That evil 2X4 will never harm anyone again!
The Six Million Dollar Man Season 6 #2
Dynamite (2014)
WRITER: Jim Kuhoric ARTIST: Juan Antonio Ramirez COLORIST: Fran Gamboa SELECTED COVER ART: Alex Ross LETTERER: Joshua Cozine
Comics Alliance’s latest Kate Or Die finds Kate Leth showing what is and isn’t creepy when you go up to your favorite creator at a convention.
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What is Iron Man doing to Ben…on second thought, I don’t want to know.
Avengers Vol. 2 #6
Marvel Comics (April, 1997)
“Industrial Revolution” part 1: “A Hard Day’s Night” PLOT: Rob Liefeld & Jeph Loeb WRITER: Jeph Loeb PENCILER: Ian Churchill INKERS: Jon Sibol & Larry Stacker COLORIST: Andy Troy SEPARATIONS: Extreme Colors ENHANCEMENT: Drew LETTERS: Comicraft EDITOR: Eric StephensonThree different credits for coloring. Granted it’s the only part of the art that’s doesn’t make me cry.
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I was supposed to be done with this. I didn’t want to talk about this movie anymore because every time director Zack Snyder, writer David S. Goyer, and actor Henry Cavhill try to convince me their Superman is the best version ever I actually hate the movie even more. Go back to my first impression V-Log of Man Of Steel. I didn’t hate it but I thought it was a terrible Superman adaptation. We shouldn’t be on this again. I’m pretty sure after my last rant I said I wasn’t going to go into this anymore.
But instead of FINALLY reviewing Stan Lee’s Super 7 movie review here we are again. Not so much because of Snyder but someone had to post this to Twitter:
Calling me and others who think Steelman is nothing like Superman (although Cavhill would have been a good choice as Superman) “hypocrites” is rather insulting and this is a guy whose work I tend to enjoy. To make matters worse, Forbes contributor Mark Hughes is quite happy to talk about how much he loves Snyder’s work on this movie and Watchman, so he’s not escaping comment either, and it’s rare I look at the interviewer in these rants. So here’s the article, which you should read first to get all the context, and here comes my rant.
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Picked up the X Variant. Have no idea what’s happening here.
Mega Man #35
Archie Comics (May, 2014)
WRITER: Ian Flynn COLORIST: Matt Herms LETTERER: John Workman SELECTED COVER ART: Ben Bates ASSISTANT EDITOR: Vicnent Lovallo EDITOR: Paul Kaminski “Shadow Of Ra Moon” part 2 “Fear Itself” PENCILER: Tyson Heese INKER: Gary Martin “The X Factor” part 2 “The X Factor” PENCILER: Patrick Spaziante INKER: Rick Bryant
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BW Media Spotlight is about the end product–the comics, movies, shows, music, and video games. I tend not to focus on fan or creative drama unless it affects the end product. I think this is because fandoms bug me. While I don’t usually subscribe to “it’s just a story” there is a point where that goes too far. Death threats because you don’t like the way a story went? Did you people watch Misery and side with the crazy woman who tied the author to the bed, broke his legs, and demand he rewrite the ending of his novel? Because you weren’t supposed to!
And just when you think it couldn’t get worse, “we” have to take issue with females “invading” “our” turf. Oh, guy geeks can try and take My Little Pony out of the hands of little girls, but the likes of Janelle Asselin and Anita Sarkeesian have not only had their points of view challenged, which I have no problem with, but they’ve been threatened with rape. And it’s only the female critics that I’ve heard threatened with rape. Does anyone threaten to rape Chris Sims, Doug Walker, or James Rolfe? No? THEN WHY IS IT OKAY TO THREATEN WOMEN WITH RAPE! OR RAPING/KILLING THEIR CHILDREN! This is has also happened to a female game writer because some group didn’t like the end of one of the Dragon Age games. What is even the hell?
Blogger “Doctor Nerdlove” has collected many stories about the supposed bullied group and how they treat women. If you thought the “fake geek girl” was the worst we could do, read that article. Fellow geek guys, we DO have pretty girls among our ranks, and they deserve to be treated with respect or we start acting like the bullies we hate so much. Read that article and knock that crap off!
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Is he wearing a see-through shirt?
Quality Comics (August, 1941)
ORIGINAL COVER ART: Gil Fox
Here we go again, with a ton of stories courtesy of the “Millennium Edition” reprints. This comic is known for the debut of Plastic Man, but other DC characters came from here, just minor ones who never had their own cartoon show. They still found a way to have minor appearances in the DC Universe in later years.
