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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 202 – J-Pop & Admiral Star On Being Like Admiral A

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 202  –

J-Pop & Admiral Star On Being Like Admiral A

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How did I get on this whole “Sailor Moon” thing to begin with? Well, I was trying to think of something to do for the 200th of these conversations. For a while I kept seeing “Sailor Moon” pop on “IG”, “Facebook”, and “Twitter”. More often than not it was a Black “Sailor Moon”. That’s when I thought to myself “yeah she’s important enough of a character that the comic needs a version of her”.

“Sailor Moon” might be the very first thing you think of when you think of the word “anime”. The iconic “sailor outfit” beats even images from “Dragonball”, “Akira”, or “Ghost In A Shell”. Is it good though? Do I like it? These are questions I still can’t give a definitive answer to.

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I’ll get more into that later though. Today’s comic pokes some fun at “Sailor Moon says”. They were segments that were at the end of most episodes of the original English dub. That dub being a whole conversation in itself. Tomorrow, we finally meet Admiral A. She and Admiral Star share the stages and well… You’ll see… Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 201 – Special-Girl, Admiral Star, & Badassia On Apologies & Atrocities

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 201  –

Special-Girl, Admiral Star, & Badassia On Apologies & Atrocities

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Here I introduce my “Gamora” character. She’s another of The Renegades Of Reality are my “Guardians Of The Galaxy” characters. These characters are a little different than the other. They are in most ways parodies of the “Guardians Of The Galaxy” team. Some of them though, are mixes of several characters. “Badassia” is a mixture of :

  • “Gamora”, (of course)
  • “Aeryn Sun” from “Farscape”
  • “Sarah Conner” from “Terminator
  • “Leela” from “Futurama
  • & “Samus” from “Metroid”

    I noticed all these characters were the same type. Also with “Space King” I combined:

  • “Star Lord” (again of course)
  • “John Criton” from “Farscape”
  • & “Phillip J. Fry” from “Futurama”

 

These characters were also the same type. The “normal” guy thrust into crazy space adventure. There’s also several “unspoken things” between these two character types.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The other big thing in this comic is the “twist” to “Sailor Moon” for “Admiral Star” and her team. I debated hinting at it yet, but I figured a character like “Badassia” would have to say something about it. Besides I have more up my sleeve…

Tomorrow Admiral Star and J-Pop have another conversation. Things go a little different this time. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 200C– J-Pop & Admiral Star On Admiral A Mostly

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 200C– J-Pop & Admiral Star On Admiral A Mostly

 

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This Week’s Episode Of “The Flash”… For Real?!

I have to get this out of the way. This week’s episodes of “The Flash” might be the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while. It’s so bad that they should stop take a few weeks or whatever and do it over. The whole “Savitar” thing is too much. This represents everything that been wrong with “The Flash” since season 2:

  • The nonsense science
  • The repetitive “speed” villains/characters
  • The fact “Barry” causes all the problems

Another thing is, if “Caitlyn” is only going to be a villain then screw it and turn her back. Especially if the new blonde chick is taking her place. She sucks! I thought they were going to make a edgier “Caitlyn” with powers. If she’s a straight villain though I’ll pass. This show might have taken the crown for worst “CW” “DC Comics” show. Your move “Supergirl”.

On to this actual comic. I got into the “Sailor Moon”/ “Sailor (V) Venus” last time. Another thing about it that “Sailor V” is with little expection “Sailor Moon” but better. Look at “Sailor Moon’s” characteristics:

  • Dumb
  • Clumsy
  • A Crybaby/Coward
  • Has a hairstyle everyone makes fun of
  • General screw up
  • Always needs to helped/rescued even though she has the one hit kill move that solves everything

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“Sailor V” seems to be the opposite. Even when she first appears she saves all the other “Sailor Scouts” by herself. Again this never seems to be address. She joins and helps and seems to accept “Sailor Moon” as leader even though she’s way more qualified. Haha deconstructing is fun!

That’s it for this week! Check out new “Criminal And Crimefigher Conversations” on Tuesdays-Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

 

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 200B– Admiral Star & Special-Girl On Special-Girl’s Authority

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 200B– Admiral Star & Special-Girl On Special-Girl’s Authority

 

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So as we saw in the last comic Admiral Star is my version of “Sailor Moon”. As this comic mentions she’s half Black and half Korean. So if you know “Sailor Moon” you know that “Sailor Venus/ Sailor V” actual came first. She was also so famous in “Sailor Moon’s” world that she had video games, comics, and movies about her.

