This is when Hugh knew Bozo was watching too many old Crocodile Hunter episodes.
Smash Comics #5
E.M. Arnold (December, 1939)
I’d be surprised in an anthology comic like this was 100% amazing. With different stories barely sharing a genre you know something is going to fall off. On the plus side that means if enough stories work by shere numbers you win. On the downside, if there are only one or two stories you get into you end up losing those stories because the rest don’t live up to the price when there are a bunch of other comics, some of which aren’t public domain and I’m not even doing every series Comic Book Plus has. Back then there were a bunch more options begging to take that shiny dime off of you when 10¢ was actually worth something.
So far this series has had more hits than misses. Time to see if they end the cover year continuing that trend. This probably didn’t come out in December thanks to weird cover dating comics still does today, so I’m not expecting any Christmas stories. We haven’t had any from the December dated comics so far.
It should surprise nobody who’s been her long enough that I don’t necessarily tow the “party line”. I defend Scrappy-Doo and other mascot characters. I think kids properties should remain kids properties even if they add things for the adults watching. I like things many on the internet in my circles don’t. I see “woke” as a symptom of a larger problem in entertainment. I’m willing to go against the group and have my own opinions, but I’m also willing to go along with the group if I agree with them.
Pacific Rim is one of those franchises where I don’t agree.
I saw the original movie just before the second came out, and while I liked it I did not have the same reaction as the rest of my circles. Everyone around me hyped the thing up so much nothing less that being the greatest giant monster movie I ever watched in my life would do, but I just didn’t see it. It was a great plot with great characters, but waiting for that mindblow everyone else experienced never elicited that result. Then I saw the sequel and actually enjoyed it more than the first because it was so anti-hyped that it had nowhere to go but up. It used John Boyega better than Star Wars did, I liked the rest of the cast, the one-piloted Scrapper was my favorite of the Jaeger mechs, and I had a better time because I wasn’t waiting for that mindblow like others who went to see it before me had and complained wasn’t there. Without the hype, and in fact actually had anti-hype for not being as good, I enjoyed watching Pacific Rim: Uprising more than the original movie.
Oh get off my case. It was at least better than Atlantic Rim, the Asylum knock-off. An easy goal to topple but Uprising was enjoyable for me.
It’s not what Guillermo del Toro wanted, though. Pacific Rim: Maelstrom was the intended sequel, but due to mistakes by the people in charge, working on The Shape Of Water, in which a woman hooks up with a fish man that’s more fish than man, and losing the movie’s star, Uprising was rushed together and put out. You can probably tell from the end result, but my opinion is unchanged. Yesterday I learned what the planned story was and…I’m going to fight the universe again by saying I’m kind of glad we never got it.
Personally I like Sandman’s original costume. Of course it could have been worse. Remember when DC gave the Blackhawks superhero costumes instead of their military style uniforms? If not, I envy you.
Those are just the powers that stayed. Everyone remembers the rainbow finger beams that shot out a mini-Superman.
Here we go again, another superpower that weakens Superman, making it ultimately worthless or dangerous to him to use.
Superman’s powerset is a dime a dozen at this point. Most of the superpowered beings in the DC universe alone has at least one or more of Superman’s powers. They’re practically the standard even if you aren’t making a Superman analog. I know it’s one of the reasons why I assumed The Samaritan of Astro City was their Superman, though Kurt Busiek claims otherwise. We know them, we love them, we usually go to that list to choose the superpower we want to have if we could have superpowers. Not me. I want an energy field that grants me other superpowers, only three of which are up there–see if you can guess which ones. I guess now we’re close to that thanks to Dan Slott.
Another writer more interested in putting their mark on a character rather than making their mark as a creator and continuing the character they don’t own, Slott has given Superman yet another power, a defensive version of the “super flare” that protects him from Kryptonite. I’m calling it a kryptonite barrier until they give me something official because that’s what it does. Using Superman’s stored solar power, like the super flare, he can create a short-lived protective barrier from kryptonite for three minutes, but if it runs out so does Superman’s powers (and so does Superman if the kryptonite is still there). You know, like the LAST superpower they gave him.
Do we really need Superman to have a new power? I don’t think so, or some of the one-off powers Superman had, like remolding his face that one time, or the rainbow finger beams that shot out a tiny Superman. Heat vision started out as heat from his x-ray vision. I haven’t seen super ventriloquism in years and only the comics used it. Is the kryptonite barrier really necessary? Is the overload of Kryptonite a good idea?
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