New episode of Digital Scribbles coming this Sunday

Finally relaunching Digital Scrbbles with a brand new episode this Sunday.

Featuring...
Doctor Who Series 3 Issues #1-#4
Amazing Spider-Man "You're Hired"
Craftsman Lock-on System Saves The Justice League
And more!

See you Sunday!

That New 52 Smell Week 1

That New 52 Smell
Episode 0.1 - Origins

Putting thought to life, and coming up with this notion, started with the announcement of the coming end of The New 52 Adventures of Superman.

To me it was logical. DC already had scheduled titles on my pull list, and I was inquiring with them about press releases and such so why not expand it to a podcast?

Admittedly the show started its life as a Superman family centered title... but when I checked the subscriptions list I couldn't find Superboy... huh?

If I was left to my own devices I would quickly fall out of picking up what I need to review. This way I am locked in for a full year of episodes, and just have to renew yearly, making changes to the review format once a year as needed. That and this was made possible through a huge trade I am presently doing.

So let's recap. This series was originally thought up when the announcement came that The New 52 Adventures of Superman was winding down to completion.

So with only 4 episodes of New 52 left? Where are we in terms of progress... let's see...

- Starting off with first two titles, Supergirl and Superman, which speaks of the cast's origin as a New 52 Superman inspired cast.

- Presently soliciting votes for the other four starting slots of the cast. Cast your vote at http://www.thisoldcomicaddict.blogspot.com and http://www.rkyvrevue.blogspot.com

- Plans are to add 3 of the bigger page count title along the way. Action Comics and Justice League (two more nods to New 52 Superman) along with Justice League of America, totaling titles covered to nine.

- Titles being voted on? Aquaman, Batgirl, Catwoman, Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Teen Titans and Wonder Woman.

- Originally I was not going to put Batman or Green Lantern titles up for consideration, but then voting would not had been picking a top four as much as dropping the fifth title.

- Deadline for voting is March 22nd.

That is about that for now. The process of preparing the cast has just begun. Next time I speak of the 800 pound Gorrilla Grodd in the cast, preparing the technical aspect of a news section of the cast... when DC Comics wont give me the time of day.

That is coming next week. So stay tuned, and see you then.

Addendum - Cast Format
One thing I am working on is the exact content of the cast itself. At this early production stage I have the following...

- Opening
- DC News Brief
Whatever news I came across that is fit to print, so to speak.
- Rumor mill
i.e. what the WB is not doing lately.
- Mailbag
Going to open an email just for work.
- Reviews
What came in the mail for review

But that is just the beginning! Stay tuned as I work on this and prepare Episode Zero!

This Old Comic Addict featuring Justice League Adventures #1

This Old Comic Addict Blog
Justice League Adventures #1 (2001)
Publisher : DC Comics
Writer : Ty Templeton
Penciler : Min S. Ku
Inker : Dan Davis
Letterer : Kurt Hathaway
Colorist : John Kalisz
Seperations : Heroic Age
Assistant Editor : Steve Wacker
Editor : Dan Raspler

(Apparently it does take a village to produce a substandard comic)

In the never ending battle between DC and MARVEL (animation edition) DC and MARVEL tend to excel in opposite sides of the equation.

In this case? In this case DC puts out some great animations, but MARVEL does great comic adapts of animations.

As we count down to March and the demise of Green Lantern and Young Justice the animations, we look at the best and worst of comic adaptations of animations.

One of many examples of the bad is Justice League Adventures, based of course on Justice League.

In "Disarmed", a nice marathon sitting and staring session of the League is interrupted by a female bug alien claiming to be from an organization of female aliens going around cleaning up the messes made by male... no, no, I mean the messes that usually get air time on cable news... you know, ones that don't involve Republicans and things utilizing words like "legitimate", "socialism" and "is that camera on?" and "do I sound crazy to you?"

Yes, things are not what they seem, even if there seems to be an obvious "device" that may be a bomb... a rather awkward looking green glowing thing that is supposed to be a bhomb... and the alien that showed up yes turns out to be probably evil... or just bored... which is what you'll be reading this. It has no real story past a cookie cutter paint by numbers thing, even the heroes seem boring, and there are the little people, like the girl obsessed with getting autographs of supers. Nothing here to even make you think of the Justice League animated series, but maybe you'll think of the old Superfriends show... it actually seemed like something you'd see from that. And the rest? The artwork is toonish... way way too toonish down to the level of Superman or Batman Adventures (comic) toonish... and there is just nothing here to even tell you to go and find this if your curious.

So... luckily this comic didn't last long so I won't have much to review in the future. A 1 out of 5.

Next time, hopefully on time, we'll look at something a little better... not much but it won't rate a 1 out of 5... the X-Men Evolution comics, which for some strange reason had even less issues than this!... wow... really? See you next time!