March 23, 2026

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Strangers #13/Ultraverse Premiere #4

The Strangers #13/Ultraverse Premiere #4 flipbook

Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (June, 1994)

The Strangers: “Battle With Boneyard”

WRITER: Mike W. Barr (plot) & Steve Englehart (plot & script)

PENCILER: Mike Gustovich

INKER: Thomas Florimonte

COLORING: Moose Baumann & Violent Hues

LETTERER: Susan Dome

EDITOR: Roland Mann

Ultraverse Premiere

LETTERER: Patrick Owsley

EDITOR: Roland Mann

Prime: “Anatomy Of A Hero” part 2

WRITER: Len Strazewski

PENCILER: Frank Gomez (also UP cover)

INKER: Troy Hubbs

COLORING: Keith Conroy, GCOX3 (also UP cover), and Foodhammer!

Credits come from the Grand Comic Database, because they don’t seem to be listed in the comic, at least not in the scans I’m using.

Ladykiller: “Market Realities” part 1

WRITER: Kurt Busiek

PENCILER: Kris Renkewitz

INKER: Jeff Albrecht

COLORING: Mickey Rose, Tim Duvar, & Violent Hues

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March 23, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> GoBots: Anniversary Of The Rock Lords

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I was never able to see it in theaters or find the home video, but I did get to see it online. It does feel like a longer episode of the show, like the original miniseries, Invasion From The 21st Level, or the Master Renegade’s debut. I still enjoyed it but it’s not as good as the Transformers movie because the stakes were still at the show’s level. I like the show and the toyline, but a theatrical movie deserved something more. I also like GoBots but getting Marvel on their side really gave the Transformers an edge.

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March 22, 2026

Jake & Leon #677> A Super Return

Sure, it required adoption, cloning, and fourth-dimensional jerks…

I can give credit where it’s due. Restoring young Jon while keeping old Jon for his fans was the right move. Sure, they only aged him up because they hate kids (won’t even make Superman comics for them anymore) and used the queer shield against everyone who wanted young Jon back because they really enjoyed watching him team with Damian as the Super-Sons (what, you think they actually cared about the LGBT+ community when DiDio just wanted to remake the DC universe in his image?). The fact that they did it is still cool. How long they keep this up is another matter entirely. I still don’t trust them. If it’s not DiDio acolytes they still have snobs and activists to deal with while the corporates only care about potential movie IP. Skydance still has to convince me they’ll give comics their due, but I’m not holding my breath.

Over at The Clutter Reports I hit the next phase of my cardboard drawer divider project.

Coming up this week the last document for CBS Transformers as I look at a sample script for their Saturday morning rework. Also Chapter By Chapter begins its first graphic novel as I begin looking at How To Completely Lose Your Mind. Plus the usual videos, comic reviews, and whatever crosses my path or mind. Have a great week, everyone!

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March 21, 2026

Saturday Night Showcase> Lone Wolf McQuade

Here’s a confession that might get me in trouble. I never really got into Chuck Norris movies. It’s more timing than anything else. I knew who Chuck Norris was, and not just because of his lackluster and forgotten cartoon. (I kind of liked it as a kid but I knew it wasn’t as good as it could have been.) He tried to do the same thing as Mr. T, entertain kids and give good moral lessons but the writing just wasn’t there even though the concept was sound. It was really the only thing I could catch as a kid because most of his films were made for adults and I was a kid. It was catered to adult tastes, and I’m not complaining. I just came about at the wrong time. The only Chuck Norris vehicle I really got into was Walker: Texas Ranger, and even that I’ve never watched regularly.

Sadly we lost Norris yesterday. Despite all the internet memes about how superhuman he was, Carlos Ray Norris passed away in a hospital while on vacation in Hawaii, after being hospitalized for a “medical emergency”. As of this writing no cause of death has been reported. So I wanted to post something for Saturday Night Showcase as tribute to someone who did so much for entertainment.

I chose Lone Wolf McQuade, a 1983 action movie that inspired Cordell Walker in the original series. It’s also one of his first roles as the heroic lead and debut of the facial hair that solidified his signature look. Jim “JJ” McQuade is a Marine turned Texas Ranger who gets along with his ex-wife and her new boyfriend. When the boyfriend is killed and ex hospitalized by Rawley Wilkes (David Carradine), McQuade has to bring the villain to justice as only a Chuck Norris character can. Enjoy.

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March 21, 2026

BW’s Saturday Article Link> One Piece Vs Hollywood

Unlike so many of Hollywood’s failed attempts at remaking anime in a live-action format for Western audiences, Netflix’s One Piece has actually gotten fans attention. Maybe it’s because the creator saw what they did to Cowboy Bebop, Death Note, and a bunch of other attempts. Even in movies, Alita: Battle Angel is the only one to get things right. Geeks & Gamers contributor Marvin Montanaro thinks he has the reason: because Monkey D. Luffy is that hero that Hollywood keeps trying to write out. In a world filled with flawed heroes, anti-heroes, and just straight up villain protagonists, Monkey is a simple hero who fights the wrongs of his world and tries to make lives better for good people while punishing evil. Remember those days?

Of course it helps that they found a way to embrace the bizarre world of the manga in live-action form without screwing up either…and have no @$%$ clue what a “pirate” actually is.

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March 20, 2026

CBS Transformers> The Second Draft part 9: Potential Episodes part 2

We’re almost to the end of this document and this discussion. This document ends today but there’s one more tied to the second draft that we’ll go over before my final thoughts…so long as we don’t have any more distractions, we’ll be done in the next few weeks.

Last time, we started looking at sample episodes for this second attempt at bringing the Transformers to CBS Saturday mornings. This time we have the rest of the list and the last few parts of the draft before looking at a full episode script. We did the first eight, but now we’re on nine of thirteen. At the time thirteen weeks of episodes made a full season for kids TV. I think it was longer for the family and grown-up shows. Nowadays you’re luck to reach even close to that number at any age group to call it a season. We did see that a few of those episodes could potentially have been recycled for the show we got while others would be a stretch to say that.

We’ll also be seeing the final bits of information for this series. As a reminder, the whole document was done as a series of files printed from a computer back in the 1980s, breaking the in-universe conceit to discuss these episodes and the show’s format. Kind of necessary. So what would these episodes have looked like as a first season of a Saturday morning take on Transformers?

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March 20, 2026

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Keen Detective Funnies #18

Good thing Fredrick Wertham missed this cover. He’d have a heart attack.

Keen Detective Funnies #18

Centaur Publishing (March, 1940)

I don’t get the numbering system, partly because these last two issues are missing the indicia page. Already the Golden Age did weird things with numbers thanks to stupid mailing rules and trying to game the system. Last time Comic Book Plus called it volume three but the cover said #17, and now this issue is #18. Also, last issue was kind of letdown, a trend I hope gets broken this issue.

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