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.
Victor Buono would be proud.
As you may know, some of the villains that appeared on the
Batman TV show from the 60s were created solely for the tube — instead of being developed from the comic.
King Tut was one such villain, appearing in five episodes. But, as
CBR reports, he’s going to finally get his proper due on the printed page.
[CBR]:
[Co-writer Nunzio] DeFilippis told CBR News that King Tut was one of his personal favorites from the cult classic TV show, so it was a decidedly cool assignment to bring the character to the DC Universe proper, even though this incarnation is slightly different than the one from the ’60s series. “He’s a bit different in comic form than he was in the TV show for two reasons,” explained DeFilippis. “One, the tone of the comics versus the tone of the show and two, legal/copyright issues. The TV show exists in a strange place where DC, which is part of Warner Bros., owns Batman and Robin and the Commissioner and the characters invented in the comic, but the show itself is now owned by Fox. So who owns the characters invented for the show? It’s a thorny issue, and it’s generally kept the show’s new villains far from the comics.”
Read the
entire story.
King Tut enters the villainscape on very modest ground, coming in at a VQ rating of 3. That’s actually not too bad for the newcomer. To be fair, it would have been a 2, but… Victor
Buono, man! He was in
Robin and the 7 Hoods. If he’s good enough for The Chairman, that’s good enough for VQ.
