tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post3472900856829651628..comments2024-02-21T12:40:49.323-05:00Comments on The Absorbascon: Starting Work EarlyScipiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16217376618860561999noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-16589368632927035042014-08-12T17:17:20.154-05:002014-08-12T17:17:20.154-05:00That's not fair. It's Green Arrow and Bla...That's not fair. It's Green Arrow and Black Canary! I'm trying to find a good analogy, but they're possibly the most outdated characters in comics. The only time she didn't dress like a cigarette girl, it was that weird sweatsuit...<br /><br />Plus, that's one prominent example as compared to how they appeared with regularity for something like twenty years.<br /><br />The industry stopped doing campy Batman stories, too, but that doesn't mean that a limited amount can't get thrown back into the mix from time to time.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-84681972370955770832014-08-12T11:56:36.181-05:002014-08-12T11:56:36.181-05:00"We stopped having anniversary wedding-that-g..."We stopped having anniversary wedding-that-gets-broken-up-by-a-supervillain issues, after all..."<br /><br />ORLY?!<br /><br />You mean, like the Green Arrow / Black Canary Wedding Special in 2007?Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-62843450287310756722014-08-12T11:43:48.141-05:002014-08-12T11:43:48.141-05:00"Neither did I-Ching."
SLAM DUNK."Neither did I-Ching."<br /><br />SLAM DUNK.Scipiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112155718721908876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-35443414420672262562014-08-12T09:52:57.029-05:002014-08-12T09:52:57.029-05:00So many haikus, so little Tuesday:
Dottie Cottonm...So many haikus, so little Tuesday:<br /><br />Dottie Cottonman<br />Dies, brought down by sniper fire.<br />Question Jean Loring.<br /><br />Back to red, white, blue<br />A damn good thing, you ask me<br />White pantsuits show dirt.<br /><br />Poor I-Ching, now shot<br />Didn't see that one coming<br />Neither did I-Ching.Bryan Lnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-69593350162195645442014-08-12T09:05:28.340-05:002014-08-12T09:05:28.340-05:00There is a part of me--knowing full well that ther...There <i>is</i> a part of me--knowing full well that there's no evidence--that sometimes wonders if Wertham might have been supported by DC. For starters, it didn't just damage the non-superhero books, it wiped out a good chunk of the competition, especially (arguably their friends-turned-arch-enemies, so to speak) EC. In addition, the Comics Code mostly just formalized and implemented DC's existing code of content.<br /><br />At the expense of, what, Bruce and Dick seem kinda gay if you take them completely out of context? With the market declining, it's hard to imagine a better outcome for DC.<br /><br />Regarding Wollfolk/Cottonman, it's odd, but Kanigher also (I think you've mentioned it) launched himself into space along with the Creature Commandos, so it's at least possible that it wasn't a personal attack. More offensive, maybe, is that it's "Woman's Magazine," rather than Wonder Woman comics, which implies an attack on something like <b>Ms.</b>, which would've been only a year or so old at the time.<br /><br />I don't know that I buy the "not an invention of the Post-Crisis world" thing, though. I mean, clearly there are precursors and outliers, but it's like saying that we shouldn't make a big deal about literacy, because <i>there were people writing three thousand years ago</i>.<br /><br />It's not the mere fact that it happens, but the frequency by which it happens and the mundanity of its shock value that's of interest and offense. It was stupid when Kanigher did it, and that act of stupidity doesn't excuse repeating it.<br /><br />We stopped having anniversary wedding-that-gets-broken-up-by-a-supervillain issues, after all...Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11737441.post-45659011620603781302014-08-12T07:39:22.112-05:002014-08-12T07:39:22.112-05:00What the hell, Bob K?
You ran out of room in your
...What the hell, Bob K?<br />You ran out of room in your<br />refrigerator?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com