Finally for me a Very early McFarlane first....... (1 of 6)

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   Okay I want you to know that for whatever reason besides having to feel obligated to my brother's love of similar interests in "the way of unanswered conversations" which I have to write out about comics themselves. An the last comic review I had about the comic universe of the Detective Comics was part of a media tied to the video game known as "INJUSTICE". This  review will by chance lead into the start of the forth coming month better known as candy day on the last day of the month. Earlier today my friend Jeremy Johnson and I went to both Hastings and Adventures Underground to see what is new in comics in general, in fact here is what I got from Adventures 
 
        








 
at Hastings I got the two Star Trek Next Generation hardcover novels titled "DARK MIRROR", and "CROSSOVER" that were written within a two year span of when the series ended in  nineteen ninety four. I have wanted to read each of  these for a long time, both are part interesting parts on the whole of Star Trek universe. I'm thinking before the end of the year I will have a post of each novel reviewed. Yet as you all see I have old school McFarlane bit of images just to show his other type of works that made him famous from Marvel:

an his own work through IMAGE COMICS, known as SPAWN. This review however is on Todd's work before being super big story arc for a Detective Comics before his work on Batman year two, which I have in storage and will pull up soon as a comic review. INVASION! SECRET NO MORE! was a DC three book event that involved a huge story of Todd's chance to draw the whole Detective Comic universe. Here is 

the cover of the trade spread out.

  Book one of this event has a race of aliens known as the dominion (not to be confused with Star Trek's DS-9 race of the same name from the end of season two onward....but no less has the same intentions none the less against the planet earth.), have a group of fifty humans standing in a lab of their own design on the far away planet known as dominion world being tested to see if any of them have a genetic anomaly t hat would end up in some way of giving them super powers of any kind?, when the test is complete there is only a human boy left of the forty nine other humans as to what happen to him is unknown that I know of. The dominion send out a call around the universe to all warlike aliens with great promise of the end game of all out ultimate war! 
Now as I have said before when I first started collecting comics in the late eighties for me it was just Spider-Man that mattered to me no matter what and even though I had been exposed to the other main comic universe at the time which was D.C. of course through other forms of media it was the world of Peter Parker that kept me coming back month after month. Yet what broke my ties to even caring about Mister Parker's world was a story that doesn't fit for the character at all known as "One More Day" in the end of the year known as 2007. I will admit I have tried to read new Spider-Man stuff but it is MORE FORCED than enjoyed by the fans of the character. Still I can't just give up on my love of the four colored worlds of comics because my main one is being a snooty trapped devil child that can't be himself at all, I have ventured into not only the Detective Comics universe of old more but even independent publishers that are still fairly new to me at least. I would give this first chapter since it is so dark an A- but very much so without a doubt because of Todd's art!        

   
To be continued....... 

 

One more quick little Lyle thing.....

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  As you all know just recently I suffered a lost of a dear family member  not so long ago. His name was Lyle Watson and this past Saturday his many families and friends got together to share a stunning tribute to a very beloved human being, as you may or may not know I'm on the social media site known as Facebook and since it just happens to also be Batman the comic book character's seventy fifth year of being around on the actual day Lyle died I changed my wall cover on the site to this 

in his honor. I went and commented on it "That I choose this as a way to remember when he and his sister Merri gave me the very movie later that year it came out which was nineteen eighty nine at Christmas time.". Yet with all of my emotions running wild as a exploding time bomb for the foreseeable future I just thought I would throw out a challenge to those who loved Lyle the way he respected you who knew him, so what was this changeling challenge made out to be you want to know huh? Well it went like this "Anyone who knew Lyle from any part of life was given a chance to show off their love by changing their profile picture icon which here is what mine was before 

I did it  An here is what I chose to honor Lyle best from how I loved that we both enjoyed not only science fiction but cartoons as well    

The Earth defense fleet being lead by the Yamato/Argo from season two of the anime called Star Blazers a show we both would say gave us a richer understanding of coolness of the imagination of creativeness within the genre itself. The challenge is to go from today till October third, which will be a remembrance to Lyle's last day on this beautiful place we call planet earth.       

