When Bruce and Britt got to the fights it was standing room only.
Batman ’66 Meets The Green Hornet #3
DC Comics/Dynamite (October, 2014)
“An Unlikely Pair” WRITERS: Kevin Smith & Ralph Garman ARTIST: Ty Templeton COLORIST: Tony Avina COVER ART: Alex Ross LETTERER: Wes Abbott ASSISTANT EDITOR: Aniz Ansari EDITOR: Jim Chadwick
Judith Hoag played April O’Neil in the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, with Paige Turco taking over the role for the last two movies. Did you ever wonder why the casting change happened? Variety‘s Ramin Setoodeh got the answer straight from Ms. Hoag herself.
Great, we get an actual small sized character and I’ve used enough toy jokes lately.
Godzilla #17
Marvel (December, 1978)
“Of Lizards Great And Small” WRITER: Doug Moench PENCILER: Herb Trimpe INKER: Dan Green COLORIST: Ben Sean (color printings returns next week for me) LETTERER: Bruce Patterson EDITOR: Bob Hall
As you may have heard, Robin Williams died yesterday, or at least that’s when we heard about it. The cause of death? Suicide; hanging I think. This should be the article where I go over his many works and how they drew and affected me, because I never met the man personally and all I would know about him was his work. But while thinking about that I realized that I wasn’t a huge fan. I liked a number of the stuff I saw. His stand-up performances were hilarious and I watched Mork & Mindy in both live-action (mostly reruns) and Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. However, while I liked some of the movies he was in, that’s pretty much it. His comedic talent was undeniable and we lost someone great, who battled a drug addiction and a later alcohol addiction, and was staring in a new TV show for CBS called The Crazy Ones. I don’t think he missed among the millions of people who loved his work, whether it was stand-up, voice acting, sitcoms, comedies, or his dramatic roles.
What we didn’t know was that Williams suffered from clinical depression. This isn’t like when we have a bad day. Clinical depression is a chemical imbalance that impairs one’s ability to feel happiness or even a sense of self-worth or importance. That’s what drove him to the addictions and suicide. However, I’m probably not the best person to explain the demons that drove him.
I’ve mentioned Nash Bozard on the site before. He hosts a webcast called Radio Dead Air and is a contributor to That Guy With The Glasses. He and many other reviewers lost a friend in Justin “JewWario” Carmichael earlier this year. What’s worse is that Bozard himself suffers from clinical depression. What is it and how it could it drive someone who appears to be happy, beloved, and famous? There is some cursing in this video from last night’s broadcast but he explains everything about this mind-altering disease. It’s quite real and quite destructive. He also goes into how you can help someone who is depressed…and how not to!
After the interview with Johns, Romita, and Janson I went over last week I saw this at the supermarket and decided to give it a shot.
I’m assuming being a “newsstand edition” means the cut off cover and weird scanning results.
Superman #32
DC Comics (August, 2014)
“Men Of Tomorrow” part 1: “Ulysses” WRITER: Geoff Johns PENCILER: John Romita, Jr. INKER: Klaus Janson COLORIST: Laura Martin LETTERER: Sal Cipriano ASSISTANT EDITOR: Anthony Marques GROUP EDITOR: Eddie Berganza
One of my favorite moments in any Avengers comic. Mostly because it’s happening to Wolverine.
From Luke McKinney, the man who brought you last night’s Cracked article comes this article from Man Cave Daily. I’ve mentioned that I hate Wolverine on many occasions, but McKinney does a good job explaining why Wolverine is my least favorite Marvel “hero”. This won’t stop me from writing my own article someday but until that happens this tells you most of my issue with him.
“I know you hated that zoo poster, but did you have to take the whole wall down?”
Amazing Spider-Man #41
Marvel (October, 1966, reprinted June, 2001 and packaged with Rhino action figure by Toy Biz as part of the “Spider-Man Classics” line)
“The Horns Of The Rhino!” WRITER: Stan Lee ARTIST: John Romita INKER: M. Demeo (Grand Comics Database claims it’s a pseudonym for Mike Esposito) LETTERER: Art Simek
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
