Geek Tee Friday - Villains & Vigilantes

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For this week's Geek Tee I have dug out a really old shirt that I printed up myself as I doubt there was ever any official merchandise of this, at least not as far as I know! This is from a really great RPG that gave me hours of fun and entertainment back in the day called Villains & Vigilantes or V & V for short. The video tells everything really about my history/love for the game but here's a bit of history.

Designed by Jack Herman & Jeff Dee, the 1st edition was released by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1979 but I got it from the 2nd edition that was released in 1982. I think I was perhaps 17 when I got this game so about '86 I think. I was an avid reader of Marvel & DC comics and knew that both had RPGs out but I wanted to create my own characters not play as somebody else's. And just look at that cover!! How could I resist, that cover tells a story that just dragged me in.

The rules are a bit tricky initially but once you get a bit of practice in they are pretty simple really and character creation is again slow to begin with but once you get used to it I was rolling up characters in probably 10 minutes maximum. You do need a calculator though I will say that.

An updated version of the game has since been released, if you are interested in trying out the games, try either of these two links. 

www.drivethrurpg.com

Fantasy Games Unlimited

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The idea was to play as yourself so I created a NPC (Non-player character) of myself who was called Photon, he has light powers, strength and illusions and his origin was that the Alien Protector was engaged in an aerial battle with a super-villain (I forget which one?) and got fatally wounded, he crashed down on top of a bus shelter as I walked past and with his dying moments he reached down and grabbed my hand channeling his powers into me. (I realise now how derivative of Green Lantern's origin it is!) Later on in the campaign the persona of the Alien Protector started to try and take control of my psyche.

I had a ton of fun doing these games and will sign off with the names of some of the player characters I remember. My sister was The Elementalist, my little bro was Mindwing, my big bro was The Hermit (crab powers!), Raj was Transflame, Dave was The Crimson Knight, Martin was Sonic Speeder, Mosquito, The Crab (and a couple more I am sure but I forget!) and my cousin Amos was Beast Man, Protac, Titan (I think), and Gauntlet.

As an interesting snippet of information, Bill Willingham of Fables fame wrote a couple of early V&V campaign books, Death Duel with the Destroyers and The Island of Dr. Apocalypse.

Update: I just got a comment on my video by Jeff Dee the games co-creator. His YouTube channel shows game sessions of him playing the new version of V & V HERE

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Geek Tee Friday - Wayne Aerospace

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Here we go another Geek Tee Friday post with the 4th of the shirts I got from Loudshop which I did an opening video of HERE

This was probably the least exciting of the shirts I got for my mind, it doesn't scream "Superhero" to me and I'd imagine that anyone not versed on the Batman character might think it's a shirt from a real company!! Perhaps they'll think I'm in the employ of a leading scientific tech company and think I'm a super-science boffin!! So maybe it's cool for that. 

This shirt came with a Justice League movie label but I can't say I recall it from the movie at all!? (Check out my blog HERE if you wanna see my thoughts on the film) So I thought I'd do a blog about it, as you do! I actually found a real company called Wayne Corporation which later became Divco-Wayne and had some dabbling in aerospace tech for a time!! This is from Wikipedia,

From 1958 to 1959, the company owned Divco-Wayne Electronics. In a $1.5 million purchase of the Electronics Division of Gruen Watch Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, Divco-Wayne sought to enter the aerospace technology segment. After poor results, the Electronics Division was sold off.

For the purposes of Batman though we have to talk about Wayne Enterprises, Inc, also know as WayneCorp, that operates out of Gotham from it's headquarters of Wayne Tower. The company along with the charitable organisation the Wayne Foundation, also headed by Bruce "Batman" Wayne, is ran day-to-day by Lucius Fox, a very capable and trusted employee. I am unsure if in current canon Fox knows of Wayne's other hero self, I do recall that he does in Nolan's Batman movies, where he is played by Morgan Freeman. 

Originally founded as a merchant house back in the 18th century by brothers Judge Solomon Wayne and Joshua Simon Wayne, it soon flourished with the city of Gotham springing up around it. Alan Wayne, Bruce's great, great grandfather turned it into a corporate company in the 19th century, it was made into a green company too, trying to be aware and take steps to limit it's environmental impact. It's among the oldest companies in the DC Universe and has a vast array of interests, with branches for Security, Research, Foods, Shipping, Biotech, Electronics, Chemicals, Steel, Entertainment and Medical to name but a few.

