It's here and my thoughts on it too!

Hello All and no one too, unless you are certainly serious of knowing who you are?               Boy talk about a very broad introduction with my entry for tonight and what is even stranger is that the topic that I am ripping into was perditicted last year,  and of course also in the start of this very year some thrity one twisted days ago. Of course what ever it is, that I talking about is something like sixty five years old till when October second of this year when it will be celebrating it's sixty six years of being around! You'll undoubtedly notice that whatever it is that I am reviewing now has been talked about on the internet for a very long time, and I will admit that my take on this series my not be the best out there, but I really want to also use this very series to do my best to to explore who the narrator and creator Rod Serling himself was.... that goes beyond what I am absolutely able to find out on the the internet.                                                                                       This past summer I had gotten the opportunity to find the original Twilight Zone on Blu-ray along with Rain Man on 4k Blu-ray and the original seven movies that as far as I remembered was only six movies of the Police Academy on DVD at my local Best Buy store. Before this past summer, I have had the original Twilight Zone television series on  DVD box set that I had picked up at Wal-Mart way back in twenty sixteen. Which yes if you are asking are there differences in the two formats the answer is certainty YES,  also one more thing that I do have to mention is that I have one of the very small box set fan favorite set of Twilight Zone episodes volume one that I got from at TARGET! back in twenty fourteen. Here is a photo of the Blu-ray and DVD set on my coffee table, 

the one laying flat with the red Twilight Zone text with the spiraling tunnel is the DVD set, the one standing up is the Blu-ray set the one that will be used for these reviews: so let's  get our minds together thinking about this classic television series shall we?                                  I  have been thinking about how  I want to present the series as a whole with each and every episode,  and here's what I came up with a photo from the very episode of which I am talking about and the over all summary, then as well the big time star/celebrity who appears, and how it relates to our world today if I can think of it too.  The first Twilight Zone episode aired on October second,  nineteen fifty nine and so here it is!       

          The man in television beside Rod Serling here, is walking from out of a area of where a lot of some trees are, down a dirt road till he comes upon this very small cafe and walks in. He see that no one is here, he says he is hungry and finds two dollars and eighty five cents in his clothes that he has on. So the one and only thing that we the viewing audience and he himself knows is that he is a American citizen. After he can't find anyone around he leaves the tiny restaurant and continues to explore his unknowable whereabouts by walking into the newest upcoming place he is able to find, and still has no recall of who he is?                                                                                                          As he tries, to finding out who he and why he is where he is, after exploring the small town he does trying using whatever part of names he may know when he ends up trapped in a telephone booth.... he tells us the viewing audience the very title of this very first episode "Where is Everybody?"                                                                                                         My overall opinion of "WHERE IS EVERYBODY?", is that it is good in keeping the viewer's mind full of wanting answers to the man without a clue of who he is, gives out even answers even more from the very start of when he while in the Cafe's kitchen a thermometer timer hits the floor and without giving away the twist of the story he breaks the clock of the machine he is in. The one very interesting giant twist within this episode to me is the possible title of this episode being shown when the protagonist is in a general store and he comes upon a book spinning rack                                                                                          

                                                                                                                                                              that even by it's very title makes him and  you, or us, as a viewer know that he might be well for all intended purposes an alien or "THE LAST MAN ON EARTH" and besides that being a cool side note, I do love how Serling himself gave us one more thing to ponder at before throwing us the actual answer.                                                                                                     So before going into what I noticed making it rather overwhelming oblivious about a certain filming location I want to let you know that on all of these Blu-ray disc include radio drama of each episode. What is neat is there are many different versions of the classic Twilight Zone episodes on YouTube and other viewing platforms, but as to what is on these may not be on any of those too I rightfully don't know for sure. Each one of these radio dramas have a very interesting star as the leading character of the story....  I will certainly be sharing all of the details of the additional bonus material on the Blu-ray set because as far as I do know there is a lot more than just the radio dramas as well. As to the location shooting here is...   is in fact shown decades later on in a very famous Steven Spielberg set of films that the Twilight Zone did quite often, that being of course known as Time Traveling!                                                                                                                                              Before getting into not only my grade of the very first episode of the Twilight Zone and of course my screen caps on both my phone and my tablet over the month January,  I want you all to know if you are willing to look hard enough on the internet anyone can find some very cool takes of things of old as even the Twilight Zone. That is one very interesting points of the original uses of this world wide computer anyone can find helpful information besides our brains in being absolutely creative.  My whole part of my meaning is that with words both uses of either creating something from your heart and soul or from your hands as well can be as Leonard  Nimoy's Star Trek character of Mister Spock would say is "FASCINATING" and here's what I am meaning in the case of the Twilight Zone example,  when our the amnesiac protagonist is making a bowl of ice cream scoops before turning to at first question himself ?                                                                     

