I just saw this on Facebook from Jan Strnad:
https://www.facebook.com/jstrnad/posts/10158285352099143
I read the recent Flash collection, Savage Velocity, and one thing really jumped out at me: there is a DRAMATIC shift in tone once William Messner-Loebs comes on as writer. The book collects issues 1-18 and Annual 1, published immediately post-crisis
Read more…The New York mobs are run by Rigoletto. He refuses to “cater to unholy perversions” even though there is money to be made preying on children and dealing crack cocaine. He wants to stick to the old rackets, saying, “We may be criminals, but we are no
Read more…Was it ever established why Ray Palmer couldn't use his size/weight controls to grow rather than to shrink?
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Posting this late because of a zombie pandemic. No, it was Darkseid. Sorry, none of that's true. I just forgot.
GENRE TV
Stargirl, “Brainwave” (July 13, DC Universe)
Stargirl, “Brainwave” (July 14, DC Universe)
Brave New World, season 1 (July
Read more…OK, same rules as in the JLA thread . (I'm not doing threads for every team, although I'm mulling over X-Men and JSA line-ups.)
Anyway, here's "my" line-up
1)John Steed
2)Emma Peel
Har-har-har...
More seriously...
1)The Beast (Henry McCoy)
2)The
Read more…There have been a lot of characters in the JLA over the years, and lots of them really don't fit my idea of who the League is. The ones I left out tend to fall into two categories:
After being cancelled in 1972, the Teen Titans made a couple of appearances in Brave & Bold as its members went their separate ways. However during the 52 and 100 Pagers, several of their stories were reprinted, most with that gorgeous Nick Cardy art
Read more…Regarding “Outlawed”: I think that if I lived in a “super-hero” universe, I would be doubtful about having kids fighting crime, especially in unsupervised situations.
I never really thought about it until Courtney Whitmore joined the JSA, when it
Read more…GENRE TV
Stargirl, "Stars and Stripe Part One" (DCUniverse, Aug. 3)
Stargirl, "Stars and Stripe Part One" (The CW, Aug. 4)
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "Brand New Day" (ABC, Aug. 5)
Star Trek: Lower Decks, "Second Contact" (CBS All Access, Aug. 6)
Doom Pa
Read more…I was going to say "villain teamup" stories, but some stories may bring in two villains and have them fight one another (and maybe the hero) for the whole story.
Some of the best include:
Debut story of THE SINISTER SIX
The first JLA/JSA crossover
Read more…In no particular order, here are the conventions that have been cancelled or postponed because of concern for COVID19/Coronavirus. All Round Table members are invited to add or update the list.
Read more…So, I was re-reading some of the old reading project threads I'd done int he past, and it made me want to tackle something new. However, I think this time around I'd like some input from people here on what they'd like to see.
Here are some of the o
Read more…...can he continue to report on his own activities as Superman? Doesn't the need for journalistic impartiality mean that the Planet has to assign a different reporter to cover Superman? Isn't the impartiality of every "Superman" story that "Clark" w
Read more…How many characters at work-for-hire publishers have been taken to other publishers, usually by their creators, re-named and used again?
The other day I was reading about Marvel's Helstrom TV series (or what little we know about it), and the reporter
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Just heard of his death. This leaves Sergio Aragones as the last of the great MAD Magazine artists of my youth still alive..
Always liked his work on movie and TV parodies.
Read more…Hello All, My wife and I were going to go to SDCC this year and cosplay as BB and DD but as you know it was cancelled. She doesn't want to waste her costume so she'd like to make a short video starring BB and DD. Could anyone give me issue numbers
Read more…Going through some Wizard magazines from 1995, I was amused by some of the prices for the debuts for some big name heroes who have appeared in movies and TV! If only I could give my younger self some advice!
