July 13, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> Why Disney Is Falling Apart

NOTE: occasional swears

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Two years after this video went live and it’s gotten worse.

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July 12, 2026

Jake & Leon #690> Workcation

I wish he was wrong.

Yes, it’s that time again. My birthday is Monday so I’m mostly taking the week off. Monday I’m going to relax but the rest of the week I’m going to be getting some overdue site and non-site work done, hopefully all leading to a better product here and…well, I already went over that in the Programming Note earlier today, in the new posting spot for “Yesterday’s” Comic as well as why it’s going weekly for now. I just need to prioritize my time better. I hope to come back with a buffer long enough that you’ll never know I took a break again and finally make something of myself, like the storyteller this site was supposed to be turning me into.

As for The Clutter Reports, let’s watch a bunch of videos about comic storage because I need to figure that stuff out.

BW Media Spotlight won’t be completely dead. WordPress wants to celebrate people who post at least once a day because they get the ad revenue to encourage their users to keep writing. Plus my Daily Video backlog is too huge to let stand, so there will be a video a day. That’s already scheduled and I’m planning to cut through some more of my backlog. Plus if something interesting happens this week I just have to talk about I will. Otherwise any writing will be building the buffer and the next installment of My Transformers Universe, or maybe some other prose work. Who knows? Content returns Saturday with an article link, now at the new 6AM ET slot for consistency, the new Golden Age “Yesterday’s” Comic review at it’s new Sunday slot, and hopefully Jake & Leon. Speaking of buffers I might get to do another “Herodude & Enemies” story. Again, who knows? So I’ll be busy behind the scenes after goofing off on Monday for my birthday (I’ll be 53 and still pathetic), you’ll still have daily videos, and when I return it will be under the altered posting schedule.

Have a great week, everyone! I hope I will.

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July 12, 2026

BW Programming Note> The Future Of “Yesterday’s” Comic

 

I was going to just put this in the Jake & Leon post with the usual site updates, but this is going to be a longer bit and I didn’t know who reads that comic strip I work on and the usual “Yesterday’s” Comic feature, so I’m making a separate post instead. Jake & Leon will post the usual time tonight.

The daily comic review started as a roundup of that week’s comics I bought, posting on Sundays. Running out of ways to start it each issue…long story short…Jake & Leon became the intro to This Week’s Comics. However, Sundays was one of two days I wasn’t working and one of the two days I could get my chores done. That meant I didn’t have time to do house chores and that bothered my mom at the time. So by doing it weekly along with the feature article I actually had more time on the weekends to do other chores. So that Sunday feature became a series of links to other articles, the precursor to the Saturday Article Link, and then it was just the comic and a weekly site update, becoming the BW Programming Note if I didn’t get to make a comic that week.

Eventually the article links went daily along with a daily video, giving me four posts a day. That wasn’t sustainable for a bunch of reasons and just became a daily video, a comic review, and the feature article, the big article to the fun bonuses to draw in more readers.

As things stand I’m out of new comics since I can’t get more and need to sell off some of the ones I have. The article links moved to just Saturdays because I didn’t always have a week full of articles. The Daily Video entries are piling up. The old comics I have on ComiXology and Neon Ichiban are all reviewed, Drive Thru Comics is about to run out of free comics that interest me, and Globalcomix just has mostly fan comics available to review, and I’m always iffy about being judgy about stuff done for fun rather than trying to make income like DC and Marvel’s stuff. What remains of Drive Thru’s entries are anthologies, as are the current pre-DC and Friday Golden Age comics. I’ve lost access to scans of the Ultraverse titles for Malibu, meaning Malibu Mondays are kind of done.

This means I need to make a chance to the “Yesterday’s” Comic feature. It’s not going away, but there is going to be a slowdown and this post will explain why and how the feature will work going forward. I still like reading the old comics, but once again time is a factor. Scroll down to the marker (you’ll know it when you see it), but I want to go into why I’m making this change.

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July 11, 2026

Saturday Night Showcase> Ultraman Teo

I have gotten way behind in my Ultraman watching. I don’t just mean going back to the older incarnations of the Land Of Light heroes and their neighbors. I mean I haven’t watched the new stuff since Ultraman Blazar. The first episode of that didn’t impress me due to the tone of the show but I just kind of lost track of it in all the backlogs I have.