                                           

See what I mean by one finding a comparison to a specific scene of anything you maybe looking for.  There is one very important thing that always happens during any production of any series,  that of course being that the creator of any series gets to meet the person who is portraying the creation of what is written on paper. Between scenes being made of "WHERE IS EVERYBODY" Rod Serling got to meet his Amnesiac actor 
    

Earl Holliman, who is as far as I know still very much alive at the age of a youthful ninety five years old. My overall grade for "WHERE IS EVERYBODY" the pilot of the anthology series called Twilight Zone is an A minus. The reason why is like the rest of the fourth coming series, will always give us as humans a chance to explore the possibilities of the human condition throughout our existence of living our lives each and everyday we are given an opportunity for knowledge of knowing more than just about ourselves.                            Now on to what I have had on my tablet over the month of January into this one of February.... my main lock screen when I was turning on my tablet was a very venturous look at a pre Black history month representation with this a 

Marvel comics SUPER HEROES trading card of Spider-Man in his Black Suit from their trading card set of nineteen eighty six. This was way before they had the idea of coming up with the suit being known as Venom completely. As to when it comes to my love of science fiction outside of both anything of comics or Star Trek, and of course a very interesting anime from the late nineteen seventies and I know that I don't need to name it. This was on my tablet after unlocking my main lock screen                                                         

  the death star from Star Wars is ready to attack our blue marble called earth.... or is it in Star Wars lore Princess Leia home planet of Alderaan from the first episode later known as Star Wars episode IV A NEW HOPE released originally in nineteen seventy seven by a little known writer and director named George Lucas, who owned the property name from nineteen seventy seven till twenty eleven when he then in twenty twelve sold his ownership of Star Wars to the Walt Disney company, and deep down I don't know how I feel about that. Throughout the month of January when I would look at my tablet screen size of nine inches by seven inches  I would see mostly Blackness with a few blurry white and grey areas of where the tiny gleaming stars are. As to what I have had on my phone when I had entered my password I was able to be absolutely puzzled if you were to see this.                                                    

One of those ol so classic pictures of mini pictures to making a image that one can  honestly get their mind so bogged down with by studying it for a long time, and may still not be able to completely bring the challenge to a complete conclusion? So this image is very much greatly engaging in a blog post about the Twilight Zone itself....                                                                When one realizes that all of those tiny images are making up a complete picture of the original creative writer and narrator of the Twilight Zone himself Rod Serling! Then at the same time of seeing/viewing Serling in a puzzling way before unlocking my phone,  I was lucky enough to find on some website where someone had shall we say made this very impressive impact full wallpaper.... 

         
  Rod was able to get together in an offbeat way with his former star of two of the Twilight Zone's most what would I say to describe "NICK OF TIME" and of even more outstandingly famous "NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET" as with anything Twilight Zone related is very thought provoking with William Shanter also known years after the Twilight Zone as cretain captain of a space vessel referred to as the Enterprise from a little series called Star Trek.  Just imagine if you will Rod Serling himself giving us a tease of the original series of Star Trek lore before each episode begins.... and then he would close every single episode with a totally twisted thing to ponder till the newest episode was released? Just a curious thought of how HIS and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry would have been a great example of how science fiction translated so well together.                      Oh there's one more thing that for me Matt to reveal to you my readers and that is for you to see the background plate of this very site to change from this                                         

         

of an eye with a shadowed planet as the pupil in center and at the same time is it a wolf or a canine of some kind in space. This has been part of the background plate since December of last year.... finally I pretty much still have a blog series about the history of the planet on a multitude of ways to understanding why we need to certainly respect our home. I honestly hope that I can continue to make this series on the Twilight Zone a very interesting view of this anthology of somewhat of the time era it is officially set in during it's run and how it forever changed the world of creativity wise along with understanding of if not breaking the rules in that creativity at least bending it, to work on understanding the principles of the human condition of our own society. 

Ultimate Spider-Man #1 and why it's so fantastic

Hello comic readers and Spider-Man fans alike,                                                                                  Before starting my day of around town to do stuff I am definitely going to do my first full comic review of the year, and well why not start out with a hopeful and strong turn for one of Marvel comics most beloved characters... and still maybe a long way off of it but it could happen you never can honestly tell? Here's the cover of Ultimate Spider-Man #1,   

