danielmclark

November 26, 2011 5:11 pm I can't be the only one that hates John Romita Jr.'s artwork. I just... can't be. What the hell is that flat brown mess in the middle? Surely that's not a turkey??

November 26, 2011 5:03 pm She also went up against Firestorm a couple of times.

April 29, 2010 4:38 pm

"I would start targeting the female market to try to get more girls into comic books."

The problem isn't getting girls into comics, because that's nothing new. That's been an issue (no pun intended) for the past 70 years. The problem is that the publishers have priced kids out of the industry. I'm 35. I started reading and collecting when I was ten, and comics had just gone to 75 cents. The prices remained reasonable for kids up until the 90's, when everything went to hell. The publishers figured out that they could make more money if they started jacking up prices and selling multiple copies to collectors and prospectors.

I don't know about you, but I don't know too many kids that can afford comics at four bucks a pop. When it was me, I could blow a week's allowance on a dozen books. What are allowances these days, ten, twenty a week maybe? That's three or four comics a week.

You want to know why the industry is stagnating, it's because there are fewer and fewer kids involved.

And don't get me started on the $15 action figures. 

April 28, 2010 8:58 pm Incidentally - if you're watching these things on Netflix (or pirating them) you're not helping. Your $8/month subscription to Netflix for unlimited streaming isn't going to pay the bills at any of the studios - they get a small fraction of that monthly fee. Only buying the DVDs or Blu-Rays will ensure that more movies get made.

April 28, 2010 8:41 pm

"They're the DC equivalents of Spider-Man or Wolverine"

Spider-Man or the Hulk. Ask around. People who are not into comics still know who the Hulk is. Only people who are into comics or cartoons know Wolverine. But that's perhaps a minor nitpick.

As for whether or not they should make films without reasonable expectation of profit... of course they shouldn't. What, you think maybe a 75 minute animated Captain Carrot would be advisable? Maybe a 75 minute Firehawk or - oh, I know - a 75 minute Blue Devil flick! Of course not... ten people would buy those, and three of 'em would probably be DC employees ;) If they think that Batgirl doesn't have the potential for sales (I have to agree, actually), then they shouldn't waste resources making the movie.

Having said that... it's a damn shame that a Wonder Woman sequel isn't likely. I rather liked that one.

If you guys dig the animated movies, buy them. Buy the double disc sets or the blu-rays if possible. Buy them, and they'll make more. 

April 6, 2010 4:01 pm

Like skeets in the comment above, I'm considering jumping back into X-Men (haven't read the X books since Uncanny was around issue 300), but the more I read, the less enthusiastic I get. Seems like a lot to try to jump in on.

December 9, 2009 11:05 am

Too soon, completely unnecessary, and dressing up as a bat in the caveman get-up just looks silly. Foregone conclusion? Of course. We knew he'd be back. But these sketches look ridiculous, and the premise that he'd have to travel the time stream to get back doesn't work for me. 

Plus, I don't trust Morrison anymore after Final Crisis. He needs to have a few more acclaimed runs on a few more titles before I'd trust him with a major DC storyline again. I hear Morrison's bring Bruce back, I say to myself, "I'll wait for the TPB, and even then, it'll be a hard sell". 

November 19, 2009 12:11 pm

"either way that costume is awful, and who ever is wearing it could use some time in the gym. He looks so skrawny, is this supposed to be a pre-teen hawkman?"

 +1

I've never seen a guy (or girl) with wings in any movie or TV show that didn't look retarded. Hawkman works in the comics because it's visually striking when drawn well. Make him move though, and it just looks silly. The problem stems from what we perceive to be necessary when it comes to wings: that they be proportional to the body. A bird's wings are significantly larger than its body. Wings on a person would need to be 10 feet tall to look proportionally correct based on what we're used to seeing in nature. That's a little... tricky... to pull off with a person, though.

That's my opinion, I'm stickin' to it, lol 

November 19, 2009 10:32 am

The Wonder Woman invisible jet thing has pretty plausible - for a comic - explanation. The Amazons had been watching the evolution of "man's world", so they knew what jets were. When Steve Trevor crash landed, they were able to examine his plane (perhaps by magic, to explain how they could do it so quickly). Then, they used magic to create their own and turn it invisible. Simple.

 @MisterJ - WW can fly now, but couldn't always. Pre-Crisis, she couldn't fly - hence, the jet. It's part of the character, like the bracelets or the costume, so they continue to use it.

About Angel - I wasn't much of an X-Men fan, but I do remember reading the X-titles back in the 80's, and I remember specifically, in the first issues of X-Factor, Angel wore a giant backpack that hid his wings. I thought that made total sense... but like the saying goes, don't let details get in the way of a good (or bad) story, so if they don't want Warren wearing a backpack, they just draw him without wings and don't explain it.