Yes, I’m late to the party. I have more important priorities this month, but I did finally have time to look into Beau DeMayo’s comments about working on X-Men ’97 when it comes to dealing with Marvel Studios, and while DeMayo clearly has some personal biases, it does confirm some of the issues I have with modern Marvel in live-action and in comics. Also this is the same guy who exposed similar approaches by the writers of The Witcher, which also seemed to be against the source material as previously exposed by Henry Cavil, the former star of the series. So despite DeMayo’s personal beef about being fired, allegedly for his OnlyFans accound and allegations of acting like a pervert to the team, I’m inclined to believe at least most of his comments.
Said comments were about how Marvel Studios treated his show, how they planned out Marvel Cinematic Universe productions, and confirms their opinion on the source material, the comics that Marvel gets its name from. I’ve brought up multiple times that Hollywood, including Marvel’s adopted parent company Disney, looks down on comics and cartoons. DeMayo, being an alleged fan of both, worked on the two things they hate. While some of what he says could be chocked up to personal bias as to how he felt he was treated and I can’t rule out confirmation bias without further unbiased confirmation, everything I mentioned when it comes to Marvel history and Hollywood history (there’s a producer who outright stated in an article that he didn’t want someone who knew the comics to work on the movies), is proven accurate with his comments. That disclaimer aside, let’s read the actual comments.
He should fight the guy who designed his helmet.
The Peacemaker V3 #1
Charlton Comics Group (March, 1967)
I’m not sure where the “volume 3” is coming from. While this isn’t Peacemaker’s debut it is his first solo title. His stories first appeared as a back-up in The Fighting Five until it was cancelled and Peacemaker got his regular series for six issues. I might get to that eventually in the Friday reviews, but that’s a long way off. I don’t think DC ever took them on, so I’m just focusing on the solo comic. If you’re curious, Linkara did a review of his actual debut story.
“The Killer On The Reef” and “The Hidden Power”
no credits outside of a splash page credit I can’t read
The Fighting Five: “Ruler Of Darkness”
only credits are “Montes & Bache”
Get read for the first in a series of short multi-chapter reviews, as the next bunch of sequences jump between locations a lot and every new scene change is a new chapter in these books. It’s one of the things I don’t like about this novel. That works on television, but in novel form it just causes too many stop points, hoping the story is enough to carry you through. This is not the month to try that game with me. I need good stop points but I also need to have enough content to fill a full article. So two chapters for the next few installments.
Last time the heroes of our two Op-Centers got together and compared notes. Now it all relies on what happens on the train between Striker and a character whose loyalties are still up for debate. Does he think he’s acting in Russia’s best interest, or his replacement father? Would he be part of a plot to restore the USSR or is he loyal to the current regime? These are the questions I’m looking for the answers for, if not in these two chapters then before we’re done. We have three to four-ish pages per chapter so let’s get a move on.
The jumping time zones don’t help with keeping events straight.
Their team name still sucks. Then again, so do their individual ones.
The Night Man #6
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (March, 1994)
“Ghosts”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
PENCILER: Kyle Hotz
INKER: Thomas Florimonte
COLORING: Tim Divar & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 12, 2025 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comic superheroes, commentary, DC superheroes, Marvel superheroes, street level heroes.
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