That's right, before finally closing the door on JUSTICE LEAGUE MONTH there is a special issue that I need to post. And it's not even an issue of any incarnation of THE JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA but rather an issue of the post INFINITE CRISIS series of JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA that crosses over with the Justice League and features everybody's favourite super - heroes from exactly 1,000 years in the future as special guests.
So yes, I am talking about part four of THE LIGHTNING SAGA called Three Worlds - at least I think it does because my interlac is a rusty - written by Geoff Johns ( back when he was a terrific writer no pun intended ), pencilled by Dale Eaglesahm and inked by Ruy Jose. And yes, that is the infamous cover to JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA 10 where the late, great Michael turner got a bit too enthusiastic let's say about Power Girl's big power girls and had to decrease them in size a few times before the guys at DC Comics gave the green light. I bet that's one problem Michael did not have on his own books where he could draw women's breasts as big as he wanted although I do not think there were any especially busty women in FATHOM or any of the other series Michael Turner published.
As for the picture above I know that it's not the first version because in the collection where I got it from there is the published cover with the logo and stuff and Power Girl's chest is considerably smaller there. I just don't know if this is the first version or if this was already toned down.
Speaking of Dale Eaglesham, he is an artist I thoroughly enjoy - even if it can be difficult to follow the series he is working on - so I want to do a little public service announcement just for my readers in Spain. At the moment the first volume of the FANTASTIC FOUR BY JONATHAN HICKMAN omnibus hardcover is offered at amazon Spain for 65 Euros - including package and shipping - which is a steal compared to the regular price of between 100 and 108 EUROS. This is the second time it is offered at this price since the last two weeks it had risen to 75 Euros. I thought about ordering it the first time when it hit the 65 Euros mark but I hesitated too long so this is my second chance to get it cheap. Now the reason why I hesitated was that not all the issues of FANTASTIC FOUR in this volume are drawn by Dale Eaglesham. Granted, some are drawn by the great Steve Epting ( about whom I have written quite a number of posts on this very blog ) who is just phenomenal but some are drawn by an artist who tries - and very unsuccessfully at that - to copy Brian Hitch's style.
Which I find a bit funny because as some of my visitors who have been here longer might remember when Brian Hitch did his run on FANTASTIC FOUR he had adapted a new art style that helped him draw quicker so he could keep the deadlines and this new art style did not go over too well with the readers. I wrote about this and if I can find this post I will put the link right here . As for the quality of the story by Jonathan Hickman I have to say that I am not always a fan of his big ideas like on AVENGERS where he clearly neither understood the assignment nor the team and what makes the Avengers tick but FANTASTIC FOUR is the book where everybody can agree on that he hit it out of the ball park with this one.
So if some of my spanish fans want to check out a good FANTASTIC FOUR run and are one of the few people left on the planet who have not read this yet now is your chance to get the book at an excellent price. Plus I gather that with the upcoming THE FANTASTIC FOUR movie ( for which I haven't seen any trailers yet because I don't want to know anything before seeing it ) this sucker will only go up in price. Man, I just hope that with the movie FANTASTIC FOUR gets a bit of an attention boost with general audiences because it is a - pun intended - fantastic series.
Okay, now that we are done with our good deed for the day let's finally get to our issue of JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA that is part four of The Lightning Saga, the reintroduction of the Legion of Super - Heroes into the post Infinite Crisis DC universe. As the member of the Justice League of America and the Justice Society of America find out in this issue the visiting Legion of Super - Heroes members have not been one hundred percent truthful about their real reasons to travel exactly 1,000 years to the past as they plan to partake in a special ceremony with which Legion of Super - Hero afficionados and Superman are just too familiar with and it all has to do with the mysterious yellow rods they brought with them.
And that's all I am going to say about that issue so better get ready for the clash of not two but three super hero teams and more legionnaires that you can shake a life restoring lightning rod at. Long live the Legion !
Remember when I wrote that to do a proper Ernie Chan post for JUSTICE LEAGUE MONTH I would have to include some material from a few other series he worked on besides JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA because he did only a dozen covers ? Well, as it turns out I decided to do just that to pay further homage to one of the artists who shaped the look of a decade.
Since JUSTICE LEAGUE MONTH has been cut short as I have been busy going over all of my unfinished posts last week I've decided to extend it just a few more days and see how far we can go. Now the reason why I have been going over my old posts is that a lot of the videos I included have been taken down by YouTube while on the other hand I have found a lot of new videos which included some videos that were taken down.
So it just made sense to revise the posts to see if I had a new version for the ones that had been deleted or in some cases even better videos.
Among the videos that have been erased from YouTube has sadly also been an entire ASMR channel that has been taken down - and longtime visitors don't need three guesses to know to which I am referring to here - so that added another wrinkle to it. So far I have cut those parts from the posts if it's possible but in the cases where I can't I just hope all my faithful followers have if not downloaded than at least watched those videos because now they are gone forever. Which is why I always tell my readers to watch these videos as soon as they are going up on this blog because you never know how long these kind of things last on YouTube.
As for the future there is still the german version of the ASMR channel in question but the posting on that channel has been sporadic at best so I don't know if there'll be much content coming from that source. I mean, there have been some good videos on there from time to time but I don't want to get your hopes up and of course I will post new videos if there are any of the high level of quality that we all have come to expect. As for the original ASMR channel coming back I don't see that happening because frankly said with the way YouTube has been erasing her videos and slapping them with age restrictions it was only a matter of time before she took her business elsewhere since there is only so much you can do on YouTube. Aside from that she already has an OnlyFans channel.
