Friday Night Fights - Of Cats And Crocs

It's Friday so, as usual, Spacebooger demands carnage!

Having just completed the annotations for Armageddon 2001 over at the Annotated DC Project (yes, that's a blatant plug) I thought I'd stick with the subject for tonight's brawl so come with me to the future, to the strange world of . . . er . . . 2001 . . .

Anyway, in 2001 (you know, the future) Gotham City's a slightly different place. The Joker has been declared sane and has his own talk show, most of Batman's villains are dead and the main man himself is in jail having been convicted of murdering the Penguin. Catwoman doesn't believe the charge and sets out to find evidence of his innocence, coming up against Killer Croc . . . who's a TV wrestling star. I tell you, 2001 was weird . . .

Not surprisingly, Killer Croc isn't interested in talking:

I love the idea that Croc has to do his own accounts!

Still, Catwoman's not taking no for an answer:

Doesn't she realise he's going to need to file those papers?!

Man, Catwoman kicks Croc's scaly hide all over the shop!

And just like that, she's won!

And Croc expresses his indignity as only he can!

But don't you be indignant - head over to Spacebooger by clicking on the picture below, check out the other fights and then vote for me your favourite!

This cat versus croc throwdown first appeared in Batman Annual #15, cover dated 1991, written by Alan Grant with art by Jim Fern and Steve Leialoha.

Armageddon Is Here

It's done - the notes for Armageddon 2001, the tie-in annuals, and the sequel Armageddon: The Alien Agenda are all now available at the Annotated DC Project.

There are a couple of unknowns in the first issue which I'll be collating (hopefully) later today and putting in a single post here on the blog but for now, it's all up and running.

Enjoy!

Armageddon Almost Here

The annotations for Armageddon 2001 are pretty much all done over at the Annotated DC Project site and I was planning to say they'd be published within a week . . . but I've hit a bit of a snag.

As you probably know, the story jumped from Armageddon 2001 #1 into a bunch of that summer's annuals; as I only had those for Justice League America and Justice League Europe I did some hunting round on the net hoping to find enough information to write my own synopses of the other annuals I didn't have. Thing is, there wasn't that much out there.

Instead, I jumped over to mycomicshop.com and checked the prices of those annuals I was missing. For under $10 I could buy all of the missing annuals and be able to write up my own summaries direct from the source material which, if I'm honest, I'd like to do anyhow.

I've bought back issues from mycomicshop before and their service is great; trouble is this time they missed one of the annuals out and sent me something else instead. Mistakes happen, you know, and I'm certainly not bad mouthing them, but it does mean that the notes are going to be delayed until I reorder the missing annual . . . unless someone out there wants to lend me a copy of Flash Annual #4 from 1991 to speed the process up . . . ?

What Are You Suggesting?

So work's begun on Armageddon 2001 over at The Annotated DC Project. It may take a little while before it's up and running mainly because I've recently order all the summer annual tie-ins that I don't already have! I was originally planning to put together some synopses of them from stuff on the net but thought, if I'm going to do it, I may as well do it right. I will, of course, let you know as and when it's done.

In the meantime, this is a request for ideas/suggestions - it can be kinda tough getting feedback from readers, whether those of this blog or the annotated sites I've done. I think the most successful way of hearing from you guys so far was the Comments/Guestbook I put in place at The Annotated Blackest Night. The only problem with that was the large amount of spam that I had to deal with - I still get the occasional entry even now.

For the ADCP I've used something else from those lovely people at Google called Moderator. It's in place at the site here and, I'm hoping, will work as a sort of message board. The bonus for me is that people need to sign in to a Google account to post anything - that means no spam. The drawback is that people need to sign in to a Google account to post anything - some people won't have one and the immediacy of their comments may be lost.

Hopefully it won't put too many people off.

Please pop over, sign in and leave some thoughts, suggestions or just say hi - I get a respectable amount of visitors each month both to the sites and the blog and it'd be nice to hear from you!

And The Winner Is . . .

Armageddon 2001 is the next DC event that I'll be annotating over at The Annotated DC Project!

Thanks to everyone who voted!