In the latest installment of Kate Leth’s Kate Or Die comic for Comics Alliance, she discusses why she’s a Batman fan who can’t bring herself to read Batman 52. I wonder if that includes Batman ’66 or this Scooby-Doo Team-Up that seems stuck on Batman and Robin? I know how she feels, though. I stopped reading Superman and Transformers. Me not reading Transformers still feels…wrong.
“Pardon me. Do you have any Grey Poupon?”
The Lost World: Jurassic Park #2
Topps Comics (June,1997)
WRITER: Don McGregor PENCILER: Jeff Butler INKER: Armando Gil COVER ART: Walter Simonson & Richard Ory COLORING: Digital Chameleon LETTERER: Ken Lopez EDITOR: Renee Witterstaetter
Yesterday we began pouring over Eric Stephenson’s speech at February’s ComicsPro event. Today we return thanks to Bleeding Cool’s transcript. Today: the womenfolk and the “evils” of licensed comics.
“Can you change the oil while you’re at it?”
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #3
DC Comics (May, 2014)
“Two Mites Make It Wrong” WRITER: Sholly Fisch ARTIST: Dario Brizuela COLORIST: Franco Riesco LETTERER: Deron Bennett ASSISTANT EDITOR: Jessica Chen EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
31st Academy Awards Presentations, Pantages Theater, Hollywood, 1959 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I really don’t care about the Academy Awards. It’s rare when something I enjoyed was even nominated, much less wins anything and they snub animated movies while ignoring some of them have so much CG they might as well BE animated. But this year’s Oscars has an extra dose of failure. The Dissolve‘s Matt Singer learned that people who voted for the big winner, 12 Years A Slave, never even saw the movie. How do you do that? Do you want to be taken less seriously than American Idol?
Characters come back to life? Like that means anything anymore.
Avengers Annual #16
Marvel Comics (1987)
“The Day Death Died!” WRITER: Tom DeFalco VARIOUS ARTISTS: Bob Hall, Tom Palmer, John Romita, Jr., Bill Seinkiewciz, Keith Pollard, Al Williamson, Marshal Rodgers, Bob Layton, Jackson Guice, Kevin Nolan, Ron Frienz, & Bob Wiacek COLORIST: Max Scheele LETTERER: Ken Lopez EDITOR: Mark Gruenwald
One thing I want to get straight before we go in is that I don’t have an issue with Image publisher Eric Stephenson personally. While the majority of Image’s product is not for me (although a few do pop up that I collect), they’re not systematically destroying their characters to appeal to the “kewl kids” or ruining my childhood favorites. They aren’t usually called upon for poor treatment of female characters, so if it DOES happen it’s under the radar. I have never met him or honestly heard about him since I don’t usually follow Image. Or maybe he’s just not as in-your-face as DiDio or Joe Quesada was. (Alex Alonzo is making some of the same mistakes but he isn’t demanding we love his universe again and again because he’s smarter than we are, or in DiDio’s case better than the other writers.)
However, Stephenson’s recent speech at the ComicPRO convention in Atlanta, Georgia last month upset a number of comic fans. I found out that Bleeding Cool posted the transcript. I’m not going to repost the entire speech here but I will look at the speech and see exactly what he said and how annoyed fans should really be by it. Here we go, kids.
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
