July 21, 2026

Marvel’s Move And The Marvel Movies

I’m surprised it took this long, actually. Some years ago DC Comics moved from their New York home to be closer to Warner Brothers, under the thought that everybody should act like one happy family under one proverbial roof. That hasn’t helped either entity, but that’s another conversation. Still, it makes it strange that Disney ordered Marvel Comics to move to California when everyone seems to be getting OUT of California…but that’s a whole other conversation, half of with doesn’t fit the topic of this site.

Does this move signal bad news for Marvel Comics? Not really. I don’t know who does their printing, so it might make things harder to get the proofs and maybe it affects distribution. I don’t know how DC was affected by any of that, but it’s been the least of either publisher’s problems. It’s also not going to fix anything at Marvel. Distribution will be just as limited, new Editor In Chief Steven Wacker probably won’t fix the Spider-Marriage (and undoing the Mephisto deal that’s gone one so long it has it’s own baggage with Peter and MJ’s relationships) or restore Tony Stark’s lineage, and by now I don’t even need Leon (if you read my comic, you know) to tell people that changing the editor won’t necessarily fix anything because the last few certainly haven’t.

Like with Warner and DC we know instinctively that this has nothing to do with helping the comics. It’s all about Marvel Studios, and the “important” media to Disney. I keep hearing people talking about Kevin Feige’s influence on the comics as well as James Gunn with DC. I don’t know for certain how close that runs, since we know neither studio runner could give two cents about the source material. Marvel Studios even more so because I’ve not heard anyone at DC Studios telling creators that knowing the comics will keep you from working for them and they’re still adapting or being inspired (badly) by comic stories. Supergirl was loosely based on a comic miniseries. Who does this move help, and how does this tie into my tinfoil hat theory that this could be tied to the spoilers for Avengers: Doomsday and the films to follow? That last part may sound clickbaity, but let me go through the sane stuff, then hear me out…if only for fun.

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July 21, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> Avengers: Doomsday Trailer Drops

I post this so you know I’ve seen it. I don’t care. With everything that’s happened recently and every stupid thing that’s come out about what’s going on behind the scenes, the fact I know Marvel Studios doesn’t care anymore, and being based on a comic storyline I already wasn’t interested in, apathy is all I can manage for this thing.

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July 20, 2026

Chapter By Chapter> Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic chapter 5

Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.

In the previous chapter, Jean Lorrah went to her original characters from her last novel, The Vulcan Academy Murders, and told us what they’ve been up to in the month between novels.

I’m not that familiar with Lorrah’s previous or later works. So I don’t know if she has any medical interest. The previous book was a procedural crime drama but medical situations were a heavy part of the story. It’s how people were dying, it was why the Enterprise was there in the first place, and why Amanda was in danger. And yet most of the story seemed to focus on relationships, from the romantic to how Vulcans and Earthlings interact, to both at the same time.

Now we have a story that’s purely medical, a planet-wide plague, and an even bigger chance to explore multiple races getting along, even some non-Federation worlds that are usually threats, like Klingons and Orions. Everybody gets along for their own goals, and the plague is going to challenge that. Plus you still have those warlike Vulcans in place of the Romulans. It’s a lot to thrown in one pot, but this book pulled it off to me the last time I read it. As we head to chapter five, we’ll soon see if a second read through more critical eyes changes that perspective.

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July 20, 2026

BW’s Daily Video> Nolan’s The Odyssey’s Box Office By The Numbers

Because regardless of your opinion of the movie, and mine was low when he took the myth out of the mythology, let’s be honest about box office numbers, even if you don’t like the answer.

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July 19, 2026

Jake & Leon #691> Technically Back

Continuity? Here?

Yep, we’re back and under the new posting schedule for “Yesterday’s” Comic, as I stated in last week’s Programming Note. In this week’s Clutter Report I went over some of the stuff I did during this week’s break both on this site and in the regular world, that I hope will lead to finally being where I should have been after the past decade of not recovering like I should have, and it’s most likely my fault. Planning on fixing that.

Something else I seem to need to fix is the Jake & Leon archives. Everything’s out of order, possibly due to some limit in images you can put in one gallery. I think the best method will be to break them down in groups of 100 and give them each their own page. Smaller galleries might solve the issue. I’m coming up on 700 comics and I think I broke something.

So now we only have one Golden Age comic review a week, but I do plan to finish off my more recently made anthologies to review as a bonus article. Whether or not I have time this week we’ll have to see. Tomorrow sees the return of the Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic. Feature articles will depend on time and topic, and hopefully I’ve given myself time to learn how to use the crap I need to make stuff exist and do what I need to do in the physical world to get myself back on track. Wish me luck, and have a great week, everyone!

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July 19, 2026

“Yesterday’s” Comic> Jumbo Comics #14

In case you missed the update, welcome to the new posting time for “Yesterday’s” Comic, or at least the Golden Age comic reviews. Check said update for the reasons why. Let’s just get into the review.

comic cover has The Lightning attacking some bad guys while hanging from their death ray or something by his legs.

Why is his cape so short and his bandana mask so long?

Jumbo Comics #14

Real Adventures Publishing (April, 1943)

According to an ad on the inside cover Jumbo Comics went monthly starting the following month. We’ll see about that, given the mistakes on the cover. “The Lighting” won’t make his actual debut until the next issue while the title for the Sheena story happened last issue. They also started some contest where in this and a few other of their titles there was a comic strip mystery where the readers could win a prize for solving it and sending the answer in before being revealed in a later issue. There was a cash prize and everything. Odds are you can’t collect today, but I’m more concerned about whether or not we reading from a public domain site will ever know that answer or if we have to guess?

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July 18, 2026

Saturday Night Showcase> Ulysses 31

At what point does an adaptation become a Ship Of Theseus? How much can you alter before it becomes a bad adaptation, and then becomes an homage, and at what point it is “(X) in name only) and should have been it’s own thing? Using a Greek ship as an example comes into play since, as this article goes live, Christopher Nolan’s questionable adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey just hit theaters. Reviews as a movie as mixed, but so much is wrong as an adaptation that I don’t care. Adding characters from alternate sources, using “time period accuracy” to explain why there’s no orchestral score and removing gods and monsters, yet getting races and armor wrong while using modern terms and slang and using rap music, which has been along even less time than orchestras, in their soundtrack. I just wish I knew who Nolan is trolling: the audience, the historians, or the entire country of Greece, who isn’t happy at this cultural mythology appropriation, especially given letting Nolan shoot there.

At this point Ulysses 31, a sci-fi animated series that was a co-production of DIC Entertainment and TMS Entertainment, better treats the source material by being an homage, right down to the series starting with Ulysses and his ship, the Odyssey, leaving the colony of Troy trying to return to Earth. This time Telemachus is with him while Persephone is still back home probably dodging suitors. There’s a new reason for killing the cyclops, making the gods even bigger jerks than usual. The intro, which I’ve reviewed separately in the past, gives too much away when used in the first episode, but the details are still worth watching if only to set up this sci-fi retelling of Homer’s work, much like Sherlock Holmes In The 22nd Century would do for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective.

Yep, in this episode it’s Telemachus’ birthday and he gets a new robot, No-No. He also gets captured by cultists looking to sacrifice him along with two aliens so the kid has a friend and she has motivation to stay with them when her brother suffers the fate of the crew. The dubbing is pretty good, but the theme song rocks. See how many other references you pick up on. Enjoy!

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