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Super Sons to the Rescue: What Made DC’s Super Sons Comics Great

Posted: 01 Jul 2022 03:25 PM PDT

 

Let's Start Off At The Beginning

Super Sons is a series that came out of DC Rebirth Superman, to which we were introduced to Jon Samuel Kent also via DC Comics Road to Rebirth by both Dan Jurgens & Peter . Tomasi, not forgetting Jon Samuel Kents first introduction via DC Convergence Superman Comic Run.

 

 

Let The Trials Begin!

In Trials Of The Super Son, this became like an official testing ground to see if they could put 2 official offspring of the main heroes, to see if they could work well in the comic run under Peter J Tomasi, to which in the Superman run, along with Patrick Gleason who has worked alongside Peter J. Tomasi on his Batman & Robin run, the care for both of these characters offspring being Damian Wayne (Robin) & Jon Samuel Kent (Superboy), we already had a set up of friends for both characters, for Damian Wayne it was Maya Ducard, which took place in Robin: Son Of Batman under Gleason, an for the character of Kathy to which both Gleason & Tomasi worked on in the Superman run, it later added to the Superman run, the character of Boyzarro, who is the Son of Bizarro.

 

 

Their First Villain

After the Trial Of The Super Son, when Damian & Jon earned their capes from their Biological Fathers, plus some getting to know each other time, which you can definitely see they were both on rocky ground, until they started to begin to like each other, still had things that kept them both as different individuals, sure there was a small age difference between them, as well as height difference, still made it all exciting.

 

 

As the 1st Super Sons story arc begun, we learned of the character who would be 1st Villain, being Kid Amazo, an how this character had somewhat changed some more since moving into DC Rebirth, we still somewhat had Maya in the background who had been observing them, until she was left unseen in the run, still appeared in the Superman rebirth run, alongside with Kathy.

 

By the time the Super Sons start to take on Kid Amazo, both Damian & Jon, now have small nicknames they call each other as, for Jon he called Damian "D", an for Damian he called Jon "J", as their friendship began to grow.

 

 

Holy Multiverse Batboy!

By the time we move into The Planet Of The Capes arc which also crossed over with DC Rebirth Teen Titans, which was being written by Benjamin Percy, they encounter an enemy, which managed to age up Damian to being Grandpa age, the teen titans which Damian is working with, also enjoy Jon S Kent aka Superboys company in also helping them out, this, will also come back up again later with the next volume, it is also in this Volume or these issues that we officially get the Super Sons Headquarters in Morrison Bay, between Gotham & Metropolis being The Fortress Of Attitude.

 

 

Also in the upcoming issues, it was also established that they now both go to the same school together, especially to help increase Damian's social skills, an Jon S Kent helps to do that with Damian.

 

As the arc of Super Sons Of Tomorrow starts we have a Tim Drake from the New52 enter into the DC Rebirth universe, into the world of the Super Sons, to which he lays blame on Damian & Jon being responsible for the destruction of something that happened in his universe with his Jon Kent, so this one goes into pre-emptive measures to stop this Jon S Kent in the Rebirth of DC, as this arc occurs, this brings both Damian & Jon so much closer together as friends, as this Tim Drake also takes on a new mantle name known as Savior, things eventually get resolved towards the end of the story, with the help of Superman on the scene as well, when it came to things in relation to Jon S. Kent joining the Teen Titans, it was a let down to his character, because not all the characters were working as a team, with some rough spots, which showed later in the Benjamin Percy run.

 

 

As we moved into the 3rd Vol of the Super Sons, this had 2 story arcs, 1 consisting of Talia Al Ghul which the arc was called the Parent Trap, to which something was done to threaten Lois Lane, this story was also used to teach Jon some more about Damian Wayne's Past before he became Robin, as his best friend was also an Assassin who worked under his mother, it definitely had some funny moments, including Jon asking if he could be taught how to use a Sword, to which Damian refuses.

