No comic this week because every day was filled with distractions. My buffer’s taken a hit, I had insomnia a couple of nights ago and it usually takes me a couple of days to get back in rights, and all of that means that I didn’t get to make a comic. I also wanted to start a series of polls finding out why people come here and see what I should focus on, but I’m not trusting my writing skills today. I have one more distraction this week, maybe two, and hopefully I’ll have time to just make stuff again.
Over at the Clutter Reports I had to use my old DC Comics Presents #50 review from Scanning My Collection, one of the ones I reference a lot. So now those readers are aware of that comic. That also means I have no buffers over there so I really better get something together, at least in time for tomorrow’s Chapter By Chapter review of Star Trek: The IDIC Epidemic installment.
In the meantime, if you want to tell me why you come here in the comments, that’s useful data for me. Otherwise, next week should start a bunch of questions about how to improve BW operations. Otherwise, have a great week, everyone. Hopefully this is the last comic I miss this year.
Praising Physical Media Doesn’t Mean Trashing Digital Media
Between here and my other website, The Clutter Reports, I’m a staunch defender of physical media. It can’t be altered once you get it, unless you alter it. The physical disk doesn’t disappear because the company that released it wants you to buy the new version, which is why they hate it because they want to keep getting money rather than get it once. There’s also that tactile sensation of holding a book or a comic, of putting in the disk, cassette, or cartridge and knowing it will start up relatively fast compared to a download, and there’s no ads except what’s snuck into the background, which at least makes it feel more like real life. (Admittedly difficult to promote Starbucks that way in a fantasy setting or an alien planet. Though you can have an alien NAMED Starbuck.) If I have a choice, I’d rather own it than stream it.
However, there are advantages to digital media as well, and it seems that gets forgotten in the worries over kids always being on their smart devices or computers all day. Don’t get me wrong, they should get out and enjoy the world we live in if possible. If you live in a bad neighborhood or the weather’s bad, it isn’t possible. The 2020 lockdowns did teach us to keep our distance, and that allowed the control freaks using activism to keep us separated as a people to get us out of social connections in person rather than social media or an MMO, either using a screen or a VR headset. We totally need to get people out of the house and into the real world…but a book nook isn’t getting out into the real world, either. And I do love me some books.
When I first started writing this article, it was the idea that books were better than the internet, as if somehow ebooks, news sites, and the aforementioned social media isn’t reading. I couldn’t go far with that alone, but if we go over all the dumb arguments against digital media when it’s not the enemy, I have something to do commentary stuff on. So let’s do that.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 1, 2026 in Book Spotlight, Comic Spotlight, Internet Spotlight, Movie Spotlight, Music Spotlight, radio/audio drama, Streaming Spotlight, Television Spotlight, Video Game Spotlight and tagged commentary, digital media, physical media.
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