“Sailor Moon” idolizes “Sailor V” and then one day she appears and is part of the team. She now leads this chick she idolizes. This is not addressed much in “Sailor Moon”. Also is “Sailor V” rich from all this stuff? She doesn’t seem to be.

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That’s part one of the jokes from yesterday’s comic. “Admiral A” who is my version “Sailor Venus” is WAY richer and more poplar than “Admiral Star”. This will be a bigger part of tomorrow’s comic.

Speaking of which, tomorrow Admiral Star meets J-Pop . Then Admiral Star make a wrong assumption and things go bad from there. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 200A – Space King, Admiral Star, & Sadistic Squirrel On “Renegades Of Reality 2nd Mix” & Who That Broad Is?

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 200A –

Space King, Admiral Star, & Sadistic Squirrel On “Renegades Of

Reality 2nd Mix” & Who That Broad Is?

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Hard to believe we’ve already reached 200 of these comics. It seems like 100 couldn’t have been THAT long ago. It’s so great to be able to mix and match all these characters.

I started with somewhere around 20 and I’ve WAY more than doubled that. For this week alone I made up 4 new ones. Space King (“Star Lord”), Admiral Star (“Sailor Moon”), and Sadistic Squirrel (“Rocket Raccoon”). These are the characters in this comic. I also made a “Gamora” character, but I didn’t end up using her.

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Enough of this let’s get to the…

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.2 Review

First the most important question. Is it as good as the original? No. This was near impossible to achieve though. Granted this is a VERY good movie. It is VERY funny. There’s good news and bad news for comic book movies in general:

Good news: I doubt there will be a bad “Marvel” movie again. They seem to have figured things out.

Bad news: I doubt there will be any comic book movie that will crack the top 5 ever again. In case you’re wondering they are:

  1. The Dark Knight
  2. Avengers 1
  3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  4. Guardians Of The Galaxy 1
  5. Deadpool

In the case of most of these movies you can’t recapture the magic. Of course I hope I’m wrong. “Vol.2” is a deeper movie with bigger stakes, but it’s not a “tight” as the original. Sometimes it feels like we’re stopping to look at things. Like the director is saying “look at this isn’t it great!”. One thing I liked a lot is that these characters don’t hesitate to kill. It’s arguable that even “Baby Groot” catches a body. It’s not as good as the original, but it’s still very good. Of course go see it if you haven’t.

Tomorrow we continue the 200th comic celebration with 200B. Admiral Star (who I’ll get more into tomorrow) meets Special-Girl it’s less than friendly. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 199 – The Innovator, Headmaster Fresh, Mr. Stretch & Slowku On Taxes

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 199 –

The Innovator, Headmaster Fresh, Mr. Stretch & Slowku On Taxes

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I have a real love love/hate thing for both “DC” and “Marvel”. I love the characters, but hate what they do with them most of the time. Both companies seem to not be able to stop doubling down on bad ideas.

The big thing going down with “DC” is a crossover with “Batman” and “The Flash” that involves:

  • The “Flashpoint timeline”
  • Using “Watchmen” characters

Which is the equal to mixing nonsense with sacrilege. The biggest thing is “Batman” meets h his dad. His dad is “Batman” in the “Flashpoint” timeline. His dad also tell him not to be “Batman” anymore… We’ve done someone else being “Batman” twice in like 5 years. C’mon DC!

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What do ya’ll think, though? That’s it for this week. I’m still hard at work on what will be the 200th of these comics. Check out new “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” Tuesdays-Thursday.Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 198 – Special-Girl, Q-girl, & Spiderous-Man On Living Together

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 198 –

Special-Girl, Q-girl, & Spiderous-Man On Living Together

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I’m going to change my plans for the 200th comic. The story I had in mind has become bigger and I need more time to develop it. What I plan to do now will be a few of these comics to introduce my version of “Sailor Moon” and the other “Sailor Scouts”. In fact I finished the design of my version of “Sailor Moon” for this comic last night. Her name is Admiral Star.

