Siskoid's Blog of Geekery

While Week 3, mostly concerned with the pre-Crisis DCU, is better than Week 2, I really need to address why I think I was more positive about Week 1 than anything that's come since. Each spotlit continuity was "saved" in a bottled city, not in its heyday...

"They who slaughter the flesh, slaughter their own souls."
ACTUAL DOCUMENTED ACCOUNT: Who's been kidnapping teens? A strange vegetarian cult? Or government scientists?
REVIEW: Red Museum has a number of interesting ideas, but uses most of them as red herrings. So there's this cult, see, and its members are militant vegetarians who wear red turbans and claim to be "walk-ins" (souls that are possessing human bodies)...

Who's This? Greek dude I missed first time around, in Who's Who vol.I, page 5.
The facts: Though you'd think him older, this Wonder Woman villain only showed up in 1982, when Diana's book was at a very low ebb. They had two encounters, the first in WW #297-299, the second little more than half a year later in #306-307....

"Our meddling intellect misshapes the beauteous forms of things. We murder to dissect."
ACTUAL DOCUMENTED ACCOUNT: A silicon-based fungal parasite infects a team of vulcanologists.
REVIEW: Another attempt at remaking Ice, Firewalker's monster from the depths of the Earth isn't as interesting, nor at the characters trapped with Mulder and Scully in the proverbial "base under siege". It tries to ramp up the paranoia, but never quite...