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It's Q&A Time!

It's been far too long since I did a proper Q&A! Now it's that time again.

For those that would like to contribute to a Question & Answer video please post your questions to this thread!

A few guidelines, if you will:

1. Pretty much everything is fair game. Of course, I'm probably going to give misleading answers to overly personal questions. You know, like my address or phone number. Otherwise, ask what you like.

2. The answer to the question, "Will you ever d...

Quick Review Double Shot

Two short looks at two recently released first issues: If You Find This, I'm Already Dead and Underheist. Next up...the censored compilation video. Which will probably be out later today.

Discord Server Now Open!

Hello, everyone...

As the title suggests, I went and opened a Discord server. It's still a work in progress and you can definitely make suggestions to improve it. The link below gets you to the main, public channel and I will manually add everyone who's a Patron to the hidden channel for those that directly support my humble video offerings. 

https://discord.gg/4HB4HSBQ

I probably won't publi...

Quick Review: Newburn

Sure, it's a series that's a year old, but it was a new discovery by me.

Quick Review: Void Rivals

The Transformers and G.I. Joe universes merge. Which is a big deal, I guess?

Quick Review: Ultimate Spider-Man

This review marks a rare occasion where I used a well-placed, adult word. Shocking! I'm turning into an edgelord.

Quick Review: Wonder Woman

Sometimes I wish Tom King would think his metaphors all the way through before using them.  Because I spent way too much time deconstructing the Washington Monument scene. 

Coming Next Week: What I'm Working On

Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing very well. I'm fine, thanks!

This week you should get at least one, possibly two, quick reviews for your viewing pleasure. And then I will repackage (and censor) those reviews into one complete video that might be this week's publicly available video. The only addition would be an introduction and, maybe, a bit at the end recapping what appealed to me.

Although, I would like to do one more, unique video so I don't feel like I'm cheating ever...

Quick Review: Devil By The Deed - Master's Edition

Here's a quick look at the Matt Wagner's recent reworking of the Hunter Rose saga. Unfortunately, I refer to it as "Remastered" not "Master's." I think that's forgivable. 

Quick Review: Avengers Inc.

A five issue series by Al Ewing and Leonard Kirk that I couldn't get through.

Quick Review: The Madness

Here's a surprisingly brief series from J. Michael Straczynski.

For the record, I do have at least one more of these quick reviews coming this week. Probably two. I have a fair amount of these already written and, honestly, I kind of like being able to whip up a quick video while I work on a script for a longer one. So, I'm hoping y'all like these shorter ones.

Speaking of longer videos, I'm piecing together a look at Stray Bullets...which I'm hoping will be this week's regular vi...

Quick Review: w0rldtr33

As promised in the most recent Concrete video, I'm going to (irregularly) upload exclusive, quick reviews of recent material. This also incorporates another suggestion: Being able to upload uncensored videos. That is, I don't work blue, as the saying goes. But I don't have to worry about nudity or explicit language in the images.

At a later time, I might compile these short works into a long video that's available on YouTube. But that'll be much later, when there's 20 minutes or so of m...

Coming This Week

Hello everyone!

First of all, apologies for being rather quiet the last few weeks. I've been rather busy working on videos and this has been exacerbated by the extreme cold that hit my area. Like, it hit -40 Celsius for a few days and didn't get much warmer for almost a week straight. Due to this, my apartment was freezing. I had to hole up in my bedroom with a space heater to keep from becoming a human popsicle. Periodically, once I was warm, I'd sit at my computer, wrapped in a blanke...

Happy New Year Everyone!

This is simply a quick post to wish everyone a Happy New Year and I hope 2024 is amazing for you all!

As for what's next...I take a painful look at the notorious Avengers #200. 

The Veggie Tray Defeats Batman

Hello everyone!

It's been a long time coming but a video covering the ENTIRE Mister Miracle series by Tom King and Mitch Gerads is the next one being produced. While the first issue has already been covered in detail and summarized at the beginning of this forthcoming video, the rest of the series is looked with the same amount of attention. By my estimation, it will be at least half an hour long and will FINALLY include my opinion concerning the ending of the series. Which, as some may...

Coming This Week And A Question For Everyone!

Hello, everyone!

Last week was a whirlwind of activity, so it was difficult to find time to make a post to keep you all informed about what was arriving that week. Not to mention, I seem to have a persistent cold that only now seems to be calming down.

Anyway...

This week a video about Melmoth is a certainty. I hope to get another short one done about Steve Gerber's Phantom Zone miniseries (because it's been written for a while, waiting for a place to be inserted) and start ...

Another Oddity

As the thumbnail suggests, here's a sample reading I did of The Call Of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft. I've recorded a third of the overall story but I've not edited it all together yet.

Possibly a future, finished project? Let me know if you're interested in my voice reading this entire, gruesome tale. 

An Oddball Extra

A few weeks ago I got it into my head to re-record the intro to the first season of Babylon Five. I have no idea why. I thought it might make an interesting Short for the channel, I suppose. Then I made it and forgot about it...only to run across it this morning.

