Mr. Dixon: I just wanted to thank you for your entertaining, and informative, videos. It is always a highlight in my day when I see one pops up in my subscription feed. I hope that you and yours are doing well. God bless.
Patrick McGooen's Commandant episode I didnt even realise it was him until my second or third watch. My favorite Villian, as well as episode is probably Donald Pleasance's episode. Really, there are so many great episodes, especially from the first series, its hard to pick just one.
Caught you on Fat Steven Seahawks Channel last night you where incredible thank you for doing that been a huge fan of yours for a very long time thank you for all you do
Bogart is the man! I especially liked his performance with his wife Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage, not the most prolific of films but I have a soft spot for their chemistry together
This may be outside the usual per view: The Fantastic 4 comic was absent for a big chunk of the 2010s. In that time Marvel gave rise to Guardians of the Galaxy and moved books like Avengers and Venom into the cosmic side of Marvel. Now, even after returning to print, they are still being out-cosmic’d by the X-men (who have now terraformed Mars, go figure). Do you think the Fantastic 4 can rise back to the prominence it once had in the cosmic side of Marvel or is it doomed to being overshadowed by the new shiny titles until the corporate overlords give it a push when the next movie reboot comes out in 2028 (probably)?
The FF was in trouble LONG before Disney ORDERED Marvel to kick the FF to the side to hurt 20th Century Fox (which had rights to both FF and X-Men before Disney bought them out). The whole point of low-balling FF and X-Men and going with all those stupid storylines was not to give Fox more decent ideas for their FF and X-Men films (which were all at best mediocre to anybody that seriously read the better comic storylines written before the 1990s; I honestly thought the first X-Men looked and felt like a TV movie). Not that this matters to Hollywood! They're arrogant enough to think they know better than the original authors and creators so they continue to screw things up by going on their own tangents instead of TRYING to be faithful to the source material. Most film adaptations are like the original comics in name only. It's sad to see that even the DC animated films have gotten that bad, too; DC animated films have been mostly terrible going on at least 10 years now. They were screwing up most live-action adaptations well before the Woke 2010s and 2020s! Name 5 good superhero films (live-action, not animation!) made before 1997 that have stood the test of time. If you're honest, you can't do that! ** I think the FF was cooked well before Disney ordered Marvel to backburner or turn FF into a mediocre title. The last creator of ANY great significance that had a decent FF run was John Byrne. There have been "acclaimed runs" after Byrne's but Byrne's was the last run that was significant and sold decently well -- over 200,000 copies a month on average! (I've heard issues of that FF run may have sold over 250,000 copies.) Aside from the X-Men, there were not many Marvel Comics matching or exceeding those print sales. Nobody has matched that in well over 20 years, not even the team of Mark Waid and the late Mike Weiringo who were talked up by the usual comic critics as being the best thing since sliced bread! Byrne was on FF for 5 years -- issue 232-293(?) with plots carried on for 2 more issues at least by Roger Stern (writer) who was his friend. Byrne left FF and Marvel to do the Superman revamp at DC but was only exclusive to DC Comics for 2 years (1986-1988). His Superman was critically burned (by older Superfans and obnoxious jerks like Harlan Ellison) and he frankly wore himself out on Superman. By his reckoning he did close to 80 Superman stories in TWO YEARS which would exhaust anyone! I always felt Byrne did his best work at Marvel. DC just couldn't commit to retcons (if they were even well thought out!) and changes and brought back most of the silly things and important characters and situations Byrne wrote out. You can't blame Byrne for the complete situation because DC's editors signed off an all the changes; they just didn't anticipate the amount of antipathy the retcon brought on. I personally think it's some of the blandest mainstream work Byrne did but that's me. There are other people that love Byrne's Superman but I had more fun with his Marvel work. I have skimmed FF since Byrne left but I just don''t care for the later creators' efforts. I've felt the same for X-Men after Chris Claremont left in 1991. It's just not the same. Both titles hit their creative peaks in the 1980s and have never been the same. A combination of later, lesser creators and editorial indifference sunk them. The thing that kept up sales was nostalgia and the hopes of some fans that the books would be as good as they were in the 1980s.
Query: (Stefan Delgado asking) Chuck, what is the most interesting story you have written in your opinion and what is the premise to a story you have yet to write? Thank you.
Mr. Dixon: I just wanted to thank you for your entertaining, and informative, videos. It is always a highlight in my day when I see one pops up in my subscription feed.
I hope that you and yours are doing well.
God bless.
I appreciate that
Thanks, Chuck.
Thanks Chuck!
You are very welcome
Patrick McGooen's Commandant episode I didnt even realise it was him until my second or third watch. My favorite Villian, as well as episode is probably Donald Pleasance's episode. Really, there are so many great episodes, especially from the first series, its hard to pick just one.
