The redesign for the Batsignal didn’t do well in test markets.
Batman: The Ten Cent Adventures
DC Comics (March 2002; digital conversion for comiXology by Wildstorm: January, 2011)
“The Fools Errand”
WRITER: Greg Rucka
PENCILER: Rich Burchett
INKER: Klaus Janson
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Willie Schubert
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Michael Wright
EDITOR: Matt Idelson
image source: Grand Comics Database
I was going to do a comic review today, but then a trailer dropped for something I really wanted to discuss. So it’s a trailer review instead.
Crossovers in comics are nothing new at this point. DC has had Batman fight the Xenomorphs, Superman fight the Terminators, and Green Lantern guide the USS Enterprise. That was an IDW crossover, and they’re no strangers to crossovers either. They’ve had a number of their licenses join forces either in the same universe or from their own place in the multiverse. They have a Star Trek/Transformers crossover either out or coming out and you better believe I wish I was reading it right now! Unless it’s bad. Then I’d rather not be disappointed.
Another one I would love to check out is their multiple miniseries crossover between Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, one of which actually had the DCAU Dark Knight teaming with Nickelodeon’s first animated version (I would have gone with the 2000s cartoon but Nickelodeon didn’t make that one–that was for Fox’s kids lineup, the Fox Box), while the others have had the regular DC Universe Batman joining forces with the IDW Turtles. This has been really popular, but that’s not the crossover I mean. Exactly.
Crossovers on TV are rare, and home video even rarer. When shows have teamed up, whether it’s the Mask meeting Ace Ventura, Ally McBeal meeting the lawyers of The Practice (an even rarer case of crossing networks), or even Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, which featured numerous cartoon character across numerous animation studios and networks as part of the late George Bush Sr.’s anti-drug awareness campaign, these are usually thematic or a way for a channel to promote other shows. I mean, Jessica Fletcher once worked with Thomas Magnum. (The original, not CBS’s new version.) And yet they’re about to release a direct-to-video movie based on that Batman/Ninja Turtles crossover I just mentioned. The odds of that are so low it’s amazing, and yet here’s the trailer!
What scares me is that there’s a market for bottled woman.
Fathom #1
Comico The Comic Company (November, 1992)
“Genie In A Bottle” part 1: “The Wrath Of Aeshma”
WRITER: David de Vries
PENCILER/LETTERER: Tim Eldred
INKER: Phil Boy
COLORIST: someone forgot to list one
COVER ART: Tony Akins (credit written on the cover but not given in the comic)
EDITOR: Jerry Liwanag
For those of you who missed my review of the magazine comic story they’re adapting, I looked at the Marvel US reprints in issue #1 and issue #2. Does this mean that Sharon will now be canon? Are all the Big Finish stories canon or just the Paul McGann ones?
According to the Big Finish website volume one also contains an adaptation of Doctor Who And The Iron Legion, which I also reviewed during the Marvel Premiere test issues (here and here)
Sorry for so many video postings lately. Between the software organizing project I’m doing for The Clutter Reports and the video review I’m hoping to have done by the end of the month my time is a bit short. Lucky for me Gaijin Goombah has a cool video to share with you guys. You should check out his YouTube channel when you’re done watching this. Link underneath the video.
Easily my favorite show of his, and he just announced a new one, is Which Ninja, the show that asks the question “is this character a good example of a ninja?” whether the character was conceived as one or not. In previous postings we’ve watched Gaijin and his sidekick Little G go over the Ninja Turtles. This time it’s the wall-crawler that’s in his sights. Is Spider-Man an example of a ninja? The answer is yes, even when it comes to that Spider-Armor that bothered fans when it was introduced. Using the comics and the recent video game for PlayStation 4, the evidence is clear that Spider-Man is a Spider-Ninja.
Suddenly Lisa gained telepathic powers!
Robotech: Breaking Point (Cadet Lisa Hayes Special)
Academy Comics Ltd (December, 1996)
WRITER: Robert W. Gibson
ARTIST: Dusty Griffin
Sometimes, when a TV series ends but the creators aren’t ready to give it up, a show can be continued in comic form. Siskoid from the Blog Of Geekery wants you tell him some other shows that could do with a “new season” in comic form. So head over there and give him your ideas. He won’t see them here.
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
