We've Already Posted a Two-Part Tale of Tek JansenHERE and HERE...
...from #1 (2007) of his Oni Press mini-series.
Now, to close out the issue, we re-present the final story from that book...
Written by Jim Massey and illustrated by Robbi Rodriguez, this "Case File" is more in the style of a hard-boiled gumshoe tale than a "straight" sci-fi adventure! Tek Jansen will return, next week at... Wednesday Worlds of Wonder!
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...and that he had both a five-issue comic mini-series...
...and a number of animated cartoon episodes (with Colbert as the voice of Jansen)!
Sadly, the cartoons themselves are now lost to the cyber-winds, but the theme song survives HERE! But hang tight, True Believers, 'cause we'll be posting some of the OOP (that's "out of print") adventures of everybody's (especially Stephen's) favorite space hero for the next couple of weeks on this blog at Wednesday Worlds of Wonder and Space Hero Saturdays plus, same day on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at Secret Sanctum of Captain Video! That's three chapters each week for the next two weeks!
With the news of the upcoming Spaceballs 2: the Schwartz Awakens...
...we're presenting something most space sci-fi fans don't even know exists...Spaceballs the Animated Series, which came and went in 2008-2009 without making much of an impression!
Created and executive produced by Mel Brooks (who also reprised his roles as President Skroob and Yogurt), the show adapted the movie in its' first two episodes, making a couple of changes (like Lone Starisn't a prince so he can't marry Princess Vespa) for the ongoing series. Some movie cast returned to voice their characters again, including Daphne Zuniga (Princess Vespa), Joan Rivers (Dot Matrix), and Dom DeLuise (Pizza the Hutt). The other roles were filled by sound-alikes. The biggest drawback is the computer-generated animation that's only a step above the limited animation of the 1960s Marvel Super-Heroes Show (which has the excuse of being animated directly from photostats of the detailed original comic art by Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, etc). Because Blogger doesn't embed non-YouTube links, here are links that, when you click on them, will open into new windows...
Starring gorgeous Broadway veteran Jasmine Amy Rogers as the embodiment of Betty,
...the show looks like an absolute hoot!
With award-winning creatives handling writing, directing, and production
(including effects like transitioning the castandsets from black and white to coloron stage), the production appeals to old (who remember the cartoons)andyoung, who will be introed to the pop art icon!
Here's the first appearance of a comics legend (over 100 comic series with his name in the title)...
...who, at the time this came out, was already an animation mainstay!
Utilizing story elements from Casper's first cartoon (1945's Paramount NovelToon "The Friendly Ghost", written by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo) this opener written by Isadore Klien and likely illustrated by one of the cartoon series' animators appeared in St John's Casper the Friendly Ghost #1 (1949)
Interestingly, though Harvey Comics acquired the character rights from Paramount Pictures and continued the series after St John went out of business, they neverreprinted the covers or stories of the five issues by St John!
Starring gorgeous Broadway veteran Jasmine Amy Rogers as the embodiment of Betty,
...the show looks like an absolute hoot!
With award-winning creatives handling writing, directing, and production
(including effects like transitioning the castandsets from black and white to coloron stage), the production should appeal to old (who remember the cartoons)andyoung, who will be introed to the pop art icon! If you're in the Chicago area now through Christmas Eve, see Boop! the Musical!
Starring Broadway veteran Jasmine Amy Rogers as the embodiment of Betty,
the show looks like an absolute hoot!
With award-winning creatives handling writing, directing, and production
(including effects like transitioning the cast and sets from black and white to color on stage), the production should appeal to old (who remember the cartoons) and young, who will be introed to the pop art icon! As for us, we're turning our "sister" RetroBlog, Heroines, over to Betty for November, beginning tomorrow with Betty's first comic strip...which wasn't really her strip!
(Don't worry, we'll explain tomorrow!) The week of November 13th, you'll see the appropriately-entitled 1990 one-shot comic...
by comics pros (and major Betty-philes) Leslie Carbaga, Joshua Quaqmire, and Milton Knight! Finally, starting the day after Boop! the Musical's November 19th premiere, you'll see the first couple of months of Betty's actual comic strip!
Check Out Heroines! starting tomorrow and, if you're in the Chicago area over Thanksgiving, see Boop! the Musical!
As you might have guessed, Knight was heavily-influenced by 1920s-40s animators including the Fleisher Brothers, Tex Avery, and Chuck Jones.
He's worked in comics, animation, magazine illustration, commercial art, even CD and LP album cover graphics!
Though he collaborated with writer Steve Riggenberg on this tale never-reprinted tale from Heavy Metal V9N7 (1985), Knight usually scripts his own material. Check out his website HERE!
...according to the sadly OOP series Xenozoic Tales!
Why hasn't this series, which combined the apocalypse, classic cars, and prehistoric monsters along with excellent writing and art, ever been a multi-media, mass-market favorite like Walking Dead or Game of Thrones?
How did all this come about?
This video (ironically, from the video game) explains quite succinctly how in 2020 the world we know will end!
Plotwise and chronologically, this story from Kitchen Sink's Xenozoic Tales #1 (1987), written and illustrated by Mark Schultz, is the first story in the series, featuring Hannah Dundee's introduction to the people of the City in the Sea.
Note: A tale (entitled "Xenozoic") introducing the series to the public, but published a couple of years earlier in Kitchen Sink's Death Rattle #8 (1985) takes place after this story.
When the entire series was reprinted in story-chronological order in Dark Horse hardcovers in 2003, the Death Rattle tale was placed between two stories in Xenozoic Tales #2.
The comic inspired a video game and well-done, but short-lived, animated TV series.
Despite those successes, it still has yet to hit the public consciousness the way other graphic novel properties have.
