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Gonna take the Halloween week to clear out some horror themed videos from the backlog.
Catch more of Good Blood on the Second Wind YouTube channel
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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.
Last time we managed to save and doom everybody in one chapter. Just another day on the Starship Enterprise.
We’re now halfway through the book, the point where I often start to run out of non-spoiler ways to pad out the intro. I can say that, while I’ve been more critical since this is a review and I’m a critic, overall I’m still enjoying the book. Minor remembrances from the first time I read this book have crept in a bit, but who knows what I’m misremembering? The book seems to be piling on problems, but we mostly resolved two of them, and it could have put people where they need to be for the story. There’s still the big plague and the social fallout, the two big issues of the story. One is the plot and other the character drama Star Trek used to be known for. It will be interesting to see what I remember as we continue on.
So…let’s continue on. We’re still on the ship, but potentially so is the plague.
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In the interest of full disclosure and protecting my butt, I don’t know for certain that the host actually had an inside track into the story and gameplay plans for Mass Effect Universe. This is the first video I’ve seen from him. If he’s right, however, it does sound like an interesting direction for the franchise. Shame BioWare listened to the wrong people and committed seppuku.
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Yes, this was technically the first comic.
So one day I try to mess with an art style inspired by a webcomic I enjoyed at the time and Matt Groening’s style. I liked the look, but had trouble recreating that character. After getting too frustrated to even draw it well by my skill level at the time, I went to bed. Next day I try again and it actually came out pretty good. So I gave him a friend. The first character I named Jake and the second Leroy. However, when I went to show it off I ended up calling the second guy Leon, decided that was better, and needed to figure out what to do with them. At the time I was having trouble coming up with new ways to introduce the weekly comic reviews, and decided to put them into a comic strip, usually inspired by whatever I picked up that week.
When the comic reviews went daily so I wasn’t using up my Sunday, Jake & Leon eventually took over the spot completely, after a compilation of what’s now the daily article link. More characters followed, and I’ve somehow worked on this comic for seventeen years…EDIT: eighteen years. Apparently I didn’t get my best of list right. Fixed the title, but can’t help the page URL being messed up. It’s allowed me to be creative, work on my comic skills, and eventually led to other comics and prose, both of which now has their own archive, and this year I was forced to redo this comic’s archive due to how many comics I had.
Before I start the new year’s worth of comics (this doesn’t go by calendar year), it’s time to look back through the previous year and see what were my favorite comics. Which ones had a gag I really liked, had me try something new artistically, or was a push in my storytelling skills? Let’s look back at the year that was for the rare moment when I let myself have an ego. I’m not the best comic creator out there, far from it. I have been improving though.
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If I timed this correctly, you should see the early stages of the NEW Jake & Leon archive. The old gallery was so full that early strips were being pushed off. Also, some images that shouldn’t have been there got in and I don’t know why. So I redid the archive, with 50 comics per page so the new galleries weren’t too long. Go through it and give me some feedback so I can improve it.
The update is here because in the usual comic slot it’s the anniversary. Rare to have it on posting day, so the gang has the week off to focus on my favorites of the comics I did in year 16 before starting year 17. Being annoyed about the archive is a coincidence in timing. Working on the archive even took up declutter time, so this week’s Clutter Report, which should also be up right now, looks at whether or not you can have too much storage if you’re trying to declutter.
Come back later for the Best Of Year 16, and tomorrow we’re back to normal, including the Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic hitting the halfway mark. Whatever else happens depends on the week. Last week had some good discussion topics and hopefully that trend continues. Have a great week, everyone! See you later for the bonus posting. Maybe.
James Gunn’s DC Universe Gets More Confusing
Being happy the Snyderverse is over doesn’t mean being happy with its replacement.
James Gunn took over the DC movies and shows along with Peter Safran, but Gunn is the face and possibly vision driver behind what DC Studios puts out, hence why his stuff is the Gunnverse. Even if he’s not working on it himself, it’s done with his blessing and his vision…or it would be if his vision made a lick of sense, and it doesn’t.
Comic Book Movie recently reported on yet another argument that James Gunn has had with a DC superhero fan who doesn’t care for his direction, or possibly can’t make sense of it. Actually, going to his actual Threads post he was responding to someone else’s response to the original post.
Reading the post both Gunn and the replier he’s replying to has a fair point, but it misses the larger problem with the current crop of DC Studios projects. No, you don’t have to build up to something, but we have to understand if it’s doing that or not. There needs to be a clear vision, and right now that is something that is clearly lacking because what we see is a pile of contradictions.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 27, 2026 in Animation Spotlight, DC Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Streaming Spotlight and tagged commentary, Creature Commandos, DC Entertainment, DC Gunnverse, DC Studios, James Gunn, James Gunn's Superman, Lanterns (HBO Max), Matt Reeves, Peacemaker (HBO Max), Supergirl (2026 movie), The Batman, Warner Brothers.
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