BW’s Daily Video> Han Solo Died For Nothing

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Chapter By Chapter> How To Completely Lose Your Mind chapter 8

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.

We start this chapter on the last third of the lower 48 states. I’m assuming they didn’t take the car to Hawaii or Alaska. Last time even Eric was starting to feel the stress of the tour, but not as bad as Elizabeth has. She’s still having sleeping issues, which isn’t good when you need to paint for an audience.

This is going to be the longest chapter so far in this graphic novel, 42 pages. I’ve been starting to question how chapter breaks are chosen in some of the prose novels I’ve read for this series recently, especially the Op-Center novels, and this is no different. How does someone choose when to break the story and give the reader a break to sleep or go back to work or try to find out why the baby’s been crying nonstop for the last half hour or whatever reason people have. It’s not as bad in this graphic novel because of the panel size and a comic is quicker to get through than prose. You don’t have to describe the scene as much because it’s right there, but it does set your world in a fixed look. There are tradeoffs, as I’ve discussed before between prose and comic novels. Still, this will take longer to go through than the other chapters. Good thing the story’s been interesting thus far.

We’ll see if that continues and how much worse the stress of this unofficial worldbreaking quest is as we dive into chapter 8 of 11.

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Today’s Comic> Mega Man Showdown Special [FCBD]

Their Street Fighter game went horribly wrong.

Megaman Showdown Special

UDON Entertainment (May, 2026, Free Comic Book Day)

LETTERER: Marshall Dillon

“Rival Robots”

WRITER: Daniel Arseneault

ARTIST: Mic Fong

COLORISTS: Josh Perez & Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz”

“A Different World”

WRITER: David Oxford

ARTIST: Jeffrey “Chamba” Cruz”

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BW’s Daily Video> Batgirl’s Actual Retirement

I thought it was because she went into politics. Apparently Barbara’s backstory between that and The Killing Joke had more to it.

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BW Programming Note> I’m Still A Mess

I shouldn’t be this messed up this far out.

I was tired a bit this week, had to go out one day, and long story short I didn’t get to make a Jake & Leon comic this week despite having an idea in my notebook. I still need to get into a work schedule…and then stay away long enough to see it through. At least I’m getting better on the first part. I think the weather change is hurting me on the last part because my dad’s having sleep issues as well. Maybe it’s the house? [EDIT: There’s also my allergies. I used to love Spring.]

Over at The Clutter Reports this week I dissected a video on beating your media backlog. His focus was on gaming but he does give tips for other media as well, so it’s still useful to someone.

If I can stay away we have the next installment of the Chapter By Chapter examination of How To Completely Lose Your Mind as well as more Free Comic Book Day and Comics Giveaway Day books to look at. I do have some more digital options but I was at the comic store last week learning that the comic pricing site I was using might not be reliable (so now I have to play that game again), and he had some free comic leftovers, so those reviews will still go for another couple of weeks before getting back to the old stuff. The rest we’ll have to see what happens during the week. Have a great week, everyone!

 

No Showcase This Saturday Night

Sorry, folks. I didn’t have time to watch anything to make sure it works for Saturday Night Showcase. I have a bunch of possibles thanks to YouTube partnering with big name companies, and I’ve been able to find some fan productions and independent works that sound good (and I’ve been lax on those lately) but haven’t had a chance to actually watch. Save your popcorn for next week because I’m going to try to have something.

BW’s Saturday Article Link> Pragmata Girl And A Real Girl

 

Remember the lame discourse around the new hot game Pragmata? One critic claimed men can’t connect to a child the same way women do, lacking a parental instinct. Another said gamers shouldn’t be relating to the game or the support character Diana, the android little girl, because of some rather insulting interpretations of gamers. That’s ignoring the pedo accusations. Well, here’s another example of why they’re idiots. Geeks & Gamers is reporting on a Reddit thread by a man who saw aspect of his late daughter, who died at an early age from illness, in the little girl. Sounds like the character mattered to him and he could relate to the player character rather well.