January 11, 2013

Friday Night Prize Fight: Green Vs. Red

The Double M tournament is complete, and it’s time for the Prize Fight! Double DOSE is the name of the game because two are better than one. I’m in this Prize Fight and I need to find a double strike. I know with that title you’re expecting Hulks, but I’ve distanced myself as best I can from that nonsense. Let’s see, dinosaurs seems to do well for me. Godzilla does well for everybody. Hey, I bet I can do both. But this is the Prize Fight so I need more than your average dinosaur. So let’s set the mutated Godzillasaurus against a Devil Dinosaur!

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Double M/Double Dose Prize Fight!

Check out the Prize Fight logo! This one’s for the championship!

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January 11, 2013

Today’s Comic> Superman Family Adventures #8

Superman Family Adventures #8

“I’m getting this strange sense of deja vu.”

Superman Family Adventures #8

DC Comics (February, 2013)

WRITERS: Art Baltazar (also artist) and Franco
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn

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January 10, 2013

Free Comic Inside: Super Powers Superman

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In the second to last season of Super Friends, they added the subtitle The Legendary Super Powers Show, and in the last they changed the name completely to Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians. The reason is that Kenner and DC put out a toyline around this time called “Super Powers Collection“. Take a look:

There was also a Super Powers comic book if I recall correctly but I never had an issue. Being based on a comic collection it seems a given that they would have mini-comics. Well, back then. Today you’re lucky if you get some reprint of a regular comic. So how good were the Super Powers Collection comics? In this addition of Free Comic Inside we take a look at the Superman comic for a first impression.

Super Powers Superman

“What’s Iron Man got that I don’t?” “Hair.” “Oh, you’re going to pay for that!”

Super Powers Collection #1: featuring Superman
PRODUCED BY: DC Comics/Kenner
PACKED WITH: Superman; Lex Luthor (pre-Crisis)
no story credits given

That’s a shame, really as the artwork is quite good.

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January 10, 2013

Today’s Comic> Simpsons Super Spectacular #16

Simpsons Super Spectacular #16

Oh, a death in comics. How short will this be?

Simpsons Super Spectacular #16

Bongo Comics (2012?)

INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COVER ART: Jason Ho, Mike Rote, and Nathan Hamill
LETTERER: Karen Bates
EDITOR: Nathan Kane
 
“Bartmanga!” featuring Robartman!
WRITER: Ian Boothby
PENCILER: Nina Matsumoto
COLORIST: Nathan Hamill
 
THE SUPERIOR SQUAD:” Crisis of Discontinuous Continuities!”
WRITER: Chuck Dixon
PENCILER: Tone Rodrigues
COLORIST: Art Villanueva

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January 9, 2013

BW Article Link: History’s Big Plot Hole

plot hole

Somebody linked to one of my other articles with an article linking to the one I’m about to link to. That’s how I found it but I want to link right to the source. (I’d do the same for the “plot hole” image above but I don’t know where it came from.)

So what plot hole are we looking at? History’s. You know all those complaints about how some things are so convenient for characters that they can’t possibly be realistic? Well, using World War II as an example, maybe they’re more realistic than you think.

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January 9, 2013

Today’s Comic> Godzilla: The Half-Century War #4

Godzilla The Half-Century War #4

“I knew putting Minya in an art school would be interesting.”

Godzilla: The Half-Century War #4

IDW Publishing (December, 2012)

WRITER/ARTIST: James Stokoe
COLOR ASSISTS: Heather Breckel
EDITOR: Bobby Curnow

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January 8, 2013

BW Article Link: More On Lois Lane’s Horrible Treatment

I really do need to put some more Lois Lane art in my media library.

I really do need to put some more Lois Lane art in my media library.

Fellow Friday Night Fighter “Notintheface” and I are polar opposites when it comes to political and many social issues. On the other hand we are almost completely in sync when it comes to views on the many, many failings of the New 52 and Marvel, although he follows the “Justice League Dark” titles more closely than I do. Still, he ended 2012 with a listing of some of the worst things DC and Marvel did last year. Of special note is the long part at the end, where he goes over the terrible treatment Lois Lane and the Supermarriage have received in favor the “eugenics” relationship of Kal-El and Wonder Woman. It kind of makes me sick, too.

In fairness, though, he also found some things DC and Marvel did right (including agreeing with me that the Anguish story is a great example of how New 52 Superman should be written). Now in some cases we have different tastes, but liking or not liking something doesn’t mean that a story is good or bad. Besides, I have daily comic reviews to give you an idea what I think are good reads and what aren’t.

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