Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 259 – The Minstrel, Freedom Female, Pussy Whip On …

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 259 – The Minstrel, Freedom Female, Pussy Whip

On “Fat Kanye”

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Well looks like our boy Kanye has put on a few. If you don’t know a picture came out late last week of Kanye looking fat in some beat up dirty clothes and smiling. People are assuming the weight gain is from anti-depressants. This is also assuming Kanye “went crazy” a while back. I don’t know if he did or didn’t but he seemed no crazier than he’s ever been. To paraphrase the man himself from a song “[he’s] been out [his] mind a long time”. Personally, I think he faked the whole thing to get out his tour and because even he realized that rant he did about Jay-Z and Beyonce was a bad idea.

So as I shamefully revealed before I watch “TMZ Live” and it seems like every other week they have some story about how Kanye is “better” or “back” or “happy now”. Always based on basically nothing. “Oh look he smiled”! Why wouldn’t he be smiling?! He RICH! The question is why he was ever so mad for so long. All I’m saying is let’s see what he says or does before claiming anything about his mental state. Like I wrote in the comic Trump smiles sometimes too and he’s a sociopath.

Tomorrow Spiderous-Man and Pussy Whip are subbed out for Admiral Star. The Minstrel tries to get a “picture” of her psychological state to see if she should join The American World Protectors Of America. You should assume things don’t go as planned. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 258 – The Minstrel, Freedom Female, Pussy Whip On …

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 258 – The Minstrel, Freedom Female, Pussy Whip

On Character Witnesses

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If you didn’t know last Saturday was “Batman Day”. This year because it’s the 25th anniversary of the character “Harley Quinn” took over “Batman Day”. She was subbed in for other characters in famous and iconic “Batman” covers and generally given at least equal billing to “Batman”… It’s kinda messed up. She should have a big thing on the anniversary of then the first episode of “Batman: The Animated Series” with her in it, but she shouldn’t horn in on “Batman” day.

She already an over-used and not particularly well used character character as it is. The comics I see with her in it suck. The “Suicide Squad” movie sucked, and I haven’t seen it but the direct to DVD movie “Batman And Harley Quinn” is generally seen as sucking. Speaking of sucking someone rented “Wonder Woman” so I saw it a 3rd time… Yeah still C+ at best.

Tomorrow these guys return to talk about a certain celebrity who’s gained some weight. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 257 – Special-Man, Slowku, & Freedom Female On …

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 257 – Special-Man,

Slowku, & Freedom Female

On Ice Cream

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I’ll never get tired of Slowku being dumb. One thing I wanted to set up in this comic is that Slowku and Special-Man’s dads knew each other. At some point I want to explain the connections between them and Q-boy and why all of these alien characters are on Earth.

On an entirely different note October is coming up and with it are drawing challenges where you draw something every day such as Inktober. I have the beginnings of an idea for something special I want to do for it. This might be too nutty even for me though, but we’ll see…

That’s it for this week. Check out new “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” on Tuesdays-Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 256 – Special-Man, The Good Knight, & Freedom Female On “Mr. Phil”

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 256 – Special-Man,

The Good Knight, & Freedom

Female On “Mr. Phil”

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So we got into a bunch of Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz confusion in this one. I went into the whole thing going on in “Superman” comics with this “Mr. Oz” guy being “Jor-El” before. Seems pretty stupid, but whatever. I’m going to switch gears and talk about “Secret Empire”.

Last week “Secret Empire: Omega” came out. I guess this is the end of this never-ending crossover for real this time. This… This one hurts. Most crossovers suck, but they have good art or good fights or something. This one mostly had art that didn’t fit at all and REALLY ham-fisted politics. The art would be great for some “crime” comic. This is superhero comic though.

I think the biggest thing that’s dumb about this is that something big is not really addressed at all. “Good” “Captain America” isn’t real. He’s some girl’s memory of the guy. The real “Captain America” is still alive and still evil. They could make something interesting out of this, but knowing comics they almost certainly won’t. Also they killed off “Black Widow” but they’re already hinting that she alive.

