Check more Did You Know? Gaming on their YouTube channel.
I wonder how many of the flash games and videos are being translated to a different format? Some things might be converted and saved but a lot will be lost. Newgrounds is going to be a hard site for fans to travel around soon.
But he forgot to give a recommendation.
And thus we transition back to typical Jake & Leon. Anyone out there want to see another Herodude & Enemies in the future? Anyone out there period? This thing on? Hello?
Speaking of finishing things I finally completed the goal for the email clear-up…though I still have more to do on the “work” side. It’s time to get another project done for The Clutter Reports.
This week comes with a bit of a warning. The next chapter of Doctor Who: The Time Travellers and whatever I do on Friday should be just fine. However, I saw something on Facebook last week I have to respond to and it’s probably going to be a very close skirt to being political. Not completely, and it will be a fine line, but no more than I have before. I like to keep this pleasant for everyone regardless of viewpoints. Examining the art of storytelling is and will always be the main goal of BW Media Spotlight but as politics shoves itself into every aspect of our lives I feel the need to clarify a particular image that has been flying around Facebook about some of our favorite superhero and sci-fi media. It gets a few things right but it gets so much wrong, things I’ve hear wrong for a while now to prove some case and end anything resembling debate (we live in an “agree with me or die” world as of late) and there’s a few things that both liberals and conservatives need to realize before dragging entertainment into something that is not entertaining, namely hatred and compartmentalizing the world. So come into those articles (this is a long commentary on Facebook so it may take two or three articles to get it all) with an open mind and everyone will have their perspectives challenged at one point or another but it’s a discussion I feel we need to have as misunderstandings are rampant. If that’s not your thing the usual stuff is still happening Monday, Friday, maybe Thursday, and the usual daily quickie and comic reviews so there will be some reason to visit here. Have a good week and stay safe.
Here’s something a bit different tonight. It’s already late but I wanted something for Saturday Night Showcase. Double Dare wasn’t the first kids game show but it certainly revitalized the concept and gave Nickelodeon their first home-created hit. The show was messy and fun to both play and watch. There have been numerous versions of the series with various hosts, the original being Mark Summers, who went on to produce shows like Restaurant Impossible and returned as announcer of the most recent version of the series.
Because of how important the whole franchise is to Nickelodeon history, The Pop Arena opted not to simply review the one version in it’s opening year, which is how Greg tackles other shows for Nick Knacks, his show-by-show retrospective of the Nickelodeon schedule from creation to today. Instead he looked at all of the variations of Double Dare over the years and tonight I bring you that video. Enjoy.
Super Hero High saves a lot of money on busing. When they don’t leave the bus in another time period.
DC Super Hero Girls Free Comic Book Day 2017
DC Comics (June, 2017–I own the physical copy but this review is from the comiXology posting)
“Give Me A Summer Break”
WRITER: Shea Fontana
ARTIST: Yancy Labat
COLORIST: Monica Kubina
LETTERER: Janice Chiang
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Brittany Holzherr
EDITOR: Marie Javins
This one may be a bit short, but it’s worth throwing on the pile. As noted last week video games sometimes follow movies in how they show their opening credits rather than the TV intros I was discussing. A movie doesn’t have to sell you on watching it. Well, maybe a made-for-TV movie but since theatrical movies are designed for (it’s in the name) the movie theater you wouldn’t be there if you hadn’t already been convinced by the trailer or the reviews. So they tend to default to just showing the credits…and thus far too many of them are (hopefully) the most boring part of the movie.
In times long past EVERY person who worked on the movie had to be listed in the opening credits. It was an unwritten rule and the unions liked it that way. The movie ended with a simple “the end” and maybe a few acknowledgements plus the name of the distributor. When George Lucas had no credits at all at the beginning of Star Wars as part of the classic serial feel he was going for the unions had a fit and a half. Nowadays the credits tell you who the lead actors are, like you didn’t already know going in most of the time because they were all over the talk show circuit and in all the promotional material as if they were trying to sell you on the actor you like instead of the story, the director, and the producers who paid the most to get their ego stroked by having their name in movie credits. This is when they get boring but here’s a few suggestions on how to make them less boring.
Did Russel T. Davies write this one?
Scooby-Doo #43
DC Comics (February, 2001; posted to comiXology August, 2014)
By the way it appears the free Scooby comic promotion is over with. If you want to read along now you’ll have to pay a whopping 99¢ to do so.
WRITER: Joe Edkin
COLORIST: Paul Becton
LETTERER: Ryan Cline
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Harvey Richards
EDITOR: Joan Hilty
“Nutcracker Not-So-Sweet”
PENCILER: Joe Staton
INKER: Dave Hunt
“Mascot Madness”
PENCILER: Erik Doescher
INKER: Mike DeCarlo
How they did some of the effects for 2001: A Space Odyssey is why I’m posting this. Just be warned it’s followed up with how they decapitated a dude with blue blood with a stand-up toilet and vivisected another dude with a sink. It’s the same fight scene, mind you.
Catch more expert reactions at the Corridor Crew’s behind-the-scenes YouTube channel.
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
