BW’s Daily Video> On First Impressions

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Star Trek: Pitch And Guide> Finishing The Pitch

In our last installment we got a bit of the backstage of the show, what it takes to create a show with sets and props and stuff. This time we finish with some more story ideas, to really wow the suits…who don’t really care about science fiction or stories. They just want to see if they’re going to make more money. A rant for another time, perhaps.

In previous guides and pitches, seeing what crosses over from the concept to the final product has always been the most interesting plot. Getting to see what was intended versus what we got gives us trivia we didn’t have before. In Batman: The Animated Series we learned Mr. Freeze was originally going to get his comic origin rather than the one everyone today knows. In Star Trek: The Next Generation we confirmed Stardates are worthless, and just there to be in the future.

There are four pages of potential story ideas in the pitch alone, plus one more for a final bit of set-up. So let’s try to finish here and go to the guide next week.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Blue Beetle (1967) #5

Sounds more like a 2020s comic than a 1960s comic.

Blue Beetle #5

Charlton Comics Group (November, 1968)

Blue Beetle: “Faces The Destroyer Of Heroes” and The Question: “The Critic”

SCRIPT: D.C. Glanzman

ARTIST/QUESTION PLOT: Steve Ditko

LETTERER: A Machine

[Read along with me here]

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BW’s Daily Video> The Problem With Nightwing’s Butt

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Chapter By Chapter> Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image chapters 10 & 11

Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapter for this one) of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.

Last time, our Legion Of Commie got together to finalize their plans to restore the Soviet Union.

This time we’re looking at two chapters. Chapter 10 comes in at four pages and Chapter 11 at just under four and a half. Including space for chapter numbers and that calendar system they use that comes out to almost nine pages, a fair chapter count, and I have time to review that much this week.

We’ll be spending these two chapters stateside, with the first in New York, which I’m betting focuses on the bagel gang, and the other in Washington, DC, meaning more of the Superdopes. Op-Center didn’t have to deal with crap at home except for each other. This time they’re going to have to deal with home and abroad with their evil twins, and without their leader. These might be interesting stories separately, and later on after we really get these guys into a level of competency (assuming it isn’t the fact that this is a new program in this universe that is at part responsible for their mistakes, but I like to give the benefit of the doubt). I still say neither would work for their second adventure, and yet we have both situations. It might all work out, but I have my doubts. Let’s dive in to the two chapters and find out.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Exiles #3

“Let me help you park in the handicap spot legally. By breaking your legs!”

Exiles #3

Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (October, 1993)

“A Glimmer And Gone”

WRITER: Steve Gerber

PENCILER: R. R. Phipps

INKER: Scott Reed

COLORIST: Robert Alvord

LETTERER: Patrick Owsley

EDITOR: Chris Ulm

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BW’s Daily Video> Is Making Falcon Captain America Secretly Racist?

NOTE: Enough F-Bombs dropped to level a small city, but it’s an interesting opinion worth discussing.

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What do you folks think? Did they make a good case?