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Who is the August General In Iron?

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By Jason Kirk / 25 June 2011 / Features, Site Updates / 0 Comments

I’ve noticed that we’re getting hits for searches on the “August General In Iron” so I’ve posted up a full profile on the character. He’s “China’s Captain America” and is due to become a member of Dan Jurgens’ post-Flashpoint Justice League International. I’ve been intrigued by the character ever since he first appeared in an early issue of 52. Writing this profile was a lot of fun as its involved reading around Chinese history and that isn’t something I was too familiar with beforehand. Continue reading →

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A new Young Justice section

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By Jason Kirk / 10 February 2011 / Site Updates / 0 Comments

I have added a central page for all our static Young Justice content – profiles, timelines, etc. Episode reviews will continue to appear on the front page as normal. I’ll try and get those listed in due course.

New articles up at the moment include:

A timeline of YJ timestamps.
YJ profiles: Aqualad, Kid Flash, Robin, and Superboy
JL profiles: Batman and Superman
Plus profiles of other characters from the first two episodes.

I plan to keep these updated as we go along and to add new material along with the reviews of new episodes. So I’ll post a profile of a new character instead of a section on them in the usual review. This new site is added under the banner of “The Atlas of the Multiverse” (well it’s actually a reprise of a section from the old site which is no longer online), but at the moment only the Earth-16 (Young Justice) section is live.

A lot of these changes relate to “under-the-hood” mechanics of WordPress. Previously I’ve only been able to have “posts” which appear in the blog stream or “pages” which are static. However, the ability to add custom post types to WordPress has recently appeared. I first experimented with this when I switched the Galleries over to a custom post-type and ditched the former NextGen powered galleries (it was a nice plug-in, but was increasingly too far outside the WordPress core for my liking). I’m rather pleased with the results so I’ve now created a custom post type for Character Profiles.

By default new profiles will be static and won’t be part of the usual front-page stream, but that may change. I also intend to do the same for the DC Animated Universe (Justice League & Justice League Unlimited), but that’ll take time to start.

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A New Year theme.

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By Jason Kirk / 03 January 2011 / Site Updates / 0 Comments

I’ve refreshed the old blog design to make stuff easier to find. I was having trouble finding my own posts so I’ve arranged for everything to appear in pages for each series or season. I’ve also rearranged categories and archives, but the permalinks to the individual posts are still live. There are further changes I want to make down the line, but I can’t do those until this theme is actually the live one.

The galleries have also been refreshed. I’ve dumped NextGen in favour of custom WordPress posts. Seems to be working okay at the moment. Episode screen shot galleries can now be found under the episode page.

One thing I’ve unfortunately had to lose is the links to the old material on geocities.com and captain.custard.org. Both those servers have become defunct during 2010 and are no longer accessible (although you may find geocities mirrors around the web). I’ll try to resurrect as much material as possible, but it’ll take time.

I expect we’ll still be on shakedown for a few weeks yet. Let me know if anything isn’t working for you.

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Slow site?

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By Jason Kirk / 10 December 2010 / Site Updates / 0 Comments

Hi Everybody. There was a comment on a thread asking about possible speed issues with this site. I’ve been having a couple of speed issues myself, but it’s hard for me to tell if it’s the webhost or my local ISP (they’re different). Could you please comment on this thread if you’re having a problem. Cheers -Jason

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Justice League of America (vol. 2)

Justice League of America (vol. 2) #1

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By Jason Kirk / 25 August 2010 / Imported From Old Site, Recent Comic Book Series / 0 Comments

Quotes

Kathy Sutton: I’ve been through this seven time since I first met him. Seven. People think it gets easier. They’re wrong. It always take a bit to collect the pieces. And even when there’s no League, the League does it. Hal helped this time. Last time it was Bruce. As a favor, we asked Magnus to put him together. He didn’t hesitate. He, of all people understands.

Vixen: I feel the birds first. Seagulls and terns. Danger’s coming. Then I feel the tiger. Anger overwhelms me. The place looks empty. Looks aren’t everything. They’re already here. Lion.

