Comic Inque: John Wesley Shipp

Today (being 6/29/2012) I totally nereded it up on twitter...yes, i tweet now.  The reason for that is the first person to respond...was none other than the infamous John Wesley Shipp!!!!!!! If you don't know who that is, than you are not a true nerd!!!!!!!!!!!!

Among other roles, John Wesley Shipp played Barry Allen (aka The Flash) in the live action tv series "The Flash". But he has also voiced Eboard Thawne (aka The Reverse Flash, Professor Zoom) in the "batman the brave and the bold" cartoon, the episode is title "requiem for a scarlet speedster"  if you wanna check that that out. The episode is surprisingly well written and does have that classic reverse flash vs the flash feel to it, my only gripe with that episode is that a few of the villains are voiced by dr. girlfriend/dr. mrs. the monarch.

Now, back to me talking about "The Flash" tv series. The series itself ran from September 20, 1990 – May 18, 1991, having a total of 22 episodes between it's only 2 seasons. This series may have been the first (american) super hero anything I ever remember seeing, such as before tim burton batman movie. Thus the series, and Barry Allen as The Flash will always hold specials places in my heart.

If you haven't seen the series, you can buy the whole series on dvd for around $20-$40 on amazon. Or you can buy/rent the episodes at 1.99 per via amazon video, either way the prices for the dvd set and the episodes are well worth it in my opinion.

John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen may have been the first super hero I ever saw, and a chance to talk with the guy who played your favorite hero was just pure awesome. Mr. Shipp will always be a personal hero of mine and his barry allen is the best flash in my opinion. What's more is he voiced my fave flash villain of all time too, which is equally as awesome. Sort of coming full circle as it were, how many people do you know played or voiced your fave comic hero...then played or voiced the role of their greatest nemesis?

So here is to you Mr. Shipp, the best scarlet speedster there ever was.  Cheers

here is a link to the first response I got from him:
Twitter response

Nerd Rage: Marvel VS Gary Friedrich

   Anyone who knows me, knows that my fave Marvel Comics team is known as the Marvel Werewolves. While they only got a few pages in the end of Marvel Zombies VS Army of Darkness #5, i still like them a lot better than I do the Marvel Zombies series comics.  Also, other than liking other certain characters (and/or teams), that may or may not have their own series...I am a fan of ghost rider, maybe not a HUGE fan...but a fan none the less.

   So naturally when I hear that it's creator Gary Friedrich tried suing them for money and/or rights to the character, mostly due to using Ghost Rider in movies and such, I was like "More power to him". Only to find out however that he didn't just lose the suit...but Marvel in turn decided to seek revenge on him, by counter suing him from money he's made off the character, or money made in anyway that states that he is indeed the creator of the character.

  Of all the low down bulls**** schemes cooked up by a company, this has to be one of the most petty things I've ever heard of. REALLY MARVEL!? I cannot believe you'd pull something like this!!!!!!!!!! This guy created something you're profiting on, and you're not going to let him make so much as even a penny from his creation?!!?!?!?!!?!?!?!


This is so low, you're starting to make the people who work for you seem like slaves.

For all you Ghost Rider fans, marvel fans...or comic fans in general, I say we rally against Marvel!

Spread the word! We need to rally together and stop Marvel from succeeding!

If we don't, then we're saying what they're doing to people like Gary is okay for them to do to any artist they employ or have employed.




Here is a link to an article about Gary's Lawsuit woes:
Marvel VS Gary Friedrich

Spread this blog post, or that article. Show your support, if you're on facebook change your pic to your fave ghost rider pic as well.

Comic Inque: Larfleeze Christmas Special #1

Season's GREEDings one and all! Here Mad Mab, in his first ever christmas special, tackles the infamous Green Lantern: Larfleeze Christmas Special #1.

Update 11/21/2011

I am sorry I've been so late with releasing the next review vid for flash month, but due to being sick and now my editing software having problems...I am unable to release any new vids at this time.

Comic Inque: The Flash Rebirth #1

It's time for a themed review month, I kick off "The Flash" Month with the first issue of The Flash: Rebirth. -Mad Mab

Comic Inque: MARVEL ZOMBIES DEAD DAYS

Here I review a zombie comic for Halloween, how does it shape up? watch and find out
-Mad Mab

Comic Inque: UNTOLD TALES OF THE BLACKEST NIGHT

Here I tackle a one-shot for a Halloween special.

Comic Evolution Amazon Store

Comic Inque: BATMAN IN DARKEST KNIGHT

Here I review an Elseworlds title where bruce wayne became Green Lantern instead of Hal Jordan. Is this idea good? Find out in the first episode of the Reboot for my review show. -Mad Mab

Coming soon...

