Author: Gary

War of The Gods Annotations Continue

Blimey – hadn’t realised it was about eight months since I’d last looked at doing the annotations for War of The Gods. With the mass of renovation and decoration Mrs Earth-Prime and I had done on the house last year, plus being stupidly busy in work, it really knocked my schedule out, but even so, that’s a long time between updates.

Anyhow, issue 2’s notes are done, and I’ve started on the crossovers between War… #2 and #3.

Let’s see if I can get this done and dusted over the next couple of weeks, shall we?

He’s A Friend From Work

The new Thor: Ragnarok trailer looks so much fun!

More Dark Nights: Metal News

Despite my slight reservations over the title – seriously, Dark Nights: Metal just sounds like the worst 80s heavy metal album ever and I should know, I owned more than my fair share of them – the more I’m hearing from Scott Snyder about DC’s next big event gives me a great deal of hope.

This article reveals that it’ll be six issues long, starting in August and with no need to read any tie-ins. I have no doubt DC will have other series cross over with it as well as spin off vaguely connected miniseries like they did with Final Crisis – did we really need Final Crisis Aftermath: Escape? – but it’s good to see a distinct event planned.

He mentions in that article that “Metal is a DC wide event … It’s not a bat family book. It’s Justice League+” which is reassuring for me as I’m not a Bat-book reader so have missed everything he’s done on the Batman books over the last few years, though I hear it’s very good.

Again, though, the thing that gives me the most hope for this series, is the overall tone that Snyder’s pushing as he says here:

And above all, it’s going to be fun. Even with terror and nightmares, it won’t be grim. Dark Nights: Metal will be celebratory, huge and crazy. I’ve said it before: I am going for out-of-control dinosaurs and lasers.

With a bit of luck (and if I can pull my finger out) I can finally finish the War of The Gods annotations and be ready for this series.

Not Oriental

In the same week that Roy Thomas was taken to task for using the word “Oriental”, I came across this classified ad in an old issue of All Star Squadron from the early 80s:

“This is the AMERICAN WAY” it proudly says, “not oriental”

Who needs a collections of fast, athletic moves when you can simply deliver a poorly drawn left-handed punch to the bearded face of a man in a yellow onesie?

Is there anything more American than that, my friends?