For the 60th anniversary, Friday having been Ultraman Day, the new series features one of those neighbors. The hero of Ultraman Teo lost his homeworld to an invading force that has set its sights on his new home, and by now you should be able to guess which one that is. Bonus hint: you’re probably on it right now.

Now pay attention if you want to see this in your preferred version. The first video is an English dub from the official English YouTube channel and it’s the only track in that version. If you want English with subtitles you want the second video, but that’s where you have to check your settings. The audio track needs to be set to Japanese and the closed captions have to be on for the subtitles. My default is usually the English track so I got confused that the Japanese Ultraman YouTube channel was giving me English dialog. Whichever your preferred setting is, enjoy.

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July 11, 2026

BW’s Saturday Article Link> James Gunn’s Distressed Credibility

Why yes, I did fight this title to do a “DC” reference. James Gunn’s DC Gunnverse has faltered out of the gate. An animated ensamble where only one character is remembered, a Superman who isn’t very super, a Supergirl even less so, and nobody is excited for the Greenless Lantern series if they know and like anything associated with the Green Lantern Corp. There was also news this week that Supergirl is already heading to digital home video release, and probably streaming not soon after, only a month out while some of the worst superhero movies of the past few years have now outpaced it in box office receipts. As Bleeding Fool contributor Jamison Ashley notes, Gunn suffers from a lack of promise keeping, which is not only a problem for his credibility but fan reaction to his questionable take of the DC Universe. Between him and Zack Snyder, Warner Brothers is not doing a good job trying to compete with Marvel Studios, when they should be learning the lessons Disney-period Marvel has forgotten.

 

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July 10, 2026

A Nerdy Genie Offers Adaptation, Remake, And Completion

Blue genie wearing glasses floating in a library with magical books around

My first attempt with AI art thanks to WordPress. Not going to be a regular thing with me, since I do my own art, but I wanted to try it.

Let’s end the week on something fun as I head towards my annual break.

Nate Winchester over at Hunting Muses put forth the following thought piece:

So you find a magical lamp, and when the genie inside is revealed, turns out he is a massive nerd.

He then tells you he’ll grant any 3 wishes, but they are all speculative fiction related. You may choose one work to adapt, one work to remake, and one work to complete. Also since he loves this stuff as much as you do, he’ll make every effort to fulfill your wishes as you intend, so you don’t have to worry about any djinn shenanigans here.

Already that last one is suspect. Unless you’re Aladdin or a hunky astronaut, genies messing with you is their pastime. That’s considering the genie isn’t incompetent, like with the hunky astronaut or a teen boy in an animated spinoff very few people remember. Also we’re using magic to make sci-fi happen. Ask Linkara how well that went for him. But I’ll play your game, Nathaniel! By the way, you can see his responses here.

So, one sci-fi production, and any form of media is up for grabs, would I want to see adapted (and presumably to what), one that could use a remake (and we’re assuming the genie isn’t making 2020s Hollywood blunders), and what unfinished work would I like to see done. This isn’t my top pics, mind you. It’s the picks of a mind that didn’t sleep right last night trying to catch Friday Night Tights at the same time he’s writing this to make deadline. There might be some obscure ideas here. Still…here we go.

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July 10, 2026

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Exciting Comics #1

“That’s not a manbun, you fraud!”

Exciting Comics #1

Better Publications, Inc (April, 1940)

Another new title enters the game, not to be confused by a similar titled comic by Antarctic Press I just learned about. Yep, it’s an anthology. What do we expect. I write this before reading it, but going over the story list I don’t recognize any of the character names. Outside of Klaus Nordling I don’t recognize any name here, and I only know that one from other Golden Age comics I’ve reviewed. So we’ll just have to see how “exciting” these comics are if they didn’t release any famous heroes but lasted 69 issues.

By the way, those of you who actually read this feature here at the Spotlight will want to check out Sunday’s update, usually mixed into the Jake & Leon posting. “Yesterday’s” Comic isn’t going away but there’s going to have to be a change in how I do this. Archival readers won’t care so check that out, or the Programming Note on Sunday if I don’t get the comic done. For now, let’s meet the new kids on the block and see why they didn’t have the right stuff. (Look, someone was going to make that reference.)

EDIT: Slight change of plan. Update will happen on Sunday but as it’s own Programming Note. Decided that on Saturday, after this posted. Sorry about that.
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