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He did miss one, though. Betty Kane is absent, the true first Batgirl, lost to time.
Or maybe I don’t. It’s only a teaser, and I’ve given up assessing teasers because they usually tell nothing. Maybe I don’t have to give this desecration of Walt’s legacy the time of day. Half the internet has probably already said everything that’s need to be said, surely.
I have just under two hours to get a post out, I didn’t sleep well last night, and this movie may be the biggest example of how modern Disney is failing?
Fine.
I’m not kidding when I say that this movie is the biggest example of Disney’s current failings. As I went over in the article comparing how Walt Disney started the company and Bob Iger is ruining it, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs essentially made Walt Disney Pictures. It may have started with a mouse, but Walt helped bring cartoons beyond shorts played during a matinee showing and showed what you can do with animation. He embraced new technologies and made his legacy with this movie. Meanwhile, thanks to the media pecking order in Hollywood, Iger is pushing for live-action replacing animation, and creating movies that are shells of the former works. To this point the oldest films they ruined were Pete’s Dragon by creating from all appearances an original movie using the name, and Cinderella, the only movie under Walt’s tenure until now. (I guess you could make the case for Maleficent, Disney’s attempt to cash in on Wicked‘s success.) I haven’t even heard that either movie was terrible, so it’s gotten worse and worse with these live-action demakes.
So now that Disney has continued to distance itself from the very format that the company was founded on, how bad is this teaser? You know how teasers are supposed to drum up interest in the movie? This is doing the opposite.
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John Dorsey Communications (February, 2013)
“A Tale Of Two Galaxies”
WRITER/ARTIST: John Dorsey
Yes, this is how the comic is laid out, taking advantage of the computer monitor like some online comics today take advantage of the phone and tablet screen. It’s technically 508 pages but each page is one panel, filling the entire monitor. I’ve seen webcomics use animated gifs to their advantage on an HTML comic online. I don’t have a problem with that. However, whether it’s the file itself from Drive Thru Comics or ComicRack, the program I’m using to read this in CBZ format, I can’t zoom out to get the full screen. It’s just slightly too large, requiring a few turns of the mouse scroll wheel to get the rest of the panel. I could zoom out a slight bit I’d have no trouble reading this a lot better. It’s kind of annoying, but won’t be taken into further account in the review. I am, however, taking points off for the black line through each panel/page. It’s distracting and unless this is some artifact from an attempt at a print version it really shouldn’t be there.
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Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, Captain America is often misused as proof that “comics have always been political”. While inspired by the hope America would join the war against the Nazis and other Axis powers after hearing about the treatment of their fellow Jews, the comic still maintained story first and told good stories, even with a goal in mind. Also, there’s nothing wrong with hating Nazis, but calling someone a Nazi just because they don’t share your view is asinine. That’s all I’ll say on this front.
Instead, because I’m too tired to write a proper post, I’m tapping a video by Comic Drake that goes over the various Captains America in comics. Not the various Steve Rogers, unless you count a relevant retcon, but every hero and not-so-hero who has assumed the mantle of the American hero in battling evil. Is this really every mainline Cap? Also I have a couple of notes on each of the men who threw his mighty shield in light of current discourse, and I don’t know if Drake himself would agree with all of my assassements.
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Knuckles The Echidna #23
Archie Comic Publications (April, 1999)
“Dark Alliance” part 2: “Election Knight”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Jim Valentino
INKER: Harvey Mercadoocasio
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: J.F. Gabrie
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