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An active part of Uruguay's fan scene, he's one of the creators of Montevideo Comics, the first local convention (since 2002), and one of the founders of Caballeros de Montevideo, which promotes RPGs through charity events. MaGnUs works as an administrative policeman, and is happily married to his wife Cindy, with whom he has a one year old son, Gabriel, who already chooses Spider-Man over Mickey Mouse, and laughs at his father's Darth Vader impersonations.] <<WARNING! THIS COLUMN MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS!>> Hello readers of this wonderful e-mag, welcome to this week's Nitpicker's Column! I hope you're enjoying reading my column as much as I'm enjoying writing it. And I hope next time I can write earlier in the week, since it's 05.22 AM and I haven't gone to bed yet, because I stayed up late writing this! Just a question, I want to know your opinion: should I send the most blatant nits I find to each book's lettercol? Let me know what you think. That's it for this week, without further ado, I present this week's nits: <--------------------------------> "THE INCREDIBLE COLOR-CHANGING CAPE" TITLE: Teen Titans V3. ISSUE: 29. CULPRIT: Jeromy Cox (colorist). NIT-TO-PICK: Alright, we all know that before Tim Drake, Robin's costume sucked ass. The scaly green Speedos, the bare legs (or skin-colored pantyhose in Burt Ward's case), the insufferably bright colors of the yellow cape and red tunic, all that made for one of the worst costumes in comic book history. So when Robin II (Jason Todd, previously thought dead), currently Red Hood, decided to make some changes to his old costume (same one Dick Grayson wore before him), I thought, ok, that's cool. You see, Jason is all nutso, and appears in his Red Hood garb before Robin III (the aforementioned better-costumed Tim Drake), but takes off his villainous costume to reveal a Robin suit underneath, and challenges Tim to a fight. How the heck did he keep that cape from bulking up on the back of his tight leather jacket, is beyond me. Thing is, Jason decided he was leg-shy, and threw in a pair of yellow tights to cover his legs (maybe he hadn't shaved) and instead of the elf-slippers, a pair of elf- boots. Apparently, as we see in page, he borrows a page from Tim's book, and also wears a yellow-on-the-inside and black-in-the-outside cape. Makes sense, you can hide in the shadows better (never mind the yellow tights). But... on the next page, his cape is yellow, inside and out. But... in the last panel of that page, it's black outside, yellow inside again! In page 10's first panel it's all yellow, then in the third panel it's yellow inside, black outside (although that could be a shadow), because in the last panel it's yellow outside again. It's still all yellow for all of page 11, and when we see it again on page 14, and apparently it's still all yellow in pages 15 through 17, and then he's gone. What gives? NIT-O-METER: I'm tempted to give this a 10, but it's not a nit that affects the story. Still, it's pretty major, so it gets the highest score so far, the first-ever 9 Bazzars! <--------------------------------> "I RECCOMMEND THE KRYPTONIAN ANTI-AGE TREATMENTS!" TITLE: Teen Titans V3. ISSUE: 29. CULPRIT: Tony S. Daniel (penciler) and, only barely, Jeromy Cox (colorist). NIT-TO-PICK: On page 12, Jonathan and Marta Kent look in their late 40s or early 50s (both with brown hair, and Pa Kent with an almost full head of hair), when from previous references (including the recent Action Comics 822 and 823) both of them look like they're in their mid-to-late 60s, if not more (Jonathan looks past 70 in Superman 220, and Teen Titans V3 01 they both look about 70); with white hair and Pa with severe baldness. What, they died their hair, and Pa got some hair plugs? Puh- leeze. Daniel drew them much too young, and Jeromy Cox made it worse by coloring their hair brown. NIT-O-METER: I just noticed they also look too young in Teen Titans 26, their previous Titans appearance, so it's 7 Bazzars. <--------------------------------> "WHAT? HE'S ALIVE? AND HE'S GONE BAD? TITLE: Teen Titans V3. ISSUE: 29. CULPRIT: Geoff Johns (writer). NIT-TO-PICK: Sheesh, even if Teen Titans is currently one of my favorite series, this issue is just full of nits (I found four in total)! Jason Todd leaves after beating the crap out of Tim Drake, and in pages 18 and 19 the other Titans are wondering how he got in. Cyborg says the Tower's security system runs a DNA check to authorize entrances, and Donna Troy points out that Jason was once a Titan, if briefly. Come