Saturday Night Showcase> Marvel’s Spider-Man (cartoon, not the game)

As I progress through the Many, MANY Intros Of Spider-Man, there are two shows that won’t be on the list because they don’t have a real intro. I thought it would be interesting to feature both on Saturday Night Showcase, to give them some form of representation.

However, I can’t find a full episode of Ultimate Spider-Man on YouTube, the one where Peter becomes a SHIELD trainee along with other, teenified heroes and Peter sometimes has comedic fantasies that break the fourth wall. Marvel HQ on YouTube has a trailer for them but I guess they took them down. Nobody else on YouTube has them, either. I’m not happy with the version I found on Dailymotion, since the darn thing kept autoplaying in the embed and I’m not doing that to you guys. So here’s what this show tries to pass of as an intro.

I can, however, bring you Marvel’s Spider-Man, which is essentially a reimagine of the lore on the level of the MCU version, but still with the same costume and powers. Peter is again in high school (because of course he is), but in the first official episode (I could post the shorts, later combined into the first episode, “Origins”, as Peter learns his powers, but I want the regular episode experience) he starts going to some high tech super brain science academy.

Neither show has an intro, just the old comic panel turning into the title thing Marvel movies were doing prior to the MCU and a title card getting pulled away by webbing or being invaded by Spidey. Enjoy.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Blue Beetle #41

“I’m going to have the coolest diorama.”

The Blue Beetle #41

Fox Features Syndicate (March-April, 1946)

This one is going to be a big shorter. There’s a new chapter of the “Threat From Saturn” but according to the Grand Comics Database they didn’t make any more and left the story on a cliffhanger. Seeing as how I hated the story I’m happy to leave it finished with “and then they unexpectedly drowned for some reason” and get on with my life. Also, there’s an O’Brine Twins story and I really don’t care about them, either. The two “Minut Mysteries” are one page crime stories that never have time to be good.

Don’t worry, there’s still plenty to review and the link below will take you to the comic if you really want to read them. I don’t, so I’m moving on. With this series I’m following the history more than trying to enjoy it, but I’m hoping it gets more fun at some point.

[Read along with me here]

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Beast Machine Hunters> Bible For The Spark (aka season 2 development notes) part 1

You know, I put a lot of work into this one, trying as best I can to match the original title screen. I could have done better but I learned a few things about my software in the process. Still took a few hours so it would have been nice if the season two guide had been worth more than a single article. As I write this, I’m not sure I can get two out of this guide.

I was expecting another detailed guide, like with the “Beast Hunters” treatment and the season one guide. If I knew it was this short, and that’s on me for not looking, I wouldn’t have bothers, fun as it was to get the “bible” title gimmick in there like with the previous writer’s bibles I’ve reviewed. Download it yourself. It’s only seven pages with a revised version of the season two plans from the season one guide.

As mentioned before, while YTV in Canada took the whole show in one shot, Fox Kids wanted two seasons, Hasbro unleashed the “Battle For The Spark” subline for “Beast Machines”. The gimmick was that the spark crystal, originally a replacement for the now easier to duplicate rub signs, doubled as a button to activate certain action features on the figures. Some of the original characters got new figures, some new figures got to be in the cartoon, and there were still figures without a show version and one show character without a toy version. Also for some reason Rattrap was finally released without the Battle For The Spark logo as an exclusive to Kay-Bee, which as a Rattrap fan I was happy to get my hands on.

With all that compare what we’re about to go over with last time on Beast Machine Hunters, and see how much article I get out of this one.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Star Power #23

Danica wasn’t sure about her new shampoo.

Star Power #23

(May, 2018)

“The Choir Of Doctor Hymn” part 3

WRITER: Michael Terracciano

ARTIST: Garth Graham

COLORIST: Rebecca McConnell

COVER ART: Kristilyn

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BW’s Daily Video> Ubisoft’s War On Physical Media

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Sing Me A Story> Karma Chameleon

logo for the Sing Me A Story article series

So this advertisement was recently all over the place. I’m not sure why it stopped.

The song is performed by Drew Love, who appears in this and other versions of the ad campaign. He is not, however, the original performer of the song. A single from the album Colour By Numbers, “Karma Chameleon” was originally produced in the 1980s by Culture Club, with one of the songwriters being front man Boy George in his “random items I got from the clearance racks” fashion phase. While not as strange as some other choices for songs (there was that one to promote schoolteachers by using a song trashing the school system as propaganda, back when that claim came from the left instead of the right), it’s one of those songs that, in context, makes you wonder what they were thinking. Love’s version may have more of a party feel to it, but the song doesn’t really scream “party on the ocean”.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> X-O Manowar #2 (2012)

No colors, very dark…now I’m worried this cover will convince them to let Zack Snyder make the movie.

X-O Manowar #2

Valiant Comics (June, 2012; digital edition)

“Escaping Eden”

WRITER: Robert Venditti

PENCILER: Cary Nord

INKER: Stephano Gaudiano

COLORIST: Moose Bauman

LETTERER: Dave Lanphear

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Josh Johns

EDITOR: Warren Simons

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