June 13, 2026

Saturday Night Showcase> Doctor Who Fan Film Fest

Well, whether you want to declare Doctor Who canceled…again…or on hiatus there won’t be more TARDIS travels for a while. There are still options to watch the show. The 24/7 streaming channel is available for free on numerous livestreaming services. Tubi has all the available episodes as of this writing, minus the first miniseries due to weird rights shenanigans. YouTube’s official Classic Who channel Doctor Who: Classic | FULL EPISODES has…full episodes, but just the ones whose arcs are edited into movies. AMC+ will soon house all the pre-Disney New Who shows while Disney+ still has the new ones. There’s also still comics being produced, Big Finish Productions…and what we’re showcasing tonight.

Fans who also want to be filmmakers are cutting their teeth on adventures of the Doctor, profit free but showing their love for the Doctor. There were a bunch of these in the so-called “Wilderness Years” where new stories came from novels and comics, and they didn’t stop when the show came back. Tonight I decided to give them a little attention. None of these have the current BBC or Disney budgets. They barely have Classic Who’s budget. They also can’t legally make money from it. They did it because they wanted to be part of the legacy of Doctor Who.

I’m not posting a full arc if there’s multiple episodes, just a recent episode to see where they are now, except for the first one because it’s a regeneration episode and the title seemed good to start with. You can decide if you like it enough to check out more and see if they get better or even do better than the official showrunners who had something other than making good Doctor Who on their minds, like their own egos or playing to a different crowd. Enjoy.

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June 13, 2026

BW’s Saturday Article Link> When Hobbies Become Work

I don’t mean when your hobby turns into a career. This article by Bleeding Fool contributor Ammie Barger goes over what happens when just doing your hobby becomes more work and induces more stress than the job that the hobby is supposed to be giving you a break from. That includes playing video games, watching TV, and other forms of entertainment, story related or not. Just ignore the ad link about drug gummies. I don’t know why they stuck that crap in there, but it’s just one part of one sentence.

 

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June 12, 2026

He-Man And Misunderstanding Nostalgia

I have not seen Masters Of The Universe as my income still remains $0.00. Maybe when it hits free streaming I’ll get the chance. I’ve heard mixed reviews even from people usually on the same side of modern media discussion. Some say it’s good, some say it’s garbage, and some are in the middle. For once it’s not split among the usual lines. Not that it matters since the movie itself failed to make back its budget and marketing on opening weekend, which is usually all the studios care about. Which is why it’s strange when Amazon’s MGM is hoping to make it back in merchandising and streaming over the long term. It might be cope but at least it breaks the “opening night or bust” trend.

There’s another argument out there due to how poorly it did, the idea that nostalgia is dead and nobody wants to see this stuff anymore.

Look, I get it. Studios are too afraid to take a risk on new IP, even though YouTubers are starting to show you can do that with three low-budget horror movies based on YouTube content or made by creators with fresh ideas doing well in the box office without an overblown budget, and the current crop of directors and producers and screenwriters couldn’t care less about old stuff. Studios want the big names rather than take a risk on some new guy who might actually care about the show, comic, game, or whatever to do it properly. Studios don’t pay attention so the directors slap something famous onto the movie they really want to make and the studios aren’t paying attention. THAT is the problem. I can point to plenty of old stuff to prove that. Humans really don’t change THAT much without force.

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June 12, 2026

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Slam-Bang Comics #1

Melting the gun AND blowing it up. Seems like extra work.

Slam-Bang Comics #1

Fawcett Publications (March, 1940)

Since I’m saving the Captain Marvel Shazam stuff for pre-DC Tuesday Wednesday after I’m done with Quality’s entrants, there isn’t much of a showing from Fawcett on Golden Age Friday. This comic might change that…if it’s any good. It’s of course an anthology, but a new one. That’s all I can say to pad the homepage. Let’s get into the actual review.

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June 12, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> The Contradictions Of Nolan’s Odyssey

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June 11, 2026

The Many, MANY Intros Of Superman> More Adventures

They keep making them, I’ll keep adding them to the list. Unless it’s just a lame title card. Sick of those.

Longtime readers know I’m not exactly holding back when it comes to My Adventures With Superman. Quality show with good animation? Sure is. Superman? Sure isn’t. Outside of Clark and his parents everyone is a namesake in some quasi-anime world, which is what they wanted. Pretty boy Deathstroke. Steel’s armor is more like a mini mobile suit. And you can see Lois and Jimmy up there. Would you know it was them if I didn’t tell you? I went over this in the last intro video.

Apparently the season 2 intro isn’t any different from the season 1 intro, or at least YouTube doesn’t have one special on it. If there was another one I suspect at least one person would have it. That’s not surprising. Both seasons were ready when Cartoon Network proper passed on it, part of whatever David Zaslav was doing with kids entertainment (or rather not doing) at the time. Williams Street Productions saved it and aired both seasons as separate seasons. Whatever failings it has as an adaptation, the show itself was good enough that Williams Street got themselves a third season and a Green Lantern spinoff. I think this is the first action show they’ve had that wasn’t co-produced by a Japanese studio and still didn’t look terrible.

I think I know enough about what’s coming and what’s already happened to get a good idea of how well this intro does or doesn’t work, but actual fans of the show are welcome to correct me. The new season isn’t out yet, but Adult Swim’s YouTube channels has the intro, and some changes were necessary.

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June 11, 2026

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Holmes Incorporated

Here’s your mystery: why does the cover say first issue but the publishing info says #3?

Holmes Incorporated

Ty Templeton’s Comic Book Boot Camp (August, 2012)

CREATOR/EDITOR: Ty Templeton

LETTERER: K.T. Smith, unless otherwise indicated

I wasn’t expecting this to be an anthology, but it’s next on the list. From what I can tell this is part of his comic book teaching school (or was, as the website hasn’t updated since 2019 as of this review). I don’t know how students are chosen to be part of this, but Holmes Incorporated is one of three issues following the story of the descendants of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. How well did they do? Well, let’s see.

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(I should have added the free comic links for Drive Thru Comics years ago.)

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