The preview up at ComiXology is 70 pages long by the way.
“Ha, I’m actually going to punch you with my OTHER fist!”
Magna Starter Pack: One-Punch Man Special Preview
Shonen Jump (no date listed)
“One Punch”, “Crab & Job Hunting”, & “Walking Disaster”
WRITER: One (adapted from his webcomic)
ARTIST: Yuske Murata
“I’ll need a time traveler, a memory restoring machine, and a sandwich because I missed lunch.”
Ever since posting that Comicstorian commentary on Tim Drake being redundant as part of a series of videos against the “family” style team, and my response that it’s the writers that are the problem, I’ve been thinking about just how each member of the Batman Family actually fits among the Gotham City protectors. I don’t believe that anyone needs to be redundant among the family. Namely because I don’t believe Batman needs to, or even can, do it all alone. With modern writers trying to blow up Gotham City every four issues because they’re infected with Eventitis and needs every story to be epic like a movie instead of continuous but episodic like a TV show, you’d think the lone wolf who has been on four hero teams at the same time may want a little back-up. Some of his cases even take him out of Gotham City and someone should be there when he’s doing Justice League or Outsider business. The man’s busy and unless you want to make Bruce a Gary Stu a little help is required.
And unlike the two unrelated media projects called Gotham Knights (the video game and TV series have nothing to do with each other outside of “Batman’s dead and we’re still in Gotham City”) you don’t need to kill off Batman to give them a spotlight. I just went over the times he’s out of town, plus it’s a large city and each member of the Bat-Family has their own unique skills, lives, and personalities that they all could handle aspects Batman can’t because he’s not tied to any of those experiences. So I thought it would be fun to go over each member of the team and see where they can fit in and what they bring to the Bat-Family.
This isn’t a complete list. All I know about The Signal and the two (?) Batwings are they exist. So I really don’t know where to squeeze them in, but based on the rest of my list maybe some of you out there can find them a spot on the team? Let’s start with the obvious.
“You’re right, man. This is totally a rush.”
Super Sonic vs. Hyper Knuckles
Archie Comics Publications, Inc (1996)
COVER & TABLE OF CONTENTS ART: Patrick Spaziante
COVER INKER: Harvo
COVER COLORIST: Heroic Age
EDITOR: Scott Fulop
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
“Crash Of The Titans”
WRITER: Mike Gallagher
PENCILER: Art Mawhinney
INKER: Rich Koslowski
“Fathers & Sons”
WRITERS: Mike Kanterovich & Ken Penders
PENCILER: Ken Penders
INKER: Harvo
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Two years later and both Cartoon Network and Boomerang have limited schedules with little content, and that was before Warner Brothers Discovery and the falling of animation on HBO Max. It seems they’re falling again.
Barry Manilow is known for his more romantic songs, like “Mandy” and “I Can’t Smile Without You”, but one of his songs actually works as a pretty good narrative and is surprisingly tragic. Supposedly Manilow and co-writer Bruce Sussman were in the Copacabana hotel in Rio de Janeiro. Manilow also used to enjoy visiting the Copacabana nightclub in New York. Wondering if a song called “Copacabana” was ever made they decided to make one, joined by Jack Feldman. The result came to them surprisingly fast and so “Copacabana” would be the third single of Manilow’s 1978 album Even Now. I know the song because my mom had one of his “best of” albums and the song was on there.
Yes, the nightclub in the song was and still is a real place, though they’ve had a few different locations and their own shares of controversies and bar fights. Look up the history sometime. It’s quite interesting. They reopened in 2022 after the 2020 plague in their latest location. The song even inspired a movie, though while other movies were actually filmed at the Copacabana there was no confirmation from Wikipedia if the movie, which Manilow starred in and shouldn’t be confused with the Marx Brothers movie of the same name, was one of them.
Let us travel back to I think the 1940s, doing the math from when the song was released to the time that passed before the final verse, and meet a showgirl whose world was about to fall apart because one guy couldn’t handle that some girl wouldn’t want to jump into his pants and her boyfriend objected.
“I have questions about the refit to Red Ronin.”
Captain America #12
Marvel Comics (December, 2005)
“The Winter Soldier” part 4
WRITER: Ed Brubaker
PENCILER: Steve Epting
INKERS: Steve Epting & Mike Perkins
COLORIST: Frank D’Armata
FLASHBACK ARTIST: Michael Lark
LETTERER: Joe Caramagna
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Aubrey Sitterson, Molly Lazer, & Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
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