Showing posts with label The Spectre. Show all posts
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Friday, January 03, 2025

DC Showcase: The Spectre

Gen Z'ers could learn a lot from Det. Jim Corrigan’s work ethic. He works his colleagues’ cases as well as his own. Plus, he is technically dead, yet he never makes any excuses. Those evil-doers will not punish themselves, but Corrigan will, as the human host for an ex-demon-turned-righteous-spirit-of-vengeance. His latest case is very Hollywood, but that won’t impress Corrigan in Joaquim Dos Santos’s DC Showcase: The Spectre. (Technically, today is Corrigan’s in-world birthday, but he isn’t very festive anymore.)

In most storylines, Corrigan was killed while on his way to celebrate his engagement. Presumably, he knew Aimee Brenner sometime before that. They were once an item, so he duly arrives at the crime scene to comfort her—and annoy below-average Lt. Brice. As a bigtime studio producer, her father, Foster Brenner had no shortage of enemies. However, several former collaborators whom Brenner cut out of his latest blockbuster were particularly vocal expressing their grievances.

Frankly, you probably wouldn’t need to be the Spectre to solve this case, but he can do it especially quickly. Essentially, the Spectre visits the accused, sort of like the Ghosts of Christmas, showing them horrific visions based on their guilty memories. The makeup artist (who maybe not coincidentally partly resembles Tom Savini) is in for a particularly rough time, because of all the macabre models and props in his studio.

The coolest thing about
The Spectre is its funky 1970s vibe. It could almost pass for an animated cousin of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The deliberately hazy look suits the murky morality of its Hollywood setting, while the soundtrack from The Track Team, Jeremy Zuckerman & Benjamin Wynn sounds very era-appropriate.