on, it's been on the Batman books for months now (dunno exactly how many since I don't read them), and Bruce knows it: Jason is alive and he's evil now, he's gone all Punisher on Gotham. Most likely the bat-family knows it; Tim Drake knows it and points it out in page 7. You'd say they'd notify the Titans, I know maybe Batman is ashamed of having left Jason for dead, but still, he should have known that not telling them would endanger them. Bruce, Dick and Tim would know the Tower's security system lets in former members based on a DNA scan. Would it let in Terra? Jericho (if he still had a body)? Hell, I wouldn't even let Superboy in automatically, given his recent behavior. NIT-O-METER: This deserves a 6, it's not big, I know they had to justify Jason's breaking into the Tower, but they could have done it other way. <--------------------------------> "DUDE, WHAT'S WITH THE EARS?" TITLE: Teen Titans V3. ISSUE: 29 and others. CULPRIT: Tony S. Daniel (current penciler), Mike McKone (previous penciler), probably other pencilers, and Geoff Johns (writer) should check on this. NIT-TO-PICK: I'm cool with the Teen Titans cartoon, even if they've changed some stuff, like putting too much clothing on Starfire... but I don't like the fact that they're changing stuff in the comics to conform to the show. Maybe this isn't a nit, given Beast Boy's powers, but his ears have always been normal looking when in human form, and nowadays they're usually drawing them pointy, like an elf's... I mean, he's' a shapeshifter, and he might just have enough control after all these years as to only shift a small part of his body, but he normally doesn't do that, and it'd probably require some concentration to do so. In Doom Patrol V3 19 his ears are normal, looking at some random issues of the current Titans run, they're normal in Teen Titans/Outsiders Secret Files 2004, issues 05 and 12, in Teen Titans-The Legion Special and in The Return Of Donna Troy, pointy in issue 01, and alternately pointy and normal in issue 13 and 17, and in the latter he even has fangs in one of the panels, like in the cartoons. Again, this could be just Gar showing fine control of his powers, but it's too much. Since in most places his ears are normal, I'm going to consider the pointy ears a nit. NIT-O-METER: It's long running, but not that important, I guess... so just 4 Bazzars. <--------------------------------> "IT'S ALL SMOKE AND MIRRORS!" TITLE: Teen Titans V3. ISSUE: 29. CULPRIT: Tony S. Daniel (penciler) NIT-TO-PICK: Beast Boy again... in page 20, he shifts from a gorilla shape into his usual, green human form, and does so with a sort of "poof" (my word for a cloud of smoke and motion lines indicating a sort of small explosion), instantaneously. Usually, Gar's shifting is done between panels, but in the few occasions I could find off-hand where it's done on panel (Doom Patrol V3 19, Teen Titans V3 01 and 02, The Return Of Donna Troy 02), he shifts forms by "traditional" morphing, that is, with transitional, progressive transformation from one form to another. Also, nothing to do with this, but I'm pissed off at John Byrne's (an all-time fave of mine) reboot of Doom Patrol, because in this Teen Titans issue Beast Boy doesn't remember Elasti-Girl being his adoptive mother, even if the Teen Titans/Outsiders Secret Files 2004 profile on him says he was adopted by her and Mento. Still, something's fishy about the Doom Patrol reboot, in story (apart from me not liking it, that is); several hints have been dropped in DP's current series, and in Teen Titans, Gar doesn't remember if Elasti-Girl's dead or not... Maybe it has something to do with Infinite Crisis, with all those people from other Earths popping in... NIT-O-METER: 5 Bazzar's, not a big thing, but still, annoying and indicative of laziness to research previous books. <--------------------------------> "MICHELIN MAN" TITLE: Decimation: House Of M - The Day After. ISSUE: Single issue. CULPRIT: Chris Claremont (writer). NIT-TO-PICK: *sigh* Claremont used to be one of my favorite writers, but in the past few years, he's completely lost his touch. In this nit in particular, the first mutant shown to have lost his powers is Blob (in pages 3 and 4), who loses all his extra body mass... but retains the extra skin. This makes no sense, from a biological point of view, because since it's his X gene that gives him the mass (and presumably, the extra skin to hold it), and the gene is removed from his genetic make up, he should lose the extra skin too, and be turned into a normal human. A fat one, of course, since he ate like a pig, but normal, not