“You’re not still mad about being turned into a HISS tank, are you?” “Oh look, there’s a fly on your helmet.”
Twisted Toyfare Theater volume 8
Wizard (2008)
This is a collection of comedy strips that were published in Wizard magazine, done with action figures and diorama sets. I’m not going to do a deep review of any of the stories. There are too many and they’re too short. This is more an overview of the collected strips as a whole. The stories here are:
How should Christians interact with secular media, especially in a time where we’re pretty much rejected by mainstream entertainment, if not outright mocked and ridiculed? The website Think Christian looks into that, as shown in their opening article about how Christians should consume mainstream entertainment in general, and a later article focusing on explicit music, and what God’s followers can learn from both. As a science fiction fan, one of the first genres to reject the Bible, it’s certainly a comforting set of articles.
I’m not really ready to follow the James Gunn DC movieverse until I see evidence that he’s going to do a better take on the characters than Zack Snyder did (or that the comics are doing now). At this point I’m growing more and more jaded with these modern takes, made for…okay, stop lying. You aren’t doing them for “modern audiences” because there are still plenty of people today who still want the traditional superheroes. You’re doing it for the “cool kids”, the audience you want to be making movies for and satisfying the everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee crowd by making popular things for them instead of not them, aka the actual fans of the work.
Adding to the list of live-action Men Of Steel is David Corenswet, a name I don’t think I’ve gotten right once today while looking into this. After the announcement Variety found an interview with Entertainment Weekly when Corenswet was promoting his role in the movie Hollywood, which he was also a producer for according to IMDB, and mentioned in passing that he would love to play Superman. It’s something they happened to catch but despite being a short statement I don’t think he understood what the problem with the DC Snyderverse was…because he blamed Henry Cavill.
“Has anybody seen the floor?”
Scott Pilgrim Free Comic Book Day Story (Scott Pilgrim (color))
Okay, the story originally appeared in Free Scott Pilgrim Free Comic Book Day (May, 2006), the cover is from Full Color Odds & Ends (2008), which reprinted the story, but in both cases there was more in the comic than this one untitled story. not sure what they were doing at comiXology back in the day. The above title is how it’s listed in the Amazon store.
WRITER/ARTIST: Scott O’Malley
I wasn’t even into the comic version of “Secret Invasion” so I really don’t care about the show itself.
What’s that you say? The creators of the show insist they didn’t even look at the comics and just made an original story whole cloth? Well, that’s even worse. It’s the continuing trend of Marvel Studios not caring about the source material, which is just alternate incentive not to watch it.
Face it, with me this show is “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”. The comic version was a reset button. “Hey, know that character you (or the current writer) didn’t want to die? That was a Skrull and the real one has still been prisoner the whole time. That other character you’ve complained was out of character for so long? Also a Skrull. Basically, if we can’t use robots or clones, we’re just going to use Skrull sleeper agents instead.” Meanwhile the MCU version has the Skrulls being allowed to stay because the Kree were so very evil…except that when it comes to the Kree/Skrull War, BOTH sides are so very evil. None of them have been the good guys as a group. So Secret Invasion is I guess when the MCU characters finally find that out…except the only Marvel characters I’ve seen from movies are Nick Fury and an armorless James Rhodes, at least in the promotional stuff.
I can’t go over the quality of the show itself for these reasons. Even if I had Disney+ I couldn’t tell you if the show is any good. I can however look at the intro and ask…was this really the best you could do?
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Sonic The Hedgehog #46
Archie Comics Publications (May, 1997)
WRITERS: Ken Penders & Kent Taylor
INKER: Brian Thomas
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
“Countdown To Armageddon”
PENCILER: Nelson Ortega
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
Knuckles Quest part 4: “A Goat, A Raven, And A Swan Song!”
PENCILER: Manny Galan
LETTERER: M. 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’s Daily Video> Dear Comic Book Industry
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These aren’t the only issues of course. Maybe hire people who want to make comics instead of authors needing a paycheck or artists who don’t care about accuracy. They don’t need to be fans of a product to be able to understand it, appreciate it, and make something the fans want to see. If you have a shared universe stop looking at continuity as a block to telling your stories and more like a challenge to make stories with and build off of what came before with your voice. Mr. July basically said the rest of it.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 29, 2023 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comics, commentary, Eric July, Youngrippa59.
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