          being cared for by Spider-Man himself. This story is by writer Jonathan Hickman with illustrative art by Marco Checchetto. The original Ultimate Spider-Man comic with Peter Parker as Spider-Man started the winter/spring of two thousand and at that very same time the writer of the television series known as Babylon five was writer of the recently rebooted volume two of the continuation of Amazing Spider-Man since Marvel had declared bankruptcy in nineteen ninety six. His name was  Joe Michael Straczynski his run at first started to focus on making Peter and Mary Jane's marriage get to it's strongest strength throughout his run on the title till he was ordered by his boss to make it magically vanish by a Spider-Man title known as One More Day... (If you're a regular viewer/reader of this very blog, YOU KNOW HOW I HAVE FELT ALBOUSTULELY OF THE END RESULT, FOR NOW I WILL LET YOU FIND OUT ON YOUR OWN!), The writer of the original Ultimate Spider-Man line was Brian Michael Bendis, who before writing this project was writer of POWERS a imprint of his own released by IMAGE comics.                                                             The original reasoning for the Ultimate Spider-Man which was then followed a couple of years later by Ultimate X-MEN was to create a special diversity of the main Marvel Universe which at this time was only thrity eight years old, if we go all the way back to nineteen sixty two, even though Stan Lee was completely conceived by early nineteen sixty he was ready to retire from the then Altas comics the name of the company since the mid nineteen fifties. Yet the owner of the company a cousin to his mother's side of the family had wanted Stan to come up with something that could rival the competition's Justice League title? What did Stan and artist Jack Kirby come up with as a team for that family cousin Martin Goodman to leverage against the bigger than life of superheroes on a very popular team? They came out with the group               

                  known as the one seen here. The Fantastic Four and that was in late nineteen sixty one, so is it possible that the Marvel comics universe is in actuality more likely fourty years old back in the year two thousand? Anyhoo the Spider-Man character first appeared in a title known as Amazing Fantasy #15, in March of nineteen sixty two...                Just so that you can be aware the older Marvel comics universe is listed as Earth 616 and for reference of the original ultimate universe is listed as Earth 1610. The original Ultimate universe stories ended in twenty eleven. And had only one of their characters be pulled into the main Earth 616 timeline... Yes it's that universe's Spider-Man known as Miles Morales   

   seen here. ( I can say this Miles since his character's beginning still hasn't been able to escape Peter Parker's shadow of who is better as the web Spiner at least comic wise), Miles Morales should have his own hero identity is all I want to say here. Now with all of the brief summarized histories of both sets of takes on the Marvel comics Universes,  let us jump right into this very interesting take on a Spider-Man defined universe that's unique in it's own way, shall we!                                                                                                                   One thing that is very engaging about this very issue is that in it for the first in a very long time of storywise Peter Parker is actually being shown here to be taking his life of existence very responsibly of being older than he is in the Amazing Spider-Man continually by being a father to two children named May and Richard Parker. (Richard Parker is Peter's father's name, he and his wife Mary were framed by Captain America's foe the Red Skull as spies and died when Peter was very young), so it's definitely a great recall to including the whole Parker legacy of family. There is also one character in this very story that in every other iteration of the Spider-Man mythology is never in the stories unless you want to remember the one time, that even after Harry Osborn's death he had succeeded in being absolutely capable of beating out his father Norman Osborn in torturing Peter Parker with the creation of his parents being clones just before the start of the nineties storyline of the clone saga.... yet this very person has been Peter's driving force of his motto of "With Great Power, there must come Great Responsibility!"                         Here he works for the daily bugle with Jonah Jameson, Robbie Robertson, and Wilson Fisk the Kingpin crime is a shrewd business tycoon who owns the Bugle. There's also his foe the Green Goblin. (Yet we have no idea of who he is as of right now, only that possibility his suit looks like it's Stark industry related...) Yet even though he is uncertain about something in his life as well at the current time, he has a very strong relationship with Mary Jane Watson who is his wife. I can honestly say that this version of Peter is very informative of sharing his thoughts of what he is thinking about with her and she is also a great commincater at the same time as being a hopeful listener of his concerns related to every day life. They truly do care about each other like the friends they are, suppose to do. Oh yes I did forget to mention as of yet he isn't even Spider-Man at all,  only a thrity something regular human dealing with life as best that he knows how to!                To me even though I don't know this writer named Hickman, well enough to understand his fundamental goals with this, with his take on Peter's on set so far.... I do know that most fans of Spider-Man as a whole want the man known as Peter Parker to of course have his share of trials of Problems as a normal human will go through weather he is has a super drawn out battle with any bad person on the street, to a specific super villain that he knows how to deal with. So how does Peter Parker deal with his fears of depression when he is in a life and death struggle of lifting his own inner strength is he consistently jokes with his foe whom he is threatened by!                                                                 It also seems as if in this spin of the Ultimate universe there are very few heroes out there trying to figure out who they are as well! So our boy Peter, is not the only human being known to be fighting a grand inner influence of faith in finding out if he is any kind of hero as well? What or Who made all of this very universe so much in need of heroes anyway? All I can honestly say is whom ever it is, is called the Maker. I know even though I know that answer of who the Maker is l have to get the prequel to this version of the Ultimate Universe which was released last year as a title known as Ultimate Invasion a four part plus a added one shot series. I happen to have three out of the five in single issue format, they too are scribed by Hickman as well.                                                                         There is ONE MORE  VERY IMPORTANT THING,  that I also want to talk about before giving my complete grade of this very Awesome and well constructive look at a set of fans appreciation of Spider-Man as a enduring as Mister Peter Parker truly is... Marvel as a company has had their top selling character be for since 2007, that is seventeen years way to long to keep him as a one note bum without any chance to be a growing character be stuck as maybe this is only me I don't happen to say it as anything but Peter Parker is actually been a as I mentioned a bum, but also a great villain because he has been unrelatable since One More Day ended. Yes you heard that right I am certain a bunch of Spider-Man fans believe a hero can't be worth being a hopeful inspirational source of being faithful to being fair and honest for everyone.  I mean with how most comics have been written for the last few years how can any hero at Marvel or Decetevice Comics be worth exploring for richness of knowledge of heroism... when the stories are written so condensed by the writer of any book. Now I have to also remember super heroes right now of both mainstream publishers are lost in editorial mistakes more than ever! The editors definitely need to know that writing towards one set of readers who don't care for your product will get their sells only so far for so long, in the long term. I am honestly hoping that Marvel won't make this Ultimate Spider-Man eventually just like they have the one that is sixty two years old and be unwanted at all. My grade for the family version of  Peter Parker seen here 