GOODBYE LYLE, YOU'LL BE REMEMBERED ALWAYS......

To the brother that meant so much to me words of any kind can't do your life history "just justice"....... Still they will help many myself included remember you for the friend and sharer of all things Lyle Watson 

will always be? A explorer of life just as we all are.....in our own ways

My way of honoring Lyle is a......

Now I'm not really sure if it was after seeing Mister Spock of Star Trek fame with a cat in his hands as to if that had made a very easy decision of Lyle Watson to always love the breed of animal or not? But still for those who knew Lyle best would approve of this TREK-A-TION  in remembering why he loved the whole series so very much so.......

Everything is OK but still......

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You know lately I have been caught up being really busy these last few weeks with everything that has happen with my step brother Lyle.....Still I know that today also marks a scary thought of pain for many more AmerIcans who remember there loved ones as much as I remember Lyle in my hope that HE is loved no matter what in heaven. Now I know everyone is wondering WHY did I Matt Byrd go an capitalize the RED Colored letter "I" in the above AmerIcans statement? as I did, huh? Well it is Because beside it being only eight day ago that Lyle passed away, those of US here on planet earth have to still deal with what had happen thirteen years ago today at a little after 8 am east coast time.... When two airline passenger planes hit 

the Twin Towers in New York city. It always brings a glistening tear to my eye every time I think back on that frightful day when those people all lost something very  special because some terror group wanted to instill fear in ALL who value life as a more full filling adventure of discovering anything new every and any day. I'm just so sorry that I didn't get to know my brother Lyle's full take on the event that took many freedoms away from ALL of us on this very day all that time ago. I'm sure he had just as strong feelings about it as any one who loves life does, but I'm sure he also dealt with it  on a personal level like we ALL DO.  I'm sure Lyle cried from time to time as well when he thought back on it TOO!      

Lyle's oldest niece very special day

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 Today happens to be one of these three young ladies birthday and I actually have to make up for something as well, but before that, can you take a guess as to which one of the three happy smiling young ladies it is having her very special day? Okay just so we aren't here all day messing with your noggins like I usually love to do for the chosen one of whom I am granting such a blessed bit of recognition to, I have a lot I want to still put into this one all the same. The one whose very special day it is the young kid with the balloon on her head  as the same color as the text I'm writing this one in, her name is Portia Mickelson and yes you have seen this image earlier in this past year of time on the blog itself.......WOW I wonder where it was I disappeared to this past May, would that be a clue? Now Portia like all of her sisters and two brothers would love to be honoring their mother's brother Lyle's goodbye time from earth, but at the same time all of Merri's children can help her best by staying in high praise of their uncle from their home in Morri, Minnesota. Portia had a very meaningful time with her uncle Lyle back when she was real little. Portia had a childhood cancer that she had beaten at the time of when I also joined my folks and Lyle on a Amtrack train ride across the country from Tri Cities Washington to where they lived at that time in  Minnesota, where we partied to a child's survival of a life ending problem being a victory. 
       Now for a grand illogically mess that I need to rightly repair or maybe not? Last year when I was writing about Portia's day I think, but now know I made her age actually a lot younger than she is in any reality.....? How so you are all asking huh? well in my mind last year for some oddball thinking on my part call it stepping back to far in time if you will but I was always thinking she was eighteen for whatever reasoning I don't know why that is?, expect for some way or other I was thinking this year she had totally missed two years of time, and I had it set in my mind that she is magically twenty one years old somehow? where is my exploding mind been I really couldn't tell anyone expect maybe I was thinking of my own beloved niece Portia Mickelson as the daughter of well dare I say I was in thought of a missing part of my comic book super hero that I've loved since I was little, known as the guy seen here 