Here is the entry for Wayne Aerospace stolen straight from Wikipedia for you to check out!!

Wayne Aerospace

Wayne Aerospace is a subsidiary of Wayne Technologies and remains one of the more highly successful divisions of Wayne Enterprises. It has its own airline called Wayne Airlines and an aviation division called Wayne Aviation. The aerospace division is a major military defense contractor within Gotham and the United States. W.A. currently owns 20% of Lockheed Martin's weapons division. The W.A. is mostly known for its extremely well structured, luxurious and exclusive corporate and private jets and airliners. Much like the Gulfstream, Wayne Enterprises tries to keep the Slipstream corporate jets out of the hands of celebrities and sells them mostly to large corporations. This in turn has made the Slipstream into a cult item among the rich because it is fashionable to have a plane as a status symbol of wealth. Wayne Aerospace's experimental aviation branch produces experimental and the research planes built for NASA. The military aviation branch designs and manufactures highly successful jet fighters and helicopters for the United States Air Forces. The most notable models of these are the W-4 Wraith fighter and the Kestrel attack helicopter. As the most prominent aerospace company in the region, Wayne Aerospace has a working partnership with Eagle Air Force Base near Gotham City. Wayne Aerospace is also responsible for maintaining the systems and the planes for the Archie Goodwin International Airport in Little Stockton, in Gotham. Wayne Aerospace maintains good natured competition with other aerospace corporations like Ferris Air and its nemesis, LexAir.

The division has generated millions of dollars for Wayne Enterprises. The company's government contracts and space exploration contracts with NASA have been very lucrative. Wayne Aerospace's most important mission is to provide the latest technology and information for the Batman.

I don't remember hearing about an Archie Goodwin Airport before but it's obviously named in honour of the late great writer, editor and artist. Check out his full bio HERE but short version he did horror comics for Warren, cut his superhero teeth as the 1st writer for Iron Man in 1968, co-created Luke Cage in 1972, did a lot of work on Star Wars titles for Marvel & Epic comics and finished his career doing a lot of great work on Batman over at DC. I found this cool interview he did which sadly turned out to be his last, check it out HERE

There is even a character homage to him in Batman Adventures with a villain called Mr Nice!

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Nextflix Reviews - Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

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This looks like a massive budget sci-fi adventure, I vaguely remember hearing the name of it but wasn't tempted to go see it at the cinema. I wonder if the advertising people did a good enough job pushing it. It's based on a series of French science fiction comics called Valerian and Laureline which I have not heard of previously. Apparently producer Luc Besson has been wanting to make this movie for years even considering it way back in 1997 when he was working on The Fifth Element.

As the film starts we see the scope of the civilisations involved in the story during a starting sequence where we see beings from many species greeting and shaking hands with each other as they create a massive, planet sized space base, Alpha Station in the Earth's orbit. Eventually they become a danger to Earth so are set adrift to govern themselves. This is the City of a Thousand Planets, Valerian is a young Major in their security forces. He and his partner Sergeant Laureline start the film on a mission on a planet to capture a stolen converter, a small dragon like creature, the last of it's kind, that appears to poop out multiple replicas of whatever it eats! It is being sold on the black market by some previous residents of the planet Mül which was destroyed 30 years ago. We saw their homeworld get destroyed before the introduction of the title characters, an event that Valerian either dreamed or received a psychic flash about. He recognises them from his dream but when the mission goes pear-shaped he has to get out quickly before he can question them.

Just one of the friendly monsters we see in this movie

After a narrow escape they arrive back on Alpha Base to be faced with two threats, firstly a strange techno cancer has infected the base threatening to destroy it and secondly ruthless forces want the last converter and will go to extreme lengths to get it. The two appear to be connected as a group of Mül show up and kidnap the commander.

There are mysteries and intrigue around what happened to the Mül planet and what they are after that gets the partners into a lot of scrapes during the course of this 2 hour 20 minute movie.

The real star of this movie is the special effects and the imagination at work to create the many creatures and areas of the ship that we see. There are some scenes that almost leave you agog at the amount of detail that went into them. The early mission scene for example is in a kind of virtual reality market place so we see a fight/escape scene that exists in seemingly 2 different dimensions at once. Another seen sees a chase through Alpha Base that passes through a number of regions all vastly different to each other. This movie had a massive budget and it shows, although it apparently ended up a bit of a box office failure so I'm not sure if they'll ever be any sequels.

