COMIC REVIEW – Mega Man #1-4 (Dreamwave)

The short-lived Mega Man comic book from now-defunct publisher Dreamwave is an oddity of sorts. Based on the popular video game series, the comic repurposes Mega Man as a boy robot going to school and keeping his identity as the super fighting robot a secret like a traditional superhero yarn. On occasion, there are superheroics and robot battles, but these seem secondary in comparison to the school life (though things pick up as the series progresses and eventually ends abruptly.)

My issues with this series is numerous, but probably the biggest one being that this never truly felt like a Mega Man series, but rather a series of a boy robot and his adventures in school who took the form of Mega Man and associated side characters because they couldn’t be bothered to create their own heroes… despite the fact that they had no problem creating their own robot masters and steel devil villains for Mega Man to fight.

The art isn’t too bad; if anything, it keeps the character designs largely consistent with official sources and they didn’t detract too far off the beaten path in that regard when it came to creating some of the original humans for this series. The overall style maintains the anime feel you’d associate with Mega Man, but can be a bit messy at times.

In the final issue, a crossover was teased between the classic series and the Mega Man X series, further teasing an X series that never materialized due to Dreamwave shutting its doors. Mega Man would see new life in a long-running comic series from Archie Comics, which did a better job of staying true to the source material than this series ever did. Mega Man’s stint at Dreamwave was short and sweet, but nothing about warranted return trips any time soon.

AEW Dynamite (March 17th, 2021) – You May Want To Rethink Your Choice Of Dentists

For the record, Meltzer gave the main event ****3/4. He docked a 1/4* for that one thing with Rebel. Blame Rebel.

Other than that… hell of a St. Patty’s Day parade in Jacksonville last week. Such a big deal that it took me a week to process and put into words. Hopefully, I’ll get last night’s musings up a little sooner.

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NWA Crocket Cup 2019

So NWA brought back the Crockett Cup in 2019, which was a staple of the old Jim Crockett Promotion before they got bought by Turner and they were poised to make it an annual event before Corona struck. The uptick is that this show was posted onto their Youtube page for free (until it was taken down, along with everything else), so here we are.

Better late than never, I suppose.

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Random Image Does Not A Star Trek Make

A little late to the party, but whatever.

The above image is the first official promo image of the upcoming Star Trek: Prodigy animated series… and I am ambivalent as a whole.

The image depicts our core group of characters; a ragtag group of alien misfits who are all smiles now, but I’m sure their assembling will begin with bickering and slowly but surely, they’ll be good buddies by the end of the season, if not the show. For what it’s worth, I like the varied designs of each of the characters. Whether it’d be the Thing-looking thing or the blue slime thing or the robot thing, it’s a suitable cast for what I’d imagine is kids’ fare.

This image does not immediately scream Star Trek. There’s nothing in the image that I would remotely associate with Star Trek. None of the aliens seem like anything you’d associate with Star Trek. You could have called this anything else and I’d be like, “Cool.” If I gave you this image without telling you what it is, Star Trek would not be the first thing to come to mind… maybe Star Wars. But for Trekkies to start shouting to the heavens that this screams Star Trek is hyper hyperbole to the reaches that goes beyond hyper hyperbole.

One image does not make or break a series, however. It’s just a stock image of some stock aliens. That’s what I got out of it. Does this bode well for Prodigy? I can’t say since this is all we have to go on and it says NOTHING beyond this is what the central group looks like. And until we get more concrete details, I can neither praise or damn the series as a whole based on one single stock promotional image. I can speculate, but that would be raising hopes and the current regime has worn out their goodwill in being giving that much benefit.

I will take a “wait and see” approach with this one. Let’s see what comes of this and then we’ll have something to sink our teeth into. Until then… maintain current course.

I’ll be in my ready room.

NWA Pop-Up Event (January 2019)

So Billy Corgan’s revived National Wrestling Alliance – which is slowly but surely getting back on track with its weekly PPV gimmick that got TNA off the ground – ran its second event in January last year; a “pop-up” event. This featured a Nick Aldis vs. James Storm match for the NWA World Title, but it also featured former WCW World Champion David Arquette in a hair vs hair match against some guy named Joe… kinda, sorta…

Anyway, it was on the NWA Youtube channel for a short while before it was taken down, so I figured why not? This was a show that was thrown together quickly, had some marquee matches, and that’s about it. Not a major event or anything like that; more like a house show of sorts. Anyway, on with the show.

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COMIC REVIEW – Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Pink (2017)

Boom! Studios’ first off-shoot Power Rangers miniseries was surprisingly not focused on TOMMY, but rather on Kimberly, fresh off not being a Ranger anymore. For you see, this takes place after Kim left the team to be a gymnast at the Pan Globals… but things are amiss. People have gone missing in the French village that her dear old mother lives in and she had find out what it is… so how does Kimberly take on the enormous task for solving the mystery of the missing Frenchmen?

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