“I lost my contact lens out there.”
Michael Turner’s Fathom #0
Aspen MLT (January, 2011–digital copy)
WRITER/PENCILER/CREATOR: Michael Turner
INKER: Joe Weems V
COLORISTS: Jonathan D. Smith, Steve Firchow, Richard Isanove, Peter Steigerwald, & Matt Nelson (not sure why the names get smaller as the list goes on)
LETTERER: Dennis Heisler
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Adapted from Peter Parker: The Spectacular Spider-Man (Volume 1: 2017-2019) #6 (January, 2018) “My Dinner With Jonah”
Creators: Chip Zdarsky, Adam Kubert, Jordie Bellaire.
“Ruined” may be harsher than I intend, because I happily defend 80s Saturday morning shows. However, a clip from CBS’s 60 Minutes following Joe Barbera, one half of SatAM overlords Hanna-Barbera, points out that times were already changing when it comes to how kids TV was being presented.
This story from 1985 came to my attention when YouTube recommended a clip from the YouTube channel Film Threat. We’ll watch the 60 Minutes interview in full before watching the part panelist Chris Gore, founder of the original “zine” style magazine version of Film Threat, In that portion of the interview, CBS somehow got into an NBC pitch meeting for some new Hanna-Barbera show. I’m not sure why, since CBS also had HB shows on their lineup. I guess so their SatAM staff didn’t look bad. This leads to Barbera discussing how more difficult it had become to pitch a show thanks to parent groups and stricter standards and practices rules.
Gore, however, who comments more on the culture war damage of storytelling than I do, pointed to this segment as the early days of so-called “wokeness”, when trying to be politically correct, inclusive just to check boxes, and worrying about sensitive kids a lot more than when Hanna-Barbera started on television takes precedence over the story and the comedy. There’s a few things I’d like to point out as well as I’ve heard the stories of creators unhappy with the stricter SatAM rules in the 1980s. Again, I’ll defend what I grew up with…but they’re not wrong, either.
“Who let Todd McFarlane decorate in here!”
Sonic The Hedgehog #95
Archie Comic Publications (May, 2001)
COLORIST: Frank Galiardo
EDITOR: Justin “J.F.” Gabrie
Sonic: “Enemy Mine”
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Fry
INKERS: Pam Eklund & Jim Amash
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
Knuckles: “When Destiny Calls”
WRITER/INKER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Ron Lim
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
“One of these days I have to get that temporal grace thing working.”
It’s kind of amazing how this season has slowly reunited Whovians across the sociopolitical divide…in how much they hate it. Unless all they care about is the gay black Doctor and other misuses of “representation” to cover terrible storytelling, I’ve seen longtime Who fans drop away from the series, including Harbo Wholmes, one of the channels I use for the Daily Video. It’s clear to see that only the most dedicated of brand loyalist or the activist who probably never watched the show anyway are the only ones still watching besides reaction channels chronicling the downfall of our favorite Time Lord.
I’d save this since I’m already doing a Doctor Who themed article every week for the next few weeks but why wait? I’m doing a bit of my own reacting, to WhoCulture‘s “10 Things NOBODY Wants To Admit About Doctor Who”. While I haven’t read their review of “The Reality War”, the last straw in a terrible season to many holdout fans, I would be surprised if the WhatCulture network channel dedicated to Doctor Who is going to just give up on new/neo Who and stick to the older material, before Chibnall and Davies’s second run started chasing so many fans away. In this video, with Elle Littlechild as the selected presenter among the team to read Marc Donaldson’s article, they go over ten things about the long running series they think are just too silly and even a few they think the show would be better off getting rid of or never having done in the first place.
This isn’t a “Versus” article because I actually agree with some of what’s presents. Some…but not all. There’s a few we’re going to have to agree to disagree with, and one where I think they’re completely wrong. However, some I do agree has been a problem. I’ll show you the video, or you can read the article version that means scrolling through multiple pages so they can increase their ad revenue, and then respond to their list.
According to the Grand Comics Database and the indicta, Captain Atom continues the numbering from Strange Suspense Stories, a comic that started back in 1955. It’s that weird mailing issue again that causes new comics to take over old comics’ numbering for some dumb reason. The US Government, ladies and gentlemen. The comic actually ended by reprinting some of the Space Adventures stories, but I’m not going through that again.
Alternate title: “Da-ba-di da-ba-DIE!”
Captain Atom #78 (technically #1)
Charlton Comics Group (December, 1965)
“The Gremlins From Planet Blue”
WRITER: Joe Gill
PENCILER: Steve Ditko
INKER: Rocke Mastriano
COLORIST: not credited along with the editor, though the comic is in color, the credits given in a paragraph so maybe they forgot him/her
LETTERER: Jon D’Agostino
“The Vast Unknown”
Bache (that’s the only credit)
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
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