Inhumanoids: Marvel Comics treatment

With thanks to Monzo at tfwiki, the Sunbow Marvel Archive now hosts one of the earliest development documents for what would become the toyline and cartoon Inhumanoids.

Known at this stage as The Force Of Light, the 13 page treatment by Marvel Comics writer and editor Tom DeFalco sets the stage for a team of geologists and inventors, initially tasked to defend Earth from devastating meteor showers, who find that the Light Shields built for this task are being sabotaged by The Evil That Lies Within.

To read the treatment and view similar development work for Robotix, Bigfoot And The Muscle Machines, Visionaries and Air Raiders, head to: Sunbow Syndication 1985-1987

Transformers: Aerial Assault storyboards

With thanks to Ryan King, the Archive now hosts full storyboards for The Transformers episode Aerial Assault.  The eighth set overall and last of the twelve episodes written or otherwise worked on by Doug Booth to be represented via script or storyboard.

To view them, head to: Aerial Assault storyboard gallery

Youtube channel

Presenting my YouTube channel, where viewers can find the full 65 episode run of Jem, as well as my various storyboard animatics.  If you've enjoyed the production material I've brought to you through the Archive and would like to show your support, please head over to the channel and subscribe.

More info on lost Marvel series The Young Astronauts

Thanks to Heritage Auctions, we now have a little more info regarding the production of The Young Astronauts.  The fruits of Marvel Productions' partnership with The Young Astronauts Council, in the form of an animated series that was intended to air on CBS for the 1985 TV season, but was delayed due to disputes with the YAC's advisor on the production.  Attempts to restart the series in early 1986 were for naught as the network cancelled the show after the Challenger space shuttle explosion.

Linked below are background layouts from the series' fourth episode Ghostship, under the production code MP 800-04.  Drawn by Disney legend Walt Peregoy, whose work for Marvel around this time included My Little Pony: The Movie, Glo Friends and Moondreamers.

Heritage Auctions link

The Transformers: Webworld storyboard

Thanks to tfwiki mod Monzo, the Archive now hosts storyboards for Act III of The Transformers episode Webworld.

Co-written by comics legend Len Wein and Diane Duane, this episode sees Cyclonus make the reluctant decision to have his unstable leader Galvatron committed to psychiatric care on the planet Torkulon.  Only to find that the methods employed by his "carers" are far more insane than the Decepticon leader ever was.

Head on over to Webworld storyboard gallery

Storyboard Animatics, Part 3

As an interlude while I prepare to make the next homegrown storyboard animatics, I have uploaded the five that were available on Shout Factory's 2011 Jem And The Holograms DVD box set.

Jem music video storyboard gallery

Jem theme (first draft)
Artist: Will Meugniot

Jem theme (final revision)
Artist: Will Meugniot

The Misfits - Abracadabra
From MP 5205-36 Music Is Magic
Artist: Keith Tucker

Jem And The Holograms - Everybody Wears A Mask
From 5205-50 Mardi Gras
Keith Tucker

Jem And The Holograms, The Misfits, The Stingers - Now
From MP 5205-59 The Stingers Hit Town, Part 2
Artist: Will Meugniot

Storyboard Animatics, Part 2

Using the storyboards available at the Archive, I have been producing some more storyboard animatic videos.

Jem

View music video storyboard gallery

The Bands Break Up
Jem And The Holograms
Getting Down To Business, Version 2
Storyboards by Mike Vosburg

Trick Or Techrat
Jem And The Holograms
We Can Change It, Version 2
Storyboards by Larry Houston and Will Meugniot

Transformers

S.O.S Dinobots

Act III section (with deleted scenes)

View full episode storyboard gallery

Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2
Additional Material section