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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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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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Did you hear about Adam Driver’s attempt to bring Kylo Ren/Ben Solo back from the dead to make a new movie? Apparently Driver really liked the role and wanted to do a redemption story for Han and Leia’s fallen son. Well, that’s over with now. From Variety:
Bad news for “Star Wars” fans: Adam Driver is squashing any possibility of returning as Kylo Ren to the galaxy.
On a recent episode of “The Rich Eisen Show,” Eisen asked Driver if he thought he’d ever play the villain in the franchise again. The “Girls” actor responded: ‘Yeah, it’s over… No more ‘Star Wars.’” We “tried to do one more,” said Driver “but they’re like, ‘No, he’s dead,’” referring to Disney studio executives Bob Iger and Alan Bergman, who rejected a screenplay for a standalone movie centered on Kylo Ren that he’d pitched with Steven Soderbergh.
Said pitch was that Ben Solo turned out to be alive…somehow, said someone who actually forced themselves to watch Rise Of Skywalker Palpatine…and go on a sort of galactic walkabout for redemption. Kathleen Kennedy was on board with the idea because she seemed to love bad ideas, but Iger, in a rare moment of intellect, canned the idea. It’s now one of the many planned Star Wars productions that never happened, only the reason this was learned about is that Driver basically told everybody he wanted to do it.
So now Driver himself has completely given up on the project. Oh, he’d still do it if Dave Filoni, current Star Wars Sith Lord, opted to do it and could get new Disney emperor, Josh D’Amaro, to go along with it, but if he tried it seems he failed.
This is the best outcome because that was a bad idea.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on November 6, 2026 in Video Game Spotlight and tagged commentary, Computer and Video Games, Second Wind, writing tips, Yahtzee Croshaw.
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