The chaotic Doom Patrol series is careening towards their end, and this final season is just crazy as the rest of their adventures have been. A major enemy is lurking in the shadows, and striking at them seemingly at will. Now that they’ve apparently lost the special magic that kept them young, they are beset by a new series of problems. Attempts to deal with that go awry, to no surprise at all, in “Youth Patrol.”
Now we see how Trevor and Simon do with their chance to impress the rather eccentric director in an episode called, appropriately enough, “Callback.”
There have been many different versions of Supergirl over the years. Throw in Power Girl, who is a Supergirl variant, and there are even more. So, as a comic reader of many decades, I’d argue there is no “real” version of Supergirl. The new Supergirl movie, continuing James Gunn’s vision of the DC Universe, takes Kara Zor-El’s story forward, based largely on the “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” arc from the comics.
the story of Brother Blood develops further while the team is going through some changes and a lot of strain.
There are some rough and violent strikes in the battle between Wolverine and Adamantine. However, the art isn’t gritty enough for me. I think Humberto Ramos’ run in volume 3 is one of the artistic peaks of the Wolverine franchise. In large, it’s because the art matches both the raw, violent nature of the story and Logan’s internal strife. Even when it’s drawn in a more cartoony manner, I felt the art never lost its edge.
Does Star Wars need saving? I think so. What’s your take?
I often have issues when they take a character who I know and like and turn them into something wholly different for an adaptation. Usually I say the more seemingly random changes they make, the worse the adaptation is. The MCU has managed to exempt themselves from this rule of mine a few times (really, it makes a lot more sense that techno-genius Tony Stark made Ultron than bio-chemist Hank Pym). They are doing so again with their take on Wonder Man, who has very little in common with his comic book counterpart, but they are telling a great story here, which continues in “Found Footage.”
The animated Harley Quinn series is back for a fourth season. In an interesting media crossover, some of what happened between seasons three and four was covered in a comic book limited series, “Legion of Bats.” But now the show is back, with, among other things, Harley and Ivy trying to find a new balance in their lives, since Harley is working with the Bat-family in Batman’s absence, and Ivy is running the Legion of Doom. Talk about a mixed marriage.
Just a few quick thoughts on The Mandalorian and Grogu… I liked it? I guess that’s true. But it was kind of dumb. It felt like they turned season 4 of the show into a movie and put it behind an even bigger pay wall than Disney Plus. It’s very easy to see where each…
Doorman, in the comics, is a minor character, part of a group of lesser-known, mostly used as joke characters called the Great Lakes Avengers. He’s actually not the first of the GLA to show up in the MCU, since a version of Immortal Man popped up in the She-Hulk series. He’s been referenced several times so far during Wonder Man. Now, we finally get to see what happened that led to the “Doorman clause” that prohibits superhumans from working in Hollywood movies. Probably tv shows, too, but that hasn’t really been spelled out yet. They use black and white to emphasize that almost the entire episode is a flashback, as we get the story behind “Doorman.”
Picture an era before the current grittiness we associate with the crime-riddled streets of Gotham City. Before critics and fans deplored the casting of Heath Ledger and eyebrows were raised at George Clooney’s controversial nipple suit, there was Tim Burton’s Batman. Every odd was against this film from its inception. Burton created whimsical, horror-adjacent films, while Michael Keaton was known as a skinny, comedic actor. Neither were…
The writing on Superman and Lois has consistently been really good. They’ve taken a lot of interesting approaches to things and made some great choices. Lois having cancer is, to the best of my recollection, the first time they’ve gone in that direction, and it’s the kind of crisis that all of Superman’s powers can’t do anything about. Dealing with the issues related to that, the Kent/Lane family face it the only way they can: “Head On.”
As many comic book readers know, Wonder Man/Simon Williams has a very complicated family history. His brother Eric is the supervillain known as the Grim Reaper, who has never been able to accept Simon’s return from the death that was part of his origin arc. Complicating things still further, a recording of Simon’s brain patterns was used by Ultron when creating the Vision, making them essentially brothers, and earning Vision a place on the Grim Reaper’s hit list as well. Things aren’t that serious, at least not yet, but we do get to see that Eric and Simon don’t get on in the MCU as well as the comics as we attend a celebration in “Pacoima.”
As one of the leading illustrators in the comic industry, Alex Ross’ influence cannot be understated. With a lifelong interest in comic books, Ross began creating at the age of 13. Roughly a decade later he was hired by Marvel Comics for the 1994 comic book event, Marvels (Alex Ross Art, n.d.). The son of a commercial artist, Ross followed in his mother´s footsteps and attended…
There have been assorted changes made from the comics to the on screen world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. So far, it seems like the adaptation of Wonder Man might be one of the furthest from the source material. They are definitely leaning hard into Simon Williams’ acting career, even if they are ignoring the rest of his history. The acting career and the Hollywood life are very much the focus of episode two of Wonder Man’s series, “Self Tape.”
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