Actually, I know a few comic readers and/or toy collectors who *love* that show. Apparently a show about obnoxious border-line retards has resonance with comic fans....who maybe need something to identify with. So, yeah, it is win:win. DC sells advertising space, which is how a publication is *supposed* to make money. (In theory, circulationi money from selling copies should *never* be relied on to pay more than printing. And, even then, advertising should cover it.) And, the makers of "Big Bang Theory" reach a potential audience that is apparently desperate for characters to identify with.
The show itself is ultimately just another sitcom and will probably follow the same life cycle of initial popularity before old episodes start turning up in syndication as filler on the UHF stations. It will then, most likely, fade away for a decade or so and come back as morning/afternoon filler some place. Eventually, it will end up on the channel for "shows your parents watched" channel. At that point of course, we will be old for parents, and some of us might even be grandparents. The characters are repugnant. But, that is standard for a sitcom. ("Seinfeld" made an artform of using rephrehensible characters. And, that show lasted for years.)
The only reason we notice it is that because of lampooning traditional family values, (like most sitcom templates do), and maybe having a good hearted nerd show up as a foil for a main character, (Urkel being the most famous example), "Big Bang Theory" lampoons Otaku (gotta love that word) culture. But, in a way, it does show that we have "arrived". Just like regular sitcoms enjoy mainstream acceptance despite mocking mainstream culture, BBT likely enjoys Otaku acceptance for much the same reasons. Maybe both cases show that at least some people are actually self-loathing malcontents?
And the threads that hold One More Day together are slowly coming unravelled. Next think you know, Aunt May will be dead again.
Not really. What this basically does is that it nullifies the interesting dynamic left by the spell. Initially, the spell was that everybody who knew who Spiderman was would forget unless provided with evidence. Seeing Parker unmask would tip them off, even if they never met Parker. Documents were destroyed/altered by the spell. But, if one happened to see a document that somehow survived or was created after the spell took hold, then that would tip them off.
The thing was that they would not be able to "kind of figure it out" the way that Aunt May had done at various points over the years. (For example, finding a Spiderman costume under Peter's bed would not be a reveal so long as he had a plausible reason for it being there.)
This left Peter with less margin for error than most heroes. For the most part, a hero could get away with being caught maskless, so long as nobody they knew was around. Even a picture would not necessarily doom them, because many people do not look quite the same in pictures as they do in real life. Parker would not have had that out.
The recent issue looks like it left everybody's memory wiped. But, they can now figure out who Peter is.
Oh, and yeah, I got some comics:
Moon Knight #7:
I mistakenly listed this as issue 6 yesterday. Damn, this book should be called "Raving Crazy Ass". Part of me wonders if the big reveal at the end of the arc is going to be that Moon Knight is the new Kingpin of crime. When Moon Knight showed up in "Dark Wolverine", he seemed to be more inhinged than he is here. That likely was a function of the point of view of the story. And, it raises questions about what is happening in the main book. For all of this though, I am not liking this book as much as I should be.
Grade: A
Fear Itself #7.1:
The big reveal about Winter Soldier still being around does not bother me as I am pretty sure that he was always meant to survive "Fear Itself". What does bother me is that we now have Steve Rogers working as Captain America....again....as if nothing has happened. Winter Soldier is getting a new title next year. Part of me wonders how similar to the old "Nomad" series it will be, and if Jack Monroe will eventually come back and kill Winter Soldier. As it stands now, this is predictable filler.
Grade: C
Dom
-thinks that Goatse should have a show called "The Big Bung Theory". That would be awesome....becuase it would be about bungs.
