That’s what Sony Pictures Releasing UK‘s YouTube channel is titling the latest trailer for the latest live-action take on our favorite Eternian warriors. With the movie scheduled to come out next month that’s probably accurate. Tomorrow we’ll be looking at a trailer for a series that looks worse and worse with every update, which sadly has become the norm form Hollywood, while every new trailer and interview for Masters Of The Universe has looked better and better…with one exception we’ll get into in this article. The point is they seem to care about what they’re doing.
The first trailer was bogged down in comedy, the second trailer added more action, and this new one still has action, a better look at the costumes, make-up, and CG character designs, and still some comedy. Plus almost no signs of Earth, which they should have done the whole movie. The whole movie should be taking place on Eternia, which I’ll also come back to, though that’s also been discussed previously.
Plus the movie made by Travis Knight, who made the only really good live-action Transformers movies. The Michael Bay ones got worse and worse while Rise Of The Beasts was just okay compared to the praise Bumblebee got. Then again look at what it’s surrounded by. There are only a few theatrical Transformers movies. One was a Japanese exclusive clip show of the Mainframe shows while the classic one is only good for nostalgia. Still, he did a good job with that movie, which also gives hope, but let’s see this final UK trailer.
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BW Vs. Comic Drake> DC’s Manga Lessons
Back in January, and yes it’s relevant, Jim Lee was interviewed by a Japanese website about what DC could learn from the successes of manga in the US. This prompted a further response from me as to what DC could and couldn’t learn from manga. Manga’s success came in part from continuing to do some things we don’t or stopped doing while also being uniquely Japanese, which many Japanese media fans in the West find interesting. At the time they were also losing to Marvel Comics, as it tends to go back and forth between the two.
Today DC is doing much better against Marvel in the comics, but still losing to manga last I heard. They made some changes, but they’re also still making many of the same mistakes I pointed out in my article, relying more on gimmicks and trades than doing what comics do best. They’ve also been getting a boost from the Absolute line, reaching readers who somehow thought current Batman wasn’t dark enough and thought Snyder’s Superman wasn’t Supermanless enough. I don’t follow the Absolute line so I don’t know what if anything has changed with the tone, but everything I did hear says it’s not for me and doesn’t feature what I loved about the DC Universe…more so than the regular DC titles currently. They’re also reprinting older comics and doing smaller, more affordable versions of some of their biggest storylines in trade form. So some good moves are being made.
It isn’t enough for YouTuber Comic Drake, often a good source of daily videos and recommended viewing, who recently posted a video about what he thinks is behind DC’s current success increase and what they could do still. While I agree with a couple of his points, this is a VS article so you know there’s enough disagreement to make this interesting. Like I said back in January, US and Japanese comics operate from different perspectives and that’s a good thing for both industries. Yes, there are things DC could learn or even relearn, but not everything Japan is doing is going to work for us because it still abandons what made comics so big in the first place. Watch the video and I’ll explain. Just dodge the occasional “S” bombs.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 19, 2026 in DC Spotlight and tagged BW versus, Comic Drake, comics vs manga, commentary, DC Comics.
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