is really fascinating full of each character from Peter and Mary Jane and their two children May and Richard are ready to grow into the best of both worlds of who want to be full of gusto in their own ongoing and on growing creative universe. I can say this about reading this very issue has me thinking about getting the forementioned Ultimate Spider-Man onimibus from Amazon at some point. My grade is A + for this one and have high expectations that Peter and Mary Jane's marriage will eventually return in great detail in the one that is super brilliantly broken right now! 

New year and hoping for....

 Happy New Years day to all,                                                                                                                    When I want to think of the meaning of today's meaning it does seem that even though we use it as the start of the next set of the upcoming three hundred and sixty five days or if it is a leap year which I believe that it is we will have it be three hundred and sixty six days... with it all being because of the last day of this upcoming February with an additional day instead of the regular twenty eight of the normal for that month. Although I will admit that I can't say what the twenty ninth day will fall on exactly? One thing that I do know of for certain is that I have a lot of thoughts on old projects that I am planning on finding time to finish from last year and new ones starting through out this upcoming one too...                                                                                                                                                          The one project that is mostly on my train of thoughtfulness of late is this                                 

                                                                                             seen here,  my little classic friend as my nickname for when I am talking about her. Her name is MacKenzie and I have been working on it since before her birthday which is in the summer time of the year, while I will admit that I want to color her with my color pencils for several months I also have wanted to add more to her shirt an in that area lies the said hardest part.... but I feel that I am coming up close with something? As to if I am thinking of something in the background I highly doubt it but if I were to maybe it would be a huge H and B for of course Happy Birthday! As to it's title  I so far have two main ones to choose from and here they are "M&M forever friends"or maybe "Mighty Yellow M&M classics", I think I prefer the latter, but that's just me.                                                                 As for other type things that I have planned for this upcoming year is that I am hoping to getting around to posting about the many cartoon series that I liked or loved from when I was a tykesiter and why each of them mattered to me so much. Now as to if with them, I will go in a direct chronological order of how I watched those very anmaited drawings, I don't know as of yet what way it will be put out overall! One very important thing that I also am still thinking about before reviewing any of those is will I be wanting to do as I have in the past a general understanding of each series as well? I believe that this very year I will begin reviewing the television series that brought the important attention of medical dramas to the forefront way before stuff like E.R., Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, St. Elsewhere, House,  and even including before Doggie Howser... I am of course talking about 

