BW’s Daily Video> J.R.R. Tolkien On His Modern Adaptations

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BW Programming Note> Limited Sleep Edition

Superman found a cure for Bizarro’s sleep disorder.

Wish that could have worked on me the past few days. I know why I had trouble sleeping last night and I’m guessing on the two nights before. It’s a combination of afternoon naps, a weird reaction to the temperature change between seasons, and other elements. I’m hopeful for tonight but it means I don’t even have an idea for this week’s Jake & Leon. Sorry about that. I could use the practice. I also didn’t get to do anything for this week’s Clutter Report.

In unrelated news, having to manually update Twitter with each new post is getting to be a pain and I know as soon as a system gets worked out, WordPress’ parent company and Twitter are going to work something out. Meanwhile WordPress and Tumblr now have the same parent company so at least those updates work. I’m considering whether or not to open a BW related Facebook account because I don’t know if it will see any other use than marketing. I’ve disconnected my personal account since I don’t want to befriend the world and I don’t know if I can even get the auto-update to work with it. Only my family and friends would see them anyway and I already mention the site now and then, not being sure if they’re checking either BW Media Spotlight or The Clutter Reports out. They have lives, you know.

As for what’s happening here this week, I think I’ll be looking at two chapters of Batman: Knightfall part 2 tomorrow. I also may have an interview tied to the Tron 2.0 tie-in comic as we reach the last issue this week. I’m running out of this year’s Free Comic Book Day offerings for deeper review but I’m also getting near the end of my physical comic library outside of the Sonic comics from Archie, and the ComiXology library isn’t that far behind. How that will affect the daily comic reviews I haven’t determined yet.

Have a great week, everybody. Pray I get some sleep tonight.

No Saturday Night Showcase Tonight

Sorry, folks. I haven’t slept well the last half of this week and today I ended up taking an afternoon nap, or as my dad would say “nap nothing, I went to sleep”. I don’t think there’s going to be a Jake & Leon this week and I know I don’t have a Clutter Report because Saturday is my usual declutter day, but I’ll provide an update for the week anyway.

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Blue Beetle #14

I mean, he’s not actually in a story, but we’re introducing him.

The Blue Beetle #14

Holyoke Publishing (September, 1942)

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For whatever reason Sparky’s actual origin story wasn’t ready by print time so the comic suggests his convoy was attacked by Axis subs so he’s going to be a bit late. Guess he should feel lucky he survived. I know you Sparkington J. Northrup fans are going to be so disappointed…but at least we still have Spark Stevens!

Yeah, that is the booby prize.

We’ll also see V-Man if that helps.

Let’s just get started.

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The Many Intros Of Batman: Barely Connected Edition

Many moons ago I looked at the intros for the various Batman TV series [part 1|part 2]. At the time I didn’t have a layout for how to do such articles when it came to properly separating them by decent categories and I didn’t really talk about the shows, just the intros. Since then we’ve had a number of Batman related shows but the Dark Knight himself was kept to live-action movies or direct-to-video animated movies. Meanwhile you had shows like Gotham, Harley Quinn, Batwoman, and Gotham Knights (no relation to the video game despite sharing a name and premise) that just have title cards instead of full intros and Batman’s barely tied to any of them. Granted I didn’t want to talk about them anyway. Gotham and Harley Quinn have fans but I’m not among them. Titans has Nightwing but that’s for a potential Many Intros Of Teen Titans to complement the Many, Many Intros Of The Superfriends series I already did which also featured various Justice League series.

On the other hand we do have three shows that are also tied to Batman without really starring him, and one that actually does show us Batman, Batgirl, and Robin in action. I was just going to review that intro but I figured what the heck, we’ve got two other shows barely tied to Batman–another “what if Batman disappeared”, show, another prequel nobody asked for, and a show about Batman’s car, which may be the most fun and accurate Batman depiction in years off of home video. Go figure? So we have three intros to look at and I’m adding them to the Bat-List.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Tron (2.0) #5

The “Wreck It Ralph” expanded universe didn’t go off so well.

Tron #5

SLG Publishing (February, 2008)

WRITERS: Landry Walker & Eric Jones

ARTIST: Michael Shoyket & Guru-eFX

LETTERER/SFX: Douglas Dlin

EDITOR: Dan Vado

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BW’s Daily Video> Terrible Advice On Media Literacy

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