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id="site-content"> <div class="wrapper section"> <div class="section-inner group"> <div class="content"> <div class="archive-header"> <h1 class="archive-title"> Category: <span>20 Broadway Comics</span> </h1> </div> <div class="posts" id="posts"> <div id="post-43" class="post post-43 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-03-marvel-comics category-04-storytelling-lecture category-20-broadway-comics"> <div class="post-inner"> <div class="post-header"> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2011/12/and-so-this-is-christmas-plus-more-sex.html/">And So This Is Christmas Plus More Sex</a></h2> <div class="post-meta"> <p class="post-author"><span>By </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/author/jayjayzee/" title="Posts by Jim Shooter" rel="author">Jim Shooter</a></p> <p class="post-date"><span>On </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2011/12/and-so-this-is-christmas-plus-more-sex.html/">December 28, 2011</a></p> <p class="post-categories"><span>In </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/03-marvel-comics/" rel="category tag">03 Marvel Comics</a>, <a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/04-storytelling-lecture/" rel="category tag">04 Storytelling Lecture</a>, <a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/20-broadway-comics/" rel="category tag">20 Broadway Comics</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content"> <p><b>First, a Few Items</b></p> <p><b>An Apology to Mark Waid</b></p> <p>Mark Waid wrote this scene, which I showed as an example of an out-of-character use of Aunt May for the purpose of a shocker:</p> <p><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rlL0oqmu6Aw/TvlqqEsb8QI/AAAAAAAABDg/P8-ik0iHULY/s1600/aunt-may-jonahs-dad.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="http://jimshooter.server275.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/aunt-may-jonahs-dad.jpg" alt="" width="268" height="400" border="0" /></a></p> <p>I had no idea that Mark had written that scene, not that it would have mattered. I’m an equal opportunity complainer. Anyone may find him or herself honked at here.</p> <p>Here’s where I went wrong: I judged the scene against Aunt May’s character as it was when I was at Marvel. The Aunt May I knew of was a very old-fashioned woman, the epitome of propriety, who no more would have had sex out of wedlock than my Victorian-era Grandma, who was born in 1888. But, I’ve been told that Aunt May became a little more of a modern Golden Girl subsequently, and that the scene is not out of character for her. Okay.</p> <p>Sorry, Mark.</p> <p class="more-link-wrapper"><a class="more-link faux-button" href="http://jimshooter.com/2011/12/and-so-this-is-christmas-plus-more-sex.html/">Read More</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <div id="post-41" class="post post-41 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-16-stuff-and-nonsense category-20-broadway-comics"> <div class="post-inner"> <div class="post-header"> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/more-about-broadway-and-fatale.html/">More About Broadway and Fatale</a></h2> <div class="post-meta"> <p class="post-author"><span>By </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/author/jayjayzee/" title="Posts by Jim Shooter" rel="author">Jim Shooter</a></p> <p class="post-date"><span>On </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/more-about-broadway-and-fatale.html/">January 2, 2012</a></p> <p class="post-categories"><span>In </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/16-stuff-and-nonsense/" rel="category tag">16 Stuff and Nonsense</a>, <a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/20-broadway-comics/" rel="category tag">20 Broadway Comics</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="p1"><b>First</b></div> <div class="p1"></div> <div class="p1">On this, the eighth day of Christmas I have no use for maids-a-milking. These items, on the other hand….</div> <div class="p1"><b> </b></div> <div class="p1"><b>Murder weapon as Christmas gift:</b></div> <div class="p1"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://epicobjects.com/"><br /> <img loading="lazy" src="http://jimshooter.server275.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Wolverine_X_Men_Claw.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="320" border="0" /></a></div> </div> <div class="p1">A gift I gave to a psycho-chicken Elf who remains at large. “Slay” bells ring….</div> <div class="p1"><b> </b></div> <div class="p1"><b>The tentacles of power:</b></div> <div class="p1"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://epicobjects.com/"><img loading="lazy" src="http://jimshooter.server275.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/power_squid.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="199" border="0" /></a></div> </div> <div class="p1">A gift I gave to myself. Power mad? Yes, I am.</div> <div class="p1"><b> </b></div> <div class="p1"><b> </b></div> <div class="p1"><b>Fatale</b></div> <div class="p1"></div> <div class="p1">Fatale was an experiment in many ways. Fatale was created to be Broadway Comics’ answer to the “Bad Girl” trend, popular in the 1990’s. Being me, I wanted to do a Bad Girl who was every bit as extreme as those pneumatic vixens who led the charge but less puerile and more real.