A TRIBUTE TO TONY DOW...

Hello everyone,                                                                                                                                            Usually when one thinks of a person's passing it really affects them weather they are famous or family, when it is family without any doubt it is absolutely a lot more personal and emotionally feeling wise because of how connected you are to your family member that has left for their existence here on planet earth is done or at least complete. Earlier last week Tony Dow had went home to be with his fellow actors Hugh Bueamount who was his father Ward Cleaver and his television mom Barbara Billingsley June Cleaver,  Ken Osmond, Eddie Hasskell his best friend in the series that they all shared with child star Jerry Mathers Theodore Cleaver who goes by the name of "Beaver" in "Leave It to Beaver". Here's a photo of 

       the main family.  The series was created by Bob Mosher and Joe Conelly and was mostly based off their childhood memories. The series started on CBS television for it's first season  which had this 

   as the series opening title page in nineteen fifty seven, when at the end of nineteen fifty eight television renewals the show moved to the ABC network for it next five years of it run. Tony's character was show cased on M.E.T.V. from noon till five pm and the episode that is currently airring is "Wally's new suit". Here are some scenes 

from that very episode.  They had nine other Wally central episodes that celebrated both the character and the Tony himself.   

 I will admit right now that I didn't know that Mr. Dow was officially on his last bit of life anymore than most of the world knew of it. I only remember just a couple of days before he had entered his heavenly existence that the whole world knew it was coming because this past Wednesday the internet explosion of his passing was on every media site without knowing if it was truly confirmed. I really remember watching "Leave It to Beaver" while visiting with my mom's parents and her side of the family over our family vacations to Clomibus, Georgia... it's and really the Twilight Zone were my most likeable series of most of the nineteen fifties era of the boom of the early days of television. Of I will admit that I like the Lone Ranger series that was in Black and White as well, as Blondie. (Yes back in the beginning of Television they tried every form of comic media even in those days). Blondie is of course a newspaper daily comic strip that began in the month of September 

 , in nineteen thirty.  I happen to be getting off track here, but eventually I will post about my understanding of that given newspaper strip and hopefully before the year is out, so I can write it while I'm in my fiftive year of existence.                                                                      Back to the topic at hand of the life and respect of Tony Dow, after Leave It to Beaver had ended nineteen sixty three he started guest staring  roles on television series of "My Three sons",  "Adam-12", "Emergency!", "Knight Rider" of series that I really know of.  In the mid nineteen eighties he reprised his role of Wally Cleaver in "STILL THE BEAVER". Which ran from nineteen eighty five through to nineteen eighty nine. It had a television movie in nineteen eighty three that started the series, and it was dedicated to Hugh Bueamount who played the dad  Ward Cleaver in the original series. Who had passed away on May fourteenth, nineteen eighty two.                                                                                In the end of nineteen eighty nine slash early nineteen nineties Tony had went from being a livelihood of a actor to branching his creative mind to be behind the cameras. He started with an episode of the new Lassie show near it's end of a single season series, and while directing other episodes of various series he was learning on visual effects while working on Babylon five as a director as well. (One other quick note of late I Matt, have been opening up to lately on YouTube of looking into Babylon five at least a little bit of late). He was the visual supervisor on the Doctor Who television movie that was released in nineteen ninety six.   

He was born in nineteen thirty four, on April thirteenth, in a Hollywood on the outskirts of Los Angeles California to Muriel Virginia and John Dow.  Before he was discovered by  a talent scout Tony was training to make it as a swimmer in the Junior Olympics for his upcoming career  in his real life high school.  In May of twenty, twenty one he was diagnosed with liver cancer and as far as I know that is what was his cause of death! His death happen on July twenty seventh,  twenty, twenty two...  he was just a young age of seventy- seven. Finally before I leave you here is Tony and Jerry as their classic brotherly sevles                                                                 

Wally and Theodore Cleaver. Then while watching this very Tribute to Mister Dow on M.E.T.V. I had found out that just today another celebrity passed away into science fiction heaven... who is it? All I can say is that tomorrow I will have at least two posts coming is all that I will say for right now!
  

A hopeful Indie comic ends....

