The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

Good afternoon, (or morning, or night; whenever you read this.) I have returned from holidays and there has been some news I feel the need to comment on, as well as some notes on the new Overstreet Price Guide (48th edition) Disney has announced the cancellation of the Dark Horse licence to continue printing Buffy the Vampire Slayer and related comics. Naturally, they are being moved to Marvel to be continued, but completely revamped (pun intended.) The Disney plans include more stories of the original crew, as well as other secondary characters and books based upon the new Slayer series being planned. I am extremely disappointed in this, like I was when they did this to Star Wars. Dark Horse has put out quality product for years and years (especially the stuff based on licensed products, such as Alien and Predator) , and Marvel's stuff has been sorely lacking in equivalent quality for the last year and a half (or so) I think. As per their usual stuff, all of the content in t...

Good day, today begins the story I have to tell about the differences and similarities of the two Man of Steel series, the famous one from 1986 (right after Crisis on Infinite Earths) by John Byrne and 2018's version written by Brian Michael Bendis. Both represent new starts for the character in new eras. They contrast in that the original one was a hard reboot, and the newest one a soft one. Before we get too far into it today, the first thing we need to discuss is: why reboot? Usually, the reboot of a character is tied to the possible financial gains of a character. A new story (like movie reboots and resets), means you basically get to start over a character, and, at least at first, you don't even to try that hard as you are basically retelling the origin of the character (see Batman reboots and Spider-Man reboots; all have them have cleared insane amounts of dough at the box office, and I am guilty of falling for it myself. A reboot is usually done with a character th...