April 28, 2022

Amazing Spider-Man #1: Byrdseye Reviews

Hello comic fans or soon to be ones,                                                                                                       Okay I know that I love to read alot when I get the chance to, also if you're new here which may be you could be and hey that's more than alright,  I honestly hope that you will enjoy my review of this past Wednesday new comics releases 


    seen here. Needless to say I will get a review of each of very comics super soon (boy from my post way back in the early part of this past February I was that I could be doing this on my own YouTube channel,  because as you know I have the setup equipment for doing it. I have to get my head in to knowing how about setting up my channel.), till then you're going to have to deal with my comic reviews in this long forum and understand that I will be getting there someday hopefully and of course  honestly too. Now before we get into this very issue I also want to point out that all of my reviews for comics of this year will be listed as Byrdseye 2022, I am wanting to make each year of my reviews since 2013 be a bit unique in there own given way also I am still thinking about how I am wanting to review my independent comics that I get from Comicsgate and their many different individual owners but that will be coming to me I am certain very much sooner rather than later too.                                                                                                                                      Now swinging into this brand newest of Amazing Spider-Man issues of number one seen here 

held by Spider-Man himself had quite a variety of variations of covers to choose from and I did end up getting besides the John Romita Jr one, two other ones that my comic shop had set aside for me because I had of course asked for them to. Now just so you know this title with this character has been around since April of nineteen sixty three and that volume had ended back in nineteen ninety eight with issue Amazing Spider-Man #441 with November as the cover date and it's title was "THE GATHERING OF FIVE" part one of  four.  Then right after it ends in Spectacular Spider-Man vol. 1 1976-1998 in issue #262, Marvel started the last original  Spider-Man story called "THE  FINAL CHAPTER" in Sensational Spider-Man vol. 1 ( January 1996- November 1998) issue #33 part one. (Which ends in the Spider-Man (Adjective less title that was stated by in 1990 for artist Todd McFarlane to write and illustrate until he and seven other artists formed Image comics in nineteen ninety two), the title continued for eighty three more issues an ended with "THE FINAL CHAPTER" part four in issue #98! Amazing Spider-Man volume two began in November 1998 with a cover date January and ran until issue Amazing Spider-Man #53 in September of Twenty oh three cover date November twenty oh three.  In October of twenty oh three the title reverted back to it legacy numbers with Amazing Spider-Man #500 that run includes the incredibly disturbing story arc that took me away from the series titled "One More Day" that was Amazing Spider-Man issue # 545. which ended the character for a lot more fans than just myself too. Then the went for a series of the title with "Brand New Day" from twenty oh eight till oh nine starting with issue Amazing Spider-Man issue # 546 through till Amazing Spider-Man # 564.... yet everything from Amazing Spider-Man # 565 till (STILL  FEELS FORCED) by Marvel editorial to keeping reading fans mostly awkward towards the title even when Amazing Spider-Man ended volume two with issue #700. 5 in twenty thirteen in December. Then came a new Spider-Man title in  January of twenty fourteen with a March cover date. Superior Spider-Man #1 till June of twenty fourteen. ( I had started to get over my frustration with Marvel just a bit, but not entirely at this period of time). Volume three of Amazing Spider-Man began with a new number one in April of twenty fifteen (even though it was short run this time around the main writer Dan Slott had let former Spider-Man writer Gerry Conway do a story in this arc) when the title ended at issue #20.1 this volume was where Super Events had really overstretched their boundaries... then volume four came into play... with the story arc being known as "Worldwide" started October of twenty fifteen for thrity two issues by December of twenty seventeen. Of course for those who are wondering or not in volume four of Amazing Spider-Man Peter Parker is rich with money like Tony Strark of Iron man lore is? Say what, right? Then in November of twenty seventeen Amazing Spider-Man again reverted to it's legacy numbers with its December release of Amazing Spider-Man # 789 by now Dan Slott has been on the solo writer for close to a decade of time... yet luckily for us as readers that don't love his work and again that is a lot of us Spider-Man fans... don't have long to wait because after issue Amazing Spider-Man #801 he realizes that he has told everything that he can. Then in September twenty eighteen Amazing Spider-Man volume number five starts with the writer from Captain America's recent series known as Captain America: "Sercet Empire" Nick Spencer was coming an had written a Spider-Man mini series called Superior Foes of Spider-Man in the latter part of Slott's volume three tenure as the scribe of Peter Parker's life. Well his  (Nick's run started very,  very promising and maybe his latter half ( I still have to read it) around issue sixy or so, something great had happened for him... he was to stay till issue Amazing Spider-Man #900.                                                                                                                                          Now since Spencer left the title before he was spouse to Marvel themselves were in a Lurch of what to do with Peter Parker's adventures.... So they had been planning since Peter David's story from twenty sixteen of bringing Spider-Man's clone (which to me I hadn't seen since "The Clone Saga" of the mid nineteen nineties,) was news to me and I will be writing about the news of it rather soon hopefully. Ben Reilly back into the fold of Spider- lore, that story was called "Beyond" and ended in March of twenty two! Now that I really do both of us on the same area of Amazing Spider-Man storywise I can feel comfortable with this review now!                                                                                                            The story's creators are John Romita Jr on art, inks Scott Hanna, colorist Marcio Menyz, letter Joe Caramagna, Writer Zeb Wells. Opens with this   

