Television Crossover Universe

 Every weekend I block out two hours for writing, and I should be using that time editing my book today, but I'm really not enjoying writing that book, and thinking of abandoning it altogether, so instead I'm doing another blog post to procrastinate from that other project. Some say we have super hero fatigue.  Less super hero movies are being made, after years of flooding the market.  James Gunn says that it's not fatigue for super-hero movies.  We just need good stories.   Super hero movies have been with us since the days of the serials in the 1940s.  Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel and Captain America all got serials, along with non-super comic book characters like Blackhawk, Hop Harrigan, and Dick Tracy.   For decades, it seemed as though the super-hero movies were focused on Superman and Batman.   That changed in 2000 with the release of X-Men.  Many will say that Blade in 1998 was the start, and that may be true, but I ...

 Lots of spoilers.  Don't get mad at me if you keep reading. So I should be editing the Sci-Fi Multiverse book, but this is a great way to procrastinate on that project. I said that I'd be mixing it up on the TVCU blog, and here is one of those mixing it up moments. I'm not just the Crossovers Guy, I'm also the Superman Guy.  I was highly anticipating this movie, so much so that even though my car was in the shop, I walked miles to see this movie.   And I felt it was underwhelming.   Before I get to what I didn't like though, let me talk about what I did like. I didn't hate this movie.  I wouldn't even say I was disappointed.  It was fine.  It just didn't blow me away.  So what did I like? First off, Luthor!  Luthor was captured perfectly.  He was evil, arrogant, insecure, envious, so flawed.  Perfect. Lois Lane.  Rachel Brosnahan really looked and acted like Lois.   Though there wasn't much humor for a...

    I am  invisible  because I am the same thing you look at every dreadful, dull day. I am the day  before  you realize everything has gone horribly, horribly wrong. I am the  Chameleon .   — Chameleon 1880s-- Jonah Hex Vol 1 4-- The Chameleon Battles Gunslinger Jonah Hex  before 1940  Peter Stockbridge   becomes a P.I. and master of    disguise using the name  The Chameleon inspired by the Old west gunslinger    1940 to 1942 Target comics-- uses his mastery of disguise to fight nazis and other threats  sometimes teaming up with the Superhero the Target  Between 1942 and 1948 The Chameleon turns to a life of crime  1948 Action Comics 126-- The Chameleon steals some  uranium and battles Superman    1960--Blackhawk 144 Secret of  The Chameleon-- Three crooks pretend to be    The Chameleon   and got on a crime spree only to be stopped by the Blackhawks...

FRED AND BARNEY MEET THE SHMOO (ANIMATED SERIES) Release Date:   November 8, 1979 - November 15, 1980 (Setting is circa one million B.C.) Series:   Flintstones; The Shmoo Animated Series:   L’il Abner The Story:   While working as police officers, Fred and Barney encounter the Shmoo! Notes:   The Shmoos are a species from the Valley of Shmoon.  In the L’il Abner comic strip, the hero discovers them in 1948, and brings them home.  This strange species, which is edible, and happy to oblige, and also make great pets, ends up multiplying asexually and exponentially, to an extent that threatens to destroy the world economy.  This leads to a mass government led slaughter of all Shmoos outside the valley. They are afterwards declared a major threat to national security. Two Shmoos are saved by L’il Abner, and live for a time in Dogpatch, before marrying and returning to the valley.  In 1979, The New Shmoo was a series involving myster...