“It’s the Zack Snyder fan brigade upset our cinematic universe is doing better!”
Peter Parker: Spider-Man volume 2 #11
Marvel Comics (November, 1999)
“The Eighth Day” part 3: “An Exemplary Day!”
STORY AND ART BECAUSE FOR SOME REASON MARVEL REFUSED TO GIVE THE WRITERS AND ARTISTS SEPARATE CREDITS: Howard Mackie, John Romita Jr., & Scott Hanna
COLORIST: Gregory Wright
LETTERER: Liz Agraphiotis
EDITOR: Ralph Macchio
Here’s an odd one someone at The Retroist stumbled across. Dumb And Dumber is not my kind of movie so I haven’t watched it, the sequels, nor the cartoon, nor do I plan to any time in the future. I have nothing against it, I’m just not interested. However, Allison Venezio did and actually found the “movie” they were watching in one scene. It’s actually a serialized phone company advertisement called The Rain Children, and you may recognize at least one of the kids in this tale of a retired musician who ends up having to raise his niece and nephew, plus the struggle to get the niece back from the know-it-all family services people. Here I thought this only happened to toy commercials.
Last time we got to spend time with the only cast of this book I care about, the folks in Korea. Had this book been just about them it would need a different title but it would be more interesting to me at this point. Unfortunately this session spends two of three chapters at the title location, where people vie for power and look to stab each other in the back or seduce a married man…and they’re the heroes. I don’t care about realism in my fiction, I care about believability and heroes I can root for beyond “well at least they didn’t kill a bunch of innocent people to start a war with the people they hate”. So far that’s been difficult.
While the real heroes have been working to find the bombers in Korea, when we last saw Op-Center they were trying to finish off a computer virus and stopped long enough to see North Korea moving in to either protect their borders or launch an attack, or potentially both. That was their only heroic contribution. We’re still not quite half-way through this book, but let’s see how much closer we can get.
What does it mean when I’m more interested in what’s going on at the Korean Demilitarized Zone than I am the folks trying to stop a war and protect American citizens?
No, no, that’s how you make baby Pumamen!
JSA #25
DC Comics (August, 2001)
“The Return Of Hawkman” finale “Seven Devils”
WRITERS: David Goyer & Geoff Johns
PENCILER: Steven Sadowski
INKERS: Michael Bair, Dave Meikis, Paul Neary, & Rob Leigh
COLORIST: John Kalisz
SEPARATIONS: Heroic Age
COVER ARTIST: Andrew Robinson
LETTERER: Ken Lopez
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Steve Wacker
EDITOR: Peter Omasi
(first names according to comics.org)
When DC announced “Bendis is coming”, Superman fans took that as a warning. While he isn’t a bad writer that doesn’t make him a good fit for Superman, or at least the Superman and Jon Kent Superboy we’ve been getting in the Rebirth period of DC. Of course Dan DiDio hates that period because it wasn’t as dark and edgy as his New 52 and is working to create a “Brand New 52” in the eyes of many DC fans, right down to publishing around 52 comics again. Well, Bendis’ decision to age up Superboy and damage the Kent family unit is not making fans happy and the sales numbers reflect that. Can we get him off of this character now?Or just stick in him in the Wonder Comics imprint that’s doing questionable things but is at least it’s own continuity? DiDio can get his darker fixation there and leave the rest of us the Rebirth DC Universe we actually want.
Or did DiDio really think the trunks was our only complaint?
Can you tell I ran out of comment before I ran out of comic?
Actually I just didn’t want to make a comic about my continuing cable/internet/phone company issues. Short version: the new company didn’t work out…ON DAY 1! So we decided to go back to the old one for various reasons, and that happens this week. (No, I’m not getting my old phone number back but at least we still have the house phone. For now.) I’m going to try to spare you another flood of filler video postings and do some actual writing this week, which I’ll get to in a moment, but I need a day to reset all our wifi passwords and get other things operational. And they’re coming early in the morning so sleep is going to be a factor as well. Of course. Hopefully you won’t notice on the site.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I had a birthday party to go to so what I ended up doing was more of a partial project as it’s time to better organize the junk in my art corner. I’m hoping for a better report next week.
Back to BW related stuff. Leon is actually referring to the latest old BW Video Review to get the closed caption treatment. After my tests of Challenge Of The GoBots and The Little Drummer Boy, I’m now going through in proper order, which means my first every video review, Godzilla Versus King Ghidorah, is now available with closed captions for the hearing impaired and low-volume required. I do need to clean the titles up a bit as I write this but I hope to do that this week before getting into the next review in order, the OTHER GoBots review video. Meanwhile, I want to have a Sing Me A Story and a My Favorite Intros this week. If I can work it in this week, another He-Man Newspaper Comic Strip review, but if not I’ll try for next week on that one. Now if we can only be done with musical TV providers maybe I can get the next video review done in time to coordinate with a related comic series review. We’ll see what happens. I still have to find paid work after all.
Remember my Jake & Leon comic from last Sunday?
Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures is part of my head canon.
I said in the accompanying article that Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures might work as semi-canon the more I thought about it. In tonight’s special installment of Saturday Night Showcase I plan to prove my point, or at least give it a darn good shot. First I should show you the series itself if I can. (Apologies to non-US markets if this doesn’t work or those of you in the archives if Disney XD’s YouTube channel takes this stuff down.)
As I stated in the Lego Batman Movie review there have been a number of direct-to-video movies and TV series forming a Lego multiverse outside of the theatrical Lego Movieverse. Unlike the theatrical films these movies and specials are not written like a child at play but are regular parodies of the franchise in question made for kids but with enough nods and winks that the adult fans of the franchise can enjoy it as well. This started with their Lego video games, most notably their Lego Star Wars games, and evolved into movies and shows.
Created by Bill Motz and Bob Roth, the show features a strong ongoing storyline and more dramatic moments than the two miniseries Lego produced in the SWU, Droids Tales and The Yoda Chronicles. It follows the adventures of an independent salvage and repair family, the titular Freemakers, as they’re drawn into the war between the Imperial Empire and the Rebel Alliance after the events of The Empire Strikes Back and both before (in season one) and during (season two) Return Of The Jedi. How are they drawn in? One of them has Force abilities we haven’t seen in the Star Wars Universe before, or at least interpreted this way not because of the comedic elements but because it does something the most recent trilogy hasn’t done nearly as well…lore building. Watch the first episode and get a taste for the show and I’ll explain.
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
