Edited by Robert Beach
It’s time once more for everyone’s favorite genre of Panel Vision: topical oddities. One of the curious attempts by modern TV to remain relevant in an era of streaming and binge watches has been a revival of live performances. This has seen a mixed bag of success and interest, but last weekend, the format saw a fairly major success when NBC produced a live performance of Grease. I don’t really care for Grease myself, though the production did give me cause to remember a very good Elseworlds comic that DC produced called Thrillkiller.
It’s time once more for everyone’s favorite genre of Panel Vision: topical oddities. One of the curious attempts by modern TV to remain relevant in an era of streaming and binge watches has been a revival of live performances. This has seen a mixed bag of success and interest, but last weekend, the format saw a fairly major success when NBC produced a live performance of Grease. I don’t really care for Grease myself, though the production did give me cause to remember a very good Elseworlds comic that DC produced called Thrillkiller.
In case you’ve
never heard of them before, Elseworlds were an imprint of DC comics that
re-imagined classic characters in situation that couldn’t fit into standard
continuity. They’d take a
character like Superman and show us what might’ve happened if he had landed in
Soviet Russia or Gotham City instead of Kansas. Thrillkiller,
written by comics legend Howard Chaykin and illustrated by the eclectic but
striking Daniel Brereton, takes the familiar Batman mythos and drops right in
the middle of 1961.
