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.
[POST CHRONICLE]: Stores around the country have been asked by DC comics to pull the “All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder” No. 10. comic off the rack.
A printing mistake that reveals several obscene words in the comic book. It has text where Batgirl tells a group of bad guys “Text every friend you’ve got, s—heads,” and “Sell your poison somewhere else.
This here arcade belongs to the f—ing Batgirl,” reports the New York Post.
“A printing gaffe has caused a problem with All Star Batman, as soon as the problem was discovered, we quickly asked retailers to pull the issue, we apologize to our retailers and fans for any offense or inconvenience,” Fox News quoted a DC Comics spokesperson, as saying in a statement.
DC comics spokesman revealed swear words were supposed to have been blacked out, but two shades of black were used and the expletives are clearly legible.
DC Comics was able to stop some shipments, and has asked retailers who got copies to destroy them.
And in other Bat-news…
[IGN]Either Michael Caine believes all the Batman 3 casting gossip that he reads in the British tabloids, or he knows something we don’t. Well, now we know it, too, because he’s blabbed about it.
In a chat with MTV, the actor who portrays Alfred the butler in Christopher Nolan’s Batman films said, “They’ve already got (the villains) in mind. … It’s Johnny Depp as The Riddler. And The Penguin is Philip Seymour Hoffman. I read it in the paper.”
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