Chapter By Chapter> How To Completely Lose Your Mind chapter 10

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.

Well, here we are. They’re near the end of their journey and we’re near the end of the comic. Last time Pocket Vinyl completed the lower 48 states and even Alaska, leaving Hawaii to go. That’s one more show and two more chapters, with the next chapter being the aftermath.

We can kind of guess they mentally survived the experience. After all, they’re still alive to make this book and continue performing. The last video on their YouTube channel was three weeks ago writing time. They’re doing a house show tour (that’s the one done in actual homes) that started in early May, with less than 50 stops going to July 5th. It’s at least nice to know this didn’t kill their performing spirit, and they found enough good moments to include them in this book.

So how did the last leg of the tour go? This chapter is only 14 pages so, compared to some of the previous pages, this should take less time. Let’s see how this all ended.

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“Yesterday’s” Comic> Doll Man Quarterly #2

Stop flirting with Doll Man! He’s spoken for and doesn’t swing that way.

Doll Man Quarterly #2

Comic Favorites Inc (Spring, 1942)

Time to check in with one of the forgotten DC acquisitions because he’s in another dimension. While Plastic Man managed to be part of the main DC Universe, the other Quality characters ended up on an alternate Earth, where somehow the Nazi’s won and Uncle Sam (whose comics I stopped following because I didn’t much care for them) is now leading a group of heroes to reclaim their world.

As the title suggests, Doll Man’s comic came out seasonally rather than monthly for whatever reason they had at the time. Of course this is still the Golden Age, so while Doll Man holds the title spot we still have an anthology of characters and stories, with Doll Man taking up three of the five stories plus probably a text story. So let’s dive in and see what comes out this season.

[Read along with me here]

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BW’s Daily Video> Pac-Man: Snack Breaks (episode 1)

Follow the new series of shorts at the PAC-MAN Official YouTube channel

 

Memorial Day Tributes 2026

I hope everyone had a happy and safe Memorial Day. I also hope you took time to honor those who fell so that we could rise. Be the type of people they died to defend.

“Yesterday’s” Comic> The Solution #10

The dating profile was fake, but he gave her a chance anyway.

The Solution #10

Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (July, 1994)

“Back Track” part 1

WRITER: James Hudnall

PENCILER: John Statema

INKER: Jeff Whiting

COLORING: Mickey Rose & Violent Hues

COVER ART: Daniel Brereton

LETTERERS: Dave Lanphear & Patrick Owsley

EDITOR: Hank Kanalz

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BW’s Daily Video> Whatever Happened To Garfield’s Creator?

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BW Programming Note> The Shape Of Things To Come

On the comic side, I had an idea and lost it the same day. The alternative could have led into what’s about to be brought up, but it’s been a draining week. I blame the weather but some minor issues also messed with my time. Even this week’s Clutter Report is just me going over a declutter hacks video from the Property Brothers. Not my most creative week.

So the issues I’m having with the theme I’m using for this site, Selecta, are getting worse. I’ve kind of drug my heels on it because the site does what I want and I don’t have the urge to spend more time formatting a page than I do writing the article on it. However, it’s retired and unlike the current Clutter Reports theme is not holding up. Part of the problem is now I have to almost redo all of my years of archived articles, which will give me a chance to kill bad or extinct links and fix typos and formatting, I guess. It’s just very time consuming and time has not been my friend this year. I even noted in today’s Clutter Report that I’ve only accomplished one of this year’s declutter goals, and it’s a rather minor one. I start mastering a rhythm and then something new comes along. Plus I have a medical exam coming up this week and I’m trying to ensure it doesn’t disrupt BW operations. If successful you’ll never know I missed a day of work.

So before the year is out the site will only look like it does now if “now” is later enough for you than when I wrote this. It’s not the first time I’ve changed a site’s theme. Jake and Leon have even joked about it. I might even have to change The Clutter Report’s theme, which means more reworking, but so far that one works okay and I like the notepad visual of…Notepad…for that site. It fits the “report” bit of the site. I just want to let you know it might get funky around here for awhile as I’m forced to make adjustments to how things go, but I’ll give you a heads up about the change so you don’t suddenly thing you’re on the wrong site. Maybe some kind of countdown or something. We’ll see.

So that’s what’s up. Due to the usual Memorial Day post, our next Chapter By Chapter review of How To Completely Lose Your Mind will move to Tuesday. The regular “Yesterday’s” Comic reviews return this week, except for Friday. I have one more Halloween ComicFest leftover to go through and doing a Golden Age review in time for it while still in the Golden Age for the Quality Comic pre-DC heroes is still time consuming compared to the actual read. In two weeks we’ll be back to that. Malibu returns on Monday.

Have a great week, everyone! Sorry for what’s about to happen but hopefully it’ll be a better site for it.