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.
On this episode of Mythbusters: testing the “screen door on a submarine” myth.
War Comics #1
Dell Publishing Company (January, 1940)
I mean…look at the title. It’s not you can’t tell what we’re about to read. Pretty obvious. It’s still over a year before the US would join the war, and for all I know we only went after the Nazis and their Axis pals because Japan was one of those pals. Still, there was interest, if not sentiment, for what was becoming a second worldwide war, after the “war to end all wars” turned out to not be what was advertised. At the very least it’s a good backdrop for action stories. While Nazi Germany and the then current Japanese regime were the usual targets we forget that Italy, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Croatia (according to Duck Duck Go’s AI search) were also in there. Maybe we remember Italy, but now we get along with all of those nations, especially Japan and Italy. World War II probably the easiest to define “good guys” and “bad guys” of any war, which might we why we go back there so often in fiction and extremist political discourse.
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Sorry, folks. I’ve been off schedule all week. I’ve been just able to get something out on time that wasn’t terrible, but today I couldn’t pull it off. We did the monthly shopping and I was so tired I needed a nap. As I write this I’m just coming out of it, and the article I was going to do tonight wouldn’t be done on time if I want to do it well. With CBS Transformers coming tomorrow I felt it best to just take the loss and try to get myself back on track.
As penance, here’s a Monty Python sketch from their official YouTube channel. I didn’t know they had one.
Back to normal operations tomorrow.
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I’d make a joke if I could make any sense of what’s going on here.
Yoshiro #1
(September, 2025)
WRITER/ARTIST/CREATOR: Roberto Jeferson
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You know what I was saying yesterday about Doomsday being overused and weakened as a threat because of it? Well, just after finishing that article I found one on ScreenRant that proves my point.
I’ve often said that the retcon is the most dangerous weapon in storytelling. It can completely change how you view those older stories going back because of the “new information” tied to those events. Add to that Doomsday’s origin story. In the miniseries Superman/Doomsday: Hunter/Prey, which I’ve reviewed because I own the trade, we learn that Doomsday was created by a scientist obsessed with creating the ultimate lifeform. To achieve that goal they’d clone a baby monster, toss it to the unforgiving wilderness, collect the remains, and repeat the process until they had an unkillable monster…who then killed them. Waverider showed all this to Superman, but for some reason the scientist in charge didn’t look like he came from Krypton…and yet he was Kryptonian. Supposedly this explained why Doomsday went after Superman specifically. You know, if you ignore everything else he attacked when he arrived on Earth and the alien worlds in that miniseries, including Apocalypse. Darkseid even allowed Superman to use a Mother Box to defeat the monster once and for all.
Well, now it turns out he had reason to worry. According to modern DC writers, Darkseid was destined to become the most powerful being in the multiverse, the “King Omega”, and an Alpha was supposed to be chosen to fight him or something. I haven’t been following the DC KO event because DC heroes fighting each other isn’t what I go to DC for and one of the reasons why Marvel was my number two until I parted ways with both main universes. So how Doomsday is the Time Trapper is already confusing to me…and now he’s also the “absolute champion”, the Alpha that’s supposed to save the multiverse. To repeat from the article title…what?
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“I swear, I returned the book to the library.”
Sonic Universe #2
Archie Comics Publications (May 2009)
“Shadow Saga part 2: “Time And Again”
WRITER: Ian Flynn
PENCILER: Tracy Yardley
COLORIST: Jason Jensen
LETTERER: Teresa Davidson
EDITOR: Mike Pellerito
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