Credits

Writer	Penciller	Inkers	Colourist
Brad Meltzer	Ed Benes	Sandra Hope and Mariah Benes (special thanks given to)	Alex Sinclair
Letter	Assistant Editor	Editor
Rob Leigh	Jeanine Schafer	Eddie Berganza
Cover Artists: Two standard covers & retailer variant cover by Ed Benes, Mariah Benes, and Alex Sinclair; variant cover by Michael Turner and Peter Stiegerwald

Synopsis “The Tornado’s Path – Chapter One: Life”

The Justice League has been out of action for over a year ever since it disintegrated during the Infinite Crisis. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman have even been through their own soul searching and have come together to in the Batcave to plan the League’s reformation.

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Justice League of America (vol. 2)

Justice League of America (vol. 2) #0

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By Jason Kirk / 06 August 2010 / Imported From Old Site, Recent Comic Book Series / 1 Comments

Quotes

Superman (about Batman): In all our time working together it was the first time I saw Bruce scared. It wasn’t the aliens. Or the diamonds. Or even the Mach 6. It was just the simple and unavoidable realization that there were bigger things on the planet than him. And that’s what terrified Batman. [...] But as he’s done every day since he was eight years old, instead of being ruined by his darkest and most ruthless fears he embraces them.

Wonder Woman: So we’re on again? Once every year?Batman: That’s fine, Diana. But I think we can do better than that. And maybe even invite a few friends along in the process.Wonder Woman: Did you just say friends?Batman: I meant teammates.Superman: We know what you meant, Bruce.

Issue Credits

Writer: Brad Meltzer
Artist: Eric Wight (pgs 1-4), Dick Giordano (pg 5), Tony Harris (pg 6), George Perez (pg 7), J.H. Williams III (pg 8.), Gene Ha (pg 10), Rags Morales (pg 11), Ethan Van Sciver (pg 12), Kevin Maguire (pg 13), Adam Kubert (pg 14), Jim Lee (pg 16)
Penciller: Luke McDonnell (pg 9), Dan Jurgens (pg 15), Howard Porter (pg 17), Andy Kubert (pg 18), Phil Jimenez (pg 19), Ed Benes (pgs 20-24)
Inker: Paul Neary (pg 9), Kevin Nowlan (pg 15), Dexter Vines (pg 17), Jesse Delperdang (pg 18), Andy Lanning (pg 19), Sandra Hope (pg 20-24)
Colourist: Alex Sinclair
Letterer: Rob Leigh
Cover Artist: Michael Turner, Peter Steigerwald
Variant Cover Penciller: J. Scott Campbell
Variant Cover Inker: Sandra Hope
Variant Cover Colourist: Edgar Delgado
Assistant Editor: Jeanine Schaefer
Editor: Eddie Berganza

Synopsis “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”

The trinity of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, like other groups of Leaguers, have always met independently of the monthly Justice League meetings. Since their first loss (the Red Tornado against the Nebula Man) they’ve met annually to discuss the state of the Justice League.

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By Jason Kirk / 19 April 2010 / Wordpress Themes / 0 Comments

This is a post about the technicalities of blogging so may not be of interest to all readers.

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Ni hao, Hola, and Hello – Google Translate widget added to sidebar

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By Jason Kirk / 08 February 2010 / Site Updates / 0 Comments

I have added a new translate box to the sidebar. This uses Google’s Translate widget to translate the original page/post into one of the languages listed in its drop down menu. Machine translation of one language to another is still not perfect, but it’s better than when I first encountered it (which is more than a few years ago).

I’ve added this feature because I’ve noticed a steady increase in the number of non-English language sites linking here. This includes several international message boards including ones in Chinese and one in Spanish. I suspect that most of these visitors speak English better than I can speak any of their languages, but I nevertheless hope that this widget helps.

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New DC Animated Universe index page

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By Jason Kirk / 26 August 2009 / Site Updates / 0 Comments

I’ve just added a new page that lists all the animated Justice League and Superman episodes that I’ve written about so far. These had been and still are listed with the rest of the reviews under the Reviews page, but this new index separates them out and groups them properly.

I’ve just been looking through the logs and its rather obvious that those posts are among the most viewed posts on this blog. I’d like to post them more often, but they take quite a while to write what with the background research and the thumbnail gallery. We’re getting there slowly.

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