March 6, 2022

Jake & Leon #519> Twitter’s Dream Casting

Streaming once the various Pluses finish fighting over it.

This may or may not be the worst drawing of Idris Elba on the internet. I forgot to give him white eyeballs in panel 3 and it’s too late to fix it. This is why I’m still learning.

In this week’s Clutter Report I cleaned up my hat rack. Not the most exciting project but it had to be done, and that’s the point of the site.

Coming up is the next Chapter By Chapter installment of Robotech: Before The Invid Storm and lately who knows what else? I’d like to get certain things in but until I can get my scheduling back on track I don’t want to keep declaring things I can’t deliver. I can say that we’re starting the reviews for the Space: Above And Beyond comic, if any of you remember that show. There’s a Saturday Night Showcase, though I don’t know what. So have a good week everyone!

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March 5, 2022

Saturday Night Showcase> Bitter Lake: Trust Is A Fickle Thing

Thanks to official rights holders realizing there’s a market on YouTube I’ve been able to bring you TV shows and movies that maybe you’ve never heard of before but were created by big budget studios. It could bring you something you heard of but never saw, or maybe bring back memories of a forgotten show, or maybe you never knew it existed in the first place. This ability was lost to me when Hulu stopped allowing embeds of their shows and went to a Netflix style model so I’ve been enjoying the opportunity being brought back to me.

However, I have neglected the other thing I wanted to do with Saturday Night Showcase now that webcomics seem better served in regular articles. I also wanted to show what people were doing with a smaller budget. Whether it was an original idea or a fan work, there’s some really good talent limited only by the funds available, and sometimes even finding ways around that. I’m not abandoning the big name shows but tonight it’s time to bring those indie projects back into the SNS fold…with Bitter Lake: Trust Is A Fickle Thing.

The furry fandom gets a lot of undeserved flack. People point to porn of anthropomorphic animal people as if you can’t find it with elves or Klingons. It’s one thing if the characters just look like animals standing up, say Sonic The Hedgehog or even the Looney Tunes, but there is a certain level of humanoid where it shouldn’t be that different from other fantasy and sci-fi creatures. Not that it even matters because alleged sexual perversion isn’t all the furry fandom is about, at least not any more than any other fan and art group out there. There is a lot of creativity and fun in using animals as a shortcut to identify a character, plus they’re an interesting design artistically. (I’m not defending porn mind you. I’m just saying you don’t complain about Star Wars porn so why does this get people branded?) For example, tonight’s short video uses fursuits far more advanced than the “mascot” types you see at conventions, is a story that could work with any medieval fantasy setting, and stands as its own work.

Bitter Lake is the story of a kingdom so tired of civil war that the citizenry has demanded it end…making it the second time this week oddly enough. Representatives of the four major territories have come together to barter for peace. However, there is among them an assassin of a secret faction who seeks to disrupt these proceedings…in blood. Enjoy.

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March 5, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Scooby-Doo Team-Up #34

Well, the online reader isn’t fit for comics but at least the comiXology app’s changes are still readable…although now you have to download a comic to read it. Amazon really jumped the gun on this change and mess a lot of things up.

Shouldn’t this be Velma and Daphne on the cover, given that only Scooby and the girls are here?

Scooby-Doo Team-Up #34

DC Comics (March, 2018; as shown in vol. 6 of the trade at comiXology)

“Birds Of A Feather”

WRITER: Sholly Fisch

ARTIST: Dario Brizuela

COLORIST: Franco Riesco

LETTERER: Saida Temofonte

EDITOR: Kristy Quinn

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March 4, 2022

The Many, Many Intros Of Superman: The Other Lois Show

While I feel Superman works best in animation due to the nature of his powers and the world around him they keep trying to make live-action shows. Next on our list is Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. I actually like the performances of the main characters, but not all of them felt close to the existing characters. Oh, we’ll talk about what they did to Perry “Great Shades Of Elvis” White, but that’s not the biggest crime this series did to the characters…or to DC Comics themselves. While arguably a decision made by the showrunners may have led to a great story that story also led to some of the continuing problems in DC after this as well as further proving the media pecking order when it comes to television versus comics.

