BW Supports Sending Jimmy Fallon To The Black Hole…Of Gaming

Breakthru game board in start position

Breakthru game board in start position (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This edition of BW Supports isn’t something that requires financial backing. Instead it’s connecting cool things together.

On a recent episode of The Tonight Show new host Jimmy Fallon showed off a series of board games that really aren’t very good for one reason or another. At the end he encouraged viewers to suggest bad board games to bring on the show and make fun of. Enter Noah Antwiler‏, aka “The Spoony One”. A spinoff of his regular The Spoony Experiment is The Black Hole Of Gaming, a hilarious examination of board games…except his included interactive VHS tapes. (Remember those?) Yesterday, Spoony put out a request for a campaign to bring the Black Hole to the Tonight Show. What follows is the “Do Not Game” bit from The Tonight Show, followed by Spoony’s call and the first episode of his series.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> WCW #3

WCW #3

Before Sting turned into the Crow.

WCW World Championship Wrestling #3

Marvel Comics (June, 1992)

“Bruise Cruise”
WRITER: Mike Lackey
PENCILER: Ron Wilson
INKER: Don Hudson
COLORIST: Kevin Tinsley
LETTERER: Michael Higgins
EDITOR: Mike Rockwitz

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Morning Article Link: DIssecting The DC Movieverse News

Steelman recolored

Comic Book Resources poured over the latest announcement (following Marvel’s lead again) of future DC Movieverse productions. I’d do an article myself, but I find it so hard to care what the Movieverse is doing. I know they’re separating from the TV shows (unlike Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD) because they’re not using the same Flash actor. The Flash is the first live-action DC property I’ve really been interested in since Batman Begins.

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Transformers #67

The Transformers #67

Standing on the sun is never recommended.

The Transformers #67

Marvel Comics (June, 1990)

“Rhythms Of Darkness!”
WRITER: Simon Furman
PENCILER: Jose Delbo
INKER: Danny Bulandi
COLORIST: Nel Yomtov
LETTERER: Jim Massara
EDITOR: Don Daley

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Breaking The Comics Code: Backstory

Breaking The Comics Code logo

And here’s another one of those article series I’ve been wanting to get to for a long time, although the title came to me only recently. Breaking The Comics Code will be an examination of, obviously, the Comics Code. For those of you who haven’t followed comics very long, the Comics Code were a set of standards comic writing and art had to adhere to show they were family-friendly or even kid friendly. At least in theory. In practice, it was a set of morals standards and if you didn’t have the official seal (seen in pieces in the logo above) you wouldn’t make it to the newsstands.

The Comics Code would slowly be ignored, for various reasons that we’ll get into as the series goes on. This series will also be a breakdown of the Code and its various revisions leading to the answer of one question: was the Comics Code really as bad as it gets painted out to be, or is there more to the story? For our first installment we’ll take a look at what led to the formation of the Comics Code.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> WCW #1

WCW #1

Nowadays this would be a photo variant cover.

WCW World Championship Wrestling #1

Marvel (April, 1992)

“Battle Royal“
WRITER: Mike Lackey
PENCILER: Ron Wilson
INKER: Don Hudson
COLORIST: Nel Yomtov
LETTERER: Phil Felix
EDITOR: Mike Rockwitz

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Morning Article Link: The Comic Code Terror

Comics Code seal

At New York Comic-Con, comic writers Paul Levitz and Fred Van Lente joined Charles Brownstein of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in discussing the history of the Comics Code. In light of what I’m posting tonight that’s surprisingly good timing.