“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)
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.
“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?
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 3
Fun fact: according to my stats I just hit 100 subscribers here at BW Media Spotlight with 93 willing to admit it. My YouTube is also four away from 100. I may do something special if that joins the site at 100 but I’d have to figure out what. Audience participation is something I’m still trying to figure out.
Meanwhile it’s time to return to participating in the suicide of my happiness. There’s only one more chapter after this and I plan to take it down next week. As for this chapter we’re up to the part where Wertham goes after toys. Yes, toys. I really think this chapter is Wertham trying to convince us that he isn’t just targeting crime comics…and yet he still blames everything on crime comics. I’d say it’s getting pathological at this point but I’m not the psychiatrist here so I might be using the word wrong. Of course he’d never claim he’s nuts.
For those of you who also read my Sunday postings over at The Clutter Reports, you already know that I have been a fan of toys since I was old enough to be allowed to like toys by society. Because of course adults aren’t supposed to like kids things. Kids things are fun and we’re supposed to be serious and angry at the world or some junk like that. Adults don’t go to Disneyland unless they have kids. Christmas is meant for kids, not grown-ups who don’t eat figgy pudding anymore. However, play is important for adults too; we just play differently than kids, but now I’m off topic.
Kids need play and kids like to play adventure stories of heroes and villains. And I get the impression that Dr. Wertham hates kids knowing anything about evil. Sorry, doc, that fruit was eaten centuries ago.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 4, 2017 in Movie Spotlight, radio/audio drama, Seduction Of The Innocent and tagged Atom Man vs. Superman, book review, Chapter By Chapter, commentary, Dr. Fredric Wertham, Kirk Alyn, Mental health, Seduction Of The Innocent.
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