 On to this comic. I’ve been wanting to bring back Q-girl and Spiderous-Man for while. I couldn’t find the right story for them until now. The whole “The Mindy Project” thing came from me finally wanting to see what was going on during the last season. I then realized I had only watched half of the season before. “Mindy” is always a show I root for because it started as a good show. It always get screwed up though. People who aren’t funny (Mindy’s friends?) keep getting added to it. They not only aren’t funny in their own right they hog up time from the good characters. Oh well, I hear next season it ends anyway…

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Tomorrow we meet up with Slowku, The Innovator, Headmaster Fresh, and Mr. Stretch. An unexpected schooling in taxes gets dropped. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 197 – Special-Girl, Quickie, & Freedom Female On “Renegades Of Reality 2nd Mix” & That Other Movie

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 197 –

Special-Girl, Quickie, & Freedom Female On “Renegades Of Reality

2nd Mix” & That Other Movie

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I’m actually skeptical about “Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2”. I read a review on cbr.com that said it was more or the same from the first movie. It wasn’t exactly a negative review, but not super positive. The original movie sets quite a high bar. I’d put as 4th best comic book movie period. To me “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” beats it by a hair. I’m talking tenths of a point. It has a better post-credit scene and I like the darker tone. Can it actually be as good as or better than the original? Guess we’ll see this week…

I’m think I’m burying the lead here though. So this comic is two pages. I saw 2 big problems with the comics the way ther were before.

  1. The font could be easier to read
  2. Trying to fit all the word balloons made it hard to know what to read next

I addressed the first problem by changing the font and increasing the size. The 2nd one was simple, but took awhile to come to. Why cram everything in one panel? “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” was suppose to be a one panel comic. Why does it have to be though? If I have to edit a good chunk I what I want to write and the comic is still hard to read why do it this way. Would it take more time? More than likely not more than resizing word balloons over and over to try to fit everything. So I’m going to use two panels when I need to and I hope it makes a better reading experience.

Tomorrow Special-Girl gets a lesson about living together from couple with some experience. That couple is Q-girl and Spiderous-Man so she should take it with a grain of salt. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 196 – The Innovator, Headmaster Fresh, Mr. Stretch & Slowku On Funnel Cakes, Regular Cakes, & Common Surprisingly

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 196 – The Innovator,

Headmaster Fresh, Mr. Stretch & Slowku On Funnel Cakes, Regular Cakes, & Common Surprisingly

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So if you saw yesterday’s comic you saw the coloring was off with Mr. Stretch’s face. For some reason the colors I used for him get screwed up whenever I use him. It been since I used him so I forgot this. I’ll try to fix this tonight.

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Speaking of screwing up, “Supergirl” & “The Flash” were back on this week. With “Supergirl” I now have some sympathy. When the show moved to Vancouver to film it lost several people. That would be “Ally McBeal”, “Lucy Lane”, and “Maxwell Lord”. I’m sure this screwed up whatever plans they had for this season. Still after some okay episodes this show went right back all the worst stuff from this season like:

  • Guardian
  • “Supergirl” being a reporter
  • Lena Luthor

“The Flash” on the other hand, I don’t know to say about it. I’m at a point where I want “Iris” to die already so they can move on. It seems like forever with this “gotta save Iris” thing. Also am I missing something? Why does “Caitlin” having powers make her evil. Like what’s the connection? I was looking forward to “Killer Frost”, but now I starting to be over that too. This show REALLY needs to shake things up. Like yesterday!

That’s it for this week. Check out new “Criminal And Crimefigher Conversations” on Tuesdays-Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 195 – The Innovator, Headmaster Fresh, Mr. Stretch & Slowku On Slowku Being Part Of Their Secret Group

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 195 – The Innovator,

Headmaster Fresh, Mr. Stretch & Slowku On Slowku Being Part Of

Their Secret Group

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This one goes back to “Criminal And Crimefigher Conversations” 151. There Headmaster Fresh talked to Mr. Mystic through telepathy and Slowku overhear it. You can check out here http://bit.ly/ccconver151 .

The Toy Shop That Is Writing Superhero Comics

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In some ways making these comics is like playing with toys. I see some of the older stuff and rediscover characters I haven’t used in a while. Then I’m like “oh yeah these guys are fun”. That’s what happened when I these guys in the “secret group”. This is “secret group” is like the “Illuminati” group in “Marvel”.

It fun to explore what happens when you mix all these geniuses with a dumb guy like Slowku. Tomorrow, all these guys return to talk desserts and Common of all thing.

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