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June 22, 2023

BW’s Daily Video> Rippaverse Remembers Kids Like Comics

Learn more about ComicBooks For Kids! on their website

and check out Rippaverse’s donation campaign for Isom #2

Why not just donate the full amount? Rippaverse is a new comic comic company and this is only their second release. Making these things cost money, but the cause is a worthy one. Kids love superheroes and not enough comic companies remember this. This gives kids something to do in the hospital because there’s only so much to watch on TV with only two or three kids channels on a hospital television, if that, and there’s to be some kind of distraction between activities when you’re bedridden. Even if you don’t support the Rippaverse donation campaign, please check out ComicBooks For Kids and consider donating directly to them.

Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 22, 2023 in Comic Spotlight and tagged ComicBooks For Kids, Isom, Rippaverse.

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June 21, 2023

The “Anti-mation” Crowd Comes For Bambi And Luffy

I never really got into One Piece. Pirates being good guys just doesn’t work with me, even if the Straw Hats don’t really act like pirates. Piracy is a terrible thing and still a part of the world we live in. Don’t bother telling me how good it is…considering how long the manga and anime have been producing new stories that’s a given. It’s just not for me. I know just enough to see that their Monkey D. Luffy seems a bit old (or maybe it’s the voice acting from what I have seen), the tone is slightly off, and the third thing we’ll get to later.

Could this be good? The creator, who has worked on the whole series, is involved and hopefully for fans will avoid the mistakes of Death Note and Cowboy BeBop…although both of those were Netflix live-action remakes as well…or rather re-imaginings. My question as always is “why do we need a live-action version”? The answer is the Hollywood mindset I’m going to start referring to as the “anti-mation crowd” (final name to be determined), that group of directors and actors that seem to outright hate cartoons, comics, and video games for not starring them. At this point I’m surprised they haven’t tried to bring back Full Motion Video despite that failing hard as a video game style, or trying to push photocomics despite it never looking quite right, but that’s an argument for another time.

Also of interest is Disney’s continued live-action de-makes. The Little Mermaid is doing poorly for various reasons, and now Disney has announced their live-action Moana is being delayed but still going through while in talks with a director for a live-action Bambi. This is actually worse than what Netflix is doing because Disney is doing it to themselves. It’s just the latest series of mistakes when it comes to animation’s haters in Hollywood.

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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 21, 2023 in Animation Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight and tagged Bambi, Hollywood versus animation, One Piece.

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June 21, 2023

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Sonic The Hedgehog #45

The only weight Mobie the caveman actually carries in this comic.

Sonic The Hedgehog #45

Archie Comic Publications (April 1997)

INKER: Jay Oliveras (assist on second story, solo on first)

COLORIST: Barry Grossman

EDITOR: J. Freddy Gabrie

“Guerrilla Thriller”

WRITER: Angelo Decasare

PENCILER: Dave Manak

LETTERER: Jeff Powell

Knuckles Quest part 3: “A Land Of Dark, A Knight Of Virtue”

WRITERS: Ken Penders & Kent Taylor

ARTIST: Ken Penders

LETTERER: M. Eisman

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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 21, 2023 in Video Game Spotlight, Yesterday's Comics and tagged Archie Comics, Knuckles, Mobie, Rotor, Snively Kintobor, Sonic the Hedgehog.

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June 21, 2023

BW’s Daily Article Link> How Not To Use A Multiverse

I’ve talked about the right and wrong way to use the idea of the multiverse. The short version is you need a core universe to build off of and the multiverse informs the characters of the main universe. It’s not an excuse to make the version of the character you want and say “the heck with the source material” because that’s just using marketing to push your story or viewpoints. I’m not the only one to notice this. Gamespot contributor Erik Frederiksen goes over his own perspective of why the modern use of the multiverse has become a disaster, and two examples of the multiverse done right.

Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 21, 2023 in Uncategorized.

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June 20, 2023

Exploring Skybound’s New “Energon” Transformers Universe

I loved that book as a kid. The Little Golden Book with Grover I mean. This is a new comic…that came out during my needed slowdown because all the good announcements happen on a week I’m not able to write about it.

It’s also an odd way for Skybound to confirm that they indeed are the new home of Transformers, which has been speculated soon after it was learned IDW was losing the license (took way too long if you ask me). Void Rivals #1, a story that has nothing to do with Transformers, features a cameo by Jetfire, found by the two marooned enemies (somebody saw Enemy Mine recently) stumble across what they think is a crashed vessel only to activate Jetfire, who concludes he’s been out of action for millions of years and runs off, leaving them to continue the series.

This is the beginning of what Skybound is calling the “Energon Universe”, not to be confused with Transformers Energon from the Unicron trilogy and making this another title reuse by the franchise. The universe will include a Transformers ongoing, a GI Joe ongoing, and Void Rivals. Skybound is of course responsible for The Walking Dead franchise and Invincible, but they also did the all-ages Super Dinosaur. However, I’m betting this will be closer to Invincible than Super Dinosaur, thus denying kids yet another Transformers series. Sorry, original target age group, all you have is the mediocre EarthSpark series. Seriously, I’ve watched the first season and it’s like a weaker version of Transformers Prime if you ask me. The adults get to play with the good toys now. So what about this “Energon Universe” and is it a good sign or a bad sign?

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