By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 11/23/2015
We’ve been writing quite a bit in the last year about the slow death of comics media, and one of the reasons is that it’s hard for a small, passion run site to compete with…the New Yorker? Here’s a think piece on the Jem and the Holograms comic by Stephen Burt whose bio tells us […]
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 8/14/2015
Today, Universal released a new trailer for the film adaptation of Jem and the Holograms showcasing the song “Youngblood,” which debuted in the movie’s initial trailer. I was but an egg when Jem and the Holograms first aired in the 80s. I have minimal point of reference for the series beyond the IDW comic and that Taric reference in League […]
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 7/28/2015
Via Tumblr, the amazing painter Stephanie Hans has gone totally pink for this variant cover for IDW’s Jem comic. Written by Kelly Thompson, with art by Sophie Campbell, this comic is a nice throwback to the Jem and the Holograms most Gen Xers remember as opposed to the Pitch perfect 3 treatment the movie is […]
By: Jerry Beck,
on 5/13/2015
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 12/2/2014
Beloved 80s cartoon icons Jem and the Holograms are coming back big time, with a Honda ad (below), a movie in the works for the end of next year starring Aubrey Peeples, and a new comics from IDW, to be written by Kelly Thompson (Storykiller, The Girl Who Would Be King) and drawn by Ross Campbell (Glory, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). Sub covers will be by Sara Richard (My Little Pony, Kitty and Dino).
Thompson is also a long running columnist for CBG (She Has No Head) that The Beta has quoted many times, so congrats on netting such a great gig!
It’s the 21st century, and Jem and The Holograms are 21st century girls! Meet Jerrica Benton, the gifted singer of The Holograms, a band that has the right look and the right sound… But one thing is holding them back—Jerrica’s crippling stage fright. Luckily, Jerrica is about to find help in the most unlikely of places when she discovers a forgotten present left by her father. And what she finds is truly outrageous!
“As a kid I was a huge fan of the original 80’s JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS cartoon and so the chance to breathe new life into it for a savvy modern audience, not to mention to work with Ross, an artist practically destined to draw this book, is really a dream come true,” said series writer, Kelly Thompson.
Don’t miss the chance to get the five stunning rainbow foil covers that will be available for Issue One—one for each Hologram by artist Amy Mebberson (My Little Pony, Pocket Princesses), plus the whole band by series artist Ross Campbell—in a deluxe rainbow foil and hologram collectible box. A second box set for Issue two will feature another set of four covers by Mebberson and a group shot by Campbell—this time starring Jem’s greatest nemeses, The Misfits!
“Getting a JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS comic going was a top priority for me when I started at IDW,” says Senior Editor John Barber. “It took three years, but Kelly and Ross came in with a style and attitude that really got Jem. They understand Jem’s appeal—I can’t overstate the impact Jem has had on generations of fans and readers.”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxokHywIlEs
Heya guys– I’ve been getting back in to this site recently after a media break, and the first line caught my attention (which… it was supposed to. so… good job?) But because I’ve been on hiatus, I’m a bit confused about what it’s supposed to mean. Can anyone point me in the way of some articles that talk about comic media dying?
In regards to the comic itself– I’m satisfied not only with every issue I buy, but with the choices made in the comic at large. It’s a lot more cost-effective and safe to reboot a series as a comic than as a full cartoon series, so seeing Hasbro test a new take on an outdated property is refreshing. What I enjoy the most about the series is how confident it is– there’s an assortment of visual and narrative diversity that the original sorely lacked (and in retrospect, to contemporary eyes, was just about the glitteriest piece of wonderbread with crisco on it that ever did see animation cel. That’s in diversity and character definition, not necessarily race. :P). And it’s normal, used as gracefully as white-default or cis-gender narratives are in other media. But even deeper than skin level, it’s entertaining and well presented and feels like something I want to be reading every week instead of every month. That these characters are so magnetic have more visual diversity but in a matter-of-fact-way, instead of what I’m sure the original property would (and did) translate as preachy-specialness or very special episodes…. says a lot more about where the industry as a whole can go right now, and where it could be in a few years. Buuuuuut, I’m comparatively less experienced and at the core optimistic.
is exactly why the comics media is dying
^lmao at pissbaby anon