I just realized that by the time I’m done th e2019 Free Comic Book Day reviews will end up more like a “Yesterday’s” Comic review than a Today’s Comic review.
Some people take Santa’s rejection letter from the sleigh team a bit too hard.
Ghost Hog: Free Comic Book Day Special
Oni Press (May, 2019)
WRITER/ARTIST: Joey Weiser
Like any other medium, comics have a lot of pitches for comics that never got past the editor, and some that were killed off in-production. If the publisher or editor-in-chief doesn’t think the comic will find enough readers to make money or if something else happens then they won’t make it. It’s a natural part of the story producing concept and no media type is free of this. There are just too many people looking to create the next big whatever and some of them really shouldn’t be.
What Culture’s comic division lists out 10 such failed attempts at making a comic. You will be surprised how many of the pitches on this list are DC and how often Frank Miller and Steve Gerber comes up. The question is whether or not we were spared.
“You idiot, what are we going to do for the next two issues?”
Power Lords #1
DC Comics (December, 1983)
“To The Victor…The Universe!”
WRITER: Michael Fleisher
PENCILER: Mark Texeira (hey, I met him at Free Comic Book Day; sorry I didn’t review this sooner)
INKER: Jeff Dee
COLORIST: Adrienne Roy
LETTERER: Ben Oda
EDITOR: Andrew Helfer
Superman’s death was a huge event. Wolverine’s death not so much. What was the difference? It’s a problem that apparently even comic strips are not safe from. ICv2’s Steve Bennett goes over a brief history of death in comic books and comic strips and what started the trend of cheap deaths to sell comics. Not mentioned: how Optimus Prime seems to die once a continuity. Note that there is a major Avengers: Endgame spoiler. I still need to see Age Of Ultron.
When you need a hazmat suit you know you’re falling behind on your cleaning.
Robotech: The Macross Saga #7
Comico The Comic Company (November, 1985)
“Bye-Bye Mars”
ADAPTATION: Jack Herman
PENCILER: Mike Leeke
INKER: Chris Kalnick
COLORIST: Rick Taylor
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Diana Schutz
If you liked that, then head to whatever theater is playing tonight’s Rifftrax Live event, as Mike, Kevin, and Bill riff Star Raiders. It repeats June 11th. Here’s a link to find which theaters will be playing it in your area if any. If I can’t go I can at least promote.
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
The Internet Versus Robert Bat-tison
CANNES, FRANCE – MAY 19: Actor Robert Pattison is photographed for Paris Match on May 19, 2019 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Gilles Bensimon/Paris Match/Contour by Getty Images)
I’m hearing it’s official now and Robert Pattison will be playing Bruce “Batman” Wayne in the next Bat-film. Matt Reeves is going somewhere between first day on the bat-job and seasoned bat-veteran, something closer to The Batman cartoon in terms of what stage in his career he’s in. This could be interesting, as Reeves is also reported to be focusing on something the live-action Bat-Films have failed to even acknowledge, his detective skills. Outside of discovering the Joker’s formula in Tim Burton’s Batman and one scene in the serials only the DCAU animated series and the aforementioned The Batman really used these talents as part of the solution. Maybe some of the games as well. I’m still trying to find a controller that will allow me to play Arkham Asylum properly and I haven’t finished Batman: Vengeance either.
However, the internet is in rage mode, which seems to be the norm as of late, because of Pattison’s most well-known and well despised role, as the moody perma-teen vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight saga. The fact that the vampire who couldn’t turn into a bat is now playing the crimefighter who dresses as one has them livid because anything even remotely connected to that series is immediately looked down upon as a curse against humanity or something. The thing is we’ve been here so many times and I feel the need to be a voice of reason. I come not to praise Edward nor to bury him. I just want to bring some perspective to this debate.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 6, 2019 in DC Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged actor choice, Batman, Batman movies, commentary, Robert Pattison.
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