Thanks, I also love Michael Shannon. I actually just finished a rewatch of Boardwalk Empire and I've got Shape of Water loaded up, his intensity is unmatched and I loved his turn as General Zod. I could go on at length about my Phantasm fan theories, but that's the sort of thing I post in Facebook movie groups about, or used to when it was a less ruined platform anyway. I also make fan edits of movies sometimes when inspiration strikes, but Radio-Play Comics is my main creative outlet and it keeps me plenty busy. Movies don't often need my help, even if I did a month of Indiana Jones comics to celebrate and help put Dial of Destiny, but twenty year old comic books do. This was just a hole that no one else was covering properly. As to your theory I see the merit, but I see Joker as more a mode built into the human condition that circumstances unlock, there's a line in That's Entertainment about "The Chase, for the Man with the Face" that hearkens back to the malformed villains of our oldest history. There's always a Joker, if not Arthur then someone else, it is inevitable with the way we live. The killer could not be a true Joker because he is only a copycat, he has no artistic vision of his own to execute, he can only execute the artists who do. He is corporate commercialism, in my view, wanting the power and fame but not having anything but a blade to gain it with. Another line in the song is "It's the Art, that attracts the Heart." If he's going to be any Batman villain I would suggest Zsasz.

@@fusionspace175 Shannon put in a fantastic performance in The Shape of Water. That is a beautiful film in general. I'm interested in the comic readings. Have you ever considered doing, or have you by any chance done any of the mirage TMNT books? Obviously I'm a big fan of those and would be interested in hearing those brought to life. As for the film that is a fascinating angle and having heard it broke down in that way I think I'm inclined to agree. Bravo.

No, I have my own show to keep working on now and this isn't what I do. Glad you liked it, but Part 2 happens on your own when you start exploring. Wikipedia and KZbin are great places to start. I made a few other nerd rant videos back then if you'd like more of me though, about other comics properties of the time.

By the way, I have adapted some notable Joker stories such as Superman: Emperor Joker and Batman: No Man's Land, if you'd like to explore the comics Joker further, I find these to be very telling of his character.

I did No Man's Land over the course of a long winter, mostly staying inside and eating appropriate foods, i.e. things that can sit on a shelf forever and be eaten with little prep, apocalypse foods. I did each third in a month, my old pace allowed for that, and by the end of winter it was done. My cat George left us during that time and the episode is dedicated to him, he was over 18 years old and he had a wonderful life. No Man's Land was the last big Bat event I really got into, after that the books soon lost focus and split apart, and Bruce Wayne: Murderer just didn't grab me the same as when it felt like one whole contiguous world. No Man's Land is where my time in Gotham largely ends, but it went out with a bang. I doubt any story could top it for depth, pathos, and humanity.

I know how that is about losing a cat I had a cat that lived 20 years, she was so much a part of my day-to-day life, it was quite a loss

Thanks! It's one I revisit myself every few years, and I can't recommend Anarchy For The Masses highly enough, and reading through the annotations panel by panel with the series. It's all entertaining trains of thought supported by the text and the process of creation, even if you don't agree with every idea put forward in it. The interviews and pure facts alone are worth it as well. I enjoyed the graphic novels a lot the first time through, but the real fun started when I went back into the timeline from the supercontext in a whole new fictionsuit, and started really examining the structure of it from new angles.

Don't you dare compare this to that Spider Man garbage. I was reading it during Civil War, and I dropped all Marvel books at the end of that event. I wanted to see that trial, and I felt cheated out of it. You don't understand this was not a gimmick, and I thought I explained pretty well why it came about and how it was forced on the writers and editors by management. This is high quality heartfelt storytelling, and I am offended at you insulting it. Do not return to my channel if that's going to be your attitude to these fine works.

Just because it became a gimmick often imitated is no reason to attack the originator, which was just so good it spawned many imitations. Do you get mad at Star Wars for all the ripoffs that followed it? No, you get mad at the pale imitators. Improve your method of judging media.

Check the Batman playlist, I adapted KnightQuest already as well as Prodigal, and most of the Bat events up to No Man's Land in 1999.

Never underestimate what one man can do over a long winter of solitude.

I loved riddles growing up, and every time I read a Riddler comic I would stop reading and try to solve the riddles before the comic provided the answers. Same for The Hobbit, or anything else, such as The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, which features a riddle contest between the party of heroes and a post apocalyptic super computer train AI gone insane, with their lives as the prize.

Thanks! Nobody ever notices the editing, but that takes the longest time to get right. It's taken a lot of practice, but now I can usually know what a finished sound effect will sound like, and then know beforehand what sounds to capture to create it, the same way I have an idea of how a line or a scene should play in my head, and then I just have to alter reality in the program to match it. Still though, a lot of times I don't know what I'm going to need until I hear it played out, so I get some options during recording and try them out to see what works best. The key to editing is just like they say about jazz, it's all about what you leave out, the notes you don't play.

@@fusionspace175 beautiful work. Your videos do an amazing job relaxing so many people and takes people away from the stress of life.

