herouniversecomics

Is it weird that I actually find Erin kind of hot in the Male Prima Donna video?

I saw one of the coolest things I have ever seen on the road today. Someone going the opposite direction from me was driving a black 2002 Trans Am (the most recent model year, sadly), only they had replaced the from intake vents on the front of the hood with the red strobes from Knight Rider. Awesome.

I just noticed that Supergirl is on the JLU Season 2 box in her original animated outfit, rather than the new outfit she debuted that season (which was symbolic of her character growth). I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised that this would come from the DVD manufacturers who also couldn't even number the season correctly, and who screwed up the order of the last 6 episodes of season 2 (on the "Season 1" set. There was a final 4 episode arc and then the swan song "Epilogue," which was meant to serve as a bookend to the entire DCAU, since Timm and Co. didn't think they'd be renewed for another season. On the DVD set, the episode just before that four episode arc is stuck in between the first and second episodes of the arc. If you watch them in the DVD order, the story would make no sense).

Something I've always found irritating is when there's a multi-part episode of a TV show that airs as a mini-movie, and yet is broken apart for the DVD release, with additional opening and ending credits, often a two-minute recap of what you just watched, and usually a trip back to the disc menu. It really bothers me because nearly every episode of the first two season of Justice League was done this way, in that there was technically 26 episodes each season, but they aired almost entirely in two- and three- part movies (there were two 3 parters in season one, "Secret Origins" and "The Savage Time," while season three had the three part "Starcrossed" and the single episode "Comfort and Joy" that aired as a half hour Christmas special. Otherwise, all episodes were two half hours shown back-to-back with no break in the middle).

Why is there not an option to watch the episodes as they originally aired, is what I'm asking? With branching technology, it should be a pretty easy fix. Of course, ignoring the problems with the DVDs when it came to JLU, this is still a manufacturer that released season 1 of JL in fullscreen when it was animated in widescreen.

You know what fornicate-ing sucks? Candy corn. That poopy diapers is nasty.

I thought up an awesome new game show today. I call it "Are You Stronger Than a Fifth Grader?" It's basically an hour of grown adults fighting elementary school children for money.

In the original Jackson 5 recording on "Want You Back," you can very clearly hear a metronome. I'm not sure why they would have that audible on a professional studio recording, but it's there, and whenever I listen to that song in my car, I keep thinking my turn signal's on.

Bizarrely, the packaging for the DCUC Power Girl figure uses the "post-Crisis on Infinite Earths/pre-Infinite Crisis" time-displaced-Atlantean-princess origin for Kara (it's as dumb as it sounds. The rationale at DC, post-Crisis, was that Superman could be the only surviving Kryptonian, so they killed Supergirl in the Crisis and tried to give Kara a different origin, one that went largely ignored since the mid-90s. Just before Infinite Crisis, there was an arc of JLS Classified that firmly established who Power Girl really was: Kara Zor-L, the cousin of Earth 2 Superman, and that the Atlantean origin was some kind of cosmic goof caused by pre-Crisis Kara continuing to exist in the post Crisis world and the "universal powers" trying desperately to make her fit without her being a Kryptonian).

Seriously, she's been back to her more-sensical origin since like 2004. They've had plenty of warning to get her toy bio updated. Hell, Mattel couldn't have even made a PG figure back then.

No excuse.

There are currently 11 scheduled covers for Image United. Apparently, no lessons were learned from the 90s.

That was a slap, not a punch. I feel cheated.

Lew Zealand is a working man's Muppet. He doesn't try to be the star of the show. He's got one thing he does, he comes in, and he does it. And he does it well.

I will date a girl with kids. I will not date a girl who smokes.

Anybody need a slightly-very-used HD-DVD player? I know a place you can get one for $150.

Someone thinks this is a good business plan.

People always want to compare the Justice League and the Avengers when making the comparison between DC and Marvel. How do they currently stack up? The Avengers is currently one of the best-selling franchises in comics, sustaining an average of 6 books a month (between New, Mighty, Dark, Initiative, Young, Pet, and various one-shots and mini-series). JLA has been a pitiful mess in its current volume, generally used as a launching pad for other stories without being given the time to develop its own. The first arc was meandering and pointless, and it's generally consdiered the best of the current volume.

For the last year or so, it's been a series of fill-ins with a mish-mash of writers (none of whom have been allowed to really do much with the book while DC searches for another new direction) and a number of C-list artists. The book started with Ed Benes on art (with a number of Michael Turner covers), and now... c'mon. DC still has a few heavy-hitters on its exclusive roster, including Benes, Ian Churchill, and Jim Lee. They're pissing away Jim Lee's talents on one of the worst books in modern times while what should be their flagship book is allowed to flounder. And while James Robinson and Mark Bagley have been announced as a steady creative team, and I am giving them a chance, Bagley's always been more of a workhorse than a flashy superstar (if any title needs flashy art, it's JLA), and Robinson's writing doesn't seem to be much better on the main book than it was on the godawful Cry For Justice mini (a book so bad that my LCS actually let people put it back on the shelf even if they'd already had it in their pull box. The only other time I can remember that happening was with Brand New Day).

If things continue the way they are with JLA, it may be down to Wonder Woman as the last of the One-Year-Later era books that I've been reading from their inception that's left on my pull list very soon.