It’s been more than 10 years and we still remember. I was going to write an article, and I may do it for tomorrow, but right now I’m kind of upset. We just had a man murdered yesterday in front of his family and a large crowd, and a bunch of people are not only celebrating but making a list of who they want killed next for daring to not succumb to the hivemind. Some of those same people cheer on 9/11 or spout conspiracy theories. Discussing this is not within the realm of this site. This isn’t even a pop culture blog, and I still want to form a storytelling-related topic. I’m just not in the mood today, and hopefully tomorrow I’ll go into why.
We’re all human beings on this planet, even though some of those “people” try to prove otherwise. Never celebrate slaughter. Never push to end free speech, because someday it could be you if the winds change. As Bill & Ted would say, “be excellent to each other”. Disagreement is not hate until you make it hateful.
Collective Of Heroes (FCBD 2019…sorry, it’s all the info I have)
This is the last one in the series. Possibly this is before the site, and some of the superhero webcomics they linked to, went down for the count. So this will be our last look at these comics. Sadly…I still have to deal with Wonder Weenies…wait, despite being on the cover they aren’t in this issue? This IS a good week!
While Disparu is focused on movies for this video, TV/streaming has made a few attempts but also fall into the same old traps, while comics only change when you get people who don’t care about the old characters (another problem Hollywood has, by the way). Video games still have plenty of smaller studios who have to take risks to get noticed, while a new rise of indie comics both digitally and in print are coming up. Corporations forget what made them big, and that’s been a problem in multiple industries. Sadly, storytelling seems to be one of the biggest sufferers of the corporate mindset. That and logo creation, but that’s a whole other discussion.
My sincerest apologies but with things the way they’ve been it’s been a struggle to keep up with content. Today I should be writing a commentary I had in mind for a few days, but I’m fighting to keep my eyes open. It’s not helping that today Microsoft has decided to send a flood of updates at me, meaning I have to keep restarting to install them or deal with a slowed computer, which I’m not in the mood for. (I always seem to get updates at the worst possible times.) So instead, I have a fun thing for you, if you’re fans of Filmation’s He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe cartoon.
Back when James Eatock, currently of Cerealgeek TV on YouTube, was working on the official classic He-Man & She-Ra YouTube channel, he and Dusan M. posted a series of videos featuring cleaned up background music from He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe. All of the sound effects were removed and most of the music were themes used multiple times within the series.
So while I go conk out and try to write something for tomorrow, here’s a compilation video of all the music they collected and cleaned up. Again, sorry for an otherwise lame post but it’s been a heck of a few weeks. Mostly for my dad but I’m just trying to regain my schedule so I can get back to improving it.
It wasn’t that long ago that fans of the Kamen Rider franchise outside of Japan felt left behind as Tsuburaya really pushed into acknowledging their international fans, hopefully without losing what make the Ultraman franchise one of Japan’s big superhero staples in Japan and around the world. Sadly I’ve fallen behind in my Ultraman watching and they’re already two shows into the one after the last series I was able to watch. I need to fix that…and a lot of other things…at some point. However, that’s not the Japanese superhero we’re here to discuss. Kamen Rider got two American reworks, Saban’s Masked Rider (a good concept ruined by network meddling) and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight (which frankly I feel is underrated because it’s quite good), and a bunch of subtitles slowly coming together from Shout Factory and their various channels and services. Even Toei’s official YouTube channel only has two episodes per show for some odd reason. Modern Kamen Rider usually takes two episodes to properly set things up, but from there if it isn’t on Shout Factory’s Tokushoutsu section, we lose out in America.
Then came word that Kamen Rider Zeztz would follow recent Ultraman shows in having an international simulcast. As of this writing, this article at the Kamen Rider Fandom wiki has a list for those of you in and outside of Japan and the US who want to enjoy it. For Shout Factory, their “Shout Studios” and “TokuSHOUTsu” YouTube channels, as I write this, are streaming the first episode over and over and over and over…you get the idea. It’s an odd way to do it. Premiere the episode, leave it up there and start posting it to your streaming service and the sites you coordinate with, and that should be fine. It works for Ultraman. I shouldn’t be afraid of being spoiled while trying to find the start of the episode. Word is that live is the only way to see it, with repeats at various parts of the day, in addition to how this episode is currently streaming. Hopefully it changes after the show is done, but that’s their call, I guess, but that’s enough intro. The first episode aired over the weekend, and while I’m hoping the first two episodes will be up on YouTube for a Saturday Night Showcase posting in the future, I can at least discuss my thoughts on episode one. WARNING: Spoilers aplenty, so you might want to watch the episode first!
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While Disparu is focused on movies for this video, TV/streaming has made a few attempts but also fall into the same old traps, while comics only change when you get people who don’t care about the old characters (another problem Hollywood has, by the way). Video games still have plenty of smaller studios who have to take risks to get noticed, while a new rise of indie comics both digitally and in print are coming up. Corporations forget what made them big, and that’s been a problem in multiple industries. Sadly, storytelling seems to be one of the biggest sufferers of the corporate mindset. That and logo creation, but that’s a whole other discussion.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on September 11, 2025 in Movie Spotlight and tagged commentary, corporate, Hollywood, movies, Storytelling.
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