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Never really thought about the game, but it would be nice to see official clarification about the time travel thing. Otherwise it raises a lot of questions like “does that mean Superman doesn’t stop the first missile?”. It wasn’t a very clear way to show Superman breaking the time barrier, which by that point he did in the comics so often it’s not surprising.
At least everyone else is on time thanks to him.
No Clutter Reports for the rest of December. However, if you’re looking for something to get for your geekier loved ones, I do have comics, toys, and books I’m trying to sell off from my collection. Since I need the money and don’t enjoy them, why not given them a home with someone who will? I’m not selling everything I own, just the stuff that’s become clutter.
Here at BW this week it’s basically more of the same, but hopefully the good same: the next chapter of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image for Chapter By Chapter, episode 4 of DC Heroes United being reviewed, more with original Star Trek terminology from the writer’s guide, daily old comic reviews and videos, whatever Christmas content I can drop in there, and whatever else I need to finish the week. So some surprises are in there, but I took on a few too many articles series by circumstance. I’ll try to watch that in the future.
I should also note, and this is where we get technical about stuff you might not be interested in but there’s a reason I’m mentioning it, that WordPress, my host, is undergoing some changes that may or may not be obvious on your end but will affect my flow. If it wasn’t for a bookmark in my browser I can’t even access the classic editor on this site, though it’s still easily accessible on The Clutter Reports so it must be a rolling change. That means I’m going to have learn this block editor whether I want to or not. There’s a “classic block” but it isn’t completely the same. I have used the block editor for the BW Comics archive section, but as I learn to use it, there may be some dust to pardon before they drop the regular classic editor altogether. If something looks off, now you know why. Also need to look into a new theme since this one is so old they don’t maintain it and who knows how long it will stay available. Need to find as many of the same features I have with my current one. And to think, in the early days of this site I changed themes a few times.
That’s enough of all that. Have a great week, everybody.
Originally I started Captain Yuletide because I hadn’t seen any “X saves Christmas” stories out of modern kids entertainment, and that’s if they even did a Christmas episode and didn’t just call it “holidays”. It’s also why I started the Christmas special playlist, to find specials that call Christmas…Christmas. To make a series out of it I thought it would be fun to use the various Christmas traditions and lore to form my characters and plots. I kind of miss doing that this year.
So to make up for it, I bring you The Curious Case Of Santa Claus, a 1982 documentary about the origins of Santa Claus, though they missed the part US advertising played in the more famous depiction of Santa. Since this is a storytelling blog, I’m happy a story is included via the framing device for this history lesson of Saint Nicholas.
It’s Christmas Eve and Santa (James Coco) is having a bit of an identity crisis as he tries to figure out all his various depictions. He gets help by talking to a therapist (Jon Pertwee, or the Third Doctor to us Whovians) in New York, because New York is just where Kris Kringle goes to sort his identity issues. Through telling his story to the therapist, can Santa Claus piece together who he is and what he means to the holiday?
While this is a British production, I first saw this on A&E back when it was about Arts And Entertainment, rather than the reality dump it is today. It’s where I learned about Santa around the world, and while it doesn’t cover everything it is a good introduction to the expanded world of Saint Nicholas and Father Christmas…who apparently aren’t the same person according to this story. Enjoy.
Woops, wrong fantasy.
I finally got to start banking a few articles in case I need them. I just hope I don’t have to use them until I have a few.
I am not the type to do a multiplayer RPG. I’m too much of a control freak when it comes to stories. Basically, I’d ruin the experience for everyone, not just myself. I do enjoy hearing the stories of other’s adventures and misadventures because I love a good story, but taking part? Not for me.
Live Action Role Play, or LARP, is even more not for me. It would require me to break character as little as possible, and depending on the scenario…the guy who spends too much time on the toilet probably shouldn’t be taking an adventure in a place where that’s a hole in the ground. My eating habits don’t help, which is what’s kept me from international traveling. Well, that and lack of money. I do, however, have a lot of respect for it as a unique form of storytelling.
Josiah “Jazza” Brooks doesn’t have my hang-ups. In this video, Jazza took his son and a cameraman to Swordcraft in their native Australia. It was the first visit for “Jazzeric” as he hoped to teach his son about the world, joined by a chronicler who would learn a new trade during the event. Jazzeric would meet new people, experience adventures and form a band…with a really wrong name. See how he prepared for his first event, and how his musical talent (Jazza started his channel with music before transitioning to drawing and now numerous types of artistic experimenting) was part of his quest. Enjoy.
That’s not how you pick up girls, dude!
Mystery Men Comics #3
Fox Publications, Inc (October, 1939)
I told you we’d be back.
For the newcomers, I started doing a retrospective review set of the pre-DC Blue Beetle around the time the movie for the current name holder’s movie came out. I decided two issues in that rather than stick with the anthology I’d go right to the main title series…which turned out to be an anthology. I did at some point want to return here, and now that I do these comics every Friday, now is the time to do it. That means we’ll be returning to rookie patrolman Dan Garret and his partner Mike Mannigan, who doesn’t suspect his friend and colleague is really the chainmail clad superhero powered by Vitamin 2X and a bunch of gadgets. Plus there are other heroes who have been lost to time we get to meet or see again. Let’s get started.
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BW Media Spotlight 
BW’s Saturday Article Link> What Caused The Current Comic Crash
Comics as a medium survived Fredrick Wertham and an incompetently enforced Comics Code. The rise of stores that only sold comics and comics related merchandise should be evidence of that. Recently, however, comic stores either had to build beyond that or go out of business, and the industry is in freefall while the emperor dusts off the fiddle. Activism and the current pecking order are only partly to blame. Writing for Brian Neumeier’s Kairos blog we have this commentary by Soul Cycle Books going over how comics started making mistake after mistake and have slowly reduced the industry to a shadow of what it once was and I think he nails it perfectly.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on December 14, 2024 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comic books, comics, commentary.
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