The action is top-notch and the story is passable, the only negative points is that the characters are perhaps a tad flat and lacking charisma, it's definitely worth a look just for the cool visuals.

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Nextflix Reviews - A series of Unfortunate Events

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I vaguely recall there was a film of this a good few years back now, with Jim Carrey I think, and I know this is based on a set of 13 children's books by the author Daniel Handler using the pen name of Lemony Snicket but I haven't read them at all, so I've no idea how closely the 2 series, so far, of this TV show mirrors them. 

The story is narrated by Lemony Snicket himself he provides exposition and links the 'events' together telling from a historical stand point. Along the way he promises that the outcome and fate of our young stars is one of perpetual doom. It follows the 3 talented Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus and toddler Sunny who are orphaned due to a terrible fire that guts their family home. They are adopted at 1st by their evil distant relative Count Olaf a hammy actor and all round terrible human being who has a gang of strange followers in his theatrical entourage. He is aware of a sizable inheritance soon to come the children's way and plans to seize it for himself. The children manage to get away from him and are passed on to be fostered by a procession of quirky relatives all the while being pursued by Olaf and his cronies.

This is a world where the children are smart and capable and most of the adults are daft as brushes who can't see through the ever improbable disguises of the Count. For two seasons they've travelled around passed between friends of their parents and unlocking some secrets about their parents lives and a secret society they belonged to called The V.F.D., some agents of whom try to assist them whenever they can.

Along the way they also meet the two surviving Quagmire triplets Duncan and Isadora whose lives seem to strangely parallel their own in many aspects, they lost a sibling as well as their parents in a fire. They become allies helping each other out of terrible situations of the Count's making. 

The tone of the show is very dark and comic but very strange, I am probably not at the right age to get it, it kind of seems too dark for me I am surprised kids like it but then Grimm's fairy tales of old were a lot darker than we eventually watered them down to. So it seems kids can deal with darkness, discomfort and even death in their entertainment a lot more than I would've suspected!

The 1st two seasons of the show have aired on Netflix so far and have covered the tales from the 1st 9 books of the series. It's seen them visiting an outlandish set of scenarios and characters such as the world's most prestigious snake expert, a house tottering precariously on the edge of a cliff, a wood mill staffed by hypnotised workers, a frankly horrendous orphanage, the penthouse of a pair of trend obsessed millionaires, a village full of bird loving loons, a hideous hospital and a failing carnival that decides to hold a raffle to decide which one of their freaks to feed to the lions to boost trade!

At every step they are hounded by Olaf with the situation they are in seemingly getting grimmer and grimmer. They certainly are 'unfortunate' that's for sure. Season two ends with an almost literal cliffhanger which may well leave you gasping to see the 3rd and I assume final series as this is set to cover the last 4 books of the set.

For me it's not compulsive viewing really, it's something to have on but the wackiness of the characters and situations doesn't really tickle my funny bone. I suppose it must entertain on some level or I wouldn't have continued watching it. I will certainly watch the last season just to see what happens to the children, Narrator Snicket always suggests that their final fate will not be a happy one, with even the title music suggesting we 'look away' as the story is not a pretty one. I assume they'll be a happy conclusion after all their hardship but who knows what these crazy kids are into nowadays and how it will end!!

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Castle Greyskull

I had a look through my Masters of the Universe toys HERE way back in October and promised then to do a video of my Castle Greyskull, sorry it took me so long but here it is at last. I've not watched any other videos of Castle Greyskull but I think the condition of mine is pretty good, other than it being dusty as heck and a little handle broken off of the sentry gun. I realise as well that the Castle set came with a weapons rack complete with weapons which I know I have in a bag with the action figures.

The 1st Castle Greyskull action set came in 1982, I am not sure how many versions there were and which set I have but I would guess I got this one around about 1983/84, so I'm guessing it's of the 1st set and the other set never came until the 2002 relaunch.

