Morning Star Journal with Tarik

I couldn't wait another week so here's an early bonus episode continued from Saturday. This focuses more on DC thread that starts in the Superman animated series and ends in an epic fight in Justice League Unlimited. Follow the series of events that make you question: did they know, even back in the Superman series, where they wanted to go, or just real clever uses of the past to create future stories?

Comic and TV writer, character creator, producer, and more. Today I talk about the works of Dwayne McDuffie (Feb 20th 1962 - Feb 21st 2011). He produced some of the most memorable characters to date as well as writing some of the best on screen Justice League stories to this day. Please check out his work on the TV movie Justice League: Doom as well as the animated series Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.

There are probably millions (if not billions) of musicians out there in the world. Today I talk about jsu a few African American Bass Guitarist that I've come across in my research as I begin to learn how to play the Bass myself. Let me know of other Bass players of note, as I said, I've barely scratched the surface of artist out there.

No reviews or retrospective this week. Just a quick episode on random thoughts of the week, episode ideas for the future, and taking a moment to relax from a hectic week. Quick shout out to David from Car Thoughts with David who just released his newest and potentially ongoing novel Hurtling Towards a Home: A Story of Hope, available now on Amazon. Congratulations my friend!

"NOOO! You must not read from the book!" Today I go over one of the best action adventure film since Indiana Jones (yeah I said it). I go over a little background and history of the film and why it's one of my absolute favorites and guilty pleasure movies of all time.

Today I talk about Warframe, a free-to-play 3rd person shooter from Digital Extremes. Been playing for a few months now and I've really enjoyed it. Just giving my personal feedback from a casual perspective as well as a little background into my gaming history as well as a little intro bass playing music. If you have song suggestions, please send me message @MorningStarJrnl or [email protected]

Today, I go over some hidden gems and treasures of 2018 in movies. These are movies that didn't get a lot of buzz, were outright disliked, or didn't make a lot of money. However I enjoyed all these movies to some degree and may be enjoyable to others. A few on the list are Proud Mary, Peppermint, Hotel Atremis, Overlord, and plenty more. Also want to give a brief shout out to podcast Stay Tooned which I started listening to this week since I actually know one of the host.

Today I talk about the first 2 books of the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher: Furies of Calderon and Academ's Fury. This is a 6 book series I've really enjoyed multiple times and hope others also take time to read it. I also talk about my previous interview on the Ask Win podcast (https://simplecast.com/s/7a67df09). Plwase take a moment to listen and subscribe to her podcast.

Today, I go over the greatest and best action adventure movie of all time. Released in 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark is the adventure movie that started it all for me. Join me on my rant about why this movie holds up, even close to 40 years later and on almost every aspect from sound, effects, story, dialogue, and more.

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year. Today I go over writing down everything we've done for 2018 as we move into 2019. I go over some future episode ideas and what the future may hold for this podcast. We can't truly see the future, unless we take a look back in the past.