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Bruce Timm returns to the Dark Knight with an all new Batman series. Rejected by Warner Brothers Discovery, the series was picked up by Amazon Prime, and appears to be a more adult Batman series. Because that worked so well for the Killing Joke adaptation, right? You know, the one where they added a Batman/Batgirl sex scene because Timm is obsessed with making those two a couple because they share a costume or something. There’s a Batwoman joke in there I won’t attempt to find.
Batman: Caped Crusader is a 10 episode series not tied to any of Timm’s prior projects with the masked manhunter. He’s also updated it for “modern audiences”, which given what that term usually ends up meaning versus what it pretends to mean could be a problem. We already know they race-swapped Harley Quinn and disconnected her from the Joker, and Commissioner Gordon is also using the wrong coloring pencil. That doesn’t speak to the quality of the show. We haven’t seen it yet. We can look at what they think will get us to watch, and that gives us hints about the adaptation. I have some notes.
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If you think the cover is a mess, wait until you read it.
Sonic Super Special #7
Archie Comics Publications (1998)
“Parallel Paradigm”
WRITER/INKER: Ken Penders
PENICLER: Jim Valentino
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo & Pat Spaziante
COVER SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
INTERIOR SEPARATIONS: Grap[hic Color Works
FRONTISPIECE & CENTER SPREAD: Pat Spaziante & Harvey Mercadoocasio
SEPARATIONS: Nelson Ribeiro
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: Justin F. Gabrie
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Here at BW Media Spotlight we (me and the voices in my head) don’t use “should” or “shouldn’t” litely. Could Finn make an interesting Jedi? Sure. So could C-3PO under the right writer, and as a fan of the Droids I could get behind that plan in theory. The question is whether or not Finn’s character arc would be served better by having him become a Jedi, and on that I’m not convinced.
The inspiration came from Literature Devil’s Morning Nonsense podcast, which I wake up with most weekday mornings. (Sorry, thanks to YouTube’s own nonsense the live stream replays require a membership to LD’s channel, or I’d link to the specific episode.) In today’s stream, LD made the case that Finn should have been the one to become a Jedi instead of Rey, and while I’m usually in agreement with him, in this case I have to politely disagree. I have heard a number of times that Finn should have been a Jedi alongside or in place of Rey for a while now, and I wonder if that’s just a result of how poorly Rey was developed as a character through the sequel trilogy. Someday I want to dig into that in greater detail, but today I want to focus on this one topic. Honest, I think The Last Jedi‘s biggest failing (and how does one choose when the most interesting thing about it was a visually spectacular suicide ramming?) is that Rian Johnson chose the wrong theme.
“Let the past die. Kill it if you have to.”
While this seems to be the direction today’s writers are taking with old properties because they’re too invested in their own stories and tastes (overinflated egos don’t help), and this is the theme of The Last Jedi, it’s not the one that best served the characters at the center of the movie: Finn, Rey, Rose Tico, Luke Skywalker, and even Poe Dameron. Poe ends up on the worse end because he doesn’t really have an arc centered around that theme while Finn’s character arc is undone by Johnson’s obsession with subversion for the sake of subversion. Instead, let me suggest a better theme that is just screaming to be used, and in the future I may dive more into how this movie could have been so much better. Part of that is a new story theme: am I worthy?
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“No, Jinpei, it’s this way.”
Gatchaman #0 FCBD
Mad Cave Studios (2024)
COVER ARTIST: Chris Samnee
COVER COLORIST: Jordan Gibson
BOOK DESIGNER: Camilo Sánchez
EDITOR: Chas! Pagburn
Features three stories starring the Science Ninja Team as Mad Cave previews their new comic series starring the original version of what my childhood will always remember as Battle Of The Planets while others will remember it as G-Force: Guardians Of Space or Saban’s Eagle Riders. Those last two may not get a comic of their own while Battle Of The Planets had a great run by Top Cow years ago, which I’ve reviewed on this site. Let’s see how Mad Cave does it under the original character names. At least they have an excuse for not including 7-Zark-7 and 1-Rover-1.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 26, 2024 in Animation Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Furiosa, Tinker Bell, Tinkerbell.
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