When i read doctor-k100-blog {a great blog BTW} a bout a week ago i saw Dr. K posted a link to Waimea.
Waimea is a serialized-biweekly graphic novel that tells the story of three people who find themselves living under unusual circumstances in Hawaii. It is written by Kevin Church comics writer and commentator as well as a fair-to-middling photographer and drawn by Mike Dake.
Michael Dake is eighteen years old, and a current student at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. One day he hopes to be a Kentucky Colonel.
Dr. K writes:
The first episode is already an impressive effort. Mike Dake’s art has an animated style that works well with this material, and Kevin Church has created characters and a situation that had me immediately hooked in the first seven pages.
Famous Monsters of Filmland was a genre-specific film magazine started in 1958 by publisher James Warren.
Famous Monsters of Filmland which quickly became known to fans as simply FM was originally conceived as a one-shot publication with no discernible future, published in the wake of the widespread success of the “Shock” package of old horror movies syndicated to American television in 1957. But the first issue, published in February 1958, was so successful that it required a second printing to fulfill public demand.
FM offered brief articles, well-illustrated with publicity stills and graphic artwork, on horror movies from the silent era to the current date of publication, their stars and filmmakers. Warren and Ackerman decided to aim the text at late pre-adolescents and young teenagers.
Johnny from the johnny bacard-blog share with as the first copy of FM purchased for him by his doting grandparents at the local Houchens Market when was was 6 years old.
I wanted to read more about it- and this issue certainly did the trick. As it turned out, not long after they screened Invasion of the Saucermen as well, and I liked that one too- and to this day I have a deep fondness for both.
The Justice League JLA for short, is a fictional DC Comics superhero team. The League originally appeared with a line-up that included Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter. However, the team roster has been rotated throughout the years with the recognizable characters Green Arrow, Atom, Hawkman, Black Canary, Captain Marvel, Plastic Man and dozens of others.
The Justice League operated from a secret cave outside of the small town of Happy Harbor, Rhode Island. Teenager Snapper Carr tagged along on missions, and was both the team’s mascot and an official member. Snapper, noted for speaking in beatnik dialect and snapping his fingers, helped the League to defeat giant space starfish Starro the Conqueror in the team’s first appearance.
Tom from the comics ate me brain-blog argued previously that the Justice League is a “clash of genres.”
That phrase might not be perfectly accurate, but it’s a good soundbite. Batman has some pulp roots (Zorro, the Shadow). The Flash and the Atom are science-heroes, powered by vaguely plausible experiments/accidents. Green Lantern and Hawkman are space-opera characters. Zatanna straddles the Vertigo line. The Elongated Man and the Martian Manhunter are different types of detectives; and at one point Booster Gold and Captain Atom were different kinds of “men out of time.” The ones I would call “pure” superheroes — for purposes of this post, “fantasy” characters — include Aquaman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.
Thor is a Marvel Comics superhero, based on the thunder god of Norse mythology. The superhero was created by editor Stan Lee and penciller Jack Kirby and first appeared in Journey into Mystery #83.
On a mission from his father, the omnipotent Lord of Asgard, Odin, Thor acted as a superhero while maintaining the secret identity of Dr. Donald Blake, an American physician with a partially disabled leg. Blake would transform by tapping his walking stick on the ground; the cane became the magical hammer Mjolnir and Blake transformed into Thor.
Tom from the fortress of soliloquy- blog says:
I was wrong about J. Michael Straczynski’s “Thor”. I just finished the first trade, and I quite enjoyed it. I like the various juxtapositions: Asgard and small-town Oklahoma, Thor and Don Blake, the drama of the Marvel universe and the drama of the real world, gods and humans, etc. I’m not thrilled with girl-Loki, in part because it’s reminiscent of “Earth X,” and I’ve seen what letting elements of “Kingdom Come” seep into the main timeline has done to the DCU.
The Bizarro World also known as Htrae is a fictional planet in the DC comics universe. Introduced in the early 1960s, Htrae is a cube-shaped planet, home to Bizarro and his companions, all of whom were initially Bizarro versions of Superman, Lois Lane and their children. Later, other Bizarros were created to add to the population.
Some stories introduced Bizarro versions of Superman’s supporting cast, including Bizarro-Perry White and Bizarro-Jimmy Olsen, created by using the duplicator ray on characters other than Superman and Lois Lane, as well as the children of Bizarro and Bizarro Lois. There was even a Bizarro-Justice League and Legion of Super-Heroes: the Bizarro League and the Legion of Stupor-Heroes. Bizarro-Batman sported a Futility Belt full of cigarette butts and chewed gum and other such priceless Bizarro treasures. Yellow Lantern had NO power from his powerless Ring. Bizarro-Aquaman couldn’t swim.
Siskoid sat down to write about the Bizarro World from his point of view
It starts pretty well actually, with Bizarro-Superman hanging out with the Bizarro-Justice League who live in a sunk submarine (the opposite of the JLA’s satellite). Yellow Lantern is their greatest hero because not only is he literally “yella”, his power ring has long ago run out of power.
