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the absorbascon tuesday may 12 2026 batwheels well i had planned to hate batwheels which i finally started to watch this week my plan failed it failed utterly i suppose i was expecting some extreme mecha nonsense i was wrong adam west voicing the original batman too delightful most adorable ace ever the arrowplane and batwing are best friends green arrow and batman are not depicting the riddler as black was an ingenious update of his traditional look and i am now rooting for this change to become mainstream the music the show is filled with it is fun and provides leitmotifs for the various characters the opening theme s homage to the neal hefti batman theme is just one example the characterization is expert the various bat vehicles have their own personalities they aren t merely carbon copies of their owners they have different abilities and so must work as a team their origin story even makes comic book sense the bat family was captured so the batcomputer ai installed ai in the vehicles to go rescue them the versions of the human characters are impressive in some cases nearly definitive the awkwardness between strong silent batman voiced believe it or not by ethan hawke and playful wise acre green arrow a duke thomas version of robin that i immediately wanted to see in comics when is the last time anyone saw duke thomas wayne knight as king tut driving the carcophagus i m sold the characters learn lessons help one another overcome fears and limitations it s a great show for kids to acquire life lessons reviewers seem to think it s for pre schoolers it seems to me a bit fast and complex for pre schoolers there are a lot of references that go over the heads of young folk the penguin makes a hindenburg joke in one episode and there are few pre schoolers who ve seen the hindenburg broadcast i m no pre schooler but i m enjoying it perhaps you will too posted by scipio at 10 31 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels batwheels saturday may 09 2026 he controls the vertical voice acting messes with my head it changes how you see the world when it hits you that animated hawkman let s get em skreel is also the outer limits control voice more generally actor vic perrin posted by scipio at 7 18 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels filmation hawkman random thoughts friday may 08 2026 animal man s arm in animal man 2 buddy animal man baker loses an arm i remember the moment having read the comic when it came out it was quite shocking indeed in the next issue however buddy got better as characters often do unlike many characters however buddy does so on panel and as a function of his superpower the power to copy the abilities of nearby animals the solution is elegant and simple earthworms are everywhere and yet demonstrates how absurd and impactful buddy s powers are not a lot of heroes can casually regrow an arm but there is loose thread here one i expected the writer to follow up on at some point instead of rambling on with post modernistic talking foxes and the like buddy s arm wasn t atomized it was separated whole from his torso and is lying nearby when buddy used the earthworm power it seems possible that the arm would start to regrow the rest of him naturally that would take longer than buddy just regrowing an arm but it seems quite within the realm of the possibility that a second animal man would at some point turn up the result of his severed arm doing the earthworm thing and yet it remains an unvisited idea now buried under multiple universal reboots posted by scipio at 8 36 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels animal man loose threads wednesday may 06 2026 superman s gym today was the day it occurred to me that when superman works out if he does work out and you would think he would he must do so in the bottle city of kandor posted by scipio at 8 43 pm 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels kandor superman monday may 04 2026 the wit and wisdom of wild dog as i have written about before wild dog that is the rené ramirez version of him played on the tv show arrow by actor and natural comedian rick gonzalez is one of my favorite comic book characters if i had a daughter i would definitely name her hossette i d wager that most people who even know who wild dog is know him only as the ramirez version since the original the jack wheeler version has appeared almost never in comics i believe that his appearances in cave carson has a cybernetic eye may equal or exceed all the rest of his appearances combined sadly even the joy that is wild dog doesn t make reading cave carson has a cybernetic eye worth the effort as linked above we have discussed wild dog before but there is something we never pointed out although the rené ramirez version was known for his dry wise cracking the original jack wheeler was a man of few words just like the fleischer version of the man of steel who if a recall correctly does not actually say a single word in costume he is a man of action comics how few enough that i can give you all of them from his original four point mini series here in this post in the first issue wild dog says nothing at all there s an emergent hostage situation and we see wild dog leap into action arming himself quickly and leaping into his vehicle to go to the rescue the red rover but there s no dialog from him despite prompting he s a tad chattier in the next three issues but not much this is perhaps his best quote browning is well known manufacturer of weaponry and fishing gear but there is no evidence that wild dog enjoys fishing his inner dialog is especially pithy this is his only visible thought in the entire series not sure that s dialog exactly but it is an utterance sarcasm is his native language that s a characteristic the rené ramirez retained here he is imitating the voice of a conspirator he has already captured in order to