I already did the action figure joke last issue.
Max Rogers #2
John Dorsey Communications (February, 2013)
“Kaboom!!!”
WRITER/ARTIST: John Dorsey
I tried some other formats that Drive Thru Comics offered but none of them could rescale to read this properly. That will make more sense in the review.
I’ve never been a huge X-Men fan. Even the original Fox Kids cartoon didn’t do much for me, so the relaunch didn’t make me miss Disney+. I hope that’s not a theme this week, but I saw an article from Bounding Into Comics where Tom Brevoort, incoming editor to the X-Books took a shot at the “Krakoa era” finale and showed that he may understand superheroes whatever his current political commentary may say. I haven’t heard anything direct, but TwitterX had turned everyone into cultural experts and activists.
Anyway, the article. Brevoort voiced his disproval for what outgoing editor Jordan D. White allowed to happen during the Krakoa Era, where all the mutants went to a private island (which is a leftover from an old horror comic story from Marvel about a living island) to get away from humanity and slowly lost their own in the process. In short, the X-Men became the Inhumans, born with great powers and cutting themselves off from society. Brevoort’s specific argument was on how the X-Men responded to an attack by some group called Orchis, an anti-mutant fantic group that tried to wipe them all out. That’s the limits of what I know outside of Just Some Guy and Comics By Perch videos on YouTube because I only watched those out of curiosity.
I’m here less to talk about the specifics about the era I didn’t pay attention to and focus on what Brevoort said about the choices made by the editor before him and the writers about why he opposed the X-Men’s gleeful killing of the extremists regardless of what they did to the Krakoan mutants. He was not happy with the turn of events, but critics of the Krakoa period didn’t like anything they did, from the “plant clones” of killed mutants to that one-shot story with Nature Girl killing a store clerk in Nevada after finding a turtle in the Pacific Ocean choking on a bad from that store and blaming the landlocked bagger…and the comic insisting she was in the right. That’s the worse crime I know of from this period, but Brevoort has other opinions.
“Will someone turn off the sprinklers?”
Sonic The Hedgehog #70
Archie Comic Publications (May, 1999)
EDITOR: J. F. Gabrie
“Saving Nate Morgan”
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Steven Butler
INKER: Pam Eklund
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
“Statue Of Limitations”
WRITER: Paul Castigua
ARTISTS: Chris Allan & Jim Amash
COLORIST: Vickie Williams
LETTERER: Barry Grossman
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I am not the guy to do a post-mortem on The Acolyte, the latest failing of Disney era Star Wars announced yesterday to not be getting a second season on Disney+. It seems that Disney can’t get a hit of their own, the only big product being an Australian kids show they simply have the license to, but given the failings of properties have taken over or out right bought out they’re better off keeping it a license. I noticed a lot more gay characters in the last season of Miraculous, a show that’s at least ethnically diverse by French standards, though I have notes on the season finale. Doctor Who has only gotten worse since they got involved alongside Bad Wolf Productions. Marvel Studios has become as antagonistic to its legacy as Disney is, not that Marvel Comics is doing any better, while Disney’s original characters are being done by other animation studios, if Disney even has one of their own anymore.
For that reason I have no interest in getting a Disney+ subscription when there’s only two shows I really want to see: Bluey and Hailey’s On It (which also has gay couplings just to have them there, including of course the tomboy, which I only bring up because a Disney exec running Disney Channel and Disney Junior outright admitted to a “not so secret gay agenda” in a business call that got leaked online). However, if I did, I still wouldn’t have watched The Acolyte because it presented a theme I reject rather heartily: the idea that the Jedi are the real bad guys and the SITH are to be celebrated. Set in the final days of the Disney created period known as the “High Republic”, it started as a story about someone murdering Jedi and then tried to convince us the murderer was in the right, the Sith are misunderstood, and the Jedi are really the baddies for keeping the users of the Dark Side of the Force, from witches to would-be Sith Lord “The Stranger”, which would make a good Renegade Time Lord name.
That makes two things this series gets wrong, the other being how fire works. Apparently fire can flicker in airless space and burn with only stone as fuel. Unless the witches’ fortress was made of charcoal that’s unlikely. This follows a recent trend in writers to focus on the villains and make them sympathetic while giving heroes the biggest flaws, originally in the name of complexity but now to redeem the villain while still doing evil things. Even the Devil of Judeo-Christian beliefs has gotten that treatment in Hasbin Hotel, where he’s depicted as a misunderstood artist rather than the Prince Of Lies and every other nickname that says “this guy is evil” outside of the one he had before falling to evil and trying to take over God’s position in Creation. Like I discussed with Autobots and Decepticons, the Jedi and Sith serve a narrative purpose, and trying to flip that is to totally miss the point of the Sith and the reason they exist.
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Amazing Mystery Funnies #11
Centaur Publications (July, 1939)
I guess this is when Centaur decided to add superheroes to their crime comics. In addition to the costumed character here there’s add for a “Masked Marvel” to show up in an issue of Keen Mystery Funnies, which wasn’t in the one I reviewed last week. So I may have to give that one another shot. I’m guessing one superhero story among the regular detective stories. I’m not usually into crime dramas, but I’m one of those suckers who watch ALMOST anything with a superhero in it. Fantasy and horror need more superheroes, but if superheroes were in horror it wouldn’t be horror anymore because the hero would stop the monster. Love & Capes already got the romantic comedy angle.
So let’s see what this anthology brings us.
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