 Hello Comic lovers,                                                                                                                                      Well my genuinely all the time readers who love a small entry instead of my super longer ones that go on for ever you are in for a treat! Today for the next sixteen hours according to Eastern Standard Time you have a chance to help a independent comic creator named Shane Davis and his wife Yanzi Lin by getting YOUR CHANCE TO GET THEIR COMIC Project called Inglorious Rex.  Here's where you need to look for it if you're really interested? www.Indidiggo.com  

 Also one other reason that I like Shane Davis is because he lives in the state where I was born in North Carolina.  If you back the project at the $75.00 tier you'll get a second print of their first Indie comic project known as STARLIGHT CATS which is great for young children if they want something when you are thinking about your children too. Have a wonderful day rather if you buy this or not! It will end at 3:00 am/12:00am East Coast/Pacific's time.... 

A comic trade know as

Hello comic loving public and those in need of great fun at the end of the first month of Summer of twenty twenty two,                                                                                                               Well here I  am again with a generous rewarding effort to getting you my wondering and interesting readers who feel like you are missing something from the site of some fascinating works of wordplay I may have that's for you? Yes I am once again talking about books or in this case a set of individual stories that are in the trade known as what is shown in my couch with my Spider buddy   

seen here. I have to let you know that since as of October of last year, I have been part of a online community related to comics called Comic Book Corner 2.0 Web-Heads Unite. The site owner has a YouTube website where he talks of many different comic topics including weekly new releases. He has a combined site with a couple other friends who are interested in comics like he and I are,  and Tuesday night at 10pm Eastern Standard Time they reveal their thoughts on what they have currently read over the past week on a show called Comicbook Weekly also searchable on YouTube.  
                                  Well back when Decetevice Comics went and had started going and making all of their heroes being defined by each one's sexual preferences instead of them saving the world, the one book of DC comics that I reviewed was SUPERMAN SON OF KAL-EL number five last November was when I had picked up my introduction to The SLIVER COIN series with the issue   

seen here on my coffee table. It happens to be issue number seven.  I had picked these actually in early December of twenty,  twenty one. I will eventually get to those as soon as I get a chance to decide what it is that I know I want my comic reviews of 2021 to be listed as so anyone can just find it very easily.                                                                                                Now that I have given you a back history of how it all came about for yours truly of getting into "THE SLIVER COIN" series, I know that overall you would love to find out what my thoughts on it as a whole is?, of that I am certain of!  The Silver Coin series is very much an ongoing set of stories in the vein of "A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS" of the classic television series known as The Twilight Zone. I will eventually get around to making a review of Each Original episode of the zone but for right now let's flip into the first issue of this ongoing comic anthology.                                                                                      Here are the covers to issue one of the sliver coin   

 

, so why are there actually two variant to the first print you are asking? well that goes all the way back to the nineteen nineties when Decetevice Comics and Marvel comics realized to get the most versions of an important character's title to reach more masses of comic readers they would put out a slightly different image on that very venturous go around to sell the said book even more efficiently so. Then a month or two later they came out with a second print cover like the one seen here       

             for the silver coin. The title of the first story is "The Ticket" by Chip Zdardsky. It is about this upcoming band who is trying to make it big in their home town local bar. When one of the members finds the coin amongst the guitarist stuff that his mom had left him. The band starts getting a lot better overall.  The bar owner is able for them to get signed to a large recording studio. Then of course Ryan the guitarist, gets in over his head when he's feels forced into playing with the town's other local musicians known as "Disco Hits"     

 ,  that he without knowing it brings the house down on everyone in attendance.  The second  issue's story in this trade is known as "Girls of Summer" by Kelly Thompson.  In this one, a young girl named Fonia ends her upcoming end of summer by attending a summer camp. When she arrives she finds all of the other gals she's bucking with don't want to care about her, even when taking part in the camp activities they grind her to her emotional lowest.  When she finds a cabin in the woods she finds the coin in a sword and is attacked by a unknown person! Fonia finds that when she finds her so called friends were....     

 murdered! Was it Fonia whom did it? Maybe or Maybe not! But in these first two issues I have noticed something that I will get to at the end of this very entry.                                                                                                                             The third issue of The Silver Coin is by Ed Brisson and is titled "Death Rattle." Three teenagers named Victor,Bobby, and Lisa have just killed a old man in his own home while attempting to just rob him. As Lisa grabs a plaque with the man's name on it she hears a onimibus voice that freaks her out, she tells her friends of what she just heard and Bobby shares his knowledge of the after life, Lisa says it's nothing like that of what she can describe it as. Victor sets 

 

     the house on fire. 

Lisa, while with her friends tries to get away from the authorities has found the coin but doesn't want to believe that it is possibly controlling her...

