Think about all the work put into those old Disney theatrical shorts.
Mickey Mouse is rarely a sad person. However, in the comic strips he wasn’t just sad, he was once suicidal! The Retroist tells this sad tale but doesn’t tell how Mickey and Minnie got back together. I guess you have to read the compilation for that.
How do you have worse art on the cover than you do the interiors? Which is still 90s bad, mind you.
Xenobrood #0
DC Comics (October, 1994)
“Strange Brew”
WRITER/CO-CREATOR: Doug Moench
PENCILER/CO-CREATOR: Tomm Coker
INKER: Keith Aiken
COLORIST: Tom Luth
LETTERER: Dan Nakrosis
EDITOR: Kevin Dooley
Plenty of comics have been tie-ins to other shows. However, some comics are actually continuations of canceled shows. Previews breaks out five such comics, but there are a whole lot more.
I find it harder to believe it doesn’t exist.
And if you want to see the comic close-up:
You know someone would buy this, too.
I did my research folks. Unlike Dr. Wertham, and it’s time to go back to seeing what he’s talking about this week. Meanwhile at The Clutter Reports I checked out another of my unboxed Transformers, the Classics version of Hot Rod/Rodimus. Back in BW territory we’re almost done with the #0 Zero Hour aftermath comics so we should get back to normal story stuff in a couple of weeks. And now that we’re caught up with Transformers Spotlight it’s time for the second set of Spotlights leading up to the next story arc. Otherwise, not much else to report. Happy Labor Day…which I will be spending with my own Herculean labor. Only four chapters left and the wrap-up.
Trying to escape to a better adaptation.
In the summer of 1998 World Events Productions repacked their homemade season of the Lion Force Voltron as The New Adventures Of Voltron, igniting hope that more Voltron adventures would be forthcoming. Even though I recognized some of those episodes despite years after the series left the air I was hoping for more. What we got instead in the Fall was Voltron: The Third Dimension. It was not quite what I had hoped for. But was it bad?
It’s been five years since the events of Voltron: Defender Of The Universe. Peace has truly settled across the galaxy after the Voltron Force finally took down King Zarkon and Prince Lotor. Damaged when his ship crashed, Lotor had to be rebuilt as a cyborg, but not before sending Castle Doom and Hagar far away. Now Zarkon claims to have reformed, even becoming the Minister Of Peace for the Alliance. However, the bad guys are up to their old tricks and Voltron will be needed to battle again!
There are some oddities in this playlist I should warn you about. These appear to have been taken from the original recordings. Each episode will start with a test pattern and the information usually reserved for the guy running the broadcast equipment at the TV station, plus some odd bits of animation at the end that I don’t understand. There is also a new intro by episode 3. This playlist, as of this writing, contains the first five episodes of The Third Dimension, which should give you a good idea as to what WEP did with this series.
“Okay, who broke the Miracle Machine this time?”
Superman Adventures #19
DC Comics (May, 1998)
“The Bodyguard Of Steel”
WRITER: Mark Millar
PENCILER: Aluir Amancio
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Rick Taylor
LETTERER: Lois Buhalis
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Mike McAvennie
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. 11 part 1
Normally, Chapter By Chapter is me reading a fictional book one chapter at a time to study each part of the story. In this special review series however we are looking at Seduction Of The Innocent, a non-fiction book as the writer, Dr. Fredric Wertham, tries to make the case that comics were a bad thing for kids in the 1950s. The book had a huge impact on the comic industry and fans. We will examine what he is saying not exclusively by today’s standards, but the time in which the book was made to see where Wertham was right, and where he was horribly wrong.
Had this been titled “Comics Abroad” this chapter wouldn’t be a lie. Instead chapter 11 is titled “Murder In Dawson Creek”, a topic that is barely a quarter of the whole chapter. I link to the chapters anyway so if you want to read it go ahead. It doesn’t matter a whole lot to the topic. A brief recap.
Two boys. 11 & 13, decided to play “highwayman” and of course comics were to blame because they read them and highwaymen were never mentioned in any other media before, right? Except they weren’t playing. They tried to rob cars coming down the highway near Dawson Creek in British Columbia, where the Alaska Highway starts. When the car wouldn’t stop they shot at it, the second time killing a man with a young child (grandson? young son? Wertham doesn’t say) in his lap while his older son drove home from the Dew Drop Inn. (Yes, apparently that name is actually used outside of fiction.) This whole first case is barely a footnote in this story so why it’s the title of the chapter about how American “crime comics” are perceived in other countries is anyone’s guess. I have nothing to say during this recounting that I won’t already bring up elsewhere in this chapter so click the link below to read it and then follow along with my commentary.
Chapter 11: Murder In Dawson Creek
Continue reading →
Tell others about the Spotlight:
Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 4, 2017 in Comic Spotlight, Seduction Of The Innocent and tagged book review, Canada, Chapter By Chapter, commentary, Dawson Creek, Dr. Fredric Wertham, Seduction Of The Innocent.
Leave a comment