John Trumbull
@trumbullcomic
Writer for the Atomic Junk Shop & the Eisner Award-winning BACK ISSUE (@backissuemagazine.bsky.social). Cohost of the SNL Nerds podcast (@snlnerds.bsky.social). #MunchWeek Creator. Cartoonist & Stand-Up Comic from NJ. He/Him.
I'd forgotten that this episode featured some really cool flashbacks to young Bruce's childhood in the immediate aftermath of his parents' murders. Nice to see some origin stuff, since BTAS largely avoided that. And Eel O'Brien from the Gotham Gazette! Nice Easter Egg for comics fans there.
But this episode is most notable for me for giving us the Sensational Character Find of 2024, Selina Kyle's maid, GRETA!!! Seriously, Greta is fucking awesome. I ❤️ Greta. #Batman #BatmanCapedCrusader #Greta
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) The Producers (1967) The Producers (2005) Roman Holiday (1953).
I used the Condor costume when I did a Squadron Supreme homage cover for The Line It Is Drawn a number of years back.
And quick humblebrag: A lot of quotes from my articles about JJJ in BACK ISSUE #91’s “All-Jerks Issue” made it into JJJ’s Wikipedia page. 😊 twomorrows.com/index.php?ma...
Three first watches and one rewatch for #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched! #OutOfThePast #Semi-Pro #VivaLasVegas #DarkCity
I am ashamed to say that I didn't get the Felix Leiter/Lighter pun in LICENCE TO KILL until just now.
Of course, it's entirely possible Connery could've read the other Bond novels sometime after 1971, but I honestly don't know why he would bother at that point.
Was the Atom and Giganta being involved in the 1970s Legends of the Superheroes special an influence at all?
Post a logo, emblem, or title (with its original font) that remains as perfect today as when it was new.
The only downside is that Brian's done SO MANY cool things in his career that it was tough to cover them all: Conan, Colbert, Late Night, The Tonight Show, Second City, Amy Poehler, Chris Farley... Darin & I were in Comedy Nerd Heaven.
Hey, according to ALTER EGO #200, I work with an inker/colorist named Munch Week! This MUST be true, because as we all know, Roy Thomas is never, ever wrong on the topic of creator credits. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We don’t usually see each other’s headers; here’s mine. Quote post with yours. This is a photo I took several years back for a column about my favorite comic book logos.
For me the biggest tell is pretty simple: William Shatner did not look like that in 1976. The real life Shatner had his hair (or his hairpiece) styled in a much different way in 1976. It was very dark in color (almost black) and much fuller & wavy. Here his hair is styled how it was circa 1968-69.
#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Yes, this is an odd combo even by my standards. #Head #FiveEasyPieces #MartyLifeIsShort #GentlemenPreferBlondes
And most of the Amadeus Arkham backstory was conceived by the late great Len Wein in some wonderful stream of consciousness writing in WHO’S WHO #1.
It's also really cool that they had John Colicos, Star Trek's ORIGINAL Klingon, say this. If you can still accept Kor as Kor after he's gained longer hair and some bumps on his head, you can and should still accept someone you know IRL after they've changed their gender.
And Lawrence Olivier as the evil Moriarty in a dream sequence in THE SEVEN PER-CENT SOLUTION looked pretty damn great, too.
And if anybody wants to read my article on JJJ, you can still get a digital copy of BACK ISSUE #91 (the "All Jerks" issue) from @twomorrows.bsky.social at this link: twomorrows.com/index.php?ma...
If I ever get to interview Paul McCartney, I’m only going to ask him about what it was like starring in the sitcom WINGS.
Burke left the role after the second series of THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, and he was replaced by the equally great Edward Hardwicke, but I'll always have a soft spot for David Burke's Watson in particular. R.I.P., sir. Thanks for all the great entertainment. (5/5)
And that's how it should be. That's the way it was in the original books and short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and it was nice to finally see the canonical literary Dr. Watson represented onscreen. (4/5)
Burke's Watson was not an easily-fooled bumbler the way so many Watsons had been over the years, but instead an intelligent man (he was a doctor, after all) of above average intelligence who was nevertheless outshone by the genius that was Sherlock Holmes. (3/5)
Burke is my personal favorite of all the many actors who've played Dr. Watson over the years, largely because he broke away from the accepted Nigel Bruce interpretation and actually played Watson as having a brain in this head. He's also the closest to my mental image of the character. (2/5)
Since today would have been his 92nd birthday, this is as good a time as any for me to write a belated memorial post for David Burke, the first Dr. Watson to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in the 1984-86 television series THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. He passed away on May the 10th. (1/5)