BW’s Daily Video> A Professional Consultant’s Suggestion For Comic Companies

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Chapter By Chapter> How To Completely Lose Your Mind chapter 7

Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the 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 read-along book club.

Last time things seemed to be looking up for Pocket Vinyl, thanks to a series of good fortune…but Elizabeth might be getting hit by the stress of it all.

Out of curiosity I wanted to see who held the record they were trying the break. According to the Guinness website the record holder for “fastest time to play a concern in each of the 50 US states” is currently Adam Brodsky, doing 50 states in 50 days, set in 2003. Presumably this is the record they were trying to beat. Unofficially, according to Google AI but they might be confused by the attempt itself, the duo Devon Allman and Donavon Frankenreiter went for a 49 state tour in 2023, just under the official record. Google thinks they set it and they claim victory on their site, but if they did it’s under a different record keeper. Pocket Vinyl was shooting for 45 with this book coming out in 2023, the same year as Allman and Frankenreiter’s attempt.

We know that this is going to be unofficial, but I’m not going to ruin whether or not they were successful. You’ll have to research yourself or keep following the book. Yes, it’s an old event, but I have to keep some suspense going, right? With that we’ll check out the next chapter. They’re halfway through the tour and we’re about to be halfway through the graphic novel.

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Today’s Comic> The Greatest American Hero FCBD 2026

“How can I NOT see my house from here?”

Greatest American Hero #1 (Free Comic Book Day Edition)

AMP Comics (May, 2026)

WRITER: Dan Handfield

ARTIST: Alper Gelçel

COLORIST: Faradilla Nurmaliza

COVER ART: David Mack

LETTERER: DC Hopkins

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BW’s Daily Video> 1996: Worst Year In Comics?

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Jake & Leon #682> Comic Giveaway

You wonder he finds time to read them all.

If you didn’t see the X-Twitter reviews my haul this Free Comic Book Day was…not the best. UDON delivered as usual but knowing what I know now I would have chosen differently. One of the two comic stores in my area was almost out by the time I got there while the other had a three comic limit, and that’s where I should have made some other choices. Should of, could of, would of, I guess. More on that in a moment.

First, the usual Clutter Report article. With Free Comic Book/Comic Giveaway Day going on I just reposted an old Scanning My Collection review, the first of the Devil’s Due G.I. Joe Vs The Transformers comics.

So…”Yesterday’s” Comic is going to take a bit of a break. Don’t worry, they’re not going anywhere. Instead the next two weeks will be the temporary return of Today’s Comic. Monday through Thursday will be Free Comic Book Day or Comic Giveaway Day offerings while on Friday we’ll look at one of the two comics I actually bought. Like I stress every year, the comic store has to pay for those even though customers don’t. So even with my funds I practiced what I preached and bought a comic in each location. It just felt like the right thing to do. I’m hoping that the comics I missed get an online option before I’m done and if enough show up we’ll figure out what to do the next few weeks. The old stuff will return eventually.

Meanwhile we have the next Chapter By Chapter installment of How To Completely Lose Your Mind and whatever else shows up this week. Also, as much as I don’t want to end on a sad note, we had three notable passings I feel the urge to bring up. Gerry Conway, creator of Firestorm and other characters passed away at the start of the week. He was followed by Len Strazewski, co-creator of Prime from the Ultraverse, and He-Man’s creator Roger Sweet. Sad to have three important passings, especially Sweet just as a new He-Man movie is coming out. Prime never got a chance to make a splash, while Conway also created the Punisher and regretting it in the current political climate due to the side he ended up on. I hope this isn’t the start of another series of geekdom favorites passing on. May they rest in peace and the next week be better.

Have a great week, everyone!

Saturday Night Showcase> Batman: Year One

Batman: Year One is not my favorite version of Bruce Wayne’s origin. There are two major sticking points with me and they’re both personal. This was BEFORE Frank Miller lost his mind, after all. I can appreciate the quality of the story and how well it’s told. Still, I didn’t need Jim Gordon having an affair that for the most part has little impact on events and there’s no reason for Selina to have started out as a prostitute except Frank Miller. For the most part, I’d still call it good. I just have my preferences and I will not apologize for them.

Since this is Free Comic Book Day, or Comics Giveaway Day depending on which distributor your local comic store went with, in the US (I don’t know about other countries…maybe Canada?), I wanted to use YouTube doing free with ads postings of Warner Animation’s DC movies by doing a comic adaptation, not just a story with the characters. Year One just happened to win the lottery. It’s still not my favorite adaptation. There’s some great acting, but Alex Rocco as Falcone is the only real standout. Brian Cranston’s Jim Gordon is okay but he won’t replace the late Bob Hastings in my head. Ben McKenzie isn’t a bad Batman and we see little of his Bruce Wayne, but he’s competing with Adam West, Kevin Conroy, and Diedrich Bader, though the best currently alive Batman might be Troy Baker. He’s also a good Joker. I’d throw Rino Romano but he’s my favorite Spider-Man, so if I had a choice, Baker would be Batman and Romano would be Spider-Man if they ever adapted my favorite crossover of the two.

Again, I’m not saying it’s terrible. It’s just not the origin I would go with. It’s still a good Showcase for the occasion. Enjoy.

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BW’s Saturday Article Link> How Comics Train Their Customers

He’s not very good at dodgeball.

Marketing is a manipulative business, especially if you’re trying to get customers to add your product, service, or production to their regular routines. One of the long term downsides of the 2020 lockdowns is how they rewrote habits that broke people out of old ones and now businesses have to figure out how to get back into being habit. That’s not necessarily malicious or a bad thing. It’s just how we operate versus how businesses operate, in both cases using instincts needed to survive.

Rob Salkowitz of ICv2 goes over how comics convince people to get into their stuff and the stupid things they’ve done recently that hurt them for breaking those habits.