August 3, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> Backward Comic Representation

NOTE: Contains some swearing

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August 2, 2026

Jake & Leon #692> It’s A Crime

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!

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August 2, 2026

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Keen Detective Funnies #19

Two WW2 American soldiers attacking a Nazi soldier.

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.

Now if I could only get other projects going.

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August 1, 2026

Saturday Night Showcase> Ultraman ARC

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.

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August 1, 2026

BW’s Saturday Article Link> James Gunn’s Big DC Misstep

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.

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July 31, 2026

Watchmen #5: A First Time Read

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.

The cover to Watchmen #5, as blood washes into the drain.

“There was a leak at the Kool-Aid factory….”

Watchmen #5

DC Comics (January, 1987)

“Fearful Symmetry” 

WRITER: Alan Moore

ARTIST/LETTERER: Dave Gibbons

COLORIST: John Higgins

EDITOR: Len Wein

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July 31, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> 10 Reasons Russell T. Davies’ Doctor Who Return Failed

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