</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p class="more-link-wrapper"><a class="more-link faux-button" href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/more-about-broadway-and-fatale.html/">Read More</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="post-40" class="post post-40 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-06-valiant category-20-broadway-comics"> <figure class="post-image"> <a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/traci-adelle-wwf-fatale-on-tv-and-web.html/"> <img width="305" height="400" src="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wwf-uwarrior.jpg" class="attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image" alt="WWF Comic Battlemania" loading="lazy" srcset="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wwf-uwarrior.jpg 305w, http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wwf-uwarrior-229x300.jpg 229w" sizes="(max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px" /> </a> </figure> <div class="post-inner"> <div class="post-header"> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/traci-adelle-wwf-fatale-on-tv-and-web.html/">Traci Adell, the WWF, Fatale on TV, and the Web of the Snyder – Part 1</a></h2> <div class="post-meta"> <p class="post-author"><span>By </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/author/jayjayzee/" title="Posts by Jim Shooter" rel="author">Jim Shooter</a></p> <p class="post-date"><span>On </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/traci-adelle-wwf-fatale-on-tv-and-web.html/">January 3, 2012</a></p> <p class="post-categories"><span>In </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/06-valiant/" rel="category tag">06 VALIANT</a>, <a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/20-broadway-comics/" rel="category tag">20 Broadway Comics</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <p><b>First This</b></p> <div class="p1">It occurs to me, duh, that I have not yet wished everyone a Happy New Year. Sorry. So, without further ado,</div> <div class="p1"><b>Happy New Year</b>!</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">The last year has been a tough one for most people I know. Many are unemployed, almost everyone has struggled and only a very few have done well. Here’s hoping that 2012 will be better. And that planet Nibiru doesn’t crash into us on December 21st.</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">Thoughts for the New Year:</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">Nike, Inc. “Just do it.”</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">Jimmy V: “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">Winston Churchill: “Carry on, and dread nought.”</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">My Grandma Elsie quoting a mummers play: “Take a drink from my bottle, let it run down thy throttle; rise up and strive again.”</div> <div class="p2"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">B.G. DeSylva and Lew Brown: “Keep your sunny side up….”</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">John F. Kennedy: “All of this will not be finished…even perhaps in our lifetime on the planet. But let us begin.”</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">Me, at DEFIANT: “Just don’t quit.”</div> <div class="p1"></div> <p><br/ ></p> <div class="p1">I hope your holidays were groovy. Press on regardless.</div> <div class="p1"></div> <div class="p1"></div> <p class="more-link-wrapper"><a class="more-link faux-button" href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/traci-adelle-wwf-fatale-on-tv-and-web.html/">Read More</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="post-39" class="post post-39 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-20-broadway-comics"> <figure class="post-image"> <a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/traci-adell-wwf-fatale-on-tv-and-web-of_06.html/"> <img width="261" height="400" src="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/fatale1.jpg" class="attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/fatale1.jpg 261w, http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/fatale1-196x300.jpg 196w" sizes="(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px" /> </a> </figure> <div class="post-inner"> <div class="post-header"> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/traci-adell-wwf-fatale-on-tv-and-web-of_06.html/">Traci Adell, the WWF, Fatale on TV, and the Web of the Snyder – Part 2</a></h2> <div class="post-meta"> <p class="post-author"><span>By </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/author/jayjayzee/" title="Posts by Jim Shooter" rel="author">Jim Shooter</a></p> <p class="post-date"><span>On </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/traci-adell-wwf-fatale-on-tv-and-web-of_06.html/">January 6, 2012</a></p> <p class="post-categories"><span>In </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/20-broadway-comics/" rel="category tag">20 Broadway Comics</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><b>First This</b></p> <div class="p1"><b> </b></div> <div class="p2"></div> <div class="p1">When <i>Fatale</i> is brought up, occasionally I am accused of ripping off the concept of Chris Claremont’s power-stealing character <i>Rogue</i>, created in 1981. For anyone out there who subscribes to this nonsense, I would like to point out that I created the first (as far as I know) power-stealing character, the <i>Parasite</i> 15 years earlier in 1966. If I ripped off anyone, it was “my own, personal self,” as a former boss of mine used to say.</p> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t1RQ5FQq_Dg/TwatRhzrF_I/AAAAAAAABNw/NOYRXU-s-A4/s1600/fatale1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="http://jimshooter.server275.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/fatale1.jpg" alt="" width="260" height="400" border="0" /></a></div> <div class="p2"></div> <p class="more-link-wrapper"><a class="more-link faux-button" href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/traci-adell-wwf-fatale-on-tv-and-web-of_06.html/">Read More</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="post-38" class="post post-38 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-20-broadway-comics"> <figure class="post-image"> <a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/merry-christmas.html/"> <img width="311" height="400" src="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vavavoom.jpg" class="attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vavavoom.jpg 311w, http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vavavoom-233x300.jpg 233w" sizes="(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px" /> </a> </figure> <div class="post-inner"> <div class="post-header"> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/merry-christmas.html/">Merry Christmas!