Someone mention my name?

Yep. I asked Dick about it and he told me he had indeed drawn Grandee based on file photos of Carmine.

http://www.wtv-zone.com/silverager/interviews/giordano.shtml

Brian, I picked up your book last week and loved it. Great job. Can we hope for a sequel?

Thanks, Craig!

If they ever wanted to do a sequel, I’d certainly be up for it!

Brian, I think it was in the documentary “Comic Book Heroes Unmasked” where I heard Denny O’Neil specifically mention Gloria Steinem, but I am not certain.

I’ll make sure to look for that documentary! Thanks, Laura.

…Ok, who is the guy who keeps posting that? Is it a bot? Cronin, another mystery to unravel!

It’s a link from Entertainment Legends Revealed.

I just brought Was Superman a Spy last week! Lovin’ it so far.

Awesome! Thanks for the support!

The live-action Universal/CBS Human Torch project was dropped because the budget (same level as the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Dr. Strange and Spider-Man shows that DID get on the air at that time, to give you an idea by comparison) was inadequate for the requisite effects, a flying man-shaped mass of flame just to start with. The “scared-that-kids-would-emulate-him-by-immolating-themselves” story came out well after these events, the genesis completely unknown, but it was consistently given as the reason for the Torch’s absence from the cartoons, never for the failure of the live-action project. If I had to guess, I’d say that Depatie-Freleng, makers of the Torch-less FF series, didn’t want to admit they made a TV show with rights to less than the entire property when the part they didn’t have wasn’t being seen/utilized elsewhere (in other words, they felt that so few people knew about the aborted Torch pilot, explaining all that was too complicated, and this was simpler). However, I don’t feel all THAT good about this theory, so if somebody’s got a better one (that doesn’t contradict known facts)…..

Imagine living in a world with a woman that was a combination of the Princess Diana of Wales, Jenn Grijalva from the Real World and Naomi Klein if she looked like Lynda Carter circa 1975. She would melt the internet.

How is that not an interesting premise for a comic?

I love how the “Women’s Lib” issue of Wonder Woman still features a woman in bondage with arched back and headlights on high beam! I love comics!

If there is one character that really needs the “embrace and extend” approach, it is Wonder Woman. She was a feminist of the Camile Paglia/Susie Bright school before either one was even born. Taking that away from her is like removing the murder of the Wayne’s from Batman. It takes away her point of view.

A character without their own point of view is boring. You can balance it, by making Hippolyta an Andrea Dworkin feminist and having them argue. Better yet, the writer could find antagonists who naturally evoke different positions on these issues. Alan Moore does something similar on a routine basis in “League of Extra-Ordinary Gentlemen”. It is a way to drive the superhero action organically and done properly might actually make WW interesting. Surely there is some obscure comic book (or pulp) villain that could easily retro-fitted to evoke the various types of people that would naturally oppose an extremely famous bi-poly switch advocating world peace and tolerance.

The truth is that for a certain subset of women, being rescued by WW would probably cause them to arch their back and turn on the headlights. Based on how good she looks in the mini-skirt, my guess is that WW might want to spend some quality time with her after she deals with those wolves. It doesn’t have to be salacious. “Strangers in Paradise” managed to deal maturely with female bi-sexuality without becoming porn.

Instead, we are treated to WW twisting of off Max Lord’s head, like that is less offensive somehow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKZJVhn7M4

It’s in the Grand Comicbook Database’s index of that issue, however much that might be worth to you. Well, not that Infantino “called him on it”. This is “per the artist” (as both are artists, that’s not entirely clear, but Giordano IS the more likely intent), via one Bryan Stroud.