November 27, 2022

BW Programming Note> I’m A Mess

I wanted to have a comic this week in the same way I wanted to have an Art Soundoff. My sleeping schedule hasn’t been so good this week and yesterday I finally got to leave the house for a pre-Christmas block party, which was all I had to talk about in this week’s Clutter Report. No, I didn’t get drunk. I don’t drink alcohol, but I did have hot chocolate and my crazy digestive system did allow me to have popcorn. It’s something I totally needed but I’m kind of wiped out at the moment and I still have to produce stuff for Monday. I’d like that to include Art Soundoff but I’ll at least have the comic (might be late) and Chapter By Chapter review of TekWar up.

As for what else, I have a good commentary in mind but otherwise I don’t know. Right now I’m too drained to focus and I don’t know what dumb things are brewing in the entertainment world. I’ll pull myself together before the week is out…maybe. Have a good week, everyone!

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November 26, 2022

Saturday Night Showcase> The Art Soundoffs Of Colorist Owen Jollands

Art Soundoff this year has been an issue. My sleep cycle has been terrible and it’s trickled down to my various projects like this website and The Clutter Reports. I hope to at least finish out November but tonight I have plans, Unless I post whenever Sunday I won’t be back until Monday.

Every Art Soundoff I’ve posted the first video of others who took part in the Art Soundoff Challenge, but this year even Jerzy Drozd and Rob Stenzinger, the two comic creators who started this micropodcast challenge, didn’t contribute this year. Except for myself the only contributor has been Owen Jollands, comic colorist for Hi-Fi. He’s only posted four and he doesn’t know how long he’ll keep them up (technically one of the rules of Art Soundoff is you don’t have to post at all) so I thought I’d bring you his four offerings. And he even replied to one of the six (I’m still ahead, Owen!) I’ve posted this year. So let’s look at what a comics professional has to say about making comics before returning to the rank amateur (me).

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November 25, 2022

Continuing To Assess The Failings Of The New 52

I know what some of you are thinking. “Why bring this up again? The New 52 is done. Dan DiDio is gone. Why can’t you just let this go?” Because this is a website that examines what has been done right and wrong in order to improve myself as a storyteller and the New 52 is a great example of the “wrong” category. It’s why I also harp on Identity Crisis, Heroes In Crisis, and so many other DiDio crises (seriously, dude was so obsessed with Crisis On Infinite Earths that he has more “Crisis” titles than Power Rangers has “Dino” or “Force” titles) during his run. It’s worth examining the failures of the New 52 in different perspectives to try to piece together just why it went so horribly wrong.

Here’s another interesting examination of why this hard reboot, the second hard reboot for the DC universe after soft reboots like Zero Hour, led to the further destruction of the DC universe to so many classic fans, be they from the Bronze Age like me or the “Dark Age” of the 1990s. From Comic Tropes, a channel YouTube has been trying to get me to watch for a while now, comes the history of the New 52 behind the scenes. I’m slightly over 8 minutes in as I write this and already I find this interesting enough to make this post. Oh yeah, sorry it’s late. I got woken up early this morning and it’s thrown off my whole day.

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November 25, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Star Blazers: The Magazine Of Space Battleship Yamato #8

I’d like to see her try to wear that broach.

Star Blazers: The Magazine Of Space Battleship Yamato #8

Argo Press (October, 1996)

“Icarus” finale

WRITER/ARTIST: Bruce Lewis

COLORIST: John Ott

no letterer credited

COVER ART: Tim Eldred & Bruce Lewis

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Posted by on November 25, 2022 in Animation Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Yesterday's Comics and tagged , , , , .

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November 25, 2022

BW’s Daily Video> The Little Mermaid In A Nutshell

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November 24, 2022

Dawn Of The DC Universe…Another Dud?

I hate the fact that I’m accidentally promoting this event…given that DC themselves has a solicit and not much else. No trailer, no teaser…I’m not even sure why they have a YouTube channel except to push their movies. In light of something that will come up later that makes even less sense, but their new parent company doesn’t care about the comics any more than Marvel Studios does so those of us who comment on such things already care more than the stewards of this universe. And yet I’m not even going to bother looking at the titles in this new case of Eventitis because if they don’t care, why should I?

Instead I want to talk about how the 2023 year long event “Dawn Of The DC Universe” by nature already is hampered by all the problems DC Comics has had lately as a comic book publisher. I expect David Zaslav to not care. He’s a TV guy. Jim Lee is a comic guy and his lack of caring does bother me. Still, the problems are quite easy to see why this won’t work in bringing back comic fans…it’s not like it’s going to matter, and that’s important in maintaining a series, never mind a shared universe of multiple titles. Just as DC is doing a subpar job promoting this event on their own, so too have they been doing a subpar job overall.

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Posted by on November 24, 2022 in Death of DC and tagged , .

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November 24, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> G.I. Joe Classics #1

“Hurry, Cobra wants to keep us from learning who published what when!”

G.I. Joe Classics #1

Okay, this is where I usually post the publisher and cover date. I wish I was certain! Look, this is a reprint of the first Marvel comic (June, 1982) by IDW Publishing (cover date I have no @#$%@# clue). I usually go to the Grand Comics Database but they don’t recognize a G.I. Joe Classics from IDW. The only IDW listing is G.I. Joe: The Complete Collection, which I think is some kind of omnibus. It is free to read as of this writing (and with a better reader than either of Amazon’s Kindle online readers but not as good as the now killed comiXology online reader…thanks, Amazon!) on IDW’s site, with a sell date of 5/21/2015 but that’s all I could find.

I’m using the comiXology posting because I’m moving the digital library review to Thursday and the short series from my physical collection on Friday. That means I go back and forth between physical and digital comics, which works for me personally. Anyway, here’s the credits since I can at least trust them. I think.

“Operation: Lady Doomsday”

WRITER: Larry Hama

PENCILER: Herb Trimpe

INKER: Bob McLeod

COLORIST: Glynis Wein

LETTERER: Jim Novak

EDITOR: Tom DeFalco

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