Emotional maturity is realizing that’s it’s okay to lower the Alan Wake 2 from Normal to Story because 1) I don’t have time for this and 2) it’s called ‘Story’ and isn’t that just another narrative meta level to this whole thing? sm.ign.com/ign_nordic/r...
Had me worried about you for a second, then I remembered the year. Have you read the other great Watchmen sequel from that year- Keiron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard’s Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt?
One of my favorite little running jokes in comics is the male character who everyone else acknowledges is just super-hot. It’s a fun joke that Todoroki in My Hero Academia does not realize he’s the class hunk and half the women in Usagi Yojimbo see that rabbit and want to jump his bones.
The most recent print edition of My Hero Academia ends with the best slow march to a final two page spread I have seen in comics for a long time and the best use of MHA’s ’reveal the chapter title on the last page’ gimmick. When a cliffhanger is that magnificent it deserves to breathe.
I want to write a Dracula book for Marvel just so I can have a McFarlane homage cover where the joke is that Dracula is not reflected on Wolverine’s claws.
My favorite example of this is I gave a friend’s kid Superman Smashes the Klan and a different adult saw the Klan robes and swastikas and worried that kids would be exposed to racism… and yeah, that’s the point. And then you see Superman clobber them because racists are bad guys.
I really really love the scattered issues Morrison did filling in the gaps of what happened to Bruce immediately before and during Final Crisis. Those issues with The Lump posing as Alfred where Morrison tries to distill different eras of Batman in a single panel… so great.
Not a question- just want everyone to know you can buy authorized Jack Kirby action figures at Target because he was on an episode of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon.
Since every time TMNT gets enough merch they inevitably do something with Usagi Yojimbo to get a royalty check to Stan Sakai I have been keeping an eye on the toy section of my Target. Paid off today. I was certainly not expecting to find a toy based on the time Donatello hung out with Jack Kirby.
@warrocketajax.bsky.social Heads up, my Target’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle section had both fresh Usagi Yojimbo and JACK KIRBY toys in stock this week. I’ve been keeping an eye out for Miyamoto’s but I only know about the Kirby episode because of Chris’ old Comics Alliance article.
I did check and they went full image rights and education links on the packaging. After decades of seeing Stan Lee toys everywhere I finally got one of The King. Sometimes massive marketing Goliaths come through for you.
