Something Different…

So reviews for Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles (yes, TWO videos for TWO games, fuck you) will be up tomorrow and Sunday night respective, scheduled to post at 6 p.m. EST.

In the meantime, another video will be up shortly… that’s already been up, but will be up again shortly. Minor edit.

No videos afterwards until July 5th.

Many thanks for the warm messages.

Talk to you soon.

Later.

Speaking of R.I.P…

Now that we’re past the fun stuff, let’s talk about something actually is R.I.P. and nobody quite knows it yet.

The above image is a John Romita Jr. illustrated cover for the 1000th issue of The Amazing Spider-Man – a number they like to pull out of their ass after rebooting the series number half a dozen times – featuring someone in a Spider-Man costume (okay, let’s be fair here for once and assume it’s the real deal) doing his web-slinging thing… but apparently, according to some stupid people online, he might be shrugging. I think ol’ Web-Head is flexible enough that he can probably do both at the same time and make it look cool. (Apparently, this cover’s being replaced with some other cover that’s not quite as cool… or all that great, for that matter. Par for the course at the one-time Mighty Marvel.)

Honestly, I like this cover. Cool angle. People turning this into a meme are kinda stupid, but they kept this thing going for a long time and the stories have gone to complete and utter dogshit… so I guess it fits.

I suppose congratulations are in order for reaching this massive, massive milestone. Unfortunately, you kinda ruined it by promising that Peter Parker’s life would change forever… because you seem to do that on a regular basis and it often means going back to the same tired status quo that you like to go back to because you’re all a bunch of uncreative hacks.

I don’t know… maybe Marvel should shitcan the entire creative staff and let AI handle all the writing going forward. If anything, that would actually be an improvement over the hot garbage you’ve been putting out lately. Put these humans out of their misery, please!

Or… you know… write better stories. As much as it sucks to see anyone lose jobs, it’s hard to be sympathetic to people who are just bad at doing them.

Later.

Yip.

Hello.

I am required to inform viewers that yesterday’s video presentation was not endorsed, approved, authorized, or even potentially viewed by the people behind A1 Sauce.

Furthermore, I am required to inform viewers that no animals were harmed in the making of yesterday’s video nor were they fed any portions of A1 Sauce at any point in time. Animals were fed their own nutritional and performance-enhancing supplements and then slept for the rest of the day.

Finally, I am also required to inform viewers that a fly was swatted during last night’s premiere and died immediately upon impact. We considered a funeral arrangement, but after considering the amount of noise being made by said fly, it probably had it coming and promptly tossed its remains in the nearest garbage can.

Now that we’ve got that out of the way… moar Sonic stuff in the next couple days before we take a week off and resume “something” in July… by which I mean the usual nonsense that gets posted up here.

Thank you and enjoy your usual festivities.

*If, for whatever reason, you missed last night’s eventful video – actually, that’s a lie; you didn’t miss much of anything, but said video can be viewed here.

Thirty Years Ago, Three One Six Was Redefined

So June happens to be the month in which I’ve chosen to implement a moratorium on wrestling-related material and for the most part, that’s been a success. I avoided talking about this other business that has, largely, been a chore to follow, which made it somewhat easy.

However, considering today marks the 30th anniversary of a rather significant promo that planted the seeds for one of the most successful T-shirts in the history of that business, it’d be foolish to not mention SOMETHING on this occasion.

And then you sort of come to realize that there is nothing you can say about this piece of business that has been said better than others might have. So as a compromise, I’m going to direct you to my old PPV musings of the show in question, which I have conveniently updated bits and pieces to better express my thoughts. Maybe when this thing turns 35, I’ll give it a proper musings rather than the obvious rush job these things were back in the day… assuming we make it that far.

In addition, I recently uncovered the thoughts on the promo when it turned twenty years old. They more or less sum up my thoughts on the matter and won’t take too much of your time to read. Please give these a read. Thanks.

Happy birthday, Austin 3:16.

Yes, you’re getting older.

Later.

Relevant Reading Material
WWF King Of The Ring 1996 Musings
Twenty Years Ago, The Book Of Austin 3:16 Was Forged…

Review #1336 – Sonic The Hedgehog CD (Sega CD)

The good news is that this is going to be the longest review of a single game this week. The bad news is that it’s the only review that’s going to be up on schedule… although purely for reasons that satisfy my desire to make you people wait longer for the inevitable.

Less than thirty-six hours to rip.