In the next issue the title is numerous all the way around and is "2467". This arc is truly for fans of cyberspace or even blade runners vein of fun. Officer Colten Dudley is chasing a group of punks that are dealing with existence by knocking over citizens by dealing with them in a violent situation. One of those punks gets lost in the underground city and she finds the coin and upload it to devote a significant impact of getting her way with dealing with her personal law problems... It is scribbled or scrambled by Jeff Lemire!                                                                                                               The fifth and final issue of The Silver Coin trade is known as "Covenant". In this one a  woman named Rebekah Goode is an animal doctor around the fifteenth or possibly the sixteenth century and a priest whose a witch hunter  named Cotton Dudley.  Dudley convinces the whole village of where miss Goode resides that he can rid them of Goode because of him being able to bring authority of law to the village by his being their community leader to God. As to if  everyone in the whole village believes him isn't completely clear... when he tries to retrieve the Coin it has him facing Rebekah in the afterlife... it is penned to paper by Michael Walsh, who provided colors for each story of the series till this point.                                                                         So what is my overall opinion of this series called THE SLIVER COIN as a whole, well as I did mention earlier in this very post this series seems to be very much like the Twilight Zone from the late nineteen fifties.. where when you had gotten through a episode you didn't see a twist coming? The Silver Coin comic series has that given feel of that for anyone who has the Coin has mostly good things possibilities when they find it... but at some eventual point in that person's life and the people they know have very bad things end up occurring to all parties involved, especially to the very one who has it. I want to say that so far from what happens in each story so far I have noticed that all of them have a bird in them that might have a connection to the Coin and how it moves (Maybe or Maybe not through as Rod Serling would say in some opening narration of the Twilight Zone "You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight or sound but of mind: a Journey into a wonderous land  whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop the Twilight Zone". Season four's opening by the way, is the closest to describing how the bird places the coin close to his sight. Speaking of sight it seems when the Coin is making a use of it's power it opens like this 

around the etched cross on the center of it. Does the coin posses someone specific that has a dark/ corrupt soul that feeds it existence who's to really know? This is a very interesting horror driven anthology format because each issue is written by a different comic writer every month. All that I can say is that because it has both violence in it and cursing in it as well, this series isn't for children under the age of evelen. As to what do I have as a grade for the series... a very high ranking of an A plus so far...
As to how did our other reviewer Spidey handle this overall, well maybe this might                                                             

                                          shed some light radioactive or otherwise on that very venturous question? 

While stuck in Idaho....

Here's my review of these three new issues...

                                                                               Hello Comic lovers and fans old and new,                                                                                             Earlier today after work I went and read these three comics seen above from left to right are Hulk vs Thor Banner of war , Jurassic League, Eight Billion Genies, these are of course from three comic book companies and I love all three of them plus one other one. I am honestly hoping that by this very review that I can get at least one if not more new fans for getting into comics... or at least thinking about it for a moment to see if you like them at all?                                                                                                                                                  Overall which one of these three comics brings back great memories for me?, well I will eventually get to that here is 

 all that I have to read as well from that week of May eleventh, twenty twenty two. Along with all of those comics I was able to find the start of a certain oversized novel series that I will truly write about after the fourth of next month because of all things going on in my upcoming vacation time something great is happening is all that I really can saw for now!

