“Welcome to tonight’s meeting of Peeping Toms Anonymous.”
Knuckles The Echidna #16
Archie Comics Publications (September, 1998)
“Reunions”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENICLER: Manny Galan
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: Justin Gabrie
I’m not a huge Silver Surfer fan. I always found too many writers focus on his isolation and guilt that came with being a former herald of Galactus. However, I certainly know more about him than the people defending the latest news from Marvel Studios. Fresh from surviving an attempt to fix the damages at Disney by getting someone on the board that might be an advocate of the shareholders (let’s face it, none of them care about the fans unless they’re smart enough to see the money in it), the first thing Bob Iger announced is that the next Silver Surfer, the first for the MCU, would be female, played by Julia Garner.
Of course the usual suspects on both sides chimed in. The actual comic fans complained that it’s not Norrin Radd, the Silver Surfer from the main comics, every previous Fantastic Four movie and TV show, The Super Hero Squad, his own cartoon series, and numerous video games. Instead they went with Shalla-Bal, using Earth-X as their example of why it totally works because it’s in the comics.
A lot of things were in the comics. Some you don’t want to show up again anywhere, inside or outside of comics. The sad part is, I could easily find more than the five I wrote about in that linked to article, the point being that “it was in the comics” isn’t enough. Especially when we’re talking about a Marvel Studios that insists creators and performers stay oblivious to the comics so they can make their stories instead of doing an adaptation or doing their own stories as unique IP. In their minds they’re trying to show they can make better stories than the comics. The media pecking order and snobbery in action, though studios not wanting to take risks and are satisfied with cheap marketing gimmicks isn’t helping.
What the defenders of girl Surfer fail to realise is that the fans are geeks. They know more about superheroes than your average sports nut knows the RBI average of their favorite baseball teams, and that knowledge goes back decades. They can tell when someone specifically went looking for wikipedia and fan wiki entries that prove their case, or in the case of Marvel Studios to make the story they really want to make. Of course, it’s all surface level. Going solely by the Marvel Database fan wiki I can show how terrible their research is, and I’m going to, but don’t forget as I go through this that the studios don’t care. They’re using intellectual properties of a form of media they look down upon as a cheap marketing gimmick. Any research I, the defenders, or even the comic fans who aren’t heavy into Marvel lore did in this whole TwitterX and blogging debate surpasses the folks happy about changes in something they aren’t going to spend time and money on anyway or the people working on it. WE care more than THEY do, and that already says little about the stewards of decades of history.
“Look, there’s the Circle K. And some guy in sunglasses.”
Fraggle Rock #1
Star Comics (April, 1985, as collected in Archaia’s Fraggle Rock Classics volume 1)
“The Magic Time Machine”
WRITER: Stan Kay
ARTIST: Marie Severin
LETTERER: Grace Kremer
EDITOR: Sid Jacobson
NOTE: Contains swearing
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My comment from the…comments:
Hollywood is full of media snobs. They look down on anything without actors (comics, animation, and video games) and they’re just quaint things they do for their kids or some extra money. Todd Philips actually thought his take on the Joker would be superior to what’s in comics and comic-based movies. He’s said it was his goal to prove that. They wouldn’t do most of these changes (except for the politically-motivated ones) to a book. They’d do it to movies and TV shows they didn’t grow up with and just want the lazy marketing on something people have heard of to push a script they couldn’t get past the studio execs otherwise.
This may play into tonight’s commentary.
This chapter and next chapter are just barely long enough to have their own articles. Last chapterS, we saw the lights go out as the hacker hit the power, more proof that someone is behind all this.
I think we’ve reached the part in the book were I run out of things to say to pad out the homepage. I can’t talk about the case here because that’s the point of the book. If someone comes in on the homepage I don’t want to spoil where we are in the book in case they want to go back to the beginning or they haven’t read this chapter yet. I don’t want to be like Variety, whose Thursday headline mailer I have to delete because Wednesday night’s headlines ruined who got sent out on The Masked Singer. My dad and I watch that on Saturdays and I don’t enjoy it as much when I know who’s going home even if I don’t know who is under the mask. “It’s a good performance but I already know they lost.” So hopefully they didn’t say something respond worthy the rest of the day.
So I guess this is enough to look good on the homepage, so let’s get into today’s chapter and see how the case is coming along as well as the power.
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
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BW Media Spotlight 
BW Vs Bleeding Fool> Working Through The “Batman Paradox”
Jungle Batman watches you sleep.
Just because I use something as a research resource doesn’t mean I agree with everything on it. While admittedly I do agree with the writers of Bleeding Fool more often than I don’t, exceptions happen. Take for example the article we’re going over tonight.
In a recent article by contributor Jerry Lucky under the headline “Batman’s Paradox: Should The World’s Greatest Detective Shed Blood?” he’s referring to the blood of the villains of Gotham. In other words, Lucky is trying make the point that Batman’s “no kill rule” doesn’t make sense as a crimefighter in Gotham City.
Since this is a Vs article you can guess my stance on that. Batman doesn’t kill. There are reasons Batman doesn’t kill. And yes, Christopher Nolan, Batman DOES have to save Ra’s Al Ghul because he’s Batman. Whatever influence from the old pulp heroes like The Shadow that Batman had in the past the character evolved into the crimefighter he is today and unlike the Punisher (as noted in this morning’s video short) it makes as much sense for Batman to not kill as it does for the Punisher to kill.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 10, 2024 in DC Spotlight and tagged Batman, Bruce Wayne, BW versus, commentary, DC Comics, DC Universe.
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