Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980s. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SONIC DISRUPTERS "Republic of Rock" Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

...in the year 2030, pirate broadcaster satellite Little Bopper has declared independence from the USA, which is now a theocratic autocracy.
As various nations (including America, which wants them back) plan to impose control on the rogue space station, the leader travels to the Republic of Rock, part of another recently-independent (but earthbound) nation, the United States of Rock...










To Be Continued...in the Near Future...but Before 2030!

Writer Mike Baron, penciler Barry Crain, and inker John Nyberg created this series for DC in 1986, when the company was encouraging creatives to present new, creator-owned, projects either as stand-alone graphic novels or mini-series.
Though this was proposed as a 12-issue series, only seven issues were published, and contrary to rumors, there was no unpublished 8th issue, so the story ends mid-stream and, obviously, has never been reprinted!

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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder SONIC DISRUPTERS "Republic of Rock" Part 1

America has gone extremely conservative/Reich-wing!
Pirate radio station/space station Little Bopper has declared independence from the US.
The American government isn't happy about that and other governments are eager to take advantage of the situation...

To Be Continued Next Wednesday!
Writer Mike Baron, penciler Barry Crain, and inker John Nyberg created this series for DC in 1986, when the company was encouraging creatives to present new, creator-owned, projects either as stand-alone graphic novels or mini-series.
Though this was proposed as a 12-issue series, only seven issues were published, and contrary to rumors, there was no unpublished 8th issue, so the story ends mid-stream and, obviously, has never been reprinted!

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Monday, July 14, 2025

Monday Madness RADIO BOY by Chuck Dixon & Jim Engel

In the 1980s, manga finally gained a foothold in the US...
...and American creators began doing their own manga-style material.
Some, like this never-reprinted one-shot title from Eclipse Comics (the first major American company to publish translated manga), were parodies.
This particular spoof was loosely-based on Osamo Tesuka's Astro Boy, which had achieved success in as a translated anime in the early 1960s and opened the door for a flood of Japanese cartoons on American TV that continues to this day.
Note: Though Astro Boy is best-known in the US as a tv cartoon series, it began as a wildly-successful manga in 1954.
The premise of Radio Boy is that the creator himself did the translations for this edition, resulting in a mish-mash of syntax and tenses as well as some literal translations of Japanese phrases.
As a collector of foreign videos (including Japanese and Chinese DVDs and BluRays), I can attest that the English subtitles on them often do read like the captions and copy in this spoof.
BTW, if you don't have a multi-region DVD/BluRay player, get one.
Much of the Asian material released by Dimension (especially their Jackie Chan catalog), Buena Vista, and other mass-market companies is butchered beyond belief, and seeing the originals (even with bad sub-titling) is eye-opening!
I suspect writers Chuck Dixon (yes, that Chuck Dixon) and Jim Engel had also seen some mis-translated films/videos, and wanted to re-create the experience on the printed page.
You'll have the chance to judge for yourself...HERE and HERE!
Next Week
Yep!
They're Back!

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder FROST & FIRE Conclusion

Sim & Lyte reach the ship in the original publication of this story in Fiction House's pulp magazine Planet Stories V3N4 (1946).

It Has All Lead Up to This...
...while many others tried (and failed) to reach the crashed ship burdened with protective clothing and/or shielding from the intense sun, Sim and Lyte try a different tactic...speed!














Don't You Just Love a Happy Ending?
Next Week: a New World of Wonder!

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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Wednesday Worlds of Wonder FROST & FIRE Part 3

When Last We Left Sim...

When Your Entire Life from Birth to Death is Only Eight Days Long and You're Already Halfway Through, Things Take on a Certain...Urgency!











To Be Concluded
NEXT WEDNESDAY

Officially-titled DC's Science Fiction Graphic Novel #3Frost & Fire (1985), this was part of DC Comics' second attempt at an ongoing series of graphic adaptations, this time of existing material from noted sci-fi/fantasy authors.
(The first series featured original concepts and stories by comic creatives including Jack Kirby, Howard Chaykin, and Alex Nino.)
Both series ran for seven issues.
Except for Jack Kirby's The Hunger Dogs, which concluded the original New Gods series, none of the stories has ever been reprinted!
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