The Many, MANY Intros Of Spider-Man> Swinging Into The 1980s

While I saw every other Spider-Man show in reruns (except for Spidey Super Stories) now we start getting to shows I watched at the time of airing…and one I only saw in reruns. That will make more sense in a moment.

Super Friends was one of my favorite Saturday Morning shows and why I was a DC person until they screwed it all up. Marvel didn’t really have a show that ran that long and I’m not sure they have yet. The success of that show may be why Spider-Man’s return to network TV was dubbed Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, and why the team called themselves the “Spider-Friends”. It wouldn’t be the first time Marvel had a little fun at DC’s expense. It’s why the comic universe (and not the MCU, you clods!) is called Earth-616, making fun of the main DC universe being known as Earth-1 in their numbering system before all the multiverse games over the decades.

It was also one of the first shows for the now Marvel owned “Marvel Productions”, formerly DePatie-Freleing  the studio co-founded by Friz Freleng. It wasn’t until many years later that I learned another Spider-Man cartoon was being released at the same time, but let’s start with the nostalgia.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Star Power #20

“In hindsight I could have used socks last Christmas.”

Star Power #20

(August, 2017)

“Star Power And The Last Jump Gate” finale

WRITER: Michael Terracciano

ARTIST: Garth Graham

[Read along with me here]

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BW’s Daily Video> England Versus America At Christmas

Catch more from Mr. Thomas English on YouTube

 

Who Is Murdering Cinema Finale: The Killer REVEALED!

 

Okay, timeline time.

  • In part one I posted a video by Patrick (H) Willems going over his six suspects as to who or what is responsible for the death of cinema.
  • In part two, because that video and my response were both very long, I posted my response as a separate article.

So what’s with part three? Well, there are a few others to blame that I thought needed recognition. I’m apparently not alone in this as Willems himself posted a follow-up of other suspects…on his Nebula stream, which I’m not subscribed to because I have no money, and thus have not seen it. The follow-up he posted to YouTube was responding to YouTube and Discord comments. You can watch it if you want but I don’t feel I need to post it here.

Instead I want to list those few others from my point of view, and both of us alluded to some of them in our various entries. This should be a bit more detailed and should end this series on my end because I do want to talk about other things before the Christmas break, with next week being a review of the original A Christmas Carol book. So in addition to Willem’s suspects, which I’ve already commented on, who else is killing movies? Well, I think, regardless of his conclusions, that I KNOW who the REAL killer is! Yes, the guy who can’t solve a Scooby-Doo mystery has the answer, and if Ken Jeong can get three guesses right in a row in this season’s Masked Singer, any miracle is possible! However, before revealing that killer, what drove them to kill cinema?

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Unity: Training Day (8-Bit Adventures)

Valiant 8-Bit Adventures: Unity

Valiant Comics digital comic

“Training Day”

WRITER: Ben McCool

ARTIST: Donovan Santiago

LETTERER: Dave Lanphear

EDITOR: Josh Jones

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BW’s Daily Video> T’was The Night Before Life Day

Catch more from Star Wars Kids on YouTube

LEGO makes more interesting Star Wars content than Lucasfilm.

Who Is Murdering Cinema part 2: My Response

Yesterday I posted a video by Patrick (H) Willems (really, is the “H” silent or something?) going over why he believes cinema and the movie theater experience is on the way out. He pointed to numerous suspects, and I wanted to break down each of those suspects. Since my article will be nearly as long as his video, relatively speaking anyway, my full thoughts are in this article…or so I thought before I went over 4000 words.

For those of you who missed the video and don’t want to backtrack, Willems set up numerous reasons why he thinks cinema is dying. I question his observation of SOME of the elements involved, but let’s get a few caveats in here. I’m not saying he’s wrong and I’m right. It’s theorizing for both of us. He’s more into the movie experience specifically while I look at storytelling in general, movies being one of the media formats I examine. I’m not as in love with Hollywood as he is, so my perspective comes a bit further back, as any form of storytelling interests me. The running gag is I’ll review two kids playing in a sandbox, which I actually did on Tumblr once. Really wish I kept the link to that but finding articles on Tumblr is not an easy task, even going through my own.

My deal is my point of view comes from a different place than Willems does in how he observes the topic. We also had different tastes in movies, but that doesn’t mean I look down on the movies he enjoys; it’s just rare that we’ll be interested in the same type of movie. There are points where we agree and point where we don’t. I’ll go over his list of suspects in the same order, in case you want to look at the two side by side. That’s why I linked to it at the start of this article. It opens in a new window so don’t worry about losing your place. With that, here are my thoughts on his thoughts.

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