The only way Superman can get a massage.
Superman Adventures #20
DC Comics (June, 1998)
“Hide ‘N’ Seek”
WRITER: Jordan B. Gorfinkel
PENCILER: Neil Vokes
INKER: Stan Woch
COLORIST: Rick Taylor
LETTERER: Lois Buhalis
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Mike McAvennie
“I didn’t say ‘oh shoot’, I said ‘no chute’!”
The Phantom #8
Moonstone (2005)
“The Aviatrix” part 2
WRITER: Ben Raab
PENCILER: Pat Quinn
INKER: Ken Weaton
COLORIST: Joe Bucco
COVER ART: Doug Klauba
LETTERER: Jeff Eckleberry
EDITORS: Joe Gentile & Garrett Anderson
PHANTOM CONSULTANTS: Dr. Bryan Shedden & Ed Rhoades
I didn’t learn about this run until this issue, but I followed it all the way through. I’ll only be reviewing the comics I haven’t reviewed yet during This Week’s Reviews and Today’s Comic, when the comics first came out, although I do plan to reread them as part of the comic organizing project.
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I know I don’t do filler videos for the morning article link, but I didn’t find any decent articles with you know what taking up so much time and I really wanted to show this. Cracked seems to love showing how badly Hollywood gets real life, probably because the only ones who remember what’s it like to not be part of the Hollywood life are people who just got there. In this installment of the video series Reckless Disagreement the host looks into how badly Hollywood doesn’t know how to write smart people as people. Oddly, Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory and the upcoming Young Sheldon spinoff is never mentioned despite fitting most of these categories.
I’m going to bypass the short section on pornographic comics. Kids sneaking porn of any kind is nothing new, or at least the kinds of kids Dr Wertham knows about because he only treats bad kids and has apparently never had a lengthy discussion with good kids. He does make a good point that violence seems to be more tolerated than sex. I’ve seen review shows that have been filled with violence and gore but it’s only the nudity and sex scenes they have to censor, even when Blip was in existence as a hosting service. I don’t understand it either.
We’ll start off this section by going more into his legal solutions. He is bound and determined to destroy an entire medium because it reads differently from how books are read, so it’s easier to point at comics and say “this is why kids do bad things”, because building a conscience is too much work apparently.
“Darn it! Someone get me a rag before this stains!”
Transformers: Megatron Origin #1
IDW Publishing (May, 2007)
WRITER: Eric Holmes
ARTIST: Alec Milne
COLORIST: Josh Perez (assisted by Zac Atkinson)
EDITOR: Chris Ryall
no letterer credited
Netflix (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This is one you’ve probably heard about. Disney is starting its own streaming service and part of that is to take their movie library off of Netflix. Disney has also announced new shows will be created for the service as well as the Disney and Star Wars library, however the current “street level” wing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will stay with Netflix for the time being. No word if the new shows will include shows Marvel or Star Wars related.
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Chapter By Chapter Special: Seduction Of The Innocent ch. 12 part 5
I have to keep reminding myself there’s only two chapters left.
Thus far we have seen that Dr. Wertham is a literary snob and that it has affected his view on comics and the rights of the publisher. And I would agree to keep the more violent and vulgar comics out of the hands of kids but when he’s lumping so many comics under his “crime comics” banner it’s hard to take him seriously. The only comic he likes is not a comic but an illustrated book. He still thinks Superman is a Nazi icon created by two Jewish men over a decade before Hitler’s rise to power. And he keep beating the same messages into the readers head to make sure you see his perspective and only his perspective.
We’re still on the subject of “dealing” with comics legally. Wertham actually suggested putting the more violent and “naughty” comics where kids won’t see them but adults will. And yet he would include Wonder Woman among those ranks because the only one he’s seen sitting with her at the breakfast table is another woman so of course they’re lesbians because….reasons. And yet kids are still getting their hands on the comics even Wertham’s supposed defenders of comics would agree is pornography. So I don’t know what Wertham wants besides “get rid of comics and read a book”, which means I probably answered my own question. Let’s try to finish this chapter today, shall we?
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 22, 2017 in Comic Spotlight, Seduction Of The Innocent and tagged book review, Chapter By Chapter, commentary, Dr. Fredric Wertham, Seduction Of The Innocent.
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