This is how I felt after reading this issue.
New Avengers #19
Marvel (July, 2006)
“The Collective” part 3
WRITER: Brian Michael Bendis
PENCILER: Mike Deodato, Jr
INKER: Joe Pimentel
COLORIST: Dave Stewart
LETTERER: Albert Deschesne
PRODUCTION: Tom Valente
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Molly Lazer & Aubrey Sitterson
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
That’s right, Epic How To has returned to the AWE.Me YouTube channel!
And honestly that’s why I’m posting this. It disappeared before all the chaos with the channel went down so I’m happy at the thought that we’re getting this series back. So go watch the older episodes (season 1|season 2) and start begging for more episodes.
When I first started this website I took the occasion of Dr. Martin Luther King Day to post his famous “I Have A Dream” speech. I’ve gotten away from that in recent years as discussions of storytelling took over, though when I caught the day I did try to work the review or commentary around the holiday. However, in light of what happened last year and even though I try to keep this site apolitical so we can all enjoy ourselves and come together through our love of storytelling I feel we NEED to hear this speech.
And when I say “we NEED to hear this speech” I mean with an open mind. You can be open to what others say and still have strong convictions. It’s about understanding what the other person has to say without jumping to an immediate conclusion, and not by listening to what others say they say. Find out for yourself. I suffered through Seduction Of The Innocent with an open mind to try to understand what Fredrick Wertham was saying about comics before dismissing his bad claims, but I tried to at least understand his position right. Some out there can’t take five minutes to hear what another person is saying right next to you. This is not a good thing.
So whether you call yourself liberal, conservative, moderate, libertarian, SJW, or whatever else is out there at the moment, drop your biases and listen to what the man says. You may agree 100%, you may disagree 100%, you may agree on one thing but disagree on another, but LISTEN TO WHAT HE IS ACTUALLY SAYING APART FROM YOUR OWN SOCIOPOLITICAL BIASES before you start throwing quotes around and tossing hashtags onto things on your way to rallies and counter-rallies. Here what he actually is saying because pretty much everyone is getting something wrong on the internet today I promise you. That’s how the internet rolls in the 21st century.
“And I thought Brainiac had strange collecting habits.”
Super Friends #2
DC Comics (December, 1976)
“Trapped By The Super Foes”
WRITER: E. Nelson Bridwell
ARTISTS: Ric Estrada & Vince Colletta
EDITOR: Joe Orlando
Here’s a nicer version of the intro, for their “Feature Presentation” features. This one has the same adults, but they added kids.
No comic this week, as I go over in the v-log. Coming this week is the next chapter of BattleTech: I Am Jake Falcon, and a new Art Of Storytelling plus whatever comes up during the week. In the v-log I go over the longterm plans for 2021 for BW, The Clutter Reports, YouTube, and creative goals. How far I’ll actually get we’ll have to see.
I forgot to go into the software that turns my old smartphone into my new webcam, but the watermark that comes up around the 7 minute mark contains the url. Also didn’t show off the phone mount that connects to the tripod. I don’t need the ones with the built-in ring light because I don’t do anything with a webcam that often plus isn’t a ring light supposed to go around the camera to get the best lighting? A simple and cheaper phone holder was all I needed.
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
2:21: main goals
5:00 Clutter Report goals
9:06 BW Media Spotlight goals
19:05 creative goals
Have a good week, everyone!
If I understand correctly Ultra Q was about scientists fighting monsters, which is what giant monster (aka kaiju) movies were like at the time, but this was a TV show. I think I heard it compared to The X-Files, which wouldn’t come out until decades later. For the sequel series Tsuburaya tried something new by having the military develop a special anti-kaiju task force. However, one member of the team would merge with a giant good alien from another galaxy and together they would protect the planet from space and terrestrial monster threats. That version was called Ultraman, and it was so well received that it began a franchise that still makes new series to this day. Ultraman would be dubbed into English to air on US television as would some of the sequel series. Two shows would also be co-produced with a US studio, one of which was a previous Saturday Night Showcase.
Tonight, thanks to Shout Factory’s TokuSHOUTsu channel I get to bring you the first episode of Ultraman along with a more recent Ultra series next week. The original is in Japanese but the subtitles are available on-screen without using the captions. If you don’t like to read the subtitles I also found a posting of the dubbed version, but there’s a reason the really curious may want to watch both.
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
