August 7, 2026

Free Comic Inside> Robo Force’s KIt-venture

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I said we were going back to Robo Force and we are, but not the story intended. I can only find one website with the minicomics and it’s missing the third one in the series, “Showdown In Space”. I could go to the fourth one and make it another unfinished review line, like the DC Mini-Buns or Legions Of Power comics, but I’ll give it one last chance before we get there in the next rotation because they added something interesting.

“Reflections Of Danger” came from a Robo Force mailaway fan kit, according to Google AI, and that’s about all I know about it. For those of you who only know Maxx Steele and company from the recent Nacelle revival…remember that prototype robot, the one that looked like they ripped off R2-D2’s legs and shoved a suction cup on the bottom? That’s the original design for Ideal’s toyline, produced by CBS toys. I’ve already reviewed two other minicomics in this series and the TV movie.

And this fan club inclusion, making it still a free comic inside, is set in the story of the TV movie, meaning it also features their original creators, the Fury family. I don’t think the toy pack-in minicomics version even had creators, or at least we aren’t shown any. Both take place in the city of Celestia on the planet Zeton instead of Detroit on Earth, and even if they didn’t have legs they were probably better off. This 5 page story was written by Jay Itzkowitz and drawn by Frank Springer.

No cover, as they just jump into the adventure, so let’s do the same. The Old Robots requires scrolling to find the separate images and even more scrolling to reach the PDF download, so come read along.

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August 7, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> The Gaming Industry Collapses

Obligatory cursing drunken Scotsman warning

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August 6, 2026

How DC Comics Makes Batman A Failure

What’s that you say? Hot take? Clickbait? Batman is such a huge success for DC that they overuse him? I’m not talking about any of that.

However, yes, Batman is an absolute (no pun intended) failure at his job. It’s not just Bruce Wayne, though. All of the defenders of Gotham City are complete failures, and it’s not because of anything the characters are doing. It’s all on the writers and decisions made by DC Entertainment. This is totally meta, not some in-universe discussion, or at least not entirely. I had a revelation recently. Batman and Co (or is that Inc?) are doing a terrible job and it’s on purpose by the writers, editors, and the higher ups at DC Comics or their superiors at either DC Entertainment or Warner Brothers (insert this year’s owners here).

Sure, the only DC movies anyone is interested in stars Batman. The comics do well, even the Absolute spin-off set in Darkseid’s dream universe where hope goes to die. I would make the claim that the main DC Universe is where the corpse came from in this case. Ignoring all the timeline issues with all the constant reboots, Gotham City is not in a better place, and it darn well should be. It can’t, however, because the writers will not allow Batman a true victory. They aren’t even keeping the status quo very well. Instead, thanks to mandates, obsessions not on the characters’ parts, and some stories I’m not a fan hearing about, Gotham City will never be in a better place and in fact will be so much worse that we’re already wondering why anyone who can leave hasn’t already. I’m not just trying to be outlandish here. I come with a legit argument. Allow me to plead my case.

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August 6, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> Examing 1980s Earworms’ Backstories

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Also some bonus trivia for gamers. Listen to what Ian Fleming’s sanctuary is called.

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August 5, 2026

Spider-Man’s Brand New Ruining Of Jean Grey

So it appears that Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a huge hit. The box office for the latest live-action Spidey flick in the MCU is doing so good, it’s already shown up both of DC’s “super” movies by having the superhero be a hero, and one you’d want to emulate. Not because of the powers. Spider-Man has a whole group of people who share his powers, some of whom aren’t clones of Peter Parker or born of Venom’s symbiote, and once all of Manhattan had spider powers. On the spider side (not to be confused with Spidercide) There is nothing but praise from this movie because people are so happy to have a heroic superhero, and previously just happy to get Marvel’s flagship character in the MCU, that all adaptation errors have been forgiven it. So a win for storytelling, but a loss for proper adaptation if you’re a comic fan.

Also taking a loss? The mutants. Possibly.

While Peter’s journey has been getting mostly thumbs up, the treatment of–I guess isn’t a secret anymore, even though it wasn’t a well kept one–Jean Grey follows a disturbing trend that follows Scarlet Witch lately in both comics and especially the MCU: if you have trauma and present as female you’re allowed to do all the horrible things you want in order to achieve a goal of regaining your family. In Jean’s case it’s trying to get back her sister, and she’ll kill any innocent she can use to get her back or stop Spider-Man from stopping her. Even I know that’s against Jean Grey’s character and I have little interest in the X-side of the Marvel universe.

So imagine someone like JesterBell, who loves the might mutants, and how upset she was that Jean was such a horrible person, which could be a foreshadowing (my cousin’s in trouble again) of what’s to come once the MCU absorbs all over media continuities into it’s solo universe, DC Crisis style? Well, you don’t have to imagine because she took to a 40+ minute video to go over everything wrong with Jean Grey and Wanda Maximoff in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and why, as an X-Men fan, she would rather Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige, with or without Sony, NOT make an X-Men film if this is what she’s going against. I have some bonus thoughts, but let’s let the expert make her case first.

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August 5, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> How MacGuffins Got Their Name

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August 4, 2026

The Avengers: Doomsday Spoilers & The Continuing Villain Problem

 

 

We’re discussing the leaked Avengers: Doomsday. If you don’t want to be spoiled, bookmark this and come back if it turns out to be right.

And we’ve seen evidence in the now official advertising material that points a bunch of it out to be right. Which means, and if you’re coming in on the homepage I’ll keep the spoiler until after the jump, Odds are this is going to be right.

That means that the motivation of the villain in the story…yeah, we all know it’s Doctor Doom as played by Tony Stark’s actor…may also be accurate. It’s one following the Marvel Studio post-buyout tradition of knowing absolutely nothing about the characters they’re adapting and believing that to be a good thing. Because they’re snobby ego-driven morons who just want to tell their story using things people like for easy marketing…but now I’m just padding out the homepage. There’s a secondary threat with their own motivation that is character assassination straight out of the comic storyline that barely inspired this one, but that’s another discussion.

This is going to be short on the homepage, but I can’t get into even the thesis of this post without spoilers. Suffice to say Hollywood and modern writers are making the same mistake yet again, not only misunderstanding the point of a villain in stories, but completely missing the pettiness and narcissism that is “Doctor” Victor Von Doom. Because today’s writers refuse to stop….

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