'Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked'

Hmmm...could be fun to watch.

Speaking of Cap punching out Hitler, didn't the JSA take on a superhero Hitler at one point in the continuity? I remember reading something in WIZARD about it.

 

there's one right by my house. i could be talked into doing your dirty work for you. for a price! (cue evil laughter)

 

I'll swing by tomorrow or monday and see what I can do for you. i assume you'll be at the quakes game on june 20 to make the exchange?

 

Finally saw the show yesterday. It was fantastic! I liked how they went decade by decade for two hours. Wish they went a little more indepth into Spidey though, but that's only cuz I'm a Spidey freak.

 

Definitely a good show. Nice to see interviews with Eisner, Steranko, Miller and Gaiman.

 

It was really entertaining, but I still managed to nod off about 10 minutes before the end.

The show could have been several hours long. I wish they would have detailed Crisis on Infinite Earths, and its impact on the DCU (collapsing all the confusing alternate Earths into one). But then they probably would have felt compelled to also spend time covering some major Marvel arc to be fair, so why bother?

Only other thing I thought might warrant mention, especially since they were talking to Neil Gaiman, would be Books of Magic -- considering the rampant popularity of one Mr. Harry Potter, who I think is a total ripoff of Tim Hunter. Rowling should be forced to give Gaiman and John Bolton (as well as anyone else who's worked on subsequent BoM series) credit in every Potter book.

The TV critic in the SJ Mercury thought the glaring omission was Kingdom Come, but I disagree. It was a nice book, but not even in the mainstream continuity. Alex Ross' art was groundbreaking, but I didn't think the story was that great nor was its impact that major.

Nice to see Watchmen get some props.

 

I must've been switching back and forth to the Met game to miss Alex Ross was on. What did they talk about? I think his artwork is amazing. Whether he has made a major impact or minor one, I don't know, but I think he's fantastic.

 

He wasn't on, he definitely deserved a mention.

 

Actually he deserves way more than a mention.

 

I didn't say he was on.

 

I didn't hear them mention Doomsday at all. What about the new books like 'Last Man' and 'Grendel' ?

This should have been 5 hours long, but I liked it anyway.

 

Mis-read your post. Sorry.

 

It's okay. You're still my favorite hockey poster.

 

It wasn't mentioned specifically but you could tell they were talking about it when talking about the early 90s speculators and pulling off stunts with characters to get more people to buy.

It focused primarily on superhero comics (thus no Vertigo mentions, among others) and the Big Two (thus no real indie/small press mentions like 'Grendal').

 

Unless I was tripping, they did mention Hellblazer and Sandman, in passing. Then again, those two started as DC comics before the Vertigo imprint was born.

They talked with Mike Richardson of Dark Horse, but didn't really talk much about Dark Horse titles. In addition to Grendel, I didn't see/hear mention of Hellboy, American Splendor or the successful Aliens franchise, either.

Thing is, two hours just wasn't enough for some of us fanboys, but for people who aren't totally dialed in to comics/comix (like my wife) it was plenty.

 

Haha. I'm flattered, considering all I do is bitch about the Rangers.

Another note on the show: I'm gettin tired of Stan Lee interviews. It's all the same recycled crap, and most of the time he's so full of himself.