“First one to Hollywood gets their movie made first!”
Bongo Super Heroes #7 (Radioactive Man vol 2 #7)
Bongo Comics (June 2003)
LETTERER: Karen Bates (except for final story)
EDITOR: Bill Morrison
Like last week’s Radioactive Man comic, this is a series of shorter reprinted stories. However these tales focus on the Superior Squad, with Radioactive Man, Fallout Boy, and even Radio Man making only short cameos.
Okay, somebody explain this to me. Peter Parker being married to Mary Jane is somehow a terrible thing to do to Peter, but marrying Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat, is a okay? I’m not kidding, Marvel is doing a comic that’s not a What If story in which Spider-Man marries Black Cat. He broke up with her because she couldn’t accept the Peter side of her, while MJ, who accepts both his Peter and Spidey lives, gets the boot? Is Spidey more relatable when he’s marrying an occasional supervillain? Isn’t she a villain right now in the comics?
Now maybe something will screw it up, like when that other animal-themed hero was set to wed a cat-themed occasional hero over at DC, or the Kitty Pride/Colossus wedding that was replaced last-minute with a Gambit/Rogue wedding over in the X-titles but I have a feeling Joe Quesada, Marvel publisher and the guy behind One More Day, is sitting at his office laughing at those of us who want the devil deal tossed out and the true Parker spouses back together. It’s like the people running DC and Marvel are trying to kill superhero comics sometimes. I don’t think they are, but sometimes it feels like it. You’d think they want to do something that the fans can be happy about. Apparently not and this is one of the reasons sales of comics are going down despite the movie popularity and more people on the planet.
A woman cosplaying as Black Widow, apparently a sexist character, at ComiCONN 2013.
Yeah, that’s what we’re apparently being told by both Esquire commentary writer Dom Nero (apparently you’re allowed to swear in Esquire, which I thought had more class) and by Jac Schaeffer, the writer for the upcoming Black Widow movie. Fans of both the Marvel Comics Universe and Marvel Cinematic Universe has been asking for this movie since Iron Man 2 opened the possibility. Since then she’s popped up in a few different Marvel movies but has yet to receive her own. I wrote in the past that they should only do so if they have a good story for her. Apparently even if we do we aren’t getting a good adaptation of the character.
“I’m not interested in adhering to comic canon that is discriminatory in any way or that violates my values system.”
This leads me to ask why you’re doing so then? It would like me working on The Boys, the Amazon series based on the WildStorm/Dynamite series where super”heroes” act more like supervillains, a direction I think DiDio would love to take DC. That violates my beliefs on superheroes and Marvel comics adheres less to my values system, or good superhero stories, every issue they put out. So I wouldn’t work on them. This is another example of “I can do it better but don’t have the guts to work on something original because I like the name and want everything out there to be produced only for my tastes and beliefs”, and she even states in the article that she “wasn’t a huge superhero movie fan before starting to work [at Marvel], but now that I’m doing it, there’s just so much opportunity to make big, positive statements.”
For some reason both the article and movie writers, who have shown they know or care nothing about the source material are going to tell the fans what Natasha Romanoff is because they don’t know or care about who she is. Fans do, which is why they asked for this rather than a Captain Marvel movie, which I’m still convinced was to make sure Billy Batson didn’t get to have his superhero name in the movie. (Which is fine because what we got was Billy Batson 52, not the REAL Billy.) I think we need to learn who Black Widow is and how she’s actually treated in the Marvel universe. What about her would make these two willingly ignorant sad sacks think she’s some sexist character? Let me see if I can figure this out.
There’s a O on his jacket but a 4 on his shoulder. Is it supposed to be “40” on the jacket or did someone goof?
Robotech: Vermilion #1
Antarctic Press (August, 1997)
WRITER/ARTIST: Duc Tran
COVER COLORIST: ARNie
3D rendering: Tipatat Chennavasin
“Mospedia Diary”
by Joe Weltjens
Scene written by a GOOD Batman writer.
DC continues to let Tom King ruin Batman and the Bat-Family as Flashpoint Thomas Wayne is somehow here and he and Bane kill one of the most important members of the Bat-Family while Batman is off somewhere going crazy. I won’t spoil who for those of you who haven’t read Batman #77 but this ticks me off and it’s just another reason DC is falling apart and ruining currently their most popular character. This needs to stop and the characters need to be rescued from King.
The Green Lantern Corp is a great idea. A group of space cops protecting the galaxy from spacefaring evil. However, with DC’s obsession over Hal as the “best” Green Lantern (I grew up with Hal and even I favor Kyle Rayner) may blind them from some real issues as to how the character and his colleagues are treated. WhatCulture takes a look at ten problems not really addressed that might benefit tales of the Corp.
“Who got paint all over my new globe!”
Star Trek: All Of Me
WildStorm Productions (April, 2000)
I also wonder how they got the Paramount Comics logo since that was the imprint with Marvel and at the time WildStorm had just joined DC Comics.
WRITERS: Tony Isabella & Bob Ingersoll
PENCILER: Aaron Lopresti
INKER: Randy Emberlin
COLORISTS: Dick Bell & Jeromy Cox
LETTERER: Ryan Cline
DESIGN: Alex Sinclair
EDITOR: Jeff Mariotte
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