a skin-colored Michelin Man. Iceman (who was now completely made of ice) also lost his powers, and he looks just fine, human again, so why not Blob? NIT-O-METER: I'll give this 7 Bazzars, since it's lousy writing, done for a gratuitous and superfluous scene. <--------------------------------> "HEY, NEVERMIND ABOUT OUR DAUGHTER... HOW'S EVERYBODY ELSE DOING?" TITLE: Decimation: House Of M - The Day After. ISSUE: Single issue. CULPRIT: Chris Claremont (writer) & Randy Green (penciler). NIT-TO-PICK: Chris, Chris, Chris... In page 10, Iceman's working the phones, along with other staff members, to explain to the student's parents the situation (mutants losing their powers, etc). Each staff member appears to have a holographic image of the student whose parents are on the phone, most likely with data about the student also on display. Iceman speaks to Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid, apparently the parents of Mercury (Cessily Kincaid).. but tells them that Noriko still has her powers! Noriko Ashida is another student, and since the Kincaids are ashamed of Cessily's mutation, why would they'd be asking about another student, one they most likely don't know exists. Furthermore, the holo image projected in front of Iceman is obviously, even if we can just see the figure's back, not Cessily's. It's got Noriko's hairstyle, and it's wearing the uniform of her training squad, the New Mutants, which is quite different from the uniform worn by Mercury's squad, the Hellions. NIT-O-METER: 6 Bazzars, this is crappy writing, not bothering to pay attention to what other people have written, when it's relevant to what you are writing. <--------------------------------> "HOW MANY MUTANTS ARE THERE LEFT NOW, ANYWAY?" TITLE: Decimation: House Of M - The Day After. ISSUE: Single issue. CULPRIT: Chris Claremont (writer). NIT-TO-PICK: Okay, following the last two issues of House Of M, and thanks to the Scarlet Witch, there are very few mutants left on the Earth 616 of the Marvel Multiverse. Come on, who didn't see it coming when she said "NO MORE MUTANTS!"? In Decimation, page 19, the White Queen says "Before the Scarlet Witch, we numbered millions, Scott. (...) Right now... at best... we're barely hundreds." In page 10 she states that the number of mutants in the Xavier Institute campus dropped from 182 to about 27. That's about an 85 percent drop, whereas, assuming there were 2 million mutants in the world (the minimum for "we numbered millions) and now there's only 200 mutants in the entire planet (a plausible number for being barely hundreds), that would mean an overall 99.9% drop in the mutant population. It could be the Scarlet Witch's involuntary doing, but it's too convenient that a larger percentage of mutants at Xavier's didn't lose their powers, and most main characters still have them; and furthermore, X-Men associated mutants in the rest of the world, like (Dazzler, Pete Wisdom, Multiple Man, for example), making up a good part of the 0,01 percent of mutants in the rest of the planet to keep their powers. This is a royal mess, even if it's a good plot idea, the Marvel editors and writers should agree to a number and just stick to it, because it gets even worse: in New X-Men issue 20, page 18, Cerebra (the mutant detecting computer at Xavier's) states that there's been a 91.4 percent decrease in the world mutant population. If we take Emma Frost's statement in Decimation that mutants numbered millions, at its minimum that would be 2 million mutants in the world. A 91.4 percent reduction of that amount would still leave 172.000 mutants in the planet, which is more consistent with the 84 percent reduction in the mutant population of the Xavier Institute. With a few hundred thousand mutants in the world, I can safely believe more main character mutants have kept their powers, because there's a higher probability, coupled with the fact that the Scarlet Witch might have (willingly or not) spared them. Also, practicality-wise, leaving just a few hundred mutants in the world would make most mutant plots inconsequent, and that wouldn't make sense. NIT-O-METER: 8 Bazzars seem fair, since this is a mess they should have straightened out BEFORE publishing the stories. <--------------------------------> "WHAT IS THIS? FRIENDS? WHERE THE HECK ARE JOEY AND CHANDLER?" TITLE: New Excalibur. ISSUE: 01. CULPRIT: Chris Claremont (writer). NIT-TO-PICK: I'll give it to Chris, this first issue of New Excalibur is the best I've seen him write in a while. Not quite up to his standard of yore, but at least it's readable. I also dig the new Captain Britain