I have finally decided to get off my lazy butt and actually do some new review vids:

• DCnU and You (in multiple parts)
• Batman: In Darkest Knight
• Fight for the Light 
• Green Lantern First Flight
• Marvel Zombies Dead Days
• Marvel Zombies VS Army of Darkness #5
• Superman #147
• X-Men: Curse of the Mutants (in multiple parts)
• Captain America: Man and Wolf
• Blue Beetle #20 (Sinestro corps war tie-in)
• Yugioh Dungeon Dice Monsters
• Untold Tales of the Blackest Night
• Blackest Night The Flash #1-3
• Amazing Spiderman: Infested
• more TBA

 In november:

• The Flash #8: The Reverse Flash Rebirth and Flashpoint: The Reverse-Flash #1
• Batman The Brave and the Bold: Requiem for a Scarlet Speedster
• The Flash TV Series
• Justice League Unlimited: Flash and Substance
• Back to the Future Trilogy
• V For Vendetta
• Secret Review
• more TBA

Critic Critique: Angry Joe #2

 Well hats off to Angry Joe for earning the first Critic Critique #2, which is another look at a particular reviewer or reviewers' work. So, what is that earned him yet another look on this review blog? Why his Green Lantern movie game review...OF COURSE!!!!!! Had to have a byson meme in here somewhere ya know? Anyways, lets get started shall we?

  Before I saw the review, I had seen pics of Angry Joe as a red lantern first. Needless to say after seeing the review and other reviews he has done, I'd say he'd give Atrocitus a run for his money. Not only did our newfound red lantern Joe do a good review, but the special effects for the review were great. I'd definitely recommend watching the review, especially again if you've already seen it. 

  The video has a definite re-watch value and it only further shows reasons why movie license games are just horrible. I give Angry Joe's review on the Green Lantern movie game a 12 kinds of awesome review, my highest stamp of sheer awesomeness I place on anything. For those wondering...I guess it'd be like an AAA+++ rating.

  It has overall great video and audio quality, as well as very informative on what is and is not good about the game itself. Just watching the review got me seeing a Red Lantern Haze of Rage too, it offends me greatly as a Green Lantern fan. Just like Parallax in the movie, this game disappoints me as a GL fan. I don't want to spoil too much of the review if you haven't seen it yet. so here is a link for the video and have fun watching:

http://angryjoeshow.com/2011/08/green-lantern-angry-review/

Comic Inque: DC Reboot *cough cough*

Linkara has spurred me into action about the DC reboot, long story short. I agree with him, and I sympathize with his connection to the teen titans. Have I read the titans story that really got him into comics? no..... Too be perfectly honest, I didn't read any teen titans stuff in general until Blackest Night. And yeah, totally confused as to what 90% percent of what people were talking about. It never dawned on me during the 3 times I've seen Linkara's countdown review vids, that's the same Donna Troy who helped wonder woman rip out the heart of the THEN wonder girl as of The Blackest Night. 

I seriously "just" got back into comics because of The Blackest Night, and even then...the arc was pretty much over. I am dead serious about this, I got back into comics (after my falling out during the dark age) with only 1 month's issues of The Blackest Night left in the story arc.......so yeah, lots of catching up to do on just that alone. And I still haven't read everything, maybe a good 80%. Even then, I have since been trying to keep up with Brightest Day Green Lantern and The Flash comics, as well as catching up on lots of the DC universe titles. 

I can't even begin to tell you, just how un-nerdy it makes me sound when I have to admit that I didn't know there was a Black Adam until only a few months back...even having read that power of shazam blackest night tie-in, again there wasn't a connection made at the time.

Now imagine what it's like to be a comic nerd with ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, OCD and other such goodies who quite literally got back into comics pretty much around a year ago, and has spent a majority of the time researching and I'm no kidding about this....trying to learn everything about everything I could about 98% of every DC character and title I have grown fond of..............only to find that DC is taking the Robin Williams Etch-a-sketch memory eraser. 

So...yeah, I am livid about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How would you feel if everything you've learned and come to accept or come to loathe....now no longer matters?!  I mean come on DC, throw me a frickin bone here. I was pretty much sittin pretty, eagerly awaiting cranking out some really awesome (new *cough cough* vids for the reboot of my review show, and yeah...a lot of them were going to showcase me using DC stuff to solve problems such as being a GL. If Linakra can be a power ranger like time lord or Angry Joe being what seems like a Superman GI Joe (...which would make for an awesome comic by the way.), then I can be a GL wannabe.  oh yeah, cue the spoiler alert siren...oh drat...too late for that.

