Ramblin Man 3D: Comic Book Edition

[Aberzombie]

I was just listening to a YouTube video talking the Diamond fiasco. Sounds like a bunch of the smaller publishers having problems with Diamond not paying them for their stuff (and trying to sell it to cover Diamond's own debts) are teaming up to take legal action.

I hope everything works out for them.

[thejeff]

I also haven't been impressed with the new Claremont stuff, including KP&W. There were some good notes with Kitty dealing with the aftermath of Ogun, but it mostly feels like a dated rehash.

Also, I disliked the characterization of her dad and him being some ex tough soldier who'd known Xavier or whatever? Unless that was some previous retcon that I'd missed, it seems to completely clash with him from the original series.

[Aberzombie]

Carmen and Xavier knowing each other from serving together was a retcon from the original Carmen/Kitty appearance. And I don't recall him being so badass from the original Wolverine and Kitty Pryde series.

[Aberzombie]

Lady Baltimore: The Daughters of Medusa - this was a holdover from another week. It was part 2 of 2, a short but nice little miniseries where the Lady and her allies rescue the new Queen of the Gorgons (who always takes the name Medusa) from the Nazis. Turns out, the Germans wanted her so they could control all the gorgons and win the war. That didn’t turn out well for them.

New Gods - So the gods of New Genesis are settling in on Earth. Izaya has given up being Highfather (for now). And Serifan is a traitor serving Apokalips. Not sure I like that part. Then again, maybe he’s not Serifan. And Max Lord is now a disciple of a possibly not dead Darkseid. The dudes who wiped out Apokalips and New Genesis? Don’t know.

Battle Beast - Fun with physics in space. Plus lots of bloodshed. And convincing an AI to be reasonable. This series is simple, but entertaining.

Redcoat - continuing the Northerner’s first story arc. He and Simon are after another evil time traveler. Apparently not the only one either. They seem to be less interested in preserving the twisted future they come from, and more concerned with causing some trouble. To be honest, time travel stuff always gives me a headache, usually because it’s written so poorly. We’ll see how this goes.

[Aberzombie]

Watching the Justice League Animated series (the second one), and I guess I never realized - the episode based on For the Man Who Has Everything is one of the only times Alan Moore actually allowed his name on the adaption. Considering his notorious dislike of any adaptions of his stories, that’s cool.

On a whole, I think the JL series were great, in part, because you had so many actual comic book creators involved. The aforementioned adapted episode alone was written J. M. DeMatteis.