July 10, 2026

A Nerdy Genie Offers Adaptation, Remake, And Completion

Blue genie wearing glasses floating in a library with magical books around

My first attempt with AI art thanks to WordPress. Not going to be a regular thing with me, since I do my own art, but I wanted to try it.

Let’s end the week on something fun as I head towards my annual break.

Nate Winchester over at Hunting Muses put forth the following thought piece:

So you find a magical lamp, and when the genie inside is revealed, turns out he is a massive nerd.

He then tells you he’ll grant any 3 wishes, but they are all speculative fiction related. You may choose one work to adapt, one work to remake, and one work to complete. Also since he loves this stuff as much as you do, he’ll make every effort to fulfill your wishes as you intend, so you don’t have to worry about any djinn shenanigans here.

Already that last one is suspect. Unless you’re Aladdin or a hunky astronaut, genies messing with you is their pastime. That’s considering the genie isn’t incompetent, like with the hunky astronaut or a teen boy in an animated spinoff very few people remember. Also we’re using magic to make sci-fi happen. Ask Linkara how well that went for him. But I’ll play your game, Nathaniel! By the way, you can see his responses here.

So, one sci-fi production, and any form of media is up for grabs, would I want to see adapted (and presumably to what), one that could use a remake (and we’re assuming the genie isn’t making 2020s Hollywood blunders), and what unfinished work would I like to see done. This isn’t my top pics, mind you. It’s the picks of a mind that didn’t sleep right last night trying to catch Friday Night Tights at the same time he’s writing this to make deadline. There might be some obscure ideas here. Still…here we go.

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July 10, 2026

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Exciting Comics #1

“That’s not a manbun, you fraud!”

Exciting Comics #1

Better Publications, Inc (April, 1940)

Another new title enters the game, not to be confused by a similar titled comic by Antarctic Press I just learned about. Yep, it’s an anthology. What do we expect. I write this before reading it, but going over the story list I don’t recognize any of the character names. Outside of Klaus Nordling I don’t recognize any name here, and I only know that one from other Golden Age comics I’ve reviewed. So we’ll just have to see how “exciting” these comics are if they didn’t release any famous heroes but lasted 69 issues.

By the way, those of you who actually read this feature here at the Spotlight will want to check out Sunday’s update, usually mixed into the Jake & Leon posting. “Yesterday’s” Comic isn’t going away but there’s going to have to be a change in how I do this. Archival readers won’t care so check that out, or the Programming Note on Sunday if I don’t get the comic done. For now, let’s meet the new kids on the block and see why they didn’t have the right stuff. (Look, someone was going to make that reference.)

EDIT: Slight change of plan. Update will happen on Sunday but as it’s own Programming Note. Decided that on Saturday, after this posted. Sorry about that.
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July 10, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> Doctor Who Was Weird About Black People

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Finally, someone else bringing this up. Also don’t forget that one of 13’s Companions was married to a black woman and she died the same episode. You have to be gay to survive being the black person in an interracial relationship on modern Doctor Who. Interspecies relationships, however, are totally allowed.

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July 9, 2026

Helen Slater Talking Supergirl

If you’ve followed this website long enough, my saying “I really like the 1980s Supergirl movie shouldn’t surprise you. Helen Slater was great in the role, Faye Dunaway made a good villainess who’s in over her head in her pursuit for power, and the effects are as good as…most of the Superman movies from the Salkinds. Plus they did more with Jimmy Olsen in this movie than in all four Superman movies…not that he did much here, either. Poor Mark McClure never got to be as big as Christopher Reeve and Margo Kidder. It might not be a popular opinion on the internet…but when has that stopped me?

Slater would probably be more known for her role in The Legend Of Billie Jean, where she played a girl who grew two spines and told ACTUAL toxic men what to do with themselves, at least from what little I’ve watched of it. Today that movie would come off as intersectional feminist garbage but back then you were on her side. She wasn’t done being tied to Kara, though. She played Kara’s adoptive Earth mom in the Supergirl TV series, apparently played Kal-El’s space mom after I stopped watching Smallville, and she was at least acknowledged in The Flash for what little that crap was worth. Sadly we’ll be coming back to that.

First, our context: this interview with The Hollywood Reporter in which they ask her about the 2026 totally-not-James-Gunn version, her CG cameo, and her time making the 1984 movie. It’s another example of how actors do not approach stories the same way fans do, or she’s just trying to be professional. Possibly both.

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July 9, 2026

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Sesame Street: Grover Lends A Hand

“Oh, you already have hands.” Wait, is that Little Bird? I thought he died or something!

Sesame Street: Grover Lends A Hand

Oni Press (June, 2025)

WRITER: Joey Esposito

ARTIST: Austin Baechle

COLORIST: Alessandro Santoro

COVER ART: Erin Hunting

LETTERER: Shawn Lee

EDITOR: Megan Brown

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July 9, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> More Sony Diskless Fallout

Note: angry swearing British man

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I don’t know if this info will be proven false by the time this post goes live, but if it’s true then it’s kind of suspicious.

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July 8, 2026

Free Comic Inside> Sweetbee Visits Catra’s Treehouse

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It’s been a while since we visited the minicomic version of Etheria and the girly psycho that is the Princess Of Power version of She-Ra. We’ve seen her turn many beings into butterflies, cat men to stone, and make friends with someone who will make their enemies go into emotional shock over dress-up clothes buried in the backyard. Minicomics Etheria is weird.

In our latest outing our focus is on Sweetbee, the bee girl. We also get to meet the minicomics version of Entrapta, and if you only know her from the Netflix show, as I don’t remember her being part of the original cartoon that much, you’re in for a surprise. This is the girls division of Mattel trying to regain their #1 status when He-Man took the title from Barbie, which isn’t what Filmation was thinking when they saw all the girls who liked the strong women of planet Deathtrap Eternia and cheered them on. In the show it’s a battle to reclaim their planet. Here, Bow just got too close to Catra’s treehouse. It’s going to get very girly up in here.

I wonder if Sweetbee ever met Buzz-Off?

Princess Of Power series 2 #4

Mattel (1986)

“A Born Champion”

WRITER: Tina Harris

PENCILER: Jim Mitchell

INKER: Todd Kurosawa

COLORIST: Charles Simpson

EDITORS: Joan Dumbauld & Lee Nordling

no letterer credited

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