“Yesterday’s” Comic> Captain Atom #87

I’ve already reviewed #s 83-86 when I was looking into the pre-DC history of Ted Kord as Blue Beetle. We rejoin the series already in progress.

Wait, wouldn’t that make him his own weakness?

Captain Atom #87

Charlton Comics Group (August, 1967)

“The Menace of The Fiery-Icer”

WRITER: Dave Kaler

PENCILER: Steve Ditko

INKER: Rocke Mastroserio

COLORIST: unlisted

LETTERER: A. Machine

Nightshade: “The Image’s Idyl!”

CREATOR/WRITER: Dave Kaler

ARTIST: Jim Aparo

[Read along with me here]

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BW’s Daily Video> Attack On Stop Killing Games

This is an update to information in a recent article here at the Spotlight.

Catch more from Accursed Farms on YouTube & Stop Killing Games on their website


Copy of the claims made against the initiative

Link to the European Citizens’ Initiative

Link to contact European Members of Parliament on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection committee

Chapter By Chapter> Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image chapters 53 & 54

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.

Yes, two chapters this time. Chapter 54 is like two pages while 53 is around five. I might as well combine them here.

Last time we checked in on Peggy and George’s side of the mission. This time we’re following the rest of Striker and for some reason going to Japan. I didn’t skim much because I want to enjoy the story. Or try to. You know my history with this book and series by now. And we’re still so far away from finishing this 78 chapter book even with all the really short chapters combining.

So by now I’m totally out of ways to pad this for the homepage. Let’s just get into the story.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Solitaire #3

Solitaire jumps on a car shooting bad guys. The cover declares this a "jumping on point" for the comic.

“It doesn’t mean jump on my car, man!”

Solitaire #3

(can we really call this a jumping on point in the third issue?)

Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (February, 1994)

“Curse Of The Monkey Woman”

WRITER: Gerald Jones

PENCILER: Patrick Rolo

INKER: Bobby Rae

COLORING: Keith Conroy & Foodhammer!

LETTERER: Patrick Owsley

EDITOR: Hank Kanalz

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BW’s Daily Video> The Mary Sue Problem (As Revealed By A Woman)

Catch more from Snarky Jay on YouTube

 

Jake & Leon #649> Broken Break

Considering the rest of the week, I want belter victories.

Yes, I just noticed I left the underdrawing in panel 2. No, I’m not fixing it. It’s not been a good day, not that the week has been worth writing home about.

Changing the site theme will require reformatting every article I’ve done since 2008 and I don’t know that it will allow me to have the intros on the homepage or fix other issues I saw in testing when it comes to how I layout a page. That’s the short version, so for now this is the theme you get. I did update the header and the background a bit.

Trying to get 86Box working so I can finally get that let’s play series started? Still hitting issues. Didn’t have a chance to work with OBS. Barely made any dent in the YouTube backlog. The comic was late, and this article went up an hour late as a result partly because my dad wanted to test HBO Max, which turned out to be a total waste of time, other things came up during the week, and ultimately I got a haircut and my bike tires may actually be in better shape than I thought. That was my week. Rested on my birthday and the next day and then everything else went to blazes. Not counting the heat, which was also an issue. Good thing I didn’t call this a vacation.

Meanwhile we’re back to normal operations here. I posted some other stuff I did for the Clutter Reports, the next Chapter By Chapter review of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image is coming, the comic reviews and daily videos will be returning, another Superman movie for Saturday Night Showcase if YouTube still has it up, and whatever else comes up this week. Hopefully it will be a better one for all of us.

Jake & Leon #648> Unchecked List

I also forgot a caption.

Yes, today’s my birthday, which long time readers knows means I take the week off. I was actually hoping to have enough fillers read that I wouldn’t have to but I fell a bit short thanks to the Doctor Who BBC 1963 Note & Reports ending a week earlier than I planned. Still, outside of Tom Clancy’s Op-Center: Mirror Image which still has quite aways to go, anything with a cliffhanger isn’t going to be resolved any time soon since it’s more of a “running story” thing. So I might as well take the time to pull myself together and maybe get some other life and personal projects done without worrying about content.

This actually includes the site itself. When I first started the site I did change themes a bit too often. Not ridiculously so, but enough that Jake and Leon up there could make fun of it. Well, I’ve had this theme, “Selecta” for so long that it’s now outdated and unsupported. Sadly I haven’t found one with all the features I want, but I’m going to have to settle for what I can because it’s becoming a bit unstable on this side of the site, though thankfully not on your side. Still, it’s time for a change, which means also changing the images and a few layout details. Also haven’t updated the sidebar, RSS feed and blogroll links, or the logo in some time. I don’t want to make a huge change to the logo; mostly just clean up the line work. So if you visit during the week you won’t seen new articles but you will see me putting the new look of the site together once I chose a proper theme.

I also want to get caught up as much as I can on the video backlog, various around the house projects, and a few other things I want to do for the site and the creative process. So I’ll be doing that as well. What, you thought I was just going to relax? I have nowhere to go and no money do it with. I’ll be taking it easier and trying to do things to make things easier on my in the future, but it’s not like I’m going to Australia or Venice for a week. I’ll be here, in my house, doing things to hopefully improve my future and maybe even gain some income if I’m lucky. I am not very lucky.

So have a great week, everyone, and pity the now 52 year old man still trying to pull himself together. I’ll see you all next week, possibly with a new look to the site and things in place for the future!