October 13, 2025

Chapter By Chapter> Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image chapter 72

Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapters for this one) of the selected book at the 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 read-along book club.

Only one chapter this week, folks. We’re very close to the end. Last time Peggy got her payback, while we set up this chapter from the train. I still don’t know why they bothered. As a scene in a movie or TV show it might have worked, but something I think this novel forgets it’s a prose book.

Chapter 72 of 78, I’m long since out of padding, so apologises for this page looking lame from the homepage. We’re just going to get on with it. I’m definitely choosing a shorter book for next time.

Chapter 72: Tuesday 11:57 PM, Khabarovsk

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October 13, 2025

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Solution #0

Moments before the moon crashed into the planet.

The Solution #0

Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (January, 1994)

WRITER: James D. Hudnall

PENCILER: Darick Robertson

INKER: Barbara Kaalberg

COLORING: Albert Calleros (cover), Mickey Rose, Keith Conroy, Moose Baumann, & Tim Duvar, along with Bu’ Tones

LETTERER: Tim Eldred

EDITOR: Hank Kanalz

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October 13, 2025

BW’s Daily Video: About That Alleged Civil War Assassin’s Creed Game

I posted this update to the original article, but in case you didn’t go back to it, here’s the update on its own.

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If Az is right and the article is a scam I and other sites fell for (remember, part of it was behind a paywall, adding more merit to Az’s theory), the comments still stand. Such a game might have worked under better creators but the French Society Of Magical Crackers up there would not be the people to tell that story. If indeed it was a potential idea thrown out there as a possibility it would have been a better use of a black character than upgrading the one black “samurai” to full status just to do an Assassin’s Creed game with a black character and not being patient enough to do it right in the right setting. The case can still be made that these people couldn’t pull of an American Civil War game, just that the article writer may also be a rather successful scammer. Admittedly I fell for it as well.

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October 12, 2025

Jake & Leon #658> Halloween Prep

Something always slips by.

Well, my dad finally got cleared by the surgeon and visiting nurse, this week was the last I need to see of doctors until December, and my attempts at creating a buffer, while turning out to be more “proof of concept” than I wanted, still showed it’s a good idea if I can make it. With things finally calmed down, maybe this project and The Clutter Reports will finally not only get to where they should be but expanded. We’ll see. That was this week’s topic over there.

Over here, this week’s Chapter By Chapter should only be one chapter. We’ll also continue the first pitch for a CBS Transformers, and I’m hoping to build a good enough buffer to get this year’s Captain Yuletide done on time and do some of those site updates I was hoping to do before all the hospital stuff. Anything else depends on what discussion topics we have this week and whatever else the universe wants to throw at me.

Have a great week, everyone!

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October 11, 2025

Saturday Night Showcase> Big Trouble In Little China

Chinese gangs and ancient wizards beware. Jack Burton is in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, USA!

Big Trouble In Little China is a 1986 movie that has gained a cult following for being awesome in the most fun way possible. Kurt Russell is truck driver Jack Burton. Agreeing to help his friend Wang pick up his fiance, Miao Yin, from the airport, Jack and Wang are dragged into a world of dark magic when agents of David Lo-Pan kidnap Wang’s girl after Jack stops them from grabbing their intended target, who was in the care of a lawyer named Gracie. (The girl won’t matter to story past that.) All Lo-Pan wants is a girl with green eyes as part of a ritual to regain his flesh and blood body after 2000 years. I’m with Jack, if she doesn’t need to be Chinese, why DID it take so long? They add Gracie to the ritual and she’s American. Not even Chinese-American, the “descended from some European country” American.

Now Jack will stumble and fight his way (mostly stumble) to help Wang retrieve his girl and well as rescue his own lady. Oh, not Gracie; they also took his rig, the Porkchop Express. At least Jack knows a truck isn’t as important as a human life, so he’ll help Gracie, too.

I don’t know if the YouTube version is region locked. Tubi also has it available in the US, but this link doesn’t work for you, either, you really need to see this movie.  Also, YouTube made it so you have to go to the site itself to watch it, which I didn’t know until it was too late to look for everything else. I hate that! They’re still making all the ad revenue so I don’t see the point. That’s why I put the trailer up to help convince you. There’s also the music video I posted a couple of weeks ago that led to me finding out this was available for Showcasing. Enjoy.

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October 11, 2025

BW’s Saturday Article Link> The Future Of Free Comic Book Day

With Diamond Comics Distributors having a long overdue demise (after using shenanigans to kill off better distributors like Advance Comics–no, I haven’t forgotten), there was a question of what would become of Free Comic Book Day, the annual free comics event they sponsored. Worries are (hopefully) over, as a new distributor has taken over the event. Whether or not this includes Halloween ComicFest, the October version of Free Comic Book Day we’ll have to wait to see. If it’s too late for this year, maybe next year?

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October 10, 2025

CBS Transformers> The First Draft part 3: Here Come The Autobots

Previously in the first attempt to bring Transformers to CBS Saturday mornings:

Tens of years ago on a planet not called Cybertron, mechanical lifeforms formed because the gravity was too high for biology or something. On this unnamed world, the heroic Autobots managed to completely wipe out their ancient enemies, the Decepticons. However, Megatron and a group of his minions–the treacherous Soundwave and his loyal avian companion Buzzsaw, the bitter fembot Starscream, the silent red warrior Thundercracker, and the hate-filled Skywarp–came to Earth as glowing energy orbs, taking over Earth machine to transform into their new bodies. Their mission: give a new robot a body each week for their old enemies to blow up again.

This time we’re looking at the Autobots. Instead of the army we got in the series we only get a similar handful of character. It worked for Beast Wars around a decade later. I’m curious how the other Autobot figures would get involved if this is a villain of the week series with only 13 episodes to play with. Already we had characters fall by the wayside in what we got, but could there be more toys not represented in the show? How do the Autobots get there. And fitting with CBS’s insistence of token obligatory girl characters, which of our heroes is joining Starscream as a gender swap? Find out now in part three of CBS Transformers: The First Draft.

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