#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #4: Doctor Manhattan and Laurie Juspeczyk Courtship Appears in Watchmen #1-12 Written by: Alan Moore Summary (contains spoilers): Doctor Jonathan Osterman gained superpowers when he was involved in an accident with an Intrinsic Field Subtractor, which turned him into the super-powered Doctor Manhattan. He was given…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I’ve been thinking about love and relationships a lot lately. Well, not really, but I was trying to think up an interesting topic to blog about, and the timeliness of Saturday’s big Hallmark holiday made romance a natural fit….
I came across a disturbing bit of comic book movie news this morning on Variety. Thought I’d share it with you so that you could smack yourself in the forehead in the same way I did about ten minutes ago. Read this sentence carefully: Reliance Big Entertainment has acquired Rob Liefeld’s iconic graphic novel “Youngblood”…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #1: Dark Awakening, The Transformers Originally broadcast September 22, 1986 Written by Antoni Zalewski Plot summary (from imdb.com): …Several Autobots seek shelter to make repairs to their ship and find a mausoleum they built for causalities [from The Transformers: The Movie]. They discover that Optimus Prime…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #2: The Phantom Brigade, G.I. Joe Originally broadcast October 9, 1985 Written by Sharman Di Vono Plot summary (from Allmovie.com): Cobra Commander uses an elderly gypsy woman to conjure up three dangerous ghosts: a Roman legionnaire, a Mongol warrior, and an American WWI flying ace. He…
With Final Crisis ending with the God Machine reverting everything back to normal, and with Final Crisis: Revelations ending with the Spectre undoing everything Cain and his followers did in that series, it’s making me wonder: can you think of two other concurrent big-event miniseries that both ended with “And then it all went back…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #3: Worlds Without End, G.I. Joe Originally broadcast November 4, 1985 Written by Martin Pasko Plot summary (from AllMovie.com): Joe team members Flint, Lady Jaye, Airtight, Grunt, Clutch, and Steeler try to recover a matter transmutor stolen by the Dreadnoks. When the device is accidentally triggered,…
There are a good number of these “What did Superman sing to Darkseid?” efforts going around, but this is by far the best. From Registered Weapon: h/t: Spencer Ackerman
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 Today’s installment is quite a departure from yesterday’s, but still noteworthy, especially given its series context. #4: My Gummi Lies Over the Ocean, The Gummi Bears Originally broadcast November 29, 1986 Written by Doug Hutchinson, Jymn Magon, Bruce Talkington, Art Vitello and Mark Zaslove Plot summary…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 After observing how well Batman: The Brave and the Bold handled the Blue Beetle’s death in a children’s cartoon, it made me wonder how seeing that episode would affect kids watching it today. I remember enjoying my cartoons for the imaginative adventures, but there were a…