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I’m Back From Holidays

Mrs Earth-Prime and I have had a lovely break, doing next to nothing some days, visiting friends and family on others, as well as sneaking in a celebration for my birthday last weekend. I had a ton of things but the one most obviously connected to this site was a copy, from Mrs Earth-Prime, of this:

I’ve long heard about the DC Implosion of the late 70s and now there’s a book collecting interviews and recollections from most of the major players of the time, talking about it, the state of the industry before it, and what happened after.

While the emphasis is definitely on the DC Implosion and the resulting Cancelled Comic Cavalcade

there’s mention, too, of Marvel and other companies as the factors that affected DC also had an impact on the other companies.

It’s well worth a read for anyone interested in the history of this ridiculous industry we follow.

I’m On Holiday

Mrs Earth-Prime and I are away for a few days so, with the exception of a scheduled Mash-Up, it’ll be pretty quiet round these parts until mid-next week.

See you soon, people.

DC Licensing Department Doesn’t Read DC Comics

Saw a little article over at The Beat about officially licensed DC products like bottle openers and beers coolers.

While I agree with them that making Wonder Woman’s lasso the bottle opener is just genius, the one thing that struck me most was the art/packaging. There’s a couple of photos at the article but this one sums it up:

The art is very definitely late 70s/early 80s – Batman has a grey suit with the yellow oval around the bat; Superman is still in trunks; and Wonder Woman is her happy post-Lynda Carter self.

As we know, hero costumes are periodically redesigned to give them a new look/boost sales (Jim Lee, I’m looking at you) but surely this shows that it’s not really needed – people will recognise these characters even if you use art from 40 years ago.

Have a Horrible Christmas, DC Fans!

Because nothing says Christmas – sorry, “the holidays” – like a post-apocalyptic nuclear special, does it?

Full marks, DC, for running with the puntastic title of DC Nuclear Winter Special wherein a collection of short stories “reveal how your favorite holiday-loving DC heroes celebrate the big day…after the big one drops.”

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll probably pick this up as I like an anthology comic, and the Yanick Paquette cover shown above it just gorgeous, but I have to wonder – did the ideas for stories come first or did an editor have a long list of Winter-based puns and settle on this one?