 as the start of this issue... What has happened in York, Pennsylvania that has a very rattled beaten down Peter Parker holding on to a spider tracer screaming whilst in a smoldering crater? We come to find out next to nothing on the matter, other than we are six months away from what's just transpired? The only thing that we can really know about for sure is that as both Spider-Man or Peter he is on the outs with all of the fellow heroes he knows of, he's also getting stressed about not being able to helping his dear loving anut, or even knowing what Mary Jane has been up to! On top of all of that he's been looking for work of any kind for maybe a long amount of months in the way of time. He as well isn't being nice to his possible old roommate which is Randy Robertson whom is the son of the main city editors at his old place of work called the Daily Bugle and Randy's father is Robbie Robertson.                                                                                                           It seems that while Peter is trying to at same time finding ways to helping Randy when he can, he doesn't know about two gangs planing a war on each other. He does happen to find that Robbie's son is meeting with his father's oldest friend from on the streets known as Tombstone. Yet he doesn't know why they are meeting up? It is then when he sees a member of the other gang getting into a limo that he realizes he forgot his working clothes! When he catches up with them he finds out shall we say more than he bargains for! So he can't win either side of knowing why the war is taking place as Spidey anymore than if he's Peter... When he tries to call Mary Jane she tells him "DON'T CALL ME AGAIN." While talking to associate via his Bluetooth headset Tombstone home is blown up! Peter definitely decides to finding out about this gang war when Tombstone offers him a bit unique advice of telling him to tell some certain  "do gooder" to stay out of his private business.                                                                                                                                Then here's the kicker of all craziness... whose this Paul that Mary Jane is with? and she has children who call her "Mommy?"                                                                                                    Now all that I really can say is who is Paul? Are we in a whole other universe of the Marvel Universe itself? And if the kids are Mary Jane's are they possibly Peter's as well? These are just two of many more questions that I have after reading this very issue.  I know that like me you are going have to wait until next month for any answers if they even are any at all! Have good time reading your comics if you collect them be happy in what you can get of your favorite stories as well! If you don't read comics that's more than alright just promise you will continue to be happy whatever it is you do to keeping your spirits up!

April 11, 2022

Nevertheless odd things happen....

Hello All,                                                                                                                                          All that I really know is that from looking out of my front door this very morning and after looking at my friends posts on the social media site known as Facebook I gotta take pictures of what is happening..... So what is it that has happened over the early parts of the wee hours of this morning.... Let's just say that it's time for SNOW BOOTS again! Yes this as far as I can honestly gather is father time or mother nature are playing a belated April Fool's joke on us humans in the towns in Washington state called the Tri-Cities!                                                                                                                                      Don't wanna believe me???, okay I know that it might not be believable then how do you explain these! 



