Monthly Archives: February 2016
Sheba knows her daddy
I can imagine the senior editor logic easily, upon seeing the mid-late 80s Suicide Squad pitch: “hey, the fans evidently want raw meat, Marvel’s massacring mutants, we have all these useless and unmarketable villains lying around, might as well blow’em up, one by one, or two by two if the plot needs it.” Oooh, awesome, here’s a fictional context for using them as cannon fodder so we can enter the “we’re gritty too” body count competition.
The not so secret cabal
Denny O’Neil, once upon a time
In the course of scribbling our vigilante posts and rejoinders therein, Steve and I realized something. Read the rest of this entry
Getting it just right
Looking yet again at DC Heroes from 1984 and 1986, design team led by Greg Gorden, published by Mayfair Games, Read the rest of this entry
In Darkest Knight
Vigilantism is ever vigilant! Steven S. Long leads in this one. Read the rest of this entry
Vigilantes R Us
Yes, I know this is ridiculous. It’s time to play, Which comic book vigilante are you? Read the rest of this entry
And the horse you rode in on
Ask any comics fan: over thataway is Marvel and it’s [insert string of fervent adjectives and loaded nouns], and over thisaway is DC and it’s [insert string of fervent adjectives and loaded nouns]. You choose your flag and you wave it. The rest are fringe. As my Brit Lit informed me, it’s “RCs to the right, Prods to the left, and fancy buggers in the middle.”
Wicked good
More vigilante posting? Yes!
RON CAN’T STOP WON’T STOP
In the 90s, you were able to do good stuff only when no one was looking. And for “good stuff,” you can’t do much better than Batman: The Animated Series, 1992-1994. Read the rest of this entry
Who is Coyote
Here’s the follow-up post to What you mean “we?” and probably a lot more emotions and memories than you care to deal with.
Comics Madness 