It’s a mercy killing really.
Steel #52
FINAL ISSUE
DC Comics July, 1998
“Requiem”
WRITER: Priest
ARTIST: Denys Cowan & Tom Palmer
COLORIST: John Kalisz
SEPARATIONS: Digital Chameleon
LETTERER: Clem Robins
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Maureen McTigue
EDITOR: Mike McAvennie
“STEEL” CREATORS: Louise Simonson & Jon Bogdanove
It’s that time of year again, so again I point you to the NORAD Tracks Santa website. You’ll find games, music, and of course on Christmas Eve you can track where Santa is. Just don’t bother with the apps. Save your space on your phone or tablet and use the browser instead. The app doesn’t work very well and needs to be redesigned. Unless they finally did it this year.
Seriously, Linus and Franklin are the only two people I would trust to have Charlie Brown’s back, and one of them is on the opposing baseball team. He’s also the “straight man” and probably the most sane character. Which is tough sitting near Peppermint Patty in school.
And that’s not the only complaint that’s come up on the internet recently concerning a holiday special. I’ll get into that on Tuesday. Look up the history of Franklin sometime. It’s quite fascinating. For a black kid in 1963 to be one of Charlie Brown’s best friends (I could see Charlie, Linus, and Franklin hanging out in college or something) was not only a huge fight to convince the publisher it would be well received but to convince others he wasn’t just what today would be called an “SJW character” but would from the start be a fitting addition to the Peanuts gang was something you wouldn’t see. Peanuts and its creator fought for a good story and to show we could all get along. Naturally some people refuse to see that lesson much less follow it.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week I put up my Christmas decorations. It was a late post because I was up late getting caught up on decorating and other stuff. My friend was also over and showed me the first issue of IDW’s GoBots comic. I didn’t really read it because Tom Scioli stuff a lot into a page and I didn’t want to be a rude host. I’m not a fan of his art style but he actually drew the main six GoBots like their toys instead of their cartoons, which I appreciated. However, they still hit a pet peeve button by spelling it wrong. GoBots, not Go-Bots, IDW! Do your research! Otherwise I really can’t comment if it’s any good.
But I will be commenting on other things this week. This week’s Chapter By Chapter of Tom Clancy’s Op Center will actually BE one chapter since we finally have a full-length chapter. We have the previously mentioned commentary coming up on Tuesday. And with Art Soundoff over for the year the Morning Article Link returns as I try to get more Christmas content into the site this month. So if any of you folks out there find any good Christmas or Hanukkah-themed articles and videos (or even a web comic or something), and that does include something YOU made, feel free to send them to me. You can look at previous Christmas Spotlight postings to see what I’m looking for. I have a Christmas superhero and Christmas review to do and could use the extra time. More content to come though.
It’s December 1st, which means it’s time to dedicate as much space as I can to Christmas. Christmas specials, Christmas comics, Christmas music, Christmas reviews, Christmas commentaries…we’ll still have other stuff but if I can do something Yuletide related I will. And it starts with Saturday Night Showcase, where I post Christmas specials. I also have a playlist for Christmas specials as well as the BW Yule Log of Christmas music over at my YouTube channel and I’ll be making a sticky on the homepage for both playlists.
Tonight I showcase one of those specials. Before Hallmark media turned Christmas into Valentine’s Day with more decorations they made actual Christmas specials. Some of them were created to sell that year’s special Christmas plush animals, but it’s more than they do now despite having four TV networks at least to make them for. The Bears Who Saved Christmas was meant to sell Christopher and Holly, brother and sister teddy bears. In the special, the two teddies come to life to bring Christmas to their stranded family. It’s a bit on the lite side, but that’s not bad for starting the season with.
And you thought your neighbor’s dog was bad. Because it’s NEVER your dog.
Superman Adventures #41
DC Comics (February, 2000)
“Old Wounds”
PLOT: Ty Templeton & Dan Slott
WRITER: Ty Templeton
PENCILER: Neil Vokes
INKER: Terry Austin
COLORIST: Marie Severin
SEPARATIONS: Zylonol
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Joey Cavalieri
A collection of holiday specials in a YouTube playlist. These feature short and long Christmas adventures for the whole family.
Continuing our exploration through Trek jargon. We only have a few entries left and I want to save the weaponry for the next installment. Weaponry is the next section by the way. Tonight we’ll learn about tractor beams, transporters, turbolifts, tricorders, and warp drive. Won’t that be exciting?
There are only two more sections after this, the aforementioned weapons and a section about the ship’s computer. There is also a section about science terminology, but it’s real-word science like what a planet is. If they got that part wrong they shouldn’t be doing modern science fiction. This means we’re almost done with this series, so let’s get going.
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
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