That’s the first appearance of Mogo, friends, a Hot Key Investable Issue!
So I done dood it…I got myself a copy of the nigh-legendary Time Beavers graphic novel by Tim Truman, published by First Comics in 1985. Now I haven’t had the time to read it yet, but read it I shall, oh yes. I’m just a tiny bit miffed with myself in that copies of this were just all over the place at my previous place of employment. I mean, I could have bought one of these from there on the day of release, but alas, I thumbed my nose at Time Beavers and headed straight to the rack to grab Green Lantern #188 with its Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons back-up instead. Thus, I have to resort to the eBays and other nefarious means instead.
Anyhoo, there were plenty of comics I had easy access to back then, but didn’t think about acquiring until, oh, say, ten-something years after I stopped working there and three years after that shop closed. Ah, well, What Can You Do™? I’ve got my Time Beavers now, so my decades-old oversight has been corrected. I’ll get it read soon and let you Dingbats of ProgRuin Street know what I think.
Some interesting news from DC Comics over at the 2025 Comicspro event, such as:
- Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton by Ryan North and artist Mike Norton, which sounds amazing. No thought balloons here, North promises, but if you’ve ever seen Norton’s artwork, I suspect there’ll be expression enough from the Dog of Steel.
- Supergirl written and drawn by Sophie Campbell…good, there should always be a solid and accessible Supergirl title on the stands.
- Action Comics, which isn’t a new ongoing, obviously, but the new regular team of Mark Waid and Skylar Patridge will be effectively making it into a new Superboy series with a young Clark Kent. After years and years of DC either not having “Superboy” in Clark’s history after the Byrne reboot, and then kinda sorta waffling about it over the last decade of in-flux continuity, it’ll be interesting to see a modern take on the “Adventures of Superman When He Was a Boy.”
- Batman by Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez – YAY! Restarting the main Batman series with a new #1 – BOO! I saw a news site state that “this is only the fourth time the Batman series has been renumbered,” and c’mon, that’s like five times too many. Batman will sell just fine without renumbering. Yes, we’ll get a boost in sales for the first few issues, which is the reason they do this, but then it’ll be back to its normal sales level soon enough. …I mean, the comic sounds good, I’ll definitely be reading it, I’ll just sigh heavily every time I look at the issue number.
I didn’t see any new Swamp Thing comic news, so all this Super/Bat stuff will have to do.
The Krypto book sounds great! DC keeps coming up with combinations of characters / concepts / creators that keep me interested. Much more than Marvel currently.
I’m thrilled by Sophie Campbell getting the SG book especially in the current climate!
That DC news….every single one you talked about is definitely going on my list. Ryan North writing Krypto? Sophie Campbell on Supergirl? Mark Waid’s Superboy? (You just know we’ll see the Legion!) FRACTION ON BATMAN???
Holy wow.
“You just know we’ll see the Legion!”
That was my first thought, too. If this isn’t a back door into the Legion, then I don’t know what is. *fingers crossed!*
Fraction writing Batman is an…interesting choice. I wonder if this is going to be based on the 1960s TV show-influencing issues of the series. I’ve never read a comic by Fraction where he doesn’t write in his sarcastic/cynical style, and I’m not sure he can.
Re: your Bluesky post on DC/Marvel cross-overs, I know these are longshots, but I would be stoked if they did a JSA/All-Winners Squad WW II one-shot story.
Superman vs Namor; Batman vs Captain America; Wonder Woman vs Miss America; Jay Garrick Flash vs The Whizzer; Alan Scott Green Lantern vs Human Torch; Robin vs Bucky; Starman vs Toro; Hawkman vs Red Raven; Hour-Man vs Blue Diamond; Mr. Terrific vs The Patriot; Johnny Thunder and T-Bolt vs Jack Frost; Atom vs Thin
Man; and Wildcat vs The Destroyer. Preferably written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Jerry Ordway.
It would also be cool to have Silver Age Doom Patrol vs Silver Age X-Men; or Silver Age Fantastic Four vs Silver Age Challengers of the Unknown. Preferably written by Mike Barron and drawn by Steve Rude.
SEEMS like it’s been a LOT more Batman restarts than that!
” it’ll be interesting to see a modern take on the “Adventures of Superman When He Was a Boy.””
Less robot copies, I would assume. Less secret tunnels.
@Snark Shark
I like the robot copies and the secret tunnels…
I hope Waid revives the Bronze Age Legion of Super-Heroes. And how about having the Bronze Age Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes meet the Bronze Age Teen Titans–they can battle the Time Trapper and the Mad Mod!
“SEEMS like it’s been a LOT more Batman restarts than that!”
There have been more “restarts” than that, but not renumberings. I had really hoped DC was going to stop the nonsense, at least on Batman, Tec, Superman, and Action.
1940 Batman vol 1 #1
2011 Batman vol 2 #1
2016 Batman vol 3 #1
2025 Batman vol 4 #1 (pending)
Re: Your Bluesky posting about a Batman/Dick Tracy crossover–that would be cool! Especially if it was set circa 1939-1940 when Batman was just starting out. And especially if Max Collins and Joe Staton got to write and draw it. And especially if a plethora of Batman’s Golden Age villains and Dick Tracy’s villains were in it. Maybe it could be a Black Book limited series?
“I like the robot copies and the secret tunnels”
I do too, but I don’t think they’re coming back.
Mogo doesn’t monetize!
OUCH! – my wallet, a few months from now
Speaking of crossover events, why hasn’t there been a crossover event between the TMNT and all of the various knockoff mutated koalas, kangaroos, gerbils, penguins, and other assorted critters? Maybe Cutey Bunny, Omaha the Cat Dancer, Boris the Bear, Howard the Duck, Rocket Raccoon, Hoppy the Marvel Bunny, and Captain Carrot & the Zoo Crew could be thrown into the mix as well!
“Mogo doesn’t monetize!”
BWA-HA-HA!
“a crossover event between the TMNT and all of the various knockoff”
You’d need a young Marv wolfman to keep track of all the characters!