Darn party crashers!
Star Trek: Early Voyages #10
Marvel/Paramount Comics (November, 1997)
“The Fallen” part 1
WRITERS: Ian Edginton & Dan Abnett
PENCILER: Michael Collins
INKER: Greg Adams
COLORIST: Matt Webb
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
One of the things making me question YouTube’s commitment to their core content creators is the original programming available through YouTube Premium. These include Netflix type shows like the Karate Kid spinoff Cobra Kai and a bunch of stuff I don’t care about. Unless MatPat’s Game Lab show is still going on but I can’t afford to find out. Bloomberg decided to release a rumor that YouTube was dropping these but YouTube themselves claim they’re still committed to original programming and that the Bloomberg reporter was exaggerating the whole thing. In fact they do have plans and are still looking for shows.
The romance of Superman and Lois Lane has been one that took way too long to get them together. It did however get one thing right in that Lois had to actually fall in love with Clark Kent. Superman is what Clark can do and a way for him to open up another side of him, but everything that makes Superman who and what he is, not biologically since that came from his Kryptonian heritage but as a person, comes from Clark Kent’s upbringing. As one of my favorite Superman stories highlighted, you can’t have a proper Superman without Clark Kent. He became who he is thanks to the love of Jonathan and Martha Kent.
And then there’s Lois Lane. First introduced in the same Action Comics #1 that Superman was, and in the same story, Lois was also Clark’s love interest. While she fell quickly for the powerful and caring Superman it took longer to see Clark even as a friend and longer (and a rebooted continuity) to want to be his wife. That love triangle aspect has all but faded from Superman’s multiversal continuity but it’s still an important part of their relationship’s history. which Zack Snyder of course did away with in his misunderstanding of Superman. Of course, as this morning’s article link showed he doesn’t get Batman either, while looking into that article I found one from Screen Rant that showed one other mistake, and this is one that Snyder isn’t alone in making.
I’m linking to the second page of a two-page article about Snyder’s original intention for Justice League; not the infamous “Snyder cut” his fans are begging for but the original script he and the screenwriter turned in, rejected by Warner Brothers due to the many complaints about how dark and un-fun his previous two DCEU movies were. The first page sets up the reasons but the second tells his original plan, which included Lois Lane being killed, leading to Superman’s turning evil. To be fair, in Synder’s original idea it was because Lois’s death led to his being openly influenced by Darkseid’s famed “anti-life equation”, so at least someone did their research. For a change. However, it’s not the first time I’ve seen this story and I’m worried it’s going to get old really fast.
Tony’s all-armor interpretation of Hamlet was a surprise hit…but not for the right reasons.
Iron Man volume 3 #29
Marvel Comics (June, 2000)
“The Mask In The Iron Man” part 3: “My Bodyguard”
WRITER: Joe Quesada
PENCILER: Alitha Martinez
INKER: Rob Hunter
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
Whether or not Batman should kill his enemies, even the Joker, is a subject for debate. The fact that Batman chooses not to however is not. So when Zack Snyder tries to put his own views on Batman’s no kill policy he made a bad Batman adaptation. /Film (Slashfilm) contributor Chris Evangelista took some recent comments Snyder made defending his murdering Batman in Dawn Of Justice to task for not understanding Batman.
Last week’s bunch of chapters surprised me in that even the Op-Center chapter was fairly decent and moved the plot along. Of course we still had a woman disappointed that the happily married boss is happily married and worried about his son, because we can’t assume the characters will get better, but as Op-Center scenes go I didn’t come out of it sorry I read it. Granted, the interesting stuff is still happening in Korea and I wish it was the sole focus of the book but at this point I’ll take the victories I can.
I wonder if this set will match up to the last one or if the Op-Center crew will continue to live down to my expectations?
In Soviet Russia the toys collect YOU!
Batman Beyond volume 2 #10
DC Comics (August, 2000)
“Toy Wonder”
WRITER: Hilary J. Bader
PENCILER: Craig Rosseau
INKER: Rob Leigh
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Joseph Illidge
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
