“What do you people have against lucky coins?”
Voltron: Defender Of The Universe vol. 2 #6
Devil’s Due (June, 2004)
“Warpath” part 1
WRITER: Dan Jolley
PENCILERS: E.J. Su & Clint Hilinski
no inkers listed
COLORISTS: David Messina, Fredrica Mantredi, & Barbara Bargiggio
COVER ART: E.J. Su & Ben Hunzecker
LETTERING: Dreamer Design
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Mike Norton
EDITOR: Mark Powers
Comic Books and the Cold War (essay by Frederick A. Wright)
Comic Art Propaganda (Fredrik Stromberg)
Government Issue: Comics for the People (Richard Graham)
(if any of those links are Amazon Affiliate they benefit NerdSync, not BW, since I used his links)
“That thing’s sky-trained, right?”
Heroes For Hire #3
Marvel Comics (September, 1997)
“Give & Take”
WRITER: John Ostrander
PENCILER: Pascual Ferry
INKER: Jaime Mendoza
COLORIST: Joe Rosas
LETTERER: Jonathan Babcock
EDITOR: Mark Bernardo
The Art of Avatar: James Cameron’s Epic Adventure (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’m not sure how many of you are really going to care about this one but as a logo person (which should be obvious considering I have a logo for every major article series on this site except for the daily comic review) this is something of a curiosity for me. In a recent Saturday Night Live sketch a man goes pretty much insane of the logo for James Cameron’s Avatar movie, which is pretty much the Papyrus font. This brought a defense from the creator of the font, which is the target of scorn by the man in the skit. It’s like Comic Sans. It’s a good font no matter how overused it might be. (That’s why it might be overused…it looks good for someone who can’t afford a graphic artist, doesn’t have time to hunt down fonts, or isn’t like me and likes to create new logos) While it is lame for a blockbuster to use it beyond a base, especially given how much importance the movie gives to its visuals, let’s not blame the font or the creator.
The skit wasn’t even funny.
I couldn’t find a link to the last two chapters, but according to my stats nobody’s been using them anyway. I appreciate your faith in my accuracy. However there are ways to read it online if you search. I’m using a PDF file but I can’t remember where I downloaded it from.
Television and the Child
“They dare not devise good for man’s estate.
And yet they know not that they do not dare.”
– Shelley
Your guess on what that means is as good as mine. But as you can tell Dr. Wertham is about to target the other new medium of the time, television. He is about to tell you that TV is bad for kids…but unlike those evil comics that pervert the wonderful prose, TV is just an extension of movies and is thus salvageable. Wertham sees in TV what he refuses to see in comics because TV at least resembles something he grew up with, or so goes my theory. And if you’ve been questioning Wertham up to this point, you are both right and ready for what’s about to come. His bias is just as obvious as ever, but he’s using a defense of TV’s potential to prove his point that all comics are evil. You’ll see what I mean as we slog through this. And of course he takes time to take another shot at Superman. Does he have an inferiority complex or something to keep targeting Superman like this?
“Ummm…..what explosion?”
The Adventures Of Superman #476
DC Comics (March, 1991–which means this should be further forward in my collection than it is)
as collected in the trade Time And Time Again
Phase 1: “The Linear Man”
WRITER/ARTIST: Dan Jurgens
INKER: Brett Breeding
COLORIST: Glenn Whitmore
LETTERER: Albert DeGuzman
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Dan Thorsland
EDITOR: Mike Carlin
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
Chapter By Chapter Special: Seduction Of The Innocent ch. 13 part 2
In case you missed yesterday’s posting, Dr. Wertham has turned his attention to television–possibly to pretend he is looking into factors other than comics for kids turning evil or whatever. Granted he’s still blaming media for the cause of being evil instead of just influencing certain acts, and of course he takes an extreme opinion based on his own biases and a questionable version of “research” into the then new medium. I think he just hates new mediums.
And yes, I am saying that certain shows and comics aren’t for kids, but he is still scapegoating here rather than dealing with the societal problems that are the reason the kids he deals with are lacking in the morals department and acting like almost every kid in America was acting the same way. Let’s see how well he digs this new hole.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 3, 2017 in Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Seduction Of The Innocent, Television Spotlight and tagged book review, Chapter By Chapter, commentary, Dr. Fredric Wertham, Seduction Of The Innocent.
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