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March 1, 2025

BW’s Saturday Article Link> DC & Marvel’s Best Black Superheroes

With everything going on I missed out on my annual Black History Month reminder that there are plenty of existing black superheroes that you don’t need to race swap the white ones…especially the ones black actual comic readers never had a problem with. Instead of some cracker’s hand-me-downs, why not let them be their own person and form their own legacy? Bam Smack Pow lists 10 of DC’s most powerful heroes of color…though admittedly a couple of them are race replacements. At least Jason was done well enough.

I wrote this up to auto-schedule for Saturday, then the same site dropped 10 of Marvel’s most powerful heroes. I wonder if they’ll push a Valiant or Image list or something before this goes live? Spoiler: Using Don Cheadle for Rhodey instead of Terrance Howard or the original comics version was the wrong idea. They also ignore how the comics and movies both screwed him over.

Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on March 1, 2025 in DC Spotlight, Marvel Spotlight and tagged Aqualad (Kaldur'ahm), Bishop, Black Panther, Blade, Blue Marvel, Cyborg (comics), DC Comics, DC Universe, Doctor Voodoo, Falcon, Firestorm, Green Lantern, Icon, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Jason Rusch, John Stewart, Luke Cage, Marvel Comics, Marvel Universe, Miles Morales, Nubia, Ororo Munroe, Sam Wilson, Static, Static Shock, Steel (John Henry Irons), Storm (X-Men), T'challa, Virgil Hawkins, Vixen.

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February 28, 2025

A Different Game With Yasuke

Yes, I know most of you probably know about a certain simulator launching the same day as Assassin’s Creed: Shadows. Blame my posting schedule, but I make up for it by letting you know about the other ones on Steam. Indeed, there are more. While Shadows has a lot of controversy behind it, which I already went over earlier this week, you can either get mad or you can get even. Someone went for “even”.

Yasuke Simulator is the talk of the net. This “historically accurate” game at least isn’t hiding the fact that it’s lying. You’ll see what I mean when you watch the trailer, if you haven’t seen it already. No lady ninja in this one. It’s all Yasuke kicking all the butts of the Takeda Clan, using your swordsmanship, your skill with firearms, and your sweet ride. I was just going to make this a Daily Video post for Monday but when I went to look up the link on Steam, I found it’s not alone. Four other games/downloadable content also came up by searching “Yasuke”. Of course one of them is Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, but let me show you the rest.

Sorry for those of you on the homepage who think this intro is too short. I didn’t know what else to talk about, so here’s a random music video voicing Japan’s issues with the game. It’s in Japanese, so turned on closed captions for English lyrics.

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Yes, the people who made the video are Japaneses. Right…on to the trailers!

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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on February 28, 2025 in Video Game Spotlight and tagged Beer Runner, Samurai Warriors, Video game, Yasuke, Yasuke Simulator, Yasuke: A Lost Descendant.

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February 28, 2025

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Mystery Men Comics #4

A woman about to be sacrificed by jungle native stereotypes has The Green Mask coming to her rescue

The annual barbecue always gets out of hand when the booze comes out.

Mystery Men Comics #4

Fox Publications, Inc (November, 1939)

For those of you just joining us, I already reviewed the first three issues. Back when the Blue Beetle movie was coming out I thought it would be fun to track the pre-DC versions of the line of Blue Beetles. I stopped this title at issue #3 because I didn’t want to read the anthology that buried Dan Garret’s adventures. So I jumped right to The Blue Beetle…which put Dan Garret’s adventures front and center, THEN put all the anthology behind it. Oh, you are a tease, Golden Age comics.

So now for Golden Friday at “Yesterday’s” Comic, Mystery Men Comics returns to the reading library, which means if you missed our favorite Vitamin 2X using hero and his bevy of gadgets and chain-mail armor, he’s back with all his friends. This issue also starts a new character. Let’s check back in with this title.

[Read along with me here]

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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on February 28, 2025 in Yesterday's Comics and tagged "News" Doakes, Blue Beetle, Captain Savage, Chen Chang, D-13, Denny Scott, Fox Features Publication, Golden Age comics, Hardtack, Inspector Bancroft, Lt. Drake, Rex Dexter, Richard Anthony, Richard Kendall, The Green Mask, Wing Turner, Zanzibar.

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February 28, 2025

BW’s Daily Video> 10 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Batman’s Utility Belt

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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on February 28, 2025 in DC Spotlight and tagged Batman, Bruce Wayne, DC Comics, DC Universe, trivia, utility belt.

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February 27, 2025

Assassin’s Creed: Shadows Is The Shovel That Keeps Digging

All the people who worked on Assassin’s Creed: Shadows. An endless sea of white people making a game about a black man in Japan.

I’m just waiting to see how long it takes before UbiSoft gets France into a war with Japan.

That’s kind of sad given the various French/Japanese co-productions going at least as far back, if not further, than Mysterious Cities Of Gold to today’s Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir. However, UbiSoft continues to tick off the entirety of Japan. For a country accused of being cowards during World War II now having a group that keeps pissing off the enemy from that war, they better be glad Japan is only allowed to have a defensive military (someone needs to tell Marvel Studios that, but American’s ticking off Japanese creators is hardly news anymore).

I wasn’t going to go over this subject again. I thought I said my peace. That was before the next time they screwed up. With the latest act of stupidity it seems that the history/religion-ignorant creators making Assassin’s Creed: Shadows have made another big blunder. On its own I could write it off as just video game mechanics, and I’m not saying anything we’re about to discuss was done on purpose beyond turning the “caddy” into “Tiger Woods”. Unfortunately for UbiSoft it’s been mistake on top of mistake for this latest installment in the franchise, and that’s got them in hot water not only with Japanese gamers but the Japanese government. If you thought the US government going after “violent video games” anytime someone connects a slapfight to Mortal Kombat or something is bad, here’s your roller coaster ticket because the ride is starting.

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