleTV+ — which I highly recommend. It’s a great show that lives up to all the hype it gets. And the season 2 finale was excellent! Just like this cartoon.
And just like, hopefully, the rest of this week. Sigh. It’s only Tuesday.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 3/29/25
I’ve been noticing something weird lately…I don’t really care for Marvel Comics at the moment. All the best comics are coming out of DC. Wild. Anyway, here’s a review list that’s mostly DC Comics!
Comic Book of the Week goes to Wonder Woman #19 for an excellent end to the first story arc, and all the teases for the next story arc. I’m quite satisfied.
Meanwhile, I’m still working my way through Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. The game is everything I hoped it would be and I’m having a blast! Gonna spend a lot of time in this world. I’m currently working my way through the newest season of Invincible. Fun stuff, as expected.
Comic Reviews: Absolute Martian Manhunter #1, Absolute Wonder Woman #6, Batman #158, Power Rangers Prime #5 and Wonder Woman #19.
Read the rest of this entryThere’s Gonna Be a Marvel Beat’em Up!
A few years ago, the Ninja Turtles got a really awesome beat’em up game called Shredder’s Revenge. It was a gorgeous game steeped in TMNT lore and characters, a beautiful callback to the classic arcade games. Well those developers/publishers are back with a Marvel Comics beat’em up game! Because we are allowed to have nice things.
Marvel Cosmic Invasion looks cool as hell! Interesting character choices. Nova with long hair? I suppose. But Phyla-Vell?! That’s a great deep cut! And there’s always a chance for more characters to be added, just like with the Ninja Turtles game. I wish I’d waited to play that until Mondo Gecko was available!
Anyway, this game looks super fun and I hope I get the chance to play it with friends.
Cosmic Invasion comes out sometime later this year.
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I Have a Short Comic Coming Up in Museum of the Uncanny!
In my ongoing efforts to become a professional comic book writer, I’ve got another short story coming up! My short story will be part of the upcoming Museum of the Uncanny anthology from Very Big Comics, which is coming to Kickstarter early next month. Right now, we’re collecting advance sign-ups to be notified when the Kickstarter goes live. You don’t have to commit to buying the book at this point, it’s just sign ups for people interested.
So head on over to Kickstarter and click the button to be notified! The more people we get signed up, the better Kickstarter will treat us once the campaign gets going.
My story will be called The Normal Quesadilla Maker That Definitely Can’t Talk. I wrote the script, with artwork by Wren Rios and lettering by Marin.
The title is pretty self explanatory, I think. But here’s the quick blurb I wrote for the piece:
“We assure you the quesadilla maker can’t talk. The manufacturer assures you the quesadilla maker can’t talk. The quesadilla maker itself will assure you it can’t talk.”
The whole anthology is going to be filled with similar stories of weird, funny and spooky objects all collected in the titular museum. I think it’s a neat idea for a comic anthology and I’m so excited that I got picked!
And I hope I can count on you fine readers to sign up for the campaign, and perhaps even order the anthology once the campaign goes live next month! Slowly but surely, I’m gonna keep getting comic stories published. I’m gonna be a contender!
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