Diaclone Clone

This year is the 40th anniversary of Transformers: The Movie, and it’ll be shown again in cinemas in a few days (at least in the US). I remember it not being released theatrically here in the Philippines, so me and my friends had to rent it on videotape to watch it. We were all emotionally traumatized that day 🫣.

Dead Men Walking

 

The Comet has the distinction of being the first superhero to ever die. Maybe it was karma, since he had no problem unaliving people left and right. He’s been brought back, though, much like his guest star here, Mister Justice, who is literally the ghost of a dead prince who just decided to become a superhero after hundreds of years being trapped in a castle.

Jacking Kirby

 It’s Jack Kirby’s birthday, and it’s commonly known as Jack Kirby Day. To celebrate, I’ve “inked” over some of his DC Comics work. I think I was introduced to his work when he was at DC, I only saw his Marvel work later.

I wasn’t really a fan when I was a kid, but I really liked OMAC and Sandman for some reason. I learned to appreciate his art more as I grew older.

Walk With Yang

Did Charlton Comics ever cross over their characters? I can’t think of any instance that they did. So, here’s my take on that, featuring one of their lesser known characters, Yang, and The Phantom, who Charlton published for a while.

Aw, who am I kidding? This is just an excuse to draw The Phantom again.

Three Men and a Lady

Thunder Illustrated Magasin was an all-action anthology from the late 1980s in the Philippines. The two regular superhero features in its pages was Altaru and Sapot ni Gagamba Kasama si Scorpio. Altaru was newly created for the comic at that time, but Gagamba and Scorpio were characters who originally debuted in the 1960s. You can read more about Altaru here and all about Gagamba and Scorpio here.

Justified

 

J’onn J’onzz, the Martian Manhunter, became one of my favorite Justice League members during the Justice League International era. But the team that came before that had a tragic ending. Two of them ended up dead, Vibe and Steel.

The title was rebooted and became Justice League, then Justice League International, then finally split into Justice League America and Justice League Europe. But what if the original title kept on going? This might be what happened if that was the case.

Newsboys

It’s great that DC and Marvel have been doing crossovers again recently. I just wish that they would do full-length stories again like the Limited Collectors/Treasury editions back in the 1970s/80s, or even like the Prestige format ones in the 1990s.

The One to Beat

 

I used to buy Eclipse Monthly whenever I would see it in bookstores or in discount bins way back when. This might be around 1986 or 1987, so it has long since ceased publication by the time I was buying it. I think I’ve managed to buy all the issues except for one or two. Among the regular features, my favorite was The Masked Man. It had a great balance of humor, action, and drama. Plus, I like street-level heroes a lot. Strangely enough, I used to see a lot of copies of Eclipse Monthly all over back then in my neck of the woods, but I hardly saw any copies of The Masked Man comic book series.

Johnny Come Wakely

 

Kid Colt has the distinction of being the longest running Western themed comic book of all time, with a little more than three decades of publication. I only ever had one issue of Kid Colt (issue number 202), which was a reprint of issue no. 129. And it was also previously reprinted in issue no. 162! I’m not certain if most (or all) of the 1970s issues were reprints, but I guess they were selling well enough for the title to have lasted until 1979.

Teenage Mutant Cub Reporter

 

Jack Kirby’s Fourth World saga began in the pages of Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, so I decided to mashup a Silver Age Jimmy Olsen trope with a Bronze Age one. A mind-controlled Giant Turtle Man would be a pretty useful tool for Darkseid.