October 23, 2022

BW Programming Note> Scooby Continues

Well, not only did I not get this week’s Jake & Leon done by post time I didn’t even get the Sunday update post out on time. I’ve been tired all week and I’m not sure why. Hopefully things go better this week.

Over at The Clutter Reports I also had some tech issues. The only reason that had any impact on the comic is Saturday I was awake…and really, really annoyed!

This week it’s going to be all Scooby-Doo as the latest “Many, MANY Intros” concludes. That means no Chapter By Chapter this week, though it will return on Halloween. I considered just having the book review this week and having the final (for now) installment of the Scooby intros on Halloween but opted to go this way instead. Maybe it will give me an easier week. What am I going to talk about? Lazarus Planet? Don’t really care. She-Hulk? We already knew that was going to be a poor take because none of them care about comics or the comic universes they’re in charge of or adapting. Plus I need to get ready for Art Soundoff and that’s an apolitical event. Have a great week, everyone!

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October 22, 2022

Saturday Night Showcase> New Captain Scarlet

Well, it seems I finally cleaned my Filler Video list on YouTube of usable TV shows and movies (though still some longform videos for filler posts). Now it’s time to dig through the Watch Later list for Saturday Night Showcase material.

In a previous Showcase we watched the first episode of Captain Scarlet And The Mysterions, a Gerry Anderson series during his Supermarionation days. In 2005 the new computer animated “hyper-marionation” remake, Gerry Anderson’s New Captain Scarlet, made it’s debut. Anderson took the opportunity to remake the show from the ground up but unlike so many other “reimaginings” this show is actually a proper update, taking cues from the original show and updating them while not tossing out the original entirely. In other words this is a proper remake.

Tonight we’ll look at the two-part pilot episode “Instruments Of Destruction”. (Yes, fellow Transformers fans, I know.) It features a somewhat updated origin for Captains Scarlet and Black while staying true to the original. How refreshing. Oddly the official Gerry Anderson YouTube channel only has a handful of random episodes so I’m taking Sci-Fi Central at their word that they licensed the series for YouTube. Enjoy.

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October 22, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Gyro Gearloose & The Kolossal Defroster

I’d make a joke about a cold machine going haywire but with Gyro that’s possible.

Gyro Gearloose And The Kolossal Defroster

Disney Comics (May, 2013; digital comic posted to comiXology)

WRITER: Gianluca Panniello

ARTIST: Davide Catenacci

And I had to go to another site to get that. Back before Amazon made the boneheaded decision to merge comiXology into the Kindle store before it was ready I could look up a comic even if it wasn’t offered so long as it was in my library. Not anymore. Thanks for ruining a great online reader, Jeff!

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October 21, 2022

The DC Super Twins Nobody Is Talking About

And don’t think I missed the lack of capes in these new costumes. Can you really not think of anything better than a jacket?

EDIT: At the time of this writing I didn’t know they weren’t twins. I think the sister is older, but that just proves the point that nobody is talking about them. I’m writing this on 4/5/2024 and I still never see them mentioned. DC is not promoting them well. My other points still stand.

When I did this comic I had just stumbled upon images on Twitter. I thought this was some new revelation.

And yet there were no news stories on yet more Superkids. Going through the thread I found this.

It’s still telling though that going further through the thread so many people were asking that question. This may sound like a statement Eric “YoungRippa59” July would make but “DC” has stood for “Dead Continuity” for me since Future State if not sooner with Brian Michael Bendis re-eliminating the secret identity. However, as Superman is my favorite superhero and watching him being slowly destroyed by the comic company that once cheered him on every new story on how they’re screwing Kal-El and his cast hurts, starting with dropping the secret identity…TWICE IN THIS CONTINUITY…and aging up young Jon Kent so we don’t get to see Superman raise the next generation of Superman. It makes me sad. There is so much potential lost here, but DiDio’s Darker DC had to undo all the repair work of “Rebirth”, the last vestige of what drew me to DC Comics over Marvel so many decades ago.

So now we have Super TWINS, not Clark and Lois’s biological children…and given Lois’ track record of surviving pregnancy between Armageddon 2001 and the Injustice timeline it’s probably better for her we don’t see her pregnant, interesting as it would be to see her character go through and still be the Lois we love. However, I can’t gloss over this change because it represents what I was saying in that comic. DC Comics doesn’t understand why fans of young Jon want him back, and I’m not convinced they are even going to use the Super Twins as a proper replacement given their recent history.

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October 21, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Wonder Comics #1

“Superman can take out a car, but I took down a plane! Surely I’ll be long remembered past the Golden Age.”

Wonder Comics #1

Fox Feature Syndicate (May, 1939, apparently listed as Bruns Publications, scanned for Comic Book Plus)

So…after looking at the credit for Blue Beetle #1 the Golden Age comics all seem to have multiple stories per issue, like Mystery Men Comics, so the heck with it. Golden Age Fridays will just focus on the entire Fox Universe (or the superhero stories anyway) as we look not only at old Blue Beetle stories but some of the forgotten heroes of this comic series. It wasn’t much of a shared universe at the time but let’s go ahead and do this. It should be interesting to see where comics got their start and since I’m on this publisher already let’s start here. You may even see a few names you know.

Since this is an anthology I’m not going to have a big credits thing. I’ll put the names next to each story and do a quick review. This is going to take long enough as it is and I’m going to have to come up with a system to make this easier on me. Meanwhile, follow along with me here.

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October 21, 2022

BW’s Daily Video> That Time Superman Was (Almost) A Daddy

Catch more from Casually Comics on YouTube

Actually, I think Sasha found another rabbit hole of Kal-El’s history being and not being a father.

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October 20, 2022

The Many, MANY Intros Of Scooby-Doo: When He Was A Pup

Can I be honest with you? Okay, I better be or else you’ve been reading the wrong website so of course I’m going to be honest. This may not be a popular thing to say but…I should hate A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. The questionable humor choices doubled down from The 13 Ghosts, the strange alterations to characters, especially Fred and Velma, and for some reason Casey Kasem and Don Messick (his final appearance as Scooby) are the only returning performers. This should be one of my least favorite versions.

While all that is true and what keeps this from being my favorite incarnation, I actually don’t hate it. If anything it gets right what the previous show did wrong. At this point the franchise had been off of Saturday morning TV for a few years, only appearing in a set of TV movies: Scooby-Doo Meets The Boo Brothers, another example of combining the real and fake supernatural before the direct-to-video-movies that I thought was okay, Scooby-Doo And The Ghoul School, which goes back to both the all chase years and 13 Ghosts and yet somehow is my favorite of the three films, and Scooby-Doo & The Reluctant Werewolf, an attempt to bring in a new character and Shaggy’s first on-screen girlfriend as they and the dogs deal with a group of racing monsters. ABC decided it was time to return the show to their Saturday morning lineup…but producer Tom Ruegger actually did more of what I didn’t like previously…and actually made it work by doing one thing The 13 Ghosts failed to do…actually make the comedy and tone match.

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Posted by on October 20, 2022 in Animation Spotlight, Scooby-Doo and tagged , , , , .

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