November 12, 2026

How Should Skydance Handle Batman?

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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November 12, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> Death Isn’t Required For A Comic Event

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November 11, 2026

Veteran’s Day 2026 Videofest

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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November 11, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> What Makes A Comic Book Run?

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November 10, 2026

Chapter By Chapter> Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic chapter 21

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.

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November 10, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> Fantasy Anime’s “Original Worldbuilding” Problem

NOTE: Sometimes censors swears, sometimes doesn’t

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November 9, 2026

The Ending Of The DC Gunnverse

Well, didn’t see this coming. And tomorrow I was going to do a different article on James Gunn’s approach to Superman. Now I have to move the Chapter By Chapter up a day because even going out the door, Gunn’s gotta mess with me.

Surprising news dropped today because James Gunn and Peter Safran are taking the nearest boom tube out of DC Studios. Not that too many DC fans are going to miss them. While Safran has been mostly quiet behind the scenes, Gunn wouldn’t shut up about defending his take on the DC Universe and their superheroes, villains, and regular people. And he’s had a lot to defend because Gunn has made or allowed to be made (and Safran didn’t seem to be doing anything to stop anyone) some of the most bizarre decisions in how to treat these characters.

It’s not quite a post mortem yet. Projects far enough in the works are going to continue. Man Of Tomorrow, which for lack of a better term sounds like a Superman/Lex Luthor “buddy cop” story, and the tale of Gorilla Grodd at college with Jimmy Olsen are still not canceled, and Gunn has mentioned some next project. Unless Harlan Ellison is going to follow David Zaslav’s lead and cancel these for the tax write-off like Zaslav did with the Batgirl movie, we still have more destruction coming for the DC brand, because investors don’t care about the character and still think the Brand is strong enough to weather this level of failure.

Since everybody else on the internet right now is doing it, I guess we also have to check into how we got here, because it’s a continuing list of mistake after mistake, and it started before a single script was started.

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