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I wasn’t planning on doing a second filler video this week but productivity keeps taking a hit this week and never the same reason twice. My life is occasionally weird. So let’s discuss the one coronavirus victim in the business world nobody talks about: comic shops.
I’m not against social distancing and I understand “non-essential” businesses being closed but to say lives are more important, which is technically true, ignores the fact that these jobs and paychecks are also a necessity to maintain our lives. Some of the restaurants may never open again, and that’s not just jobs lost but dreams lost as someone’s dream of running a restaurant has died without it being his or her fault. This is also happening with comic book stores and that industry has been in trouble long before a viral invasion occurred. There have been plenty of stories of smaller comic stores and even the occasional large one closing as the comics have lost fans while failing to grab the new fans in alternate demographics they craved so much. There were already questions as to whether or not comics would survive and now things are worse for a whole lot of businesses including comics.
In the following video Just Some Guy (who has a lot more swears than the BW norm, so warning there) takes on an article by Comichron’s John Jackson Miller about how comics are just fine at a time when even larger businesses outside of the entertainment industry are in trouble and questions whether or not comics as we know them will truly come back.
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“What do you mean ‘no smoking area’? Have you seen your own floor?”
Smith World: Sabotage On Karbarra (A Worlds Of Robotech Book)
Academy Comics, Ltd (March, 1995)
WRITER/INKER: Jason Waltrip
PENCILER/TONER: John Waltrip
LETTERING: Alphabet Soup
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WARNING: Total spoilers for Knives Out and some for The Last Jedi.
I haven’t seen it but it’s not my genre anyway. However, as a general storytelling examination I still find it fascinating. It shows that subversion itself isn’t a bad thing, but how you do it. It’s worth taking a closer look at as a writing discussion so here’s The Closer Look. Note there is some swearing but it fits.
Catch more A Closer Look on his YouTube channel.
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“Why did the captain get us CBS All Access?”
Star Trek: The Next Generation–The Modala Imperative #2
DC Comics (August, 1991)
“Lies And Legends!”
WRITER: Peter David
ARTIST: Pablo Marcos
COLORIST: Tom McCraw
LETTERER: Bob Pinaha
EDITOR: Robert Greenberger
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I actually have a few links on this one. We have a couple on this site but the longer ones are for other sites, a news story and the YouTube channel the news is about. An extra bonus for my corona-captive readers.
Japanese studio Toei is known for copyright striking numerous YouTube channels. Taking down illegal uploads of their shows is one thing, but they go after clips, parodies, and reviews, the latter declared fair use in most other countries but not in Japan. So many tokusatsu reviewers and commentators found it a cathartic bit of payback when Toei started their own English-sub YouTube channel (finally using the internet to get their classic tokusatsu shows to the non-Japanese public) only to be hit by their own automated content bots. This is not the first time the bots caught official postings, as Lady Gaga can attest. It’s more proof that the current system to fight illegal uploads is broken, but I give Toei credit for finally using the system instead of fighting it.
Sadly I probably wouldn’t have known about the channel without this event, as finding TMS’s channel was years after it started and lucky on my part. So if you want to see what Japanese live-action superheroes look like that aren’t yet available through Shout Factory or Mill Creek Entertainment, here’s the official Toei Tokusatsu YouTube channel. NOTE: You will have to turn on the closed captions for the English subtitles. What else do you have to do right now? Be sure to check the full video list and playlists to see everything they have. There’s even the occasional anime as Toei is known for that as well.
The Entitlement Of The Creators
I could have sworn I already posted this video but since I can’t seem to come across it I’m either doing this again with a commentary or it’s the first time and I’m doing this right. Frankly some topics come back up so often it gets confusing. This time the issue is the entitlement of the fans versus the entitlement of the creators. While there are certainly examples of the former there are also examples of the latter being ignored as the former because we have creators who know better than you and are part of the everything for meeeeeeeeeeee crowd, and that’s a problem.
The video comes from favorite filler video source Midnight’s Edge. In this commentary Andre looks into why fans who grew up with franchises like Star Trek, Star Wars, and Doctor Who have been turning away from formerly beloved favorites. In some cases it’s the nostalgia not being there, in many cases it’s the social commentary both in the show and by the creators against the fans who feel cheated. However, there are other factors I think the video misses out on, and I’d like to add this as well.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on April 8, 2020 in Movie Spotlight, Television Spotlight and tagged Alfred Pennyworth, Batman, commentary, Doctor Who, Joker, Star Trek, Star Wars.
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