MINI BOARD

TIME FOR JUSTICE

I feel like Luis is down playing his frustration with DC Extended Universe killing the best movie Superman. The feelings are so repressed he even looks at me like I’m speaking gibberish when I say Justice League 2. (But, when I googled a picture for this piece, the above picture was attached to a blog about Zack Snyder saying the crosses in the background of this set would have been addressed in JL2—until there wasn’t a JL2.) Luis had to wait three years between Superman killing Zod and then Doomsday killing Superman. This is not the way DCEU should have treated its best movie version of the best superhero.

Luis simply says, though, “The culmination of Superman vs. Batman: Dawn of Justice was the death of Superman at the hands of Doomsday. With the release of Justice League shortly after NYCC 17, I was both eagerly anticipating the fi lm as well as trying to fi nd any information at all on how they would treat the death (and return) of the man of steel. As Madeline likes to remind me, I was always quick to point out that the ‘S’ in the ‘You Can’t Save The World @ultraraw26 Alone’ always featured the Superman shield. So even if he didn’t appear alive in the fi lm, he was defi nitely set to reappear.” As a cameo?! The repression.

Fan art

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Searching just now in June 2020 to check if Cavill appeared in CW’s “Crisis on Infi nite Earths” when Brandon Routh and Tom Welling did, I found more than a few “DCEU did Cavill wrong” articles. At right, Yadvender Singh Rana designed a new costume for Cavill’s future appearances in the DCEU franchise. While other fans are excited for Snyder to release a new cut of Justice League on HBOMax, the only thing I think Luis would want to see is a new ending on Man of Steel and less of an attempt to make Superman the Dark Knight. —MV

2017 TV REDUX

My streaming slowed down a ton in 2017. In fact my TV consumption was barely a trickle (besides sports and wrestling). We recently discovered a 2017 hidden gem in TruTV’s I’m Sorry— Andrea Savage’s ridiculously hilarious comedy. The show hinges on the hilarity of Andrea’s career as a comedy writer and how she juggles being a mom and wife at the same time. Pure comedy gold.

Besides that, I’ve caught up on Better Call Saul and, I must say, I enjoy that almost as much as Breaking Bad. Bob Odenkirk’s performance is nothing short of mesmerizing. —LV

courtesy AMC

NOT SORRY

courtesy Tru TV

I sat through a 35-minute Yahoo! interview with Andrea Savage to fi nd out what’s happening with Season 3 of I’m Sorry. That interview and hunting around for promo art gave me all the words to explain what I like I about this show. It’s sweet and raunchy. It has no laugh track. Tom Everett Scott is a dramatic actor, so he’s never going for the laugh—and then it’s that much more believable that they are a real couple. (See my review of Amy Schumer Learns to Cook in the previous issue.) It’s the show about working moms we never knew we needed.

Season 3 did start fi lming, but Savage doesn’t seem to know when they will get to resume, and edit, and release new episodes. —MV

WHITE KNIGHT

I’ve been catching up on DC Comics through the DC Universe app. None have enthralled me as much Batman: White Knight. Set in a world where the Joker is cured of his insanity, Joker, now known as “Jack Napier,” sets about trying to right his wrongs. Jack’s plans are centered on trying to save the city from the one person who he thinks is truly Gotham’s greatest villain—Batman! Writer and artist extraordinaire Sean Murphy has created a brilliant 8-issue miniseries of a twisted Gotham with a huge cast of heroes and villains that is a tragic story of a hero and a villain: Batman and The Joker, but which is which?

Books written by artists are rarely as well-balanced and crafted as this story, I think. I couldn’t put this down. —LV

FATHER’S DAY

Luis began to tell me about a 5-pack of G.I. Joes he needed, but it would include the less-fancy Snake Eyes. I told him that meant he could give the extra to Betty. He said no. He had also told me the day before that Betty was interested in a 2-pack of the casual Princesses, but there was also a 14-pack on the market. I said I don’t need 14 new dolls in the house. So, then I had to tell him I don’t need 5 new dolls for his collection either. He said G.I. Joes are not “dolls.”

“My only hesitation,” he said before describing some more of what he was looking at on the laptop, and I burst out laughing.

“Go back. What is your hesitation?”

“Are you transcribing this?”

“Yeah, I need content.”

Luis did not like that answer. The site says the toys are set to arrive June 2020, “but it is June 2020!”

I told him not to order it. That was not the answer. “Everything is delayed because of Covid 19.” Okay, then go ahead and order it. There’s no way to fi nd this in a store when stores either aren’t open or aren’t restocking toys. Happy Fathers’ Day!

Luis placed the order with Big Bad Toy Store. The same retailer that sold him “the Heavy Gunner that is still not here.” (His words.) “It’s a reputable company. I’ve ordered from them before...?” —MV