So the only reason for staying on YouTube was as kind of advertising for that channel but I guess it finally crossed the limit where it is actually more work than it is worth. I don't know if I will include any more ASMR videos in future posts besides a few ones I have bookmarked because quite frankly I don't know if it's worth it. For once I have no idea if my readers really crave this kind of content because I seldomly get any feedback on it. Secondly a lot of these videos get deleted or slapped with age restrictions too so I can change some of them for new videos - at least for the moment when it takes me over two years to finish posts.
But the last and most important setback is that none of the other ASMR channels on YouTube are up to the high quality standard of the one that has been taken down. And speaking of YouTube just taking down entire channels, one of my favourite movie reaction channels has been taken down and some of the commenters have asked if it may have been taken down by YouTube because the owners of the channel are from an asian country and if YouTube is racist. Heck yes, YouTube is definitely is racist.
Now somebody might call me racist for saying that and to them I say you are correct once again. I am definitely racist. But I am what I call an " equal rights racist " because I am equally racist to the black people as I am to yellow people, red people, white people and any other skin color.
I am not saying I am racist towards afro - american people because quite frankly said I don't like the term afro - american and I will do my best to avoid using it. Because for me the term afro - american is racist in itself.
There, I said it. I never understood the inclination to call black people afro - american because there are a lot of black people who don't live in Amerika or come from Amerika. Also some of these people may identify more with their african roots than their american ancestry and therefore would prefer to be addressed in a way that does not include the word american. Not to mention that there are people from other countries that would have to be called afro - something - something. Also what about the black people in Afrika ? Are they afro - african ? Because there are also white people who live in Afrika who would be what ? Causasian - african ? I mean, there have been some black people in Amerika recently who have spoken out against being called afro - american. They don't like being called that so automatically implying that a black person in Amerika is afro - american is all kind of racist and also condescending.
Now anybody who has followed this blog over a longer period of time knows that I call black people black people not as an insult or because I am racist but for expedience sake. That way I don't have to explain what I mean in every single post. If a desk is black I will call it black and not the opposite of white or any other nonsense. Just to be clear. I prefer somebody who says black people without thinking any racist stuff to a guy who acts all enlightened and woke and says afro - american but thinks racist stuff in his head. The same goes for the n - word. Regular readers of the blog know that I don't like to use the term and instead use the one I found in the brilliant comicbook series QUANTUM AND WOODY and everyone knows what is up when I am putting in the n - word. Nazis.
Oh, my mistake. What did you think I was talking about when I said n - word ? There you have it. A simple misunderstanding and immediately people think you are racist. But since we are on the subject of Nazis or better the term Nazis I feel that it has been misused and even has been devalued by the constant misuse as the SJWs and everybody else calls everybody who disagrees with them a Nazi because of the slightest transgressions. All the while the SJWs are the biggest Nazis of them all.
There was a thing called " Gleichschaltung " ( cooptation in english ) in which they applied a kind of mind control through enforced conformity by controlling what people thought by forcing them to use certain words over others. Now you might say that this is complete nonsense and that this might never work in Today's society but I will ask you how often in your everyday life do you use socially accepted terms instead of what you really are thinking and how often do you even think about it ? Does it even bother you ? If not then you are already at a point where a small minority of people controls what you think, what you say and what you do and you don't do anything about it. Because you have been already brainwashed to such an extend that you think it is a good thing to do.
That it is the way things should be. And maybe it would be the better way. But I think that this is something that everybody has to decide for himself and if there is a system that relies on making that decision for people than that system is already doomed to fail because no system that does not believe in its people doing the right decisions has to fail.
The center cannot hold. Because those are decisions of the people, by the people, for the people should be not be made by a secret minority with a fascist agenda. And I am not even mentioning the brainwashing we have to suffer from the feminists where you are supposed to feel guilty for everything bad in the world just because you are male. You might ask why I even care about these things and the answer is thinking for yourself instead of doing what everybody else tells you is important for me because it it wasn't you would not be reading this post right now.
If I had done my whole life what people told me they knew was right I would not make this blog. I would not be reading comics. I would have not made my own comics. I would not have bothered with any artistic endeavour whatsover because everybody knows that reading comics is for kids or stupid adults and that you can never make a living of comics.
Heck, me and my two brother wasted decades not making comicbooks because one disgruntled comicbook pro wrote in an essay that you can't make a living in Germany doing comicbooks and we believed him. So as they said, drop out, break free and start thinking for yourself because nobody else will do it for you and doing what you are passionate about - even or especially when everybody will tell you that you will fail - will be the single best thing you will ever do for yourself. Even if you do it and fail miserably at least you can say that you gave it your best shot. Because the worst thing is not to try and fail but to die with the regret that you never tried. That is the worst. So live your life as if you were going to die, do what can't be done so you live without any regrets.
And so the lesson endeth as that's the end of my little uncharacteristic rant and I will get off my little soap box now. So where were we ? Oh yes, I was writing about me going over my old posts which took up quite some time and I don't know if the ASMR feature in the pop culture trivia / cult siren section of the posts will return. Then I have also spent the last three days cataloguing hundreds of pictures of comicbook babes I found on the interwebs even though I am not sure if I can use most of them on the blog without getting labelled as NSFW. On the other hand I had posts that were marked as NSFW without any proper reason so who knows, maybe my blog may end up getting classified as NSFW anyway.
But it is not this day. For Today our topic is another appreciation for the late great Ernie Chan who - as I said in the introduction - did not have a lengthy run on JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA but provided a lot of covers as well as for BATMAN , BATMAN FAMILY, DETECTIVE COMICS, ALL STAR COMICS, THE FLASH, GREEN LANTERN, THE SUPER FRIENDS, THE SECRET SOCIETY OF SUPER - VILLAINS, SUPERMAN or WONDER WOMAN to name just a few. He was also scheduled to do the cover and interior art for the 25th issue of SWAMP THING but for some reason that never saw print.
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