The ripped clothes look doesn’t work on superheroes.
Adventures In The DC Universe #19
FINAL ISSUE
DC Comics (October, 1998)
Wonder Woman & Catwoman: “The Truth About Cats And Gods!”
WRITER: Steve Vance
PENCILER: John Delaney
INKER: Ron Boyd
COLORIST: Bob Le Rose
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Chuck Kim
EDITOR: Kevin Dooley
With everything that’s happened lately there are days I feel like I’m running on autopilot, although I think we all have days like that. You’d think that would make fighting difficult, but not if you have a computer to do the auto-targeting for you.
A bunch of bad men have seen Die Hard too many times and try to outdo the bad guys in that movie, pretty sure there’s no Bruce Willis to stop them. Of course, if John McClane had access to Iron Man’s armor that movie would have ended faster than it takes me to insist “IT’S NOT A CHRISTMAS MOVIE AND DOESN’T NEED TO BE FOR YOU TO WATCH IT AT CHRISTMAS SO KNOCK IT OFF ALREADY!” I don’t care if that cost me votes, I needed to vent!
Due to the nature of this issue’s story it’s tough for me to make a joke about this one.
The Phantom #17
Moonstone (2007)
“Invisible Children” part 1
WRITER: Mike Bullock
ARTIST: Silvestre Szilagyi
COLORIST: Bob Pedroza
SELECTED COVER ART: Marat Mychaels, Adelso Corona, & Adam Street
LIMITED COVER (not shown): Darryl Banks, Terry Austin, & Bob Pedroza–a portion of the proceeds from this cover went to a charity I’ll be going over later
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Joe Gentile
The Predalien as depicted in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Maybe the problem with Ridley Scott’s recent movies in the Alien franchise is that he isn’t interested in the xenomorphs anymore. This interview in Entertainment Weekly seems to indicate he’s found a new threat: artificial intelligence. Sure, it’s been done before, including Scott’s other hit, Blade Runner, but if that’s what he’s interested in maybe he should move into that and create a new franchise while letting people interested in continuing the Alien series have a go. Provided they can drive the train back on the tracks it was off of even before Prometheus according to the vocal members of the fanbase. Remember, I’m not usually into horror, even if it’s sci-fi horror.
Logo to the AKA Cartoon Network evening slot (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It’s been awhile since we’ve discussed the state of affairs at Cartoon Network. I think the last time was when they tried to institute live-action programming because the same guy who disabled American Movie Classics continued his war on specialty channels. Now Cartoon Network faces a whole different problem and one I haven’t seen addressed by cartoon commentary shows on YouTube.
From my fellow Reviewers Unknown contributors I got interested in The Mysterious Mr. Enter and I stumbled upon Saberspark on my own, but I’ve seen others, including RUer The Cartoon Hero, who is more of a reviewer and hasn’t really covered Cartoon Network’s decline. However, everyone seems to agree that what’s killing CN is Teen Titans Go, or at least the overplaying of the show. At least in the US; the UK schedule has a better balance of shows from what I’ve heard. Frankly that’s my only real problem with it since I can otherwise ignore it and outside of not following up from the beloved Teen Titans cartoon (not the first because Filmation had a Teen Titans segment on The Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure) while still using assets from the show in a different art style and taking pop shots at critics I really don’t care. I liked the Teen Titans cartoon as well but I’m still disappointed they weren’t in the DCAU as was teased in an episode of Static Shock. But that’s all I’ll say on the matter because that’s not what I’m here to talk about.
When these commentators discuss the lack of variety of Cartoon Network and their treatment of recent shows like the finale of Regular Show or the debut of OK KO: Let’s Be Heroes they usually bring up the Cartoon Cartoons lineup or some of the other comedic shows like Uncle Grandpa or Steven Universe that air in the few spaces not owned by TTG. However, two shows in particular are never mentioned and for different reasons the ignoring of both shows speaks to one problem about CN’s lineup that they’ve botched completely: any action shows not airing on Toonami, which is now just for dubbed anime edited for television, are given the shaft. Why is CN’s action drought not being brought up?
Forget the Transformer battle; I want to know what’s with that woman’s jaw.
Transformers: Devastation #4
IDW Publishing (December, 2007)
WRITER: Simon Furman
ARTIST: Robby Musso
COLORISTS: Zac Atkinson & Liam Shalloo
SELECTED COVER ART: E. J. Su
LETTERER: Amauri Osorio
EDITOR: Andrew Steven Harris
Quentin Tarantino at the 82nd Academy Awards, March 7, in Hollywood, Calif. Tarantino was nominated for his directorial efforts. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I know asking is Hollywood is losing its collective mind is a silly question because that happened a long time ago, but this is a new flavor of bad. I’ve noted many times in the past that being good doesn’t make you perfect for a particular genre or franchise. (My go-to is usually a romance novel by Stephen King.) But now we have directors going into areas they don’t belong. I may not like Michael Bay’s Transformers movies but at least in theory he might fit. But we’ve had Martin Scorsese wanting to do a Joker origin (a character who by his own admission prefers to make his origin multiple choice) and now Quentin Tarantino is pitching a Star Trek movie to producer J.J. Abrams. Even if the movies hadn’t moved away from the tone and themes of Star Trek (at least Discovery is trying for the latter…with questionable results and still lacking the proper tone) Tarantino isn’t my first choice to direct Star Trek. He’s a good director, but this isn’t his area of expertise nor does it match his particular style.
I have to wonder why non-sci-fi directors now want to play with science fiction or with superheroes when there’s supposed to be superhero fatigue depending on who you ask? Again, being good in your wheelhouse doesn’t always mean being good outside of it.
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
