August 25, 2025

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Ultraverse Premiere #1

Because you aren’t a proper superhero universe without an archer. I guess.

Ultraverse Premiere #1

Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (March, 1994)

It should be noted that this is a flip book, the other side being Rune #3. I don’t read that comic and the site I’m using is nice enough to keep the flip sides separate so I don’t have to read it. So I won’t be looking at Rune’s story, just the other stories.

Ripfire: “Genesis” part 1

WRITER/PENCILER: Darick Robertson

INKER: Jon Holdredge

COLORING: Moose Baumann & Foodhammer!

LETTERER: Dave Lanphear

EDITOR: Hank Kanalz

Warstrike: “Pilgrimage” part 1

WRITER: Dan Danko

ARTIST: Hoang Nguyen

COLORIST: Robert Alvord

LETTERER: Dave Lanphear

EDITOR: Roland Mann

Elven: “Gimme Shelter”

WRITER: Len Strazewski

PENCILER: Greg S. Luzniak

INKER: Tim Roddick

COLORING: Keith Conroy & Violent Hues

LETTERER: Tim Eldred

EDITOR: Hank Kanalz

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August 25, 2025

BW’s Daily Video> Getting Comic Miniseries To Count

Catch more from Comics By Perch on YouTube

 

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August 24, 2025

Jake & Leon #652> Home Again

At least we both got a happy ending.

Yep, that’s what I was putting ahead of my site, keeping an eye on my dad. When I could I went to see him in the hospital, did the shopping, and on Friday I brought him home. I’m kind of surprised I managed to keep putting content out, though it did mean I had to use up my small buffer of “evergreen” articles, thus proving it has value. Once things finally settle down I’m going to have to put together a bunch more. As it is, taking care of him as he fully recovers and still doing more around here until he’s back to normal might still put the site on the secondary, but I think I’ll have more time if I schedule well. On the creative side, I think I’m on the right track there for the first time in years. Being able to do my part around here and still keep content coming bolds well for the future. At the moment, it’s still more about him and I have little buffer left, so missing a day is still possible and the declutter is still on hold.

With luck, though the comic reviews, the daily videos, and the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image should continue, along with whatever else I can fit in and can come to mind. I have a Jake & Leon comic in mind, so not worrying about him as much since he’s on the road to recovery (he did have great nurses at the hospital but nothing heals like home) means I can focus on being creative and what passes for comedy around here a bit more. Once I have a decent article buffer again, I want to get a comic buffer going for weeks I don’t have a story idea, plus allow me to work on some of the larger projects I want to work on. Things may actually be looking up.

Have a great week, everyone!

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August 23, 2025

Saturday Night Showcase> The Five Doctors (Who)

“The Five Doctors” is my favorite of the Classic Who crossovers. For one it debuts my favorite TARDIS console and my favorite classic Doctor, the Fifth. It also brings all the Doctors that existed together…or at least tried to. William Hartnell had passed away at this point, his role taken over by Richard Hurdnall. He does a fair job as the Doctor but he’s not the same as Hartnell. He’s taller and his performance isn’t trying to emulate Hartnell. So based on your opinion on that you’ll have to decide if you’re okay with it. To their credit, he’s not a bad Doctor and we do get the scene where he says goodbye to Susan, the “one day I’ll come back” part matching up with the character at least coming back. It’s a nice tribute.

We also don’t get Tom Baker’s return. Due to scheduling conflicts, Baker was unable to attend. Even in promotional images they used a wax mannequin in place of Baker, and you can tell if you see a good enough quality picture. Instead, footage from the then unfinished “Shada” was used to show the Fifth’s abduction with Romana, with something going wrong for our villain as it did getting the First Doctor into the previous incarnations. Originally unfinished due to strikes, the episode would later get a video release with Baker narrating the unfilmed parts, and years later would get a semi-animated completion thanks to Cosgrove Hall, who already did the lost episode remakes, filling in the gaps with as many of the same actors as they could get. Also, Baker doesn’t seem to like having his Doctor work with others, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that was part of it.

The story: someone is taking the previous lives of the Fifth Doctor, sending them and fan favorite Companions (though some have a different way of making a cameo) to the “Dead Zone” on Gallifrey. Who is behind this, and can the current Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough bring the other Doctors together? Enjoy.

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August 23, 2025

BW’s Saturday Article Link> James Gunn’s DC Universe By James Gunn

Alternate title: Scrappy-Doo and Guess Who.

