Artist’s rendition of DC’s IP raiders.
Blue Beetle #3
Charlton Comics Group (October, 1967)
PLOT/ARTIST: Steve Ditko
SCRIPT: D.C. Glanzman
Blue Beetle: “The Madmen”
LETTERER: Bob Agnew
The Question:
no letterer credit but it looks like the same typewriter…I mean A. Machine
WARNING: Swears and sexual suggestions, but for a story about a sex robot it’s actually pretty good. And not porn, because we don’t do that hear. Still not for kids, though.
UPDATE: 6/18/2025> Also apparently since I posted this it went age restricted, meaning I actually can’t show the video here. There is a link in the spot the video would be or just click here. Sorry for the problem as for some reason this post has gotten a ton of views in the past few days.
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A bit of a quandary here. Tonight’s chapter is only five pages long, but the next chapter is about nine. Five is a chapter for me, but there’s too many of both pages to combine them, and I’m still trying to shake off last week’s all distractions all week and get back on schedule. So short chapter it is.
Last time we checked back in with Op-Center and my expectations are still low for our hero stand-ins. This chapter takes us back to St. Petersburg, where we check in with Commie Op-Center or the British spy who I’m hoping gets to the end of the story.
While the Cold War is technically over, stories of Ruskie Commies trying to restore the Soviet Union and communism to the former USSR still continue. I’d say they can’t get over the stories they could tell about US/USSR relations but considering Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, is actively trying to restore communism in Russia and reform the Union, it’s not like we don’t have some life left in the bear to tell this story. We’ve lost the defector stories, but we have China and North Korea to solve that issue…if the entertainment industry wasn’t smitten with China for some reason. This book came out as the Cold War was dying out, so the “restore the Soviet Union” plot wasn’t played out yet, although we would still get Russian characters who wanted to see the old system put back because they still believed the malarkey propaganda that allowed communism to continue in Russia.
Now the same people who praised Russia and the Soviet Union in the 1980s hate them in the 2020s. Funny how life works. But I’m done padding the homepage. Let’s see what’s happening in the interesting part of the story.
“This pose seriously hurts my spine. How do women in comics do it?”
Exiles #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (August, 1993)
WRITERS: Steve Gerber, Tom Mason, Dave Olbrich, & Chris Ulm
PENCILER: Paul Pelletier
INKER: Ken Branch
COLORISTS: Paul Mounts & Moose Baumann
LETTERER: Clem Robins
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
I miss when Cartoon Network used to air these “Groovies” music video. I also miss when they and later Boomerang would air these nostalgic shows.
MeTV Toons aired a sneak peak of Super Friends last night, and will start airing the series today. I’m glad the sneak peak started with later seasons, when the show got good, but understandably the full series run starts with the original season, with Wendy, Marvin, and Wonderdog and none of the DC villains. I don’t hate it, but it’s clearly weaker than the show that made me a DC Comics fan before I even got my first DC comic.
I recommend either getting through season one for the novelty with the understanding that it gets better in season two, or starting with the second season, which depending on how MeTV Toons airs it would be The All-New Super Friends Hour or Challenge Of The Super Friends, follow that through Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (the final and best season), then watch season one for the novelty.
The show gets a bad rep (especially for Aquaman) that I feel it doesn’t deserve and this is the best way for those of you new to the series to get a proper understanding of why it has the fan base it does among those of us who grew up with it.
I hear the comic version got MCUed. So imagine that was undone there as well.
Only now do I realize I should have dropped the magic lightning from the second panel. I already screwed up and drew it on the wrong layer. Well, I made my point, but something to remember in future strips.
No Clutter Report this week since said week has been a rather crazy one. This week should not have me running out of the house every day so hopefully things will be better. That includes the latest chapter of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image for Chapter By Chapter, and part two of the sales pitch for the original Star Trek. Let’s see who earned their nerd cred. Have a great week, everyone!
Every now and then a review, commentary, or in this case retrospective goes a bit too long to use as a filler article post. The only exception I’ve made is Jay Exci’s breakdown of everything wrong with Chris Chibnall’s time on Doctor Who, and that’s because if you can find four hours of content and the comedy is only a small part of it, it’s worth showing.
Tonight’s video is not that long, only about an hour and a half. While not a story itself, it is a good way to introduce Stam Fine Reviews to you guys, as it goes over the history of Star Trek: The Next Generation. As of this writing his look at the first season is up on his YouTube channel, but he started with this overview of the entire series, briefly touching on the movies and Deep Space Nine due to it’s connection to TNG. Sadly he kind of looks down on the Filmation series from the clips he used but everyone makes mistakes. He’s also looked at the original series and the movies (not the animated series because he doesn’t review any animation, the poor sap) and both Voyager and Enterprise if you want to check that out.
Also, for those of you who come here due to the limited use of swearing, he does that thing where he censors the f-bomb but not the s-bomb because nobody understands why South Park talked Comedy Central into letting the latter go to make their point to both sides of the discussion on cursing on television. Look, YouTubers, either censor both or censor neither, but please choose lane. Hollywood, too, but they’re a lost cause at this point. Enjoy.
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