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Showing posts with label krypto. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 6, 2022
PodCast 214: "DC League Of Super Pets" (2022) - A Kryptonian Thought Beast Episode w/ Jamie & Ryan
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
New League of Super-Pets trailer
Still pretty happy with everything I've seen so far in the trailers and ads for this.
Hey, we're getting a full DC Super-Pets movie! That's excellent!
Thursday, July 26, 2012
A couple of quick Superman Reviews: Superman Family #3 and Superman #11
Superman Family Adventures #3
by Baltazar and Franco
The fact that this book isn't moving 80,000 copies per month is a crime. Good-natured, action-packed, zany, bizarre and purely in love with the Superman mythos, this book is a perfect comic to hand a kid as well as your hipster pal looking for a good laugh. If you're into a balanced diet in your comics, this is sort of the lovely pudding you should save to savor at the end of the buy pile. Or something.
by Baltazar and Franco
The fact that this book isn't moving 80,000 copies per month is a crime. Good-natured, action-packed, zany, bizarre and purely in love with the Superman mythos, this book is a perfect comic to hand a kid as well as your hipster pal looking for a good laugh. If you're into a balanced diet in your comics, this is sort of the lovely pudding you should save to savor at the end of the buy pile. Or something.
Monday, December 12, 2011
a wee bit more on Superman Family kids' comic
DC Comics' blog made a formal announcement today regarding the Superman Family Adventures comic I mentioned Friday.
It sounds exactly like the sort of thing I was hoping DC might do this year. Well, 2012 is close to this year, so I'll take what I can get.
From the article:
This is, of course, in tandem with the line of kids' Super Pets books which will soon have volumes featuring Super Turtle, Comet and more Krypto and Streaky.
I did notice on the bigger image DC provided of the FCBD comic that Superman is in his new suit. I'll be curious how Jim Lee's design translates.
But, yup, that's Superman. I am pretty excited about this!
It sounds exactly like the sort of thing I was hoping DC might do this year. Well, 2012 is close to this year, so I'll take what I can get.
From the article:
This May, the Eisner Award-winning creative team of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling TINY TITANS, Art Baltazar and Franco, will continue bringing their wonderful and unique humor to DC Comics with the new ongoing monthly series, SUPERMAN FAMILY ADVENTURES. The series will be starring (you guessed it!) the whole Superman gang – Superman, Supergirl, Superboy, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Lex Luthor, Bizarro, General Zod and … Fuzzy the Krypto Mouse!As near as I can tell, Fuzzy the Krypto Mouse is all-new, but its been a while since anyone was added to the Legion of Super-Pets, so I welcome Fuzzy with open super-arms. (But "Krypto Mouse"? Could he be Streaky's nemesis?)
This is, of course, in tandem with the line of kids' Super Pets books which will soon have volumes featuring Super Turtle, Comet and more Krypto and Streaky.
I did notice on the bigger image DC provided of the FCBD comic that Superman is in his new suit. I'll be curious how Jim Lee's design translates.
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| the kids love a high collar! |
But, yup, that's Superman. I am pretty excited about this!
Monday, November 7, 2011
The Superman Lawsuit, and me playing with kids' toys
On Sunday I stumbled across this new Superman toy from Fischer-Price. While Fischer-Price has done an admirable job with Batman and DC toys of late, this is slightly different and bigger and shows up as part of their "Rescue Heroes"/ "Hero World" line.
Yes, I buy kids' Superman toys. Especially when they come with Krypto.
I was carrying the item around Target when I gave the toy a second look and realized... he hasn't got the trunks. And he's got the chunky boots, and... they gave him the scaling detail of the Jim Lee re-design (sort of).
And I started thinking: wow, the New 52 is really going to change things.
Yes, I buy kids' Superman toys. Especially when they come with Krypto.
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| Krypto does not screw around |
I was carrying the item around Target when I gave the toy a second look and realized... he hasn't got the trunks. And he's got the chunky boots, and... they gave him the scaling detail of the Jim Lee re-design (sort of).