In the lore of Masters of the Universe King Greyskull is Prince Adam's ancestor, in his time the castle was very different and was a centre of great knowledge known as the Hall of Wisdom. In a cataclysmic final battle defending his kingdom and all of Eternia from Hordak, the bottomless abyss that surrounds the castle was created. After King Greyskull's death the Hall and it's secrets were left in the care of his advisers, the Elders, who foresaw a great coming evil but also prophesized He-man. They concentrated their power to create the Orb of Wisdom and stored it and Greyskull's Sword of Power in the Crystal Chamber which is hidden underneath a secret trapdoor. They turned the Hall into Castle Greyskull to scare away intruders and protect the Orb.

By Prince Adam's time the Castle is largely forgotten and is inhabited by the Sorceress and a rarely seen, mysterious Spirit of Greyskull. We see Man-at-Arms lead Prince Adam to the castle where he receives Greyskull's Sword and this has "The Power" to turn him into He-Man. Skeletor and his forces of evil seek to get into the Castle to steal the powerful secrets housed there so he will be able to conquer Eternia.

In the 1987 live-action movie The Masters of the Universe, Skeletor finally takes the Castle and captures the Sorceress, forcing He-Man, Man-at-Arms, Teela and a Thenorian locksmith called Gwildor to flee through a portal to Earth. They are aided by a teenage couple and a police detective in finally defeating the forces of evil. One of those teenagers was Courtney Cox of Friends, Scream fame in a very early role.

In November 2012 a new character was created. to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the toys 1st launch there was a create a character competition and the winning entry was for Castle Greyskullman!! I don't own this toy, in fact I'd never even heard of it but looking at this picture it is one sweet action figure!

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Nextflix Reviews - Cargo

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I think this is the full-length version of a short film that was doing the rounds, being shared on Facebook a while back. It starts out with a couple Andy & Kay and their baby living in a house boat on the river in Australia. They are scavenging for supplies as they go with their only interaction with other people being when they float past a family who pull a gun and eye them warily. 

This is a zombie movie, they've done the escape to somewhere remote part already before the film starts and have it relatively safe now, but maybe they got too comfortable and complacent and disaster strikes. Something bites Kay and she has 48 hours before she turns, Andy desperately tries to get her to a hospital but things go from bad to worse. Andy is now left alone and is himself infected, he desperately has to seek a way to get his daughter Rosie to safety before he turns. 

He meets other people along the way, all eking out an existence in a pretty barren remote rural landscape. There are zombies around but not enough at 1st to seem like a major problem, Andy has to be more wary of the living as some may have a shoot the bitten on sight policy. He is advised by a school teacher to leave Rosie with a mob of aboriginal people who have deserted the towns to go back to the old ways, away from the sickness that has overtaken civilisation.

As so often happens in these movies the living often prove to be as big a threat as the dead, with Andy having to avoid both on occasions whilst also trying to fight off his descent into zombiedom! It's a countdown all the way, can he find a safe haven for his child before he decides to have her for lunch? He does find an ally along the way, Thoomi an aboriginal girl and they have to learn to trust and help each other to get by.

This stars Martin Freeman of Sherlock, Hobbit and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame in the sort of role that I wouldn't expect to see him in, mind you he's in that film Ghost Stories too which is meant to be pretty scary and it's definitely on my one to watch list.

This film is a good story, but it doesn't really feel like that much of a horror, the zombies hardly ever get close enough to be that perilous it seems. The tension doesn't get ramped up as high as I imagined it would be either, I imagined Andy would be struggling hard with not eating Rosie but he never even gets close to it. Overall a cool enough movie but I think it missed a trick or two along the way.

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Other films starring Martin Freeman

   

Nextflix Reviews - Killer Mermaid

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My horror movie howler sense is going off like crazy as I start to play this movie. It's probably going to be a stinker I reckon, all the actors have Eastern European names, so no stars I've heard of and one of the main sponsors/backers (I don't know what they are you know them company names that come up before the movie starts), is Jerry's Catering! They must have pumped some money in as their logo is on a speedboat they use and is focused on as the boat pulls out. Product placement? Kind-of!

Doing a bit of research this 2014 movie seems to be sometimes known as Killer Mermaid singular and sometimes plural and it also seems to be known as Mamula and also Nymph.

It actually starts off reasonably OK, like every horror should with a double death. A guy leaps into the sea seemingly enticed by what I assume is a mermaid's siren call and goes under the waves, his panicked girlfriend beseeches what looks like a fisherman for help and he kills her with an anchor through the neck, so it's not just the mermaid who is killer in this movie.

