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.