BW’s Morning Article Link: NBC Universal Joins Streaming Overload

I seriously need to beef up my image library or find a replacement for the dead service I was using.

Go to NBC’s website and you’ll find ad-sponsored episodes of current network shows as well as past shows from Universal’s library. Apparently that’s not enough, nor is the revenue from Netflix and Hulu because now they’re starting their own streaming service. To add a second link, here’s an old commentary I did about the overload of streaming and why it’s not a good thing for our wallets. Now it’s just going to get worse. If you thought you were saving money by cutting ties to cable and satellite, it turns out you aren’t in the long run. What’s wrong with ad-sponsored with some paid bonus content? Hopefully Vudu’s experiment is a success and other streaming services start using that plan.

Dissecting Female Shaped Armor

There’s a question as to how armor for women is depicted in fiction. Some of the designs obviously are only there to look sexy and don’t have any real protection, while others highlight the female form but it’s questionable whether or not designing around the breasts make any real sense.

In this set of videos from the armor discussion series Shadiversity, host Shad (no relation) looks into whether or not the breastplate would highlight the actual breasts on a lady knight or if would even be designed this way. Oh and I’ll actually write something for tomorrow. I should be set up with the new internet for next week and all this filler video stuff will take a break to actual reviews and commentaries by me.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Transformers Animated: The Arrival #1

Did the Decepticons attack a balloon factory?

Transformers Animated: The Arrival #1

IDW Publishing (August, 2008)

WRITER: Marty Isenberg

PENCILER: Dario Brizuela

INKER: Leandro Corral

COLORIST: Liam Shalloo

SELECTED COVER ARTIST: Alex Milne

SELECTED COMIC COLORIST: Josh Perez

LETTERER: Chris Mowry

EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton

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BW’s Morning Article Link: A Proper Ghostbusters Sequel?

Apparently I need to review those other Ghostbuster comics I have because their covers aren’t in my media library.

I haven’t watched the rebooted Ghostbusters movie (it’s on my Finally Watched list) but one of the problems I have out of the box isn’t the all-female cast but that it’s a reboot rather than setting the all-female cast in…I don’t know, Chicago or something, and continuing the continuity. Although if I really had my choice I’d just continue Real/Extreme Ghostbusters animated universe since that’s what turned the first movie into a franchise. Good luck with that given how Hollywood treats cartoons in movies and even TV.

However, fans have wanted the teased proper sequel for years, to the point that the recent video game is seen by some fans as the third movie. Well, it looks like they’re trying again. Whether or not they succeed this time is anyone’s guess. Nobody asked me to work on it, because they know I’d sneak in a friendly nod to the original Filmation shows or just do an outright crossover and they couldn’t handle it.

 

The Problems With YouTube

YouTube’s slogan when it began was “broadcast yourself”. It was a platform for uploading videos. Later, to compete with Blip before Maker Studios tore it apart to look better to Disney when they were considering buying the company, YouTube added revenue sharing through their partner program. While admittedly there are people who abuse YouTube in the past by uploading other people’s content, which does still happen whether there’s a legal alternative or not, it’s YouTube that has been doing wrong by many of their creators. It doesn’t help that old media loves taking shots at new media, which YouTube now qualifies as. Streaming services that aren’t run by TV networks or are also built on user content get away with things by either acting like TV channels to the point that they’re treated as such or are run by actual TV networks. For example, Hulu doesn’t get YouTube’s grief but it’s own by two (formerly three) big name studios.

As part of his new documentary series Technocracy, animation reviewer The Mysterious Mr. Enter has taken to demonstrate the problem with social media, including Twitter, Facebook, and for his first episode YouTube. While Facebook has started their own service, Facebook Watch, it’s still a streaming service rather than a user content service like YouTube, Vimeo, or Daillymotion. YouTube is the biggest game in town, but it’s a game that’s hard to play.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Doctor Who: #23 (Marvel) vs Classics Series 2 #10 (IDW)

This one is going to be a different format. Doctor Who #23 is the last issue of the Marvel run, while IDW’s Doctor Who Classics Series 2 #10 contains one of the same stories, but continued on. However, both have different comics after that. So I’m going to do a bit of comparison as I’ve been going back and forth between both as my collection ended up with. Which is better will depend on your preference, but I’ll be looking at the stories inside. This is going to be a long article but it’s the only one I have time for this week.

“They really take ‘no parking’ rules seriously here!”

Doctor Who #23

FINAL ISSUE

Marvel Comics Group (August, 1986)

Doctor Who Classics Series 2 #10

IDW Publishing (September, 2009)

COVER ART (BOTH COMICS): Steve Parkhouse (it’s the same artwork with different trade dress and colorists)

MARVEL COVER COLORIST: George Roussos

MARVEL INTERNAL COLORIST: Andy Yanchus

IDW COLORIST: Charlie Kirchoff

“Lunar Lagoon” (from both comics) and “4-Dimentional Vistas” part 1 (IDW only)

(originally published in Doctor Who Monthly #76-77 and #78)

WRITER: Steve Parkhouse

ARTIST: Mick Austin

“Yes, yes, move your TARDIS. I got it the first time!”

Marvel issue:

“Voyage To The Edge Of The Universe”

(originally published in Doctor Who Monthly #49)

WRITER: Paul Neary

ARTIST/ADDITIONAL DIALOG: David Lloyd

“An Unearthly Child: The Unscreened Edition

(originally published in Doctor Who Winter Special 1983/1984)

Tim Quinn & Dicky Howett

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BW’s Morning Article Link: Jimmy Stewart Narrates Winnie The Pooh

Not the Disney version you know, but a version by RCA Records adapting the classic story Winnie The Pooh And Tigger Too, one of the stories from the Pooh books by A.A. Milne