“I hope that’s not our flight.”
Tandy Computer Whiz Kids “#3”
Archie Comics Publications/Radio Shack (1987)
“The Answer To A Riddle”
WRITER/EDITOR: William Palmer
ARTISTS: Dick Ayers & Chic Stone
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Bill Yoshida
No new comic anyway. My weekend did not come with a good sleep cycle (I’ll spare you the details) so I didn’t get an Easter comic done, and frankly I only thought of one just before bed on Saturday night. Slept okay last night so I do some site work today. Hope everybody had a good time and found all the eggs you wanted, and for those inclined to honor the day our Savior rose from the grave to break the sin barrier between God and man.
Over at the Clutter Reports I found an Easter trivia video if you’re interested, but I didn’t get to do anything with that project, either.
Tomorrow we resume the Chapter By Chapter review of Batman: Knightfall, and I would like to talk about something other than trailers this week if I could. It depends on what the week has in store for us. At any rate, have a great week, everybody!
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St Louis, Missouri: 1927. The waning days of prohibition, but the underground bootleggers and speakeasies are of course not aware of the future. One such speakeasy is Lackadaisy, a club that’s fallen on hard times after the curious death of owner Atlas May. Now his widow, Mitsi, struggles to keep her husband’s legacy alive between the law and rival clubs a bit more insistent about wiping out the competition…literally if possible. Her only help acquiring new sources of product are the lovable screw-up and musician Rocky Rickaby, his forcibly included cousin Calvin “Feckle” McMurry”, and the flapper/muscle of the group Ivy Pepper, who has a thing for Feckle and is, to use an anime fandom term, “best girl”.
Oh, and they’re all anthropomorphic cats.
A 1920s gangster story like Lackadaisy is not usually my cup of whiskey (I also don’t drink), but considering one of my favorite movies is Bugsy Malone and I also like Johnny Dangerously, I’m in for the right gimmick. It’s not the cat people thing but just the way the characters interact with each other that drew me to the webcomic by Tracy J. Butler. Okay, the cats got my interest, but it was the characters, especially Rocky and Ivy, that grabbed my attention. There’s a lot of love and a lot of fun put into this story, and that’s just the protagonists. The villains, other antagonists, and everyone else our crazy cats come across are unique and interesting. I’d say stop reading this and go read that, but they made a pilot.
Originally intended as a short film, the response from their Kickstarter was so overwhelming that now Butler and the animators at Iron Circus are calling it a pilot, and it’s become a viral success (granted I don’t get out and about the community but that’s my perspective) in a matter of days. People wanted to see this and liked what they saw, which is a nice change from a lot of modern media. Tonight we’ll watch the pilot if for some reason you haven’t and as a bonus I have a video from one of the animators giving us a behind the scenes look at the making of Lackadaisy. Enjoy!
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Dan Garret tracks down the man who keeps stealing Tangent’s backgrounds.
The Blue Beetle #7
Fox Features Syndicate (May/June, 1941)
Outside of one story with Dynamite Thor, the dude who flies by blowing himself up (so basically Team Rocket’s superpower), and another with another forgotten Fox Features hero, Dynamo, all the stories feature The Blue Beetle. So I’ll just mark the two stories with the alternate heroes and as usual the text stories I’ll be going past because there are too many stories to review here and it isn’t a comic story in a comic. Mostly because I only have so much time in a day. That’s one of the reasons these are fun to read (when the story’s good) but hard to review.
You can read along with me over at Comic Book Plus.
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In May of 2021 DC Kids posted the following tweet (if it’s still up when you read it) to their promotional Twitter account.
We heard nothing about Batman: Caped Crusader or My Adventures With Superman for the next two years. Then yesterday a new tweet about the Superman cartoon came out, but not on DC Kids.
The real news isn’t that it’s finally coming out, despite some of the odd decisions being made lately concerning Warner Brothers Discovery’s animation library and projects, which is an article on its own, but where the show is going. Not to Cartoon Network or HBO Max as originally promoted…but Adult Swim, the Williams Street-run programming block (along with Toonami) on Cartoon Network. This is a very odd choice, taking a kids show and putting it on the adult show period. First let’s look at the actual teaser, then talk about the relocation itself and why it’s so confusing.
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“Well, we found one piece of a background. For our covers it’s a start.”
Tangent Comics: Secret Six
DC Comics (December, 1997)
“Bad Moon”
WRITER: Chuck Dixon
PENCILER: Tom Grummett
no inker listed, unless Grummett is the inker as well and the gag should have been “private artist” instead of “private pencils”
COLORIST: James Sinclair
LETTERER: Ken Lopez
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Dana Kurtin
EDITOR: Eddie Berganza
TANGENT CONCEPT: Dan Jurgens
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