the television series known as EMERGENCY!, which is also as old as I am.                                  And if you know me, besides being a hopeful creative type of person and wanting share both old and most certainly new things in the upcoming year of twenty twenty four, you all know that I am a essentially Henry Bemis in a whole multitude of ways. Yes I am of course talking about my other main love to growing in great knowledge in many type of gathering information from words written on a page. Whether it is in novels or as those twenty five pages with illustrative illustrations as well as a narrative between a set of people or sometimes interesting type other creative creations that a writer comes up with for their given stories in what is called a comic book. Over the past few years of late, I have been opening my reading palate to include a wider variety of variations on subjects... other than just my favorite one which is super heroes! As if you are unawareness my top understanding of a likable human that I really like and honor with great compassion is a certain New York citizen known simply as Peter Parker! So there is a new Spider-Man title coming out this very month that I and any true Spider-Man fan is truly appreciating and when it comes out I am sure that you will understand why I love that very title,  which is Ultimate Spider-Man #1... until then I still have plennty of comics to have past reviews to be appearing very soon...                                                                      
       Who is Henry Bemis?, your asking me right, well he is a character from the classic television series known as Twilight Zone which will probably be maybe one of my classic television series that I mentioned earlier before. All that I really can say is the actor who protrays Henry Bemis is rather fascinating that is all I want to say for the moment right now!, so other than comics I will admit that I also love regular novels and reading them takes me a little longer to ingesting because I really like to absorb everything of anything that is in every book I want to consume. Currently the novel that I am chopping down on is one that I started getting the sequels to a couple of years ago in twenty, twenty two. It is the first in an nine part Trilogy of books, here is  what it's   

cover looks like and yes I happen to know the author as well as having the book personally signed by her. For right now all I can say about it so far is the writing is full of great connections to a multitude of generations of all kinds. When I do get done with this whole series which will be a few years an couple of them still to be released later through out this upcoming year, I don't really know quite yet but I do admit that I know that I have plenty to choose from for sure!
 As to one of the many things I am planning throughout the next few months or even through the year I am planning on cleaning up my tablet that I am currently working these posts from of to much internal storage of my inner computer of a lot of things over the past few years of time. A few months ago when I was at Walmart I had picked up some storage memory cards to do this very task. Here is what I mean in the way of what will be transferred to those.                                                                                                                     

An if it is possible, I will be trying to at the same time seeing if I can transfer some sound clips that I have collected over those amount of years as well. There are some upcoming updates on that online Star Trek Timelines game that I really am deciding on what to post on that over the upcoming next 366 days of this year too. Finally before I leave you all wondering What my main hopes are for twenty, twenty four will be, besides what I have listed so far... I really want your upcoming year to be as encouraging and generous as possible. Now for the last couple of months of twenty,  twenty three I had decided on having my tablet's opening screen when I turned it on each day for that period of time was this seen here                                                                                                                                 

and yes for the life of me, even though I love the incredible hulk as much as I do spider-man from marvel comics I will admit that I can't think of who the very artist is who illustrated this version of the character. When I was at the same time looking at my tablet's main screen was from one of the final episodes of the live action television series  I had this 

                                                                                                      a image of the creature as they reference him mostly in the series and not always as the incredible hulk most times, holding a baseball bat ready to hit the incoming baseball being tossed at him, it's very cool how whoever created this image put the main title of the end theme of each episode as part of the title of the baseball card they created. I had happened to of found both of these on a Facebook The Incredible Hulk television series group. Then at the same amount of months of time on my cell phone I had this image 

   

from the first season of the incredible hulk series and I am betting that most of you maybe able to guess who the woman in the red Gi is? An if not she is in a few months from when " OF GUILT, MODELS AND MURDER" airred had a ongoing role on a little series known as W.K.R.P. in Cincinnati as secretary Jennifer Marlowe. Then when I have been looking at my main screen I have had this     

from the fourth season opener known as  "PROMETHEUS" two parter, where he has the greatest problem since David himself had accidentally dosed himself with gamma radiation... 

At least there is no Green text like there has been since the end of twenty, twenty three! 

Zonestist start to influencing of Christmas of 2023!

Hello everyone,                                                                                                                                           Look I know that like everyone else, that trying to get ready for finding time to find ways to go and be inspired into shopping for one's love one's and friends during this busy time of season can always honestly be tough, with how life in general is flowing since the last time when families and friends were able to get together.... which was of course the second to last Thursday for this very year of last month in November with something known as Thanksgiving or as I usually go an call it Trukey Day. I also know that somewhere inside us as people do find that we know deep down, we have to figure something out to get us in the mind set of being full of gusto. For some people they use the time building up to get into Christmas inspirational spirits by listening to seasonal music or like for myself watch something very influential related to the meaning of this very love fill holiday.                                                                                                                                  So as soon as when the new year starts one of my many upcoming things is going to be going back to some television series of the past years since starting this ongoing crazy blog that is always finding new opportunities to share my thoughts and takes of when I was a child. Yet one that I will be talking about today is the oldest one that I found myself self writing a overall review of since this past February of a little bit of everything in the mix of a story, yes that is right I am of course talking about the Twilight Zone. And even though I know that it rather late in the game of finding inspiration for shopping for Christmas gifts as I mentioned just up above, I went and determined that the best answer for it is finding the Christmas spirit is through a as I call it a Zonestist stroll into that series most focused Christmas episodes. Now just so that you will all know that I won't spoil these very episodes with the greatest of my own choice of details for when I go and review them as part of the series as whole, this will be for this year of sixty four years of historical joy of for at this given time.                                                                                                  I  decided to start my Zonestist stroll with the very last episode of the Twilight Zone's third season titled "THE CHANGING OF THE GAURD" 

