“Man, that was some party last night. I have an epic hangover.”
Star Trek #77
DC Comics (November, 1995)
“Deadlock”
WRITER: Kevin J. Ryan
PENCILER: Rachel Forbes-Seese
INKER: Mark Heike
COLORIST: Ray Murtaugh
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Margaret Clark
See if you can guess the moment when I stopped watching the trailer. No fair peeking on the other side of the video.
If you said “the part where Dora talks to the audience like always and everyone is confused who she’s talking to”, congratulations, you have mockstalgia senses as well. Either leave it out or ignore it/have everyone take part like they did in the show. Granted I haven’t watched many episodes but I’m sure her parents are used to this by now and it’s not like non-Dora movies didn’t have their main character break the fourth wall without the other characters noticing long before this. It was part of the format for the whole darn show and the spinoff, Dora And Friends: Into The City (and I’m betting she gets whole new friends that aren’t the ones in that series).
Also, I know the thought of Danny Trejo playing Boots sounds funny, but when you do it for real it just sounds silly. Maybe one of you watched the whole thing and can convince me Nickelodeon approving this wasn’t an odd choice, but when I don’t even make the first 15 seconds without seeing more Hollywood mockstalgia you’re going to have a task in front of you. I’m not sure I want to know what they did to Swiper.
In the 90s DC Comics considered letting Marvel publish their books. Their sales were low compared to Marvel and they were struggling. DC would still own them but Marvel would be publishing them as a separate imprint, like Star or Paramount Comics. This has already been widely reported as people explore just what went wrong in the 90s with comics. However, did you know that at one point it would be the other way around?
Post World War II superheroes were on the decline and while National Comics Publications (later known as DC Comics) had found a way to keep superheroes going, especially after so many other genres like horror and crime took a hit from the Comics Code, Timely, later Atlas Comics in the 50s and the name we know it as today, Marvel, in the 60s, wasn’t favoring too well, and almost lost Captain America, Namor The Sub-Mariner, and the original android version of The Human Torch to their rivals had Martin Goodman taken their offer the same way Fawcett Comics later would with Captain “Shazam” Marvel. Owen of Owen Likes Comics goes into the history of how we almost got Cap on the Justice League at the cost of the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and the rest of the Marvel Universe.
“I see the general’s still mad at me.”
Iron Man volume 3 #37
Marvel Comics (February, 2001)
“Remote Control” part 1
I’m guessing on these credits due to past experience but who thought replacing these with sitcom character names was a good idea? Do you NOT want your readers to figure out who did what? Joke credits are dumb to begin with but at least you should be able to tell who did what job from them.
WRITER: Frank Tieri
PENCILER: Althia Martinez
INKER: Rob Hunter
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Brian Smith
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
Viz announced a bunch of new manga, but I don’t care about the rest of it. The big news for me is that among them are translated reprints of old Japanese Transformers comics! While I can find fan-made translations online I prefer a physical comic. This isn’t nearly all the Transformers comics that have been made in Japan and there are a few I probably wouldn’t be as interested in, but I would like to see them all available. At the same time I want Shout Factory to release the post-G1 anime and I’m sure collectors wouldn’t mind a few Japanese-exclusive molds, including recent ones like Transformers Go, available around here to complete their collection for cheap.
In related comments, I again beg you to tell me what I need to do to make my Patreon supportable, or even recommend a different service. I would love to review all this stuff and maybe be less of a burden on my dad. Finding a job I can do is still difficult and I really want to review this stuff. And of course see and own previously Japanese-only versions of one of my favorite franchises.
I know I keep harping on this after the last book but the prologue was so long I keep thinking I’m a chapter further than I am. The epilogue is about the size you’d expect, and this week we have one chapter, 9 pages (10 if you count the illustration). I’ve missed decent length chapters, and it’s in a book for seven-year-olds. Go figure.
So far we’ve seen the Mini-Cons kicked off of Cybertron as if that would stop the war (I’m betting it didn’t), and met our main human characters. Based on the chapter title for this week’s meeting of the book club I’m betting we’re meeting at least one of our Mini-Cons. How will it happen in this version? The three important characters–Alexis, Carlos, and Rad–went one way and our supporting humans–Fred and Billy–went the other so I bet we won’t see them meet the Mini-Cons yet. But I’m guessing someone will.
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
More Problems With The “Joker” Movie
The part of the movie makers will be played by evil Injustice game Superman. Batman plays the comic fans.
The more information that comes out about this alleged Joker prequel movie the less it sounds like they care about the source material. In fact Empire just released a snippet of an interview (as a teaser to buy their magazine) with Todd Phillips, the director of Martin Scorsese’s vision for the backstory of the Joker…which is their first mistake because lack of an actual history prior to his acid bath is an important part of the character. But he came from a comic book so they don’t care.
And that’s not just me being cynical. In the interview snippet Phillips outright said he’s ignoring the comics, much like a lot of DC’s recent fare, which has been the problem for classic DC fans. Unless you count Shazam! going with Geoff Johns’ messed up re-imagining of Billy Batson and his world of course. The question that will have to keep coming up is…then why are you making a movie about an iconic comic book character who predates you?
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on July 10, 2019 in DC Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Empire (magazine), Joaquin Phoenix, Martin Scorsese, movie, The Joker, Todd Philips.
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