But at this rate, I am not too sure that GL stuff is even going to happen anymore. So....f***! It's times like this when I regret knowing sooo much about something I like extremely alot, cause I get really miffed when people like to destroy something I've rather come to enjoy. God help me if they ruin The Flash and Legion of Super-Heroes, my other fave comic series other than the GL comics. Knew something was really wrong when they couldn't even keep the GL timeline since the retcon of parallax straight. Dragon of the green lantern message board can attest to just how I just keep going in circles about it, sure he did come up with some reasonable explanations for the discrepancies, but until I see or hear from DC...I'll keep on believing what I do and harping on seemingly minor issues to the overall story. 

The prospect of having to RE-relearn the history changes and the NEW current continuities is just evil.......  And what's worse is, I finally get to place when I can start collecting comics such as Trade paperbacks or hardcovers and the like, to really show off my nerd swag...only to find out, they're doing only digital stuff from now on. Personally I'd like to have my comics in paper form in case the power goes out and/or a giant EM burst knocks out the electrical devices around the globe, as a steampunk I'm covered in how to make steam tech....hey, it could happen and you'll never know when steam powered tech might just be the key to "rebooting" the modern world.

All you DC fans, now would be a good time to go all red lantern corps on their sorry butts.

Le Sigh.........

Comic Inque: The Legion of Super-Heroes

  It all began as it often does, with an animated series based on a comic book or comic books. In the Superman TAS (that means The Animated Series), I caught a glimpse of a comic book series I would eventually come to love an awful lot. In fact, I'd rank it as a close second to my love for the Green Lantern comics. Which is also ironic, because Superman TAS also sparked my interest in Green Lantern stuff in general, so what episode out of all the DC animated shows out there could have sparked this? 

  That would be episode 3 of season 3, the title of this episode is called "New Kids in Town". For those of you who don't know or don't remember this episode, it featured members/characters of  "The Legion of Super-Heroes". Now granted I honestly have read all or even a sizable sum of the Legion's comic books, but I still can't help but say I am still a fan. 

  Also I can't say that I know all of their stories and whatnot, so I am unable to know if anything is being ruined through retcons and the like. What I've seen and read so far has not deterred my from liking the legion, however...I do have a couple of nitpicky things about it, and as a reviewer even I know that this series can't feign innocence. 

  My main gripe about this genre of the DC's comics is that for legion of heroes that spans worlds through out space...most its notable members and enemies...are too human looking. Especially since the legion of super-heroes is trying to abolish xenophobia in honor of Superman's acceptance on earth. I will admit this may not seem like a huge issue like the odd discontinuity story or two you get in GL comics since the beginning of blackest night...but it's still an issue that is worth noting in my book. 

  Another I have a complaint about is the legion's code on murder for the sake of justice, what I mean about that is that whole "do not kill" philosophy that superman is the champion of. Seeing as how he is the inspiration for their founding in the first place, shouldn't they adhere to it? Several times in the comic books and even in that one episode of Smallville, one or more legion members...namely Garth aka Lightning Lad has either spouted talk that alludes to or has done actions that suggest that the legion walks a fine line between the difference for Hero and Anti-Hero. 

  Now granted not everyone knows what that means, so as an example: Batman = Hero, Punisher = Anti-Hero. Anyone who knows these two characters enough, knows the difference between a character being a Hero and Anti-Hero. A hero is a role model we'd want to aspire to, someone whom does not kill people for the sake of justice. And anti-hero is someone whom is willing to kill for the sake of justice, regardless if that is their first or last choice.

  Despite what people think, considering killing for the sake of justice does not make one an anti-hero, just actually doing it does. However, I'd have to say that leaving a villain in a situation that a hero knows will lead to their death lands them on both sides of the fence. True, the hero may not have killed the villain, the fact of the matter is that hero still let someone knowing die by refusing to save said villain. 

  The Legion cannot seem to make up it's mind on what it exactly wants to do regarding the issue of Hero vs Anti-Hero. Take superboy-prime for example back during final crisis, the general idea I got was the Legion wanted to kill him, or was greatly trying to cause his demise in some fashion. A number of times, the Legion went to extreme lengths to put a stop to prime and the legion of super-villains. I am still confused as to whether or not this "black witch" character actually killed members of the legion of super-villains or not. 

  Although I'd like to think she only took them out of the equation with extreme force, I still can't shake the feeling based on the wording in the panels...that she out right ended their lives.

