Jake & Leon #217: Batmobiling

I'll take an ugly Batmobile over a cool Bat-Tank.

I’ll take an ugly Batmobile over a cool Bat-Tank.

Nolan’s “Tumbler” Batmobile was a bloody tank. Snyder’s Batmobile is a sports tank, which isn’t as cool as it sounds.

I also want to give special thanks to Jerzy Drozd and Rob Stenzinger of the Lean Into Artcast. If you click on the above comic you go to the behind-the-scenes page. There you will find an embedded episode involving Jerzy going over the basics of Manga Studio 5, and I learned some things that will help speed up the comics in the future. You may not notice it but I do on my end. Thanks, guys!

  • The Clutter Reports: Now that we’ve gotten through the first trade of Furman’s Transformers run, I reviewed the collection itself. It’s one of four, not counting Generation Two.
  • Reviewers Unknown: If you missed it here yesterday, BW Panelling works to finish off ConnectiCon 2013 with Doug Walker and Lauren Landa showing you that you don’t have to share the internet’s opinions on what movies you like or don’t.

Best Scene Of This Week’s Reviews

Godzilla: Rulers Of Earth #15

Godzilla Rulers Of Earth #15 Best Scene

This week we’re taking a break from the Friday Night Fights in preparation for the Prize Fight, so I have the opportunity to do a special edition of “Scanning My Collection” I’ve been wanting to do for a while. So before the Saturday comic review gets to the DC/Marvel crossovers, it’s time for…..

JLA Avengers SMC

JLA/Avengers Week!

The comic that fought my attempts to properly alter the regular SMC logo so I apologize for the eye strain. This is probably the best DC/Marvel team-up story, and I’ll go into why as we go on. Tomorrow we’ll do an early overview, with reviews Tuesday to Friday and a wrap-up in the Saturday comic slot, plus a review of the trade I’m working from on Sunday’s Clutter Reports article. I hope you like Kurt Busiek and George Perez because you’ll be seeing a lot of them this week. So why do I like it, and can I still find a few flaws? The answers come this week!

BW Panelling: Movies Everyone Disagrees With You On

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I have a few more videos left to edit from the 2013 conventions. One is a panel I wasn’t sure I was going to do, and I explain why I did and what went wrong in the intro. The panel is “Movies Everyone Disagrees With You On”. From the beginning of BW Media Spotlight I’ve noted that there is a difference between liking and hating a particular media and said media being good or bad. Doug Walker must have had a similar notion because he has started doing this panel at a number of conventions. (In fact we will see one from the 2014 ConnectiCon at a later date.) It the audience’s chance to say “everyone I know likes/hates this movie but I hate/love it” and not be judged…mostly.

Joining Walker in this installment is voice actress Lauren Landa, a self-professed movie buff who asked if she could join in on the panel. While the video has me panning all over the place it’s at least good to listen to. The next installment of this topic will be…slightly better. Enjoy just the same

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Today’s Comic> Adventures Of Superman #16

Adventures Of Superman #16

“Run before we’re all New 52ed!”

Adventures Of Superman #16

FINAL ISSUE

DC Comics (October, 2014)

“Strange Visitor”
WRITER: Joe Keatinge
ARTISTS:Ming Doyle, Brent Shoonover, David Williams & Al Gordon, Tula Lotay, and Jason Shawn Alexander
COLORISTS: Jordie Bellaire, Nick Filardi, Jason Wright, Tula Lotay, and Lee Loughridge
COVER ART: Jon Bogdanove (artist) & Madpencil Studio (colors)
LETTERER: Wes Abbott
EDITOR: Alex Antone

This is not going to be a typical review, folks. I heard a lot of praise for this comic, both from the people who bought the digital version (which they can’t download) to the people who bought this issue. So I was looking forward to this finale. And then I read it, and I was quite disappointed really. Somehow this didn’t quite feel like what I was hoping for and frankly it didn’t replace that with anything that great. As fair warning, I’m not going to be afraid to spoil the daylights out of this comic because I really want to get into what bothers me about this issue.

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Friday Night Fights: This Time He’s Not An LMD

It’s the last fight before the Prize Fight, which means next week is our hiatus. I’ve got some plans for next week, which I’ll explain on Sunday.

So Original Sin decided to screw over Dum Dum Dugan by telling us he’s been a robot Life Model Decoy for most of these years, including our current read-through of Godzilla, which will be switching over to Dark Horse in a few weeks. Tim Dugan was already long dead before you enjoyed his exploits because shock value is more important than being fair to your predecessors or long-time readers and fans of a character. Well, that means I may have the last written story where Dum Dum Dugan was an actual human, unless there’s another period piece or flashback story I’m not aware of. Let’s see what made the REAL Tim “Dum Dum” Dugan so interesting, shall we?

Friday Night Fights clean logo

“Boogaloo” round 12

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Today’s Comic> Batman ’66 Meets The Green Hornet #4

Batman '66 Meets The Green Hornet #4

Weirdest conga line ever!

Batman ’66 Meets The Green Hornet #4

DC Comics/Dynamite Entertainment (November, 2014)

“The Treacherous Snare”
WRITERS: Kevin Smith & Ralph Garman
ARTIST: Ty Templeton
COLORIST; Tony Avina
COVER ART: Alex Ross
LETTERER: Wes Abbott
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Aniz Ansari
SENIOR EDITOR: Jim Chadwick

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Morning Article Link: Super Soldiers and Gamma People

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Science is trying to give us Iron Man’s armor and Spider-Man’s webbing. But how could it also give us Captain American and the Incredible Hulk? Comics Alliance‘s Matt Wilson found someone who can explain it.

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers Saga #2

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Saga #2

“This is for giving my show to those three VR Trooper characters!”

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Saga #2

Hamilton Comics (September, 1995)

WRITER: Donald Markstein
PENCILER: Steve Stiles
INKER: John Heebink
COLORIST: Joseph Allen
no letterer credited; comics.org’s listing says “(computer lettering)”
EDITORS: John Clark & Gary Leach

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