September 16, 2023

Whatever am I planning for National Batman day this year?



Hello everyone,                                                                                                                                            So without any doubt I know that earlier today I shared about my adventure of going to Adventures Underground to see what I could find there in the way of celebrating the second oldest comic book superhero ever. Yes of course there were comics even before April eighteenth, nineteen thirty eight known as Action Comics #1, with a cover date of June nineteen thirty eight an features the work of Jerry Siegel and Joseph Shuster who had created a hero by the name of Superman. 
The publisher of this comic book at that time was known as National Allied Publications... they like the other main major comic company known as Marvel had other names than what they are called today which is Decetevice Comics. The company was started in nineteen thirty five with their founder Major Malcolm Wheeler Nicholson,  which was very much like (Timely Comics), Marvel's first known name founder Martin Goodman.  At one point before they were using the name of Decetevice Comics or they had a comic titled Decetevice Comics, they called the publishing company Decetevice Comics as far back as nineteen thirty seven. As to when the company started publishing the title of Decetevice Comics itself was in either November or December of thirty seven... yet it wasn't until two years later did again the company had it's second biggest property in comic form known as the Batman who was created by writer Bill Finger and illustrator Bob Kane in issue Decetevice Comics issue 

        seen here. The title of the first Batman story is "The case of the Chemical Syndicate".                                                            Earlier today on Facebook I had talked about it being National Batman day on my main page there with this image 



that I took this morning while watching a couple of episodes of the classic Superman series called Adventures of Superman. I did eventually end up heading over to my local comic book store of Adventures Underground, I saw besides it being National Batman day the store was having a great sale outside of the store with not only a lot of newer comics that they had an overabundance of but also some used novels of all kinds of genres, as well they had DVDs and Blu-ray movies in that sale. Yet I can't say that I didn't at least take a little peek at it all before going inside the actual store.  While on the bus ride over there even though I haven't done it since Waaaay back this last May, I went and changed my wallpaper on my phone for today in honor of Batman day is by Spawn creator from Image comics Batman story known as Batman Year Two, it was published in Decetevice Comics issues # 575 - #578 in June of nineteen eighty seven to October nineteen eighty seven,  back in that very same year that artist was working on #576-#578 his future character at Marvel comics gets Married in Amazing Spider-Man annual # 21. Do you know what that artist name is yet? Well it is okay if you don't and that is alright, but here is what I have on my phone at the moment  
                                                                                                             is the last page of the four part arc of Batman Year Two with "Bats" (one of his many nicknames), swinging on one of his grapple bat ropes through the upper part of his city that he protects known as Gotham!  Yet I still haven't decided on my topic in detail of writing completely from the end of the month of MAY/JUNE of twenty twenty three... but it will be coming around at some eventual point!                                                         Before I end my over view  of how National Batman day went for me, I want to not only show you what I got in my Batman given loot in the way of a haul, I want to let you  know  that all but  the Batman/Superman trade up above will be having their own reviews coming very soon. As to what was in my mentioned haul from today was this.      
         

Two copies of The Amazing Spider-Man volume 6 (2018 to current) #33/927 the higher number on the right is the uninterrupted numbering since the title began in nineteen sixty three, the current issue of Moonlight #27,  The Captivating Adventures of Maskerade #7, What If Ms Marvel #1, then The Batman who laughs trade, Batman Arkham Talia Al Ghul trade, the Batman & The Joker The Deadly Duo the deluxe edition hardcover, a free Batman day edition of issue 1 of that mentioned hardcover, and a Batman day free comic of the prelude Batman/Catwoman the Gotham war, which is the current story going on. Then finally off on the far left by the amazing spider-man comic is a novel called Empty souls living beyond your grave,  I went and talked to the author Juanita R. Vedder  about why she wrote the book and felt very humbled of our conversation. As to what else I am doing for Batman day is probably will be watching one of the many Batman movies that I have or watching the Adam West Batman series but who really knows with how late it currently is... Happy National Batman day to you all and enjoy your way of Bruce Wayne's day too...

 

September 11, 2023

 Hello All,                                                                                                                                                          As of yet I don't happen to have a very comfortable or confident title for today's very entry, which is very much greatly understandable since today is really reflected of great sadness of what happened in New York. Which was a very venturous and violent attempt to inspire fear throughout a whole country that cherishes freedom for all of it's many citizens.... of ALL diversities of choosing what each of us likes to do within reasonable understandings. The event that had happen over twenty two years ago was of two airplanes that were FORCED by a group of people calling themselves Al Qaeda took control of those planes flew them with their hostages into the two towers known                                                 