lure the co conspirators to their doom this is the first part of his big speech and that s the second part and that s it now his secret identity jack wheeler has plenty of dialog conversations with friends and authorities an extended flashback origin but as wild dog he says only what you see here if you want a hero of action not of words wild dog is your hero posted by scipio at 4 09 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels wild dog saturday may 02 2026 skreel if you are not familiar with the filmation cartoons versions of the dcu from the 1960s you deserve to be i have mentioned them many times here and they feature a lot of iconic characters mostly notably superman batman aquaman but also green lantern the flash the atom hawkman and the teen titans no fleisher studios filmation was a pretty small time outfit it famously bluffed its way into getting the chance to put many of dc s icons on the small screen so they were not trying to make the job any more difficult with new and innovative takes on the characters they had enough trouble with the basics the superman and batman cartoons were quite traditional with the usual cast of supporting characters and villains although the new recurring superman villain the warlock filled the obvious but empty niche of a villainous user of magic one of superman s few weaknesses aquaman cartoons had the basic elements him the red head the big headed purpled eye freak atlantis aqua telepathy but threw in a new power the aqua projectiles arthur would whip and hurl and a biologically inaccurate troublesome pet a man being perfectly amphibious is one thing but a pinniped patently absurd the flash and the atom were their usual selves as was green lantern but hawkman now there s a different story even at this point in his comic book history hawkman was clearly too byzantine and muddled a concept to be translated as is by filmation he was what you might call a fixer upper so filmation simplified that messy concept with its metaphorical flattening iron nobody flattens quite as thoroughly as filmation carter hall had black hair just as he did in comics throughout most of the silver and bronze ages although most people have forgotten that and think of him as brown haired which happened in the late bronze age for some reason hawkman flew that part s baked in and his costume was a filmation simplification of his silver age one except for that nifty claw more on that later but after that filmation took liberties hawkgirl was nowhere in evidence nor were lesser but still steady crime fighting colleagues like commissioner cool as a cucumber emmett instead hawkman supporting cast was boiled down into one person the mysterious prof barnes a k a the phantom stranger of science prof barnes friend father figure authority figure consultant colleage confidante lover prof barnes is all things to all people prof barnes is the alpha and the omega hawkman was now an alien specifically a scientific genius from a far off world to quote the cartoon s intro the cartoon having been made in 1967 carter hall being an alien was new in comics as introduced when george kashdan took over the title late that year george kashdan also wrote hawkman for filmation whether the cartoon or the comic is the chicken or the egg i do not know for sure but suffice it to say that george kashdan decided hawkman was alien and made it happen both on pulp and on screen based on the timing i m guessing that kashdan made that change in the filmation cartoon first then changed the comic to match as soon as he got the chance so the entirety of the idea that hawkman is an alien and all the decades of lore that comes from that is rooted in filmation s three hawkman cartoons hawkman was no longer an archaeologist which is for the best since hawkman is ever the eye of a hurricane of objects destruction he shouldn t be allowed with a mile of any museum the only reason carter hall was ever an archaeologist was to enable his ancient weapon fetish so that was all wisely jettisoned filmation carter hall was in fact a brilliant scientist and presumably inventor of all his wild weaponry working with prof barnes because who wouldn t if they could he worked at a vast lab complex on the outskirts of midway center hey they kept hawkman s fictionopolis if i wrote hawkman vast labs would be the brand name of the place gone is any explanation for his powers and abilities are they a function of his being an alien of his scientific weaponry or both magno visison radar vision what are they what do they do are they intrinsic to hawkman s alien race or additive of his helmet who knows who cares this is filmation people his cool looking claw has modes like electro claws destructo claw chemo claw and repello ray i guess he shops with electrawoman and dynagirl or maybe space ghost who first appeared the year before his wings appear to be nigh indestructible as a defense just like bat fink your bullets cannot harm me my wings are like a shield of steel even without space ship or even a shirt he can fly unaided in the absolute zero vacuum of space where wings are especially helpful he has a kick spaceship the hawkship natch and none of aquaman s tusky the hapless walrus bs hawkman has a kick animal companion skreel it really cannot be overstated just how bad skreel is he is the scourge of all fey alien dictators yeah and don t bother going for the gun just be glad you still have eyes in fact so awesome is skreel i had to customize him into my heroclix collection as a worthy sidekick to hawkman if you read heroclix you can see just how wicked that dial is for only 15 points his dial is borrowed from some minor marvel character and as you would expect from a bird he gets more dangerous the more you tick him off look buddy i get it i really do but i am running out of excuses for why the crooks we turn in have no eyes no wonder hawkman wears a 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