“Who replaced my lucky coin with an arcade token?”
Batman: Gotham Adventures #2
DC Comics (July, 1998)
“Lucky Day!”
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Rick Burchett
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST/SEPARATIONS: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo
Due to last night’s delay (all is well now thankfully) this one is going to go well over the 3000 word count in order to finish this chapter off. Luckily there’s no Friday Night Fight this week as voting continues on the Prize Fight.
Hey, we’re finally talking about TV shows in a chapter about the other new medium. Thus far we had the opening monologue about TV only to discuss movies, pocket books, radio, and toys. (Not mentioned of course was classic literature.) Doctor Wertham is trying to tackle the critics who accuse him of ignoring violence in other mediums, but even when he discusses them it’s because of crime comics. Crime comics are ruining everything. Why can’t everything be the same as when Wertham was growing up? Now you have these new media formats coming up, kids want to play action stories involving guns…it’s just so terrible!
Look, I do question some of the games Wertham has accused kids of playing, but I’m seeing more and more that Wertham operates from his own filter. It makes me wonder what he’s exaggerating and what he’s actually heard about. I keep bringing up the Blue Beetle thing because it shows he lacks perception of how a child explains things. And based on things he’s written before I also question his understanding of stories and how it is perceived by others, especially kids. There’s also this thought that every kid thinks and responds the same way, that “hivemind” I keep talking about. And this is the guy responsible for child therapy. It does make me concerned, and it’s worth bringing up because parent groups today still do it. And when it comes to television there is no better example. I’m all for not exposing five-year-olds to Game Of Thrones or Hellraiser but there are parents who would have a problem with He-Man for seven-year-olds. How is that a good thing? So what does Wertham say about TV?
“That fly is around here somewhere.”
The Phantom #10
Moonstone (2006)
“Slave Trade” part 2
WRITER: Chuck Dixon
PENCILER: EricJ
INKER: Peter Guzman
COLORIST: Ken Wolak with Dave Alusik & Wally Lowe
COVER ART: Doug Klauba
LETTERER: Terri Boyle
EDITOR: Lori G
Creating a proper movie poster is an artform beyond the art on the poster. You have to set the mood for the movie you’re promoting, the tone, and just look really good on a theater…or even your own…wall. You may not agree with ScreenCrush’s ranking, but you have to admit these are some really good science fiction and disaster movie posters.
Due to a famiy emergency I couldn’t complete tonight’s article on time. Don’t worry. I shold be able to finish chapter 13 of Seduction Of The Innocent tomorrow night, with tie-in edition os Saturday Night Showcase. You’ll see why tomorrow. Priorities, you know.
“Ice….cream…..headache!
Transformers: Megatron Origin #3
IDW Publishing (August, 2007)
WRITER: Eric Holmes
ARTIST: Alex Milne
COLORIST: Josh Perez (assisted by Mark Bristow)
LETTERER: Neil Uyetake
EDITOR: Chris Ryall
Charlie’s Angels (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Comics can be a good place to properly continue classic series. Dynamite did a good job with the issues I picked up for The Six-Million Dollar Man and DC’s Batman ’66is a good series as well. Speaking of Dynamite they’re returning to the three little girls who went to the police academy, got fed up doing no real cop work, and went to work for the Townsend Detective Agency. Namely,the original Charlie’s Angels. No word yet as to which of the original Angel members they’re going with (my guess would be the originals and none of the replacements, which I would at least like to see in some form…especially Cheryl Ladd’s Kris Munroe), but it won’t be the movie version or the remake TV show. So long as they remember there was more to the original show than pretty girls occasionally in bikinis this should do well.
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