So, here it is as an extra for all you fine supporters. 

Jim Starlin's Grand Space Opera

Hello everyone!

This week it looks like I'll be doing a remake about Jim Starlin's Metamorphosis Odyssey, tracking it's beginning and evolution from an ongoing feature in Epic Illustrated, to it's transitional phase of stand-alone graphic novels and into its Dreadstar series for Epic Comics then First Comics. I'm probably not going to get too deep into Dreadstar. That may be something I expand upon in a later video. This video will be more focused on the beginnings of the series, it's t...

The One About First Issue Special

Hello everyone!

With the Tom King and Jorge Fornes series, Danger Street, coming to an end very soon I decided to  read through the foundation of that series, First Issue Special. This way I'd have a basis and understanding of all the characters that appear. In turn, I thought, "Hey, why not make a video out of that so others have the same understanding?" So, a bit of research I intended to do has now become a video review of all thirteen issues of the original series.

I'm ju...

Coming This Week

Hello everyone!

Yes, this is an earlier than usual announcement of this week's video. That's because the script is nearly complete and ready to go. I'll be looking back at a forgotten and incomplete series from the 90's, Hepcats by Martin Wagner. There will be a detailed publishing history and a look at the tragically unfinished storyline, Snowblind.

So again I'll be dipping into obscure, independent titles. 

Honestly, I don't have much more to say! I hope you all have ...

A Deep Dive Forthcoming

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a safe and lovely Halloween.

This week I'm working on a video titled, The Eternal Debate: The Origin Of Spider-Man. The title is subject to change. It should be a reasonably lengthy piece about, well, the various claims about the character and the involvement of Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Along the way, I'm hoping to dispel some a few urban legends around the character's creation and maybe a few, lesser known facts that I didn't know until d...

What's Happening Next!

Hello, everyone!

First of all, apologies for not keeping you updated sooner. Last week I was trying to put together a video while doing mighty battle with illness. It's that time of year where the weather dramatically fluctuates in my part of the world (it's -6 now and two days ago it was +20) and that messes with my body. Not to mention my sleep pattern, which has always been erratic at best.

Anyway...

Right now I have multiple options. I might just do a video about the nex...

Anything Else New This Week?

Well, I'm certainly going to try!

First of all, my apologies for not updating sooner. While producing the Gerber Retrospective I hit an exhaustion wall and had to take a few days to recover. That's what delayed that episode until Monday. Not to mention, I have been mostly offline since then.

That being said, I will likely have another, shorter video out this week about the Vertigo miniseries, Nevada. Yup, another Gerber video. In fact, I've even been chipping away at another Gerbe...

Your Questions Answered!

Honestly, this is a podcast more than anything. And I might do an MP3 version for anyone who prefers just the audio. Anyway, thanks for all the questions!

Later today I'll post an edited version of this to YouTube. A few parts I'll edit down (like mentioning any future videos) and I will likely trim a few questions to get it down to 20 minutes. But this is the uncut version! 

Enjoy!

What's Happening This Week

Hello, everyone! I hope you are all doing fantastic.

This week I will have all your questions answered and packaged into a podcast type of video. I've collected all the questions, wrote responses and I will do an uncut version for all you fine people here, with the same version being exclusively available to those with a YouTube membership. I will make a shorter version publicly available.

Hopefully I'll also be able to quickly put together a Hot Take video about the Jonathan Hick...

This Week's Video And Stuff

This has definitely been a challenging week, but I should get a new video out by Friday. The topic is Void Indigo, a miniseries from 1984 that was cancelled after only two issues! At first I thought it would be a tiny portion of a Steve Gerber retrospective but then it became its own thing.

Next, I have collected all your questions from the Q&A thread and I think I may have to do a dedicated video answering them instead of a livestream. I want to do a livestream but I'm not...

Q & A Time!

Alright, for those that would like to contribute to a Question & Answer video or livestream (I haven't decided which yet; my free time might decide for me) please post your questions to this thread!

A few guidelines, if you will:

1. Pretty much everything is fair game. Of course, I'm probably going to give misleading answers to overly personal questions. You know, like my address or phone number. Otherwise, ask what you like.

2. The answer to the question, "Will you ever...

This Week's Video Offering

Hello everyone!

The two prior videos I mentioned (Ditko and The Murphyverse) I decided to switch gears and finally do the Cerebus video I've been building towards for years: Jaka's Story.

I've actually had the script for this since December...which gives you an idea of how backlogged my scripts can get at times. But, with this one, I wanted to sit on it of a while to make sure it was as good as it can be. For story, character and artwork analysis, it's probably th...

Would you like a Q&A?

It occurred to me I haven't been able to livestream in forever and I should do a Q&A as a Thanks! for all your support so far. So, would you all like me to create a thread where you can post questions for me to answer in a dedicated video? To be clear, the thread would only be for you Patreon supporters. I'll probably post it here for you exclusively at first, but then make it publicly available later. Let me know your thoughts!