Yesterday’s Daily Video included mention of fans doing the original concept for Disney’s Wish, where Asha would meet a boy with star powers rather than a floating star plushie, set to the demo version of “At All Costs”. I thought you might want to see it.
First we have the original animatic by OrbitalMoonRat…
…which was then turned into a quite accurate animation by PhrenSo
Somebody needs to hire these people or given them the resources to make their own works.
Last time we had to read two chapter to get a decent length. This week we have a chapter at 10 pages. We’ve checked in with Striker, and now it’s time to check back in at Commie Op-Center, where their enemy may be themselves.
In skimming to get the page count, this chapter does something interesting with the font, switching at a few points with a typewriter type font. That’s not a mistake, it’s meant to indicate…I don’t know what yet. That’s one advantage to modern printing.
You can change the font to indicate something specific, like phone texting or something that's done specially to set itself apart from other text in the book. I need to learn about doing that.
I think if I was using the block editor I could do fun stuff like that, though I do have a few features like the “blockquote” to set quotes apart from my writing, which just adds to the visuals and helps with immersion. On this site I’ve used headings, coloring text, and other things to make certain things stand out. How this chapter will use the type font will decide if this is to help draw the reader into the world or take you out with some silly gimmick. Let’s dive in and see.
I can’t wait for the Disney Junior take on War Machine. I’m not getting that, am I?
Free Comic Book Day 2025: Iron Man & His Awesome Friends/Spidey & His Amazing Friends
Marvel Worldwide, Inc (June, 2025)
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Farah Javen
EDITORS: Lauren Bisom, Nick Lowe, & Tom Groneman
Iron Man & His Awesome Friends: “Enter The Iron Pup”
WRITER: James EAson-Garcia
ARTIST: Alberto Alburquerque
CO-INKERS: Roberto Poggi & Craig Yeung
COLORIST: Rachelle Rosenberg
LETTERER: Travis Lanham
Spidey & His Amazing Friends: “Looking For Clues!” & “Popcorn Problem”
WRITER: Steve Behling
LAYOUTS: Giovanni Rigano & Antonello Dalena
INKERS: Cristina Giorgilli & Cristina Stella
COLORISTS: Dario Calabria & Lucio De Giuseppe
No Jake & Leon this week. The gag I came up with was lame but I would have gotten it done if I wasn’t sleepy most of the week and lost half of Saturday to a mostly sleepless Friday night. I did manage to do some email organizing for this week’s Clutter Report, but not as much as I would have liked.
This week at the Spotlight I may or may not start a new writer’s guide series. We’ll see how it goes. There’s still the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image and it’s one chapter this week. Plus more going over comics I picked up during Free Comic Book Day. I did manage to get the ComiXology Kindle version of the Phantom comic offered that I missed in physical form and I’ll get to that either this week or next week, which should be the last of these comics, meaning we’ll be back to the in progress categories of “Yesterday’s” Comics soon.
Have a great week, everyone. Hopefully allergies aren’t bothering you as much as they are me.
Gabriel Iglesias is one of the funniest comics working today. I only have two bad experiences tied to him. One is watching Fluffy Checks In when the blood clot in my leg let me know it was there. One minute I’m watching “Fluffy” and his friends eating (or maybe it was the exercise portion of the show, I can’t remember) and one blink later I’m on the floor and my dad is arguing with 911. I don’t hold that against him and 2016 was just that kind of year, but this incident has not soured me on his stand-up comedy or his various TV shows. His comic book tastes we should discuss…
…but it’s not like the dude he was arguing with knew what he was talking about, either. Plus he does like Transformers so he’s not all bad.
I kid, though. I do enjoy his work and I’ve been watching stand-up clips from his YouTube channel when my recommendation brought up Mr. Iglesias, a Netflix sitcom I didn’t know existed partly because I don’t have Netflix. Starting in 2019 and airing for three seasons (Google AI claiming it was canceled after Fluffy got the 2020 plague, though I don’t know why that would cancel the show for good), Gabriel stars as Gabe Iglesias (stand-up comedians have a habit of keeping their names for their first sitcom, if not all of them), a junior high history teacher. Five of his students, three of his fellow teachers, the principal, and the principal’s snobby assistant round out the cast.
In the first episode, “Some Children Left Behind”, which you should watch before Netflix finds out it’s still up and does the same thing to me they did with Voltron: Legendary Defender by making the official licensee pull the video anyway, those five students are about to get kicked out of school for very stupid reasons. Can Gabe save their scholastic future…even the one who doesn’t want to be saved because it would mean staying in school and not being a loser? Enjoy while you can.
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 Saturday Article Link> Are Comics Literature?
The fact that we still ask this question shows how poorly people in the industry and it’s fanbases (though plenty of us are fighting back) have done in pushing comics as a medium. The Daily Aztec staff writer Luis Zavala makes the case that comics and graphic novels are indeed a form of literature.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 17, 2025 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comics, commentary, Literature, op-ed, opinion.
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