“Hey, watch it with that axe!”
Iron Man #195
Marvel (June, 1985)
“The Thing Most Precious” WRITER: Denny O’Neil PENCILER: Luke McDonnell INKERS: Ian Akin & Brian Garvey COLORIST: Bob Sharen LETTERER: Rick Parker EDITOR: Mark Gruenwald
BW Media Spotlight is the first project I’ve done that lasted six years, unless you count school (13 years, including kindergarten) or the job that dropped me (after 20 years among three owners, admittedly my current record). Every year I like to look back and see what some of my best reviews and commentaries were, adding my “video articles” in recent years. It’s a way to remind me of some of my stronger topics, and maybe get some readers to look back at my work.
Up there is Spawn, the topic of my first ever post, showing that just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s terrible. (Not explaining why I hate it was a mistake, mind you.) Since then my writing has (hopefully) improved as I continue to examine the art of storytelling, with the goal of making me a better storyteller and finding more, really cool stories, plus exploring the ones I already enjoy (and some I don’t). Here’s a year’s worth of some of my best work.
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Sadly, I missed #5. I hope someday to get it.
Somewhere behind them Vanilla Ice is sampling this for a freestyle song.
Batman ’66 Meets The Green Hornet #6
FINAL ISSUE
DC Comics/Dynamite (January, 2015)
“The End Of Crime’s Tether” WRITERS: Kevin Smith & Ralph Carman ARTIST: Ty Templeton COLORIST: Tony Avina COVER ART: Alex Ross LETTERER: Wes Abbott ASSISTANT EDITOR: Aniz Ansari SENIOR EDITOR: Jim ChadwickTell others about the Spotlight:
Fun fact: At one point I created a supervillain who acted for the Ku Klux Klan. My mistake was using a white superhero, my thinking at the time being that “I’m white and I would fight a white supremacist supervillain”. Someday I may fix that for a comic you’ll actually see. However, there was a time when the Klan was worse than they are today, a strong figure of racism. One of the factors for that change if you ask Comics Alliance‘s Chris Sims, is a story arc from the Superman radio drama in which the Man Of Steel deals with a white supremacist group that stood in for the KKK.
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“No, this is too small. Throw it back!”
Superman #3
DC Comics (March, 1987)
“Legends From The Darkside” (Chapter 17 of the Legends crossover event) WRITER/PENCILER: John Byrne INKER: Terry Austin COLORIST: Tom Ziuko LETTERER: John Costanza EDITOR: Andrew HelferTell others about the Spotlight:
Next thing you know they’ll be climbing on their houses and shooting at planes.
Special thanks to Charlie Brown special reviewer Rowdy C. Moore for reminding me what Snoopy served. I read a picture book adaptation of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving as a kid a few times from the library and saw the special once, but I was never a fan of it and haven’t seen it in years.
The Clutter Reports this week is a re-posting of a “Free Comic Inside” review of the other MASK mini-comic in my collection. (To review the second one I had to go online.)
Oh, and some good and bad news. I picked up three new comics. The “Today’s Comic” feature is the one that brings me the most views but that was halted after the car accident. So we’ll have three new comics…and then that’s going to be it until I get some money. I have bills I can’t pay because my account is almost dry. I need a job, or a lot of backers through Patreon or PayPal, or a lot of my clutter sold off (and I need to list some more soon, even if nothing’s sold so far), or the videos really need to kick off (and at this point I’m not sure which is more likely). That’s why after those three, and there will be two old comics to make up the distance, it’s all stuff from my longbox until I have money coming in again. Sorry, but I have no choice in the matter. But at least we’ll have Best Scene next week, right?
I also missed the BW anniversary for the Glen Larson Tribute Week so tomorrow we’ll get that done.
(And to think this year the Jake & Leon anniversary was on time this year. 😛 )
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Danny Fingeroth may not have created Darkhawk but he made him one of the few 90s comic character I like. In fact, he’s one of my favorite Marvel superheroes and the fact that they haven’t announced a Darkhawk movie makes me sad. At the 2013 ComiCONN I was able to snag a short interview with Fingeroth.
