When I was a kid I collected Transformers and I have been doing so ever since. The Transformers Headmasters came around late in the end of the G1 run. There was a four issue mini-series in the comics and I think that eventually those characters made it to the regular Marvel comic. there were also a line of toys for the Headmasters and sadly I don’t have a single one of them.
This happened around the time when my interest in Transformers waned a bit and also with the end of the television cartoon and the end of the comic book series. However over in Japan they continued to make cartoons and that included 35 episodes of Headmasters cartoons. Continue reading Review: Transformers Headmasters – The Japanese Collection→
Today I received a box of Green Lantern stuff. I got two power rings, a DVD called Green Lantern: First Flight, a Hardcover Secret Origin: Green Lantern Graphic Novel, a Colossal Cannon Blaster and a Hal Jordan action figure with a Battle Shifters: Blade Attack toy. Green Lantern is one of those characters that got his start in the 1940s and then was revived and revamped in the 1950s. Most people probably know the 1950s Green Lantern, Hal Jordan more than any other Green Lantern before or since. Hal Jordan was a second generation test pilot and was a man who was utterly honest and born without fear. That is the man who was sought by a dying alien named Abin Sir when Sir crash landed on earth. Between what I knew already about the character and what I learned by watching the First Flight DVD and Brightest Day Graphic Novel I am now pretty well versed in Green Lantern Lore. I’m also very excited for the upcoming Green Lantern Movie. Continue reading In Brightest Day, in Blackest Night→
When I was a kid I collected Transformers and I have been doing so ever since. The Transformers Headmasters came around late in the end of the G1 run. There was a four issue mini-series in the comics and I think that eventually those characters made it to the regular Marvel comic. there were also a line of toys for the Headmasters and sadly I don’t have a single one of them.