“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
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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
Well, it seems jealousy waylaid our heroes last chapter, but since we’re around the last third of the book they better not get away from the main plot again. This looks like a decent lengthed chapter with another blank page division between this and the next section. I don’t know if that’s intentional for the story, something with the printing, or what but I’m hoping it’s an indicator we’re moving along.
Most because by now I’m out of things to discuss to lengthen these intros for the homepage. So let’s just dive in and see how Jake and Bethdroid are going to contact Warbride now.
In hindsight one of them should have grabbed a spacesuit.
Runners: Bad Goods #1
Serve Man Press (January, 2003)
WRITER/ARTIST: Sean Wang
Note that my collection of the miniseries, picked up at a ConnectiCon, is the original black and white miniseries while on the website and in current graphic novel collections (he started using solely graphic novels in the second story in the series) it’s in full color.
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