Tomorrow The Good Knight is replaced by Slowku as they continue to talk about dads. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 255 – Special-Man, The Good Knight, & Freedom Female On Dads

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 255 – Special-Man,

The Good Knight, & Freedom

Female On Dads

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This comic is about some stuff going on mainly in recent “Superman” comics. There’s been this mysterious guy running about the “DC Universe” called “Mr. Oz”. Since “DC” started this whole “Rebirth” thing there’s been references to “Watchmen”. Specifically “Dr. Manhattan” and “The Comedian’s” button. (It must be pointed out that all of this is comic book blasphemy by that way). Naturally if you know “Watchmen” you’d figure “Mr. Oz” is “Ozymandias” or some other “Watchmen” character… Nope, it’s “Jor-El”. Apparently “Superman’s” dad (or if they’re really lame “some verision” of him) is evil and hate humanity now.

I guess the burden of being 1% better than “Marvel” was too much and they want to give that up now… It was good run… Okay maybe there’s some possibility of this being good. Personally I doubt it though. What do you think?

Tomorrow these guys return to discuss “Mr. Phil” some more and typical confusion ensues. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 254 – “Perfect” Spiderous-Man, Freedom Female, Admiral Fire, & Spiderous-Man On …

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 254 – “Perfect”

Spiderous-Man, Freedom Female, Admiral Fire, & Spiderous-Man

On Working With Your

Spouse

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Have you ever seen someone about to do something dumb and something told you to try and stop them? Your instinct is to just mind your own business and move on, but something makes you fight it. For me that thought is almost always a mistake. One thing I’ve seem to have learned is that people are going to what they’re going to do. You can tell them exactly why what they’re doing is dumb and exactly what they should instead and 90% of the time they don’t listen. Worse yet sometimes they get mad at you for. That’s kinda what I tried to convey with Freedom Female in this comic.

That’s it for this week check out new “Criminal And Crimefigher Conversations” on Tuesdays-Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 253 – The Good Knight, Freedom Female, Red Witch, & Spiderous-Man On …

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 253 – The Good

Knight, Freedom Female, Red Witch,

& Spiderous-Man On Working With

Your Spouse

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One thing this comic gets into is that not too long ago “Batman” met the alternate reality version of his dad. He was from the “Flashpoint” world (which shouldn’t exist because it’s an alternate timeline that was erased not another universe but…comics). In the “Flashpoint” world “Bruce Wayne’s” dad becomes “Batman” after “Bruce” is killed by criminals. His mom also becomes “The Joker”. People generally seem to like this idea, but I find it completely ridiculous.

I think it’s even worse that “Batman” and “Dad Batman” actually met. The whole point of “Batman” is that he represent a child’s reaction to losing his parents. It’s a kid saying “no one will ever die again” and meaning it. This is also why it’s so important that “Batman” doesn’t kill.

An adult wouldn’t have the same reaction, and even his they did they wouldn’t EXACTLY the same thing. “Batman” used his childhood fear of bats as weapon. Why would his dad do the same thing? What I’m getting at is he would at least have a different gimmick. Maybe rabid squirrels or something?

Tomorrow Spiderous-Man and Freedom Female return and are joined by “Perfect” Spiderous-Man and Admiral Fire. They discuss aborting a plan. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 252 – The Good Knight, Freedom Female, Luscious Trapp, & Spiderous-Man On …

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 252 – The Good Knight, Freedom Female, Luscious Trapp, &

Spiderous-Man On Working

With Your Spouse

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Before I tried to take a change pace and talk about some comics that are actually good. Let me add on more to the “slightly above okay” pile. That would be “Red Hood And The Outlaws”. This one deserves a special distinction for being “most improved comic”. Back when “DC” did the whole “New 52” thing “Red Hood And The Outlaws” was not just terrible it was a prime example of everything wrong with the “New 52” and comics in general. I was painful character destroying experience that “DC” is still trying to recover from.

In fact here’s what I wrote about “Red Hood In The Outlaws” on Facebook when it came out..

“Red Hood And The Outlaws:  Ya know I must really not understand how comics work.  Cuz’ I thought a writer pitches a concept for a book then someone has to approve it, and then after that an editor has to approve the story.  Obviously from reading this the process must go more like this…

DC Staff:  Hey anyone wanna write?!  We got 52 spots open!  And we’ll take ANYTHING!

