Only the first story has credits so I assume they did both the main and back-up tales. I’m reviewing both stories together because of that and because part of the first story leads into the second. Besides, at this point I’m used to multiple storylines going on at the same time like some attempt at emulating soap operas. The summaries will be in separate paragraphs, though.
James Gunn’s DC Movieverse is really not off to a good start, is it?
The above behind the scenes, released for Superman Day, focuses more on James Gunn and an overview of his plans than on Superman or the plot of the former Superman: Legacy. Some critics are even speculating that he dropped “Legacy” from the title just so we have to call it “James Gunn’s Superman” to tell it apart from every other Superman project. The serials are technically the only other project called Superman (or at least the first serial) while the 1988 cartoon from Ruby-Spears gets called Ruby Spears Superman for the same reason. Given that he put himself into the intro for Creature Commandos, replaced Krypto’s breed with that of his own dog, and the backstage video for Superman Day not really being about Superman or the movie directly, then throw in the news that test screenings haven’t done well and led to reshoots–a concept Marvel Studios has ruined by overusing what used to be a minor problem with movies in the past–and there is already low expectations.
However, I haven’t seen any real optimism killers, not even the altered costume, until a supposed leak by X-Twitter leak dropper My Time To Shine Hello, who put his latest leak about the movie’s plot behind subscription and I’m not spending money on that. So I’ll grab both Cosmic Book News and Bounding Into Comics and get the transcript that way. It’s not good news. It also might not be real. I’m not aware of his reputation with these leaks and the whole thing sounds really silly…but this is a guy with a strange sense of humor and we already got incel remakes of the Sons Of Themyscira in Creature Commandos so it could be accurate. I just don’t want to treat a rumor as fact, but since everyone else is buzzing about this I might as well add my two cents, if only as a warning not to do stuff like Superman versus cancel culture! Which might sound good until you remember a bit of Gunn’s past.
You’re already shooting him. Pimp slapping him seem a bit unnecessary.
Space Adventures v3 #39
Charlton Comics Group (April, 1961)
Four stories with Captain Atom starring in three of them. Why not just give Atom a longer story and really do something with it? At that point you might as well. Captain Atom the comic has back-up stories. It’s how we followed Ted Kord’s first adventures as the Blue Beetle, and Ted would return the favor with the Question in his own title. Well, let’s get through this batch.
Here’s my own view on earlier discussions on the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers colors. This is not a new stupid thing to say. We’ve had Black Rangers of multiple colors since.
Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapter for this one) of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
Seventy-Eight chapters, some with short enough chapters that it feels wrong to call it a chapter. Either way we’re more than halfway done with this book and still have a long way to go. Last time we got to see the only good guy at Commie Op-Center. I don’t know whether or not Orlov Sr. is a commie deep down, though given how he treats people like people I kind of doubt it. He’s starting to suspect something is up, meaning he might not have been the best choice to head your spy organization that’s being used for a governmental coup.
Now we get to visit his son, to see how in he’ll be once everyone figures out that Putin Dogan is trying to restore the USSR by starting with the Ukraine. I already said my thing before and this isn’t a political blog, though I have been a bit more political in this one, so let’s just get on with the review. This is the best padding I can do for this chapter, unfortunately. I’m all out of ways to go spoiler free analysis at this point.
Chapter 40: Tuesday, 10:09 AM, Ussurisk
Spell check wants me to use a different spelling, but this is what’s in the book. Maybe it’s a fictional place or something?
That girl really gets around, and she STILL ends up in the sewers.
Wrath #2
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (February, 1994)
For whatever reason, the scan I’m using (after a hunt as where I got #1 is missing #2, but #3 is up there) is missing a title and credits page. The cover lists Barr, Ammeran, and Gustovich. This is the only information I have, and it must be missing entirely. I went to the Grand Comics Database and they suggest David Ammeran and Mike Barr did the writing, with Ammeran on pencils and James Pascoe on inks, but then guess the colorist and letter, possibly from the previous issue. So somebody goofed up something somewhere. On with the review, I guess.
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