May 12, 2019

BW Programming Update

Between a family gathering yesterday and a family emergency today (don’t worry, everyone’s fine) plus getting yesterday’s video out there is no Jake & Leon or Clutter Report this week. There are however updates as to what’s coming up. With hopefully that all behind us I’m planning to complete the He-Man Newspaper strips this week with my final thoughts, and a review of the book collecting them for the next Clutter Report. The last of the Pirates Of Dark Water comics I own (I didn’t even complete the original miniseries) will be coming out this week. I don’t know if I’ll be able to work on that video review this week or not, but I plan to get it out eventually.

There’s some other backstage stuff I’ll be working on and I don’t know if you’ll see the results this week or not. I will have a new Saturday Night Showcase though. Otherwise, nothing else to report. Have a great week.

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May 11, 2019

BW’s Interviews From Free Comic Book Day 2019

We interrupt our usual Saturday Night Showcase for some interviews. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to do any of these and this year’s Free Comic Book Day at Legends Of Superheroes, at their new home in Oakville, Connecticut, offered me the chance. In this video I interview comic artist Mark Texeira, illustrator Frank Malec, and storyboard artist Robert Castillo. Enjoy.

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May 11, 2019

Today’s FCBD Comic> A Sheets Story

It was on that day that Wendell met his mom.

A Sheets Story

The Lion Forge (2019)

WRITER/ARTIST: Brenna Thummler

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May 10, 2019

The Disney Family Release Schedule

Disney has gotten really huge in recent years with their acquisitions of Lucasfilm, Marvel, and more recently Fox among their many owned production companies and their upcoming streaming empire. Disney has really pushed themselves as a multimedia entertainment juggernaut. However, it hasn’t been a perfect run. Their Star Wars films have gotten lukewarm (no pun intended) to very angry responses, the latest Marvel movie is their most controversial, and people are still worried 20th Century Fox will no longer show R movies despite Disney’s other companies not under the Disney banner still making R movies.

Recently Disney announced their upcoming schedule for the next few years and Andre of Midnight’s Edge looks into what this schedule means for Marvel and Star Wars movies as well as what will come out from the latest member of the Disney family. Be warned that there’s a visual swear in this video.

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May 10, 2019

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Pirates Of Dark Water #2

“This is supposed to cure my snoring?” “No, but WE’LL be able to get some sleep tonight.”

The Pirates Of Dark Water #2

Marvel Comics (December, 1991)

“The First Treasure”

TELEPLAY: Kelly Ward, Mark Young, & Flint Dille

ADAPTATION: Dwight Jon Zimmerman

PENCILER: Bruce Zick

INKER: Rick Magyar

COLORIST: Renee Witterstaetter

LETTERER: John Costanza

EDITOR: Rob Tokar

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May 10, 2019

BW’s Morning Trailer: Valentine The Dark Avenger

Note that everything I say here is based on the obviously low budget of this production. Conceptually it’s interesting. A moviemaker wants to bring a little hope to the violence by making a superhero movie and gets his actress to actually fight crime, then she has to deal with a supervillain. This could work depending on the writing and direction the story takes. The final costume looks decent as does the villain’s (even if you can tell how they made it). This might be worth a look.

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May 9, 2019

Anime Is Not Actually Japan

Anime, manga, live-action shows and kaiju, and video games. These are how some people believe is typical Japanese life. No, I don’t think they actually believe Godzilla goes stomping around the city (and if you do, please seek help) but when it comes to how Japanese life is depicted when there are no monsters or mecha running loose Japanese media is about as accurate as US media is to life in the United States Of America. If you think Hawaii Five-O or Magnum PI is accurate to Hawaii or any of the thousands of shows set in New York is accurate…note that often these shows don’t get their own geography correct. Like, I live in Connecticut and whomever was working on Gilmore Girls apparently couldn’t even get a proper map. Granted I know this from a video about it because I’ve watched maybe one episode in full if that but it’s still wrong. And that’s just the live action stuff. Thrown in cartoons, especially the more comedic stuff, and you will be clueless about how we live.

I have two videos to showcase this. Both are produced by The Anime Man (who I should warn you does swear in his videos) but the second guest-stars our old favorite, Gaijin Goombah. These videos will show that learning about Japan through their media alone will not really tell you anything about the country, including anime and manga. Especially anime and manga.

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