We're then introduced to 2 women Kelly & Lucy who are meeting with their old school friend Alex and his fiancé Yasmin and we have to put up with some boring catching up, getting to know you sequences. We see Kelly & Alex re-ignite a past spark behind Yasmin's back, they also spot a creepy fisherman, (who may be the killer), and make a good joke/horror reference to the "I know What You Did Last Summer" franchise. We've not seen any mermaids yet but we do see another murder, a drunk guy get's anchor hooked in mid-piss, poor fella. They meet up with Boban and they make plans to go visit an old military fortress on an island called Mamula, an old man Niko overhears their plans and warns them against going, telling of the fortress's past as a Nazi concentration camp and also speaks of the Scylla who he claims once took and ate six of his crew, although it sounds like he is quoting a poem when he says this. Is Niko the fisherman we've seen killing 2 people now? 

Needless to say in traditional horror movie fashion they ignore his warning and go to the island where they find out that the fisherman is already at the island and now they've arrived he won't let them leave, alive! He bursts their dinghy stranding them and proceeds to hunt them down. Is he the only danger on the island though or does something else lurk there?? (It's not much of a spoiler really, after all look at the title of the movie!)

Despite my initial thoughts it's not a bad movie, there is a bit of good gore, some reasonable CGI, creature make-up and the acting is not too bad but it's far from memorable, it won't make anybody's all time favourite list at all. I suppose it's a unique enough idea for a film with the cast running from a mad man with an anchor whilst also trying to resist the siren call of the flesh eating Scylla.

In Greek mythology Scylla is one of two monsters that live either side of a narrow strait, the other being Charybdis, they lived just an arrows range from each other. There is an idiom about being between Scylla & Charybdis meaning to escape or steer clear of one peril you may venture too close to the other. I kept wondering if they'd run into Charybdis in their flight from Scylla, you'll have to watch the film yourself to find out what happens.

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Geek Tee Friday - The Hulk

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This Friday's geek tee is one of the Hulk taken from the Thor: Ragnarok movie from 2017. This is the 3rd of the 4 mystery shirts I got for £15 and did a bag opening in this BLOG here. Check it out.

I wasn't too impressed with this one at 1st it seems a bit muted colour wise and I am sure there are better Hulk shirts out there but hey ho it is what it is, I'm sure it will grow on me!

As a character the Hulk has been around since May 1962  when he was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. He 1st appeared in The Incredible Hulk #1, a book that only ran for 6 issues before the big Green/Grey one was moved to Tales to Astonish which was later renamed as The Incredible Hulk in April 1968. It ran under a few different names up till 2013 when it was replaced by The Indestructible Hulk as part of Marvel's Marvel NOW! relaunch.

I remember that Marvel UK had a Hulk comic too that I know I read some of as a kid but I would expect that my 1st encounter with the very angry one was when Lou Ferrigno played him in the TV show of the 70's. It was pretty big in it's day this show I seem to recall, with Bill Bixby playing the role of the mild mannered scientist David (not Bruce??!!) Banner. The show ran for 5 seasons, (82 episodes) on CBS in America from 1978 - 1982 apparently. Wow, I didn't realise it was as many as that, I wonder if we got to see them all in the UK. 

It was a cool show, he was always on the move from town to town, working on cures for his Hulk problem and he'd end up befriending and helping someone with the big green one's aid and have to move on again at the end of the show. The poignant music would play out as he trudged off, (normally in the rain I seem to recall), to a new town and new adventures. 

They also made 3 films the 1st of which, The Incredible Hulk Returns features him meeting up, I am sure for the 1st time on screen, with the thunder god Thor himself. See they really are old friends from work!!

The Incredible Hulk Returns - 1988

He also met up with Daredevil in The Trial of The Incredible Hulk (1989) and in The Death of The Incredible Hulk (1990) he falls in love with an Eastern European spy (Black Widow surely!!)

I have quite a few issues of Hulk in my collection, I'd guess I must have collected him for 3/4 years but I need to go dig them out to confirm this. I know I have quite a few of the Peter David era of the big green goliath. He united his Banner/Hulk personas for a time during this period and we also learned that Bruce was abused by his father making Hulk ostensibly his childhood fury manifest. When Hulk refused to emerge during Avengers: Infinity Wars I theorized that his inner child bully Hulk was scared after the beat down that he received from Thanos. I think he might need a little lie-down on Doc Samson's sofa once again to get his head right. Also a lot of fun during David's run was when Hulk went grey again and had dominance over Banner, he became Mr Fixit for a time, a mob enforcer cracking heads to order for a crime boss. He was no where near as strong at this point, he had better intelligence and reasoning so he couldn't channel his boundless rage into strength.

