“Okay, who repainted the garage!”
Speed Racer #0 FDBD
Mad Cave Studios, LLC (2025)
LETTERER: Buddy Beaudoin
EDITOR: Chas! Pangburn
BOOK DESIGN: Diana Bermúdez
“Welcome To Palm City”
WRITER: David Pepose
ARTIST: Davide Tinto
COLORIST: Rex Lokus
Racer X: “Life Is Cheap, Racing Expensive”
WRITER: Mark Russell
ARTIST: Chris Batista
INKER: Sabrina Cintron
COLORIST: Carlos Lopez
The heck with it. I’m in this river so I might as well ride it out. This is a preview for an in-production fanimation using the original Wish concept.
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Recently I did an article going over how I’d combine the various origins of the Transformers, mainly the Quintessons versus Primus. I’ve been wanting to continue that idea, focusing on early life on Cybertron before the Great War as I really don’t like the current concept, and then later going over what cause the war itself and so on. It will never be canon but it’s the closest I’ll ever get and I haven’t flexing my storytelling brain cells enough lately.
However, before I go over life on Cybertron I need to better understand the various takes on what a Transformer, what a Cybertronian, is. A bit more recently, Chris McFeely did a compilation and update of previous videos discussing the various aspects of Transformers. In the video below, slightly under an hour in length, he goes over protoforms, which I already worked into my TFU originwise but not in general society, sparks, the “soul” of a Cybertronian, the art of transformation itself, and the basic fuel source of Energon, which I also gave an origin to.
I’m not just posting this video but going over it as I tried see how it will work in my take on life on Cybertron, which once I’ve worked the various bugs scrapmetals out of I’ll post in the future. Some of the original videos I posted as daily or filler videos, but these are updated with new information as new media–comics, an animated movie, and more cartoons–have come out since then with different takes on various aspects of Transformer life. With this new data I can form my own continuity and explanation, even if it only benefits me in getting my storytelling skills active and creating a Transformers lore that has what I see lacking in other media. I’ll watch each segment, think about how this affects or could affect my overall ideas, and post will be written as I watch the video. You can read the whole thing, or jump back and forth between the video and my ideas. Or ignore one or the other. Or both if you don’t like what you’ve seen in the intro. So let’s watch the video and see what it inspires.
“Ken and Ryu aren’t going to get mad at us doing their pose, are they?”
Street Fighter Vs Rival Schools #1
UDON Entertainment (May, 2025)
WRITER: David Lumsdon
“Deadly Lessons!”
ARTIST: Tovio Rogers
LETTERER: Marshall Dillon
“A Shot At Freedom”
ARTIST: Royce Southerland
I’m also not impressed with the glove straps.
A recent article by AIPT’s comics side features Scott Snyder discussing his current Absolute Batman series. We’re going to have to agree to disagree on this because the whole Absolute DC imprint is just not for me. It’s a version of the DC multiverse created by Darkseid, so it lacks in the hope department. I’m just not into that. He enjoys making it, fine, and it has its fans, but it’s just not the Batman I want to read. Plus as you can guess from the comic, I don’t care for the logo or the outfit in general.
It’s one portion of this article that I want to focus on. The full title of the article is “The Absolute truth: Scott Snyder on rebuilding Batman and why comics matter more than ever”. (Missing a few capital letters, David Brooke and his editor.) It’s that second part I do agree with him on. As a defender of the monthly comics, I recognize the current problem is that they aren’t written like monthly comics anymore. For some reason both DC and Marvel failed to understand that trade collections only sold because it was a special event or a collection of stories of a particular character, creator, or time period. Such long stories don’t stand out when that’s all you have. Now you’re writing for the trade and at that point you might as well just be writing a graphic novel and releasing it every few months.
That’s not what made comics popular. Those monthly done-in-one stories were a good casual read. You pick one up before you get on the train or have lunch or something. Kids (remember kids?) would pick up an issue a month and have something fun to read before even the superhero stories became to disturbing, but that’s another conversation. Even for adults, the horror, crime, romance, and other genres that cater to older readers were something to pass the time. Soldiers would carry them because they were easy to bring along in their backpacks or get through the rough day of battle or combat training. When continuity came into the comics, it was a reward for picking up the issues each month and allowed a two-part story or the OCCASIONAL big event as well as connect titles of the same publisher together, acting as ads for another comic they publish. You like seeing Superman team-up with the Flash? Maybe you want to check out the Flash’s comic.
So what does Snyder have to say about the monthly comic?
The facsimile cover because the only version with the original was a shiny variant that cost more.
The original cover.
Superman #233 (facsimile edition)
DC Comics (January, 1971/June, 2025)
“Superman Breaks Loose”
WRITER: Dennis O’Neil
ARTISTS: Curt Swan & Murphy Anderson
The Grand Comic Database has no record of colorists, but claims Ben Oda as letterer.
The Fabulous World Of Krypton: “Jor-El’s Golden Folly”
WRITER: E. Nelson Bridwell
ARTIST: Murphy Anderson
No coloring or lettering credits on this one
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
BW Media Spotlight 
BW’s Daily Video> The Tragedy Of Wish
I wasn’t planning to do this many daily videos in one week to a movie I haven’t seen and didn’t care to after the reviews, but it is fascinating just how badly modern Disney screwed up their anniversary movie. This goes more into the history of the original concept for Wish and what could have been.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 21, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, Disney, Wish.
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