BW Media Spotlight

I don’t care what your opinion is on non-binary Morph in X-Men ’97, this is a stupid defense.

Deciding all shapeshifters are non-binary goo puddles goes against the long history of shapeshifters in science fiction and fantasy…not that they care. They also won’t watch the show but will still celebrate how “diverse it is” and then move on. It’s just another example of surface level viewing of things they don’t care about, which includes real people as much as it does fake ones. As far as Morph now going non-binary, the reason for this stupid “defense”, I don’t care. The show isn’t going to be made for today’s kids but the nostalgic who were kids when the show came out. Morph was supposed to die in the first episode in the Fox Kids days. Fox wasn’t happy so the creators told them “don’t worry, we’re totally going to bring him back”. They had no plan to bring Morph back. He only returned because someone at Fox remembered, long after the audience forgot him mind you, and called their bluff. I never liked him and couldn’t care less what they do with him…but why does he look like the 90s Spider-Man version of The Chameleon now?

Yes, that’s what he looks like in the comics now (like Marvel Studios cares about Marvel Comics) but it wasn’t what he looked like in the show then. Everyone else got to look like the show version through a “modern” design lens and trying to ape another animation studio’s older style, but Morph gets his comic look? At least we have the yellow spandex.

Over at The Clutter Reports this week I go over my cluttered “work” schedule and how circumstances are giving me a chance to fix it. For “Yesterday’s” Comic, Star Power runs out this week, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the next few weeks since I did all the IDW comics I had when they came out in Today’s Comic, and my Drive Thru library won’t hold out. That leaves the continuing look at Blue Beetle, Sonic/Knuckles, and the Ultraverse as having any real length before I get caught up with Sonic and Knuckles’ Archie adventures that came out before BW Media Spotlight started. It’s going to lead to some needed changes to free time up for me to do other things, like all those comic projects I want to do.

This week should be normal, though. The next installment in our Chapter By Chapter review of The Vulcan Academy Murders, saying farewell to MatPat on the Theorist Channels (though oddly I have to take his last Film Theory to task), and whatever else comes up.

Finally, I send my condolences to the family and friends of Dragon Ball’s Akira Toriyama, a manga creator and video game designer who has worked on many projects and earned a huge international fanbase. He passed at 68 due to a blood clot in his brain. He died on March 1st but it wasn’t made public until a few days ago, which is the right thing to do. Let his loved ones mourn in peace before the fans. While he loved his fans, his family and friends should be more important. The man is a legend and inspired many people in many countries to take up art and storytelling, and the introduction of anime and manga to a lot of people outside of Japan. He’s a creator who earned his legacy. Thank you for spending time in this dimension and making the world a better place.

Have a great week, everyone!