“Do you have a spare pare of sunglasses?”
Astro City Flipbook
WildStorm (posted to comiXology October, 2013)
Note that the maps and other extras listed on the store page are not in this digital comic. It does note that the other story that was included–probably where the flipbook comes in–is not included.
“On Mulberry Street: A Prelude”
WRITER: Kurt Busiek
ARTIST: Brent Anderson
COLORIST: Wendy Broome
LETTERING: Comicraft
COVER ART: Alex Ross
If you’ve been with this site long enough you know that I love the classic movie serials, those multi-part stories that used to play in movie theaters. In the days before television the only way you could see anything was at the movies. You had shorts and cartoons, but to me serials were the closest predecessor of television, and we still see serialized stories today, but not in the same way. I’ll get to those in a future article. We’re just sticking with the classics.
Here at BW Media Spotlight, and over at The Clutter Reports, I’ve discussed a few of my series, The Adventures Of Captain Marvel, the first Batman, and the sequel Batman And Robin (not to be confused with the 90s debacle). I do have a few others I plan to look at in the future but my collection is shorter than I’d like. I used to watch the classic serials on a PBS show called Matinee At The Bijou and on our local cable access channel. Four TV shows I grew up with also followed the classic formula. Three of them are from Filmation, Jason Of Star Command, Flash Gordon, and the “Great Space Chase” segments of The New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse. The other was a Canadian series that PBS aired called Read All About It, that taught reading comprehension via a sci-fi mystery. (I hope at least one of those articles has a video that still works.) It’s a form of storytelling you really don’t see anymore outside of two-parters. The last one I ever saw was a tribute serial in 2005 called The Mercury Men. But what goes into making a good serial and why is it a semi-lost art?
Wasn’t there a toyline like this?
Scooby-Doo #75
DC Comics (2003–special New York Post giveaway edition)
COLORIST: Sno Cone
LETTERER: Tom Orzechowski
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Harvey Richards
EDITOR: Joan Hilty
“Ghost To Ghost TV”
WRITER: Karl Kress
PENCILER: Scott Jerralds
INKER: Scott McRae
“Lean, Mean Mystery Machine!”
WRITER: Robbie Busch
PENCILER: Joe Staton
INKER: Horacio Ottolini
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I wasn’t planning on doing a second filler video this week but productivity keeps taking a hit this week and never the same reason twice. My life is occasionally weird. So let’s discuss the one coronavirus victim in the business world nobody talks about: comic shops.
I’m not against social distancing and I understand “non-essential” businesses being closed but to say lives are more important, which is technically true, ignores the fact that these jobs and paychecks are also a necessity to maintain our lives. Some of the restaurants may never open again, and that’s not just jobs lost but dreams lost as someone’s dream of running a restaurant has died without it being his or her fault. This is also happening with comic book stores and that industry has been in trouble long before a viral invasion occurred. There have been plenty of stories of smaller comic stores and even the occasional large one closing as the comics have lost fans while failing to grab the new fans in alternate demographics they craved so much. There were already questions as to whether or not comics would survive and now things are worse for a whole lot of businesses including comics.
In the following video Just Some Guy (who has a lot more swears than the BW norm, so warning there) takes on an article by Comichron’s John Jackson Miller about how comics are just fine at a time when even larger businesses outside of the entertainment industry are in trouble and questions whether or not comics as we know them will truly come back.
“What do you mean ‘no smoking area’? Have you seen your own floor?”
Smith World: Sabotage On Karbarra (A Worlds Of Robotech Book)
Academy Comics, Ltd (March, 1995)
WRITER/INKER: Jason Waltrip
PENCILER/TONER: John Waltrip
LETTERING: Alphabet Soup
I haven’t seen it but it’s not my genre anyway. However, as a general storytelling examination I still find it fascinating. It shows that subversion itself isn’t a bad thing, but how you do it. It’s worth taking a closer look at as a writing discussion so here’s The Closer Look. Note there is some swearing but it fits.
Catch more A Closer Look on his YouTube channel.
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