</a></h2> <div class="post-meta"> <p class="post-author"><span>By </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/author/jayjayzee/" title="Posts by Jim Shooter" rel="author">Jim Shooter</a></p> <p class="post-date"><span>On </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/merry-christmas.html/">January 7, 2012</a></p> <p class="post-categories"><span>In </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/20-broadway-comics/" rel="category tag">20 Broadway Comics</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="p1">January 7th is Russian Christmas. May your days be merry and bright, and let nothing you dismay.</div> <div class="p1"><b> </b></div> <div class="p1"><b>A Gift From Fatale</b></div> <div class="p1"></div> <div class="p1">This is a gift I received way back in 1995 from Fatale actress Traci Adell:</div> <div class="p2"></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Eza9H1UegTU/TwiejXq_CGI/AAAAAAAABOg/qiCiiBUwCm0/s1600/vavavoom.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="http://jimshooter.server275.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/vavavoom.jpg" alt="" width="310" height="400" border="0" /></a></div> <div class="p2"></div> <div class="p1">Perhaps she noticed my abiding interest in photogenic women. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1881649601/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=advindiyscrpr-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1881649601" target="_blank">It’s a terrific book</a>, by the way. One of the photogenic stars featured is Julie Newmar:</div> <p class="more-link-wrapper"><a class="more-link faux-button" href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/merry-christmas.html/">Read More</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="post-37" class="post post-37 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-03-marvel-comics category-11-writing category-20-broadway-comics"> <figure class="post-image"> <a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/web-of-snyder-part-1.html/"> <img width="263" height="320" src="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jill.jpg" class="attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jill.jpg 263w, http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/jill-247x300.jpg 247w" sizes="(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px" /> </a> </figure> <div class="post-inner"> <div class="post-header"> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/web-of-snyder-part-1.html/">The Web of the Snyder – Part 1</a></h2> <div class="post-meta"> <p class="post-author"><span>By </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/author/jayjayzee/" title="Posts by Jim Shooter" rel="author">Jim Shooter</a></p> <p class="post-date"><span>On </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/web-of-snyder-part-1.html/">January 12, 2012</a></p> <p class="post-categories"><span>In </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/03-marvel-comics/" rel="category tag">03 Marvel Comics</a>, <a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/11-writing/" rel="category tag">11 Writing</a>, <a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/20-broadway-comics/" rel="category tag">20 Broadway Comics</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="p1"><b>First This</b></div> <div class="p1"></div> <div class="p1">Sorry it’s been so long between posts. Harsh reality sometimes asserts and fun has to wait.</div> <div class="p1"><b> </b></div> <div class="p1"><b> </b></div> <div class="p1"><b>Now This</b></div> <div class="p1"></div> <div class="p1">In an answer to a comment regarding “What Has Gone Before and a Modest Proposal” I said this:</div> <div class="p1"></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"><p>In any other medium besides comics, the person who has and reasonably develops the original idea is the creator. Usually the writer. Ask 1,000 people who created <i>Star Wars</i>. George Lucas, not the army of designers, artists, even re-writers who participated. Ask 1,000 people who created <i>Jurassic Park</i>. Michael Crichton, not the designers and filmmakers who developed the visuals, or even David Koepp who wrote the shooting script for the film. In comics, however, even a work-for-hire artist following a design made by the writer, a description given by the writer or instructions from the editor is given co-credit as creator. Does anyone else think this is unusual?</p></blockquote> <div class="p1"></div> <div class="p1">That sparked some debate, people weighing in on who deserves creator credit and under what conditions. And that’s fine. It’s an interesting topic. However, I suspect that some people thought I was asserting that the writer should get credit as creator. Nope. I said:</div> <div class="p1"></div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"><p>Note, everyone, that I’m not offering a position, here, I’m just asking questions.</p></blockquote> <div class="p2"></div> <div class="p2"></div> <p class="more-link-wrapper"><a class="more-link faux-button" href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/web-of-snyder-part-1.html/">Read More</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="post-36" class="post post-36 type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-10-questions-answers category-11-writing category-20-broadway-comics"> <figure class="post-image"> <a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/action-comics.html/"> <img width="400" height="278" src="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/inviskid-1.jpg" class="attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image" alt="" loading="lazy" srcset="http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/inviskid-1.jpg 400w, http://jimshooter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/inviskid-1-300x209.