*name removed to protect the writer*: How about 1 character no one likes, another no one cares about, and I’ll completely ruin a character who’s part of popular kids show?

DC Staff:  Great!  Here are sacks of money!

I’m not even going to get into the main problem and controversy of this issue yet.  Lets start with the “star” of this comic.  See… Well… I mean… How bad does a character have to suck for people to vote to have him killed?  They didn’t vote for Jason Todd to not be Robin, or to not be around, or for there not to be another Robin besides Dick Grayson.  They voted for him to die… That says an awful lot.  So course the marketing geniuses  at DC go “hey people hate this guy lets bring him back, and make him more unlikeable!” .  I guess Marvel brought back Bucky and made him kick ass so DC decided to do the opposite.  So that’s our lead for this comic… Then there’s Green Arrow’s sidekick who now goes by Arsenal who at best is meh (also seeing as Green Arrow is now much younger was Arsenal his sidekick in this new continuity?). And then there’s Starfire… Who has been turned into a emotionless sex robot who will let basically anyone bang her and doesn’t care about or remember humans.  Yeah great way to welcome those kids who watched the “Teen Titans” cartoon.  The sad part is the art is pretty good, and the first few pages actually seemed half decent then Starfire shows up and this becomes more creepy and pandering than hentai.  Hell it’s worse than bad hentai.  I don’t have a problem with fan service, cheesecake, or whatever, but this isn’t even insulting to women… It’s insulting to guys.  You really think guys want this?!  Really?! Also the rest of the issue is boring.  I came to see a train wreck and this is so much worse than thought it would be”

This new version though ain’t bad. Not great, but not bad. Once thing I admire is learning and improvement so salute on turning it around.

Tomorrow all these Luscious is swapped out for Red Witch as these guys continue to talk about working with spouses and other stuff. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 251 – Hazard Hands, Freedom Female, Spiderous-Man, & Pussy Whip On …

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 251 – Hazard Hands, Freedom Female, Spiderous-Man, & Pussy Whip On Money & Women

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I think the comic speaks for itself so I’m gonna talk some comics since it’s been a while… So “Secret Empire”… That was big stupid waste of time… Could they at least have semi-consistent art? In fact you know what not even going to talk about it anymore. (It sucked… Okay seriously done now) I’m going to try and be positive and list some above average comics I recommend…

“DC”

  • “All Star Batman” – One of the best books out now
  • “Teen Titans” – Solid book
  • The non-Bryan Hitch “Justice League” (not “Justice League Of America” with “Batman” and B-team people) – Decent
  • “Wonder Woman” – This is teetering on falling off the list, but it’s just good enough for now

“Marvel”

  • “Infamous Iron Man” – I think this is THE best book out now. I thought Dr. Doom trying to be good was bad idea. So glad I was wrong
  • “Champions” – Not big on any of the individual characters, but this is a pretty good book
  • “Astonishing X-men” – This just start so it might take a bad turn, but good art on story so far

I certainly have checked out everything so there might be more good titles, but that all I can think of that I read. That’s it for this week. Check out new “Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations” on Tuesdays-Thursdays. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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Criminal And Crimefighter Conversations 250 – Hazard Hands, Freedom Female, Spiderous-Man, & Pussy Whip On Slick Kitty

Criminal And Crimefighter

Conversations 250 – Hazard Hands, Freedom Female, Spiderous-Man, &

Pussy Whip On “Slick Kitty”

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So I was saying yesterday that because I parody “Marvel” and “DC” characters sometimes I combine similar characters. Here are some examples you might’ve seen if you’ve been following these comics:

  • “Aquaman” & “Namor” = The Underwater Monarch
  • “Atom” & “Ant-Man” = Insect Dude
  • And now Pussy Whip is both “Catwoman” and “Black Cat” (as Slick Kitty)

“DC” and “Marvel” often do their versions of each other’s characters as “commentary” on them. Sometimes these characters become radically different over time and the “copy” becomes more popular than the original.

Tomorrow all of these characters return and get into the topics of money and women. Hope you enjoy and see ya then!

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