September 11, 2025

BW’s Daily Video> Why Corporations Are Bad For Storytelling

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While Disparu is focused on movies for this video, TV/streaming has made a few attempts but also fall into the same old traps, while comics only change when you get people who don’t care about the old characters (another problem Hollywood has, by the way). Video games still have plenty of smaller studios who have to take risks to get noticed, while a new rise of indie comics both digitally and in print are coming up. Corporations forget what made them big, and that’s been a problem in multiple industries. Sadly, storytelling seems to be one of the biggest sufferers of the corporate mindset. That and logo creation, but that’s a whole other discussion.

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September 10, 2025

[FILLER VIDEO] He-Man: Sounds Of Eternia

An image from the original He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe of He-Man in moonlight. The shadows are amazing.

My sincerest apologies but with things the way they’ve been it’s been a struggle to keep up with content. Today I should be writing a commentary I had in mind for a few days, but I’m fighting to keep my eyes open. It’s not helping that today Microsoft has decided to send a flood of updates at me, meaning I have to keep restarting to install them or deal with a slowed computer, which I’m not in the mood for. (I always seem to get updates at the worst possible times.) So instead, I have a fun thing for you, if you’re fans of Filmation’s He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe cartoon.

Back when James Eatock, currently of Cerealgeek TV on YouTube, was working on the official classic He-Man & She-Ra YouTube channel, he and Dusan M. posted a series of videos featuring cleaned up background music from He-Man & The Masters Of The Universe. All of the sound effects were removed and most of the music were themes used multiple times within the series.

So while I go conk out and try to write something for tomorrow, here’s a compilation video of all the music they collected and cleaned up. Again, sorry for an otherwise lame post but it’s been a heck of a few weeks. Mostly for my dad but I’m just trying to regain my schedule so I can get back to improving it.

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September 10, 2025

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Sonic The Hedgehog #107

“Tails, you’re a bit taller than normal.”

Sonic The Hedgehog #107

Archie Comics Publications (April, 2002)

EDITOR: J.F. Gabrie

“Crouching Hedgehog, Hidden Dragon” part 2

WRITER: Karl Bollers

PENCILER: Ron Lim

INKERS: Pam Eklund & Andrew Pepoy

COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo

LETTERER: Jeff Powell, with Julie Liu

Knuckles The Echidna: “Reunification” part II

WRITER/LAYOUTS/INKS: Ken Penders

PENCILER: Dawn Best

COLORIST: Robbie O’Quinn

LETTERER: Vickie Williams

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September 10, 2025

BW’s Daily Video> Why Power Rangers Don’t Just Summon MegaZords At The Start

Catch more of The Red Ranger Becomes An Adventurer In Another World (I wish I could) on Crunchyroll

 

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September 9, 2025

BW First Episode Review> Kamen Rider Zeztz

It wasn’t that long ago that fans of the Kamen Rider franchise outside of Japan felt left behind as Tsuburaya really pushed into acknowledging their international fans, hopefully without losing what make the Ultraman franchise one of Japan’s big superhero staples in Japan and around the world. Sadly I’ve fallen behind in my Ultraman watching and they’re already two shows into the one after the last series I was able to watch. I need to fix that…and a lot of other things…at some point. However, that’s not the Japanese superhero we’re here to discuss. Kamen Rider got two American reworks, Saban’s Masked Rider (a good concept ruined by network meddling) and Kamen Rider Dragon Knight (which frankly I feel is underrated because it’s quite good), and a bunch of subtitles slowly coming together from Shout Factory and their various channels and services. Even Toei’s official YouTube channel only has two episodes per show for some odd reason. Modern Kamen Rider usually takes two episodes to properly set things up, but from there if it isn’t on Shout Factory’s Tokushoutsu section, we lose out in America.

Then came word that Kamen Rider Zeztz would follow recent Ultraman shows in having an international simulcast. As of this writing, this article at the Kamen Rider Fandom wiki has a list for those of you in and outside of Japan and the US who want to enjoy it. For Shout Factory, their “Shout Studios” and “TokuSHOUTsu” YouTube channels, as I write this, are streaming the first episode over and over and over and over…you get the idea. It’s an odd way to do it. Premiere the episode, leave it up there and start posting it to your streaming service and the sites you coordinate with, and that should be fine. It works for Ultraman. I shouldn’t be afraid of being spoiled while trying to find the start of the episode. Word is that live is the only way to see it, with repeats at various parts of the day, in addition to how this episode is currently streaming. Hopefully it changes after the show is done, but that’s their call, I guess, but that’s enough intro. The first episode aired over the weekend, and while I’m hoping the first two episodes will be up on YouTube for a Saturday Night Showcase posting in the future, I can at least discuss my thoughts on episode one. WARNING: Spoilers aplenty, so you might want to watch the episode first!

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September 9, 2025

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Peacemaker #5

I didn’t think they could make the helmet look worse. I underestimated their ability to screw it up.

The Peacemaker #4

Charlton Comics (November, 1967)

WRITER: Joe Gill

“The Fire World”

ARTIST: Pat Boyette

EDITOR: Dick Giordano

The Fighting Five: “The Card Carrier”

ARTIST: Monte & Bache

[Read along with me here]

This might not matter in the archives, or hopefully even as it goes live, but at the time of writing this Sunday night, Comic Book Plus was having server issues where they store their images, including ads. The Digital Comic Museum doesn’t have the comic at all. So for the review I had to go to the same legally questionable site I get my Ultraverse comic scans to review. Hopefully by the time you read this the link goes to a page with actual scanned comics. At first I thought DC might have tried to pull them despite being in public domain like the other Charltons since they have done this with some of Billy Batson’s “Captain Marvel” adventures. That does not appear to be the case, but I thought I should warn you in the name of full disclosure. If they don’t fix it before I’m ready to go over the final issue, which the questionable site doesn’t have, we may have a hole in the reviews for awhile.

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September 9, 2025

BW’s Daily Video> The Internet’s Cult Of Positivity

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I want to emphasize one thing she said. My dislike of something doesn’t stop you from liking it. If you like something I don’t, that’s fine. I probably like something you don’t and that’s not going to stop me from liking it. I go over why I don’t like something, why I don’t think it’s a good idea, and try to keep that in mind with my stories. You’re basically telling someone they aren’t allowed to share their opinion because they disagree with you, or assuming putting it out there is just being a troll for clicks or something along that line, and that bugs me. People are allowed to disagree with you. You in turn are allowed to disagree with them and state your reasons why as they did about what they like or don’t like.

And yes, I have seen people I know do positive reviews get called out for allegedly only talking about what they hate. Not only will they put videos or article out going over what they like, they may highlight something they thought did it better in the very post about the thing they don’t like. We get upset because we’re fans of that thing and we’ll defend the stuff they don’t like. I defend stuff the internet looks down upon, like Scrappy-Doo, classic Battlestar Galactica (including Muffet the daggit), and Godzooki. We’re all biased, we all have a reason why we like or don’t like somebody, and telling someone they’re wrong to share their opinion isn’t right. Should someone do both positive and negative reviews? Maybe, and I certainly try to. That’s my choice, and they’re entitled to theirs as you’re entitled to yours. So stop acting like a negative review makes someone a monster and state things that aren’t in the review (except maybe as a joke in some cases to tweak their haters). Opinions are like backsides: we all have one.

Posted by on September 9, 2025 in Internet Spotlight and tagged .

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