 

 

The 2nd Arc consisting of the Return of Kid Amazo, to which he took out many members of the Justice League, an Cyborg was there to also help out the Super Sons, upon completion of that arc, we did move into another crossover one shot being the Super Sons/Dynomutt Special.

 

 

Present Friends List Of The Super Sons

With this list, there will be some carry over from Pre-Super Sons as well as present Super Sons in this time period.

  • Colin(Friend Of Damian Wayne)
  • Maya Ducard(Friend Of Damian Wayne)
  • Suren (Friend Of Damian Wayne)
  • Kathy (Friend Of Jon S Kent)
  • Boyzarro (Friend Of Jon S Kent)
  • The Teen Titans when under Damian Wayne, were welcoming of Jon S Kent
  • The Justice League
  • Dynomutt & Blue Falcon (Friend Of Both)
  • Batfamily & Superman Family (Friend Of Both)
  • The Planet Of The Capes friends they also made, when they went to another multiverse

 

 

The Action Detectives

Moving into Adventure Of The Super Sons, Peter J Tomasi didn't miss a beat, with both the 1st & 2nd Volume, where in this one we had the Super Sons take on a slightly different villain group, called the Gang, in this gang used Jon S Kent to obtain the Hypercube, which had made its appearance in the Peter J. Tomasi Superman run.

 

 

In this story the Super Sons definitely got to explore outside the earth they presently live on, go to a planet or 2, plus meet up with a Robotic Jonah Hex, end up seeing what could be a possible future for both of them. This then causes the system they were trapped in to be broken, which had them in a dream state, we also had Tommy Tomorrow turn up as well, plus the members of the gang to which we learn later on is connected to the sentience within the Hypercube itself, eventually wanting to make friends with the Super Sons, without either Batman or Superman knowing about it, it does eventually get restored to its place in the Fortress Of Solitude.

 

 

Challenge Accepted

In Challenge Of The Super Sons, it showed up at the right time & right place, just when you needed some hope in a time of disarray, with things ending like DC Death Metal to entering the DC Future State, we got the introduction of 2 Villains(Felix Faust & Vandal Savage) which had he Super Sons in their sights with their own cruel devices, but also the appearance of a character called Aurora, who was Felix Faust young apprentice, in this run, our fave Super Sons had to go out of their way to save some the members of the Justice League, whilst trying to reverse the curse of a scroll, the set up of this story was amazing, definitely gave high manga vibes, as we even had our protagonists J & D, even being sent to the Past & Bought forward once again into the Future of these amazing 14 chapters which were broken into 7 physical issues of this run, also seeing how the members of the Justice League once they solved out what the Super Sons were doing, also came to their rescue.

 

New Friends Made In this time

  • The Hypercube
  • Cyborg Jonah Hex
  • Aurora

 

 

Super Sons Reunited

As we move into the Peter J Tomasi Super Sons one shot, called Superman & Robin, Peter J Tomasi brings back the Hypercube, with the great editing & story skills of his team, they made sure to keep us the audience up to date in relation the Hypercube once again, as it sets off the alarm at the Fortress Of Solitude.

 

 

With the return of this sentient Hypercube, the Super Sons were both called back in again to the Fortress Of Solitude, one thing I think a lot of people missed was the actual title of this chapter, which leaves things very open ended, not plot hole filled, as many would think, as we know Peter J Tomasi is returning with another Super Sons story in regards the Saved By The Belle Reve, hopefully in both the Super Sons related Dark Crisis stories, time will tell until those Solicitations come out.

 

Restoration Station

By restoring the Super Sons, even in the adventures they have had under Tomasi, they have been incredible, I am sure you noticed in this article, I did stray away from both Brian Michael Bendis & Tom Taylor’s destruction of these characters, as it comes off like a sexual fetish from both writers, as well as too some of the DC Editors, sorry, but you guys need to find a job packing boxes at your local Woolworths or Walmart outlet to get in touch & down to earth as to where you are delivering your product too, an to not act like cowards whenever criticism comes your way on all subjects, as Criticism as it can be Destructive, it can also be Constructive, to help put things in a different perspective.

