“You’d think I of all people wouldn’t forget to pay the electric bill.”
Iron Man volume 3 #67
Marvel Comics (June, 2003)
“Manhunt” part 3
WRITER: Robin Laws
PENCILER: Michael Ryan
INKERS: Sean Parsons & Rich Perrotta
COLORING: Avalon Studios
LETTERER: Randy Gentile
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Marc Sumerak & Andy Schmidt
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
Even if you aren’t a fan of this game series (I’m not) what’s important in my posting this video is the discussion near the beginning involving the concepts of canon versus continuity, which will play into my otherwise unrelated commentary tonight (in my time zone anyway). However, if you are a fan of the game or like me just find lore in general a curiosity, enjoy the game theory.
Catch more Game Theory on the Theorists’ YouTube channel.
I know we don’t want to think about viruses right now during the pandemic. Heck, I’m trying to figure out why people are watching movies about viral diseases ravaging the countryside right now but yet it’s happening. I guess that’s my mindset. However, we are stuck in a story in which a serum that turns people violent and could end up as a plague is currently in play. Also we have a mass murderer who is bonded to a symbiote that basically oozes itself like blood, so this is not painting a pretty picture.
And now that same symbiotic murderer is loose in New York thanks to stupid people being stupid (which is oddly not as redundant as it sounds) and it’s up to Spider-Man to save everyone again. Last time Spidey learned the doctor responsible for the serum was finally caught and now he’s ready to finally get some answers.
“I just asked if you wanted your windows washed.”
“That’s not what they mean by letting it all hang out, Red Tornado.”
Justice League Unlimited #13
DC Comics (November, 2005)
“Nuts And Bolts”
WRITER: Adam Beechan
PENCILER: Carlo Barberi
INKER: Walden Wong
COLORING: Heroic Age
COVER ART: Ben Caldwell
LETTERER: Travis Lanham
EDITOR: Tom Palmer Jr.
That’s technically social distancing.
Among the businesses being hit by the current social distancing and non-essential business lockdown procedures are movie theaters. It’s all indoors and a potential breeding ground if someone unaware they have the Covid-19 virus inside them because they aren’t sick. However, it is safe to be in your car with the rest of your household and outdoors so one usually indoor movie theater has found a way to safely create a temporary drive-in theater experience in their own parking lot.
That’s not even counting the ones he’s made.
This is what we call making the best of a bad situation. Unfortunately I didn’t get to do a Clutter Report this week because I was very tired on Saturday. It’s getting warmer and that means the attic HQ is getting warmer. Hopefully this also spells bad things for the coronavirus as we continue to deny it new hosts by staying home and staying safe as much as we can.
This week will see the last of the Scooby-Doo comics I need to review. I do have a commentary planned but I also have a doctor visit (nothing to worry about) so expect at least one filler video this week. Otherwise just business as usual.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Versus Gizmodo: Why Canon Is So Important To The Way We Discuss Media
Shockwave fan art by Zobovor
The everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee crowd continues to attempt to absorb all franchises into themselves, insisting that they have a right a version of everything that caters to their interests while throwing a fit if something isn’t catered to them. While of course insisting their version isn’t “for you” and often throwing a fit on the rare occasion something they like is turned into something someone else, especially kids, might enjoy. Now they’ve taken to altering beloved franchises that weren’t beloved to them while their pals push back against established canon and continuity for their own ends.
A recent example comes from the I/O9 site Gizmodo and a rant by James Whitbrook (he calls it that, folks) entitled Craving Canon Is Killing The Way We Discuss Movies And TV. (Although we’ve seen sites change titles before due to backlash.) In this piece Whitbrook rallies against the “evils” of canon in favor of re-interpretation…usually to a form that he likes from something he doesn’t I’d wager. (I don’t even have money to wager with.) I found this through a commentary on YouTube taking this thing down but the commentator gets distracted because she’s seen this #$%@ so many times and has rallied against it. I wanted to give this thing a more focused shellacking because this attitude is really at the heart of a lot of modern writers’ problems.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 7, 2020 in Comic Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged BW versus, canon, commentary, continuity, Man of Steel, Star Trek, Star Wars.
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