Marc Miyake left comment on “DC’s First Editorial Standards, Marvel Profanity“: Dear Jim, Will Wonder Woman be in your upcoming post on the essential natures of classic characters? If she isn’t, that’s okay, because you’ve spent over a week on her.<br/ >I haven’t commented lately because I felt completely lost in Aisle WW. An Azzupermarket […]
Not Who Are These Guys Sorry. It’s taking longer than I thought to put the reference together for that post, which is about the essential natures of classic characters. Coming soon. Clean Up on Aisle WW In my review of New 52 Wonder Woman #1-4, I complained about Wonder Woman head butting a centaur. Seemed […]
Later, on the beach, the Amazons burn their dead, or the first batch, anyway. It’s night. Many surviving Amazons look on. So does Zola. Hermes. Wonder Woman. And Strife! Strife?! She’s human size now—she was gigantic, before, during the massacre—and she’s hangin’ out with the crowd to watch the funeral pyres burn. What?! She caused […]
Here I sit, drinking seltzer and grapefruit juice out of my classic Wonder Woman Toon Tumbler. How perfect. An Interesting Analysis This comment came in, thank you, Ms. Carol A. Strickland. She has interesting things to say. I recommend checking out her views on the New 52 WonderWoman. Carol A. Strickland has left a new […]
My Review Procedure First, I read the issue like anyone who buys it off the rack. I don’t make any notes, I don’t try to analyze on the fly. I just try to read it. Easier said than done, often. Some comic books these days are unreadable. Some are such infuriating garbage that after a […]
Questions I received these questions from Twitless: Twitless has left a new comment on your post “Action Comics“: Jim, I love your thoughts on the comics industry as well as the history. I have learned so much that I feel like your blog is akin to an academic class. A couple of minor questions though: […]
This comment got me into full honking mode: srp has left a new comment on your post “Regarding What Has Gone Before and a Modest Propos…“: With regard to the earlier discussion of writing and decompression (much of which I agree with), I would like to emphasize a particular pet peeve about modern superhero comics: […]
First This Sorry it’s been so long between posts. Harsh reality sometimes asserts and fun has to wait. Now This In an answer to a comment regarding “What Has Gone Before and a Modest Proposal” I said this: In any other medium besides comics, the person who has and reasonably develops the original idea […]
January 7th is Russian Christmas. May your days be merry and bright, and let nothing you dismay. A Gift From Fatale This is a gift I received way back in 1995 from Fatale actress Traci Adell: Perhaps she noticed my abiding interest in photogenic women. It’s a terrific book, by the way. One of […]
First This When Fatale is brought up, occasionally I am accused of ripping off the concept of Chris Claremont’s power-stealing character Rogue, created in 1981. For anyone out there who subscribes to this nonsense, I would like to point out that I created the first (as far as I know) power-stealing character, the Parasite 15 years […]