Apokolips does have a heck of a travel agency.
Scooby-Doo Team-Up #45
DC Comics (March, 2019; as featured in the trade “It’s Scooby Time”)
“The Greater Escape”
WRITER: Sholly Fisch
ARTIST: Dario Brizuela
COLORIST: Franco Riesco
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
Yep a NerdSync video is article fodder again. As much as I want him to consider me if ever deep-dives Seduction Of The Innocent because I’ve been suffering alone ever since that summer I used his videos many times before and probably will after. I don’t have to always agree with someone to find them interesting, though we do agree enough that I keep following. I just hope someday he’s able to make that video about The Marvel Superheroes Iron Man segments. I know that was rough on him for some reason but it’s the one I was really hoping for in that series.
Anyway, our topic, and I’m about four minutes into the video while writing this paragraph so I’m not completely tuned to his thoughts just yet, is the HBO series supposedly based on Mystery Incorporated’s resident smart girl Velma Dinkley. Why do I say supposed? Well, as Warner Brothers’ Young Adults and Classics President Tom Ascheim put it in a keynote address, “We have a not-for-children Mindy Kaling project called Velma because she was excited to reimagine what Scooby-Doo would be like if Velma were of East-Asian descent and lived in a different world.” Everything in this sentence is a bad idea. Not Mindy Kaling doing a show voicing Velma, though in this climate it’s demanded every voice actor look the part they’re playing…which I am not getting into directly this time, but indirectly as it obviously affects her new design…because I really haven’t followed her career or the types of shows and movies she makes. So why am I calling it a bad idea? Let’s break it down.
If you’re surprised the internet had a breakdown of its own, you clearly live under a stronger rock than I do. And I’m somewhat jealous. For perspective let’s go over what Scott Niswander had to say on this since he’s doing the video and I’m doing the writing, and then I’ll go over my thoughts.
For a reminder, my review of the first issue.
“I thought Wonderland characters were Batman’s problem.”
The Fury Of Firestorm #2
DC Comics (July, 1982)
“Rage!” (“Day Of The Bison” part 2)
WRITER: Gerry Conway
ARTISTS: Pat Broderick & Robin Rodriguez
COLORIST: G. D’Angelo
LETTERER: Todd Klien
EDITOR: Len Wein
The article idea I had in mind all week hit a slight snag…I realized I don’t know enough about it personally to properly comment on it. My back-up idea was honestly a bit weak. Then I remembered it’s been a while since I challenged the narrative that there were no strong women on TV or movies before the current generation of college graduates took over storytelling. Back in 2019 I listed 5 strong women characters I grew up with, but that isn’t close to the full list. I’m not even talking subservient roles (as in backing up the hero of the story, though that doesn’t mean they couldn’t also be strong and have their own agency since it meant earning a helpful level of authority not by being the love interest or something but on her own merits). I mean they were the headliner or only secondary because it wasn’t there show. They called Teela the “warrior goddess” for a reason.
So it’s long overdue that I look at five more strong women heroes that I watched on TV everyday. Yes, I can find five more and they didn’t have to be a man to do it. Anyone telling you my generation, or even generations before seeing as we didn’t panic at things like not having color and thus could watch something that predates our birth, didn’t have good role models for girls that boys could also cheer on before puberty struck (that’s the less vulgar way of putting it), here are five women who were either the hero or the actual hero couldn’t succeed without.
He runs into the Grinch coming the other direction.
Sonic X #15
Archie Comics (February, 2007)
“Bad Eggnog”
WRITER: Joe Edkin
PENICLER: Todd Wahnish
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Josh Ray
LETTERER: John Workman
COVER ARTIST: Patrick “Spaz” Spaziante
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
More proof that the disabled can do normal things, thanks to modern technology. The kid in the picture above has hands, so he can play DJ Hero just fine (he noted to get around the limits of what’s in his site’s media library), but here’s a story of a Twitch streamer who plays video games with no hands, or feet. Thanks to new technology he can not only play video games but beat some of the harder ones out there. I can’t say that and I have all my appendages.
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Someone else mentioned how during the times Dick Grayson took over as Batman he didn’t become Bruce. He kept his personality for the most part. That’s just good character writing.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 3, 2022 in Comic Spotlight and tagged Captain America, comics, Comics By Perch, commentary, Daredevil, Electra, Falcon.
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