yelp I'm talking about my hero Spider-Man who is really Peter Parker. The young girl he is with is his daughter May "MAYDAY" Parker, who fans of the comics wanted to be a happy ending to the storyline known as "The Clone Saga". Not by any means am I dare saying Portia is a clone?, still she has loving parents and siblings for sure, but in truth even though I thought she was younger than she is I know that she is really twenty years of age this find day! I know that like I said before her heart and soul hurt a bunch right now, yet dear sweet Portia I would like you to know that every time  September Sixth comes around you will be having a spot on your loving crazy uncle Matt's blog no matter how young I truly know you to be in your heart and in the end of the day I know you use your youthfulness in the right manner: Letting every moment of life be something worth learning about!
   

 Happy Birthday Portia, always with love your uncle Matt Byrd
          
                         

One of many Conversations with Lyle that........(pt.2)

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  As you all know just yesterday I came up with a very important topic to my heart that I felt needing to be shared about like the title says of chats with Lyle Watson my brother whom we shared a lot of interest in common. Today I want to jump away from most of those shared interest a bit and wonder at why both Lyle and I enjoy the color that we do? Now I know a few years back I shared my take on the color Blue, this time tough I hope that I can put a lot more into it from a two person look at it and hopefully I'll will be just as happy to say I now know why Lyle and I are even more connected color liking wise? 
       I am not sure anyone can say that they love a certain color more than a living being, for I know mostly people will always say a color reflects your mind view of how we feel emotionally better known as our mood yet there are more ways of viewing moods and colors than just one is? Lyle would have me answer this with a Why? or How look on his face then like I did a moment ago think of several ways to answer that very question in his own unique way of inner mixing the very questions with a wide array of colors that he would put into the question for his answer. As to why Lyle may have a set reason of why he loved the color Blue I know now that it is forever lost for sure on me his step brother but I'd like to think one reason he enjoyed the color the way he did was for him like it is for me is that it gave Lyle a reason to see the world as not a dark and gloomy place and I know it may sound cheesy but I think or maybe it goes beyond the richness of helping define you so much but everyone who is a color lover at some level of understanding it may or may not know the color that each and everyone of us as humans loves is in some way our understanding of hope. I think or at least I would hope that Lyle would say one of the reasons I love the color that I do is because not only do I know it from a feeling aspect but also because it's part of the planet we inhabit and it's many shades are part of everyday life on the planet as well! 
      I think there are more reasons why Lyle loved this color that even I Matt haven't and now can't have be answered, but for me as I knew Lyle I'm sure I have come to the most reasonable answer that will matter to me, anyway.        

One of many Lyle conversations that.......(pt. 1)

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Hey have you ever thoughts of the many lost conversations that you know you wanted to have with a loved one that is no longer here, well I have in a certain sense with my step brother Lyle Watson who as you all know died a couple of days ago. Now what I mean by lost conversations isn't ones where the loved one that has past away was right or wrong, or that you who are still around to care for others is wrong or right either. I happen to be talking of conversations of stuff you may have both greatly enjoyed in life in general.  As I have said before both Lyle and I are sci-fi geeks through and through the one we both loved a lot was the series known as 

Star Trek a whole bunch. There will be many of more on this very topic for sure you can bet on it, but the one thing that we never got around to was this "Did Lyle enjoy the two newest reboots of Star Trek themselves?, the ones that are from director of all out new kind of science fiction films or at least one more besides the Star Trek ones.... known as "SUPER 8" yes that is right I'm talking about my main man who created Jennifer Garner's Sydney Bristow

in the series called ALIAS, that is right I'm talking of J.J. Abrams. Who just so happens to be the go to man for the next trilogy of Star Wars films......."  all that aside, like I said Lyle and I never did get down to discussing our  reviews of what we liked or loved about them as a whole! I wish that we had though because I'm sure he was one of the main Trek fans who disliked the Spock and Uhurra love relationship aspect of both films. As to my answer to that very relationship for the most part I'd say I'm with those who like things never messed with! At the same time though I have to give the writers a bit of cheer for pulling a grand out of nothing surprise with the very idea of facing a new story idea in any timeline of the final frontier!              

