There have been internet hoaxes in the past, so forgive me for guarding my rear. You can learn more about this lost Terrytoons failed pilot through the Best TV Show wiki. (Odd wiki to put a failed pilot on, but what do I know?)
Going over how Skydance should approach the DC movieverse going forward is an article unto itself and I do want to consider what I think would be a good strategy. All I have right now is bring in actual experts not to take over the writing but to help setup the new DC universe or take the current movie continuity in a better direction. I’ll put some more thought into that.
This article was inspired by another article, from Fansided’s Bam! Smack! Pow! site. In “3 Ways The New Movie Batman Can Stand Out“, contributor John Campbell laid out a few ideas on how he thinks a post Matt Reeves Batman should go. I know it’s popular, but I won’t miss that version. I don’t like how they altered the Riddler, I’m sick of “grounded Batman”, and while I don’t think Robert Patterson was a bad idea some of the things they had him do just doesn’t interest me enough to watch the full movie. Maybe I should charge to review stuff like that, but would anyone pay me? With my luck they’d try to make me watch Lanterns, which unlike the Reeves movie doesn’t even look good. Being good doesn’t mean it’s accurate to the source material. Remember, the only Christopher Nolan movie I liked was the first one, Batman Begins.
So I want to go over Campbell’s ideas and inject a few of my own. His article goes over things we really haven’t seen from the live-action Batman, at least since the 1960s or 1980s, and it’s long overdue.
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from HISTORY on YouTube
a version for kids, courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg
testimony from a Desert Storm soldier, founder of Fire For Effect Marketing
another veteran’s testimony, from USAA
finally, a musical tribute from Liam Songs Studio
On Memorial Day we honor those who died fighting for freedom. On Veteran’s Day we honor those who came home. However, let’s not forget those still serving, whether in battle, at the ready, or at peace. I know I don’t have the guts to serve, so I can at least show respect to those that do or did, or in the old days were forced into it by the draft and did their duty anyway. That includes family and friends, and I thank them all for it, strangers included.
I hope you had a happy and safe Veteran’s Day and didn’t just see it as a day off from work or a reason to have a family gathering. We should pay respect to those who made all of that possible.
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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.
Had to move this up a day this week, but when the big news hit, you have to be there to discuss it. Back on track now, and in our previous chapter I had to wonder if Jean Lorrah had it in for Amanda since she just keeps giving her the Aunt May treatment.
There are some short chapters in this book. The last one was short and this one is barely four pages. So why does it work here? A timing issue on my part being a coincidence comes to mind. Shorter chapters have been to my benefit. I think the difference is what one does with that page count. I’ve noted it in the Golden Age anthology comic reviews. Some comics just didn’t fit the page count and needed more time to be interesting, while others told a solid and enjoyable story in the same limited amount of pages.
Compare this also to the Op-Center novels or The Black Stallion’s Ghost. In those reviews I complained about the shorter chapters, but nothing seemed to happen, confusing me about the chapter count. Lorrah, on the other hand, has had two scenes at times, and even when not it felt organic for the chapter to end there. The story continued to advance rather than stopping for something mundane with little or no major impact, if any at all. She knows when to make a solid break, which doesn’t help my questions as to how one knows when to chapter break. I guess because I do more comics than prose. The Transformers lore I’m creating for myself has proper stop gaps based on the format of the reports. It’s still something I need to figure out since one of my story ideas might be better suited to prose than comic, but right now the only prose novel I’m thinking about is this one.
Do We Need To Protect King Kong?
In 1933, RKO Pictures gave us the eighth wonder of the world…or one of many eighth wonders of the world. King Kong uses stop-motion animation at a time when computer graphics weren’t even science fiction. The movie might not be the first giant monster movie, but it was the biggest until Japan sent Godzilla to take the championship belt. Since then, the tale has been given three remakes, one an animated musical, but the original is still the classic movie standard for the big ape. Even Nintendo was inspired by him to make their Donkey Kong, which led to a legal issue with Universal over the name. Universal, which owns RKO’s library, lost that, though King Kong’s status in the public domain is still debatable. One comic company was able to adapt a novelization because they didn’t copyright it properly. Universal owns the original movie. As for Kong himself…we’ll get into that.
Come January 1st, 2029, a few years away, that’s going to change.
And I’m worried. Why? Because when things hit the public domain lately, some bad things have happened. However, that’s not all we’re going to discuss. Not everything in this article will be negative, but this article from Bounding Into Comics on a new King Kong movie is also rather curious to me. It’s a new American Kong movie, but it’s not in the “Monsterverse” with Godzilla. This also seems an odd choice, but one that might work. It does kind of play into the current “shared universe” discussion after Marvel Studios, arguably responsible for popularizing the concept in recent films, seems incapable of maintaining one, and neither can anybody else. Mostly, I need an article today and don’t feel like breaking something out of the buffer I just got to minimum levels this week, so this is our topic. Hopefully it’s a good one, but you’ll have to judge that.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 13, 2026 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, King Kong, movies, public domain, remake.
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