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.
I hope there aren’t many readers hit with a region lock on this one.
Batman: Return Of The Caped Crusaders brings back the three surviving members of the 1966 Batman series still working: Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Julie Newmar as Catwoman. Everyone else has to use sound alikes, and they’re pretty good. Released in 2016, the animated movie features our heroes dealing with yet another villain team-up…but things take a turn for the worse when Catwoman’s attempt to turn Batman evil works better than even she planned. Now featuring an army of darker knights, can the Boy Wonder trust the crafty feline femme fatale to save Gotham City?
This is the first of two animated movies featuring West and Ward voice acting their character rather than physically playing them, but not the first time they’ve done it. When Filmation realized they still had a little time on their licence they opted not to cause trouble for Hanna-Barbara’s Superfriends and opted to create The New Adventures Of Batman for CBS. With their previous Batman and Robin, Olan Soule and Casey Kasem, now with HB, they grabbed Adam West and Burt Ward. West would later take over as Batman for the final two “Super Powers” seasons of Superfriends for some reason, with Soule voicing Martin Stein, one-half of new hero Firestorm. West has also appeared in other Batman productions as other characters, including the 1960s Batmobile on Batwheels via archival sound clips after his passing in 2017. Ward has mostly stepped back from acting, but according to IMDB played a version of Dick Grayson during the CW Arrowverse’s take on “Crisis On Infinite Earths” in an episode of Supergirl and himself in other projects.
And yes, we’ll do the second movie next week. For this one: enjoy.
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November 15, 2025
BW’s Saturday Article Link> Amazon’s Mass Effect Series Not Directly Adapting The Games
I should be clear, as I only have so much room to make a decent headline. The new Amazon series will take place in the same universe as the Mass Effect games. It just won’t adapt the games themselves due to having a limited but existing character creation system that alters your experience. Marvin Montanaro, writing for Geeks & Gamers, discusses why this might be a good idea given how the games work, so long as the usual modern Hollywood nonsense of slapping a brand name people like onto a completely original story that they don’t. Besides, there is plenty of expanded universe potential even if you call out a non-Shepard character like the Dark Horse comic this comes from did.
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I forgot there was a file for notes, but it’s a good thing I checked it before going to the next draft. This file contains feedback from the first draft. It also includes hand written brainstorming thoughts that are hard for me to go over in the same level of detail. For this one you really should download the “notes file” if you’re following along to see what’s in there. All the stuff I’m using comes from The Sunbow Marvel Archive and is worth checking out. Since the brainstorming is the typical random thoughts I’ll skim over it and focus on the collected, thought out notes. Plus those I can copy/paste using Adobe’s free Acrobat reader, with some fixing on my part. These are old documents scanned into the computer. The artifacts on the paper sometimes confuse it.
For this first section we’ll be looking at the first feedback from Hasbro, insisting on how the toys should be translated into animated form. Remember, the toys already existed, so even if Hasbro didn’t stick to their guns (no pun intended) with the lore, the toys still have to reflect what they’ve got on the store shelves. For Hasbro the point is to sell the toys. If you think that’s lame, and that this is ONLY a toy commercial, remember that the show has to make the toys look good enough for the kids who want them. Think of the shows that aren’t based on toys but still have them. The toys help fund the show. The Gundam franchise out of Japan is filled with various “mobile suit” designs because model builders really like building those robotic suit mecha. Megatron was based on a toy for a different TV show. I had a Star Trek role play set with fake communicator and a “phaser” that shot little plastic disks I lost decades ago. There’s a reason we’re still fans of this show so many years later, and all of the other Transformers media that came out, even for those of us who didn’t collect the toys.
I wrote out the article first to see what my word count would be like, giving me an idea on where to break this up. Tonight we’ll be taking a look at the first nine pages of the collected notes by the archiver. That’s the first feedback letter from Hasbro (I hope they don’t still use that number or someone just got doxxed) and the first set of brainstorming notes. What will we learn about the toys and how the brainstorming session went?
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When your superpower is using fire like a portal you don’t worry if the plane burns up.
Wonderworld Comics #9
Fox Publications, Inc (January, 1940)
It’s been awhile on this one. I should have looked back on the old review of the previous issue when I said I was done with this series, back when I was going over the various Fox Publications comics for curiosity before deciding to stick with just the Blue Beetle at the time. This will be the last of the January, 1940 comics and I already started the article, so let’s just stick with it. Remind me why I stopped reading this.
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As I post this I’m still going over the attempts to bring the original cartoon to CBS’s Saturday morning lineup. I’ll probably do my own examination of this after that, but I will go over it on my own before continuing my own Transformers lore series, to see what I can mine from it and fill in gaps. If you want to see it, here’s the article on TFW2005. It’s a big PDF file, so be prepared to spend time with it. Also, here’s a history of the so-called “Aligned Continuity” that was never all that aligned.
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I like looking at songs that have a story, a through narrative you can follow. Well, this one has four short stories, but how good is it? Marvin Young, better known as Young MC, released “Bust A Move” as a single off his 1989 album Stone Cold Rhythm is his only US hit, if that tells you anything. With Crystal Blake providing the female voice in the chorus, and one of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers on base, “Bust A Move” is pop version of a rap song, a sort of gateway into rap. Like a drug, but the song is surprisingly clean for a song about hooking up. What did you think he meant?
The song contains four stories as our narrator tries to encourage either the same or four different guys to get over their insecurities and make a move on a girl who is clearly into him. The music video actually matches the song well, but with a few minor differences. That’s why I prefer to go with song lyric videos instead of the official music video.
The question I’m asking is whether or not the song, using the bass from the Ballin’ Jack song “Found A Child”, actually works as good advice and whether or not the scenarios are even possible. That’s all I have for intro, so let’s get into the song.
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“Um….can I borrow a cup of sugar?”
Legend In The Mist: Learn To Play Comic Book Adventure
Son Of Oak Game Studio (2025)
CREATOR/ART DIRECTION: Amit Moshe
WRITERS/GAME DESIGN: Amit Moshe, Eran Aviram, Itamar Karbian, & Kelly Black
ARTISTS: Alejandra Pinal, Mariusz Szulc, Mark Hretskyi, & Zach Causey
GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Manuel Serra Sáez
EDITOR: Eran Aviram
PRODUCTION: Omer Shapira & Inbar Barzilay
OPERATIONS: Edward Guevara
PROOFREADING: Marshall Oppel
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