July 8, 2025

BW’s Daily Video> Campaign Against James Gunn’s Superman By James Gunn?

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That Park Place has a summary of Daily Beast‘s early review. Is it a sabotage attempt? Maybe. That doesn’t mean I’m not going into this movie with my own concerns, and I’m certainly no defender of the Snyder movie that doesn’t even want to use the name “Superman” at any point in the movie. However, with so much focus on James Gunn’s directing in marketing, Gunn stating that he never really understood Superman, leaked plot points pointing to his career and issues with critics framing the focus, saying The Flash was a great movie, his general directorial style, working with Tom King to adapt his questionable take on Supergirl, stuff I’ve seen in the trailers, and even breed swapping Krypto to his dog, I’m not going into this with a positive attitude. Which was also what happened with Man Of Steel. At best I expect to say the same thing about Superman: Legacy that I did about Man Of Steel: a decent superhero movie but a bad Superman adaptation. I hope to be proven wrong, but we’ll see.

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July 7, 2025

Chapter By Chapter> Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image chapter 52

Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapter for this one) 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.

In our last installment we checked in with the Op-Center crew as they tried to figure out how Striker can save the world without causing an international incident.

Speaking of Striker, we’re checking in with the undercover pair. We know the bad guys know they’re there but our heroes don’t know their cover is already blown. That tends to be a problem for the good guy agents in this story. I would question whether or not the bad guys are responsible, but they’re killing people instead of capturing them and deporting them back to whatever country they’re spying for, and Fields-Hutton wasn’t there to kill anyone. He was just investigating Commie Op-Center, so they could have sent him home. I don’t even think they sent the body home as a “warning to others” or something. So they’re evil at any rate.

As for George and Peggy, will they go home and how? Will Peggy get payback for Fields-Hutton? Probably not in this chapter, but let’s check in with them and see how they’re doing.

Chapter 52: Tuesday, 2:52 PM, St. Petersburg, Russia

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July 7, 2025

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Night Man #5

This is the part where some reviewers claim they won’t kink shame people. I’m not one of those reviewers.

The Night Man #5

Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (February, 1994)

“Alone”

WRITER: Steve Englehart

PENCILER: Kyle Hotz

INKER: James Minor

COLORING: Tim Duvar & Foodhammer!

LETTERER: Dave Lanphear

EDITOR: Roland Mann

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July 7, 2025

BW’s Daily Video> Agendas, Comics, And More Agendas

NOTE: Perch swears quite a bit in this one.

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July 6, 2025

Jake & Leon #647: Title

At least I have something going for me.

Over at The Clutter Reports this week I had things other than writer’s block getting in my way but I did manage to complete my browser bookmark reorganizing. Now I just need to go through the various links on my browsers for a deeper dive. I hope to work that into my current routine, as I finally seems to have the beginnings of a routine. Now if I can avoid dealing with medical stuff, mine or my dad’s, for awhile I might get into a proper routine. Guess what’s not happening anytime soon!

Somehow I’ll try to get all the comic reviews in, since they’ll be missing for my birthday week despite my goals, the Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image, and looking at the last of the documents for the Doctor Who 1963 notes and reports. Otherwise I’m hoping to save my buffer for the birthday week if I need it and not have to do anything. Maybe I should have made it this week, but it’s too late now. Maybe I’ll even have comic reviews for next week. We’ll all find out next week. At least we have the full schedule this week.

UPDATE: So it turns out I’m done with December, 1939 when it comes to Golden Age comics. This week begins January, 1940 based on the Comic Book Plus “virtual newsstand”.

Speaking of which, have a great week, everyone!

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July 5, 2025

Saturday Night Showcase> Liberty’s Kids

Yesterday was Independence Day. If I waited until next year it would be right on Saturday Night Showcase, but who knows what I’ll be doing next year?

Liberty’s Kids is a 2002 PBS series made by DIC Entertainment. It was rare that a major animation company (there are so few of those left as all the only big name studios of the pass still around are Disney and Warner Brothers, and Disney is barely an animation studio these days) produced something for PBS. Usually it’s the smaller studios, which isn’t a slam. Some of those are quite good but DIC was one of the biggest TV animation studios of the time. Their library is now owned by Cookie Jar Entertainment…or I guess Wildbrain now? I can’t even track of all these acquisitions anymore.

The show focuses on three kids working for Benjamin Franklin’s printing company as the Revolutionary War takes place. The focus character is Sarah, a British girl who slowly begins to agree with the colonies’ desire for freedom. Her proper ways clash with would-be journalist James, who is protective of his friends. The last member is the obligatory “happy go lucky” member, Henri, a young French boy. The show lasted one season and featured a few celebrity voices. For example, newsman Walter Cronkite voices Benjamin Franklin.

In this two-episode pilot, the war begins just as Sarah comes to the colonies to meet up with her father. What is the biggest war: colony versus King George or Sarah versus James? Find out and enjoy.

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July 5, 2025

BW’s Saturday Article Link> Even Disney’s Theme Park Abandons Animation

The former House Of Mouse continues to distance itself from its legacy in film, but now That Park Place has an article eulogizing the Hollywood Studios Animation Building, which is sitting vacant while the former Disney-MGM Studios in Florida has played other games with Disney World attractions that don’t seem to be benefitting it. If they really do plan to bring back 2D animation, reopening this attraction to help people reconnect with their cartoon legacy would be a good idea. They don’t do good ideas at Disney anymore.

9/13/2025: There is an update to this article in a different Saturday Article Link. I should have posted this when that came out.

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