“Yesterday’s” Comic> Jumbo Comics #13

Sheena faces her biggest threat yet: Tarzan’s lawyers!

Jumbo Comics #13

Real Adventure Publishing Co (March, 1940)

Okay, now we’ll be caught up with this series. It’s not easy needing new ways to open these reviews. Even in speed mode these reviews take awhile, and that’s after, or rather while reading a bunch of comic stories altogether. Sure, they’re short. Sometimes too short to fully tell their stories. However, numbers do count for something. This is just under 70 pages of comics and a text story. That’s a lot to go over, hence why I usually bypass the text stories and lame gag pages. There’s multiple creators so I can’t just do a creator page. So instead I pad out for the homepage with nonsense like this. That’s good, so let’s get started.

[Read along with me here]

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Watchmen #1: A First Time Read

While this isn’t going to be a weekly series I did want to at last start the first one. For more about the comic, how I got it, why I’m reviewing it, and all the biases coming with it, check out the introductory article to this series.

You’ll also notice I amended something from the when it was originally posted. Tales Of The Black Freighter being an allegedly popular comic in the Watchmen universe rather than anything with superheroes gets talked up alot. They even made a direct-to-video animation of the thing to coincide with the movie. I always assumed the story itself showed up in the pages. I have since learned only covers show up. We don’t actually get a story within the story. Apparently it was an actual DC comic published in our world, and there’s a spiritual connection between the two works or something, but there won’t be a section devoted to that comic after all. I will, however, still give the documentation it’s own review section.

With that, I guess we just go into the first issue.

I’m not cleaning that up.

Watchmen #1

DC Comics (September, 1986)

“At Midnight, All The Agents…”

WRITER: Alan Moore

ARTIST/LETTERER: Dave Gibbons

COLORIST: John Higgins, who never gets credit, possibly because he’s not a co-creator of the concept and characters.

I’m working from the 2014 “New Edition”, a reprint of the “Absolute Edition” which redid the colors. Higgins is still credited, but I thought I’d bring it up. Images used to prove a point or break the text wall come from scans of the original 1986 comic, or so the site I’m using would let you believe. Yes, I’m using a pirate site, who in turn stole it from a DIFFERENT pirate site, which is kind of appropriate given Moore’s current opinion of DC and the pirate comic showing up as what he thinks would be the popular comic in that universe. However, my reviews are coming from the edition I personally and legally own. All I had to do was draw the right game piece out of a bag, but it’s still legally my copy.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Fathom: Cannon Hawke #0

“Wow, I really let the backyard get out of hand.”

Michael Turner’s Fathom: Cannon Hawke #0

Aspen Comics (digital copy: April, 2011)

PLOT: Michael Turner & Koi Turnbull

WRITER: J.T. Krul

PENCILER: Koi Turnbull

INKER: Larry Welch

COLORIST: Beth Sotelo

LETTERING: Dreamer Design

DIGITAL EDITORS: Frank Mastromauro & Vince Hernandez

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Belated Thoughts On The Firing Of Dark Horse’s Founder

Scheduling made me late to the discussion on this one, but this is still an issue I have opinions on. If somehow you missed it even though sites like The Hollywood Reporter discussed it (and that’s not one I go to for comic news), Mike Richardson, the founder of Dark Horse Comics, got canned by the people who bought the company from him, some Swedish group called Embracer. So it’s Jim Shooter and Valiant Comics again, after he got ousted by his investors after forming the company…just with more time under Richardson’s belt. Here’s an article from ICv2, a site I do use for comic news.

Shooter got screwed over immediately and I couldn’t find any info that Richardson wasn’t ready to leave. He did sell the company, after all. Richardson was CEO of the company he founded back in 1986, from his comic store in Oregon. Dark Horse is known for creator owned comics that are still owned by their creators and licensing everything from Godzilla to actual manga. (Also, Godzilla manga.) Some of their most beloved work included Star Wars and creating the “Alien Vs. Predator” idea, which was such a huge hit in comics that Hollywood just had to make movies on the concept…and from what I can tell messed the concept up royally. The comics are praised, the movies are not, and I know nothing about the video game because nobody seems to talk about it. All were lost to them when Disney bought the studios that created Star Wars and the two movies, since they had Marvel. And yet some new material is published by companies who aren’t Disney but also not Dark Horse. Disney are run by morons, but that’s another topic.

So now the guy whose vision created Dark Horse, starting as a comic store owner to comic publisher, is gone from the company. Unless he wanted to leave, that seems like a really dumb move. If he did choose to move on that wouldn’t be a firing but rather just him retiring from the company, which is not how I’ve seen it phrased by any of the articles I looked up . Richardson not only founded the company but knew how to keep it successful. They’ve had movies, shows, and even games based on their comics, I’ve not heard a lot of bad things said about Dark Horse versus DC, Marvel, or even Image. He’s not incompetent, and Embracer’s stated reasons to take the company in a new direction sounds like fixing something that isn’t broken. So what’s going on?

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Sonic The Hedgehog #206

Maybe because I’m tired today, but I’ve got nothing to really work with here.

Sonic The Hedgehog #206

Archie Comics Publications (January 2010)

WRITER: Ian Flynn

INKER: Terry Austin

COLORIST: Matt Herms

LETTERER: John E. Workman, Jr.

COVER: Pat “Spaz Spaziante

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Paul Kaminski

EDITOR: Mike Pellerito

“On The Run” part 2: “Troubles By The Dozen”

PENCILER: Steve Butler

“Birthright” part 2

PENCILER: Jamal Peppers

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