BW’s Daily Video> Illegal Superheroes

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I think the problem is that the superheroes came first, responding to crimes the police couldn’t handle. It was catharsis that someone was able to stop mobsters, even if it was in a fictional world where mad scientists would also come about. Once the superhero evolved from the “mystery men” and pulp heroes, they needed someone more interesting to battle, hence the supervillains. So every new universe usually starts out with the superhero and the supervillains come later. Imagine if the supervillains came first and the superhero rose to stop them.

[VIDEO] What Is The Avengers: Doomsday Movie Based On?

I was going to save this for Friday or maybe a little closer to when the movie came out, but I didn’t sleep well last night and I need the time without going through all the buffer I built up on my week off. Also, we’ll be talking about the spoilers to Avengers: Doomsday so if you want to avoid that, maybe just scroll down to the video by Linkara of Atop The Fourth Wall  if you’re curious or look for the “Secret Wars” video from 2026, just last week as of this posting.

All indications are that the plot for Avengers: Doomsday and the two or three movies that will follow will be based on the 2015 version of Secret Wars, and it’s not the best showing for Marvel heroes if that’s the case. Keeping spoilers off the homepage, it’s also about the end of the multiverse and features Doctor Doom as the villain, using cosmic power to recreate reality in vision because that’s what Doctor Doom does. His ego and quest for the power to control everything has led to take advantage of godlike beings before and this was no different, though the one in the comic isn’t the same as the MCU reimagining out of necessity.

It’s not the worse comic to fall under the “Secret Wars” banner, originally meant to push a toyline but became the first case of Marvel’s Eventitis illness back when they only did it as a summer event to keep readers coming during their vacations. Now every storyline in comics is practically a mini-event. Linkara, the internet persona of Lewis Lovhaug, does “Event Comics Month” every year, or at least tries to. Like my recent issues with all the anthology comics coming my way, these take the most time to read, write, and review, which is harder on him since he has to get more than a cover. He has to get sample pages and pan them to make the video work. It just so happened that among this year’s remaining list of events the fans chose this version of Secret Wars before the MCU spoilers leaked, and the recent trailer seems to prove much of what they said. So let’s watch Linkara go over the comic event that inspired the movie event and see what they’re working with.

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BW’s Daily Video> New Batman: Knightfall Pt 1 Trailer Drops

Now this is something I’m looking forward to.

Marvel’s Move And The Marvel Movies

I’m surprised it took this long, actually. Some years ago DC Comics moved from their New York home to be closer to Warner Brothers, under the thought that everybody should act like one happy family under one proverbial roof. That hasn’t helped either entity, but that’s another conversation. Still, it makes it strange that Disney ordered Marvel Comics to move to California when everyone seems to be getting OUT of California…but that’s a whole other conversation, half of with doesn’t fit the topic of this site.

Does this move signal bad news for Marvel Comics? Not really. I don’t know who does their printing, so it might make things harder to get the proofs and maybe it affects distribution. I don’t know how DC was affected by any of that, but it’s been the least of either publisher’s problems. It’s also not going to fix anything at Marvel. Distribution will be just as limited, new Editor In Chief Steven Wacker probably won’t fix the Spider-Marriage (and undoing the Mephisto deal that’s gone one so long it has it’s own baggage with Peter and MJ’s relationships) or restore Tony Stark’s lineage, and by now I don’t even need Leon (if you read my comic, you know) to tell people that changing the editor won’t necessarily fix anything because the last few certainly haven’t.

Like with Warner and DC we know instinctively that this has nothing to do with helping the comics. It’s all about Marvel Studios, and the “important” media to Disney. I keep hearing people talking about Kevin Feige’s influence on the comics as well as James Gunn with DC. I don’t know for certain how close that runs, since we know neither studio runner could give two cents about the source material. Marvel Studios even more so because I’ve not heard anyone at DC Studios telling creators that knowing the comics will keep you from working for them and they’re still adapting or being inspired (badly) by comic stories. Supergirl was loosely based on a comic miniseries. Who does this move help, and how does this tie into my tinfoil hat theory that this could be tied to the spoilers for Avengers: Doomsday and the films to follow? That last part may sound clickbaity, but let me go through the sane stuff, then hear me out…if only for fun.

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BW’s Daily Video> Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Drops

I post this so you know I’ve seen it. I don’t care. With everything that’s happened recently and every stupid thing that’s come out about what’s going on behind the scenes, the fact I know Marvel Studios doesn’t care anymore, and being based on a comic storyline I already wasn’t interested in, apathy is all I can manage for this thing.

Chapter By Chapter> Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic chapter 5

Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.

In the previous chapter, Jean Lorrah went to her original characters from her last novel, The Vulcan Academy Murders, and told us what they’ve been up to in the month between novels.

I’m not that familiar with Lorrah’s previous or later works. So I don’t know if she has any medical interest. The previous book was a procedural crime drama but medical situations were a heavy part of the story. It’s how people were dying, it was why the Enterprise was there in the first place, and why Amanda was in danger. And yet most of the story seemed to focus on relationships, from the romantic to how Vulcans and Earthlings interact, to both at the same time.

Now we have a story that’s purely medical, a planet-wide plague, and an even bigger chance to explore multiple races getting along, even some non-Federation worlds that are usually threats, like Klingons and Orions. Everybody gets along for their own goals, and the plague is going to challenge that. Plus you still have those warlike Vulcans in place of the Romulans. It’s a lot to thrown in one pot, but this book pulled it off to me the last time I read it. As we head to chapter five, we’ll soon see if a second read through more critical eyes changes that perspective.

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BW’s Daily Video> Nolan’s The Odyssey’s Box Office By The Numbers

Because regardless of your opinion of the movie, and mine was low when he took the myth out of the mythology, let’s be honest about box office numbers, even if you don’t like the answer.

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