“Time to show them what happens when you steal cable TV from your neighbors!”
Godsend #1
About Time Comics (2013)
STORY: Lee Jiles (creator) & Peter Mcleod (writer)
PENCILER: Oski Yanez
INKERS: Eric Dotson & Fletcher Horton
COLORIST: Nate Tingen
LETTERER: Bram Meehan
LOGO DESIGN/SELECTED COVER ART: Ken Hunt
SELECTED COVER COLORIST: John Ercek
S.A. Rivera, the pen name for YouTube commentator Literature Devil, has released another graphic novel, though this time it’s not connected to his usual Doctor Alpha series. Instead of an ultraviolent story about a supervillain in a world of crap superheroes, he’s going for the supernatural crime thriller with Lady Midnight: Devils Dwell In Silent Springs. It’s not my genre necessarily, but seeing the uphill battle he’s had putting this out and how dedicated he is to it, I felt compelled to give the guy I wake up to five days a week a chance to really find his audience and get this Indiegogo funded. People seem to like his Doctor Alpha books, while his Lady Midnight tale is something he’s worked on during that. He focused on this in between book two and three, a two-part flashback story about how Alpha ended up in prison in the first book.
What challenges has he had? One place he tried to promote it suffered from the current “girlboss” problem. Girlboss characters have ruined heroines, so too many people assume every female protagonist in a crime or action movie gets the stigma of seemingly every modern female antagonist in most of the Hollywood mindset productions. Given LD’s various commentaries against girlbosses it seems highly unlikely that he would write such a character.
The other is possibly why a few of you came here: a prose novel by author Cassandra Clare by the same name, part of her “Dark Artifices” series. I know when I went looking for the Kickstarter, which turned out to already be my mistake as he’s using Indiegogo, most of what I saw was Claire’s series. My guess is that she’s unintentionally getting all his search results right now. The two properties have nothing in common save the name and being an urban fantasy story. Rivera is forming his own universe, with its own magic system, and is not part of Clare’s universe, nor is he pretending to be. I don’t know for sure if this is part of the problem he’s having but it’s worth noting as a possibility.
So, knowing there’s diversity in my audience for story types and wanting to see a project he’s so passionate about make it, I thought I’d use my dinky little platform to help. So what’s the story about?
“Too many chili dog references?”
Sonic The Hedgehog #109
Archie Comic Publications (June, 2002)
COLORISTS: Josh & Aimee Ray
EDITOR: J.F. Gabrie
“I Herd It Through The Pipeline”
WRITER: Benny Lee
PENCILER: Ron Lim
INKERS: Andrew Pepoy & Pam Eklund
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
Mina The Mongoose & Princess Sally: “The Crush!”
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: J. Azer
INKERS: Andrew Pepoy & Pam Eklund
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
Knuckles The Echidna: “Reunification” finale
WRITER/LAYOUTS/INKS: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Dawn Best
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
So I try to use Monday to get ahead of my writing for the week. I can use the extra time one day this week. I’m sitting here trying to find something to write about. As noted, the only really big news seems to be Jimmy Kimmel’s punishment lasting about a week. Essentially he took a vacation while his supporters praised him for being a conspiracy theorist and showing little concern for a man murdered in broad daylight on a college campus in front of his wife, his one-year-old daughter and her younger sibling, and a good chunk of the world in the hopes of silencing people. See, that’s the problem. So much of what there is to talk about right now is bathed in politics, and this is a story critique blog.
Oh, there’s a trailer for the Mandalorian movie with the creature everyone calls Baby Yoda because that’s all they really see, not “Grogu”. They just want to call him Baby Yoda, despite having no connection to Yoda outside of species. See, I could get this political as well. In this case, it’s not the biggest problem. It’s that I don’t care about this movie. I didn’t watch the streaming show because I don’t have Disney+. I have no investment in Not Boba Fett and Not Yoda. So what do I talk about?
James Gunn’s Superman By James Gunn is on HBO Max, which my dad got so he could watch TCM movies and Discovery Network shows. I don’t care about that, either. I made a comic explaining that.
Old stuff is possible, and that’s where I blame just being tired all day, but after watching the latest video by JesterBell on that trailer I realized another reason I don’t want to talk about anything new lately: pure apathy for all of it. Watch her video and I’ll get into it…and why there’s a little conspiracy theorist in my own head saying “maybe that’s the goal”.
People complain about the “yellow menace” period but nobody talks about the “green menace”. Kermit would be disappointed.
Son Of Vulcan V2 #49
Charlton Comics (November, 1965)
Some history first: Son Of Vulcan started as a feature in the anthology Mysteries Of Unexplored Worlds, taking over the numbering (as we’ve seen Charlton do more than once) with #49. This comic will see two issues before getting into the last of our pre-DC run, though DC actually bought a bunch of Charlton characters that they never used. Peter Cannon, aka Thunderbolt, will be our last look at Charlton’s pre-DC titles because DC didn’t own the rights and didn’t know until after publishing a few comics and Alan Moore using him as the template for Ozymandias in Watchmen. I want to focus on the characters they actually used.
“The Diamond Dancers”
WRITER: Joe Gill
PENCILER: Bill Fraccio
INKER: Tony Tallarico
no other credits for colorist or letterer
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