Half off on Darkhawk costumes!
Darkhawk #10
Marvel Comics (December, 1991)
“Heart Of The Hawk” part 1: “Eyewitness” WRITER: Danny Fingeroth PENCILER: Mike Manley INKERS: Mike Manely & Ricardo Villagran COLORIST: Joe Rosas LETTERER: Joe Rosen EDITOR: Nel Yomtov
I haven’t had a chance to really look deep into DC’s new “DC You” rebranding (but at least this time it’s not another reboot), I have to admit I’ve seen a few things that look interesting. Starfire appears to be getting a much needed recreation after Lobdell’s re-imagined insult. Batgirl is a nice approach. Gotham Academy, what little I’ve heard of it, sounds interesting. But then you have the solicit for Bat-Mite’s comic that makes me think Bat-Mite is going to be an attempt to insult the critics, like a more fun Superboy-Prime. Wonder Woman is now Female Kratos right down to being the new God(ess) Of War, in violation of everything Wonder Woman has been since her very first appearance. I don’t care about Commissioner Gordon being a new armored Batman. A movie with Batman is coming and they’d be stupid to keep that up, dumb as the idea is to begin with. The rest are not my thing but I give DC credit for embracing diversity.
But seriously, of all the comics you brought back…PREZ? Is that DC canon now? Is DC just losing all traces of its identity? It’s already tossing out as much of the previous one as it can, and I can think of no better example than what they’re doing to Superman. Or rather to Clark Kent.
I was hoping that Divergence was some What If? Elseworlds type event, or something like Flashpoint, but it appears this is your new normal. The last bit of proof that there are people running DC that, whatever they tried to prove with Convergence, don’t care about the classic DC characters, or care but don’t want to work on them, creating their own universe and just using the characters names. Now they’ve broken the last straw, the unforgivable. They’re killing off Superman’s secret identity and it’s a symptom of a larger problem in modern superhero comics…the abandoning of the supporting cast and alter egos.
Batman is now his own nightlight.
The Batman Adventures #34
DC Comics (August, 1995)
“In Memoriam” WRITER: Kelley Puckett PENCILER: Mike Parobeck INKER: Rick Burchett COLORIST: Rick Taylor LETTERER: Tim Harkins ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Darren Vincienzo EDITOR: Scott Peterson
Sometimes going off-script will ruin a TV show or movie’s intentions…and sometimes it improves it. Yes, sometimes the actors are right to change the script and not just being overegoed jackasses. For five examples–the Vulcan Nerve Pinch, Roy Batty’s death speech, The Fonz (just the whole character, Tarzan’s famous yell, and Sgt. Hartman (again, just the whole character), Cracked contributor Jacopo della Quercia has the whole story.
“Could I interest you in ticket to an Uncle Yo stand-up show instead?”
Firestorm #4
DC Comics (August-September 1978)
“When Laughs The Hyena!” WRITER/CO-CREATOR: Gerry Conway ARTISTS: Allen Milgrom (co-creator) & Jack abel COLORIST: Gene D’Angelo LETTERER: Clem Robins EDITOR: Jack C. Harris
With glasses. That’s how I do it.
The livestream was a disaster. Too many technical screw ups. I did get a patron over at Patreon (check out Network Next TV) but it looks like my credit card is going to go to collections and kill my credit score. I had the opportunity to get a lot of my debt forgiven, but there’s no way I’ll have anything by the due date (June 11th) so I’m not in a good shape or mood right now. Having the stream fall apart (and if anything shows up at the end of the video, so did I) isn’t stopping me, but it is going to be a lot of hurt for a very long time. (By the way, links to my Patreon and PayPal donation are over in the sidebar. I need and would appreciate the help.) Still, the comic was half done and even though I didn’t get to show me working on the other half I wasn’t going to toss it out.
In reviewing news: We’re all done with prequel land, so Star Wars Wednesday is going to move to the next series. Based on various events I place the Star Wars Droids and the original adventures by Dark Horse in between the two movie trilogies. Marvel’s “Star Comics” imprint published a series of comics based on the cartoon, and I have a small number of those as well as all of the Dark Horse comics I’ve been able to find. So I’ll be reviewing those in the midnight slot. After than we’re going back in time. Whether or not I’ll finish these to match with the original trilogy-period comics I don’t know. What I do know is that we’re up to Shadows Of The Empire, the only Expanded Universe story that was recognized by Lucasfilm. Whether or not that is still true under Disneyfilm I really don’t know. I’m hoping to get to the novel (which I own) as we get closer to the new movie.
I will have a new video this week, something I didn’t get to finish in time for the stream (although I doubt I would have been able to show it) but it’ll be up early for all Patreon patrons (I plan to do this for every video pilot and new article/comic series before settling them into a new or existing tier). It’s short but I can do a bunch of them and buffer, leading to a goal of a video every Saturday. In the meantime I need to figure out what I’m going to do about ConnectiCon since I can’t afford a hotel room. I’m just too stubborn to give up.
Don’t forget that at 2PM ET this afternoon I’ll be doing a live stream in the hopes of getting my last debt paid off. There is a tab up there to check that out unless you’re reading this after the event.
Sorry, teens of 2010s, you didn’t invent”selfies”.
Roomies or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Beer
SECOND PUBLISHING DATE: March, 2009
WRITER/ARTIST/PUBLISHER: David Willis
Roomies (not to be confused with at least two other webcomics I know of with that or a similar name) was a college newspaper strip featuring characters Willis had created for his high school newspaper. The series was later put on the internet and gained a decent following. The follow-up series, It’s Walky, is the most popular (at least with me) series in the franchise, getting this continuity dubbed the Walkyverse, and occasionally came back to these characters (one of them part of the new comic) before dragging them into the attempts by aliens to take over the world. Interesting for what started as the silly adventures of a bunch of college students. Two more spinoffs, Joyce & Walky and Shortpacked, continued the Walkyverse while Willis’ current series, Dumbing Of Age, re-imagines everyone back in college, but without the space aliens and talking cars.
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
