BW Media Spotlight

I was going to just put this in the Jake & Leon post with the usual site updates, but this is going to be a longer bit and I didn’t know who reads that comic strip I work on and the usual “Yesterday’s” Comic feature, so I’m making a separate post instead. Jake & Leon will post the usual time tonight.

The daily comic review started as a roundup of that week’s comics I bought, posting on Sundays. Running out of ways to start it each issue…long story short…Jake & Leon became the intro to This Week’s Comics. However, Sundays was one of two days I wasn’t working and one of the two days I could get my chores done. That meant I didn’t have time to do house chores and that bothered my mom at the time. So by doing it weekly along with the feature article I actually had more time on the weekends to do other chores. So that Sunday feature became a series of links to other articles, the precursor to the Saturday Article Link, and then it was just the comic and a weekly site update, becoming the BW Programming Note if I didn’t get to make a comic that week.

Eventually the article links went daily along with a daily video, giving me four posts a day. That wasn’t sustainable for a bunch of reasons and just became a daily video, a comic review, and the feature article, the big article to the fun bonuses to draw in more readers.

As things stand I’m out of new comics since I can’t get more and need to sell off some of the ones I have. The article links moved to just Saturdays because I didn’t always have a week full of articles. The Daily Video entries are piling up. The old comics I have on ComiXology and Neon Ichiban are all reviewed, Drive Thru Comics is about to run out of free comics that interest me, and Globalcomix just has mostly fan comics available to review, and I’m always iffy about being judgy about stuff done for fun rather than trying to make income like DC and Marvel’s stuff. What remains of Drive Thru’s entries are anthologies, as are the current pre-DC and Friday Golden Age comics. I’ve lost access to scans of the Ultraverse titles for Malibu, meaning Malibu Mondays are kind of done.

This means I need to make a chance to the “Yesterday’s” Comic feature. It’s not going away, but there is going to be a slowdown and this post will explain why and how the feature will work going forward. I still like reading the old comics, but once again time is a factor. Scroll down to the marker (you’ll know it when you see it), but I want to go into why I’m making this change.

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