, it was written by the series creator Rod Serling himself. In the story a teacher of literature comes to find out that after so many years of teaching about writing to at least six generations of young men that he finds dealing with retirement by seeing in his classroom several of his male students. Who in their own way with their words from their greatest potential which happens to be different for each other tell the teacher how his own perspective helped them in finding their way to dealing with encouraging themselves at certain points in their lives after leaving his classes. The message in this very episode was to show that everyone can really grow from what we learn during our lifetime regardless of where we end up at the end of each day...

     The second Twilight Zone holiday themed episode that I choose to helping out with being inspired by was the second season one titled "FIVE CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN EXIT"  

, it is the very episode where these people find themselves as unknowable type of identities of who they actually are? They all find themselves on a one quest beyond who they all are... they are trying to find a way out of whatever it is they are in? At one point they all hear a very loud noise but still know nothing of where it's coming from? At one point in the story the ballerina says "Perhaps WE ARE MAYBE THE UNWANTED?" Let me ask you all this,  at this time of year, do you have feelings of being unsure about if you are needed in someone's life? well the answer is YES YOU ARE WANTED by the most important people in this very world you are wanted by the children of any age. An your true friends and especially your family as well! 

  My final attempt at understanding to look beyond myself at this very time of year,  comes from viewing the best of the holiday themed episodes of the Twilight Zone which is also from the second season an is titled "THE NIGHT OF THE MEEK" where a man who par takes in the yearly hope for the belief of being a department store gift giver known as Santa Claus. 

An when this empty man finds a bag in the oddset of places, he in his own understanding of giving is Chris Kringle as he is always meant to be.                                                                           When I think about Christmas every year and this is just me, when I see a child trying of any age from a newborn to however long our given existence is finding it within ourselves to provide a little or a lot of help to our communities is forever appreciated.  And I want more than anything to say trying is the best way to finding knowledge of kindness is what the whole meaning of giving of ourselves is best found in our hearts and mindset of helping other people everywhere. Now with my drive fulfilled I am going truly try my best on this upcoming Saturday to get hopeful in finding presents  for my dear loving family and good friends. Oh and before I forget about it,  I want to wish everyone who's reading this a very meaningful Merriest of holiday love!
 

 

Steve Ditko Visionaries My Take Overall!

Hello All,                                                                                                                                                        Sometimes, it will takes more than words of dialogue to propell any comic book forward...it also takes line work of a wooden tool called a pencil. It also takes a piece a art board that is eleven by seventeen in size, and of course an idea to be put to the art board. Today I am going to be talking about comic artist Steve Ditko who I am still trying to find the right words to talk of his passing from a few years ago. I want to share my thoughts on his body of career work from back in the days of when he was working for a magazine publisher known as Marvel comics. In the end of last month while at Adventures Underground, I had decided to include in my comic buying to include this very trade seen here 

 held by one of two of Steve's creative creations for the company known as Spider-Man!                                                                                                        Now let's break into this great bit of Steve's legendary work by letting you know that it has seventeen superhero tales of that era called the nineteen sixties to the early nineteen nineties, to be specific to 1992 the year after yours truly had graduated from high school... it also has ten non superhero tales in this as well that ran from December of nineteen sixty one through till April of nineteen sixty three. His main other character that he was famous for Co-Creating Stephen Strange better known as the master of black magic DR. STRANGE, which is also on the cover of this very trade.                                                                   A majority of these stories in here are written by the man who got a start at Marvel when they were still known as TIMELY Comics all the way back in nineteen thirty nine, when he was seventeen years old and his name was Stan Lee. He along with both Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby started a revolution in nineteen sixty one by changing the company by writing about superheroes....   Steve was working for Marvel when they were known as Altas comics in nineteen fifty six and because of sales of comics were nearly nothing  was laid off with all the other freelancer artists in the following year of nineteen fifty seven... then was rehired along with the other freelancer artists a few months later in the following year.                                                                                                                                               The one of Steve's works before his creation of Spider-Man in the final issue of Amazing Fantasy ongoing magazine cover dated August #15,1962, which was released in July... I want to talk about this book 

  seen here. As you can see the title of this isn't Amazing Fantasy at all, it is Amazing Adult Fantasy which was the ongoing title from as far back as November of nineteen sixty one. 

