BW’s Daily Video> Fantasy Anime’s “Original Worldbuilding” Problem

NOTE: Sometimes censors swears, sometimes doesn’t

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The Ending Of The DC Gunnverse

Well, didn’t see this coming. And tomorrow I was going to do a different article on James Gunn’s approach to Superman. Now I have to move the Chapter By Chapter up a day because even going out the door, Gunn’s gotta mess with me.

Surprising news dropped today because James Gunn and Peter Safran are taking the nearest boom tube out of DC Studios. Not that too many DC fans are going to miss them. While Safran has been mostly quiet behind the scenes, Gunn wouldn’t shut up about defending his take on the DC Universe and their superheroes, villains, and regular people. And he’s had a lot to defend because Gunn has made or allowed to be made (and Safran didn’t seem to be doing anything to stop anyone) some of the most bizarre decisions in how to treat these characters.

It’s not quite a post mortem yet. Projects far enough in the works are going to continue. Man Of Tomorrow, which for lack of a better term sounds like a Superman/Lex Luthor “buddy cop” story, and the tale of Gorilla Grodd at college with Jimmy Olsen are still not canceled, and Gunn has mentioned some next project. Unless Harlan Ellison is going to follow David Zaslav’s lead and cancel these for the tax write-off like Zaslav did with the Batgirl movie, we still have more destruction coming for the DC brand, because investors don’t care about the character and still think the Brand is strong enough to weather this level of failure.

Since everybody else on the internet right now is doing it, I guess we also have to check into how we got here, because it’s a continuing list of mistake after mistake, and it started before a single script was started.

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BW’s Daily Video> How Long You’d Last On Every Planet

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Makes old sci-fi stories look worse, doesn’t it? Even those stories where life was born on Mars or Venus or wherever would be inaccurate, and I’m not sure about setting up colonies on those planets. Wouldn’t have made for good stories, though.

Jake & Leon #702> The Good Baron

Give Red Baron credit. They knew what would make them look good: doing good.

Have you heard this story? Courtesy of Nerdrotic Daily, with some deserved swearing. Also, it was recorded the day before Halloween. That’s why the costumes.

It’s the comic I was going to do last week. This is a terrible thing, but with a happy-ish ending. That might solve the man’s immediate problems, but what will happen to him in the future? I wish him and his family luck. As for the “influencer”, I hope he gains a good conscience.

Over at the Clutter Reports I finished the software checklist and started the games one because of it. I’m getting more than a list of stuff I own out of it.

Unrelated, I swear: I finally pulled the “trigger” and put a Ko-Fi link on the site, and The Clutter Reports. Check the sidebar. If you like what I do, a tip would be nice. I set the minimum at $1 US, but it’s not a requirement and if I could come up with extras I have time to make I’d be back on Patreon. I’m still trying to find time to work other things into a schedule, and I need to get some income. As I mention in this week’s report I need to find a job since making this site my job is financially nonexistent. My primary goal in getting back to YouTube is the ability to communicate with other people who think of storytelling the same way I do, but if I can get some money out of that, cool. A job that would allow me to continue this and pursue my goals as a storyteller is also great, but right now I can’t be picky.

I also need a new theme soon. This one is no longer supported and keeps giving me minor issues on this side. It would mean a new look on your side, though. I thought I was done doing that. As if I wasn’t already using up time.

Coming up here in the Spotlight we have the next chapter of Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic for Chapter By Chapter, and whatever comes up. We’ll see what the future holds. Have a great week, everyone.

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Crash Comics (Adventures) #1

This cover would inspire a young Kool-Aid-Man.

Crash Comics Adventures #1

Tem Publishing Company (May, 1940)

How many new titles came out this month? The pixels aren’t even set on my list of Golden Age comics to read or not read and we have another one. I went over the list and I have heard of none of these characters, so it should be an interesting experience. The cover and indicia call it Crash Comic Adventures but on Comic Book+ it’s listed as just Crash Comics, hence the parentheses in the article title. So….what reason is there for these heroes to have fallen into the obscurity of oversaturation? Did they deserve better? Will we bother with a second issue? Join me in finding out.

[Read along with me here]

For those of you don’t usually join us, after two different scans of the same cover it starts with an ad for a men’s girdle “superform belt”. Hey, it fooled boys when they started using “action figure”.

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Saturday Night Showcase> The New Magic Knights Rayearth

Don’t tell me what’s “made for me” because I don’t care. Go over the history of this site and you’ll find things allegedly made for me that doesn’t fit my tastes. You’ll also find stuff made for people of different ages, genders (before the current culture nonsense), countries, cultures, and “races” (it’s all “human race” to me) that I totally get into. I don’t demand that something be changed to be “for me” because if I already like it, what’s the point?

Take for example Magic Knights Rayearth. I was introduced to CLAMP’s series through fandubs of the anime and went on to get official dubs as well as the manga. Yeah, there’s romance and girly things, but there’s also cool magic battles with giant mecha, and I’m usually down for that. You’ll find reviews of the manga when it was published by Mixxzine, as well as the officially hosted series in a previous Saturday Night Showcase thanks to TMS’s official YouTube channel. That series came out in 1994 and I rather enjoy it.

Because even Japan isn’t safe from the remake virus, a new version of the manga adaptation has recently come out. This new Magic Knights Rayearth has the same characters, a cleaner animation style because computers were used instead of out-of-use cels, and a somewhat different attitude I’ll get into after you’ve joined me in watching it. I’ll also tell you how I think it compares to the original. Crunchyroll’s  YouTube channel has two episodes of the new version, but since I only posted the first one of the original series (accidentally twice over this site’s run), I’ll keep that trend going here. They use YouTube’s multiple audio tracks, so you can watch the same video in Japanese with English closed caption subtitles or in English language dub. I also recommend keeping the captions to spot the differences, but I’m going to be bringing that one up as well. Enjoy.

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BW’s Saturday Article Link/Bonus Video> Walter Koenig Did More Than You Knew

I saw more memorial postings for Patrick Stewart’s passing than Walter Koenig. I guess Picard meant more than Chekov, but while Stewart performed on stage and screen, Koenig, who also brought the wonderfully bad guy Alfred Bester to life on Babylon 5 also did his own science fiction writing, which you may or may not know about. Not listed in this article is that while he didn’t get to return to the animated Star Trek as Chekov (either he was busy or Leonard Nimoy didn’t push hard enough for him as he did Nichelle Nichols and George Takei to join in), he did write the episode “The Infinite Vulcan”. Bonus daily video for the week!

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