Also the villains were taken out, so no face turns in this Elseworld.
Seriously, the only time I can remember the heroes being run off only to learn the villains were more powerful was in an episode of The Transformers where the Decepticons tricked humans into thinking the Autobots were the real bad guys. Otherwise, we don’t get to see a story where there is no hero left to oppose the superpowerful villain because the people or one self-righteous moron chased or killed them off. That would leave nobody to save the world. Does anyone really think Waller’s people, sans any superpowered people, would be able to handle Darkseid? Or Mongul? The Yellow or Red Lanterns? I want to see the Elseworlds story where Waller realizes she #$%#$ed up badly and there’s nothing she can do about it, if only to remind us why we have superheroes.
Speaking of DC, I did see that they’re returning to the 1970s-1990s logo. They’re really hoping nostalgia will bring the readers back…except when it comes to the reasons they actually left in the first place. That nonsense they’ll keep doing. It’s really just another gimmick and I don’t see anybody buying into those anymore.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week, I reorganized a shelf to properly store my A/V gear…and left a piece out like an idiot.
I have a couple of article ideas thanks to the fools at Variety, so that should be fun. We also the final chapter of Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders for Chapter By Chapter, which will mean a book report at The Clutter Reports next week. That’s in addition to the comic reviews, fun videos, and whatever else comes to mind and I’m able to put together. Have a great week, everyone!
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BW’s Saturday Article Link> Graphic Novels ARE Books
The show Boy Meets World and its spinoff, Girl Meets World (following the daughter of the first show’s protagonist back when that could still lead to good storytelling–I actually like it more than her dad’s story), both have episodes in which a literature teacher has to fight to make a graphic novel part of their curriculum. I’m not a fan of the choices (for Cory it was God Loves, Man Kills, the X-Men story, if I remember correctly, and for his daughter Riley it was The Dark Knight Returns, both before Disney bought Marvel if memory serves) but they aren’t terrible ones to go with. It’s just not what I would have chosen. It does highlight the problems comics still have when it comes to being accepted as literature and art.
In an article by Ashley Skorld for Fansided’s “I Prefer Reading” site, she runs into someone at a bookstore suffering the same issue with her son, trying to get him to read something other than a comic. There’s nothing wrong with that, mind you. I love reading both, but she then claims that graphic novels aren’t “real books”, and the writer takes issue with that point of view.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on July 27, 2024 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comics, commentary, graphic novels, Literature.
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