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| Superman wouldn't want to appear un-detailed |
And I started thinking: wow, the New 52 is really going to change things.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
No More Krypto - DC makes a decision with which I must disagree
According to reports coming out of the New York ComicCon, DC has decided that there will be no more Krypto in the New 52.
This makes me sad. And this is sort of the thing that is making me wonder about the stated goal of aiming your comics at the 18-34 year old male demographic.
While I do think the comics of the 90's were aimed at an all-ages audience, the 90's Superman comics by-passed the Bronze Age in terms of "world building", but it was also one of the dullest eras of Superman as creators tried everything in their power to avoid reminding readers of the past 50 years of Superman comics and tried to pretend that Superman was just a straightforward superhero book that would fit in alongside "gritty" books. And, hey, who should be picking up writing chores on Superman than Dan Jurgens and Keith Giffen? Competent writers, but its a strange fit to jump 20 years backward as they're supposedly moving forward.
For me, as a Superman fan, this is disappointing.
This makes me sad. And this is sort of the thing that is making me wonder about the stated goal of aiming your comics at the 18-34 year old male demographic.
While I do think the comics of the 90's were aimed at an all-ages audience, the 90's Superman comics by-passed the Bronze Age in terms of "world building", but it was also one of the dullest eras of Superman as creators tried everything in their power to avoid reminding readers of the past 50 years of Superman comics and tried to pretend that Superman was just a straightforward superhero book that would fit in alongside "gritty" books. And, hey, who should be picking up writing chores on Superman than Dan Jurgens and Keith Giffen? Competent writers, but its a strange fit to jump 20 years backward as they're supposedly moving forward.
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| sorry, buddy |
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Signal Watch Reads: Superman 712
Superman 712
Writer: Kurt Busiek
Penciller: Rick Leonardi
Inker: Jonathan Sibal
Colorist: Brad Anderson
Lettering: Comicraft
Associate Editor: Nachie Castro
Editor: Matt Idleson
Writer: Kurt Busiek
Penciller: Rick Leonardi
Inker: Jonathan Sibal
Colorist: Brad Anderson
Lettering: Comicraft
Associate Editor: Nachie Castro
Editor: Matt Idleson
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Super Pets: Books for Kids!
DC Comics and Capstone books will soon release a line of kids' chapter books starring the DC Super Pets! I know! I'm using exclamation points! (...because I'm excited!)
For those of you not in the know, back in the day Superman editor and controversial figure (aka: well-known jerk), Mort Weisinger was all about adding new characters and accouterments to the Superman titles. Thus, you got everything from Kandor to Beppo, the super monkey. Some stuff stuck, some stuff didn't.
Superman wound up with a whole line of buddies, the most famous of which is Krypto the Superdog.
The really great news isn't just that these books are coming, but that they'll be drawn by Tiny Titans wunderkind cartoonist Art Baltazar.
Sadly, I can't really justify buying these books. I think. We'll see. I'm a bit of an impulse purchaser. But those of you with kids should totally check these things out. It's a book with Beppo and Titano! How can you go wrong?
I think I'm lying. I'm totally buying that book with Krypto and Ace the Bathound on the cover.
For those of you not in the know, back in the day Superman editor and controversial figure (aka: well-known jerk), Mort Weisinger was all about adding new characters and accouterments to the Superman titles. Thus, you got everything from Kandor to Beppo, the super monkey. Some stuff stuck, some stuff didn't.
Superman wound up with a whole line of buddies, the most famous of which is Krypto the Superdog.
The really great news isn't just that these books are coming, but that they'll be drawn by Tiny Titans wunderkind cartoonist Art Baltazar.
Sadly, I can't really justify buying these books. I think. We'll see. I'm a bit of an impulse purchaser. But those of you with kids should totally check these things out. It's a book with Beppo and Titano! How can you go wrong?
I think I'm lying. I'm totally buying that book with Krypto and Ace the Bathound on the cover.
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