Welcome to the final installment of Everyone Hated Ted Kord. In part one we saw someone trying to dismantle his company and try to kill him, which was immediately ignored by his colleagues because he’s Ted Kord so they couldn’t care less even though Bruce Wayne’s company was being used to do it and a whole lot of Kryptonite was stolen from his warehouse to be properly destroyed while leaving no evidence of how they did it, not unlike that time someone they actually cared about was murdered. But it’s Ted Kord so they couldn’t care less. Only Booster Gold was on his side so naturally in part two he was taken out of action because heaven forbid the only person worried about Blue Beetle who doesn’t want him dead be there to help him. Basically it sucks to be Ted Kord in this story.
Now we head into the final issue, as Blue Beetle goes to find out who is trying to ruin him because he’s the only one who cares who isn’t in a hospital bed right now. This whole story has been about dumping on the second Blue Beetle and while it has done a good job of making us the reader care about him it’s at the expense of everyone except Booster and maybe Wonder Woman (I can’t prove she wasn’t just being nice to him but probably didn’t care either given how this story has gone) looking like a bunch of unfeeling jerks…lest you think DiDio’s Darker DC turning the heroes into someone the Avengers are looking at as a dysfunctional team was something that started in the New 52. They just made it worse.
“Oh no, another dead hero…wait, it’s just Ted. Let’s get back to our movie.”
Countdown To Infinite Crisis
DC Comics (March, 2005)
ComiXology has the trade collection, free for some reason, on their site so if you have a comiXology or Amazon account you can read along. This is the version I’ll be using.
WRITERS: Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka, and Judd Winick
PENCILERS: Ed Benes, Phil Jimenez, Rags Morales, Ivan Reis, and Jesus Siaz
INKERS: Michael Bair, Ed Benes, Marc Campos, Andy Lanning, and Jimmy Palmioti
COVER ART: Jim Lee and Alex Ross
BW’s Daily Video: Boss Baby’s Japanese Dub & Animation Vs Oscars
This video was produced for April Fool’s Day but in between the gags are some rather interesting tidbits about the Japanese dub of The Boss Baby as well as a discussion about how the Oscars snub animation, especially Japanese animation. How do the two go together? They don’t. It’s an April Fools video, but both are interesting enough that I wanted to share with you guys.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 3, 2020 in Animation Spotlight and tagged Academy Awards, animation, anime, commentary, The Boss Baby, trivia.
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