“Yesterday’s” Comic> Iron Man/Thor Free Comic Book Day

“Art thou sure this race is a good idea?” “Superman and Flash do it every few years.”

Free Comic Book Day 2010 (Iron Man/Thor)

Marvel Comics (May, 2010)

“Fair Weather”

PENCILER: John Romita, Jr

INKER: Klaus Janson

COLORIST: Dean White

LETTERER: Joe Sabino

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Alejandro Arbona

EDITOR: Ralph Macchio

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BW’s Daily Video: The First TV Spider-Man

Catch more Evantainment on his YouTube channel.

Here’s an example of Soles as Spider-Man in the 60s cartoon.

Chapter By Chapter> Star Trek: Prime Directive part 1 chapter 3

Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the 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.

PART ONE: AFTERMATH chapter 3

Thus far I have not been a fan of the story layout since I want to know what’s going on. I suspect by the time we get to part 2 I’m really going to want to get to the part that explains what’s led to our heroes being treated like villains and the longer it takes the more impatient I’m going to become. That kind of ruins the experience and while I hope I’m proven wrong my doubts are still there.

And so far we’ve gotten to see good characterization of Kirk and Scotty. When they don’t know who he is Kirk is still commanding and compassionate. we saw last chapter Scotty is ultimately loyal to his friends more than his ship. Up next we have Dr. McCoy and we’ll see what’s happened to him…just not why it’s happened and thus my frustration with this layout continues.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Final Crisis #1

Never has there been such a lie since World War 1 was called “the war to end all wars”.

Final Crisis #1

DC Comics (July, 2008)

“D.O.A.: The Art Of War!”

WRITER: Grant Morrison

ARTIST: J.G. Jones

COLORIST: Alex Sinclair

LETTERER: Rob Leigh

ASSISTANT EDITOR: Adam Schlagman

EDITOR: Eddie Berganza

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BW’s Daily Video: The Doctors Save Gallifrey Extended (fan) Cut

Video edited by The Confession Dial.

Personally I would have stopped at Capaldi’s Doctor since he was the latest version in the episode but I do understand Whitaker’s addition as the current incarnation. Adding in over 300 more I thought was a bit much though.

Jake & Leon #493: I’m Starting To Feel Like Aunt May

I wish this was a joke but that’s what’s about to happen to me.

Yep, we’re doing this again. In June I have to go in for hernia surgery. I’m going to try to schedule stuff to cover what I hope will be a short recovery but if I disappear you’ll know why. This is also affecting the projects for The Clutter Reports. It could be worse. One of my old school friends is dealing with major back surgery and she’s having a rather painful recovery at the moment. Hopefully things improve so even though you don’t know her send some prayers her way. God knows who she is.

I still have a couple of weeks to get some decent content in though. It’s the next chapter of part one of Star Trek: Prime Directive for Chapter By Chapter and the same old comic reviews. I just don’t know what I’ll be doing for articles but now I really want to get in one or two Finally Watched if only to take some strain off of the DVR. Dad can watch his stuff but I fear further backlog on my shows depending on how long I’ll be in the hospital. (Still haven’t finished season 2 of The Orville for crying out loud, and the movies are piling up.)

Have a good week, everyone!

Saturday Night Showcase: Ultraman Z

The 30th entry in the Ultraman franchise, Ultraman Z (pronounced Ultraman Zet, like Zed, another pronunciation of the letter Z (which sounds more like “zee” here in the US–I don’t get it either)) follows a rookie Ultraman and his young Earth partner as they try to reclaim the Ultra-Medals, the toyetic power-up of the series. With the right combinations of medals used by Haruki Natsukawa, Z can obtain numerous fighting forms, each with their own special talents. His transformation device, the Z-Riser, isn’t used by him alone, and there are medals based on space monsters that can be used to create new monsters by some of the enemies of the series, including one that is the ultimate villain of the series.

Tsuburaya has recent started re-uploading the series so this is one of those grab it while you can sort of things. The official Ultraman YouTube channel doesn’t always keep stuff up for very long. I’ve been missing out on Ultra Chronicles Z because I’m so far behind. Gridman has long since vanished, and I don’t even know what they’re doing with Ultra Galaxy Fight, which are supposed to be exclusive to the channel. So while it’s still up, catch the first episode as Haruki and Z meet up and begin their partnership when Z’s mentor Zero (unless you ask Zero) is lost and it’s up to the rookie to save the universe. Remember to turn on the closed captions for English subtitles if you don’t understand Japanese, and enjoy!

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