                 
The last time that it the white stuff was here in the local area was back in winter time in January of this year. In fact here's a picture  from that night which was 
on the sixth of that month but it lasted only ONE FULL DAY. So it's a bit odd I will also admit that I remember hearing back when I was a teenager when attending the Bloomsday race in Spokane, Washington that not the one I was at which was in 1989 but a few years before in May it was snowing during the event.  So yes it is definitely odd when snow comes at different times of the year outside of it's proper time... just saying that it will be gone by the end of today but here is what my tablet is saying the outside temperature   

 is  right now! All that I can say is thank goodness it isn't something crazier to upset the whole world for a long time of someone trying to control everything for whatever they want to impact the world of relationships with. This is simply a complete oddity that happens because of nature nothing more and nothing less!

April 01, 2022

No Jokes today but seriously....

 Hello everyone,                                                                                                                                           Usually today on April first in the past I have treated you all to some  of a great pun to ponder over since it is after all the day of pulling a grand joke of unsuspecting bit of creativity fun for all that we all come in contact with. Yet for the moment I will admit that I can't think of a joke right now to get you to using your brain for the day,  so what is it that I want to talk about subject matter topic wise today... Well interesting enough what I will be sharing with you is of course from the one toy line that I had the most interest in when I was in my younger years and mostly played with. Which is Masters of the Universe, that drove into the heart of strengths of fantasy.                                                                                                                   In most of my past posts on here I have talked about how much that I have enjoyed growing up over my fifty years of living existence, yet no matter how many days since March twenty fourth, of twenty twenty two I really still find myself feeling unchanged of who I am as a person because deep down inside of myself I know that I can change if I want to. The one thing any one can't do on their own is change your traits that you get from either of our parents, by this I mean how you can change your outside if your wanting to but with how ever you change your main look your can't change your heart if you fill it with drugs or greasy foods all of the time....like I have had to find out once a particular part of you is broken on the inside you can learn to deal with it by changing the way you think and be smart at whatever you are ingesting into your own body and eat healthier. Or if you just want to ingonre your existence eat or consume everything you want, you'll undoubtedly understand when living your life is HARDER by your own choices of the current moment you are it, just had to put out the message because I am not saying that it's ALWAYS ALBOUSTULELY EASY for MYSELF EITHER!                                     Now back to twist of this conversation of my favorite toylines from when I was a tykesiter around the age of ten, there was stuff like Kenner's Star Wars action figures and Battlestar Gattiactta toys, even the Lone Ranger action figures but it was when in the early part of nineteen eighty two when I saw the one toy commercial that had hooked for life. The commercial had the toyline's main reason of what the two main sides that of evil lead by the blue skined purple hooded lord of destruction was trying to conquer as his ultimate prize, from the leader of goodness known as the strongest man in the whole universe,  who were respectful Skeletor of the leader of the evil warriors and the heroism of HE-MAN who leads the forementioned side of hope on a world known as Eterina... with the also mentioned ultimate prize being an castle with a molded stone skull for a face and known as Grayskull                                                                               

                                            Here's the original image that was on the Castle Grayskull playset box art.... while we here in north America, we got to enjoy such an array of many figures along with other toy playsets over the line's original run from nineteen eighty one, but I had gotten into in the second year of eighty two and went all the way to nineteen eighty seven,over on the other side of the world in Germany while the line popular they had created the first ever original figure. Over the past year since last August I have been finding out about this very interesting figure since November of last year fully through images on the Deviant Art website and the YouTube website.                                                          So just let's be clear this given figure wasn't ever available here at all this side of the world ever in the early nineteen eighties,  true fans even deeper enriched in knowing about the whole world wide history of the  Masters of the universe toylines knew this one's history. When Mattel had hired the toy makers that had worked with Todd McFarlane on his Spawn toylines in the mid nineteen nineties did Mattel toys itself learned of this mystery figure from the other side of the the world and also because of one the four toolers of the new Masters of the universe action figures had lived in Germany while he was a child,  the four toy makers called themselves the four horsemen and were calling their company Super 7! Here happens to be the first photo of that mystery figure from the Germany wave that I had found on Deviant Art website                    
I had downloaded this waaaay back on August twenty second in twenty twenty one and just found and thought hey that's freaking awesome a totally new and unknowable version of HE-MAN! From that point onward I myself went looking about it for myself to know about this particular Black and gray colored take on the character over time. It turns out his name is Anti HE-MAN and He is from Anti Eterina. This to me as a Masters of the universe fan brings up at least a few big questions or for certain at least two that I know that I have spent the last few years pondering and here they are: one, Is it possible that the reason that Anti HE-MAN was created over in Germany was it because they were never aware of the character seen here                           
called Faker the evil robotic version of HE-MAN created by Skeletor in the toyline's marketing, or was it also possible that the animation company of Filmation HE-MAN and the Masters of the universe series never got to air the episode titled "The Shaping Staff" where we see this villain's  only appearance when Skeletor uses his magic to create him                                            

