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Been a busy week, hasn’t it? Heartfelt reunions! Gut-wrenching betrayals! Heroes going bad! Villains going good! And I think they may have even snuck some punching bad guys in there! Legends of Tomorrow 6×07: “Back to the Finale: Part II” … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – Finally Got To The Fireworks Factory
Special event this week, as we got the return of David Ramsey, reprising his character of John Diggle in the first of five guest appearances he’ll be making across the Arrowverse this season. His role here on Batwoman wasn’t too … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – Return of the Diggle
I have been super busy this week. Haven’t even had time to watch all the Arrowverse shows, let alone write up some thoughts on them. But that shouldn’t stop you all from doing so! A lot happened this week that’s … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – I’m Phoning It In This Week
This past Monday was Memorial Day in the United States. That means a lot of people were vacationing over the week, and most television shows took a break from airing new episodes until people got back home and weren’t so … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – Slim Pickin’s This Week
Hey all! Before we get to discussing the episodes that aired this week, I thought I should let you know there’s been some news about upcoming Arrowverse spinoffs. First off is that the CW has decided to pass on the … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – Black Lightning’s Back, One Last Time
Another jam-packed week in the Arrowverse. We did have Supergirl go on hiatus, but with Superman & Lois (hey! remember them?) taking their place, we still had five different shows. Let’s get to ‘em! Legends of Tomorrow 6×03: “The Ex-Factor” … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – Hey, Remember Superman & Lois?
Superman #144 (May 1999) Writer – Dan Jurgens Artist – Steve Epting My friend Jody travels to Gallipolis, Ohio to visit family once or twice a year. She visits an antique shop while in town and usually looks through the … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Superman #144 (May 1999)
Today I’ll take a quick look at one of the six-minute Filmation Superboy cartoon shorts. The episode comes from the third season, when it was airing as part of a show called The Batman/Superman Hour, which featured short cartoons starring … Continue reading Superman in “The Space Refugees”
So … let’s start with the big bombshell: Batwoman’s creative team has announced that Kate Kane is alive and will be returning, played by a different actor. Whether that’s good or bad news will depend on the execution. What I’m … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – Huh, Didn’t Know That She-Hulk Show Would Be On The CW
Interesting assortment of eps this week. Batwoman is clearly ramping up to a big, mid-season showdown between Team Bat, New Big Bad Safiyah, and Whatever The Hell Side Alice Is On. Black Lightning moved its stories forward in bits and … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – Wells Wells Wells. Wells Wells. Wells Wells Wells.
Batwoman was off this week, but we still had Black Lightning, The Flash, and Superman & Lois, and, boy, was there some bonkers technobabble this week. I thought Black Lightning’s talk about shifting energy states, reconstituting particles, and 3D printing … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – Black Lightning Can Breathe in Space
We had a full plate this week in the Arrowverse. The Flash had its Season 7 premiere, joining Batwoman, Black Lightning, and Superman & Lois for a quartet of superhero goodness. On Batwoman, Ryan proves herself to be the sort … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – To Wells Or Not To Wells
The Arrowverse is coming back in full force now. This week Batwoman and Black Lightning were joined by newcomer Superman & Lois, and in just a couple days The Flash will return as well! We got a lot to cover, … Continue reading Let’s Talk Arrowverse – It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Spinoff!
I titled this feature “Superman vs. Bigots” with the intent of just covering stories in which Superman, surprisingly enough, fights bigots. But I’ve strayed into a more general realm of discussing race issues as found in Superman stories and nobody … Continue reading 28 Black Superman Characters
James Bartholomew Olsen. We haven’t seen much of Superman’s Pal since the radio show, but rest assured that he’s been headlining his own comic. The kid sure hated bigotry in the stories we’ve looked at before, I wonder what he’s … Continue reading Jimmy Olsen in “Jimmy’s D-Day Adventure”
Welcome to Public Domain Theater, your home for the wonderful world of films that have (in the United States, at least) fallen into the public domain, and are free for everyone to see! Our film this go around stars Basil … Continue reading Public Domain Theater: Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (& “The Eleventh Hour”)
Superboy: The Adventures Of Superman When He Was A Boy. Turns out, when Clark was a boy, he was still fighting bigots in his way. “The Weakling From Earth” / “The Revolt of the Weaklings” SUMMARY The story begins with … Continue reading Superman in “The Revolt of the Weaklings”
This isn’t a good one. It’s not a good Superman vs. Bigots story. Today I am once again diverting from my planned trajectory to examine something that isn’t what this series of articles was supposed to be about, but which … Continue reading Superman in “Superman, Indian Chief”
The Superman television show starring George Reeves was surely one of the most-enduring interpretations of the character. It ran from 1951 to 1958, but lived on in syndication for much longer and introduced generations of children to Clark Kent and … Continue reading Superman Visits The Malco Theatre
Nearing the end of its run, the Adventures of Superman radio show switched from long serials made up of ten-minute-long chapters to half-hour standalone episodes. The anti-racist message wasn’t as prominent in this era, but it didn’t die out completely, … Continue reading Superman in “The Story of Marina Baum”
Writer and Artist – Dan Jurgens Finishes by Josef Rubinsten “Earth Run” Alien kingpin Chadda summons Massacre and his sidekick, Skimmer, to Chadda’s World. Chadda requests Massacre to retrieve an item of great importance from the planet Earth. At the … Continue reading Comic Book Review – Superman #92 (August 1994)
