This is the last Perch video of the week. Because I’m scheduling this for Friday. Next week, something else. Maybe my article link backlog? Haven’t done a Daily Article Link in a while. Some minor cursing in this one.
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Hey, I’m on time this year! Bless you, Google Calendar!
For those of you who came in late: Back when I was doing weekly new comic reviews before it started taking up too much of one of the only days I had to do household chores, I was running out of interesting ways to introduce the article each week. Intros are harder than they look. It’s how you hook the reader in to checking out what you have to say. So while fooling around with different art styles I tried one I really liked. Then I tried to redraw it and couldn’t. Repeated attempts led to failure so I gave up for the day. The next day I tried again and lacking the frustration of the previous day’s failures I actually did it. So I gave him a friend. The original was called Jake and the new guy Leroy…though when I introduced them on this site I ended up writing “Leon” and liked it better. Turns out that was a benefit to the logo having two names with four letters.
When I decided to change the new comic reviews to one a day to give me time to do other stuff than read comics (as much as taking a day to just read comics is a great way to spend the day) it became a list of article links I found during the week, but that meant some weeks I had to struggle to find enough articles. So I just did what is now the daily quickpost with articles or videos and gave my Sunday post over to Jake & Leon with updates for what’s coming in the next week and linking to this week’s article over at The Clutter Reports.
Every year I try to spend some time to go over my favorite comics of the previous year. Some were really good jokes or commentaries, while others just mark some artistic achievement. This year I missed a few Sundays due to time, illness, not having a good comic idea in time, or just something else occupying my attention. Still, I did more than enough to have some comics I’m really proud of.
The only thing gold here is the sponsor level for Free Comic Book Day.
The Smurfs: Free Comic Book Day Gold Book
Papercutz (2013)
The Smurfs (three stories)
WRITER/ARTIST: Peyo
TRANSLATION: Joe Johnson
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
CONSULTANT: Matt Murray
The Annoying Orange: “Bowling For Hollers”
WRITER/ARTIST: Mike Kazaleh
COLORIST: Laurie E. Smith
LETTERER: Tom Orzechowski
Ariol: “A Good Book”
WRITER: Emmanuel Guibert
ARTIST: Mac Boutavant
LETTERER: Michael Petranek
Some swearing in this one. I’m trying to decide if there’s irony in that.
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It’s no secret to anyone who’s been on this site that I love superheroes. Superheroes are awesome not because of what they can do. The supervillains can do that stuff, too. What sets the superhero apart is right there in the name: hero. With all their great abilities they seek to make the world better, and the best superheroes don’t see themselves as gods but people with special abilities and doodads that they use in service to humanity.
From comic books to cartoons I’ve grown up with the superhero. Whether DC or Marvel or some indie comic, Hanna-Barbera or Filmation and later Ruby-Spears, there is not been a point in my story-loving life that I haven’t seen superheroes, as I mentioned yesterday. What makes a hero a hero beyond the idea of saving others, and how does that translate to the super variety? YouTuber Shady Doorags recently posted a review of the Justice League episode “Legends”. The series was intended to be hour-long episodes but Cartoon Network told them to make them half-hour, so the scripts had to be worked into two-parters…that Cartoon Network aired back to back as a full hour anyway, just in case you thought scheduling from the stupidity range was something started with Teen Titans Go!. In the following video, Shady goes over the tale of Green Lantern John Stewart, The Flash, Hawkgirl, and Martian Manhunter finding themselves in an alternate dimension where John’s favorite comic book comes to life. Not the first time this concept has happened, even when fictional realities meet other fictional realities that are fiction in the first fictional reality.
Good luck translating that sentence. Point is it’s not a new plot but one that has opportunities when done right. “Legends” is just such a story, but I’ll let our guest speaker do the talking before coming back with my thoughts.
If your response is “this comic is for the birds”, please apologize in the comments.
Sonic Blast
Archie Comics Publications (1997)
“FRONTISPIECE”: Pat Spaz & Pam Ekland
COLORIST: Karl Bollers
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
“Sonic Blast”
WRITER: Mike Gallagher
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Rich Koslowski
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
“Bugged Bunnie” & “The T.U.F.F. Awards”
WRITER: Angelo Decesare
PENCILER: Dave Manak
INKER: Pam Ekland (story 2); Pat Spaz (story 3)
LETTERER: Mindy Eisman
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
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Media Spotlight 
BW Daily Videos> DC’s Six Issue Scam
Some swearing in the following two videos. Perch is getting a potty mouth in his old age. 😀
A month later he dropped a follow-up.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 25, 2023 in DC Spotlight and tagged comic sales, commentary, DC Comics.
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