 

By making the Present Jon kent we do see in the DC Comic universe the one from the New52 multiverse, it ties in with what Tom Taylor shared in his story with that character, that it was this character that Jor El from the Brian Michael Bendis run bought back, not the Jon Samuel Kent the Super Sons readers actually love to read about, including with the actions around Taylor/Bendis representation of Lois Lane that lack both Heart & Soul.

 

By bringing back the Sentient & Magical Mystery Hypercube, it does indeed bring back the opportunity to get the Super Sons back together again, with a Legit Superman(Clark Kent) & Robin(Damian Wayne) run under Tomasi, which could either be a mini or maxi series of maybe 7-14 issues long, as you could have the Hypercube return, this time it shows up in the Super Sons HQ in Morrison Bay, an Damian investigates the intruder alert to find it there, this time we get a glimpse of a message from the Hypercube to Damian from the Missing Jon Samuel Kent so basically his own Help Me D, You are my Only Hope, Damian informs his father, to which he gives permission to go with Superman to go search for Jon S Kent together, the Hypercube being one of the things to help track Jon S Kent down, as Batman now has to keep an eye on the present multiverse version of the Tom Taylor Tyrant version of Superboy as Damian Saves his best friend, with Batmans best friend Clark Kent aka Superman.

 

 

Increasing The Super Sons Friendships

With the characters that I would include in the Super Sons friendships, I am afraid I have to say, Goodbye Jay Nakamura, you don't cut it, nor do you Flatline.

The friends that I would add to the Super Sons would be these characters:

  • Connor Hawke
  • Jay & Irey West
  • Sideways or Derek James (Ruined by Bendis)
  • Tai Pham (Green Lantern: Legacy)
  • Keli Quintela (Written by its actual creator being Patrick Gleason, not Brian Michael Bendis)
  • Ravager
  • Respawn(was killed off too early)
  • Miguel from Dial H For Hero (Ruined by the writer who worked on the story around his character)

I understand there are some people I might have missed on the list, not to worried about it at the moment, there were some characters I did like in the Joshua Williamson Robin run.

 

 

 

Originally published here

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Stage 1 Denial: ‘Lightyear’ Director Discusses Possible Sequel

Posted: 01 Jul 2022 01:38 PM PDT

 

 

Disney’s latest Pixar movie ‘Lightyear’ is a disaster by every measure. The film’s second weekend revenue dropped by 65% to just $17.7 million after a dismal $51 million debut Being a Toy Story film, this is a shock to woke Disney.

 

After ten days and two weekends, Lightyear, which is a part of the most well-known and enduring cartoon franchise in history, is still only at a pitiful $88.8 million domestically. It has only made $152 million globally. $200 million was spent on just the production. $100 million more should go toward marketing. Since the studios split ticket sales with the cinema, Disney needs a global take of at least $550 to 650 million to break even, which won’t happen. Lightyear will most likely lose more than $100 million as a result.

 

So it is a bit of a surprise that the director is discussing a possible sequel. In a recent interview, director and co-writer Angus MacLane says he’s excited about where the plot could be taken next and intentionally inserted a post-credit scene to tease what happens next:

 

“I think there are more stories to be told, whether or not we will pursue them is unclear. It’s a movie I’ve always wanted to see. So, naturally, I was going to take the time to figure out what happens next. If nothing else, so that I knew. So, I’m excited about where it goes. Whether or not I’ll share that remains to be seen.”

 

Let me make things perfectly clear. There will be no sequel to Lightyear. In fact, I’d be willing to wager that this weekend’s animated sequel Minions: The Rise of Gru will handily outperform Lightyear for its debut weekend, that is unless I missed the part where Minions was centering the sequel on an LGBTQ family and the lead actor was mocking anyone that didn’t feel comfortable with that subject matter in their kid’s movies.