                                            as the twin towers or as the world Trade center.                                            All of these many years later it still fills my soul with genuine sadness for everyone who did perished from all of the passengers of both planes also I deep down have emotions towards the terrorists because even though what they were doing was a true introduction of real EVIL on American soil... because they like every other person on the planes were simply humans. Beside that as well in the end of that horrible set of actions to which they wound up with nothing for their existence, even if by their train of thoughtfulness was assuming that they would meet their deity.                                                          In the past when I have written about September 11th, 2001 I have reflected on the helpers by remembering the firefighters and police officers through a series that I grew up on when I was very young about two paramedics known as Roy Desoto and Johnny Gage in the nineteen seventies,  I watched it in it's first go around of repeated syndication.... here are the two them showing         

    how much that they care by helping someone's whom is injured! The series is known as EMERGENCY! Maybe soon after this I will be reviewing that whole series since I have it in a collective edition on DVD. Yet with all that said of helping other people everywhere there's  that first brain teaser from a few years ago....                                                                            I want to this September 11th of twenty, twenty three want talk about a certain comic trade that I picked up back at the end of this past July from at Barnes and Nobles. Still before we delve into  the review of this very trade seen here 
                                                                                                     in my pal Spider-Man's hands is that besides there is without any doubt more than just the disheartening events of September 11th of two thousand and one of why I went and picked up POST AMERICANA which is published by IMAGE COMICS imprint. The story and illustrations of POST AMERICANA is by comic artist Steve Skroce and also comic artist Dave Stewart is the colorist of the story. Both men worked for years for both Decetevice Comics and Marvel Comics and their characters at least a few decades ago known as the nineteen nineties... 
                          This trade consists of seven issues for the whole story and in it, it has both a post apocalyptic science fiction political intrigue and some unknowable time within the future.  Only the super elite rich are who run what is left of whatever is left of the government and the those not fortuitous to have money have become completely free of everyday morals an decide to be cannibals. Then there are some groups of people who are trying to get back to normality who are called by the current president of America are terrorists and are to be captured at all cost.  Before I go on even more so with this summary so far, it seems to be far fecthed look at what the unknowns of the past few years have brought upon us as a species? Do we or don't we have more distrustfulness on somethings more than we should?, I haven't expressed any feelings/thoughts on how I believe that fear has changed us from understanding that yes we do still need to certainly challenge ourselves as humans everyday, and yes it's always fascinating how we as humans come to our unique approach to answering those struggling questions of  which we in our judgements are right on of choosing our options of world wide views.                                   Back to the ongoing review of the POST AMERICANA trade with it having a very interesting setup of two men who were once prisoners have turn to being part of an unknown terrorist group and they are attacking a facility known as the Bubble. They are known as Dom and Mike and they in part succeeded getting an military sleath jet. 
....And come to find out that while stealing it something has gone wrong with the guidance systems forcing them to do the unthinkable of landing in one of the country's most dangerous wastelands areas. 
                     They find in this area where they have ended up that cannibals are whom reside here and that they love creativity from the past. When one of these two men are trying to find a way to convince their captors that he wants to help them by sharing information with one of their leaders he finds out more than he could be hoping for?                                   There is more to this story than just interweaving of who's plotical right over each other, it's also has one thing that all comics should have but very little of it is really shown in most comics from both Decetevice and Marvel comics of recently that in the end comes from this panel here....
                         
from a character known as Eggbert as he explains of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson presidency of in sometime of the 21st century to his crazed master Marcy whose got her own plans for the world. Basically with in a story of such seriousness you get a moment to bust a gut with a small smile and of course a huge laugh. It has a love story in it as well, between a mother and a daughter.                                                                                                              The most interesting thing about this story was that Skroce came up with it during the time of Covid-19 when for a long period of time if the series were published by Detective or Marvel it would not see potential print. The reasoning behind that was the entire editorial department board of both companies of mainstream comics had said from late February of twenty, twenty till they were ready that everyone who was working on a title for them was to stop their creative juices and not write, ink, or even draw a single page of any kind till the editorial department was ready to start receiving new work from any freelance artists. Which if I am remembering right wasn't until summer time of Twenty, Twenty two before they started receiving work again! Besides that the series wouldn't have also seen print because not only does it show a negative effect on how the government in the story is in disarray of itself,  Steve Skroce had there be enough cursing that it would have to be published by a strong independent publisher who were respectful of their incoming series or ideas of series to be of how that creative person was viewing the onset of current culture of their own world during the craziness of extreme conditions during the pandemic. Overall I there are two very important things that I really have to say before giving this trade a grade of how much I loved or liked it as a whole. Those two things are one don't ever think that I want you to stop living your own life however you see that it works for you. Number two concerning your plotical decision-making continue to be the best part of sharing what YOUR BELIEFS ARE WHEN YOU VOTE, AND EFFECTIVELY YOU JUST MATTER NO MATTER WHAT IS ALBOUSTULELY GOING ON IN OUR WORLD.  My grade for POST AMERICANA is a solid A MINUS!