Note: minor swearing and a dude ripped apart in animation, but not all that gory.
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You know, just when I start to settle in to the current level of stupidity coming out of the entertainment industry someone comes up with something even stupider to say. For example, Russell T. Davies tells us that he and his staff were insistent upon giving Davros an unmutated body because they were concerned their audience would equate being in a wheelchair with being evil. You know, instead of brilliant scientist going mad after experiments mutated his body into a half-Dalek, thus inspiring him to create full Daleks. You know, the blobs that were once people but are still Nazis. So…barely people.
This is as dumb as Bad Wolf Productions seems to think their audience are. In the history of fiction I have to fight to recall three villains in a wheelchair. On the other hand, I could use kids shows alone to go over a bunch of wheelchair bound guest, main, and recurring characters who have fought for the forces of good, or at least helped in some way or were nice to other people. I wanted to limit myself to five, but a sixth insisted they get talked about. So here you go; six wheelchair bound heroes that were done because they could be good in a story as much as to show the handicapped/handicapable/whatever this month’s term is can still be cool.
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She’s a speedster. You expect her to search for high heels?
Velocity volume 2 #1
Image Comics/Top Cow (June, 2010)
“Decoys” part 1
WRITER: Ron Marz
PENCILER/INKER: Kenneth Rocafort
COLORIST: Sunny Gho
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITORS: Filip Sablik & Phil Smith
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It’s kind of interesting that all of the 1970s Spider-Man appearances were in live-action. It’s true, the Sam Rami films were not the first time our favorite wall crawler was performed by a physical actor…with the budget of a 1970s television show. I hope you’re not expecting much out of these shows.
However, I think each add something interesting to the character in their own way, in different approaches with different actors. We’ll be looking at three different shows with five different intros between them. They’ve become infamous in their own ways but I rather enjoy all of the shows we’re looking at. The intros…depends on the one we’re looking at. So here we go.
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Turns out being green has its advantages.
Sonic The Hedgehog #56
Archie Comics Publications (March, 1996)
“Immortality Is Forever…Life Is Finite.”
WRITER: Kent Taylor
ARTISTS: John Hebert & Harvo, and Manny Galan & Jim Amash
COLORIST: Karl Bollers
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
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Kind of disappointing to hear that they redid old performances years later. Even if they weren’t very good, it’s still interesting to follow the evolution of such things. Plus it feels like a slight against the original performers, but that’s just me. Also wish he had covered the Peter Cushing films just as a point of interest.
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