Nobody complained when Batman was on his feet in less than a week...

I get it more on the archive page (just click on the comic) but I have to ask why everyone insists Barbara could easily go back to being Batgirl thanks to superscience and magic when A) Batman had to go through the healing process when Bane broke his back and B) didn’t Barbara retire Batgirl long BEFORE the Joker crippled her? Oracle serves a purpose in the DCU that nobody else can do, while Batgirl’s “job” was easily handled by both Cassandra and by Stephanie when she was still going by “The Spoiler” (which sound like the name of a villain from The Electric Company‘s Spidey stories, but I digress). What’s happening to her is character de-evolution, another victim of the Bad Fanfic Brigade and the backsliding timeline.

Anyway, the reason this is late tonight is that I went and saw Transformers: Dark of the Moon this afternoon. After I got home I had something to eat and was considering doing a V-Log instead of news, but decided to just do the V-Log or an article tomorrow. I will say that I thought it was a pretty good movie, better than the last Transformers movie, but it still wasn’t that great. I’ve heard it said it wasn’t as good as the first film, but I thought it actually was. I will note that the plot is a variation of the G1 episode “The Ultimate Doom” and that having Leonard Nimoy voicing one of your characters doesn’t mean that you can rip off Star Trek lines.

But enough of that noise, it’s time to see what else happened in the world, and I find it rather sad that most of the news I hear out of Comic-Con really doesn’t interest me, or is something we already heard anyway because DC loves getting mentioned in USA Today.

comics

• Newsarama put out a list of long-running comics that have never been renumbered. It includes comics pointed at younger readers, so there!
• DC is planning to promote their new DC Universe with ads in theaters. Why didn’t they think of doing this BEFORE the reboot?
• The sad details about the plan to end Stephanie Brown back during the “War Games” event.

television/movies

• TNT is bringing back the nighttime soap Dallas. Was anybody asking for this to be remade?
• This should be an interesting experiment to watch. ABC’s cancelled soap operas All My Children and One Life To Live may well continue on, this time as online series. If this works, maybe other shows cancelled on TV will see new life as online shows?
• NBC and CBS have announced the premiere dates for their Fall season.
• TV series creator Sherwood Schwartz has passed away.
• A behind the scenes look at just how Pixar does it.

video games

• A new take on the “god game”. Meet From Dust.
• A writer asks multiplayer fans to be kind you local newbie.
• Attempting to turn literature into games.
• A fair look at a Christian game developers convention.
• Kotaku looks at their excellent Japanese-produced/US translated series Retro Game Master. If you haven’t been watching the show, you must do so now.

in other news

• Harry Potter fans may be excited about J.K. Rowling’s latest addition to the franchise, “Pottermore”.
• The Clutter Reports: Some quick tips about tackling virtual clutter.
• This Week’s Cracked:  They’re not actual fiction, but they could be. They are, after all 9 Acts of Vigilantism Straight Out of a Comic Book. And we could use a little restoring of our faith in humanity after the recent massacre in Norway.

Best Scene of This Week’s Reviews

Godzilla: Gangsters & Goliaths #2

My work schedule has been changed, but I don’t know what effect that will have on the site. Just a heads up if posts aren’t made until I adjust.