Darkseid decided to try the Alpha Beams once. He built a wall.
Justice League Unlimited #32
DC Comics (June, 2007)
“Big Guns”
WRITER: Stephan Nilson
ARTIST: Dave Santana
COLORING: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Robert Clark
EDITOR: Rachel Gluckstern
image source: NOT National Geograpic.
Today is a quick read, just some fun trivia for the Godzilla fans out there, about Godzilla Vs. Gigan reaching Hawaii in Japanese theaters (Toho apparently runs a theater in Hawaii) before getting wide release around the country. Remember, the original Godzilla was turned into the original Godzilla, King Of The Monsters (thanks for the confusion, Legendary Pictures!) after someone saw it in a Japanese movie theater in the states.
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At least he was smart enough to realize his robots were no match for the hero instead of stay to see him perish.
On the email front I got all of 2020’s emails read…on the BW account. I still need to do my personal account. I did share this article about staying motivated so the Clutter Report readers had something for the week.
I still need to look into all the DC Fandome news that came out over the weekend but I’m seeing more reports for live-action and animated stuff than I am actual comic news. That really doesn’t bode well. I would also like to get a Finally Watched in like I’ve been saying the past few weeks, and there’s another chapter of Doctor Who: The Time Travellers to go through. As for Herodude, his tale is almost over which means now that some more entertainment discussion stuff is happening we can get back to the usual nonsense of this comic. At least until the next crisis 2020 is going to throw at us. And I think I finally figured out how to make this year’s Captain Yuletide work so I’d like to get a jump on that in the hopes this year it will actually come out at Christmas. We’ll see what happens this week!
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For whatever reason Jeff Goldblum has become popular with internet culture, primarily for his role as Ian Malcolm in the Jurassic Park movie franchise and to a lesser extent in the Independence Day movies. It’s kind of strange because I don’t see anything that sets him apart beyond people liking to imitate Ian’s stuttering in a low voice. Really, he’s a good actor and he deserves fans for it but that’s what the meme addicts love about him. I don’t get it.
At any rate Goldblum has had a very long career in movies but his most recent appearance in the Law & Order franchise isn’t his first foray into television. Tenspeed & Brown Shoe follows the misadventures E.L. Turner (played by the great Ben Vereen), a hustler whose street name is “tenspeed” (which TV.Com claims is slang for a hustler), and Lionel Whitney, an accountant (aka “brown shoe” according to TV.com again), who end up forming a detective agency. Witney is a fan of noir detective Mark Savage, which is what inspired him to become a detective along with his karate skills, and Turner just needs a job to get through his parole period but can’t stop his hustle.
Usually we start with episode one, but the pilot is owned by CBS for whatever reason and they not only won’t let Mill Creek have it for home vide, apparently Shout Factory TV isn’t allowed to use it on their streaming service either despite the rest of the series being available. So we jump to “The Robin Tucker’s Roseland Roof And Ballroom Murder”, in which Whitney gets an usual call and a $1000 bill (which existed until the 1960s and if you find one is still considered legal tender according to a few seconds with an internet search) but the client doesn’t want to use his name. I see this not going well. And not just because the video gets an odd studder at one point.
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You know he’s blind because he thought that color scheme worked. Mighty Mouse you aren’t, Matt.
Daredevil #1
Marvel Comics (April, 1964; posted to comiXology September, 2010)
“The Origin Of Daredevil”
WRITER: Stan Lee
ARTIST: Bill Everett
LETTERER: Sam Rosen
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What, the way he’s drawn he looks like he’s infected with something.
The Last Of Us is a game outside my wheelhouse. It’s dark, violent, and runs from primary colors like it’s Zach Snyder or Michael Bay. However, storytelling mistakes are storytelling mistakes whether your into it or not, and going over the mistakes in storytelling even in something you aren’t otherwise interested in has its benefits. And from what I hear The Last Of Us II is a good example of this. While there are those who praise the game others look at it as a terrible sequel. Of course you can’t follow most of the debates because they’re very emotionally charged. Whether you hate playing as the character killing the heroes of the first game or don’t really care about those characters are going to affect how you judge it. I however prefer a more investigative report.
Therefore A Closer Look if offering such an investigation. Henry, our host, goes over each of the mistakes made as a sequel and as a form of sequential storytelling. As I went over in a recent Art Of Storytelling there is a right and wrong way to do it, and if you follow his examination this was clearly the wrong way, especially as a sequel to a beloved video game. As its own story it may stand up but as a continuation of the previous game it misses many marks. This conflict in the gamer community is what sparked the series of gaming editions of Art Of Storytelling, but since this an hour and a half long, and Henry invokes what he believes to be a better story (to people who enjoy these type of stories at least–body horror is NOT my thing) it is something interesting to look into for those trying to hone their craft or just generally interested in storytelling and video game storytelling specifically. There is some swearing and a lot of people and monsters getting violently shot, so be aware that’s coming.
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All you wanna do is ride around, Shaggy! Oh, Scooby’s not doing a singalong?
Scooby-Doo #39
DC Comics (October, 2000; posted to comiXology July, 2014)
COLORIST: Paul Becton
LETTERER: Ryan Cline
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Harvey Richards
EDITOR: Joan Hilty
“Two Heads Are Better Than None”
WRITER: John Rozum
PENCILER: Joe Staton
INKER: Dave Hunt
“The Chocolatier Chortled”
WRITER: Bob Fingerman
PENCILER: Eric Doescher
INKER: Brian Garvey