costume Brian Braddock's wearing. But, the issue has some stuff that quite doesn't fit. First, I find it highly unlikely that the first person Psylocke doesn't call to say she's alive wouldn't be her twin brother, Brian; but I can accept that he might have been in another dimension or some such thing. Secondly, and this is the nit, Captain Britain and Juggernaut are awfully familiar with Dazzler. In page 16 Brian calls Dazzler by her first name, Alison, something he wouldn't be likely to do since they're not friends, have never been in a team together, and to the best of my knowledge, haven't even spent time together (Dazzler and Psylocke were teammates in the X-Men, but Captain Britain hardly appeared in X-Men in those days). I can understand he's worried about her health, since she's a friend of his sister, and a comrade-in-arms, but when he's administering CPR to her he says "Breath Alison, there's my brave girl." I could see it if he was saying that to Kitty, who was his teammate for a long time in Excalibur, and they're friends... but with Dazzler? And in page 18, Juggernaut calls her Alison too, and is extremely worried about her health. Come on, I know that Cain is a good guy now, and the transition was handled perfectly, it's one of my favorite X-Men storylines of the recent years; but still, he's not friends with Dazzler either, has never been in the same team than her, in fact, they've only been enemies (although I don't really remember if the X-Men fought Juggie during Daz's time in the team). Even if Juggernaut's an X-Man now, and a good guy, I can't really see him behaving as he does ("What'm s'posed ta do, Wagner, just stand around like a lump 'til some doc tells me she lives or dies?"), so concerned, even by the health of X-Men he's fought alongside, like Havok or Iceman. NIT-O-METER: It's bad enough that Chris didn't pay attention to what others wrote, now he doesn't pay attention to the stuff he's written himself? Still, it's not much of a problem, just some slightly-off characterization and dialogue, so I won't let it go higher than 6 Bazzars. <--------------------------------> That's it for this week, starting with this column, I'll give the average ranking for each week. Last week we had a 5 Bazzars average, climbing this week to 6.4. Either the pros are getting sloppier, I'm getting more perceptive, or I'm being more nitpicking every day... who knows? Until next week, I'll be on the outlook for more nits, because (almost) nothing escapes... THE NITPICKER! PS: Waddaya think of the nifty signature? Should I keep it? _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMICS OBSCURA Mike Curtis shandafa@cyberback.com [COMICS OBSCURA are facts Mike Curtis has dug out during his 30 years of collecting Superman and writing about comics. His website for his comic imprint is www.shandafantasyarts.net ] A HERO TO ALL BUT A DUMMY TO THE PROP DEPARTMENT This humble prop thrilled kids for over ten years, but never had a name. In 1940 Republic Pictures planned to do a serial based on SUPERMAN and prepared a life size dummy (dressed in a lightweight silk Superman costume) in a flying pose to use in aerial scenes (as they had in DARKEST AFRICA with Batmen and Clyde Beatty). DC stalled and the script and cast were turned into MYSTERIOUS DR. SATAN with the masked hero THE COPPERHEAD rescuing his Lois from the mad scientist and his robot powered by an "ite" element. The next year the dummy was redressed and flew on cables as CAPTAIN MARVEL. Seven years later, he got a leather jacket and helmet as KING OF THE ROCKETMEN, with the hero changing his name to COMMANDO CODY for 3 more serials. Lastly, he finally got to wear a Superman costume for the TV episode THE DOG WHO KNEW SUPERMAN. In the adventure he flies from the sky tunneling into the ground to rescue a dog from a well. _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [7] Suspended Animation Michael Vance & Mark Allen MiklVance2@worldnet.att.net http://www.starland.com/sus [Michael Vance, a professional writer since 1977 and has been published in dozens of magazines including Starlog and Jack and Jill, and as a syndicated columnist and cartoonist in over 500 newspapers. His history book, Forbidden Adventure: The History of the American Comics Group, has been called a "benchmark in comics history". He ghosted an internationally syndicated comic strip, and his wrote own strip, Holiday Out, that was reprinted as a comic book. Vance also wrote the comic books Straw Men, Angel of Death, The Adventures of Captain Nemo, and Bloodtide. He is listed in the Who's Who of American Comic Books