“Is this because I said the Bulls weren’t my team?”
Silverhawks #4
Star Comics (February, 1986)
“Copper Kidd Beats The Odds” WRITER: Steve Perry PENCILER: Mike Witherby INKER: Fred Fredericks COLORIST: Evelyn Stein LETTERER: Jack Morelli EDITOR: Don Daley
Batgirl (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Cassandra Cain is a character I think got the shaft. Barbara had retired as Batgirl and did more to help the Bat crew and other superheroes as Oracle. Stephanie Brown had also been Robin but she created her own identity as the Spoiler. Cassandra Cain had been Batgirl from the start and she was a character I found interesting at concept. What little I’ve seen of her showed her potential. And yet she’s the only Bat Family member still sitting in the forgotten character jail. I seldom see her cosplayed (in fact I don’t remember seeing one) but the Stephanie Brown and new Barbara Gordon 52 costume are easy to find. So what the heck happened? Chris Sims investigates in his “Ask Chris” series.
If I were really continuing the Basketball theme this week I’d be reviewing the Charles Barkley crossover.
Godzilla #20
Marvel (March, 1979)
“A Night At The Museum” WRITER: Doug Moench ARTISTS: Herb Trimpe & Dan Green COLORIST: George Roussos (I’m back on the black & white until issue #23) LETTERER: Elaine Heinl EDITOR: Allen Milgrom
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not hating the novel. However, with other Star Trek novels the conversations and character development happened around an event. Here we got all of the character stuff out of the way and only last chapter had some events happen beyond short bursts meant to be part of character development or introduction. Remember, this is 13 chapters which means from here there are only three chapters and the epilogue to go.
Last time the Enterprise stumbled across a spaceship with its own world inside and an alien species complete foreign to anything Starfleet knows. On their first mission together as a USO troupe transportation. The bad news is they don’t speak like we do and the rogue Klingon Koronin finally returns to the story and pretty much does nothing but sit there taunting Kirk. We went to nothing to way beyond. It’s quite the whiplash, folks. The new aliens are about to visit the Enterprise and I’m curious to see what effect this will have on crew and vaudevillians.
And the slashfic began.
Silverhawks #2
Star Comics (October, 1987)
“Kidnapped” WRITER: Steve Perry PENCILER: Mike Witherby INKER; Bred Fredricks COLORIST: Nel Yomtov LETTERER: Jack Morelli EDITOR: Don DaleyI have to give Panasonic credit for remembering the power of comics. As part of a marketing campaign for the Toughbook and Toughpad they created their own superhero team but, as Forbes contributor Roger Kay reports, the hero is their IT guy. There’s a link to the comic that you can read online or download as a PDF. Good luck finding a print copy, though.
The winning team faces Firestorm in a game of Basketball.
The Spectacular Spider-Man #30
Marvel (May, 1979)
“Secret As The Grave!” WRITER: Bill Mantlo ARTIST: Jim Mooney no colorist credited LETTERER: Jim Novak EDITOR: Allen Milgrom
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
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