 

Let’s see how they measure up.

 

 

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Jason Schwartzman Joins ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel Movie

Posted: 01 Jul 2022 10:55 AM PDT

 

Jason Schwartzman is the latest star to join The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, THR reports.

 

In the prequel, Schwartzman will play Lucretius "Lucky" Flickerman, the host of the 10th Hunger Games and ancestor to Caesar Flickerman, who would become the voice of Panem and is played by Stanley Tucci in the original Hunger Games films.

 

He joins Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow (played by Donald Sutherland in the original films), Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow, Coriolanus' cousin and confidante, Josh Andres Rivera as Sejanus Plinth, the mentor to a tribute from District 2 and a close friend of young Coriolanus Snow, and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray, the girl tribute from impoverished District 12.

 

The prequel's logline from Lionsgate reads: "Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem's attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy's race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird and a snake."

 

Francis Lawrence, who directed three of the four Hunger Games movies — Catching Fire, Mockingjay: Part One and Mockingjay: Part Two — is back in the helmer's seat with franchise producer Nina Jacobson and her partner Brad Simpson back as producers. Lawrence is also producing. Collins, Tim Palen and Jim Miller exec produce. Michael Lesslie wrote the latest draft of the screenplay.

 

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Seth MacFarlane Publishing a Bonus ‘The Orville’ this Month

Posted: 01 Jul 2022 08:25 AM PDT

 

He can sing, he can dance, he can voice a baby, he can make movies and long-running TV-shows, both animated and live-action science fiction. What can’t Seth MacFarlane do? Well, if you had written down “become an author”, you can cross that right off the list, because MacFarlane has announced that he has, in fact, written a new novella, to be released digitally on July 19.

 

The new novella will be based in the universe of his science fiction series The Orville: New Horizons and will be titled The Orville: Sympathy for the Devil.

 

MacFarlane made the announcement via Twitter, stating, that “[d]ue to Covid shutdowns, we had to scrap one episode of The Orville: New Horizons. It was an outlier—a conceptually experimental story. Rather than let it vanish, I decided to adapt it as a novelization. Available digitally July 19… “

 

The novella will follow Ed Mercer and the other crew of the U.S.S. Orville as they come face-to-face with humanity’s most heinous ideologies. The crew will have to solve the moral conundrum of whom to hold accountable for evil deeds both actual and imaginary. The novella will happen just after The Orville: New Horizons Episode 8, and will put the story in a brand-new context.

 

The cover art for the novella will be an original piece from Bill Sienkiewicz, who is an Eisner-winning, Emmy-nominated artist. Sienkewicz is maybe best known for reinventing the style of comics and graphic novel illustration in his works from Marvel Comics’ New Mutants and Elektra: Assassin to the acclaimed graphic novel Stray Toasters. The audiobook of the novella will be narrated by Bruce Boxleitner of Tron fame.

 

via Collider

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What’s Conspicuously Missing from Praise for Ms. Marvel writer G. Willow Wilson

Posted: 01 Jul 2022 06:15 AM PDT

 

Last year, the New Jersey Monthly fawned over state native G. Willow Wilson, the Islamic convert and propagandist hired by Marvel to create the ultimate propaganda product that’s really put a stain on their reputation, and predictably, she made use of victimology:

 

When Marvel Comics approached G. Willow Wilson about creating the first female, Muslim superhero for an ongoing series, Wilson didn't respond with unbridled enthusiasm. "You'll have to hire an intern just to open the hate mail," she warned editors Sana Amanat and Steve Wacker.

