“Great, like I haven’t done enough time travel lately!”
Superman #61
DC Comics (November, 1991)
“Time And Time Again Again!”
WRITER/ARTIST: Dan Jurgens
FINISHED ART: Brett Breeding
COLORIST: Glenn Whitmore
LETTERER: John Costanza
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Dan Thorsland
EDITOR: Mike Carlin
After recording this one I’m unsure if I’ll be up to recording any more until I see the regular dentist for the follow-up. This little leftover bone spur keeps poking me in the tongue while I’m trying to discuss this topic and that’s not fun to talk with. That’s why this is short, plus I didn’t have much to say anyway.
I don’t celebrate until I see the changes.
Yes, I heard Axel Alonso is no longer Editor-In-Chief of Marvel, and I’m betting losing Brian Michael Bendis to DC had something to do with it. Between using authors who aren’t interested in making comics to some titles being more propaganda than actual stories (your world view is always going to affect your story, but it doesn’t have to be preaching your message unless you’re doing propaganda or religious comics) to events like Secret Empire and Captain Hydramerica, they aren’t doing so well, and it’s the comics that help promote the movies in Disney’s mind, or serve as potential fodder for movies and TV shows.
However, are we sure C.B. Beluski is going to undo One More Day, or work to bring in actual comic writers who are interested in the Marvel universe and formula? Time will tell, but everyone was excited when Alonso took over from Joe Quesada, who is still publisher and still hates Mary Jane Watson, so let’s not celebrate just yet, Marvel fans. Meanwhile it’s a good time to be a DC fan like me…if you ignore the movies and Gotham, which I do. The only reason I know anything about what’s going on with Gotham is sitting through the last minute or so before The Orville starts, and I’m behind on that.
I have an appointment with the regular dentist next week, so this week I’m planning to resume operations of the BW kind. The comics I planned to review last week besides DC and Marvel will post this week. I’m hoping to resume the Art Soundoff Challenge. And we’ll have plenty to discuss this week, as soon as I figure out what exactly. Enough surgeries already, let’s get some stuff done!
In 2008 I was home recovering from the hospital. I”m hoping this isn’t a trend for every eight years. I couldn’t go to work (I had a job back then), I couldn’t go anyplace; all I could do is sit there and read the internet or watch TV and online video. That was it. It was during this time that I discovered blogging. I had read sites like X-Entertainment (the precursor to Dinosaur Dracula) but a bigger blogging community I was not aware of. I spent my recovering reading sites like the original Comic Coverage, Siskoid’s Blog Of Geekery, Slay Monstrobot Of The Deep, and Comics Should Be Fun, and even replied to them. Soon my replies were reaching the three paragraph mark so I decided “if I have that much to say, why don’t I start my own blog?”, which was done.
On November 16th, 2008 the very first article was published to BW Media Spotlight, a defense of the Spawn cartoon. I don’t like the Spawn cartoon. Like the comic it’s dark, bloody, violent, and spiritually ignorant despite the heaven versus hell theme. However, the art and animation were good (at least the two episodes I could make myself watch), it did what it set out to do, and Keith David was perfectly cast and utilized as Al Simmons. It set up a point that I’ve kept throughout this site: I don’t have to like something to acknowledge it’s good, if only to the target audience, and I don’t have to hate something because it’s considered bad by anyone else. The opinions in my reviews are exclusively my own as I did into the art of storytelling.
Last year I wrote very few reviews and commentaries thanks to multiple hospital trips. Many of the articles were videos by other people or shorter reviews or article links. This year I wrote a lot more, so since there was no anniversary post last year I’m combining the two years. If you’re new here then one of these articles may be up your alley. As usual, “year” covers November 16th on, in this case November 16th, 2015 through November 16th of 2017.
Well, the pain meds have kept me down but not…actually, it kind of did keep me out as I did a lot of sleeping. Even now my eyes are a little sleepy but I’ve missed enough action this week. I have an anniversary post to make tomorrow and a Friday Night Fight tonight so here’s where I start coming back. I’ve also only reviewed two comics this week, which limits my choices.
Speaking of coming back, Screaming Mimi wasn’t a very notable villain, and as Songbird Melissa Gold started out as the most sky, but after our last visit with her she’s gained a whole lot of confidence. This is a good thing when you and your boyfriend have to fight a monster. Because that’s how comic worlds work. You go out, you have some fun, you fight a monster…just another date.
Roundhouse round 6
Does not happen in the book.
Thunderbolts #9
Marvel Comics (December, 1997)
“Life Lessons”
THUNDERBOLTS SEQUENCE: Kurt Busiek, Mark Bagley, & Vince Russell
FLASHBACK SEQUENCE: Roger Stern, Ron Frenz, Blyberg & Milgrom (for some reason the last two have “Wally”, with quotation marks, as their first name)
COLORIST: Joe Rosas
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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
Marvel’s Brian Michael Bendis Heads To DC
English: Writer Brian Michael Bendis at a book signing at Midtown Comics Times Square in Manhattan, June 21, 2010. Photo by Luigi Novi. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In a move that has caused waves among comic news reporters and commentators, Brian Michael Bendis, one of Marvel’s biggest names, has signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics. This is a bigger deal than you realize. Bendis is one of their most recognizable names. Through all his faults he also have a lot of strengths. This is the man who brought us Ultimate Spider-Man, kicking off the Ultimate Universe, and Miles Morales, an original Spider-Man in that universe who is now one of their most popular new characters, even appearing in the last two Spider-Man cartoons, including the current one. You have to wonder what Marvel did to lose this name at a time when many of their creator have been as controversial for their origins (novel writers rather than actual comic writers, and some of those writers may not even been comic fans) as they are their political writings within their comics.
Of course there’s a lot of speculation as to why Bendis would leave the company that made him famous. It’s not the first time in comics history, mind you. Jack Kirby, Len Wein, Gerry Conway, John Ostrander, Dan Jurgens, Roger Stern, and even recently John Romita Jr., have switched sides and sometimes even gone back to Marvel. It’s the nature of the business. Sometimes there are reasons, usually financial or creative, for someone to go to their rival. However, this move may really hurt Marvel Comics in the long run, if not the short run.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 14, 2017 in DC Spotlight, Marvel Spotlight and tagged Brian Michael Bendis, commentary, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Nick Fury, Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Universe.
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