January Update (Future videos)

Hiya Gang,

The new year’s been a slow, odd start for me.

Those following these entires know I’ve got a lot in the pipeline and much of it has been worked on since I last caught up with everyone on here. I’m really excited to show you some of the weirder things i’ve cooked up for this year, lots of odd ideas kicking around this time along with the few outstanding videos I promised before, including the short video game series retrospective, and The Spider Man video - a major priority for this year in particular. Thwip Thwip.

However, I was beset by a couple of delays. The Crash 4 video took way longer to put together than planned and pushed all my stuff back by a heck of a lot. Then I got my wisdom teeth out which, due to complications of the surgery, ended up resulting in a very painful healing process I have only just recovered from, and I have one more tooth still left to go, followed by short term bottom braces- lots of very painful disturbances, and yes, probably TMI. I seem to be developing a habit of missing my January deadlines- combination of recharging after christmas and kicking off all the things I know need to be sorted in my life for the new year, happens a lot, and happens to be a bit more disruptive than usual.

But like I said, loads of videos have been set up and I really want them out as soon as i’m ready. I’ve been writing like mad while recovering, for all of the previous projects mentioned, but decided to spend some extensive time on a MAJOR project I spoke of before that I started crafting way back last March- my spiritual sequel to the Fantastic Four video, a series of videos going through the history of another marvel comic that, I feel, is the backbone of modern marvel continuity.

I am desperate to release episode one this year, and to be able to talk about the process of creating it, but two of the episodes are proving very difficult to assemble. It’s very different from the FF video in that we’re going through and telling the entire story of that series as if it’s a single, continuous narrative- but I’m trying to do it so that the way it’s told is an analysis of how, in hindsight, it inadvertently changed the future of Marvel comics continuity, how those characters were developed in a manner that managed to form a consistent arc over three decades by different writers, and how it speaks to a side of the Marvel Universe that, before it existed, didn’t have an outlet. Or at least, one like this.

The two episodes in question cover a huge amount of content that requires a huge amount of extra research, and are also very convoluted, so I’m trying to find the best way to get all the pieces of the puzzle to fit together to inform, entertain, and be purposeful, and not waste your time, while going beyond what I did for the FF video where possible. Only after the writing is complete will I begin to enter production proper- once again, hiring voice actors for the roles, but with a few more surprises in store too. Just know that it’s happening, I am working on it every day, and I am really, really keen to announce what it is as soon as I can. You will all be the first to know.

It’ll hit like lightning.

Other than that, I can only thank you for the continued support, and the wonderful amount of help you’ve given me. I’ve been working harder to try and create content above the level of whatever I made before and that’s required a little more time to prepare, and many of the funds have been set aside especially for this major project, so I appreciate as always the opportunity to make that possible. It’s insane to think how I started and the chances I’m now able to take with the content because of your help. Madness. Sheer madness. I hope you like what’s coming next.

Notes on, Beyond Pictures and Beyond words will be making an appearance over the year, as soon as they can. Until then, thank you all once again, can’t wait to get back to you with all the videos I got on the go. Even the Alf one.

-B