Dec. 9, 1928-June 23,2015
Dick Van Patten, known as Tom Bradford on the classic series Eight Is Enough as well as Rowland, King Of The Druids in Spaceballs plus numerous appearances on “Weird Al” Yankovic videos and The Weird Al Show, passed away yesterday at 86, due to complications from diabetes.
Okay, I know it’s a kids comic and they don’t want to talk about blood and stuff, but “red with danger”?
Droids #3
Star Comics (August, 1986)
“The Scarlet Pirate!” WRITER: Dave Manak PENCILER: John Romita INKER: Joe Sinnott COLORIST: George Roussos LETTERER: Grace Kremer EDITOR: Sid Jacobson EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Tom DeFalco
So we’ve come to the end of my Firestorm comic collection, the trade featuring stories from The Flash. Not all of them, mind you. Just the first five stories, as collected in the trade. Firestorm ended at issue #5 but while that and other titles ended, DC wasn’t always willing to let certain characters go, continuing their adventures in back-up features in the surviving comics. In the case of our nuclear man (not to be confused with Nuclear Man) it was the pages of the Fastest Man Alive, which is why having him show up in the Flash’s new television show is sort of a homecoming.
Instead of trying to review these short stories in the DC Monday edition of “Yesterday’s” Comic I’m going to look at them here. They’re short but continue the adventures of high schooler Ronald Raymond and Professor Martin Stein, ignoring the cancelled comic and continuing from Firestorm #5. Next week we’ll be returning to the 90s in our Monday slot. I’m going to review these as story arcs instead of each one individually.
As terrible as the show was, somebody bought the action figures.
Marvel Action Hour: Iron Man #3
Marvel (January, 1995)
“Ultimo” (freely adapting the episode “Rejoice! I Am Ultimo, Thy Deliverer” STORY: Ron Friedman TELEPLAY: Ted Pederson & Francis Moss “ADAPTATION”: Eric Fein PENCILER: Dario Carrasco INKER: Andrew Pepoy COLORIST: Sam Parsons LETTERER: Dave Sharpe EDITOR: Tom Daning GROUP EDITOR: Nel Yomtov
English: Third generation Amazon Kindle (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Amazon’s purchase of comiXology brought the company into digital comics…but their focus has been on books via Kindle. While both companies have gotten into self-publishing, Amazon/Kindle has stuck to novels (even fanfic) while comiXology has stuck to comics, boosted by deals with DC and Marvel involving their digital comics. Now everything is coming together as Kindle will now distribute single issue Marvel comics. Rob Salkowitz of ICv2 explains why this is a good thing for comics and not something to be yawned about.
“I told you, I don’t have the money so you can buy a sandwich!”
Darkhawk #12
Marvel (February, 1992)
“Heart Of The Hawk” part 3: “Masks” WRITER: Danny Fingeroth PENCILER: Mike Manley INKER: Ricardo Villagran COLORIST: Joe Rosas LETTERER: Bill Oakley EDITOR: Nel Yomtov
I don’t know how I’m dividing the instructions on the villains just yet, but for the heroes this and next week we’ll check out the Batcave while the following week the Gotham City Police Department. This should keep the info overload down. The show bible for Batman: The Animated Series is very detailed, especially the main cast members and double especially Batman. Bruce Wayne (Batman’s alter ego) has his own section apart from the Batman identity. Robin/Dick Grayson doesn’t have that but that still tells you how much information is packed into this booklet. I was going to put Batman, Robin, and Alfred together in one article, but there’s so much written on just Batman/Bruce alone that the word count was getting up there.
I don’t think they approached this show as some kids thing. They seem to want to treat this as a good show first, with as much respect to the characters from DC as much as their own creations. I wish Gotham could say the same but I remind you this is a Batman show whose showrunner hates Batman. So how is the Dark Knight treated by someone who likes both comic books and Batman?
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
