Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman panels - mostly from the Golden and Silver Ages. So, here’s a weekly feature that’ll go from now until I run out of images. What Has Batman’s Touch done to Robin?

I read Scott Pilgrim in its original manga-sized, black and white form when it first came out. With the final volume of the color version coming out this year, I thought it would be a great time to revisit the story as well as looking at how the addition of color changes things. I’ll be exploring the story and themes volume by volume. This time, volume 4. As far as their extended adolescence goes, this volume represents a major shift for a lot of the characters. This volume is when we realize that we’re seeing the end of something that’s been going on almost since high school when it comes to friendships and patterns. Perhaps at least partially from getting caught by Scott Pilgrim in the middle of an intimate moment, Wallace suggests it’s time for Scott to find his own apartment - or at least stop sleeping on the floor, sharing a sleeping bag with a gay man (which whom he is not involved). Stephen Stills has a complicated journey in this volume as he outwardly seems transfixed on getting Sex Bob-omb’s album recorded by Joseph. However, he stops holding band practice and has been turning away gigs, perhaps because recording the album has made him realize the futility of his band ever getting anywhere, and wanting to move on. There’s also the reveal about why he’s gotten so close with Joseph which will either happen in the next volume or the last one. Kim finally moves out of the apartment she shares with women she hates and at the very least this represents her refusal to remain in a crappy situation.

Even in the second issue of his brand new series, Spider-Man gains enemies that are still around today. https://youtu.be/2nFlhxpUWhg I forgot to mention in the video, it’s interesting that Parker is a teenager in high school and both his villains in this issue are very old men. 129728-29757-supreme-intelligence 812651-shiar1 890813-super\_skrull\_00 ASM 2 - Little Green Men ASM 2 - Peter Pays the REnt ASM 2 - Quiet Flying ASM 2 - Spidey Schaudenfreude ASM 2 - Spidey Taking Photos ASM 2 - Spying through Radios ASM 2 - Tinkerer Mask ASM 2 - Vulture Note ASM 2 - Wordy First Page ASM 2 - Working with Electronics Expert ASM 688 - Less Wordy Riddler\_02

Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman panels - mostly from the Golden and Silver Ages. So, here’s a weekly feature that’ll go from now until I run out of images. Should we join in?

I can now confirm that, barring any family emergencies, I’ll be covering Baltimore Comic-Con 2015! Just like last year, my intention is to do a combination of live-blogging and posts during and after the show. There will be some video this year as well, but I’m still trying to go through the logistics of what form that will take this year. Well, onto the official announcements! Jeremy Bastian will be here. I’ve never heard of him, but I think I might be missing out because he’s working on a book called Cursed Pirate Girl over on BOOM! You might know him from Guild: Tink from Dark Horse Comics, Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard from BOOM! Studios/Archaia Comics, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream from Locust Moon Press, and Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom from Simon and Schuster. ...

Our Monday feature continues as we move from Spider-Man’s debut to the debut of his own comic. We take a look at how things have changed, what tropes were started in this first issue, and ask who in the world is Peter Palmer? https://youtu.be/hXS6GcO2eCk Images used in the video: ASM 1 - Aunt May ASM 1 - Breaking the Fourth Wall ASM 1 - Chameleon ASM 1 Cover ASM 1 - Featured Image ASM 1 - Lampshade Hanging FF and Antman ASM 1 - Paid by Check ASM 1 - Peter Palmer ASM 1 - Spider-Menace ASM 1 - Spider-Physics Amazing Spider-Man #1 written by Stan Lee with art by Steve Ditko and lettering by Johnny Dee ...

Thanks to a college student complaining about reading Y: The Last Man and Perseopolis when he thought he’d be reading innocent comics like Batman, people have been collecting inappropriate Batman panels - mostly from the Golden and Silver Ages. So, here’s a weekly feature that’ll go from now until I run out of images. Batman marries Batwoman

note on all the image scans: they are correct manga-style so they are read right to left Spend enough time doing critical readings of media and you come across the assertion that all media tells you about the culture it was written in. Sometimes, as in contemporary media, this is easy to tease out. Other times, as with science fiction, it’s by extrapolation. So I thought it might be interesting to re-read Love Hina, by Ken Akamatsu, as a way to to understand Japanese culture. Part One can be found here. Story We’re so close to the end, but Akamatsu wants to stall quite a bit. So we mostly get a rehash of previous ideas with a few new twists. Twist number one: FINALLY Naru’s affections for Keitaro have stuck. In fact, the spend so much time with PDA that it continually distracts Motoko from her studies. She also comes to terms with her latent desire for Keitaro. Once again her older sister is in town and so once again it’s time for zany deceptions. In this case, her sister thinks she’s gotten into Tokyo U, but she’s a ronin. Akamatsu has laid low both of the girls who thought they were so much better than ronin Keitaro. Another twist is that this time Motoko decides she’s going to break up Keitaro and Naru.

Welcome to a new video feature appearing Mondays in which we take a look at Spider-Man starting from the very beginning. [video webm="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Friendly%20Neighborhood%20Spider-Pow%201%20-%20Amazing%20Fantasy%2015.webm" mp4="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Friendly%20Neighborhood%20Spider-Pow%201%20-%20Amazing%20Fantasy%2015.mp4" ogv="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Friendly%20Neighborhood%20Spider-Pow%201%20-%20Amazing%20Fantasy%2015.ogv"] Images used in the video: Atomic Energy Cover Page Flash Thompson Long Underwear Characters Parker Can't Dance Pete Talking to Himself Pete Thought Bubble The Science Hall Uncle Ben is Already Dead With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility If the above video doesn’t load because the server is loaded, here’s the youtube upload: ...

Reading Sex Criminals Vol 1, one almost feels like Fraction and Zdarsky never expected to be able to get away with this comic. It’s almost even neatly wrapped up by the end in the sense of one of those stories that leaves more questions unanswered than answered. In fact, Suzie makes fun of this in the first page of Volume 2. Viewed from another perspective, the story that is the basis of Sex Criminals is so insane (even though, as I noted last time, contains a great many wonderful metaphors), that Fraction and Zdarsky were forced to cram lots of story in those first five issues in order to keep readers from giving up on the bizarre concept. In contrast, this volume seems to be the creative team stopping to catch its breath; It’s not a bad thing. The story begins with Jon and Suzzie deciding they are done with robbing banks and will try and save the library in a normal way. Then it’s time for personal growth for Jon and Suzie as well as the return of Rachel and the introduction of Robert Rainbow.