Indeed, the 2013 debut of Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel—a Pakistani-American, Urdu-speaking, body-morphing, teenage crime fighter living in Jersey City—raised the ire of Internet trolls and some far-right websites. But it also did something neither Wilson nor her editors anticipated: It marked the beginning of a remarkably successful run that would comprise more than 50 issues and 10 compilations, including Ms. Marvel Volume 1: No Normal and Ms. Marvel Volume 9: Teenage Wasteland, winners of the Hugo and American Book awards, respectively. Ms. Marvel (a cocreation with artists Adrian Alphona and Jamie McKelvie and editors Amanat and Wacker) would gain Wilson accolades for her writing and for the realization of a minority character whose complexity made her much more than a token Muslim in the largely white Marvel universe.

 

Whenever they speak so snidely and contemptuously of “far-right”, you know something’s wrong. All they’re doing is implying contempt for communities like 911 Families for a Safe & Strong America, along with whites. Indeed, what’s skin color got to do with any of this? Are they confusing religion with race to boot? All this does is hurt the reputation of Stan Lee, a white man himself, in the process.

 

 

No doubt, Wilson also indirectly resorted to the now classic accusations of “islamophobia”, which is nothing more than an excuse to avoid serious questions and other issues regarding the Religion of Peace™. As expected, no sales figures were given at the time the magazine first wrote this, nor are any questions asked whether the Muslim Ms. Marvel book was kept going as long as it did for the sake of propaganda at all costs.

 

Wilson's personal life is similarly unconventional. Brought up by nonreligious, white parents, she converted to Islam at 21. Though she moved to Colorado with her family when she was 14 and currently lives in Seattle with her husband and two school-age children, she continues to be inspired by her New Jersey childhood.

Born in Long Branch, Wilson grew up in Marlboro. The diversity she encountered there had what she describes as "a tremendous impact" on her life and subsequent work. "When I was in elementary and middle school," she says, "I had classmates from all over the world. I was one of the very few white kids who weren't also the children of immigrants, and tons of my classmates were South Asian, East Asian—so to me, that's what normal was." Moving to Colorado and entering an overwhelmingly white high school, she adds, was "quite a shock."

 

What exactly is the big deal for a white person to move to a school where the students are mainly white too? This is peculiar, like somebody’s suggesting that being white is synonymous with “wrong”. And that’s just one of this modern world’s problems, where everybody’s making whiteness out to be entirely a bad thing. Funny thing about Wilson stressing the students in the former school came worldwide, she doesn’t say whether any came from backgrounds like Hungary, Denmark, Uruguay, or even Armenia. As a result, what she says comes off more as superficial talk of a SJW that doesn’t add up to much of anything.

 

Wilson's first exposure to comics was in fifth-grade health class, via an anti-smoking comic starring Marvel's X-Men. She was drawn in by the characters, she says, not so much for their superpowers, but because "they always seemed intuitively to know what the right thing to do was." That was especially appealing to a young woman with a contemplative bent, who would spend much of her life musing over issues of philosophy, spirituality and religion. That she'd become a writer was almost preordained. "I can remember answering, 'I want to be a writer,' pretty much as soon as adults started asking me that question," she says.

As a kid, she recalls, "I thought about things you couldn't see more than the other kids around me seemed to"—a tendency that came to a head in her late teens. She'd read about Islam in some of her classes and was struck by how the religion's teachings seemed to reflect her burgeoning worldview—particularly, the idea that neither bad experiences nor good represented God's judgment, but were simply "part of the challenge of being human, the hurdle that's put in front of you when you're born."

 

And this is a predictable whitewash, with taqiyya accompanying it. Why no mention, for example, of Sura 19:4294? If she won’t be more open about anything in the Religion of Peace, she’s not saying anything worth pondering.

 

She might well have converted then and there, but on the road to Islam, she encountered a major stumbling block: the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center by Muslim terrorists. "It took a couple of years for me to circle back to it after that and grapple with the idea with fresh eyes after this horrible tragedy had happened," she says.

