This is what happens when you don’t pay your window washer bill.
Godsend #2
About Time Comics (2013)
STORY: Lee Jiles (creator) & Peter McLeod (writer)
PENICLER: Oski Yanez
INKERS: Eric Dotson (also cover), Gary Mitchell, Allen Nunis, & Oski Yanez
COLORISTS: Bryan Magnaye (also cover) & Stas Leonov
LETTERER: James Israelson
NOTE: There is some cursing.
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The Boys is a comic series turned streaming show about a group of people who keep superheroes inline or kill them off. They’re a vicious bunch, totally messed up, and have ties to either the superpower-inducing chemical Compound-V or those who were given powers by it, claiming to be superheroes while not being very heroic. Not that you’d know that without a hint of research because all anybody talks about is Homelander, the evil Superman stand-in who might as well be DC’s Ultraman rather than Superman.
You can guess that this is not my kind of story. As someone who loves superhero stories and has since childhood, I’m not all that interested in superheroes that are evil…or as we used to call them, supervillains. The only reason I have Watchmen and two of its sequels is I won them in a contest last Free Comic Book Day. The problem is most of these stories come from a cynical place, the idea that the superhero universe couldn’t exist in real life not because the science is wrong but the morality is wrong.
Enter Garth Ennis, a creator whose work I’m not familiar with because he never works on anything I would enjoy. So I can’t judge the quality of his work, though he comes from a point in time where getting more work required talent (and the occasional “who you know”) than what could be a good news story whether they can make a good comic story or not. There’s a reason Amazon Prime chased this to make a series out of during the 2020s superhero craze. So we’re going to assume he’s a good writer and that everything I’m about to disagree with him on is opinion, taste, and preference. In an recent interview for the English version of El Paīs, Ennis joined interviewer Ángel Luis Sucasas Fernández (I had to copy/paste that) in a cafe to discuss why he created his comic, telling me why he’s not the best choice for superhero comics because he doesn’t really understand what makes the superhero story so beloved. Yes, The Boys has a strong fanbase behind it, but either they can accept the contrast or they just share his views on a superhero world. This is all personal perspective. I’m not trashing the man…but I really don’t agree with him.
“Forget Mega Man, we’re crossing over with Legend Of Zelda!”
Sonic The Hedgehog Free Comic Book Day Edition
Archie Comic Publications (2007)
“Unburying The Hatchet”
WRITER: Ian Flynn
PENCILER: Tracy Yardley!
INKER: Jim Amash
COLORIST: Jason Jensen
COVER ART: Pat “Spaz” Spaziante
LETTERER: John Workman
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
NOTE: Drunk Scotsman swearing included
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TV Tropes gives it the name “Girlboss Feminist“, but among critics it’s known simply as “the girlboss”.
Whenever I get into the mood, usually when I hear another “there was no strong women heroes until this production” line, I post a list of strong female heroes, super and otherwise, that I grew up with. I knew that girls could do anything a boy can do by example instead of ads or force, though not many girls wanted to do the things boys do, and when they did they had their own way of defining and achieving success. Not counting “tomboys” of course, back when they were allowed to be a straight girl who just happened to prefer sports to Barbie and pants to dresses. That’s a discussion for another time. The point is there were women in fiction that I admired and even as a boy took positive moral and personal lessons from while still being perfectly happy with my boy parts and wanting to kiss girls. For the record I never had a “girls have cooties” phase but I still had to grow into wanting to kiss them. Sadly they never grew into wanting to kiss me during my school days. That’s a discussion for no time you need to worry about.
Nowadays, as the activists have ruined storytelling, we have the “girlboss”, a militant feminist power fantasy so strong that even regular feminists are pushing back against…some of it, and regular women are outright opposed to, from authors to actresses. The girlboss is for the “modern audience” crowd, and if you don’t worship them you’re either a sexist man or a self-loathing woman. At least that’s what they say, but as modern Hollywood likes to forget past Hollywood happened they also ignore the women I grew up watching who were just as awesome as the men, but in their own way. What’s the difference between a strong heroine and a girlboss?
“Congratulations, fan, you get to write a Charlton comic.” “Yay!” “The final issue of Son Of Vulcan.” “Awwww…”
Son Of Vulcan volume 2 #50 FINAL ISSUE
Charlton Comics Group (January, 1966)
“The Second Trojan War”
WRITER: Roy Thomas, because we all have to start somewhere, and for Roy this was it. He won a fanzine contest or something and this was his first professional writing script. Poor guy.
PENCILER: Bill Fraccio
INKER: Tony Tallarico
no other credits
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