Let's begin the review of these starting with the middle one Jurassic League number one of six, it's published by Detective Comics and is by Juan Gedeon as the artist, Mike Spicer as the colorist, Ferran Delgado as the letter, and Juan Gedeon and Daniel Warren Johnson as the writers of this story.  Throughout the course of this series the heroes and villains of the Decetevice Comics universe are yeap various types of dinosaurs in the prehistoric time frame of when coexisting with humanity... imagine if you will Batman,  Wonder Woman, or Aquaman as different type of dinosaurs.  No matter how I look at it I thought it is far better than what is currently going on in the main D.C. universe of all of the heroes being defined by only the sexual preference as their main story arcs is very,  very, sad because shouldn't any hero no matter what be defined by only one trait only! This very book is very great for children with it having great action moments that let them still decide on their own choices of loving the medium if they want.  I would give this comic a rating of a letter grade of B plus. Now what are my thoughts on Eight Billion Genies number one the creative team art wise is by Ryan Browne and colors, lettering by Chris Crank, written by Charles Soule.  This very comic doesn't at all have super heroes at all in it, the story starts out in St. Clair Shores, Michigan at a bar where when given one wish for the owner he wishes that everything outside of the bar won't affect it... but every single person has one wish a piece around the whole planet. I really loved this comic most of all out these three. If I were to say what grade I would give the story as a whole an double A plus, if that's even possible? Oh this title is published by Image comics in case you're interested in knowing!                                                                                                          My thoughts on Marvel comics title of "BANNER OF WAR" , which has art by Martin Coccolo, colorist Matt (wouldn't I just love it my name was here, but of course not really) Wilson, lettering by vc Joe Sabino, written by Donny Cates. This is the start of a five part arc which I will be getting for sure because of the Hulk as my second favorite character of the Marvel Universe... since this was my first comic in a very long time I found myself loving the beat down between Thor the God of thunder and the incredible Hulk have fought seriously several times over the years in their ongoing history and the planet that they are fighting on is known as SAKK-REEN! It also seems as if THE  WATCHER known as UATU ( who mainly oversees every corner of the Marvel multiverses), is a specific spector as to his reasoning of why are beyond every reader as far as I know for right now. The main reason that this mini event is going on between these two gladiators is because currently Donny Cates is writing both of these characters in their own main titles... now why does this really bring back memories of my past as I said earlier in this very post gives me a lot of thoughtfulness thinking of the first Incredible Hulk post series movie known as "THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS" from way back when I was in the ninth grade in nineteen eighty eight where before the Marvel CIMEMATIC universe even existed it was the best marvelous superhero mash up we could get! Also it gives me time to write my many reviews of each episode of the classic iconic series that comes before the first television reunion movie. As to my grade overall for "BANNE R OF WAR" is a B minus!, Happy reading of whatever makes you happiest too!

 

Any and ALL MOTHERS....

Hello everyone,                                                                                                                                     

    Some how or other every thing comes back to being full circle in a way or other when it comes to coming up with new titles or ideas for when one is crafting words of inspiration about subject matter at times because I know that I have used this as my mother's day heading in the past, just so that you are aware of that. The thing about any mother to remember is that they are just as human as men are. Mother's day is always essentially not only about the one who gave birth to us, it's not about flowers and chocolate for the woman who has taken her time to hopefully be not only our teacher or one of many guiding resources of giving us insightful inspiration at those times when we are and aren't aware of our need for such things.  A mother is also a sister,  a aunt, an even a grandmother or better still maybe it's possible that she's able to be a great grandmother too.                                                                                                                                                                  Mothers besides being strong anchors in the existence of life are the greatest tethers of each an every family's heritage on at least from on their side of the one's family history.  We should be very thankful for the grace of why mother's want of a future set of a long LINEAGE to carry on not only their hopes and love or even their lifetimes of keeping their existing existence worthy of their fulfillment to caring for someone besides their best friend or their own parents, a mother is someone who is always wanting to meet a challenge of wanting to learn as well as being a teacher or a friend of their children.       Yet every mother knows that their children are also capable of being influenced by  obstructive choices at points of our lives and need their supportive understanding to helping each of us out... but we have to be equally understanding of when our mothers need help when they are needing it!                                                       

Remember to share how you care about your mother by letting her know by calling her and telling her the meaning of your ways of respectively sharing how you deeply you care about her way of giving you your loving heart of existence. To my own mom, I really do wholeheartedly keep trying to be the best and humbling human being that you have put in caring respect of living life and loving others for their best selves.  I love you very much! 

A little book day known as....

 Yo Comics readers world wide,                                                                                                                     Hey out there to all people who love to look at a illustration within a twenty two page book with word balloons in them along with sound effects in the story as well, know what it is that I am definitely describing!!! At least I can really hope that you are aware of what it is that your getting yourselves involved in??? Well maybe this might help us from this point foreword  if I were to be mentioning names like Doctor Strange (and before you start asking me have I seen his latest film known as MIMV sorry that's my abrveation for the movie's title not Roman numerals, is a huge no for the time being!!!), Superman, Buck Rogers or my all time favorite Spider-man, yes today was Free Comic Book Day.                                                             Here was the line outside of the other side of Adventures underground                   

called the Caterpillar Cafe we see a huge line waiting to get in there to get their new free comic books representative of the day itself. As the line was moving forward at one point I had gotten close enough with my phone camera and saw some very interesting set of people dressed as well have a good look for yourselves.... 

at first glance it seems as if the in coming comic fans are held up by an Stormtrooper of the galactic empire from the star wars film universe "Uh Oh right...                                         

