“Hey, ladies, check me out!” “We have no gender in this continuity, idiot!”
The Transformers #56
Marvel Comics (September, 1989)
“Back From The Dead” WRITER: Simon Furman PENCILER: José Delbo INKER: Dave Hunt COLORIST: Nel Yomtov LETTERER: Jim Massara EDITOR: Don Daley
When we last left the merged Marvel Reborn/Wildstorm universe Doom had taken over the Skrull/Daemonite alliance on Earth and was slowly taking over the planet. The combined forces of both universes learned they used to be in two universes and decided to split them up. However, Doom had a spy in their ranks and blew up the Stormwatch satellite, losing half of his enemies. Can the other half survive?
“There’s the guy who designed your costume for “Dawn Of Justice!”
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #5
DC Comics (September, 2014)
“Trouble In Paradise” WRITER: Sholly Fisch ARTIST: Dario Brizuela COLORIST: Franco Riesco LETTERER: Saida Temofonte ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jessica Chen EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
Ever since Wonder Woman was rebooted after Crisis On Infinite Earths, a lot of the characteristics that made her special were change. During the New 52 even more so to where she doesn’t resemble the loving, caring, fighting as a last resort Princess Diana I grew up with. The Agony Booth contributor Joshua Bell agrees and explored what changes were made to the Wonder Woman we knew and loved through comics, Superfriends, and the Lynda Carter series. There’s also a brief exploration of feminism and the perception which I have some disagreements with but fits into his commentary.
“Is it my aftershave?”
Godzilla #15
Marvel (October, 1978)
“Roam On The Range” WRITER: Doug Moench PENCILER: Herb Trimpe INKER: Dan Green COLORIST: Don Warfield (however, we’re back to the black & white) LETTERER: Shelly Leferman EDITOR: Bob Hall
I had planned to review the final “Heroes Reborn” event before I finished Heroes Reborn: The Return. Things did not go as planned thanks to conventions and flare-ups. Well, better late than never.
As you saw in the morning Marvel Tuesday reviews, Heroes Reborn was a good idea marred by terrible writing and even worse artwork. My god, the artwork! It’s like everything wrong with the 90’s poured into every page! There was one last crossover event, “World War 3”, a title so generic that if I ran with it as the article title you would have no idea what comic I was talking about. Every big combat story is World War 3. (Except in a different Star Trek novel, Strangers From The Sky, where a character was forced to ask why he was fighting World War 4. Yes, an actual third world war would not stop us from using this cliché; we’d just change the number.) And yet this was a Marvel/Wildstorm crossover that was purely produced by Marvel and in the regular issues of the four “Heroes Reborn” comics. Why?
Part of this is theory but I do know that at the time Marvel was courting Wildstorm to become a Marvel imprint shortly after Wildstorm’s split from Image Comics. They ended up going with DC, who has now dissolved and absorbed the Wildstorm universe into the New 52 and still nobody cares. (Well, not absolutely nobody, just not enough to keep any of the titles going.) You may have noticed that Wildstorm FX was doing the separations, so it’s possible Marvel wanted them the same way they wanted Malibu’s coloring system and most of you know what happened to them. At least some of the Wildstorm characters still exist. Sadly, it’s Grifter, Voodoo, and Stormwatch plus some random Gen 13 people. I think. I didn’t follow that title or Stormwatch and the only WildCATS I followed was the cartoon. You know, the one with the lame theme song? Oh, I’ve got to review that into someday. Wait, I did!
The review layout is going to be a bit different on this one. Each part took place in a different comic, with the same writer but different art teams. So while I AM reviewing the story as a whole I’ll be listing the credited comics individually. Also, this will be a two-part article, today focusing on the first two chapters and the last two tomorrow.
“This party is getting out of hand!”
Mega Man #39
Archie (September, 2014)
“Dawn Of X” part 3: “Out Of Time” WRITER: Ian Flynn PENCILERS: Ryan Jampole & Jamal Peppers INKER: Gary Martin COLORIST: Matt Herms COVER ART: Patrick Spaziante LETTERER: John Workman ASSISTANT EDITOR: Vincent Lovallo EDITOR: Paul Kaminski
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
