Classic and new Christmas specials and longer videos. See what I add all year and see if one of your favorites is on the list.
Majora’s Werewolf
The Night Man #7
Malibu Comic/Ultraverse (April, 1994)
“Wolf”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
PENCILER: Kyle Holts
INKER: Thomas Florimonte
COLORING: Mickey Rose & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
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Plus your family. Dude even lost his goldfish because of this.
Inspired by the video coming up tomorrow.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week, I got my computer files all backed up, some more of the RSS backlog cut down, and cleared out some emails. Not a lot but it’s something.
Not much extra this week. Just continuing the Chapter By Chapter review of Doctor Who: The Rescue the novelisation, more CBS Transformers, and whatever else comes up this week. If I can get all that done I’ll be happy. Have a great week, everyone!
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Last week we watched Batman: Return Of The Caped Crusaders. Along with DC Comics’ Batman ’66, it represented a reassessment of the campy 60s…well, they call it “parody” but if you read Silver Age comics it wasn’t TOO far off. Unfortunately, we would lose Adam West in 2017, just before the completed sequel was ready to come out, hence the tribute in Batman Vs. Two-Face.
Harvey Dent debuted in Detective Comics #66 in 1942, so Two-Face was available to the 1960s show for use. Actually, that’s not accurate. Harvey KENT debuted in that comic. Harvey DENT made his debut as Two-Face in Batman #81. Long story, kids. I guess a district attorney who went nuts after acid hit half his face was something they couldn’t translate back in the 1960s. Leave it to 2017 and animation to work it out, and in true Batman fashion, they got a celebrity to play Harvey: William Shatner!
With a different origin, Batman and Robin have successfully stopped Two-Face’s numerous crimes off-screen. Finally they’re able to cure him…or were they? With other villains to fight, the Dynamic Duo are not ready for the return of their double nemesis, while Batman is also distracted with his growing relationship with Catwoman, which seems closer to modern comics than anything else, but it’s not like the attraction wasn’t there before Return Of The Caped Crusaders. We also get appearances from Hugo Strange and Harleen Quinzel, making me think that if more were to be produced (Adam West is one of the actors you can’t replace, and all we have left are Burt Ward and Julie Newmar) they would have given all of Batman’s rogues the ’66 makeover even if they weren’t available back then. That actually would have been interesting.
So can our heroes rescue Gotham City and Harvey Dent from his evil duplicity? Enjoy.
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“Seriously, what did you step in!”
I considered doing an article on this last week, but I’m just tired of talking about how Bob Iger clearly doesn’t care about Walt Disney’s legacy, and outright rejects it. I’m also not sure what I could add to this article from That Park Place about Iger’s recent comments about how the man who created the company you work for shouldn’t be “revered” because it holds them back or something. That’s an insult to the animator whose goal was to make families happy. “Let’s respect our past and not revere it.” he says. He’s not doing either by rejecting the form of media Walt created the company for and allowing the parks to turn into everything Walt was trying to push back against in the amusement park industry. Both of those things worked very well for the company and its reputation until Iger came along.
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Last time we began looking at the various production notes the Sunbow Marvel Archive collected into a single file, which I didn’t know would be as long as it is. Some were typed notes but many of them were handwritten brainstorming ideas.
There’s a lot more typed notes in this next set of pages. This section, dated 2/23/84, is labeled as “Misc. Format Notes”. This section includes hand-written notes, presumably written during a discussion on them, but I don’t know the full history of that. We’ll conclude with a series of notes from Hasbro that came two days later, and we’ll hold the rest for a third installment. Like I said, I didn’t know it was going to be this long.
Whether or not we’ll get more hints as to why Hasbro rejected this first version this round I don’t know. I just skimmed to see where a good place to stop is before this article gets too long. So in the interest of not being too long and getting some interesting conversation going, I’m just going to cut the article intro short and get right on to it.
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“Dude, what did you have for lunch?”
Amazing Man Comics #9
Comic Corporation Of America (February, 1940)
So the previous issue wasn’t all that great. We’ll see what this issue does, but seeing as I have to keep going to old reviews just to remember it, I’m starting to see how these never went very far. Stuffing so many stories into one book is not making them very memorable. They don’t have time to make the characters interesting beyond the scenario. Let’s see if this issue is an improvement.
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BW’s Daily Video> A Damsel Defending The Damsel In Distress
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 24, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, damsel in distress, Trope.
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