I want to make a joke but I’m too stunned by a title relaunch actually using a volume number instead of what year the new series starts. It’s like they didn’t want to confuse us or something.
Ninja High School volume 2 #1
Antarctic Press (July, 1999)
Note that the Comixology version I’m using is only 17 pages so if something’s missing I’m not aware of it.
“It’s A Family Affair”
WRITER/ARTIST/CO-EDITOR: Ben Dunn
COLORISTS: Pat Duke & Jochen Weltjens
no listing for a letterer
CO-EDITOR: Doug Dlin
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I’ve actually reviewed Prisoners Of Time when it came out and I’ve heard one of the Big Finish episodes with Jenny. Both are worth checking out.
Admittedly this article’s title is in error. As I’ve written before, “superhero fatigue” is a myth created by the anti-superhero members of Hollywood society in both the director’s chair and their willing accomplices in media. Nobody talks about action movie fatigue, war movie fatigue, romantic comedy fatigue, or horror fatigue. Only the superhero genre gets fatigue and we’re told should go away, which they failed to do with science fiction, and fantasy somehow keeps trying and may have gained a bit of ground thanks to the book adaptations like Harry Potter and Lord Of The Rings, provided they actually followed the franchise. Unlike a certain Amazon series we won’t mention.
I saw an article from website The Direct about how James Gunn was supposedly coming up with a plan to fight superhero fatigue, but it’s from a Rolling Stone article about Guardians Of The Galaxy volume 3, which is not a superhero movie despite being in the Marvel Universe, not about his upcoming run at DC Studios ruining running the new DC movieverse. In that article was linked another article, this time from the guy Warner Brothers is hoping Gunn can match, Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige. I’m going to use their articles because Rolling Stone only allows so many free reads before you sign up and the Feige bit comes from a podcast. So what are these so-called plans?
“I see why those Tangent guys are so worried about lacking backgrounds.”
Sonic The Hedgehog #41
Archie Comics Publications (December, 1996)
“…and one shall save him!”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Kyle Hunter
INKER: Harvo
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: Justin Freddy Gabrie
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I haven’t seen Quantumania or most of the other productions MatPat brings up, but for those of you that did, I’m curious how on point his reading of what the movie was supposed to be was, and if you think it would have been a good thing.
Jaime Reyes is the third person to use the name Blue Beetle. The first was rookie patrolman Dan Garrett wearing chainmail armor and packing gadgets. He would be retconned by Charlton Comics into an archaeologist who stumbles on a magic scarab that transforms him into the Blue Beetle. He would be replaced by Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. While he couldn’t get the scarab to work for him he opted to follow the original’s example and make his own gadgets. Reyes would, long story short, take on the magic scarab, now revealed to be an alien artifact sent by the Reach as part of their planetary conquest scheme, but Jaime would reform or reprogram or whatever he did to the thing and became a true hero. Linkara did a huge retrospective on the various incarnations if you’re interested.
Blue Beetle is one of the pre-Gunn projects that David Zaslav hasn’t axed, with a mostly Hispanic cast as the heroes and white people as the villains, which should (but probably won’t) squash the idea that the race-swapped Batgirl movie was wiped out because of racism rather than being so terrible he couldn’t bear to release it. It appears that the movie will go the pre-52 route, with Reyes’ family supporting him as the third generation superhero and being allowed to know his identity. It also looks more fun than a lot of DC movies recently and without using the reimagined version ala Shazam/the original Captain Marvel. It is going to be good? All we have is a trailer and a long history that at least gives us questions to answer.
“Whatever we do, we must keep the Tangent heroes from finding their backgrounds.”
Captain America #9
Marvel Comics (October, 2005)
“The Winter Soldier” part 2
WRITER: Ed Brubaker
ARTIST: Michael Lark
COLORIST: Frank G. D’armata
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Andy Schmidt, Molly Lazer, & Aubrey Sitterson
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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