Batman is training his Robins younger and younger.
Batman: Gotham Adventures #26
DC Comics (July, 2000)
“In Arms”
WRITER: Scott Peterson
PENCILER: Tim Levins
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Bob Schreck
The TV show wishes their Bat-Cape could pull this off.
Before the FX Network was doing shows about corrupt police officers and plastic surgeons they broadcast out of a New York apartment (or pretended to) showing retro shows and doing news from their office. The Retroist’s Allison Venezio found a video collecting promos and bumpers from that lost period. You may even recognize some of the MTV Veejay style revolving break hosts that show up if you watch long enough. Some of these shows haven’t been on TV in years, even in reruns. Maybe you’ll recognize some of those, too.
(Their shows included this version of Batman and Green Hornet, so the picture fits.)
I’m prepared to be surprised, but I’m also ready to be as disappointed as I’m expecting.
There are actually two wikis set up for Thundercats Roar that I found. One appears to be ready to actually collect the events and characters of the show, like any other fan wiki when the show debuts some time this Spring. The other one though seems prepared to immediately hate the show and rake it over the coals, even being rather mean to the creator. Look, I’m not looking forward to this piece of mockstalgia either but there’s no reason to personally attack the guy because he has a lame vision or his silly “manbun”. Be mad at him? Yes. Personally attack him? A bit harsh. (Although admittedly there were a few jokes I did laugh at.)
In this week’s Clutter Report I did the dishes again. That means I helped my dad with more of his kitchen clean-out. I wash the dishes almost every time. At least I’m doing something around here of worth.
For this week’s update I created a v-log, to also inform my viewers the progress of my next video review, with an extra hint as to what’s coming, plus other things I plan to do on the channel. There’s also info for you readers.
As stated in the video, this week the DCAU moves to Monday since I’m all caught up on my DC comic reviews. Saturdays will now be the home of comics in my comiXology library–and we’re starting with a Batman comic that I’m not sure is from the main DCU but it’s not from the DCAU. It just kind of worked out that way.
The Six Million Dollar Man was a TV series loosely based on the Cyborg novel series. It introduced the world to the concept of bionics, a type of prosthetic that brought with it high-tech superhuman abilities. It was followed up by The Bionic Woman, and would also add a bionic dog. A series of made-for-TV movies added more people to the bionic world, including a new form of bionics that was more about augmenting the natural body rather than the usual prosthetic limbs, eyes, and ears. However tonight I want to look at a different form of bionics, as featured in Bionic Six, a 1980s cartoon not set in that continuity but produced by the same company, now known as NBCUniversal. While the main continuity was more of a secret agent series with the occasional sci-fi element, including aliens and robots, the cartoon was a full sci-fi superhero series set in the near future. It also has aliens and robots, but the latter shows up more often.
Bionic Six follows the Bennett family–former pilot Jack, his wife Helen, their natural-born children Eric and Meg, and their adopted sons JD and Bunji. (I’ll think you’ll be able to tell which is which.) Only Helen knew that her husband was also the superhero Bionic-1. It’s not until episode 10, nine episodes after we’ve seen Mother-1, Sport-1, Rock-1, IQ (oddly no “1” in the name), and Karate-1 have joined him, that we finally learn how they became the Bionic Six, and the debut of their enemies led by Dr. Scarab, the evil brother of the Six’s creator, Dr. Sharpe. I don’t remember if Bionic-1’s origin was ever given.
This is an odd reminder to set your clocks ahead tonight.
Batman Beyond volume 2 #9
DC Comics (July, 2000)
“The Last Of Her Kind”
WRITERS: Hilary J. Bader & Rich Fogel
PENCILER: Craig Rosseau
INKER: Rob Leigh
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Joseph Illidge
I was looking forward to the Captain Marvel movie despite still being behind on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Avengers movies, and my own issues with Marvel Comics and why they even keep trying to make Captain Marvel work…to keep DC from giving Billy Batson his proper superhero identity. I still believe the reason this movie exists was a pushback against the Shazam! movie and making sure it didn’t give him the right name.
However, the real controversy has been how Marvel, and especially Carol Danvers portrayer Bree Larson, have marketed the movie, as if female superheroes were something new. I have a series of videos by people who have followed the marketing campaign better than I have, plus my own thoughts on the material presented. It’s not even a question anymore as to whether or not the movie is good. Most of us have not seen the film. The problems are about the marketing of the movie, and how it may be driving away people rather than bringing them in. That is poor marketing.
Stop looking at her butt and focus on who you’re shooting at!
Falls The Gotham Rain
Comico The Comic Company (August, 1992)
WRITER: Devin O’Leary
ARTIST/CREATOR: Jason Waskey (or at least he own the copyright)
LETTERER: Susan Dorne
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
