Is he supposed to be running up a hill?
Speed Racer: Chronicles Of The Racer #1
IDW (2008)
WRITER: Arie Kaplan ARTISTS: Robby Musso & German Torres COLORIST: Janson Jensen SELECTED COVER ART: Alex Garner LETTERER: Robbie Robins EDITOR: Chris Ryall
She’s on there someplace.
I must really be out of things lately. I only just heard about CW Seed, a digital-exclusive art of The CW. Apparently taking a cue from Marvel’s exclusive shows with Netflix, The CW is adding a show to their digital site that will take place in the CW DCU alongside Green Arrow and The Flash. It will be an animated series staring Vixen, a character almost nobody has heard of outside of Justice League Unlimited whose biggest contribution was a love triangle with Green Lantern John Stewart against Hawkgirl. She also died or was comatose or something when I dropped Justice League International New 52 edition (that being one of the reasons…the second arc really didn’t live up to the first one). Heck, she didn’t even show up in the service I use to find stock footage, and there was a shot of Fire from JLU. FIRE! Who bloody knows who Fire is?I only know who she is because of a DC Who’s Who entry and appearing the Armageddon annual for Justice League.
KSite TV‘s Craig Byrne has more on this new series. My question is whether or not she’ll pop up on the live-action show or if the same actors will voice their counterparts in a guest appearance or crossover? Also, this is how you bring good black characters to the foreground…by putting them there instead of changing somebody everyone knows. Superhero productions need more heroes of color and to actually do something with the ones they have.
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Cassandra’s still in the next cell.
Batman Annual #15
DC Comics (1991, part of the Armageddon 2001 event)
“The Last Batman Story” WRITER: Alan Grant PENCILER: Jim Fern INKER: Steve Leialoha COLORIST: Adrienne Roy LETTERER: John Costanza ASSISTANT EDITOR: Kelley Puckett EDITOR: Dennis O’NeilTell others about the Spotlight:
I have a comic strip with two cartoonist characters. I had to do something.
When I saw all of the tributes done by cartoonists in support of the slain satirists I had a thought I should do something, not to join in (this is a few days after, but it’s a weekly comic) but because, as the caption says, it’s a comic strip featuring two cartoonists with one being a title character. Not being politically minded (my satire is usually pointed at the entertainment industry and occasionally at the fandoms that come from it) this was the best I could come up with.
There is a change in my “clutter for sale” listings over at The Clutter Reports. I’m finally moving listings over to eBay. Right not it’s just some untranslated manga, but I plan to have a new comic, book, toy, or video game over there each day whenever possible until I’ve cleared some of this clutter out. I’m focusing on what’s already listed on the sell page before diving into new stuff. Plus I could use the money with no way to pay bills. I’m still new with it so I’m experimenting with the manga. Hopefully things work out. I’m also hoping things settle down around here as it’s been distracting. Now I just need to get some income, even if that income is a job that isn’t my career goal (the articles, comics, and videos that I’m assuming brought you here).
Next week features a new set of comics to go over, a Speed Racer miniseries called Chronicles Of The Racer. While I have more Speed Racer comics these I wasn’t too happy with when I bought them, so I’m giving them another chance to remain in my collection. Friday will be a “cinemanga” type digest comic anthology that came with a free DVD. Was it worth it? Find out this week, as well as the Monday DCs getting into the Armageddon 2001 reviews. Enjoy.
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Jennifer Hale played the female version of Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect series as well as Princess Morebucks on The Powerpuff Girls. In 2014 she appeared at ConnectiCon and joined us press people at the press junket.
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Taking “web-shooter” a little too seriously.
Spider-Boy
Amalgam (Marvel; April, 1996)
“Big Trouble!” WRITER: Karl Kesel PENCILER: Mike Wieringo INKERS: Karl Kesel & Gary Martin COLORIST: Joe Rosas LETTERER: Bill Oakley ASSISTANT EDITOR: Glen Greenberg EDITOR: Tom BrevoortTell others about the Spotlight:
In the past I pointed to a then-new webseries called The Punchline, hosted by the Comic Strip Critic, John Weber. The show reviews newspaper, and the occasional web, comic strips. Since then we were both contributors to the same site, that sadly went down, and became friends. So yes, I’m helping another friend, but I don’t know anybody who does articles like this. (I wish I did. I wouldn’t mind someone push MY Patreon.)
But I don’t point to things just because they’re my friends. I want to see a push to really make a career out of it, rather than getting help through a hobby, and show some real effort to create something special. John’s really shown his dedication, making friends in the newspaper strip industry (he’s the only video reviewer I’ve seen discussing newspaper strips, although I’ve seen a number of blogs cover them as part of other things), putting together a virtual set, and traveling to conventions that feature cartoonists from your local paper. Now he’s hoping to make a big push with Patreon.