 

What’s fascinating is how she refused to wake up and acknowledge the more violent themes in the Koran, like Sura 47:3-4. That she remained superficial on the issues involved only compounds the perception she remains dishonest and cryptic about the exact content of the Religion of Peace™.

 

Her adopted religion and its Middle Eastern roots inform much of her writing, which has been widely praised for its deft genre blending and its inspired interweaving of mythology, religion, philosophy, folklore, history, technology and current-day politics. Her 2007 graphic novel, Cairo, for instance, sets a drug dealer, an expat, a journalist and an Israeli soldier on a search for a stolen hookah housing a genie. The protagonist of Alif the Unseen, winner of the World Fantasy Award for best novel, is a hacker in an unnamed Arab emirate who's drawn into a fight against state censorship, aided by a magical manuscript. Her second novel, The Bird King, takes place during the final Spanish emirate and recounts the relationship between a royal courtesan and a mapmaker who possesses supernatural skills.

 

Considering how much censorship the left’s advocated for the sake of defending the Religion of Peace™, it sure is weird she’d write a book about the subject, when she herself isn’t being open about her belief system. Also, who knows how the Israeli soldier in her book is depicted? What if it’s most negative in the extreme?

 

In spite of her immersion in fantasy, reality is important to Wilson, and depth of character matters to her at least as much as diversity. Initially, she says, the publishing industry's interest in diversity "was very cosmetic and surface level"—unlike Wilson, whose characters have always been complex, no matter their racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds. "All I really try to do," she explains, "is tell stories with as much compassion and accuracy as I can."

Wilson doesn't see herself as an ambassador for diversity. "I'm a white convert," she says. "You can't really take my experience and extrapolate anything meaningful about the American Muslim community from me." Still, says critic Emily Barton, "her religious background, combined with her apparently natural, boundless empathy, bring a strong moral sensibility to her work."

 

Umm, the Arab community, from which the Religion of Peace™ originated, is by and large white/Caucasian, and the way she makes it sound like her alleged experiences don’t make her fit to say much based on her background only makes this all the more insulting to the intellect. Why no mention of apostates from Islam, and what they think of the belief system she goes by? And has she ever met with the aforementioned 9-11 Families to understand their viewpoints? Obviously not.

It’s good if she’s no longer employed by the Big Two (last time I looked though, Saladin Ahmed sadly still was), though even now, they could still be open to employing propagandists like her, no matter how poorly the products she writes actually sell. The damage people like Wilson have caused to the literary industry in general is far reaching, and will take eons to repair.

 

Originally published here

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Cobra Kai Creators add Cast Members to their Upcoming Netflix Series ‘Obliterated’

Posted: 01 Jul 2022 04:45 AM PDT

Nick Zano (DC's Legends of Tomorrow) and Shelley Hennig (Teen Wolf) are set as the leads of Obliterated, Netflix's hourlong action comedy series from Cobra Kai creators Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg and Josh Heald as well as Sony Pictures Television.

 

Written by Hurwitz, Schlossberg and Heald, the eight-episode Obliterated is a high-octane action-comedy that tells the story of an elite Special Forces team who thwarts a deadly threat to Las Vegas. After their celebratory party, filled with booze, drugs and sex, the team discovers that a bomb they deactivated was a fake. The now-intoxicated team has to fight through their impairments, overcome their personal issues, find the real bomb and save the world.

 

 

Zano plays Chad McKnight, the head of an elite SEAL team who loves him despite his reputation for being a wild guy on and off the job. The night from hell in Vegas will test his commitment to both keeping the good times going and saving the world while he's at it.

 

Hennig plays Ava Winters, a CIA lead agent who likes to play by the book while overseeing an elite Special Forces team. But the book gets thrown out the window when she and the team have to go back to work while impaired.

 

Hurwitz, Schlossberg and Heald as well as Dina Hillier executive produce for Counterbalance Entertainment.

 

via Deadline

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