Comrade Bullski

Every show should reference this story.

Every installment is just THE GLORY BOAT from NEW GODS #6

"Oh Canada"

The Cobra guy?!

Of course with reprints, the bottom line is always money. Why bother making an expensive new digital restoration with greater fidelity to the original when you can just re-use the same old files you already have?

It also happens CONSTANTLY with golden age reprints where even DC's current line of DC's Finest books use the poor restoration that was done on those comics in the 90's which makes stuff like Siegel/Shuster Superman look scribbly, undetailed and crude. The technology exists to fix this.

The same with Walt Simonson's Thor run where all the big expensive editions as well as the digital ones use terrible digital colors that drain the story of its life and mythic quality.

Killing Joke as well, and many others.

Obviously when you buy an expensive collector's edition you want the original coloring or a very careful digital restoration of it, but open up Absolute Swamp Thing and you get the same garish, flat colors that the reprints have been plagued with for 30 years or more now. Absolutely criminal.

Having those recolorings isn't a problem as long as they're not the ONLY version being sold, but all too often it's been the case that you just can't buy the original once the recoloring is released outside of chasing down a now much more expensive original. Which is a huge shame.

I have a feeling there are entire generations of comics fans who have never experienced how breathtaking some older comics are because of the meticulous and vibrant traditional coloring. Many digital recolorings utterly fail to capture that and make the story seem flat or boring.

Why is Thanos looming over Gotham City?

Miss Shiera "Hawkgirl" Sanders from JSA (2024) #16, art by Gavin Guidry and Luis Guerrero.

As she was DC's first masked female hero it's always good to see her kick a lot of ass, especially since her appearances in modern comics are virtually nonexistent.

Said this before but that Plastic Man looks like such a douchebag. Definitely played by a very unfunny Y2K comedian and being annoying every second.

Yeah that was their introduction, which was also Amazing-Man's debut. Neither could have happened with this timeline.

Yup. But now Infinity Inc. need a new origin

Yeah Amazing-Man seems to be a founding member of the JSA now which is definitely a big change, plus he got moved back to 1940.

yes, totally. an allred book is always worth it to me. it's just held back from being totally great by the same kind of factors you mentioned in your silver surfer discussion

Corrigan was trying out a Hal Jordan even before Hal Jordan.

allred is wasted on that run

The current arc is also not blowing me away due to it being a confusing mish-mash of previous stories.

I'm always happy to spread obscure Swedish comics lore.

He was known as "Kilroy" in Sweden after the famous "Kilroy was here" graffiti. We produced several episodes on license domestically, some of which were drawn by Swedish master artist Rolf Gohs, who also provided plenty of Phantom art over the decades.

Regardless of the very confusing nature of the story, I'm always glad to see more of Shiera, and she even gets a few good solo moments.

Hopefully Gardner Fox would approve, wherever he is.

The current arc of JSA is a "Year One" story taking place in 1940 and it's very strange. This run has been extremely nostalgia-oriented given that the Infinity Inc. characters have taken central stage, and they are mostly only remembered by hardcore fans. And yet this arc is retcon story.

Miss Shiera "Hawkgirl" Sanders from JSA (2024) #16, art by Gavin Guidry and Luis Guerrero.

As she was DC's first masked female hero it's always good to see her kick a lot of ass, especially since her appearances in modern comics are virtually nonexistent.

I don't think Big Jim could have forseen a future where the Marvel Universe was still trucking without any major timeline reset nearly 50 years after Death of Captain Marvel was published, so it's natural that every character has considerably more continuity detritus now.

Founder Mike Richardson exits Dark Horse after 40 years After 40 years, Dark Horse founder and CEO Mike Richardson has exited the company, reportedly in a move to "modernize and strengthen" the company

Founder Mike Richardson exits Dark Horse after 40 years

Not to mention an alien warlord on Doctor Who during "Trial of a Time Lord"

You're one of the good ones!

He's also a samurai.