and Comic Book Superstars. His short stories have appeared in dozens of magazines and recorded by actor William (Murder She Wrote) Windom. Suspended Animation, has been published for more than sixteen years, and Vance worked in newspapers for 22 years as an editor, writer and advertising manager. Mark Allen lives in Western Oklahoma with his wife and daughter. He has been a Baptist minister for over 15 years, and has also written for the Oklahoma news industry. Having indulged in comics for nearly 30 years, Mark now enjoys using the written word to share with others what he believes is a true, and extremely under-acknowledged, art form.] COMICS LEGEND Sam Cobean (1913-1951) was an artist whose excellent work influenced generations of magazine cartoonists including Sam's friend, Chas Addams, creator of The Addams Family. Cobean began his career as a cartoonist in the University of Oklahoma humor magazine The Covered Wagon, and on the universities newspaper, the Oklahoma Daily. His art was also published in The Band-wagon magazine at that time. In 1937, Cobean worked as an in-betweener at the Disney studio on Snow White, and, during WWII, on military animated training films. Most of his cartoons were published in issues of the New Yorker magazine starting in 1945, and were filled with boys and cats, men fantasizing about women, business offices, the city and country, kids, bars, marriage, and naked women. The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and Harper's magazines all featured his cartoons. Occasionally, Addams' dark humor peeked through Cobean's style: enter-taining a child, a man throws a shadow rabbit on a wall not by twisting his fingers into its form, but by holding up a rabbit! But Cobean's work was always original, reflecting his unique perspective on life with no or only a few words. Cobean drew in a minimalistic style that used few lines but packed a punch through the facial expressions and body language of his human subjects. Adapt at city or country backgrounds, he also effectively used no background to emphasize the thought or action in a panel. Cobean usually worked in the single panel, 'gag' cartoon format, occasionally expanding an idea into a sequence of panels. Universal in their approach, his themes were truly adult in nature and his cartoons remain as classics of their genre to this day. Two wonderful collections of Sam Cobean's work were published, Cobean's Naked Eye (Harper & Brothers, hardback, 1950; Pocket Books, paperback, 1952) and The Cartoons of Cobean (Harper & Brothers, 1952, hardback). More information about Cobean is available at www.samcobean.com His work is highly recommended. MV For information on Vance's short stories, comic books, and available work, query MiklVance@Yahoo.com. _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMICS OBSCURA Mike Curtis shandafa@cyberback.com [COMICS OBSCURA are facts Mike Curtis has dug out during his 30 years of collecting Superman and writing about comics. His website for his comic imprint is www.shandafantasyarts.net ] A MOST UNFORTUNATE PET NAME In one SUPERGIRL tale in ACTION COMICS, she visited the future of the LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES and met the descendent of her super- cat STREAKY. This cat was identical and had the additional power of telepathy. But one wonders what he thought of the name given him: WHIZZY. _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [8] ComiX-Fan Reviews Eric J. Moreels x-fan@bigpond.net.au http://www.comixfan.com/xfan [Editor's note: Some of the following reviews have spoilers to plot details. This is a TEXT ONLY newsletter so those spoilers are not hidden by HTML code as they are on the ComiX-fan site.] EXILES #72 Reviewer: Gary M. Miller, tensen2099@yahoo.com Story Title: "World Tour: New Universe" Part I of III "No, I'll believe you...if you can tell me who won the Super Bowl last year." Writer: Tony Bedard Penciler: Paul Pelletier Inker: Rick Magyar Colorist: Wil Quintana Letterer: Dave Sharpe Assistant Editor: Sean Ryan Associate Editor: Nick Lowe Editor: Mike Marts Editor-in-Chief: Joe Quesada Published by: Marvel Comics Who remembers the eighties? Disco was out, new wave was in, rap was just coming into the mainstream, and in the midst of it all, Marvel Comics celebrated the 25th anniversary of the "Marvel Age of Comics" that began with the publication of Fantastic Four #1 back in June of 1961. (Purists: yes, I know that FF was cover- dated November, but it hit the stands in June--the basis for that whole "Marvel 616" thing, ya know.) So what was Marvel to do, but usher in yet another