I wonder if Hulk has featured in more Marvel movies than any other character. Does anyone have the figures at all? Maybe he is the character that has fronted the most movies. He has the 3 TV tie-in ones that I already mentioned and then he has had 2 others, Hulk (2003) with Eric Bana as Bruce Banner and The Incredible Hulk (2008) with Edward Norton in that role. He's also been in 3 Avengers movies, (I think) with Mark Ruffalo as Banner, and of course Thor Ragnarok where he has a tumultuous & fun battle with the titular hero. 

Fights between The Hulk and Thor have been plentiful over the years with many a debate being had between fans over who would win in such a battle. Hulk (in some versions), has brute strength that seemingly has no limits, increasing as his anger does, but Thor is a god, a skilled warrior with the might of Mjolnir and the power of thunder. I tried to find out when they 1st battled in the comics, the earliest encounter I could find was Journey Into Mystery #112 from January 1965. 

I am sure we will see him next in Infinity Wars Part 2 but I wonder if there are any plans to have him star in his own movies again at some point. I certainly hope so as I for one will NEVER tire of the Superhero genre, I don't remember a time when I haven't loved them and I can't picture there being one in the future either. Keep 'em coming I say.

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Movie Review - Justice League

OK my review is in the video really I just want to go over some of the history of Justice League, not the characters as such, more of the team itself. It was 1st put together by writer Gardner Fox in Brave and the Bold #28 in March 1960, (3 years before Marvel's The Avengers formed). 

The seven original members were Superman, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Due to various re-write and shuffles for continuity this origin has altered a number of times with different people attributed to the original team. At one point Superman, Batman & Wonder Woman were retconned out of the 1st gathering of the league and in 1994 a new character Triumph was invented, it turns out he formed and led the team but a dimensional limbo led to him being erased from history and the memories of the team!

In November 1960 the team got it's 1st ongoing book, Justice League of America which ran until 1996 when it was renamed just JLA for a time. With a couple of relaunches the Justice League comics are now on their 3rd Volume and are the premier team book of the DC Universe.  The team line-up has changed over the years with pretty much anybody who is anybody of the DC universe getting an outing in the team. Check out the full list HERE.

Some of my favourites over the years have been - 

Red Tornado

I just love his look and the way his powers manifest in the comics, he's a robot too! I wanted a good 70s picture but couldn't find one 😞

Blue Beetle

Ted Kord the 2nd Blue Beetle, (See BLOG) was great in his own book but at first I disliked the jokey nature of his run in the League.

Firestorm

Hello!! His head is on fire!! That makes his the coolest or should that be hottest look EVER!!

Over the years the Justice League have branched out at various times as the occasion required it, resulting in incarnations such as Justice League International, Justice League Europe, Justice League Dark, Justice League Taskforce, Extreme Justice, Justice League Antartica!!, and even Formally Known as the Justice League!

This is Koryak the son of Aquaman, I mentioned in the video that I thought Jason Mamoa's take on the king of the oceans looked like a cross between Arthur Curry traditional Aquaman and this bloke. For some reason I thought he had tattoos but it seems it was a case of my addled brain lying to me again. Old age huh? It sucks, unlike the Justice League film which kicked arse!!!

Cyborg was originally a member of the Teen-Titans and still is in the cartoons and possibly in the comics too, but with his ever increasing powers he became a strong member of the team as of the 2011 reboot and made it into the movie. He's also in the much lighter hearted Teen Titans animated movie which is coming soon and is slated for his own feature length film in 2020, cool! 

The New Teen Titans # 1 - November  1980

Poor old Green Lantern possibly due to the criminally poor acceptance of his movie never made the JLA cut and that other green fellow the Martian Manhunter although strongly represented in the cartoons never got to be in the movie either though he is in the Super Girl TV series on CW.

As we know from the comics the team roster is open to change, perhaps when/if we get a 2nd movie in the franchise we'll see some new heroes entering the fold. I am hopeful and excited to see what comes in the future.

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