“What are we looking out for?” “I don’t know, just keep looking.”
Lookouts #1
Cryptozoic Entertainment (August, 2012)
CREATORS: Jerry Holkins & Mike Krahulik
WRITER: Ben McCool
STORY: Ben McCool, Cory Jones, Jerry Holkins, & Mike Krahulik
PENCILER: Robb Mommaerts
INKER: Mike Norton
COLORIST: Rainer Petter
LETTERER: Tom Long
Here’s the NerdSync video post (with my thoughts) to see where the Kindle reader was with comics when they first took over. Compared to what they have now, it’s an improvement.
If you’re surprised I’m discussing a preschool superhero show about crimefighting kittens…hi, welcome to my site.
While “grown-up” superhero fare seems to either favor the villains or uses superhero characters in a comedy that really didn’t need to be about superheroes, the kids shows seem to be more interested in having heroic heroes versus bad villains. Batwheels, a show about Batman’s cars coming to life to fight crime, has a more fun take on Batman than anything being put out for adults outside of that Webtoon that’s just about the Batman family in a slice-of-life between cases kind of story. I live in a world where the Batmobile is more interesting that Batman. What is even life anymore? You can’t tell a Batman story without a gory body count in the hundreds anymore?
Disney Junior, despite the current directions of the MCU and the main Marvel comics, now has three superhero shows. I couldn’t get into PJ Masks but there so much worldbuilding in this show for elementary school kids that I’m surprised MatPat hasn’t done at least three videos on it by now. Spidey And His Amazing Friends, for all its adaptation errors, seems to be doing a better job with Peter and pals than the mainline comics that kicked kids to the curb a long time ago. Other attempts, like the odd-choice filled The Rocketeer that decided to be a kids show about the descendant of a superhero their target audience never heard of and the original audience wanted to see something besides an underrated movie, haven’t done as well, but now we have SuperKitties.
Created by Paula Rosenthal, SuperKitties takes place in Kittydale, as four kittens follow the PJ Masks idea of secret crimefighters, and the Puppy Dog Pals idea of animals saving the day, just replace the pug dogs with kittens. The show just started on Disney Junior, and their YouTube channel has three stories to tease the new show, two from episode one (because that’s how kids shows and comics run now…not doing a full-length tale) and one from episode two, possibly more by the time you read this but I’m going to show the two from episode 1. After all, I’ll be surprised if you indulge me that long. So I can show what I’m talking about for as long as they keep these. I’m really hoping they fixed that one part of the intro I didn’t like, but let’s see how this stacks up as a superhero show. I’m already expecting to say this isn’t for me, but that doesn’t affect the quality of the show itself.
“I don’t suppose you’re going to cook chilli dogs?”
Sonic The Hedgehog #36
Archie Comics Publications (July, 1996)
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Mindy Eisman
EDITORS: Freddy Mendez & Scott Fulop
“Heart Of Darkness”
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Harvo
Knuckles: “A Sense Of History” part 2
WRITERS: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders
PENCILER: Ken Penders
INKER: Jon D’agostino
YouTube Shorts format weird.
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What he forgot to mention (or it doesn’t work in the shorts format) is that Clark is also a good actor, learning how to alter his voice (precise muscle control in the DCAU allowed him to imitate Batman and Tim Drake’s Robin), wears clothes that hide his muscles but also has a back-up for that with a set of weights in his apartment and being a farmboy, in addition to nobody believing Superman HAS a secret identity, much less one so mild-mannered. Given how many people say they wouldn’t have a secret identity and insist all power corrupts…I’m really glad his powers are scientifically impossible. I’d hate to see someone who ISN’T like Clark getting those powers.
No, I’m not showing it. I’m not talking about it…directly. I’m not researching to see who wrote it, and I’m only going to mention it in passing in order to get everyone on the same page. The fact that I have to have any mention of this for someone who comes through the archives years later, thus either stirring a memory or causing someone who was lucky enough not to hear about this story to hear about it, hurts my comic-loving heart. And yet….
It’s everywhere. Every comic critic I follow who discusses current comic stories is doing videos about it. Comic blog and commentary sites are discussing it. News and opinion sites who usually don’t give comic books the time of day are talking about it. Your grandma has probably already formed an opinion of it even if she’s never read a comic since they stopped making Meet Misty. Yes, I remember that comic existed because it was advertised in the comic tie-in to Star Wars: Droids and Spider-Ham, but the point is everybody is talking about this, especially those who find the story conceptually disgusting, incredibly stupid, and are using it to trash everything messed up with modern comic book writers.
And DC Comics is laughing their heads off at you like THEY were the Joker!
In fact the Clown Prince Of Crime himself couldn’t have caused as much chaos as we have right now…and every media and comic book critic is falling right into their trap. This is my warning to the comic critic community…you’re being suckered! This isn’t about me not caring about this story, it’s about exposing that DC’s plan worked. Yeah, it could be the writer, it could be the editor, it could be the publisher; nobody at any stage of approval thought this was a bad idea. In fact they see it as a great idea…and the critics are proving them right!
“It’s not our fault we had the better movie!”
Avengers #95
Marvel Comics Group (January, 1972)
“Something Inhuman This Way Comes..!”
WRITER: Roy Thomas
PENCILER/COLORIST: Neal Adams
INKER: Tom Palmer
LETTERER: Sam Rosen
EDITOR: Stan Lee
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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