I was just looking for info on Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Sure, so it is a little embarrassing to admit I liked it, since no one has ever heard of it, but it was a heck of a lot better written then C.O.P.S., althought both were great, visually. Now, I have never heard of J. Michael Straczynsky disallowing his show, but I bet you could find some fan, somewhere who would claim their hands over their ears rather then listen to jms talk about how nice it was to write for it. Hmmmm…. http://web.archive.org/web/20040721223029/http://pages.ivillage.com/rootarchive/main.html http://www.retrojunk.com/ has the theme song, btw.
Bad example. I have yet to meet an unreasonable Bab 5 fan.
Ok, let me try again
Ah-ha! Looking through webpages, I see only a few acknowledgements that Orson Welles’s last film was Transformers: The Movie. Ok, that’s better. I liked it, but then again, I have no taste. Any other examples that the stars/authors/athletes/their followers are ashamed to admit happened, but aren’t all that bad?
C.O.P.S. actually had some neat character designs by Bart Sears. J. Michael Straczynski wrote dozens of great episodes of what may be the best '80s “toy cartoon,” The Real Ghostbusters. (Justice League writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis also contributed an episode or two each, but JMS churned out a bunch of them himself.) And Transformers: The Movie rules, no question about it.
As for your example, cartoonist Kyle Baker wants nothing to do with the mature-readers Shadow series he drew with writer Andy Helfer for DC in the late '80s. It was funny and weird and mayhem-packed, and would easily have been a Vertigo book, had Vertigo been around back then. But because it wasn’t one of his original creator-owned works, Baker shrugs it off as a “gig” and doesn’t like talking about it much.
As long as we’re on Transformers: The Movie, it is my understanding that Leonard Nimoy continues to feign ignorance that he had any part in the movie whatsoever – especially not as the voice actor for the lead villian, Galvatron.
That’s really sad. The Shadow was all right before Baker, but not nearly as good. The storyline (as a friend of mine put it) took a lot of effort to understand without much payoff. Bill Sinchewitz (sp?) art is so different than Baker’s that it’s hard to compare, but obviously Baker had a hand in the story and it really improved.
It’s way I bought The Cowboy Wally Show and Why I Hate Saturn.
C.O.P.S. real problem was not enough Dr Badvibes. You’ve got a mad scientist with a visible brain who’s incapacitated by sunspots. Every episode should have centered around him.