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Imagine going into your attic, finding a real old but still working computer, and not only are there save games but a random letter from your father when you were a kid. As you can see John Pfaff experienced it firsthand. And I thought I was taking too long finishing Super Mario Brothers. Adventureland is a text-based computer game from the late 1970s.
So how poorly is this one going to end?
Recently DC took the path away from the New 52/DC You storytelling. “Rebirth” was a return to what made the DC Universe work and why many of us became fans of DC Comics. You could nitpick an individual writer or two which is nothing new in fiction overall but for the most part it was the DC Universe we all remember, even if this is version 3.2 at this point. Or was version 3.2. With Dan DiDio back in full control it looks like he’s steering back to his dark and gritty nonsense in a version 3.3 DC Universe, bringing in Brian Michael Bendis to ruin the advancements Rebirth made to Superman, , Tom King psychologically destroying Mister Miracle and now Batman, the killing of sidekicks and legacy characters (and whatever DiDio and his crew can get away with doing to Nightwing) he and DiDio hate in Heroes In Crisis, and they still haven’t finished Doomsday Clock, the event that from what I’ve heard ends the Rebirth period. Just when things were getting good I have to break out the “Death Of DC” category yet again.
In the interest of keeping an open mind, Tom Taylor’s teased “DCeased” story could be an alternate universe tale, something set in one of the “unused” 52 universes because Dan is obsessed with the number. Oddly because the only time a comic called 52 came out was the only time that number was lucky for DC Comics. The New 52, trying to keep the comics to 52 main DC Universe titles a month…all failed to ignite fans. And now we have a new strain of Eventitis unless it is an alternate universe. However, it’s still the returning trend of torturing DC heroes and I’m getting tired of seeing my favorite superhero comic universe getting trashed like this. Will anything quell DiDio and friends’ quest for blood? Or Taylor’s since his big claim to fame right now is continuing the story from the video game Injustice: Gods Among Us and giving us a nightmare form of DC Universe. I don’t know if the game makers are planning to continue that universe so it might even be set there if NetherRealm Studios is not going to make a third game. I really haven’t cared enough to check, but even then DCeased is another symptom of both Eventitis and a hatred for what make the DC Universe great the way it was.
Don’t worry, Ultimo. Not everybody can pull off a cape.
Iron Man volume 3 #24
Marvel Comics (January, 2000)
“Ultimate Fury!”
CO-PLOTTER: Kurt Busiek
CO-PLOTTER/WRITER: Roger Stern
PENCILER: Sean Chen
INKERS: Rob Hunter, Don Hillsman, & Mark Nelson (first names according to the Marvel Database because heaven forbid a creator gets their full name in the credits)
COLORIST: Steve Oliff
LETTERER: Troy Peteri
EDITOR: Bobbie Chase
In a fan-made cover crossover that could only best happen on a site with this name, Gary of Crisis On Earth-Prime decided to put the Anti-Montiors of the multiverse up against each other. Tell him in his comments if you liked it.
For those of you coming in late I haven’t been enjoying this book thus far. From the odd chapter breaks to the rather unlikable Americans the only time the book has been interesting is when we spent time in Korea or Japan. That’s where the good stuff is going on.
I decided that at least 11 pages would make a decent length for the review, and more often than not this is has ended up being Chapters By Chapters, plural instead of singular. Today we only have 2 chapters but they total around 12 pages.
Okay, let’s get this over with.
(Yeah, sorry, I really had nothing on this one.)
Firestorm: The Nuclear Man #24
DC Comics (June, 2006)
“Come Together”
WRITER: Stuart Moore
PENCILER: Jamal Igle
INKER: Keith Champagne
COLORIST: David Baron
COVER ARTIST: Brian Stelfreeze
LETTERER: Travis Lanham
EDITOR: Michael Siglain
I usually leave the Transformers toy discussions to my other site but this one I had to share with you guys. In a move I know I never saw coming even given all the odd crossovers coming up in comics, in honor of the IDW crossover between their Transformers and Ghostbusters comics, Hasbro is releasing a transforming Ecto-1 as part of their new Transformers Collaborative series. The Retroist has a nice article about the toy while Ben’s World Of Transformers has images of it from the floor of the 2019 New York Toy Fair. I wonder if they’re going to do something for the Star Trek crossover. Show of hands, who doesn’t want a transforming Enterprise?
This isn’t new by the way. At one point Hasbro had a crossovers toyline, fittingly called Transformers Crossovers, featuring their Star Wars and Marvel Comics licenses. Too bad we never got that Pokémon one a lot of Beast Wars fans would have loved. And yes, if I somehow got this toy I would review it for The Clutter Reports along with some other really cool ones I saw promoted at Toy Fair via news sites, but I don’t see that happening any time soon.
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
