Just when they need to pad out a couple of pages. Why rob jewelry stores when you can DESTROY THE UNIVERSE!?
Maybe because all our stuff is here?
No sense linking to The Clutter Reports this week, though I will out of habit if I remember. I went to a carnival so I could get out of the house for something other than shopping and medical reasons. Legs were sore, but I did help my dad with his computer stuff. Also, I’m out of buffer over there and getting low over here. Need to work on that.
This week we have the next Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic. There isn’t as much to update with the current schedule given the necessarily reduced format since I don’t know what I’m going to do until I read the news of the day. We’ll learn together. Have a great week, everyone!
Heck of a way to get someone to their bachelor party.
Keen Detective Funnies #19
Centaur Publishing (April, 1940)
Continuing to go through the comics and see what will continue and what won’t in the new schedule. The last issue was something of a mix, and this issue is missing a few pages both at Comic Book Plus and the Digital Comics Museum, which had an outage earlier this week but is back and running. I wish my other preferred scan site was so I could read more Malibu Ultraverse comics, but nothing I can do about that. Losing that is what convinced me to curb my schedule and get other projects going.
I’m behind on my Ultraman. I’ll have to work through that, but at least I can get up to date on the SNS side by posting Ultraman ARC. The 34th entry of the franchise takes us to Hoshimoto City. 16 years ago, the arrival of a kaiju horn coincided (or maybe started; I haven’t watched this one yet and it’s in the backlog…of course) with kaiju appearing. To investigate, the Scientific Kaiju Investigation and Prevention center tries to live up to their acronym by helping “skip” kaiju battles so there’s no more destruction. Until then we have Global Defense Force to handle the giant monsters.
Yuma Hize is part of SKIP, a kaiju biologist. As an agent from the GDF, Shu Ishido, joins Rioshi and Rin as well as Yuma and the team’s robot, YoPi. One wonders if the US dub is going to keep making the obvious joke?
Like previous we have the English only dub for those of you in a hurry, and a version from the Japanese channel that has all the dub languages and subtitles depending on how your YouTube player is set up. Choose your preference and prepare to imagine. Enjoy.
So far James Gunn’s DC Universe has been a big thud. Two streaming shows mocked or ignored and two movies that failed miserably whether he admit it or not. Plus the announced stuff that’s actually coming isn’t impressing anyone and the stuff that was canceled aren’t being missed. Bleeding Fool contributor Jamison Ashley explains that the biggest misstep is there’s little evidence that there was a plan in place when everything feels so disconnected from each other.
It’s been a while since I’ve had time to sit down and get back into this. As it is it took a reduced schedule, semi-vacation, and a need to build a buffer of articles for days when I have nothing else to discuss or no time to write anything to make this happen. Watchmen might be one of the big and influential comic stories, but it’s more interesting for me to analyze than read.
Anyway, last time we looked at the origin of Doctor Manhattan and compared him to his inspiration, Captain Atom. A quick skim tells me this is more about the investigation into the Comedian’s murder, but I have a feeling our main characters will get more exploration so we can compare them to their inspirations. We’ll be following Rorschach around but I think next issue is his exploration as a character so we’ll do the Question comparison next time. Right now, it’s time to catch up on the investigation, which should still tell us something about the ink blot masked man.
So this apparently drove the internet insane a couple of months ago but I only saw it on a podcast yesterday, in a video discussing the fallout. No, I don’t mean putting the K-On poster where Bocchi The Rock should of been because I didn’t catch it. A few commenters did or I wouldn’t have mentioned it. Apparently someone said they wanted more female protagonists in anime and he listed a bunch to show that are out there in shows that should have more attention. This, of course, got him hit face first by the culture war and people who know less about anime than the girl he was responding to because some activists don’t just want a seat at the table they’re allowed to have. They want to be head of the table, then have the table made for them alone, then the only one at the table, and then they want that table over there because they don’t have it and insist that’s “gatekeeping”. That’s all I’m saying about all that, but here’s his video responding to his attackers. Watch it if you want. I’m moving on.
While I prefer to have as little to do with the culture war on this site that I can as it’s not the main topic (and yet harder to ignore every day), this did inspire a topic. In the past I’ve done articles on favorite female characters, proving there are good ones out there if you actually look for them. They don’t have to be the protagonist because my favorite character isn’t always the main one. Often it is, but that doesn’t decide whether a character is a favorite. It’s based on how cool they are, would I want to hang out with them, and do they give me some kind of positive inspiration despite not “looking like me”. See, I can’t even escape this crap in the intro after saying I didn’t want to touch it again. I’m not above using the culture war to make an article, though, especially at deadline. If I can hold my buffer for real emergencies, I’d like to.
So while this is fresh in my mind, here are five of my favorite Japanese drawn lady people and I’d totally hang out with them. Note, I said “HANG out”. I specifically chose characters that I wouldn’t be interested in anything romantic or sexual to further prove to anyone obsessed with sex that some of us still believe platonic friendships exist and a boy and a girl can totally chill out and fight aliens with giant robots together…especially given how many minors are on this list. Like the first one!
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on July 31, 2026 in Television Spotlight and tagged commentary, Doctor Who, Russell T. Davies, WhoCulture.
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