Talk about going out for a spin.
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #48
DC Comics (July, 2019, as featured in the digital trade version of “It’s Scooby Time”)
“Going Rogue”
WRITER: Sholly Fisch
ARTIST: Dario Brizuela
COLORIST: Franco Riesco
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
There are times running this site where I have to ask myself if I should do something just because I can. I might just be a voice in the crowd but when I try to write a commentary I want to add something different, a perspective that’s pretty much me. Sometime it means I’m being less biased and sometimes more biased. I don’t want to be doing the same thing everybody else is because otherwise coming to BW Media Spotlight is a waste of your time.
So…Miles Morales becomes Thor.
You’ve probably heard what’s up with this one. This is one of those times where it appears a surface viewing is enough to declare the book “racist” based on basically doing to Marvel’s Asgard what The Wiz did to the land of Oz. And yet this is one where left and right, SJW and Comicsgate, are actually in agreement across sociopolitical divisions. It’s like the comic equivalent of NAFTA. Now you know I try to limit my political discussions, which gets harder as social and political perspectives continue to work their way into narratives at the cost of the story. However, this one is getting everyone’s panties bunched. Then again, when has the guy who deep dived Seduction Of The Innocent taken the internet at face value? So let’s go over what’s already going on, and then I have to ask…do I do with this comic what I did Fredric Wertham’s anti-comic tirade?
“The Wayne Family dropped me off after seeing that nice Ben Parker off to New York.”
Action Comics vol. 43 #507
DC Comics (May, 1980)
“The Miraculous Return Of Jonathan Kent!”
WRITER: Cary Bates
PENCILER: Curt Swan
INKER: Frank Chiaramonte
COLORIST: Gene D’Angelo
LETTERER: Milt Snapinn
EDITOR: Julius Schwartz
Taylor Swift may no longer care about country music (though tonight’s Sing Me A Story entry is so modern it’s barely country) but there are still people who really enjoy the songs of her earlier career. Now most of her stuff is more sexual, attacking critics, and defending her LGBT friends but her older songs…well, one of my reviewing colleagues at the time didn’t think Swift was authentic so it’s not like she’s never had critics.
“Teardrops On My Guitar”, from her debut album and her second single after “Tim McGraw”, which maybe should end up here someday, is about unrequited love. And you don’t need to be a teenage girl to know what that feels like. I’ve gone through it twice, and made the mistake of asking out the wrong one. (This was years apart, one in high school and one at work.) However, she made the mistake of actually naming the dude in her song…which would come back to say hello.
“Oh good, because it’s radioactive.”
Sonic X #18
Archie Comics (May, 2007)
“Rouge Goes Rogue!”
WRITER: Joe Edkin
PENCILER: David Hutchinson
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Josh Ray
LETTERER: John Workman
COVER ART: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 24, 2022 in Uncategorized and tagged commentary.
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