   to fool/trick the sorceress that HE-MAN has come to castle Greyskull at night for some unknowable reason? ( I will explain why Faker and the hero look exactly alike when I make my own review of this actual episode.) Then  here's  my second question as to how it maybe possible for Anti HE-MAN to exist, did certain fans from Germany realize that maybe they were able to add something even more fascinating to an already very successful toy line's original history by giving it a refreshing reflection of itself?, still lost are you with where I am taking this other than much like other series that always have a goal of goodness beating out darkness why not have it be that the Masters of the universe has a broken or twisted take where even the heroes are very menacing at times like Star Trek of the original series did with their second season episode titled "Mirror, Mirror" which spun it own self outwardly decades later in whole other spin off series... yes that is something that can honestly make Masters of the universe even more precisely interesting of them having a parallel universe... where all of the characters are evil or twisted in a whole multitude of differences from the prime universe? And everything is justified Blackness on each character's traits not just their molecular outward environment making them that way! So what I will say is that I believe that the toys and creative minds in Germany back in the early nineteen eighties fleshed out a debatable mirror universe for the American toy company known as Mattel for their biggest boys  wave of action figures.... 
The main reason of why I decided to make an odd beginning to ending the one day of the one full of thinking of puns is besides after all my ongoing research,  I have found out that Mattel is trying to keeping the Masters of the universe property in their ownership before the end of this very year. They have currently three different lines of Masters of the universe toylines and two very different animated series being airred on Netflix currently to trying new things of keeping up with a new way to growing their ownership of the whole property and if their invoices don't show a strong improvement by November (I  thinking?, I am going to keeping up on my researching). The ownership of the property after that point will go to Universal studios productions my inner wanting to knowledge is will there still be a viable future generations of seeing toylines? 
Let me capitalize on this highly trying to get more of the whole Masters of the universe growing outwardly by sharing what I have had on my tablet that I put the majority of these posts from over the month known April twenty, twenty two. When I have been opening my home screen this is what I saw on   

the locked screen, through out the Greenest month of the whole year called March. Boy that looks so powerful doesn't it, classic Teela of the original toyline with an Origins one those three toylines that I mentioned earlier of the hero HE-MAN himself getting ready to do battle with any evil out in any parts of Enetria or better yet any part of the whole vast universe.  After opening my cool locked screen I was able 

to see an even different take of future royalty of Enetria... with a totally never owned by myself as of yet a blonde haired version of Teela sharing (a rare wine my thinking there), who knows maybe I might go in search of one sometime very soon on Ebay. Also off to the far right is Battle Cat without any armor on him to protect his two greatest friends.   Finally as to what did I have on my phone every time  that I turned it on was hopefully getting me wanting to think about my upcoming vacation time! Well here it is 



                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                           
     from  last May when I was with my folks     on  a  road trip to the Olympic peninsula of Washington and the Oregon coast. We were only here for two quick days in the Olympic national park in Lake Quinault and here I'm by the world's largest Spruce tree and all I can admit is that I felt truly small when I looked up at it. On my phone the whole sign is completely not in the frame at all, but I really had a fun time on that very venturous outing. Before I really forget because of course I know that it is possible to do that after getting to a certain age if you let life get to crazy and anyone every where knows life's been rather overwhelming over the past couple of years,  don't worry I will be getting around to talking about it sooner than later, but what I almost did a mind wipe of this site's background plate which is seen here                            
           
A image that has a tonage of green in it of the Filmation HE-MAN on his great cat with a visual of Skeletor behind them both, I believe that it is a animated cel because when I have looked at it through out my many posts and those still to come it
 jumped out  me. Tell me what your own thoughts are 
?