“Oh god, my spine!”
Lucky Comics Free Comic Book Day 2018
Lucky Comics (May, 2018)
SELECTED COVER ART: Arkade Draw
LETTERER: John M. Helmer
EDITOR: Michael Waggoner
Beetle Girl: “Tales Of The Green Knight”
WRITER/CREATOR: John M. Helmer
ARTIST: Eric Douthitt
Doctor Titan: “Is There A Doctor In The House?”
WRITER/CREATOR: Eric Kent
NOTE: contains some swearing
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Maybe I should put this on the Finally Watched list.
No relation to your favorite Winged Shadow. Or me, either.
Well, guess Ubisoft is in the doghouse again.
Bad enough I can’t play Batman: Vengeance on Windows 10 because the start-up screen isn’t sending me to the actual game’s startup screen because apparently you can’t open one program with another…or at least you can’t with this one and there is no direct opener to the game. It’s getting on my nerves, but it’s an old game and ain’t ticking anybody off but me. I still want to do that Let’s Play series, folks. Honest.
No, Ubisoft has ticked off Japan, or at least Japanese gamers who are fans of the Assassin’s Creed video game series. Originally a sci-fi story of a man in our future reliving the life of an ancestor from our past to learn how to deal with a shared enemy, fans really just wanted to play as the stealthy assassin in the past using retrotech hidden weapons and jumping into haystacks. I don’t know if the sci-fi plot was properly concluded or not, but that’s what the franchise became and fans couldn’t be happier.
At least until the trailer and information for Assassin’s Creed: Shadows came out. Reading the comments of the Japanese and Western commenters on the above video, standing at 270K likes and 625K dislikes at the time of writing but possibly longer by the time you read this due to my posting schedule, Shadows has fans of the game really upset. It’s a multi-level failure we should take a look at, because while we don’t know what the quality of the story or gameplay is, we know the basic plot, and it’s being called cultural appropriation. (Told you today’s Daily Video would be important.)
“I lost BOTH contact lenses. Nobody move!”
Sonic The Hedgehog #66
Archie Comics Publications (January, 1999)
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Steven Butler
EDITOR: Justin Gabrie
“A Friend In Need”
INKER: Pam Eklund
COLORIST: Ken Penders
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
“And Then There WAs One (or the until now untold origin of Ixis Naugus!)”
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST/LETTERER: Frank G.
Note this video is from 2021. It also may be technically off-topic for this site, but it will be important later.
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You want to know what IS an example of a black person and Japanese cultural appropriation? Some of you can already guess tonight’s article, and I posted this story to tell you that one.
Hey kids, an actual comic for kids!
Spidey & His Amazing Friends Free Comic Book Day 2024
Marvel Comics (2024)
WRITER: Steve Behling
LAYOUTS: Antonio Dalena & Giovanni Rigano
INKERS: Cristina Giorgilli & Cristina Stella
COLORISTS: Dario Calabria & Lucio De Giuseppe
SPIDER-MAN CREATORS: Stan Lee & Steve Ditko
Contains four stories that may be taken from a few graphic novels with short stories. The fact that this issue look like a comic with connecting panels rather than other kids comics with panels slapped into a page with a lot of unused space I’ll take it. The fact that they have to show the kids how to read the comic (left to right, so I don’t know if they think the Disney Junior age group is that stupid or that used to unflipped manga) is kind of sad. Nobody had to tell me how to read a comic book. I’m not Fredrick Wertham. All of the artists are European, Italian if I guess right. None of the American artists wanted to be involved in the “kiddie comic”, I bet. At least they try to match the 3D CG animation of the TV show. Let’s run through the stories.
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BW Media Spotlight 
The #RecastTChalla Remix: BW Responds To A Review Of A Past Article
When I saw the #RecastTChalla hashtag was trending again on X-Twitter (this week, Elon Musk moved it over to the “x.com” URL because apparently he’s officially going with this unnecessary name change), I did what any blogger who has a bad track record of self-promotion would do, and link to my old article from the first time this hashtag trended. “Weighing In On #RecastTchalla” was the third article I put up after the rather stupid decision to not recast the Black Panther after the death of Chadwick Boseman, despite his family stating he wouldn’t want to leave the character uncast. Instead Marvel Studios, now entering their “comic sux, we do bettar” phase, instead took the opportunity to replace the king of Wakanda with Shuri, despite T’Challa still being Black Panther in the comics. Critics claim it was to replace the male hero with the female hero, and we’ll probably get into that. Short version: branded representation versus actual representation. Being there isn’t enough, the NAME is all that matters.
I’ve done this before, even though I rarely care about trends, but this topic is apparently big. I actually got buzz on X-Twitter. Surprised me. It’s a very touchy subject for both the black community and the current racial/culture war as well as for actual comic fans who read the comics or saw the cartoons and knew about Black Panther long before that. Note that few of these champions ever went to buy the comics, according to sales figures at the time. Having the black hero (not the first black hero when Spawn, The Meteor Man, Blankman–and those are just the title heroes–already hit movie screens and we can discuss TV as well) finally show up in the MCU unless you count War Machine, Falcon, and frankly Goliath deserved to be more than a retired old man is a big deal. Comic fans have waited longer for a live-action Black Panther and while it’s still on my Finally Watched list (my backlog is incredible, but look what I’ve been through in the past decade) I hear good things about it. I did see him in the Avengers movies and liked him. My “Civil War” Marvel embargo is still in place so I missed his debut.
One interesting responder was a YouTuber who refers to himself as a Black Panther historian, so I’m assuming he’s checked out the comics and cartoons. He even talked about it Monday on his “Mornings In Wakanda” podcast, which is linked below and I will be responding to. I tried to cue up to where we get to the examination of my article, which I linked to in the first paragraph so you can read along with him. You can check out the full show if you want, but be prepared to hear political views contrary to your own, possibly during the “important” part as I’m going to write as I watch. The starting point is around the 25 minute mark. The host, Theo B on YouTube, goes over my article and is fair enough to it. I just want to take the chance to elaborate on a few points I made in the original article. This was recorded live, while I was waking up to the usual Morning Nonsense podcast so I caught this after the fact and couldn’t respond then. I can now. I have a website!
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 21, 2024 in Marvel Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged Black Panther, Black Panther (comics), Chadwick Boseman, commentary, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios, MCU, T'challa.
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