Not that the show is all bad but given what’s come out recently this is another example of breaking multiversal continuity whenever possible for the sake of their own story. Let’s start at the beginning. Created for ABC, Lois & Clark tries to do something new with the characters and actually focus more on the strange romantic triangle of Clark Kent, Lois Lane, and Kal-El. Sometimes I thought this was actually detrimental to the show and it was not my favorite. Even today it’s only the existence of worse adaptations that this isn’t my least favorite take…because it at least did try.

By this point the post-Crisis DC universe had taken full hold. Lex Luthor was now the evil businessman everyone knows today. Lois was an Army brat and this was to the character’s benefit as she finally had some good sense to go along with her guts…though she was still braver than she was smart. It’s just a Lois flaw. Dean Cain and Terry Hatcher had great chemistry and were really good in their roles. As for the intros, they certainly had their benefits for live-action intros. The show ran for four seasons and we only have four intros (though I end up getting an extra clip), unlike the last show I looked at.

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March 4, 2022

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Speed Racer #3 (WildStorm)

“Seat belts, I forgot to install seat belts!”

Speed Racer #3 [FINAL ISSUE]

WildStorm Productions (January, 2000)

“Enter The Mach 5”

WRITER/ARTIST: Tommy Yune

COLORIST: Guy Major

EDITOR: Robbie Robbins

EDITOR: Eric DeSantis

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March 4, 2022

BW’s Daily Video> The Future Of Power Rangers?

Catch more Ping Pong Flix on YouTube

I’ll go over my thoughts on this supposed adult Power Rangers idea next week. Meanwhile, the series is moving to Netflix so I can’t even watch the rest of Dino Fury.

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March 3, 2022

Free Comic Inside> The Final Atari Force

It’s quite possible that this site will end before I get too all the issues of Masters Of The Universe or Super Powers Collection mini-comics get reviewed. I do have other things I’d like to do someday like making my own comics, though if my art doesn’t improve enough soon I’ll have to find an artist for my ideas. Too bad I have trust issues and am a control freak about my stories but now we’re getting off topic. Point is this the first series to end that wasn’t a multi-comic review. I think. I’ve been doing this series for a while.

For those you who haven’t been here Atari Force was a five issue miniseries that was sold through various Atari 2600 games. I picked up the first issue because my cousin didn’t want it but having an 800 instead I never got the rest of the comics. Lucky for me Atari Age is here to deliver. The story takes place in an alternate future where war has separated the United States…which is becoming more and more believable given the current climate in the 2020s, and somehow Warner Brothers didn’t ruin Atari when they bought it and now it’s one of the companies trying to save the world. That’s even less believable. Project: Multiverse is an attempt to travel to other video games universes to find a solution to the world’s various problems. Instead they’ve gone up against evil aliens, picked up a not-Pokémon, and our hero is trying to figure out why his old friend now treats him like they just met and she isn’t happy about it. For more, here are reviews for issue #1, issue #2, issue #3, and issue #4 as this is a continuing storyline. Now that we’re all caught up let us end this miniseries.

“Quick, let’s form Activision so they can forget why they were created decades later and become worse than as Warner’s Atari!”

Atari Force #5 (FINAL ISSUE)

DC Comics/Atari (1983)

“Galaxian”

CREATORS/WRITERS: Gerry Conway & Roy Thomas

VISUAL CONCEPTS: Ross Andru

ARTISTS: Gil Kane & Dick Giordano

DESIGNER: Neal Pozner

COLORIST: Adrienne Roy

LETTERER: John Costanza

EDITOR: Andrew Helfer

I’m amazed when famous names are seen on these minicomics when they’re starting out. I’m even more amazed when they’re seasoned professionals still working on these projects and they’re actually decent to good, like they care about their work.

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