November 29, 2024

BW’s Daily Video> South Park On Imagination

A good storyteller makes a fictional world seem real, no matter how unlike our own world it is. That’s how we connect with the character, through shared experiences or wanting to see the protagonist overcome or learn their lesson and become better because they’re someone we’d like to know and befriend. Or they inspire us to be better by showing us what we lack and how to achieve some version of that on our own. We’ll never have Superman’s powers but we can follow his example on how to be a better person. Kyle is also right that many of these characters will exist after we’re gone, but I’ll add that many of them existed before we were born, and stayed relevant for reasons modern writers can not grasp. And so those legends are dying, replaced with mediocre doppelgangers and namesakes who failed to learn their processor’s lessons.

They cannot believe, and as Yoda once said, that is why they fail.

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November 28, 2024

BW’s Thanksgiving Night Showcase: The Mouse On The Mayflower

Sorry about the autoplay. I couldn’t find it on YouTube, just reviews. So I was forced to use DailyMotion, which is a terrible player. The only other site I saw it on was Facebook and I’m not sure I can embed from there. Have a happy Thanksgiving, or a happy Thursday for those of you who don’t celebrate, and we’ll be back tomorrow with regular content. I figure not many people will be reading today, so here’s one of my childhood favorites.

Also, please remember if you watch that other, more famous Thanksgiving special:

Seriously, Linus and Franklin are the only two people I would trust to have Charlie Brown’s back, and one of them is on the opposing baseball team. He’s also the “straight man” and probably the most sane character. Which is tough sitting near Peppermint Patty in school.

They might even have needed to put him across just to make the nervous network happy, or they just ran out of room when blocking out the table. Stop assuming everything is evil just so you can be mad about something.

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November 28, 2024

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Minecraft Inspired Misadventures Of Frigiel & Fluffy FCBD

Looks more Minecraft than that Jack Black movie.

The Minecraft Inspired Misadventures Of Frigiel & Fluffy Free Comic Book Day edition

Ablaze (Free Comic Book Day 2023, posted to Drive Thru Comics in August)

WRITERS: Jean-Christopher Derrien & Frigiel

ARTISTS: Studio Minte

Apparently, Frigiel is a French YouTuber who plays a lot of Minecraft. I don’t speak French so I’m going to assume this was inspired by his playthroughs of the game, possibly in character as other Minecraft let’s plays have done. I don’t know how many because I don’t follow the game. Just the lore on Game Theory. Don’t worry, the comic is in English.

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November 28, 2024

BW’s Daily Video> The Problem With Ms. Marvel In 2024

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November 27, 2024

Going Over The New Sonic The Hedgehog 3 Trailer

Disney continues to fail at preserving its legacy. It all started with a mouse, but it may be ending with a rat as they continue to attempt to replace their animated history with Oscar-friendly live-action “demakes” of their beloved cartoons. Snow White and Lilo & Stitch‘s live-action teasers are out, and I don’t care. The actress playing Snow White won’t shut up and keeps making things worse, but for our purposes it’s the outright disgust at their own legacy that is hurting the brand alongside the activism.

Meanwhile, when SEGA brings the Sonic and company to live-action, they respect their legacy. They listened to fans, considered sacrilege in modern Hollywood culture, and you’d think other Paramount productions would get the hint. Their successes with this franchise and the fact that Marvel Studios went downhill when Disney took it over and threw out respecting comic lore while Star Trek continues to crash and like two different movie Enterprises would send the message: respect your legacy and those who are fans of that legacy.

I did my reviews of the first and second Sonic movies and very much enjoyed them. I even liked the sequel more, and bringing my favorite Sonic character (Tails, for those of you not reading my Archie Sonic comic reviews) is only one reason. That means I have great hopes…and great fears when it comes to the third film. A new trailer dropped this week, so let’s see how that affects my expectations.

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November 27, 2024

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Sabrina The Teenage Witch #28

The crossover I really want is Sonic vs The Flash and the Road Runner in a race.

Sabrina The Teenage Witch #28

Archie Comic Publications (August, 1999)

WRITER: Mike Gallagher

PENCILER: Dan DeCarlo

“SONIC” PENCILER: Dave Manak

INKER: Jon D’Agostino

COLORIST: Barry Grossman

LETTERER: Bill Yoshida

EDITOR: Victor Gorelick

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November 27, 2024

BW’s Daily Video> A Comic Pro Points Out The Floppy Comic Killer

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I’ve been writing about this issue…problem for a while. Writing for the trade is just doing a set of miniseries. I treat the regular comic as a TV series, the original graphic novel as a movie, and the trades as a box set, to use an analog. Trades used to be about collecting a special event. Now they are the comics. You lose the casual reader, you ruin the graphic novel because they aren’t special anymore, and it’s changed the way we read comics, and not necessarily for the better.

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