July 1, 2023

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Blue Beetle #16

“Who’d you blackmail to get flight?”

The Blue Beetle #16

Holyoke Publishing Co. (November, 1942)

Let’s see: blackmailing unnecessary sidekick? Check. Bumbling sailors who keep ending up in trouble? Check. V for victory themed superhero? Check. A character I never heard of? Also check. So far I’m not too keen on Holyoke’s run of the character, and offering a chance to win a live puppy will not make the stories better. Wonder how they shipped it if the winner was outside New York? Batman and Captain America have kid sidekicks, so Blue Beetle gets one whether his stories need one or not. Then again, given how many times the dope’s been knocked out cold, maybe he does. I’m starting to think the chainmail only goes around his body because nothing seems to be protecting his head. All right, let’s get into this issue’s nonsense.

Read along with me here…if only to see the surprised face on the butler in the first story.

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June 30, 2023

BW New Show Review: Hailey’s On It!

I’m a bit late to this party but the last few weeks have…happened.

Disney may be cutting ties with what Uncle Walt created as fast as they can, but the studios they’re partnering with have at least given us some decent entertainment. One show I was curious about was Hailey’s On It!, a show about a teenage girl who must complete her bucket list to save the world, but there’s a reason she’s been collecting these since she was in first grade and still hasn’t crossed off anything. One of them, and the ads love to bring this up, is to kiss her just-a-friend, and partner in completing the list Scott Denoga, though she may actually have stronger feelings for her. To aid her, the mysterious Professor sends Beta, a talking phone who has a copy of the list and tries to talk her into going for it.

This sounds like an extremely dumb concept, but that didn’t stop Milo Murphy’s Law. It could be an excuse to push girl power or take something mundane and make it important. For what reason could completing a bucket list of completely normal things possible save the world? Well, Disney did release the first episode on their YouTube channel so you get to see if that question gets a decent answer. (Apologies if this doesn’t work in your region.) Then we’ll discuss the show and see if it’s worth checking out. Think of it as making up for missing Saturday Night Showcase last week.

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June 30, 2023

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Twisted Toyfare Theater volume 8

“You’re not still mad about being turned into a HISS tank, are you?” “Oh look, there’s a fly on your helmet.”

Twisted Toyfare Theater volume 8

Wizard (2008)

This is a collection of comedy strips that were published in Wizard magazine, done with action figures and diorama sets. I’m not going to do a deep review of any of the stories. There are too many and they’re too short. This is more an overview of the collected strips as a whole. The stories here are:

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June 30, 2023

BW’s Daily Articles Link> Thinking Christian About Entertainment

 

How should Christians interact with secular media, especially in a time where we’re pretty much rejected by mainstream entertainment, if not outright mocked and ridiculed? The website Think Christian looks into that, as shown in their opening article about how Christians should consume mainstream entertainment in general, and a later article focusing on explicit music, and what God’s followers can learn from both. As a science fiction fan, one of the first genres to reject the Bible, it’s certainly a comforting set of articles.

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June 29, 2023

Meet James Gunn’s Superman

I’m not really ready to follow the James Gunn DC movieverse until I see evidence that he’s going to do a better take on the characters than Zack Snyder did (or that the comics are doing now). At this point I’m growing more and more jaded with these modern takes, made for…okay, stop lying. You aren’t doing them for “modern audiences” because there are still plenty of people today who still want the traditional superheroes. You’re doing it for the “cool kids”, the audience you want to be making movies for and satisfying the everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee crowd by making popular things for them instead of not them, aka the actual fans of the work.

Adding to the list of live-action Men Of Steel is David Corenswet, a name I don’t think I’ve gotten right once today while looking into this. After the announcement Variety found an interview with Entertainment Weekly when Corenswet was promoting his role in the movie Hollywood, which he was also a producer for according to IMDB, and mentioned in passing that he would love to play Superman. It’s something they happened to catch but despite being a short statement I don’t think he understood what the problem with the DC Snyderverse was…because he blamed Henry Cavill.

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June 29, 2023

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Scott Pilgrim Free Comic Book Day (comiXology edition)

“Has anybody seen the floor?”

Scott Pilgrim Free Comic Book Day Story (Scott Pilgrim (color))

Okay, the story originally appeared in Free Scott Pilgrim Free Comic Book Day (May, 2006), the cover is from Full Color Odds & Ends (2008), which reprinted the story, but in both cases there was more in the comic than this one untitled story. not sure what they were doing at comiXology back in the day. The above title is how it’s listed in the Amazon store.

WRITER/ARTIST: Scott O’Malley

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June 29, 2023

BW’s Daily Video> Dear Comic Book Industry

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These aren’t the only issues of course. Maybe hire people who want to make comics instead of authors needing a paycheck or artists who don’t care about accuracy. They don’t need to be fans of a product to be able to understand it, appreciate it, and make something the fans want to see. If you have a shared universe stop looking at continuity as a block to telling your stories and more like a challenge to make stories with and build off of what came before with your voice. Mr. July basically said the rest of it.

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