The sad part is hasn’t met his new mechanic, either. I hear she’s a master.
Fans of The Big Bang Theory are sad by the news that season 12 will be the last season of the series. Those of you who hate the show as insulting to the geeks and nerds out there (it’s been referred to as “nerdface” by some), however, will be celebrating. Me, I watched a few episodes. Didn’t do anything for me.
It’s time for the next “Secret Files & Origins” one-shot, although if memory serves one of them will reach a second issue. This time it’s Superman, and it’s interestingly timed. This is during the whole “Electric Superman” phase, which makes me wonder if the writers were just running out of ideas for Superman or really wanted to test someone with these powers and used Superman as a sort of “backdoor pilot” of a superhero idea. We did later get Strange Visitor, a woman with similar powers and just a really dumb name. (“Livewire” was a villain in the DCAU so I guess that name was out.)
Just like our previous SF&O book, this features a bunch of profiles and short stories, this time focused on Superman. The stories all take place (and the first one possibly written) before they doubled-down on the dumb and gave us the blue and red Electric Supermen so outside of the profiles it’s only Electric Superman Blue that shows up.
I wonder what Superman’s favorite color is? I’m thinking green. What about you?
Superman: Secret Files
I should note that it says “Secret Files And Origins” on the cover but just “Secret Files” in the indicia. I kind of like the full version on the cover.
DC Comics (January, 1998)
PROFILE PAGES WRITER: Roger Stern
PROFILE AND FEATURES COLORIST: Tom McCraw
COVER PENCILER: Tom Grummett
COVER INKER: Denis Rodier
COVER COLORIST: Patrick Martin
There are various writers and artists involved, but I’ll only list the ones I’ll be going over. I will say that all the art is fair to good.
“This is the last time I ask Optimus Primal to tend my garden.
Transformers: Movie Prequel #3
IDW Publishing (April, 2007)
WRITERS: Simon Furman & Chris Ryall
ARTIST: Don Figueroa
COLORIST: Josh Burcham (assisted by Mark Bristow)
LETTERER: Robbie Robbins
EDITOR: Dan Taylor
I see a lot of crowdfunding projects promoted for comics that approach darker subject matter or other adult themes (not necessarily adult comics, but I’ve seen those too). But I don’t see a lot for kids or “all-ages” comics (AND YES THERE IS A DIFFERENCE!) tossed around. So here is a list of a few you might want to check out. The comics industry as a whole seems to have abandoned the age group that made comics because they don’t want the medium to be considered a “kids medium” by people whose opinion really shouldn’t matter and that just annoys me on so many levels. Not that I don’t want comics to target other demos but I want them to target ALL DEMOGRAPHICS! All age groups, all social/political/spiritual perspectives (or lack thereof, all genders, all economic and geographic circles! Comics needs to be like Oprah. “You get a comic, you get a comic, you get a comic…”
“Look at da preddy birdies. They want me to take a nap. Okay, preddy birdies.”
That’s kind of been me this week. My sleep cycle is worse than usual as of late and I’m considering taking a week off to get stuff done and otherwise just sleep in the hopes of getting it back when it was. The odd thing is I was more aligned with the schedule I want when I was recovering from my surgeries. I never should have agreed to go on the night shift two managers ago and now unemployed I still don’t have it back. Or rather I did while recovering and somehow slipped back into this after I supposedly recovered. That’s why postings have been late this week.
I guess this means Finally Watched is delayed ANOTHER week. I think this is why I stopped updating my week’s plans.
Another appearance of Werewolf By Night?
Doctor Who Classics #6
IDW Publishing (May, 2008)
“The Dogs Of Doom”
(originally presented in Doctor Who Magazine #s 27-30
While I’m missing the Marvel US reprints I did manage to pick up the next story from IDW’s own reprints, which contains new coloring. It also has the last strip of “Doctor Who & The Star Beast” because they left the comics completely as they were in the magazine, complete with chapter breaks. I like the way Marvel did it better.
WRITERS: Pat Mills & John Wagner
ARTIST: Dave Gibbons
EDITOR: Paul Neary
SELECTED COVER ART: Joe Corroney
IDW COLORING: Charlie Kirchoff
EDITOR: Chris Ryall
Here’s one that could be a Trope Shark article except it’s actually not written by me, so I’m considering it an unofficial entry. But it’s about that most annoying of romance plots where a woman is involved with one man, but then some new “hipper” man comes along and she runs off with him instead. Can we have some variety here?
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
