There are some Bigfoot problems that hit harder than others — and for certain legendary figures, male pattern baldness anxiety isn’t just about looks… it’s about legacy. Today’s comic imagines what happens when one very famous cryptid starts wondering if his myth might not survive a receding hairline.
What I’m Watching: Invincible, JJK, and the Great Animation Trade-Off
I’ve been watching Invincible with my sons, and I’ve got… thoughts.
First off: the story? Very, very good. Genuinely compelling stuff — even though the violence and gore is way past my personal comfort range. I'm not super comfortable with one character shooting another. The stuff that happens on a median-level episode of Invincible is a real challenge for me.
As someone who does NSFW comics, I'm constantly amazed at how perfectly acceptable Invincible is... yet an animated series based on Phil Foglio's XXXenophile would have people losing their ever-loving minds.
Further, it's a little disappointing to go from watching Jujutsu Kaisen (which we're also following at the moment) to watching Invincible.
JJK features jaw-dropping visuals and animation that constantly raises the bar episode after episode. It's phenomenal.
On the other side of the spectrum, Invincible clearly put all of its budget into getting celebrity voice talent. Some of them are very good.
I just wish a few of those Amazon dollars had been spent on the animation. Some of the scenes are pretty clearly PNGs that get enlarged to show an object moving through space, and it's a goddamned embarrassment.
But the story itself is very, very good.
Dan Didio looks back at 2006
Newsarama has an excellent interview with Dan Didio, Senior VP and Executive Editor of the DC Universe, in which he looks back at 2006. From the story:
For both longtime readers, and relative newcomers, 2006 was the year virtually everything changed for the DC Universe. The new year began in the midst of Infinite Crisis, saw the jump to One Year Later, and the weekly story of 52.
Amid all of this, old characters were brought back and given a chance to shine, and the icons of the DCU were polished up so that if you considered yourself any kind of DC fan at all, you were buying Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman’s comics along with the rest of your haul.
That’s not to say there weren’t problems – some launches were relatively stillborn, storylines occasionally went off the tracks, and of course, like other publishers, DC had its share of high profile books ship late.Read the whole
story.
