If you have the wrong waifu at an anime convention…
Iron Man volume 3 #45
Marvel Comics (October, 2001)
“The Big Bang Theory” finale
WRITER: Frank Tieri
PENCILER: Keron Grant
INKERS: Stull & Perrotta
COLORIST: Edgar Tadeo
LETTERING: Dave Sharpe
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Andrew Lis
EXECUTIVE EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
The comic notes that new editors take over next issue.
Yes, apparently this is a thing that happened and by Marvel themselves. In 1982 the Marvel creators at the time got together a made a comic where the heroes of the Marvel universe had a celebrity roast of the Fantastic Four. Oddly these might not be Spidey’s better quips.
Remember, the book is in public domain. Download or read the ebook online legally and for free at Project Gutenberg, Google Books or the Internet Archive among other sites, or check out the audiobook from LibriVox. You can also use a print copy. In either case my copy may not match up with yours chapter-wise. Follow along with the very-long subtitle. For this chapter:
Telling How The Sheriff Of Nottingham Swore That He Would Deal Dole To Robin Hood. Also How He Made Three Trial Thereat, But Missed Each Time By A Good Bow’s Length.
We’ve already gone through the first two tales of this part. We saw Robin be a jerk to a guy just doing his job and that the famous archery scene didn’t happen the way we were told. We now go into the third of the Sheriff’s failed attempts to seize Robin Hood. I wonder what other changes will be forthcoming from the way his story is told today? We already know that Prince John is too young to be in control of Nottingham, the tax overload that Robin is famous for fighting against has thus far not revealed itself, and we still have had no sign of Maid Marian save for a passing line of dialog in the prologue. Robin Hood may also be the first example of a sliding timeline as the Crusades haven’t even happened yet and he doesn’t suddenly have a Muslim sidekick despite being on the Christian side of the holy war. I think at this point it’s safe to ignore what you know because even the stuff we know about Robin and the merry men (which isn’t their group name but a general description) we obviously don’t know well at all.
Run before Dan DiDio and Tom King kill or evilize another one of us!
Justice League Adventures #1
DC Comics (January, 2002)
“Disarmed”
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Min S. Ku
INKER: Dan Davis
COLORIST: John Kaliz
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
LETTERER: Kurt Hathaway
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Steve Wacker
EDITOR: Dan Raspier
Joel Schumacher is willing to take the blame for the failures of his two Bat-Films. However, it wasn’t easy working with some of his actors as this article highlights.
Now if the movie ends with a good kid with superpowers taking him down I might approve. Bonus if he wears bright colors.
That’s what I got from the trailer anyway, and I’m not interested in the life story of supervillains anymore. It seems to be all comic writers care about anymore. My old boss Ozzie Arcane from Reviewers Unknown would be calling this too much supervillains and he’s a supervillain fan. His character was even a supervillain. Note that I’m not speaking to the quality of the movie. The trailer makes the effects look decent enough and it may be well made. I’m just not a horror fan to begin with and making yet another evil Superman, this time as Superboy, is not going to win me over.
In this week’s Clutter Report I redid my list of clutter projects and made a few lists to organize information and prep projects for this site. If it sounds easy read the article because there are good and bad ways to go about it.
Fun fact: I found out a few different ad-sponsored streaming sites finally have the original broadcast versions of Robotech and not just the “put the blood and boobs back into it” remasters Harmony Gold made recently. The Robotech theme just looks weird over the unedited opening for Super Dimension Fortress Macross and other pre-Robotech shows. So now I don’t have to use illegal YouTube uploads anymore to compare the show with the Comico adaptation. Not that it’s going to matter for the next two weeks since there are two more issues of Vermilion to go. Meanwhile I need to get the captions up for the Clash Of The Bionoids review so I can get started on the next Video Review, which thanks to timing is probably going to be another Robotech-related review instead of the one I had planned to do next. We’ll see what time allows and where I am in the comic collection. I’d like to get this one posted on time unlike the last one.
Hope everyone has a good week and you enjoy the reviews and commentaries to come this week.
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 Vs. SlashFilm: We At Least Agree Fandom Is The Problem
Actually, we mostly agree on this issue so calling this a “Vs” article is probably branding at this point or lack of a better article title. “BW Agrees But…” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. So since I won’t be going over the whole thing consider this a bonus Article Link and read the /Film commentary first. It’s from contributor Andrew Todd, discussing how the Marvel fandom and Disney fandom have been very vocal and protective of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Like I said I mostly agree with him.
I’m on record being in favor of fans but not fandoms. Fandoms have a habit of being insular and niche hipsters or something. They’re like those movies or TV episodes you see where a stranger comes to town, and the townsfolk there hate strangers and want to get rid of them as soon as possible to keep their town “safe” from the outsiders. I see this mostly in anime fandoms but it’s a problem in every media genre and format out there right now. It’s why comics are now only available in a few places compared to being all over the place in their heyday. Then you have the subfandoms, arguing over who is best girl or who would win in a fight and heaven forbid you choose the wrong side because clearly you aren’t a “true fan”. However, since I’m saying “mostly agree” that must mean that Mr. Todd and I have a few differences of opinion. The “Vs” in the title has to make sense somehow right? Otherwise this WOULD be just a Morning Article Link.
(Sidebar: I want to smack every person who has ever seriously used the expression “true fan” upside the head. Preferably with the guy who legit used the term “fake geek girl” for any girl who ranks higher than a five in attractiveness, like all of “our” women need to be plain or ugly and not look like the hot girls in our media. That’s a level of psychotherapy I cannot offer. Then again there are plenty of “plain” women I find very attractive so I’m not the guy to ask.)
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