I hear Dian is taking up a collection so Batman doesn’t have to shill breakfast cereal anymore.
Batman: Gotham Adventures #20
DC Comics (January, 2000)
“…And So Delicious!”
WRITER: Scott Peterson
PENCILER: Tim Levins
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Joseph Illidge
EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo
It’s time to complete our look at the cast for season one according to the writer’s guide. Every ship has a ship’s doctor, and when you have people constantly going head-first into danger you want him or her to be an important part of your cast. Star Trek: The Next Generation had two, the rather unlikable Dr. Pulaski and very well liked Dr. Beverly Crusher. Thankfully we’re talking about the latter tonight. Doctor Crusher so important that part of her profile is in her son’s profile.
To showcase the new family dynamic on our ship of focus and how kids of the future are educated and treated she brought her son. Wesley Crusher is supposed to be a fifteen-year-old supergenius, who later turns out to be worthy of becoming the apprentice to The Traveler, imagine if a rather different Doctor didn’t have a TARDIS but just warped around everywhere. Does he still qualify as a Companion? Fans hate Wesley. Even Wil Weaton, the guy who played him, hates Wesley. But is that the fault of the writers or was he doomed from the start? With the season one writer and director’s guide I hope to answer that question and a few others.
Isn’t it a bit early for the obligatory beach episode?
Robotech: Academy Blues #3
Academy Comics Ltd (October, 1995)
“Tremors”
WRITER: Robert Gibson
ARTIST: Laz Berry
COVER ART: Sean Bishop
LETTERING: Tavicat
Well, now that we’re done reading the Superman novel you’d think you were done hearing about Superman for a while. So let me welcome you to the site because you’re obviously super-new here. We still have Superman in comics, and it’s time to look at another Secret Files & Origins comic magazine. That’s a curious thing. The covers say “Secret Files And Origins” but the publishing information says “Secret Files”. But this one isn’t about Superman, but the trio that makes up Team Superman. I guess Alpha-Centurion and Eradicator weren’t available at this point.
I don’t think you can call 90s Superboy, post-Crisis Supergirl, or Steel supporting cast. All three had their own books and lives while operating outside of Metropolis. But I guess they weren’t considered popular enough to get their own Secret Files books. Steel was nearing the end of volume 2, which to me was a mercy killing given how little I cared for Priest’s run. Sadly Supergirl was still going on, and I’m not sure what happened to the issues I had of that run or you’d already know my problem. See, for some reason Peter David decided to have Matrix merge with a woman named Linda Danvers (Kara’s secret identity before she was tossed out of continuity), a victim of a botched sacrifice that her boyfriend somehow talked her into. It’s not the weirdest thing about that run and I’ll get into that in the review. Superboy was still hanging out in Hawaii but he wasn’t so popular there and his girlfriend left him because he’ll never age. Not because of the usual sliding timeline thing, but because of the cloning process. Although does that mean he’ll never age physically, which some people in the real world actually suffer from (it’s a disease) or that he can’t possibly age emotionally because I think he did eventually. So, no clue there.
Supergirl’s amazing beauty tips! How you too can shapeshift!
Team Superman: Secret Files
DC Comics (May, 1998)
As usual numerous writers and artists contribute so it would take forever to list them all.
COVER ART: Dave Johnson
COVER COLOR: Matthew Hollingsworth
So there are two stories, an “interview” with Superboy, Linda’s diary, a breakdown of the differences between the powers of the Super Three (Superman, Supergirl, and Superboy), and a whole lot of profiles pages. I like how the profiles are divided so that you have Superboy’s supporting cast and villains first, followed by Steel’s, and finally Supergirl’s. I’m not going to go over those because you only care if you follow the books or those particular characters. I’m going to focus just on the two stories instead.
A jumbled mess of a cover. Seems appropriate.
Transformers: Movie Adaptation #1
IDW Publishing (June, 2007)
STORY: Roberto Orici, Alex Kurtzman (both also screenplay), and John Rogers
ADAPTATION: Kris Oprisko
ARTIST: Alex Milne
COLORIST: Josh Perez
COLOR ASSIST: Lisa Moore
EDITOR: Chris Ryall
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