  Now that we got that out of they way, do I still like the legion's stuff? yes. As far as I know, the Green Lantern comics have way loads more stuff to question or complain about, yet I am still accepting of them none the less. I still have to recommend the The Legion of Super-Heroes comics, given what limited stuff I actually know about the legion's history and what limited about of their books I've read....I'd say I give this about a 8/10   

  I don't care what anyone says about it, if you can't find even one thing wrong with a comic book series or character you like...then you honestly aren't a true comic book fan at all. In general, I think many people would agree with me on this. Take me for example, I love the Green Lantern comics but even I know there are tons of things I find that are wrong with it. I like Geoff Johns' work, even though he retcons something he himself put forth a couple years back...

  Although we may not like to admit it, some comic book series and/or characters may not have been too great in the beginning or as of late.

Critic Critque: Angry Joe

   It's been a while since I did a review, so it's high time I pick something really cool as my first new review in awhile...so I chose Angry Joe. To be honest, I have not watched all of his videos. But from what I have seen his reviews are pretty awesome, and despite what this one fat@$$ jerk (whom shall remain nameless, mostly cause I honestly can't be bothered to remember his name) may think about me...Angry Joe is one of the good reviewers out there. 

  My friend has watched a lot of his stuff, and said he was funny. So I watched a few of his vids, some of which sparked interest in certain games such as STO (star trek online) and DCUO (DC universe online). Both of which I did end up getting for other reasons, but his vids on them certainly did influence the choice to buy them. I would recommend you get STO if you're a star trek fan and DCUO if you are a DC fan respectively, and the Vault in DCUO can drop all sorts of fun stuff like a Green Lantern Hoodie or a giant beach ball thing with superman's symbol on it. 

And most recently, his vid for Mortal Kombat has also rekindled that MK spirit from my younger days. 

    As my friend Mr.Dragon01 on the green lantern message board will confirm, I do tend to side with MK characters than Street Fighter characters. I honestly did play MK2 a lot more than SF2, but that doesn't mean I hate SF2. I just had more access to the MK games in the early days than the SF games. And what I saw in Angry Joe's Top 5 reasons MK will kick@$$ merely rekindled that nostalgia I have for the earlier MK games. 

 So I do recommend you at least check out that vid if you're an MK fan or even if you aren't. Angry Joe's reviews cover tons of games and the like and the vids are well put together in my opinion. Like I said about the Cinema Snob, if you don't like the work...don't watch it. If you don't like the comments about a game you like...shut up or make a review of your own putting that game on a pedestal. 

Just don't go to the reviewer's personal FB page and trash talk said reviewer...that is just plain bad manners and I will not stand for it. 

Angry Joe's videos and more can be found at the following address, have fun:

http://angryjoeshow.com/




And remember...Angry Joe is there

Comic Inque: Mike Mahle

  You'd be surprised at the excellent quality pictures you find just surfing the web, or by joining certain groups or sites. In this case, it's deviantart.com. Today i found an artist whom I'm surprised I've not heard of before, considering the level of quality he's put into his pics. Mike Mahle, like many other people on DA I've come across I found merely by accident or by being a part of a DA group. 

His poster for Oa is some of the best quality I've found, and his other works are just as good. Instantly deserving review by yours truly to help get the word out there about his work, in fact his Oa poster is so good that I've requested for me to use it in certain videos in regard to this blog. 

Mike isn't the only artist of such skill that deserves a look see, so in the future I'll be posting other such reviews about artists or their work. A link to his work will be posted at the bottom

http://ittamar12.deviantart.com/

Comic Inque: Mr. Sinister

After watching the 90s Xmen cartoon and reading many comics, some fans including myself wondered one thing among others: "Is Mr. Sinister a mutant?"

Yes and no, but there are very good reasons why. Although yes he is a mutated human, no he is not a mutant by the usual definition for the marvel universe. The main reason being that Mr. Sinister used genetic science to mutate himself, and thus his mutations are not natural occurring. It is the natural occurring mutants that we consider to be true mutants for the marvel universe, which is odd since non-natural mutation would still place a person in that mutant category.
Mr Sinister is what some people are calling a Mutate, now you may be asking what exactly that is. Well, a Mutate is what I said above. A person or being whom has a mutation that isn't natural, often time accidentally mutated from one source or due to any number of reasons. The Hulk, Mr Sinister, the Fantastic Four, Spider Man, the Lizard are just some of the many marvel characters which technically fall under this Mutate category.

