“Ken and Ryu aren’t going to get mad at us doing their pose, are they?”
Street Fighter Vs Rival Schools #1
UDON Entertainment (May, 2025)
WRITER: David Lumsdon
“Deadly Lessons!”
ARTIST: Tovio Rogers
LETTERER: Marshall Dillon
“A Shot At Freedom”
ARTIST: Royce Southerland
I’m also not impressed with the glove straps.
A recent article by AIPT’s comics side features Scott Snyder discussing his current Absolute Batman series. We’re going to have to agree to disagree on this because the whole Absolute DC imprint is just not for me. It’s a version of the DC multiverse created by Darkseid, so it lacks in the hope department. I’m just not into that. He enjoys making it, fine, and it has its fans, but it’s just not the Batman I want to read. Plus as you can guess from the comic, I don’t care for the logo or the outfit in general.
It’s one portion of this article that I want to focus on. The full title of the article is “The Absolute truth: Scott Snyder on rebuilding Batman and why comics matter more than ever”. (Missing a few capital letters, David Brooke and his editor.) It’s that second part I do agree with him on. As a defender of the monthly comics, I recognize the current problem is that they aren’t written like monthly comics anymore. For some reason both DC and Marvel failed to understand that trade collections only sold because it was a special event or a collection of stories of a particular character, creator, or time period. Such long stories don’t stand out when that’s all you have. Now you’re writing for the trade and at that point you might as well just be writing a graphic novel and releasing it every few months.
That’s not what made comics popular. Those monthly done-in-one stories were a good casual read. You pick one up before you get on the train or have lunch or something. Kids (remember kids?) would pick up an issue a month and have something fun to read before even the superhero stories became to disturbing, but that’s another conversation. Even for adults, the horror, crime, romance, and other genres that cater to older readers were something to pass the time. Soldiers would carry them because they were easy to bring along in their backpacks or get through the rough day of battle or combat training. When continuity came into the comics, it was a reward for picking up the issues each month and allowed a two-part story or the OCCASIONAL big event as well as connect titles of the same publisher together, acting as ads for another comic they publish. You like seeing Superman team-up with the Flash? Maybe you want to check out the Flash’s comic.
So what does Snyder have to say about the monthly comic?
The facsimile cover because the only version with the original was a shiny variant that cost more.
The original cover.
Superman #233 (facsimile edition)
DC Comics (January, 1971/June, 2025)
“Superman Breaks Loose”
WRITER: Dennis O’Neil
ARTISTS: Curt Swan & Murphy Anderson
The Grand Comic Database has no record of colorists, but claims Ben Oda as letterer.
The Fabulous World Of Krypton: “Jor-El’s Golden Folly”
WRITER: E. Nelson Bridwell
ARTIST: Murphy Anderson
No coloring or lettering credits on this one
Yesterday’s Daily Video included mention of fans doing the original concept for Disney’s Wish, where Asha would meet a boy with star powers rather than a floating star plushie, set to the demo version of “At All Costs”. I thought you might want to see it.
First we have the original animatic by OrbitalMoonRat…
…which was then turned into a quite accurate animation by PhrenSo
Somebody needs to hire these people or given them the resources to make their own works.
Last time we had to read two chapter to get a decent length. This week we have a chapter at 10 pages. We’ve checked in with Striker, and now it’s time to check back in at Commie Op-Center, where their enemy may be themselves.
In skimming to get the page count, this chapter does something interesting with the font, switching at a few points with a typewriter type font. That’s not a mistake, it’s meant to indicate…I don’t know what yet. That’s one advantage to modern printing.
You can change the font to indicate something specific, like phone texting or something that's done specially to set itself apart from other text in the book. I need to learn about doing that.
I think if I was using the block editor I could do fun stuff like that, though I do have a few features like the “blockquote” to set quotes apart from my writing, which just adds to the visuals and helps with immersion. On this site I’ve used headings, coloring text, and other things to make certain things stand out. How this chapter will use the type font will decide if this is to help draw the reader into the world or take you out with some silly gimmick. Let’s dive in and see.
I can’t wait for the Disney Junior take on War Machine. I’m not getting that, am I?
Free Comic Book Day 2025: Iron Man & His Awesome Friends/Spidey & His Amazing Friends
Marvel Worldwide, Inc (June, 2025)
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Farah Javen
EDITORS: Lauren Bisom, Nick Lowe, & Tom Groneman
Iron Man & His Awesome Friends: “Enter The Iron Pup”
WRITER: James EAson-Garcia
ARTIST: Alberto Alburquerque
CO-INKERS: Roberto Poggi & Craig Yeung
COLORIST: Rachelle Rosenberg
LETTERER: Travis Lanham
Spidey & His Amazing Friends: “Looking For Clues!” & “Popcorn Problem”
WRITER: Steve Behling
LAYOUTS: Giovanni Rigano & Antonello Dalena
INKERS: Cristina Giorgilli & Cristina Stella
COLORISTS: Dario Calabria & Lucio De Giuseppe
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
BW Media Spotlight 
BW’s Daily Video> The Tragedy Of Wish
I wasn’t planning to do this many daily videos in one week to a movie I haven’t seen and didn’t care to after the reviews, but it is fascinating just how badly modern Disney screwed up their anniversary movie. This goes more into the history of the original concept for Wish and what could have been.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 21, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Disney, Wish.
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