Showing posts with label Forever 80s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forever 80s. Show all posts

Booster Gold, Revisited

Y'know? After finishing a second reading, the new Booster Gold 1st issue kinda grew on me. I think Kevin nailed down my initial problem with it when he described it as an 80s throwback. Or homage. I can't decide. But it sure did have some typical-for-the-time formulaic writing and set-up at the beginning. As fun as they tried to make it. But it still left a bad taste in my mouth.

I've now noticed that it's only the first half of the comic that reads like those old 80s Booster Golds. Still, it kinda bugged me, I admit, and I actually put it down before that point thinking it's traveling too far downhill for it to make it worthwhile to finish. I'm glad I picked it up again. It totally redeems itself in the last half.

(And that Superboy "Punching history. Please." joke was teh awesome! That one was, too.)

So, I kinda like it now. And the premise is a good one to carry a series. I'll probably pick up the next one. It still makes me feel like I'm a 18 year-old comics reader again, though...

Enough with the breakdown! Time for some crappy photoshop!


Click for Boost

And, was I the only one who thought, after hearing this sound effect:

That this would follow?

Perhaps I've just been reading too much Ambush Bug recently. Like that's even possible.

Sweep the Foot!

This dialog splice-in occurred to me while reading the last Countdown (and, as an aside? Can we please stop with the Mary Marvel short-skirt Ass-Shots?!? Please! It makes me feel dirty), but I was really surprised as to how well it actually fit in the panels.

And again, I'm probably showing my age. Eh, the heck with it...


Click on for biggie. Click off for smallie.



Same clicky rules here

That fits almost too well, doesn't it?

(Yeah, I know some of those speech bubble were sloppy. Photoshop's just not doing it as well as I'd like. I'm working on getting new software for them. From Mac.)

(And, I learned a lesson - Edit, then resize. Work big. Then shrink.)

Bonus Update: Mesozoic Mind!

Wow. And I mean... WOW! I totally forgot about this one...

Seriously, if you don't smile at this at least once, you're in trouble, kiddies!


That's good 80s Dino-Cheese, right there..

(tee hee!)

Just a Still Town Girl on a Saturday Night

I just finished Countdown #47. You know, the one with the Mary Marvel exploding boobie cover? Yeah, well aside from that, something was real familiar with it to my (albeit, very strange and easily distracte... Hey! Hiya, puppy!) head. It reminded me of something else.. couldn't quite place it, but something real familiar...

Figured it out:

Dance! Dance your little Steel-Town Heart out! Dance, I say!

Surprised it didn't come to me sooner...

I just realised that my third sentence implies that I've encountered exploding boobies before now. I'm not taking it back.



Bonus - Behind the Scences: My first attempt at the funny was an off-panel PETA member throwing blood on her for wearing leather. This one's much better.

(I crack myself up, sometimes.)

(Yeah, I could've spent another hour prettying up the water in the shower down part, but that body spash effect took *way* too long by itself. Also, I thought about adding lyrics, musical notes, a tossed back chair, etc. But, eh.. you'll get the joke as it is now or you wouldn't at all.)

EDIT: Awww.. screw it.. added the lyrics. Even better now.