Nice poster but it doesn’t sell the comic.
Street Fighter #0
Udon Studios (August, 2003–as posted to ComiXology)
WRITER: Ken Siu-Chong
ARTISTS: Arnold Tsang, Avil Lee, Rob Ross, & Andrew Hou
LETTERER: Simon Yeung
Thought this would be a nice follow-up to yesterday’s daily quickpost.
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Which I had thought to do these during the TekWar novel review or the William Shatner comics.
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Trying to translate Japanese games to a Western (as in English speaking) audience isn’t easy. It’s not just a different alphabet but a different set of rules as to what kanji is versus letters, plus the issue of an entirely different grammar system altogether. This usually makes it harder to simply change the words and send it on its way. There are serious technical issues involved in addition to the usual translation difficulties. They didn’t do it to show off or to make money (they legally couldn’t) but because they loved the game and wanted to share it with their fellow fans, to get to play games they otherwise couldn’t in the old days.
Since yesterday’s feature took longer than I thought and I really have no time today I’m just going to drop a filler by Austin Eruption and call it a day because I have no choice. Otherwise this would have been a daily quickpost. That’s how little time I have. In the following video, Austin goes over the trouble going into a Japanese game, hacking it, translating it, making the translations fit the proper spaces, and getting into the hands of gamers who have no other option because no official translation was coming. He’ll go over some examples, why no official release was ever coming (and still hasn’t), and whether or not they and the game itself was worth the trouble. Enjoy and sorry for the extra quickpost.
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“Whatever is going on is messing with the scanner’s ability to scan this cover!”
Knuckles The Echidna #4
(apparently taking over the numbering from Knuckles: The Dark Legion, which is something I though stopped happening in the Silver Age)
Archie Comics (August, 1997)
“Lost Paradise” part 1
WRITER: Ken Penders
PENCILER: Manny Galan
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Barry Grossman
LETTERER: Vickie Williams
EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie
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“Red room? Who are you, David Lynch?”
Luke Cage, Hero For Hire #1
Marvel Comics Group (June, 1972; using ComiXology version)
“Out Of Hell–A Hero!”
WRITER: Archie Goodwin
PENCILERS: George Tuska & John Romita
INKERS: Billy Graham & John Romita
no colorist listed according to Grand Comics Database
LETTERER: Skip Kohloff
EDITOR: Stan Lee
BW Media Spotlight 
What The Best Picture Oscars Say About Their Era
The Oscars are a joke and the fact that their ratings are going down shows people are finally understanding that. Let’s be honest, though. It’s the fact that the show itself isn’t all that entertaining. It’s just celebrities making speeches and maybe there’s a song & dance or comedy sketch you like and that’s about it. As the celebrities seem to be further dividing themselves from the general public for a host of reasons and the Hollywood system seems to be falling further into their own fakery and egos, it only makes matters worse.
Still being honest, the Academy Awards were always about people in the Hollywood system telling us how awesome they are. Some awards were more controversial than others but now the current culture rage has made it harder to enjoy seeing celebrities gather. We hear about how terrible rich people are…in movies made by people who make more in a day than average workers see in a year, and we’re supposed to believe they’re not the very evil rich people their movies and TV shows talk about. Then there was the slam against animated productions by creating a “best animated movie” category to ensure that the “real movies” (the ones starring them and their faces all over the screen) wouldn’t have to compete with the likes of the good Beauty And The Beast or Shrek. Now you have to hit the right quota of certain people in order to even be nominated, which means the story is not what’s important, if it ever was. It’s about the celebs and now the activists. So why should I care?
Well, according to the host of All Talking Pictures on YouTube there is a very good reason. To make his case we get a look at each winner for Best Picture up to his posting on November 28,2022 and what it tells us about Hollywood at the time. I need to get my schedule back on track and I’m willing to listen to an opposing opinion, though whether it changes mine or not we’ll find out.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on August 29, 2023 in Movie Spotlight and tagged Academy Award for Best Picture, commentary, Hollywood, Hollywood versus history, movies.
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