Why any brother is just so cool.....

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 I've been thinking a whole bunch lately on how we as humans take everything we know to be all out important in every part of life, mainly because of my step brother Lyle's passing away because of a brain blood clot on his brain since this past Sunday. Now I know that with having a sibling when you are young more times than not there is fighting to without a doubt see who is right whether you are or not? and as I have said before I was rather lucky in life for the first elven  years of my life I was the oldest of three. An then in late ninety eighty four a young girl by the name of Merri was our babysitter at the time that was how I first came to know a small bit of my soon to extended family. It wasn't until about March of nineteen eighty five that I met my soon to be older brother Lyle, had a friend with him that was a couple years older than he was named Matt Copper who was always drawing comic book characters of some sort and he and Lyle were great pals as I recall for both of them had drawn me back into the fold of loving superheroes yet again. I remember after my mother Nancy Watson had introduce to Merri and Lyle's father Chuck Watson, but back in those days Micheal, Kylie, and I just called him Mister Watson this was of course out of respect since we as kids didn't know him at all just as our mom's new square dancing partner from at the old y building over in Kennwick Washington. It was coming close to May in that year when Mom and Mister Watson told all of kids that we were going to be a family because they decided to both get remarried to each other, for each of us as kids we all had our own way of dealing with grief and worry of how our other parent would get along in life or at least that was on my mind a lot, then came our family units being joined, we had it at the Richland Community House which still stands today over by Howard Amon Park. 

Mister Watson walk out first up to the judge, then Lyle held his sister Merri hand and walk up to where Mister Watson was, then Micheal and Kylie strode down in a silly way to the Judge then it was my turn with my mother at my arm to accept her love for this guy known only as Mister Watson to my thirteen year old self. When all was said and done WE the children all had our own set of vows just as our new father had to our mother and vice verse  Lyle and Merri with their new mother and boy were those ever fun for sure. Then came time for changes for Lyle since at the time he was nearly force for at the time to live on his own he did it better than I let's just say. As I took his room and made it mine over many years of time, still when he came back I would share it with him when and if he wanted too. Lyle had this cool cave like bed that were painted in purple and gold on the main framing that it was built out of and inside the cave he had a blue light bulb where he had spent most of his time reading his many books. Which turned out to be science fiction or fantasy related.       

          When I was really little at the age of seven and eight I had seen this cartoon called Star Blazers and I remember hearing a story of how Lyle and Merri were shown that learning was truly important it turns that their father and had gotten a coin dispenser and had attached it to their television set and Lyle must of helped him put the cable junction feeder into the coin dispenser. Then Mister Watson was able to regulate how much time could be spent watching any type of program on the television. Merri had RED painted quarters and Lyle had of course BLUE ones..... I'm not really sure if I recall hearing this before we lived on the east coast or after or maybe both but I do know it was the first time of knowing Lyle's favorite color was mine as well from that very bit of Watson history. Lyle without a doubt was always very creative for sure no matter what he was cool with a heart of real passion for friendship and family and I'm glad to say I knew him as both!     

LIVE LONG AND POSPER......Lyle Watson

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 Yesterday I was sharing from on the first of many crazy moments since I had found out earlier at the start of this week of my brother Lyle Watson. Maybe, for today instead of telling us all myself included of how Lyle got to where he is right now I can say this much of  the young man who was a great gamer of life