The Phantom and prince valiant
It’s Thursday morning. On Wednesday morning, I was Chuckless. And lost.
I !oved the hell out the last laugh.i never thought i might be missing part of the story.time for some research
40,000 pages!?!? Amazing. Of course, the “most prolific” title wouldn’t be as meaningful if you weren’t also the best.
Caught you on Fat Steven Seahawks Channel last night you where incredible thank you for doing that been a huge fan of yours for a very long time thank you for all you do
Great stuff, as always.
Glad you enjoyed it
25:05 No the german version of Joker: The last laugh is also not complete, cause they forgott to add the Nightwing and Robin Tie-ins
Bogart is the man! I especially liked his performance with his wife Lauren Bacall in Dark Passage, not the most prolific of films but I have a soft spot for their chemistry together
This may be outside the usual per view: The Fantastic 4 comic was absent for a big chunk of the 2010s. In that time Marvel gave rise to Guardians of the Galaxy and moved books like Avengers and Venom into the cosmic side of Marvel. Now, even after returning to print, they are still being out-cosmic’d by the X-men (who have now terraformed Mars, go figure). Do you think the Fantastic 4 can rise back to the prominence it once had in the cosmic side of Marvel or is it doomed to being overshadowed by the new shiny titles until the corporate overlords give it a push when the next movie reboot comes out in 2028 (probably)?
Great points! I'll address this!
The FF was in trouble LONG before Disney ORDERED Marvel to kick the FF to the side to hurt 20th Century Fox (which had rights to both FF and X-Men before Disney bought them out).
The whole point of low-balling FF and X-Men and going with all those stupid storylines was not to give Fox more decent ideas for their FF and X-Men films (which were all at best mediocre to anybody that seriously read the better comic storylines written before the 1990s; I honestly thought the first X-Men looked and felt like a TV movie). Not that this matters to Hollywood! They're arrogant enough to think they know better than the original authors and creators so they continue to screw things up by going on their own tangents instead of TRYING to be faithful to the source material. Most film adaptations are like the original comics in name only. It's sad to see that even the DC animated films have gotten that bad, too; DC animated films have been mostly terrible going on at least 10 years now.
They were screwing up most live-action adaptations well before the Woke 2010s and 2020s! Name 5 good superhero films (live-action, not animation!) made before 1997 that have stood the test of time. If you're honest, you can't do that!
**
I think the FF was cooked well before Disney ordered Marvel to backburner or turn FF into a mediocre title. The last creator of ANY great significance that had a decent FF run was John Byrne. There have been "acclaimed runs" after Byrne's but Byrne's was the last run that was significant and sold decently well -- over 200,000 copies a month on average! (I've heard issues of that FF run may have sold over 250,000 copies.) Aside from the X-Men, there were not many Marvel Comics matching or exceeding those print sales. Nobody has matched that in well over 20 years, not even the team of Mark Waid and the late Mike Weiringo who were talked up by the usual comic critics as being the best thing since sliced bread!
Byrne was on FF for 5 years -- issue 232-293(?) with plots carried on for 2 more issues at least by Roger Stern (writer) who was his friend. Byrne left FF and Marvel to do the Superman revamp at DC but was only exclusive to DC Comics for 2 years (1986-1988).
His Superman was critically burned (by older Superfans and obnoxious jerks like Harlan Ellison) and he frankly wore himself out on Superman. By his reckoning he did close to 80 Superman stories in TWO YEARS which would exhaust anyone! I always felt Byrne did his best work at Marvel. DC just couldn't commit to retcons (if they were even well thought out!) and changes and brought back most of the silly things and important characters and situations Byrne wrote out. You can't blame Byrne for the complete situation because DC's editors signed off an all the changes; they just didn't anticipate the amount of antipathy the retcon brought on. I personally think it's some of the blandest mainstream work Byrne did but that's me. There are other people that love Byrne's Superman but I had more fun with his Marvel work.
I have skimmed FF since Byrne left but I just don''t care for the later creators' efforts. I've felt the same for X-Men after Chris Claremont left in 1991. It's just not the same. Both titles hit their creative peaks in the 1980s and have never been the same. A combination of later, lesser creators and editorial indifference sunk them. The thing that kept up sales was nostalgia and the hopes of some fans that the books would be as good as they were in the 1980s.
Chuck and Graham are in a statistical tie for subscribers. 😎 spread the word.
Last week's video really made a splash.....Chuck has a solid lead now. Just passed 3k subs.
The splash page of the people moving a couch is from Whisper vol 2 no 1.
Query: (Stefan Delgado asking) Chuck, what is the most interesting story you have written in your opinion and what is the premise to a story you have yet to write? Thank you.
What are your thoughts on motion comics?
Paddy Mcgoo 😎