Born as a human named Nathaniel Essex, through and by various means and differing backstories and the like, became Mr. Sinster from genetic experiments he conducted. All of his powers (or mutations depending on your preference), came as a ultimate result of his experimentation. Most recently I found that he gained his Shapeshifting abilities due to Gambit (fave of mine) and another mutant known as Courier (whom has become a recent fave).  It seems that Mr. Sinister was posing as a female doctor in the late Victorian age, and for whatever reason Gambit is sent back in time with Courier.

Gambit has Courier use his shapeshifting mutation to pose as a woman, and visit the office where Mr. Sinister happens to be working at. Only to find that he knows that the currently female Courier is a mutant, and injects him with something that breaks down his cellular structure rendering him unable to have a physical form. Gambit manages to plead for Couriers life, Mr. Sinister states that he can return him to a non-liquid state if that one of his cells is turned over to Mr Sinister.  And from that cell he manages to incorporate it into himself, thus giving him shapeshifting powers.

But in the end is Mr Sinister a mutant? Like I said, yes and no. Yes he is a mutated human, but no his mutations are not natural by nature.

Master Project

my master project includes but is not limited to the following:
*A charity event called "Steam-Aid", the event host many charities ranging from health and wellness such as MDA and the Autism Foundation, to relief aids for disaster victims and the homeless to battered spouses. It will also show how we can reuse old steam tech as modern green tech by replacing things like coal with solar energy. Also will be showcasing my own designs and technology.
*redesigning safety gear for bicycles
*designing methods and tech for the colonization of the solar system
*composing my own musical piece
*writing about 20 books, each with about 20 chapters per
*pushing for racial, sexual, political and etc equality in 3rd world countries
*getting two comic book series ideas published by a mainstream comic company
*designing new safety features for automobiles, especially for the military
*designing protection gear and weapons the military can only dream of
and much much more


whatcha think?

Donations

One thing some people have asked me to review quite a bit, is Final Fantasy 7 (aka FFVII or FF7). Despite the fact I don't really like any final fantasy games after the first one on the NES, I honestly won't be able to do a review of FF7 because of the simple fact....I do not have a copy. 

This got me thinking, I won't be able to review alot of things for that same fact. So if you have stuff you'd like to donate, then you can always email me about such things. Money donations are always welcomed as well, and any money you donate would go to pay for goods and services that regard the site. 

Any movies, comics and video games donated to Mad Mab's Multiverse Gallery will also get a review. But depending on time constraints, I may not get to reviewing something you donated right away. 

Potentially breakable things like video games systems or certain kinds of toys like for anime or american comics, they must be shipped via UPS or DHL. Things that aren't breakable maybe shipped via USPS if you so wish, dvds and vhs movies may be shipped how you see fit. 

So remember, if you request something to be reviewed and I turn you down...unless I state otherwise, most likely the cause will be due to a lack there of in regards to your request. I can't exactly review something I don't have now can I? 

plz send email about donations you'd like to make to the following link provided below:

Requests/Donations

Reboot update

•   A multi-part reivew on digimon will be coming in feburary to kick off my anime reviews. 
• Coming next week is review vid for my top 5 NES games, got to gather the game footage this week.
• And sometime around the last week of January there will be one or two new movie reviews, one of which will also introduce a new character for my reviews.

Thats at least what I have planned, I may want to do a couple of more review vids about nes games or maybe some GB games. At any rate if you have any requests for reviews on anything from Anime-Video Games, feel free to leave a comment or send me a message at the following:

madmabsmutliversegallery_request@yahoo.com

 

Happy Bday to the Snob!!!!!!

That's right folks, Brad Jones aka The Cinema Snob's bday has come once again!!!!!!

I would just like to wish Brad a happy birthday and to wish him a safe and joyful holdiay season, so on behalf of me and my fellow snob fans............HAPPY BDAY!!!!!!!

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrsHWAPRCh0 

@Brad:  But I'd just like to remind you.....you're one step closer to death, and being ressurected as a zombie to be filmed for shot on shitteo zombie-sploitation video :P   the ultimate irony!!!!!!!! mahahahahahaha

You can watch many of the snob's wonderful videos such as the infamous "Brad Tries.." at the following:

http://www.thecinemasnob.com/

The reboot, update 01

The progress of the reboot so far:

• Changed the layout and template of the blog
• Added a paypal donation button
• Added a multiverse background
• Created a heroes and rogues gallery for the new characters
• Working on a costume designs for the new characters
• Working on editing a new opening sequence
• Working on editing a new closing sequence

And there is still much much more to do before January when the reboot has officially done started, all of the minor changes I'm doing are part of the remodeling and redesigning the blog and online show.