Category Archives: Comics

Comic Review: Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles

A bit of a retro-review here, tying into the recent Dorky/Geeky/Nerdy Podcast:

DC has certainly tried to profit from the Hanna-Barbera characters, though only Scooby-Doo retains cultural cachet. One of the more interesting results: a GLAAD Media Award-winning limited series/graphic novel from 2018 that reinvents Snagglepuss as a closeted gay playwright1 fighting conformity in an alternate 1950s2 America where anthropomorphic animals and humans co-exist. The Puss proves the darling of talk shows, makes the social scene with his beard wife, hangs with fellow author Huckleberry Hound, mentors Augie Doggie, runs cover for Marilyn Monroe, testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee– and slips away to see his human paramour at the Stonewall Inn.

No, I am not hallucinating. This 2018 graphic is an actual thing, and it’s surprisingly good.

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Free Comic Book Day!

I missed the event last year, but took part locally yesterday and made a little video:

Who else took part? What was it like where you live? What were your favorite picks?

We’re down one comic shop, and construction has ripped apart downtown, but our local event rocked.

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Rumblings in the Marvel TV/Cinematic Universe

Luke Cage. Iron Fist and Daredevil have been cancelled, despite the huge success of the most recent DD season. Jessica Jones and The Punisher likely have one more go-round, if only because they’re already in production.

However, Daredevil (and the others?) “will live on in future projects for Marvel,” according to a spokesperson.

Disney’s own streaming service will be continuing Marvel-Television, with its Scarlet Witch and Vision series, and a Loki series, both announced back in September.

Will Disney’s move mean greater interplay between Marvel’s movie and TV characters?

What do we want to see? What will we see?

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Comic Television Discussion – Week beginning 21th October 2018

We are entering a golden age of comics on TV, maybe not due to quality, but definitely due to quantity.  Supergirl gets a new villain of the week, Arrow continues his Heroes in Prison story, Constantine joins the Legends (Yeah!!), The Flash threatens to kill a favorite character, Black Lightning lets his daughters do the heroing, and Titans gives us some backstory.  The Gifted took the week off (presumably because they’re behind on watching Daredevil, too,) and Riverdale trends towards more Halloween horror in order to make its sister show, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, feel welcome when it drops on the 26th.

[All synopses (and titles) from Trakt.tv below the cut.  (If a show’s synopsis is a spoiler to you, do not click More…)]

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Comic Book Review: Action #1000

Back in 1938, Action Comics turned up at the newsstands and drugstores of America. The cover featured a man in a blue and red suit and a cape running while holding up a green late model automobile.

The comic-book cost ten cents.

In 2014, one of the few remaining copies sold for over three million dollars.

In 2018, DC Comics published issue #1000. It’s an 80-PAGE GIANT, making it about the length of its famous predecessor. Whereas that Depression-era funnybook only devoted its first story to the Man of Steel, 2018’s is all about the Superman.

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