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /> </a> </figure> <div class="post-inner"> <div class="post-header"> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/action-comics.html/">Action Comics</a></h2> <div class="post-meta"> <p class="post-author"><span>By </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/author/jayjayzee/" title="Posts by Jim Shooter" rel="author">Jim Shooter</a></p> <p class="post-date"><span>On </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/action-comics.html/">January 13, 2012</a></p> <p class="post-categories"><span>In </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/10-questions-answers/" rel="category tag">10 Questions / Answers</a>, <a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/11-writing/" rel="category tag">11 Writing</a>, <a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/20-broadway-comics/" rel="category tag">20 Broadway Comics</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <div class="p1">This comment got me into full honking mode:</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"><p>srp has left a new comment on your post “<a href="http://www.jimshooter.com/2011/12/regarding-what-has-gone-before-and.html">Regarding What Has Gone Before and a Modest Propos…</a>“:</p> <p>With regard to the earlier discussion of writing and decompression (much of which I agree with), I would like to emphasize a particular pet peeve about modern superhero comics: Lousy action sequences.</p> <p>To me, action sequences in a superhero comic are like musical numbers in a musical or fight scenes in a martial arts movie. They are not disposable interludes that can be kissed off to advance the story. You’d think, in a decompressed environment dominated by fanboy aesthetics, that the action sequences in modern comic books would be awesome. But they aren’t, in what I consider a lamentable lack of craftsmanship.</p> <p>Typical fight scenes now lack clear spatial relations, identifiable figures, logical and continuous flow across panels, and any semblance of consistency in who wins and why. All the characters are superimposed on each other in melee fashion with no sense of perspective. Mutant comics seem to be the worst offenders these days, but it’s a pervasive problem. (Something similar has happened in the movies, with many action films using quick-cut close-ups during fight scenes that make it difficult to tell what’s going on, but it doesn’t always happen.)</p> <p>Lack of attention to superhero action scenes undermines sales to both the youth/new-user market and the established older market, since what is cool about superheroes, especially of the Silver Age type, is their distinctive visual and kinetic properties. I don’t mind the later “realistic” style that stressed winning with the first blow and mostly portrayed mismatches (e.g. Ellis and Moore) because a) there’s a certain logic to those choices, since even super people wouldn’t tend to pick fights they might not win and b) they usually depicted these swift battles in a clear and compelling visual manner. But if you’re decompressing, a long, high-quality set of battle scenes seems like a legitimate mode of storytelling because one thing superheroes are ABOUT is the skillful exercise of their powers under stress.</p> <p>I suspect that modern creators take a somewhat “adolescent” attitude toward action sequences–they don’t want to be seen as “childish” by playing up the fantasy aspect of the characters, preferring to dwell on various extrinsic shock stimuli to seem more “adult.” But getting to see Iron Man use his resourcefulness to figure out and defeat the Raiders for an issue (to take a typical mediocre example rather than a classic) was a lot more entertaining and satisfying than much of what gets printed now.</p> <p>Posted by srp to <a href="http://www.jimshooter.com/">Jim Shooter</a> at January 11, 2012 7:44 PM</p></blockquote> <div class="p2"></div> <div class="p2"></div> <p class="more-link-wrapper"><a class="more-link faux-button" href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/01/action-comics.html/">Read More</a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="post-28" class="post post-28 type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-08-recent-work category-20-broadway-comics"> <div class="post-inner"> <div class="post-header"> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/02/made-to-order-part-2.html/">Made to Order – Part 2</a></h2> <div class="post-meta"> <p class="post-author"><span>By </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/author/jayjayzee/" title="Posts by Jim Shooter" rel="author">Jim Shooter</a></p> <p class="post-date"><span>On </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/2012/02/made-to-order-part-2.html/">February 3, 2012</a></p> <p class="post-categories"><span>In </span><a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/08-recent-work/" rel="category tag">08 Recent Work</a>, <a href="http://jimshooter.com/category/20-broadway-comics/" rel="category tag">20 Broadway Comics</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="post-content entry-content"> <p><b>A Miracle</b></p> <p>In terms of unit cost, this must be one of the most expensive comic books ever printed:</p> <p><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jivZkiidBAw/Tyq_vPDvYgI/AAAAAAAABXY/zf0uof3CqN4/s1600/miracle-on-broadway.jpg"><img loading="lazy" src="http://jimshooter.server275.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/miracle-on-broadway.jpg" alt="" width="411" height="640" border="0" /></a></p> <p>Broadway Comics was funded by Broadway Video Entertainment, which was a division (or subsidiary, I forget) of parent Broadway Video. 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