Jake & Leon #540: Christmas In September

A creator can dream.

Yep, I started work on this year’s (hopefully) Captain Yuletide. That and this week’s Clutter Report on the continuing back-up drive project, which I’m actually nearing the end of this stage finally, and just being really tired this week is sort of why this comic is late and lame and why I forgot to do a Saturday Night Showcase this week. Sorry.

What’s coming up this week? A new Chapter By Chapter installment for TekWar, I want to try to do an actual Finally Watched, and other stuff I’m not sure of just yet. Have a good week, everybody!

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Street Fighter FCBD 2016

“Why won’t this elevator get here?”

Street Fighter Free Comic Book Day 2016

Udon Studios (May, 2016)

LETTERER: Matt Molan

COVER/CHAPTER PAGE ART: Edwin Huang

“Coffee Break”

WRITER: Ken Siu-Chong

ARTIST: Edwin Haung

COLORIST: Hanzo Steinbach

“Sibling Rivalry”

WRITER: Ken Siu-Chong

ARTIST/COLORIST: Jeffery “Chamba” Cruz

“Seat Of Power”

WRITER: Matt Moylan

ARTIST: Brendon Tapper

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Is Dawn Of The DCU A New Universe Or Another Rebirth?

I haven’t been following Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths, The promotion was the DC heroes we wanted to see in action being killed off…in a couple of cases again…and the new heroes taking over. Basically it sounded like they were just doing a new take on the Future State concept DC fans had already rejected as the new direction. Either DC creators were hoping to get rid of Superman to have their own Superman Junior without paying the Siegel and Shuster estates or get their gay Superman replacement in there without any work (ruining any chance of the young Jon Kent we wanted back, as if there was a chance DC would correct that mistake) to make the character famous. Because it’s just the name Superman we all like, not the character. Right?

So I go to YouTube to look up videos for the article I decided to do today, which should probably be a two-parter anyway, and one of the recommendations is the following video from Thinking Critical about how this latest bout of Eventitis is going to end, with potentially a new DC Universe. I’ll save that plan for next week because we should probably talk about this “Dawn Of The DCU”, and what it means for the universe that got me into comics as a kid only to be disappointed as an adult with their new darkness and propaganda laden directions. So is this the DC 4 or another DC 3.X, like the Rebirth event? Will it hold? Are these the people we want in charge? I’ll go over these questions once the video sets the stage.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Space Ghost #6

The only time we see Jan and Jayce in their proper outfit…or age.

Space Ghost #6

FINAL ISSUE

DC Comics (June, 2005)

“Mortality”

WRITER: Joe Kelly

ARTIST: Ariel Olivetti

LETTERER: Richard Starkings

EDITOR: Joe Cavalieri

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BW’s Daily Article Link> How To Write Better Kid Characters

Child characters in fiction have only a few settings under most of Hollywood, who it seems never met a child they weren’t forced to. (And according to some stories by former child actors shouldn’t be allowed to.) You have the swear happy young adult eight-year-old, the cute and adorable, and the Arnold Drummond clone. That’s if you can even get a writer to have a kid character at all. Writer Martin Dweller gives some suggestions on how to make your kids sound like actual kids instead of young adults or toddlers. (h/t to A Song Of Joy)

5 Still More Strong Women Characters I Grew Up With

When doing yesterday’s article I linked to two previous articles about strong women characters from my youth, proving that the strong female isn’t some new thing to fiction, I noticed I used Web Woman here twice. This was a result of me forgetting who was in the first list when I did the second list. So to correct that oversite and to prove I didn’t just run out here are five more women who showed how strong they really were.

Not every woman has to be the main character or be able to bench press Manhattan to be strong. There are many forms of strength and this list has some great ones. They still struggled because struggle is part of drama and it’s what the men were doing, but they used their own unique skills without losing their femininity in the process. They showed what a strong woman can be like, whether it was strength of will, strength of character, or strength of courage. They’re mighty but they’re too busy stopping evil to roar.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Sonic X #26

Not the weirdest wrestling match I’ve ever seen.

Sonic X #26

Archie Comics (January, 2008)

“La Layenda del Gran Gordo! (The Legend of the Great Big Guy)”

WRITER: Ian Flynn

PENCILER: James Fry

INKER: Terry Austin

COLORIST: Josh Ray

COVER ART: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante

LETTERER: Phil Felix

EDITOR: Mike Pellerito

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