new line of comics--the New Universe? The idea was a more grounded version of the original Marvel Universe, with fewer superhumans in a more "real-world" context. Of course, somehow a few aliens crept in there when nobody was looking, and then the real-world comparisons got blown apart completely (literally) when some editorial powers-that-were decided to destroy a major metropolitan area just to thumb their collective noses at the recently-departed editor-in-chief. The New Universe went the way of the dodo by 1990, but you know how it is: some people don't know how to let the old things go. And may I just say: thank God for Tony Bedard. Since learning of the true power behind their having become "unhinged from time," the Exiles have briefly been a group without purpose. However, when they decided to return one of their members, Beak, to his family on Earth-616, they stumbled upon a new menace in the form of the newly-resurrected (as result of the House of M saga), body-jumping mutant known as Proteus. The villain learned of the Exiles' unique nature, and used his own reality-warping powers with the intent to take his own trip through various alternate realities in search of a body powerful enough to withstand wasting away under his possession. His first sojourn outside his home dimension brings him to the New Universe Earth, home to paranormal beings mutated as result of a "White Event" in the skies over the world on July 22, 1986. Of course, the Exiles follow, and the fun begins. I can safely say that the wild ride Messrs. Bedard and Pelletier began during the last arc intensifies here, with the same tense scripting and detailed art as in previous chapters. The tautness and well-rounded quality of the script comes in no small part from Mr. Bedard's somewhat overwhelming familiarity with the New Universe's history. Three of the New U's eight titles are represented here, and each is portrayed with the same mannerisms and attitudes as in their original 1980s incarnations. Fortunately, too, Bedard is able to draw on the best aspects of each character to put forth to readers who have never "met" these characters. Although I definitely got warm fuzzies seeing Justice (my favorite New U inhabitant) obliterate some common street thugs, it was even more entertaining to see the familiar denizens of The Clinic, from the Displaced Paranormals (D.P.7 for short) right on down to Hackbarth and Voigt, to say nothing of the utter arrogance and idiocy exemplified in the New U's most powerful hero, Ken Connell, a.k.a. Starbrand. (Yes, it just so happens that the oft-cliche 'misunderstanding/superbrawl' is actually perfectly in-character for ol' Ken.) Fortunately, too, the non-New Universe-related characters, the Exiles themselves and Proteus, get ample face-time. In an unsurprising but still satisfying move, the fates of Beak, Angel, and their children are revealed in a thread carried over from the previous arc. Meanwhile, Bedard peppers hints that Proteus may not be in as total control as the Exiles had first thought...which leads to the search for the most powerful paranormal of them all (who just happens to live in Pittsburgh-- pretty much my hometown), and a rendezvous with the paranormal judge, jury and executioner. I was surprised by not only how much balance there was between the New Universe characters and the Exiles team, as well as how little plot details from the old series were seamlessly dovetailed into the narrative. This storyline has clearly been in the works for some time. As I mentioned previously, Paul Pelletier's art is still as dynamic as in issues previous. It's great seeing his dead-on interpretations of all of the New Universe characters here. Here's hoping he gets to draw even more of the New Universe's cast of characters in subsequent chapters. It's like I've been transported back to the 1980s, so perfectly has the feeling of the original comics line been captured. The art succeeds, and in between the New U work, Pelletier also offers us tantalizing glimpses of the realities yet to be visited. Mmmm...num-nums. Overall, however excited I was during the initial "World Tour" arc, I'm even more anxious after this story. Who will tag along with the Exiles from this reality? Whom will Proteus possess next? What's going to become of Mimic? Will Ken Connell ever be anything less than a total jerk with a huge schnozz? And hey, will heavy metal or hip-hop triumph? These are the things a New Uniphile's gotta know. Oh, and for what it's worth, the answer is the Chicago Bears. Silly Exiles... 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