 In fact there is a huge connection in these anthology stories in all of Amazing Adult Fantasy/Amazing Fanstany that is well how can I not reveal a twist of fate endings to each one, very much like a certain television series running on the air at the time? Yes I am of course talking about the one and only Twilight Zone!  (Which is coming very soon for a review of the first twisted season....)                                                                                                       Here is the opening image of one those very stories from Amazing Adult Fantasy number seven that most comic readers may just put off as another simple comic tale...              

called JOURNEY'S END this five page yarn has a simple crook that has definitely found a way to elude the law after he has done something very irredeemable and uses a time machine to get away from his problems. Only later in the story do we find out that he is returned to the persent and placed in Jail. BUT WHY YOUR ASKING? Before I reveal why he is there,  back in nineteen fifty nine the premiere season of the Twilight Zone in it's twenty sixth episode it had a very different type of take on a man known as Joe Caswell is pucked at the moment of a hanging in 1880 and brought to 1960 and kills his savior and how that ends different from Journey's End the comic story is another modern day crook takes a trip to that very hanging party in 1880! It seems in the comic tale all we know is that the crook in that tale beats a man who is the time machine inventor so badly that... well you try to piece the answer together? An give me your own answer ok! Stan Lee who wrote the story possibly in a interview said that when he was writing those anthology tales he put a O Henry type of ending on them... as to how truthful that was who really knows... Yet Steve's art style really makes me even now see that he loved the pencil work he laid out for the story of JOURNEY'S END!                                                                                         Before I get into the heart of why Ditko left his mark on the Marvel comics universe as a hero in a influential instrument of inspiration for upcoming artists I want to also say that he drew the core of the company's main characters at that time in the first Amazing Spider-Man annual dated with only the year of release   

       which is nineteen sixty four. That also coincided with the release of the regular issue of the amazing spider-man seventeen that had the conclusion of his second confrontation with the fan favorite mysterious villain known as the Green Goblin which kept appearing everywhere and fighting the hero to a standstill each time they encountered one another. Of all of the characters on this annual shown here Spider-Man had fought them at least once or twice from the first fifteen issues thus far.  Now as to some background of the man on the annual in the odd color of a purple outfit ( I say this because in his first appearance which is amazing Spider-Man number three his outfit was completely white in color, then his second appearance was in issue eleven and it was purple,but then the very next issue he was colored in color that has mostly been his color scheme ever since which is the same as Bruce Banner's monstrous alter ego), he is known as Doctor Octopus. When Stan Lee had a appearance of a hero that Spider-Man had yet to interact with he put a footnote of where you could find them in their own comic title throughout the story.                                                                                                                                          Whenever Ditko laid out his panels on his page and was creating the illustration within it he really put his heart into using his imagination a great example of this was his creation that I mentioned earlier known as Stephen Strange and here is a pair of panels 

           from one of the last Dr. Strange tales in this trade. The story was named THE END--AT LAST! in a comic known as STRANGE TALES 146 dated July,1966. In the story Dr. Strange's arch nemesis Dread Dormammu takes them both to the nether world of the entity known as Eternity. Dormammu tries to destroy both Strange and Eternity.... when Steve created the universe of Doctor Strange back in nineteen sixty three, he saw the scope as everything on an inter dementional plane of existence including at least one of the many characters in the weaving of it's very creation!                                                                  Of all of Steve's many times of working at Marvel his best that is included here is the three part arc of Spider-Man's saga is issues Amazing Spider-Man #31-33!                               

In this Amazing Spider-Man arc, it is definitely considered the best of the duo of Steve's best pencils and his own plotting that gives gravity to both the teenager named Peter Parker and his driven hero of Spider-Man on all levels of growth for the teenager that got bit by a dying radioactive arachnid way back in a title that wasn't even Spider-Man at all in name. Oh and the dialogue was written by a fellow named Stan Lee.... the other stories in this visionaries trade are after Ditko who had felt that he was no longer getting fair duty of creativity on his most interesting character of creation went and decided to leave because he also felt that he and Lee couldn't get along much anymore! It wasn't until fourteen years later in nineteen eighty, did Steve returned to work at least in a small way he at the time didn't have any connections of dealing with Stan and as far as I know he would only work for his former employment if that were certain.... the characters that Marvel had him work on at the time Daredevil the man without fear. He did pencils for issue 162, in the story Daredevil had a case of memory loss and becomes a fighter in the ring in one of Hells Kitchen boxing gyms. Then finds out who he is, after bringing down a corrupt fight promoter known as Mr. Hyle and his oversized cat named Ramona... that was in January of that year, then some months after that he was able to return to one other character that he drew back in the early days of nineteen sixty three known as the incredible Hulk, when he was working on this very title again, there was a little television series of the same name airing on the CBS network on Friday nights. He illustrated issue 249 titled "Jack Frost nipping at your soul!" I won't tell you of it's story, other than I really enjoyed it very much.                                                                                                                               Then eight years later (after working on not only his own character known as Mr A which he started in nineteen sixty seven at a independent comic publisher), in nineteen eighty eight, he co created with writer Tom Defalco Robert "Robbie" Baldwin known also as Speedball the masked Marvel. The first issue of a ten issue series, is seen in this special Steve Ditko trade, I am wondering if Steve would have tried to make Robbie Baldwin endowed with more than just drawing him, if Marvel would have allowed him to and explored stuff that he really wanted to with Peter Parker way back in the sixties? The final character that Steve made for Marvel was in Marvel Super-Heroes issue 8 released in January nineteen ninety two with the title "The coming of Squirrel Girl!"                                Here is what both Squirrel Girl and Speedball look like from their initial beginnings by the artist                                                       

