“Let me help you park in the handicap spot legally. By breaking your legs!”
Exiles #3
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (October, 1993)
“A Glimmer And Gone”
WRITER: Steve Gerber
PENCILER: R. R. Phipps
INKER: Scott Reed
COLORIST: Robert Alvord
LETTERER: Patrick Owsley
EDITOR: Chris Ulm
NOTE: Enough F-Bombs dropped to level a small city, but it’s an interesting opinion worth discussing.
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He didn’t even notice I missed the perfect Marvel parody usage.
Now I just need to get the new logo done by Friday. More on that in a moment.
In this week’s Clutter Report I took a video I thought was just going to be filler and ended up with an article dissecting the video. The topic? What you shouldn’t toss out while decluttering.
Saturday is the 15th anniversary of Jake & Leon. Since that’s Showcase night I’ll post my favorite of this year’s comics on Friday. There’s also the next installment of Star Trek: Pitch & Guide, and we may finish the pitch this week. It has more episode suggestions, which should be fun to check out. Of course the chapter by chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image is coming, but it will be two chapters this week. That leaves me two days to come up with something, and I have one already planned out, depending on what other news happens.
Have a great week, everyone!
Not sure how long this one will be available. On the one hand, it’s part of the Warner Brothers Discovery megahuge animation library. On the other, they don’t seem to care about their megahuge animation library unless it’s Looney Tunes.
Airing for one season on CBS Saturday Mornings, thus making it part of my childhood, Drak Pack is a superhero comedy about the descendants of Universal movie monsters. Drak Junior the vampire leads the trio of crimefighters along with the wolfman Howler and the Frankenstein monster Frankie…which raises the type of questions Saturday mornings will never ask about patchwork corpses. They’re aren’t the most competent, but frankly neither is their opponent, the The Organization of Generally Rotten Enterprises, or OGRE for short. Hans Conrad provides the voice of OGRE’s leader, Doctor Dred, while the Pack get their marching orders from Dracula himself, voiced by Alan Oppenheimer. Other main cast members include Jerry Dexter, William Callaway in a number of roles, Don Messick, Chuck McCann, and Julie McWhirter.
In the first episode, Dred decides to steal the color from everything, including our heroes. Sadly this does not lead to a Rainbow Brite crossover. Enjoy.
The closest thing I have in my media library. I’ve not actually read a Metal Men comic.
Admittedly the only things I know about the Metal Men come from their appearance on the Batman: The Brave & The Bold cartoon and I think a DC Nation short. I do now that “Tina” (aka Platinum) was hot for her creator in the comics (weird sort of daddy issues) and in the show she was one of the every women who was hot for Batman. Yes, I wrote that correctly. Every woman on that show wanted to open Batman’s utility belt, but the only woman he was after was Lady Justice. Except for Alfred shipping him and Catwoman. I’m sorry, where was I?
Oh, right, Metal Men. Siskoid of the Blog Of Geekery goes over the various metal “robots” that appeared in the comic to see how well they matched their metal forms with their powers and personalities. Kind of like Silver & The Periodic Forces, the comic Jerzy Drozd did about an alien who summoned elemental beings to fight evil, except that was intentionally educational while Siskoid’s dive was in response to a letter to the editor about Metal Men being accidentally educational.
Both of them missed the pool by about two inches.
Amazing Mystery Funnies volume 2 #9
Centaur Publications (September, 1939)
On the inside cover (or front page, depending on how this was scanned) we get a list of Centaur Publications’ titles at the time. This one, Keen Detective Funnies, Comic Pages, Star Ranger Funnies, Keen Comics, and Star Comics (not to be confused with the Marvel imprint). I’m curious why they called these “funnies” when so many of them focus on serious adventure tales? I’d also like to know who this “Keen” person is or if they’re just using the “keen”, which I don’t see a lot these days. I don’t know; I’m just rambling to pad out the homepage. Let’s get on with this.
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
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Media Spotlight 
Why I’m Not Interested In DC’s “Absolute” Universe
I’m also not impressed with the glove straps.
One of the definitions for “absolute” in the Oxford dictionary goes “viewed or existing independently and not in relation to other things; not relative or comparative”. This is surrounded on a Google search by two other definitions: “not qualified or diminished in any way; total” and “noun Philosophy a value or principle which is regarded as universally valid or which may be viewed without relation to other things”. These three seem to describe what numerous fans see as DC’s answer to Marvel’s “Ultimate” Universe, the “Absolute Universe”.
In a video where the creator was talking about how excited he was for the Absolute universe I commented on why I wasn’t. I might have been more harsh than intended, or not, but I got accused of being closed minded, of potentially missing a good story because of a narrow perspective. This point of view annoys me. There are 24 hours in a day, roughly 8 of which we spend sleeping (more if you’re tired a lot like I am…I also spend too much time in the bathroom), plus the time eating, doing jobs and chores, spending time with loved ones, and having decades and centuries of stories to consume. Few people will ever read every story ever, even if they stick to one format like comics. If fact, I doubt anyone will completely read every publically available comic out there. I don’t have time for things that don’t look like something I want to read.
Thus far, that includes Absolute Batman and the other Absolute titles we know about thus far. That is not a slam against anyone who likes it, though nowadays we seem to act like it is. It just means I have no interest in this, and I have a blog so I can tell you WHY I’m not interested in the Absolute universe. So since I’m here, let’s do that.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 18, 2024 in DC Spotlight and tagged Absolute Batman, Absolute DC, Absolute Superman, commentary, DC Comics, DC Universe.
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