If justice is supposed to be blind, does this mean she isn’t justice?
She-Hulk #1
Marvel Comics (December, 2005)
“Many Happy Returns”
WRITER: Dan Slott
PENCILER: Juan Bobillo
INKER: Marcelo Sosa
COLORIST: Dave Kemp
LETTERER: Dave Sharpe
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Aubrey Sitterson, Molly Lazer, and Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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Arad also claimed to be a big Marvel fan, which you can see in the shows he produced before the MCU, even if he also kept the toyetic nature of the shows in mind. My guess is Arad knew loyalty to the comics would increase the audience, and thus the buyers. Perlmutter was the guy who replaced Terrance Howard with Don Cheadle because Howard wanted too much. Howard was the better Rhodey. It’s why I think too much credit is given to Perlmutter for the MCU and not enough for Arad. When he left, the MCU producers and writers stopped caring about comic accuracy.
In our last chapter we saw Bruce get the ability to beat people up again. Good timing because we are near the end of the book.
You know, for a story that is supposed to contrast Bruce with the 90s-style “antihero” there hasn’t been a lot of that. By focusing all our attention on Bruce and only occasionally seeing Jean Paul in action (even then half of it was Tim telling us Jean Paul was losing it and JP having visions of a dead guy whose group he supposedly left), meaning the supposed theme of this storyline isn’t coming out as easily in this novelization as Superman’s did in The Death And Life Of Superman. It’s been a good story and all but if Owen Likes Comics is right and this is about condemning the kill-happy Batman then it’s failing in its goal. Perhaps the comics did it better but here it just seems to be missing the mark.
It’s not exploring WHY Bruce has a “no-kill” rule or why it’s wrong for a Batman to kill. Compare it to the novelization of Superman’s death and resurrection and all the stuff in between, where we explore what the world is like without a Superman, what made Superman so beloved, and gave us +3 heroes when it was all over rather than one less. Azrael would get his own series so I guess that’s a +1 but he was the antihero type and is so unnecessary now with Jason “Red Hood” Todd that I’m not even sure he’s still in continuity post-Flashpoint. Actually, can we get a head count? What happened to Anarchy for example?
Ah, never mind. Let’s get back into the story.
“Just try to take my ‘chucks, UK!”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #16
Mirage Studios (September, 1998)
“A Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Story”
STORY/ART: Mark Martin
Two things of note. According to the Grand Comics Database, this issue was released before #15 because it was finished first and #15 wasn’t going to be ready in time. They didn’t have time to change the number, I guess. And according to the TMNT wiki, this issue is considered non-canon. I don’t even think IDW did a colorized version.
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He’s got a good backlog, and those of you who were around for my Reviewers Unknown days may even remember he followed one of my suggestions. Oh, apparently I never posted that even though I did other postings about The Punchline in the past. So I’ll just link to the episode since this is a daily quickpost and I want to post the video John mentioned in his review about the making of The Mysteries instead.
I think Fizzbin forgot her job in this comic.
I think I figured out why I forgot I was supposed to do this storyline: I don’t know what to do with Shralk once he gets here. Fizzbin pretty much does the job of the outside observer of humanity and I don’t see what bringing in another Francian can offer to the comic, even for a brief visit. I don’t even have a design for him outside of “Fizzbin without the antennae” in mind. So I hope you aren’t too disappointed…the small number of you who read the comic, that is.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I didn’t have time to do much of anything besides add to the manga for sale section, and I did that after writing the article. So I posted and responded to a video about a woman going over four years of her own decluttering journey. Hopefully, lessons can be learned.
Here at the Spotlight this week more from Batman: Knightfall‘s novelization for Chapter By Chapter and we begin looking into the bios for the Vehicons in season one of Beast Machines in our continuing Beast Machine Hunters series, plus whatever comes to mind for the rest of the week. Have a great one, everybody!
I need something quick and easy tonight and this is it.
While Lewis Lovhaug hasn’t had much success as a comic creator he has shown and improved his writing talents through storylines on Atop The Fourth Wall. He’s limited by budget of course and this year story ideas were on hold due to life going on and other projects, but when he does get a story in they’re what he intended, an homage to the good stories he rarely gets a chance to review. At the very least the lore surrounding Linkara and how his life seems to be invaded by the types of evil he reads about in his comics and pushes back against with bad comics show his love for those types of stories whatever the end result may actually be.
Fans seem to like it.
Tonight is a compilation of his fourth story arc, “A Piece Of The World Is Missing. It’s the first appearance of The Entity, a being who has torn apart the multiverse in a mission to become “complete” by absorbing everything. The Entity is an introduction to one of Linkara’s arch-enemies, Lord Vyce, and the concept of the “Outer Gods”, Lovecraftian expressions of obsession as I read them. Frankly, Vyce is or was (not sure if he’s dead now) on his way to joining those ranks. However, this is Linkara’s most dangerous threat and it will become a recurring threat that really affects Linkara in storylines to come. Aired as part of or after his reviews there’s quite a good build-up to the Entity’s reveal. This arc also brings in elements and characters that will be seen in later storylines and gags for future episodes. Enjoy.
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 