June 18, 2023

Jake & Leon #561> Pet Education

Cats have to eat, too.

Yeah, that was all that came to me so I decided to push my art skills a bit. Backgrounds AND poses.

Over at The Clutter Reports I have begun testing Facebook Marketplace as a place to see my comics. Will it work, or did I just choose the weakest test subjects? We’ll wait and see.

I wasn’t as successful as I had hoped to be in getting caught up. I had trouble sleeping the last few days of the week and thus spent more time napping than working. I did manage to finish organizing the video project drive and I’ll have a v-log for the next step some time this week…which I was hoping would be today. Meanwhile we’re back to normal operations until my July birthday week (week of July 13th if you’re curious) full break. That means more Batman: Knightfall for Chapter By Chapter, regular reviews and commentaries, and I have the new Monday “Yesterday’s” Comic review.

I’m going over all the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics I haven’t properly reviewed. That leaves out the IDW run and their color reprints of classic comics, though I’ve not done a proper review of the black and white reprint of the first issue. There are also a few other Mirage comics I have, and I may have to go to a…questionable site for one comic that takes place during the original series but doesn’t involve the Turtles, namely the Fugitoid solo since I have that storyline in trade form but not the Fugitoid’s actual introduction.

From there I have one issue from the Image run, the whole Dreamwave run, and a few comics connected to the Archie run. This is more about completing the Ninja Turtles comic in my collection when it comes to reviews. So have a great week, everyone. I’m back to it.

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June 17, 2023

Saturday Night Showcase> Phineas & Ferb’s Mission Marvel

No matter how good a production is you don’t necessarily have to like it. That’s not being contrarian or a hipster or anything like that. Not everybody shares the same tastes, which is why there are such a variety of entertainment and a variety of productions within each media format. It might be popular but not necessarily something you’re interested in and no matter what nitwits on the internet may tell you there is nothing wrong with that.

One of those for me is Phineas And Ferb, the Disney XD series about a group of kids making impossible inventions to get through the summer and get the most enjoyment out of it. Meanwhile the kids’ pet platypus is secretly a secret agent (as agents tend to be secretive) dealing with a low-rent villain going a bit overboard to avenge admittedly understandable wrongs done to him in the worst way possible. I can’t really pin down why but for me it just doesn’t click…except for the crossovers for some reason. I did a previous Saturday Night Showcase on their Star Wars crossover and tonight it’s their Marvel crossover.

“Mission Marvel” is the 11th episode of season 4 according to the Disney XD YouTube posting description. A combination of the kids’ space station and Dr. Doofenshmirtz’s latest scheme (and points to Google Chrome for actually having that name in spell check) lead to Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man, and Hulk losing their powers…though I don’t know how that works with Iron Man…and having to rush to Danville, the series’ location in the vague “tri-state area” (New York is actually part of the tri-state area around here along with New Jersey and my home state of Connecticut), to reclaim them before Red Skull, Venom, Whiplash, and MODOK get sick enough of Doof’s looneyness and destroys the area. It’s a comedy and you may recognize the voice actors from the active Marvel shows at the time, the lighthearted versions of Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble, yet somehow it all works for a fun adventure. Enjoy.

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June 16, 2023

BW Article Link: Forgotten 80s Sci-Fi

MeTV put out a list of single season science fiction shows lost to time. I actually hadn’t heard of all of them, but some are actually among my favorite shows. I even did a video review of one of them.

The article writer tries to suggest ways the shows could be brought back, but in the current Hollywood climate, where old concepts are altered past the point of being unrecognizable save the most basic of plot summaries, I kind of hope they don’t try. To modern studio heads just using an old idea to trick those fans into watching while the creators do their own thing is just cheap marketing to get “their” story out and the heck with the fans of the property they’re ripping off names from. Better to do something new unless we get people who actually want a modern interpretation instead of namesakes and “modern audience” re-imagines.

I should be back to normal operations tomorrow for Saturday Night Showcase and a full return with comic reviews next week.

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June 16, 2023

BW’s Daily Video> DCAU’s Wally West Is The Best Flash

Catch more from Implicitly Pretentious on YouTube

I just wish they hadn’t given him Barry Allen’s job. Barry was the crime lab guy. Wally was a mechanic, which puts him even closer to the average person. That’s one of the many things I like about the DC heroes. Even their civilian occupations are about helping other people, even if it’s just using their wealth to help others like Bruce and Ollie.

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June 15, 2023

BW Article Link: Theology And The Beauty Of Art

samples of Frank Malec’s art

There are as many different forms of art as there are different forms of media and genre. Whether your a writer, a drawer, a painter, a sculptor, an actor (voice or physical), or even a singer we may not know much about art but we know what we like, and what we like often tells a story however minor. Not all art is storytelling but all storytelling is in some sense art. Just some of it is terrible.

In this article by Deacon Lawrence Klimecki, posted to The Way Of Beauty, we see how art brings us closer to God but also how it makes the creative a sort of god as well. After all, we storytellers are creating a form of reality and bringing it to life. Obviously a deacon is going to look at it through the lens of Christianity but it’s still an interesting look into art and why we need it in our lives as part of our culture even if we don’t appear to need it to survive. It’s why good storytelling matters.

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June 15, 2023

BW’s Daily Video> Transformers’ New Comic Home

Catch more from Chris McFeely and Transformers: The Basics on YouTube

Next week, when I get back to regular article writing, you know I’m going to talk about this.

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June 14, 2023

BW’s Filler Video> Ferris Bueller’s Still A Villain

Look at that smug little punk! Ferris Bueller is a villain, and it takes a villain to know one. Granted I’ve only worked for a supervillain (or possibly two given a couple of my later bosses) in my Reviewers Unknown days. So I found another one.

In the video below, the Spoony One’s mad scientist nemesis/roommate Doctor Insano takes a shot at reviewing Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I figured since I’m doing a backlog slowdown (and I’m off to a good start on that, by the way) I’d do a theme of trashing this two-bit con artist who only cares about himself and his own fun, manipulating the love and support of others and ruining lives of anyone not him without any concern even for his supposed friends…and he gets away with it because the movie thinks he’s a hero for doing what the audience wishes they could.

For some reason this video isn’t up at Noah Antweiler’s YouTube channel and I even checked his Counter Monkey YouTube channel of tales from the RPGs he’s played in, so I have to use a third-party upload. Note that there is swearing.

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