Hulk’s showing off his new Iron Man figure.
Iron Man Vol. 2 #1
Marvel Comics (November, 1996)
“Heart Of The Matter” WRITERS: Scott Lobdell & Jim Lee PENCILER: Whilce Portacio INKERS: Scot Williams & JD COLORIST: Joe Chiodo & Martin Jimenez COMPUTER COLORS: Wildstorm Effects LETTERER: Rich & Dave EDITOR: Mike HeislerI’ve tried reading the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy series and I can tell you to not skip a book. My local library was missing one from the series and I was more confused than usual. Yet I can tell that Douglas Adams’ series has a reason to be as popular as it is. While at times it seems to be a lot of nonsense, it’s well structured and darn fun nonsense. The book has spawned a radio drama, TV show, and movie.
And then there’s the text game produced by Infocom. You don’t see text-based adventure games anymore. Point-and-click still has some life but we seem to want our video games to be…visual. And yet the BBC has posted a remake of Infocom’s Hitchhiker’s Guide text game, with some graphics (first move should be turn on the lights) to help you get oriented. It’s not an easy game. I know I’ve said I’m not very good but I died just trying to get out of the bedroom. See how far you can get. PROTIP: Don’t panic. (I had to throw that in there.)
Astro City’s answer to the Trinity.
Astro City #10
Vertigo (May, 2014)
Victory WRITER/CREATOR: Kurt Busiek ARTIST: Brent Eric Anderson COVER ART: Alex Ross COLORIST: Alex Sinclair LETTERER/DESIGN: John G. Roshell & Jimmy Betancourt ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jessica Chen EDITOR: Kristy Quinn EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Shelly Bond
My thanks to The Hawkeye Initiative for indirectly boosting readership. Seriously, this scan gets quite a bit of travel.
There’s an argument that sex is a beautiful thing (this isn’t the part I disagree with) so we should depict it in every perverted way possible (here’s the wrong part!). This leads to not only softcore porn but to female superheroes drawn in sexy poses that make no sense And kind of ruin the story for official cheesecake fanart. Comics Alliance contributor David Brothers wrote a three part look at this mistake, and how to do “sexy” right.
How Geoff Johns thinks superheroes should look.
Nightwing #15
DC Comics (December, 1997)
“Warriors Two” WRITER: Chuck Dixon PENCILER: Scott McDaniel INKER: Karl Story COLORIST: Roberta Tewes LETTERER: John Costanza ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo EDITOR: Scott Peterson
Give Max credit. He finally found a way to get an anniversary comic in.
Should we be worried? What is Max planning? We’ll find out in the next few strips and I hope you like what’s coming.
I’m thinking Bat-Mite saw that episode of Johnny Bravo.
We have a near full load for this week in the new comics department. As for Marvel, it’s another series. Pray for me, people. I’m diving into the “Heroes Reborn” comics, or at least the ones I have. Surprisingly nobody it’s mostly Iron Man but I did grab a few others. Let’s see just how much I regret it.
While I will agree that there aren’t enough strong female heroines in fiction, especially Saturday morning shows, if someone tells you there aren’t any, they’re totally wrong. For example, Jana Of The Jungle is a female version of Tarzan. There was a time when comics had their fair share of “jungle girls” but I couldn’t tell you how much influence they had on this series.
The show follows Jana, lost while on a boat with her father. The series intro says that she is forever searching for her father, but I don’t recall that ever being a plotline. Then again, it’s been years since I’ve seen the show and this was the only episode I came across. However, it’s a good one, and let’s you meet all the main characters and see Jana doing what she does best. In our selected episode, they found a way to do the “evil twin” story. This isn’t the kind of show you expect the evil twin from, and no, it’s not Jana. Just watch…”The Renegade”!
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