I’m writing this on boxing day night – Merry X-mas to all those who celebrate and thank you to everybody who watches the show.
It has been a labour of love to bring this show to life, I honestly never thought I’d have the opportunity to put my obsession with comic books to use post career in retail.
This show is admittedly super easy to edit – because Remy and James naturally have a good rapport, chemistry and showmanship. We generally get what we need in one take per segment. This episode was the first time they both got the giggles.
I don’t really want to rehash what’s been said this episode, except that this year has been a GOOD year for comic books. I love the movies, tv shows and animated series and video games, and especially the ones that take the source material and actually adapt it to the strengths of the medium (Watchmen TV show, Dark Knight, Wonder Woman, Into the Spider-verse etc…).
But…all these things are only great because of comic books. There’s no medium like it. Comic books are a window to operatic police procedurals set in space, or high fantasy dramas, gritty pulp genre benders, smutty cheesecake (we see you), arriving at emotional truths through an allegorical tale about depression and of course superheroes.
Comic books have no limits. No budgetary or time constraints. Its ideas drawn on ink and paper. When a writer is paired up with the right artist and colourist, sometimes magic happens.
I like to think that our viewers know this, and that’s why you’re watching, because you’re all addicted to that feeling you get when you’ve just read something that blew your mind, or you just connected with.
This year was a year of reboots, but as unnecessary as some of them are, times change, and characters need to change with the times and represent the current zeitgeist.
Seeing the big three companies take steps to offer up cheaper complete stories to the public not only makes them more accessible (because you can’t keep a good story down) but it shows that the American comics industry acknowledges that there’s appetite for it to become something closer to the French and Japanese comic books market (can you imagine? Books that never go out of print?!).
Anyway, nuff said.
See you in the new year-
--Colin