This tells you how long I have not been a fan of James Gunn’s approach to things, and you can thus imagine how I feel about him running the DC universe in general. Then came Superman: Legacy, or as I call it, James Gunn’s Superman By James Gunn due to how most of the promotion was centered around him and elements inspired by things that happened to him. (His dog is Krypto now, there’s a shot at his critics by having Luthor create mutant monkeys to trash him Superman on social media, and that’s just the two examples I’ve heard.) Now it appears the marketing for the continuity breaking season two of Peacemaker, which he worked on prior to becoming the head of DC Studios and features his family and friends, may also be centered around Gunn. Marvin Montanaro writes an article for That Park Place going over how DC Studios seems to be more like JG Studios…James Gunn Studios.

Posted by on August 23, 2025 in DC Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight and tagged , , , , , .

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August 22, 2025

My Adventures With Multiversal Continuity

Earlier this week I posted a video from mjtanner (The Tanner Twins) on YouTube as J went over the information she had on My Adventures With Green Lantern, a spinoff from My Adventures With Superman featuring Jessica Cruz as the Green Lantern of choice? Why her? I don’t know. There are so many Earth Lanterns at this point I can’t keep track of them all. Why are there so many? It’s not like Earth is lacking in superpowered protectors. Arsenal can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a superhero even without powers. Also, the latest update on Jessica Cruz in the DC Database as of this writing is that she’s a Yellow Lantern. Yeah, we all know why her, but let’s not play that game unless we have to.

Created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver, both interestingly on the outs with the mainstream for different reasons, Jessica Cruz started out as the new holder victim of the power ring of Power Ring, the Earth-3 Crime Syndicate villain who died during some event and the ring chose her because of her great fears after seeing her friends killed by mobsters when she was the one to stumbled on them hiding a body. (The mobsters, not her friends.) Long story short, she overcame the ring and her fears, and was rewarded with a Green Lantern ring instead. She’s made a few post comic appearances but this will be her first starring role, though as I’ll get into not her first title role.

I was just going to let J say everything and get on with my life. I have some important things going on. However, I managed to have enough of a lull to run this out after having a discussion on X-Twitter where someone (for lack of a more accurate term) decided to call me out on this. I don’t know if he watched her video but I doubt J or I are the first time he’s come across criticism for My Adventures With Green Lantern or the parent show, which I guess Fandom’s wiki network is calling the Adventureverse. Good enough name as any, I guess. Casting has begun on this show that was announced in February, and I guess Adult Swim will bring this show about, having saved My Adventures With Superman from HBO Max cancellation. I’m going to go over his comments without outing him here, but maybe I can better explain why I’m less interested in this show than I was Superman’s anime-fied take. It would be easier that going by a tweet’s character limit and a back-and-forth that can be hours apart.

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Posted by on August 22, 2025 in Animation Spotlight, DC Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged , , , , , , , , , , .

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August 22, 2025

“Yesterday’s” Ashcan Comic> Flash/Thrill Comics #1

They’re only flunkies for the true villain: Murky Dismal! (80s points if you get the reference.)

Flash/Thrill Comics #1

Whiz Comics (January, 1940?)

I’m going to let the description from Comic Book Plus (read along with me here) explain what we’re about to read. This was apparently also made for the 9th anniversary of the Digital Comic Museum, another site that houses public domain comics. If you’d rather read this over there as a result, then read along with me there. It’s the same description:

Flash/Thrill Comics #1 – Ashcan Recreation-1939 Recreation. A meticulous recreation of the famous ashcan comics which introduced Captain Marvel as Captain Thunder. Original covers from Heritage have been used with Photoshop techniques to accurately reconstruct the never before reprinted inside front covers. Scans of Whiz Comics #2 and the aforementioned cover scans have been utilized and compared with the 1992 reprint of the Captain Thunder story to, as accurately as possible, reconstruct the content and placement of the original text. Also included are an original 4 page introduction and the probable contents of the ultra-rare Golden Arrow variant to Flash Comics #1.

So no scarlet speedsters in this one.  The cover isn’t the only page lacking color. There’s more trivia at the bottom of the page, like “When Better Publications acquired the rights to publish Thrilling Comics #1, Fawcett was forced to change the title of this magazine again: originally from Flash Comics #1, then Thrill Comics #1, then Whiz Comics #2 (#1).” I’ve been there and I wasn’t even publishing. Even on this site both “The Furman Files” and “Chapter By Chapter” turned out to have websites with the same name that I was unaware of. I stumbled on Chapter By Chapter, but The Furman Files guy wrote me. His political discussion site is no longer operating last I checked. but Chapter By Chapter seems to be a name of a few different types of sites, from media reviews to “the next chapter of our lives” kind of things.

At any rate, this isn’t so much a regular review, since I already have thanks to DC’s Millenium edition reprint of Whiz Comics #2, as a general review of the presentation.

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Posted by on August 22, 2025 in DC Spotlight, Yesterday's Comics and tagged , , , , , .

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