 , I will explain on that in a moment on two. It is often said at times the wise ones leave this wonderful walk of the experience of life waaaay to soon, it is with great tenderness of my own weeping soul that a little after six thirty tonight that I now am full of relief for Lyle. His sister Merri had as I said jumped onto a plane like her father and my mother did early on Monday from Minnesota, she didn't have as long a trek as they did from Cuenca  Ecuador, but still emotional worn all the same. On the night of when we her dad and my mom were at Shari's restaurant on the first of this month we found out she was staying in Spokane with a collage girlfriend of hers and drove up yesterday.  Lyle was not only super smart of loving the stuff he loved, which is a lot of the type of things I have loved or liked for a lifetime, he loved theater production and setting up sets of lighting very much so. He was "The ultra awesome sheik roller of nerdism in every part of his being" the one sure thing I knew best of Lyle was he was no small dreamer, he found the way of asking the richer part of WHY?, to everything he knew, so he could be a wealth of knowledge." 
     After his sister said her goodbye to her loving brother, she and her dad Chuck were wanting to pull the life support machine so he could go in peace, and be with not only other family members who had passed just recently (this includes their mother Barbra Willis Watson, she passed away back in mid July of this year). Also both sets of his three pairs of grandparents, here I'm including his step mother Nancy Watson's parents (Ben Franklin Powers and Evelyn Day Powers) as well.Late into Tuesday they found out by looking at Lyle's  health insurance that he had requested to be an organ donor in the event of his death. So they found out all the information of what they didn't know a lot of  what needed to be done in the state of Washington, relating to a recently organ donor that passed, they had to wait a full twelve hours for anyone needing immediate transfer and moved Lyle from intensive care unit area to..... ( I'm calling it here even through it is not "The Harvesting Room"), but it could be the operating room/morgue in where they moved Lyle with his life support unit. I'm only saying that for I was not there yesterday night or today at the tie Lyle drew his final breath. Still through a phone call from my mom I did find out  that at least part of Lyle's wishes are granted for from they surgery of what could be used were his heart valves and his corneas of his eyes will be useful for someone, and a part of Lyle's Legacy of helpfulness.

We all met up at Round Table Pizza and shared great stories of a son, a brother, an a uncle 

with some good pizza as well I might add! Now I know you are just wondering how is it that I know that Lyle is up in heaven running God's life computer for us down here on earth?, in truth I don't know anymore than I bet he is up there with James Doohan (March 3,1920-July 20,2005) whom played Scotty on the original series of Star Trek and movies...... I can see the two of them hard at work talking to the computer in heaven saying "Computer, Hello Computer.....like from the voyage home movie of Trek lore.

Finding the words of what to say....

Hello all,   
Well the picture seen here

, is without a doubt from way back on a very special night for yours truly, that very night being the night the class of Hanford High's class of the year "1991" faded into what is known as life. Now twenty three years later it has an equally same powerful meaning for me! The meaning of course relates to what all hope will come with ease the passage of being welcomed home when one's duties on earth are assumed over..... 

