Zemo and Hulk, just to make a threat worth worrying about.
Thunderbolts #16
Marvel Comics (July, 1998)
“Thunder & Lightning”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
PENCILER: Mark Bagley
INKER: Scott Hanna
COLORIST: Joe Rosas
LETTERER: Sidbhan Hanna
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
Jackson Bostwick as Captain Marvel on CBS’ Shazam! Saturday morning TV series. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’ll be accused of hating women or some crap but the real Captain Marvel is a 12 year old boy who turns into an adult superhero. But if you really want to call him by his magic word because Marvel Comics are being jerks then fine. The plot for…mhm…Shazam! has finally been released . It doesn’t sound too bad but I’m still skeptical after hearing previous ideas for the movie and knowing Hollywood the way I do.
Chapter one was about getting the readers who haven’t followed the comics (or at least not before the John Byrne reboot) up to speed on Superman’s origin without the usual straight-up showing the origin, as well as introducing one of the principle characters to come. It was also about showcasing why those of us who love Superman feel that way. What will happen this chapter?
Around this time Clark and Lois were dating, but I don’t recall if they were engaged. The death of Superman was a big moment in the news because of the cultural status Superman maintains. Nobody thought he’d stay dead, especially anybody who know comics, and this was still before death in comics became so cheap…when a character died it wasn’t for shock or to affect the hero but had weight and meaning to it. Yes, sometimes characters were killed off because the new writer didn’t like them, but on the whole death wasn’t cheap and undone like it is today, where even the big deaths like Barry Allen’s was undone because of nostalgia. And then proceeded to change the character’s history because today’s writers think heroism only comes from tragedy, not the aversion of tragedy inspiring someone to become a superhero. I know a lot of blame is placed on this story, but like the various attempts to emulate Watchmen the original did it right and better because writers and editors don’t take time to understand why a creator does what he or she does. Maybe they should start a website to explore that. I’m hoping it’s working for me.
I had to mess with the photo editor settings so you could see the relief work for the S shield.
Superman: The Wedding Album
DC Comics (December, 1996)
WRITERS: Dan Jurgens, Karl Kesel, David Michelinie, Louise Simonson, & Roger Stern
ARTISTS: John Byrne, Terry Austin, Kerry Gammill, Murphy Anderson, Gil Kane, Bob McLeod, Stuart Immonen, José Marzan, Jr., Paul Ryan, Brett Breeding, Jon Bogdanove, Dennis Janke, Kieron Dwyer, Doug Hazlewood, Tom Grummett, Denis Rodier, Dick Giordano, Art Thibert, Jim Mooney, Geogre Pérez, Curt Swan, Jackson Guice, Nick Cardy, Al Plastino, Barry Kitson, Ray McCarthy, Ron Frenz, Joe Ruinstein, Dan Jurgens, & Jerry Ordway (pant pant)
COLORIST: Glenn Whitmore
SEPARATIONS: Digital Chameleon
LETTERER: Bill Oakley
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Mike Mcavennie
EDITOR: Joey Cavalieri
“SUPERMAN” CREATORS: Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster
Well, I wanted a Superman link and this works: Here’s a UK article from February about a touring museum exhibit dedicated to DC history. The focus seems to be on the movies according to the article, but the comics are represented as well. I wonder if it will come stateside?
I believe the score is three good, two evil. Four good if you count pocket dimension Superboy as separate from classic Superboy.
Let’s see, you have the original (Superman when he was a boy), the 90s version (clone created when Superman died…he got better), Zod’s son I think turned evil or alternate dimension or something, Superboy Prime (aka Geoff Johns taking a shot at critics of the “Dark Age” of comics), And the current version (son of Superman). That’s a lot of Superboys, just appearing in the main comics alone. We’re not counting alternate realities that didn’t intersect with the main DC Universe.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I did a quick project, mostly because I don’t care to show my underwear to the internet. I do however want to be able to find my clothes so I had a few drawers to reorganize.
And the Superhits keep coming folks. Tomorrow we’ll be looking at the comic where Clark Kent and Lois Lane get married as well as chapter 2 of the time Superman died, but in prose form. It’s still the build-up, not the actual death so we dodged that bit of unhappiness. We’ll also be going into the first Gargoyles comic from SLG, written by the creator of the series and considered canon versus The Goliath Chronicles, and I’m planning a tie-in to that as well. Meanwhile we’re nearing the end of the main IDW Transformers comics I still have to review with the first issue of All Hail Megatron, the miniseries that ended up being the new direction for the IDW TFU. We still have other comics to go over after that in different continuities so that all the reviews will be here on this website.
I’m also hoping to get that Finally Watched in this week and get more work done on the Worldbuilding Project. If I’m lucky I’ll even get that convention panel edited and posted for Saturday. Wish me luck!
Dungeons & Dragons (album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I was not a player of Dungeons And Dragons nor did I really watch the cartoon. I rarely deal with fantasy and I’m not much into the darker themes of the game. But I do know enough people out there were into the cartoon and might like to see this one.
The game takes place in some fantasy world with monsters and stuff. That’s all I know about that. CBS aired a three-season animated series in which a group of kids taking a ride on a Dungeons And Dragons carnival ride end up transported to that realm (although a bit more Saturday Morning friendly) where they take on the various classes and have to protect their magic weapons from an evil wizard while trying to get home. Unless you know more than that you may not get into tonight’s posting. The show was produced by Marvel Productions (Marvel’s animation wing at the time) with animation by Toei. However the last episode was never produced for whatever reason. That’s strange considering it was the series finale.
As part of the DVD release of the series an audio drama was produced based on that last script. One person on YouTube combined that audio with images of a fancomic adaptation (the script was released online). So for those of you who were fans of the cartoon here’s your chance to find out how this ends. Now I know it’s a Saturday morning cartoon script but I don’t know what changes were made in the script or by the artist but this should be friendly for any child you would let watch the cartoon, even without CBS’s censors going over it. Like I said, it’s not interesting to me but sometimes you do something good for your readers.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
