September 13, 2022

Transformers: EarthSpark Trailer Drops

 

I do like the logo…as modern logos go anyway. The early 2000s style is still my favorite.

I’ve been waiting for a proper trailer to finally get into this series, and one just dropped…months ago but in my defense I’ve brought up how bad my YouTube backlog is and it isn’t on any of the channels I currently follow, along with some preview footage for the new Transformers: EarthSpark, the older kids Transformer show. (I’m guessing BotBots is the little kids show, replacing the Rescue Bots sub-franchise, and I don’t know if Legacy, the current adult collectors line, is getting a show.) The show features two Earth kids bonding with a pair of Transformers and being drawn into their conflict. This is less Transformers Prime and more like Rad, Carlos, and Alexis with the Mini-Cons High Wire, Grindor, and Sureshock from Transformers: Armada.

We’ve see teasers but the following YouTube Shorts videos seems to be a better look at the series to come. The video after that features a five-minute preview of EarthSpark plus another trailer that gives us some idea about the show. So let’s a look.

Continue reading →

Posted by on September 13, 2022 in Animation Spotlight, Television Spotlight, web series and tagged , , , .

1 Comment

September 13, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Spider-Man: The Manga #26

“That’s for giving the spider background to those Robotec people yesterday. You know clones and ‘Spider-Man’ rarely go well together.”

Spider-Man: The Manga #26

Marvel Comics (February, 1999)

WRITER/ARTIST: Ryoichi Ikegami

TRANSLATION: Mutsumi Masuda

RETOUCH/PRODUCTION: Dano Ink Studios

COVER COLORS/SEPARATION: Frank J. Virurello

no listing for letterer this issue

EDITOR: Dan Nakrosis

Continue reading →

Posted by on September 13, 2022 in Marvel Spotlight, Yesterday's Comics and tagged , , , , , , .

Leave a comment

September 13, 2022

BW’s Daily Article Link> Another Great Spider-Marriage Defense

“One More Day” is a storyline in which evil wins. No, that’s not a swipe as Quesada, I mean Mephisto wins, and as long as “The Deal” is in place he continues winning. It was however Joe Quesada’s idea, as he and other spider-writers wanted to get rid of the marriage to create…

…a Peter Parker that’s a hybrid of Charlie Brown and Archie Andrews. Every time someone new gets in charge at Marvel there’s talk about “will the Spider-Marriage be restored”, Marvel writers tease it knowing it will never happen like dangling a carrot to a rabbit, and yet it’s becoming more and more obvious that it can’t happen. Someday the audience wanting it will be gone either out of disgust or aging out and still it won’t happen. I’ve accepted this and opted not to read main continuity Spider-Man any more even if I start buying comics again.

I’ve discussed this to death but “Chi-Town Spidey” over at Spider-Man Crawlspace confirmed this by asking C.B. Cebulski himself at a C2E2 panel if there’s any chance to restore Peter and Mary Jane Parker…then wrote an article explaining why his answer is wrong! And his answer is so very wrong. I would add…why should I get invested in any relationship Peter gets into since we know it won’t lead anywhere. If they won’t restore the Spider-Marriage fans already want we know eventually Peter is going to break up because they’re not about to do a new Spider-Marriage if they’re reasons for splitting him from Mary Jane aren’t just a load of garbage and they don’t want to get called out on it by Peter/MJ fan. By not restoring the marriage they’re already telling me there’s no future for any love interest at all, so why should I care?

Posted by on September 13, 2022 in Marvel Spotlight and tagged , , , , , .

Leave a comment

September 12, 2022

Chapter By Chapter> TekWar chapter 8

Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.

Well, USUALLY reading one chapter. Last time two chapters flowed together so well I ended up reading them both. Today it looks like it may just be the one. The chapter is a bit longer and it has another of those blank pages between chapters. The layout still isn’t as bad as Op Center but I still don’t understand what’s going on. If this is ghostwritten by a longtime author like Ron Goulart you’d think the pacing and chapter breaks would be better. I don’t think he contributed as much as some of the sites think since this feels more like someone’s first novel, which in William Shatner’s case it is.

At any rate Jake found at least someone he knows isn’t avoiding him, in jail, dead, or otherwise unreachable. Who is Gomez and what ties does he have to Jake’s current situation, if any? Let’s dive in and find out.

Continue reading →

Posted by on September 12, 2022 in TekWar and tagged , , , , , , .

1 Comment

September 12, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Robotech: Clone #2

“I keep telling you, you aren’t Spider-Man.”

Robotech: Clone #2

Academy Comics, Ltd (February, 1995)

“The Dialect Of Duality” part 3

WRITER: Rosearik Rikki

ARTIST: Tavisha Wolfgarth

Continue reading →

Posted by on September 12, 2022 in Animation Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Yesterday's Comics and tagged , , , , .

Leave a comment

September 12, 2022

BW’s Daily Video> Other Canceled DC Movies

Catch more from Midnight’s Edge on YouTube

The Green Arrow movie is the only one that remotely works as an adaptation. Plastic Man sounds off, Wonder Woman sounds way off, and what is with attempts to make Batman like Taxi Driver? I guess we got that with Joker. How is it this hard to make good superhero movies. You have DECADES of stories to look at for examples. It’s why the MCU took off, and the abandoning of which why it started to fail.

Posted by on September 12, 2022 in DC Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged , , , , , , , .

Leave a comment

September 11, 2022

Jake & Leon #539: Tom King’s Big Blunder

Imagine that as a cover to a comic with a better artist.

Now you want to see it, don’t you? Well you can’t because Tom King killed the Protector off.

Over at The Clutter Reports the back up drive clean up is continuing and I wonder how much of this build-up of duplicates was caused by the back-up program and how much was actually clogging past computer drives?

Here at BW this week we have the next chapter of TekWar, or possibly two if it flows through again. I’m not sure what other discussion topics I have coming but hopefully you’ll find them interesting, informative, amusing, or at least something to pass the time. Hope you’re enjoying the return to school (I sure didn’t, but I’ve gone over those reasons) and have a great week, everyone!

Posted by on September 11, 2022 in DC Spotlight, Jake & Leon and tagged , , , , , , , .

Leave a comment