I’d make a joke if I could make any sense of what’s going on here.
Yoshiro #1
(September, 2025)
WRITER/ARTIST/CREATOR: Roberto Jeferson
You know what I was saying yesterday about Doomsday being overused and weakened as a threat because of it? Well, just after finishing that article I found one on ScreenRant that proves my point.
I’ve often said that the retcon is the most dangerous weapon in storytelling. It can completely change how you view those older stories going back because of the “new information” tied to those events. Add to that Doomsday’s origin story. In the miniseries Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey, which I’ve reviewed because I own the trade, we learn that Doomsday was created by a scientist obsessed with creating the ultimate lifeform. To achieve that goal they’d clone a baby monster, toss it to the unforgiving wilderness, collect the remains, and repeat the process until they had an unkillable monster…who then killed them. Waverider showed all this to Superman, but for some reason the scientist in charge didn’t look like he came from Krypton…and yet he was Kryptonian. Supposedly this explained why Doomsday went after Superman specifically. You know, if you ignore everything else he attacked when he arrived on Earth and the alien worlds in that miniseries, including Apocalypse. Darkseid even allowed Superman to use a Mother Box to defeat the monster once and for all.
Well, now it turns out he had reason to worry. According to modern DC writers, Darkseid was destined to become the most powerful being in the multiverse, the “King Omega”, and an Alpha was supposed to be chosen to fight him or something. I haven’t been following the DC KO event because DC heroes fighting each other isn’t what I go to DC for and one of the reasons why Marvel was my number two until I parted ways with both main universes. So how Doomsday is the Time Trapper is already confusing to me…and now he’s also the “absolute champion”, the Alpha that’s supposed to save the multiverse. To repeat from the article title…what?
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“I swear, I returned the book to the library.”
Sonic Universe #2
Archie Comics Publications (May 2009)
“Shadow Saga part 2: “Time And Again”
WRITER: Ian Flynn
PENCILER: Tracy Yardley
COLORIST: Jason Jensen
LETTERER: Teresa Davidson
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
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Bounding Into Comics is reporting that at New York Comic Con Warner Animation announced a project not tied to the Gunniverse. That should relieve fans concerned that the “Tomorrowverse”, staring from Superman: Man Of Tomorrow onward until the DC Gunniverse started, was over and marked the end of shows not tied to James Gunn’s DC Universe By James Gunn, shows like Creature Commandos. It may not take place in the Tomorrowverse, but the writer of the Superman starter will pen the first movie.
Yes, first. Two movies are planned for this adaptation of “Knightfall”, the story arc where Batman is crippled by Bane and must come up from injury to stop his successor from ruining the symbol of the Bat due to his failure to understand what that symbol means. I have not read most of the comics but I have read a couple and the novelization has been a Chapter By Chapter review (an example of a really long book to review that I actually enjoyed). This is where the author of the linked to article shows concerns. JB Augustine isn’t outright rejecting the adaptation but he does have some trepidation since it’s still modern Warner Brothers and they’ve made a bunch of missteps lately. This includes turning Watchmen (which apparently hasn’t been adapted enough in the past few years with a live-action movie, motion comic, direct-to-video adaptation of the “Tales Of The Black Freighter” in-universe comic, and most recently the about to be mentioned full on animated adaptation) into two movies. Crisis On Infinite Earths was also two movies, but from what little I’ve seen, and I do want to see the whole thing, isn’t actually an adaptation.
Personally I’d rather see three movies for “Knighfall”. Sound silly? Let’s address Augustine’s concerns and maybe point out a few of my own, as well as how I’d want to see this adaptation go.
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If I were going to choose a “hero for greatness” it wouldn’t be the dude whose servant has to trick him to actually fight villains.
Thunderbolt #54
Charlton Comics Group (October, 1966)
“This One’s For Tabu”
CREATOR/WRITER/ARTIST: PAIII
(The Grand Comics Database says PAM, the pen name of Peter Morisi, but it looks like three I’s or possible ls or even 1s depending on the font. Either way, in the letters page the editor insists they aren’t the same person when someone compliments Morisi instead of PAM.)
“Behold…The Sentinels!”
CREATOR/WRITER: Gary Friedrich
ARTIST/LETTERER: Sam Grainger
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When did Perch become a potty mouth? I remember when he didn’t curse so much.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 5, 2025 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comics, Comics By Perch, commentary.
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