@@HarryOBrienMusic That's not the ending, it's revealed maybe halfway through. The ending is the big meeting of Jon and Clark, and you don't know what happens then. I explained why I was explaining what I did, because of the odd nature of the book and how it fit into larger DC plans over 3 years.

Personally I hate when people do that, as if we can't tolerate a few moments of silence, or as if the work needs extra emotional coding in the form of music. I almost always find it distracting, and I prefer audiobooks where there might be a short piece of music to set the tone of a scene, but it goes to silence before the actors and sounds begin. Bill Hicks even experimented with working music pieces into his stand up comedy act, but they were also more tone setters rather than background, and they served as wordless breaks to ponder the previous jokes and observations, handing the narrative thread back and forth between music and Bill's voice. But I am not a music guy, I don't listen to much or know much about it, so even if I wanted to, I'm not the right person to choose what music would go where. I have a lot of talents, but music is not one of them. The most I could do would be to tell you which pieces of John Williams score go with which scenes in my Indiana Jones comics episodes, or I could do the same for Star Wars. I could never pick the soundtrack or score for a movie without such iconic branding.

@fusionspace175 I'm an audio engineer, so I like music.

@fusionspace175 For example, I prefer this style. Even if the music doesn't change throughout. kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6SQaomHjpWcocUsi=Gq8F46uoaDngVbxY

Thanks! I hope you like the others as well, I've just posted that I'll be doing Laurie's book next. Darwyn Cooke always did amazing work, so if anything goes wrong, it'll be my fault. These series were so overlooked, and they're all so heartfelt, such honest attempts to be true to each character. The furthest thing from a cash grab, these were real works of art.

I do plan to do Echoes when it's done, but I have no plans to adapt Superman '78, as I was personally quite disappointed by it, and especially as compared to Batman '89 here. I grew up on those Superman movies, and I found the whole thing to be pretty pointless, and a waste of the opportunity. What's worse is I could not imagine it as any sort of movie with the odd pacing the story has, it would have been changed so much before that ever made it to screen, and so in my eyes, they failed the assignment. There was no need for Clark to meet his parents or even for part of Krypton to survive, but if you were going to do that story, you don't stick Clark in a bottle for most of the movie so there's no Superman in your Superman movie. As a kid, Superman III was my favorite, for the goofy tone and the jokes and the fast pace of the story and action, and I loved Richard Pryor from other movies, so seeing him meet Superman made him feel like he was a real part of that Hollywood world, and I still love III and IV to this day. I sort of resent when people want to cut those sequels out like they didn't happen. The odd powers he displays in the later movies actually make a lot of sense when you consider he's pre-Crisis Superman, and he had a lot of weird powers pop up in those days, all the time. They felt like the comics come to life, and Superman '78 fails to capture any essence of that life, or those comics. The story has potential, but it needs several rewrites before it's ready for the screen.

Thanks! I was just rewatching Promethea a few weeks ago, and I always wish I had bought an actual mic sooner. It is a lot of effort, but it's over a long period of time, so it's a ton of small bursts of effort, especially the editing. When the work gets tiring it's important to take breaks and do other things, to get the best artistry out of yourself, rather than pushing ahead like a machine. That's my process, anyway. That also keeps it enjoyable and not a strain on regular life, even though at times it seems the work will never end. Keep at it, keep your focus, and it always does, though.

In Ozymandias' prequel book in Before Watchmen, at a party in the 60's Captain Metropolis asks Adrian how his name is to be pronounced, with the stress on OzymanDIas or OzyMANdias, and Adrian tells him that both are acceptable but he prefers the way I say it, as it sounds more elegant to him. So that's my source, blame Len Wein if you must.

It's funny because whenever a game console shows up in comic (set in the comics universe) it's always generalized so much that it can't be tracked to any single product. One of my favorite examples is in Reign of the Supermen, the console Superboy and Roxy are playing a Doomsday and Superman fighting game on is somewhere between an SNES and a Neo Geo with controllers more like Atari and Genesis combined, and the graphics are depicted like a modern arcade game would look. The Gamestation as I think it's called is much more singular and obvious like a reference joke in a movie would be. Personally I got the N64 and my friend got a PS1, and we played games on each other's consoles until the prices came down, and it was a looong wait as I picked the wrong end of that console war. I finally got my own PS1 in a pawn shop and admitted defeat, but in my defense I had hated cd's and how and they skipped, and I feared if game discs would be be the same way.

@@fusionspace175 indeed. As for the console war... I had them both eventually. I love them both. PlayStation released in 95 in the US & N64 in 96. Pretty sure I got my N64 in 97, and my PlayStation in 98. Before that I was still using my Sega Genesis and Sega CD and a few computer games.

I still have my original newsstand issues too. But as they're all packed away in bags and boards in longboxes with 20 years of Superman comics in a basement, it's handy to have this video around. Half the reason I make these is so I don't have to dig the comics out to experience my favorite stories.

@@fusionspace175 I just went to my parents house looking at them. They're still in my boxes and boards and plastic in perfect condition. The whole complete set for years and years