...but as you are able to get a closer look BATMAN is there to keep that Trooper in earth custody boundaries so he can't resist rejoining his dark side pals in a galaxy far, far, away...but who knows maybe the Storm Trooper likes it here on this ongoing crazy planet called earth right now?                                                                                                                               Once you got inside of the coffee/record shop you were able to be seeing tables full of comics for the likes of really young children like the ones seen here on my coffee table here 

or even better yet there were these ones for the more mature crowd of comic book lovers  

as to did I have to go looking around in Adventures itself  well of course you already know about that for a answer? Or at least I honestly hope you would know that as the said answer because for the past few years when Free Comic Book Day was going on I was having great experiences on vacations with my parents and they are always awesome never will lie about that either.  Still my brain is always wanting me to be in more places than time will allow just saying!                                                                                          While I was busy just looking around for whatever did catch my eye I was able to meet up with a whole other kind of vigilante known secretly as well if you're out of the knowledge department here I am unable to help you understand the particular meaning of a secret identity!

Then of course the Green hero was able to get some kind of team up hunt going on just a few minutes later with Batman and a rather new Star Wars character. 

And still after getting this trio together they just started wandering around the alises of Adventures for others people to take pictures with. I was able to talk to the Green Hornet cosplayer and he told me that he is in contact with the property owners of the green hornet merchiding and is trying to get ahold of many unaired radio programs from the nineteen forties along with other green hornet stuff. There were a couple of young kids that thought he was the Riddler from Batman how funny huh???                                                                                                    So I never did get a pic of the Stormtrooper and Batman in a grand beat down between each other, yet I doubt if you or I can even see the Stormtrooper smiling when I got this     

 before I went looking for new comics to pick up which I will promise not to forget to share with everyone who is reading this before I am completely out of thoughtfulness on why Comics are very important!                                                                                                                To answer or at least give one type of answer to as why comics are very important is that they help us as a species in more ways than we ever know of and right now I will give us at least three that are close to the best of really making Free Comic Book Day  truly matter!  We will start number 3. The things that can and are explored most in any comic book is letting the readers brains have a understanding that any genre can be taken to every kind of worlds or universes that your imagination is allowing to be seen through a creative perspective from one or maybe many different types of people. It also helps those very creatives  rather if they are artists or writers they are of course learning about their craft throughout however long they are on a project (comic book) of getting better with that skill. 2. Comics many will always be an gathering of being both as stated within the pervious answer an outstanding opportunity for exploring one's many favorite fantastic fantasies, but they are definitely a way of learning about understanding not only made up worlds or certain character names that the writer is capable of communicating about. They can honestly have a teaching experience as well for anyone by using words like REM an adult might know the meaning of this word, but would a child of the age nine or twelve know of it's context if they see someone sleeping in a panel?, it would simply depend upon how much the child has already learned? but who really knows when college level words are used in story mostly meant for young people. Now don't think about to hard but there are some words that I will admit to perhaps not knowing in a comic story, but as I do ponder it's meaning I will say this thank you whomever is really thinking out the plot of certain said story and letting me as well as being entertained be able to completely challenge myself with learning aspects as much as any child needs to we adults must be willing to learn as much as they do! Now for the number one reason comics are top notch with finding a reasonably way of greatness about them... 1. Since I was completely connecting answers of comics with questions Three to Two I have honestly high  hopes that I can make it an easy answer of a perfect solution by also making the quality of answer one a BIG WINNING BLAST, Comics of the mainstream big two comic companies even though they have way too much plotical stuff in them right now...which this post isn't about that at all. The number one thing about all comics no matter what is comics no matter what the content is comics are for everyone who loves striking art and stories but the one thing everyone has their given reasons for wanting to passing the ongoing love unto the offspring,  yet I do finally understand why everyone really love comics in each family heck no!                                                                                               Before I let you all have fun the way that makes you happiest I have to do as I promised of showing you besides my comics that I ended up going and getting with those free ones of today are   

right here. So without a grand doubt I will be busy getting in tons of reading the rest of this upcoming week and yes I will have fun for sure certainly.... before I really completely left Adventures I was able to find one other Stormtrooper for an awesome Star Wars villains image  

seen here. Then when I left to head for the upcoming bus that I was wanting to catch for my way home I had happened to at the last minute remembered that I was absolutely capable of missing out on getting a pic of myself with all of the comic characters minus the Green Hornet but here     

 it also. Have a very wonderful day of reading like I am planning on doing or whatever will keeping you busy till tomorrow which happens to be  Mother's Day! Of course if you're a comic lover Happy national Free Comicbook day too!