      who drafted them to fully compete line art. I would  be guessing around nineteen eighty eight for Robbie Baldwin to late October/November back in nineteen ninety one before the book was released in December of ninety one for Squirrel Girl! Besides seeing a youthful illustrator growing in his own skills with his ongoing projects he because of those aforementioned reasoning of why he left the BIG TWO creative comic companies he was essentially one of the first of mainstream creative to making his own triumphs with his own character way before the biggest movements in the early nineteen nineties when IMAGE COMICS imprint was founded. As to getting to the very title of this entry of my overall take on the Steve Ditko Marvel Visionaries I will say is definitely considered in my opinion a lot of great information about comic illustrating for a person who wants to study art that it is wanting to become a comic artist is a stepping stone of learning is worth a long look. My grade is an B plus, an for thrity six dollars I can honestly say that I am really looking forward to re reading it for getting even more fascinating history about Marvel comics and their characters very strong starts!

Happy Birthday to the Hulk that always is INCREDIBLE!

Hello comic and television fans alike,                                                                                                   Earlier tonight I went and put out my first entry for this month and I will get around eventually of getting out other ones leading up to this very Incredible lead into this particular actor's RAGING Special day.... Hey just what is it that I am talking about you maybe wondering about? Well maybe it is easy to tell of what I am discussing tonight with both the words of HULK and INCREDIBLE are related without any doubt to a certain comic book character that is owned by Marvel comics, which also owns and publishes my favorite character of theirs     

    the guy seen here, actually fighting the incredible hulk... the one known as Spider-man. Travel with me to years before even I was born in time to today's date November ninth, with the four digits of the year being nineteen, fifty one. This person while growing up in elementary and even high school was shunned because he was born with huge percentage of his hearing lost, so to overcome that he built his confidence back by not only reading from time to time along with learning sign language. He was going and lifting weights to build up his muscles each day after doing his homework from his classes at school. In the fall of nineteen seventy six he got a chance to compete against a certain Australian body builder by the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger.                                    The Birthday boy and Schwarzenegger were both approached by a executive producer of an upcoming television series known as  THE INCREDIBLE HULK Kenneth Johnson. Who after a scene from said upcoming series in dalies with his young son David at the time had told his father that who was currently playing the title character just did not fit the role exactly. Schwarzenegger passed on the offer of the title role because he was getting some movie roles by this point and thought of his friend from the pumping Iron competition from a few months ago. The actor who lost the role was James Bond villain portrayer Richard Kiel who has one small frame in the project 

                 seen here from the morning of the first Hulk Out of Banner from when he was changing a tire the night before, and was walking through a forest!                                               This was the birthday boy's first acting job and when he was filming his first scene of the thing he was doing was set up to be was the creature was to be turning over his own car into a ravine (storywise) by the production crew to help him lift the automobile to finish the said scene. He was actually really tired of waiting for the scene to be properly set, so in his make up he truly lifted the actual vehicle himself!                                                                  

                                                                                Throughout the course of the whole series there is one episode during season three where television children host Fred Rogers visits the set of Universal studios and gets to see how the Birthday boy is made up as his character. I will have a post about that at some eventual point as well.  At some time during the writer strike of nineteen eighty the series was canceled before it had a proper ending. Yet the Birthday boy had made such an incredible impression to other studios and he got to play Hercules shortly after his first acting part was ended way to early.  

                He and his co-star Bill Bixby in the late nineteen eighties were absolutely able to advance the television series version of The Incredible Hulk with three television made films. So who is the Birthday boy in name besides all of his television and film work he owns gyms in California... Lou Ferrigno is the age of the year I was born minus the nineteen before it which is Seventy-two and ready to be our raging creature called the incredible Hulk if someone would ask him about it rather nicely.... just joking of course or am I? Either way about it all, I as a fan of his Hulk television series know that making him angry is the last thing I would want to do!                                                                                               Happy Birthday Lou Ferrigno if you happen to ever find this when you're looking for Birthday gifts from your many fans!