Monday Memories #6 - All-Star Squadron #37

Each Monday this year I'll be taking a look back at a random comic, prestige format issue, graphic novel or collection of reprints from amongst my 3,000 or so comics that date from 1962 to 2003 - I figured anything in the last ten years would be too recent to hark back to.

The comics are chosen completely at random and apart from a four week lead-in period, even I don't know what I'll be looking at in the weeks to come!

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #188

Jaime, trust me: Booster Gold is not a good measure of recognition.

Who'd Like A Cocktail? #180

Flash really can't do the whole bad cop thing

New Look And Name For Captain Marvel

So Captain marvel gets a new look, complete with hood, electricity and a grim and gritty snarl. M'eh.

Oops, sorry, he's also changed his name to Shazam.

DC revealed his new look (via the New York Post) saying that they changed his name in part because

"a lot of people already thought that was his name, anyway."

which, I guess, is a fair enough reason to do it.

It's not like there's any other reason to change his name, is there.

Who Was Who Is Who #7

So for want of anything better to write about on a Monday, and with DC's New 52 well under way (how long are they keeping that title do you think?) I'm going to go through all my copies of Who's Who and see if I can predict who will make it over to the new DCU by the end of this year, who might make it and who hasn't got a Captain Compass's chance.

CADRE - these were the guys who, under the Overmaster, fought the Detroit League. They were, to a man, a complete shambles and no real threat to the League whatsoever as I mentioned last year. Will they appear again? Not a chance. Sure, there's the chance that the name might be repurposed but Fastball? Crowbar? Shrike? Naaaaah.

CAIN - as I mentioned with Abel in the first of these posts, there's the possibility that Cain might turn up in some Vertigo title at some point. In the new DCU, though? I doubt it.

CALCULATOR - given a fresh lease of life by being turned into the villains' version of Oracle, the Calculator was the go to bad guy for nefarious information. With Oracle getting out of the chair and back into the role of Batgirl, I think it unlikely that the Calculator will continue in that role. Who knows, maybe he'll go back to wearing a bloody great number pad on his chest again.

Friday Night Fights - Big Blue Scout vs Big Red Cheese

It's Friday and, as is tradition, Spacebooger hosts the Friday Night Fight from 11PM EST.

Monday Memes #8

If there's one staple of comic books - particularly the superhero genre - it's that when two heroes get together for the first time, they will almost inevitably fight. Whether it's a misunderstanding or some villain's mind-control scheme, if you put two friends together, you're going to get a punch up.

And it's been happening for years, over and over again:

Captain Marvel and Superman have knocked each other round the block a few times . . .

. . . but then Superman's often fought with his multiversal self as well.

Of all the memes I've put together, Friendly Fire is the one that could run for the best part of a year all by itself.