For those who haven't heard my elder step brother Lyle Watson had had a  blood colt on his brain just a couple of days ago. He was rushed to Kadlec hospital in Richland, Washington by his loving friends  who run the Tri Cities yearly summer event known as  the "Ye Merrie Greenwood Renaissance Faire", which takes place around the time of when the Hydro plane Columbia Cup boat races and the Allied Art show in the last week of every July. Yesterday as you all know I went and wore my heart on my shelve and was asking that anyone who is dealing with the grief of lost of a love one to really think and pray for that love one to be with God. Today even though I should keep my praising to myself of what I had shared with Lyle as I saw him hooked up to the life support machine in the Intensive Care Unit last night when my mom and Chuck Lyle's father gave me a choice of "Just saying goodbye in my heart to him or seeing him and letting Lyle know that "I his step brother Matt Byrd", am assured his time on planet earth was and always will be well remembered with memories of grand love, no matter what! " 
      So of course I did have my folks take to the Kadlec after I got of from work, at Albertsons, on the way there in the car ride over they told me what the doctors had told them and my brother Michael and his wife Kathie. Which was  "Lyle had a blood clot some time through out the early hours of the morning of this past Sunday while in his REM sleep pattern. The blood clot had expanded at some point and pushed Lyle's frontal cortex upon rupturing off of it's place. An filled that stretched open space with blood because it couldn't go anywhere and that pressure from all that blood made the reasoning center of his brain press against his top portion of his skull. When the doctors were reliving the clot they had to remove the whole right portion of Lyle's skull to do what they could to get at their main area of work. With the frontal cortex of the brain out of place a human being can't remember every day things like their own name and are always going to be in a unconscious state for a long while, if not ever to come out of a peaceful sleep, better known as a coma."    
     Now here is what I said to my brother Lyle as I saw the life support machine doing it's job. "Lyle, you and l your step brother Matt Byrd have had the same kind of love of many things,  particularly anything or everything science fiction related,  to us both enjoying the Asian art called Anime. I also told Lyle  how much I love him as a fellow human being outside of our family relationship as brothers. I shared with him that HE is now the captain of any "Enterprise of his choice of registry number....or any Star Trek ship that HE also loves best outside of Starfleet. Then I remembered as well the one time he made me the best birthday card ever, I even shared that I'm slowly learning about role playing card games,  the whole time or most of it I held his hand to let heaven know that I'm ready to accept what I know that Lyle's in the place where he is forever safe."

After I was done sharing my rightful moments with Lyle and had a few leaky tears on my mother's shoulder and cleaning my hands with a sanitation gel and wipes, the three of us had headed over to Shari's restaurant on George Washington way for some much needed food. While there we got a call from Chuck's daughter Merri saying she is in Spokane,  and will be here on the following day!   

Why we all need to know Jesus no matter what.......

Hey there every one,
 I know that I haven't in a long time brought up religion here on my site for long while, but with things being well unknown for sure about my step brother Lyle Watson because of what has happen needs a lot of exploring by all who reads this....also it will help me put my own thoughts in a open perspective, which is what I know that I need most right now! Like I said yesterday I as well as my whole family have our thoughts of  worried love going out to a beloved son, and brother. It is said in the bible any bible that "For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS ONLY Son, that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16)  I know that WE ALL, have friends or family that do pass away from violent or non violent type of stuff everyday, but we must remember one grand thing for anyone who is part of life and that is GOD has HIS REASONS of why HE makes us overjoyed with liking someone, it's because no matter what GOD NEEDS US to know love because most times we as human do forget to be thankful for the small things in life, WE ALL tend to like or love it when whatever life brings it has got to be BIG and AMAZING for when it's not we at times, but not always fall into our own trappings of despair when someone close to us does die we need to remember it is not over for them at all it is just the start of being in a much better place. I'm sorry if I have overstepped my bounds of relating how I know time matters to not only us as the fragile little beings who call ourselves humans and we think the world can't hurt us.....but whomever you pray to in your time of hope and need know that they love you from when they gave you life till the time they call us home. Jesus loves us regardless of if We frail humans ever truly understand  the meaning of his many adventures all at once, I know he gives us all a chance to reach our faith by loving us by just letting every human experience the journey known as life. So please if you know anyone who needs to be loved this day or just a word of encouragement let them know it best of two ways with a friendly greeting from deep inside you, and with a smile.       

Now we must get down to another matter altogether that  being did I forget that we have a monthly event here that needs attending to as well. With it being Batman's seventy fifth year of being around did you think I would only celebrate it in the summer only well put on your best Batman clothes if you have any? As long as your suspended in surprise is the only true thing that matters. Here was what I had as my Bat Plate here on the site being  

of course, it doesn't mean I like Peter Paker's alter ego any less? Or maybe for a while I do I don't really know why that is?....do you? For my desktop image of the month of August I went looking for the neatest looking Bat symbol that I could find 

and with this one it broke three mind binding things that I thought were cool, what are they your wondering huh? come back tomorrow for these and other exciting stuff of Lyle to be shared!