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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.
I know they’re about to add stuff to this chapter and the epilogue. Our last chapter ended with only a couple of minutes left to the episode, and yet chapter 15 is nine pages. Even with the teaser for the next story arc (that’s what they did back in the William Hartnell years) and a slightly over one page epilogue there’s more book that there is episode left.
I’m not complaining about the padding in this one, mind you. I understand that they’re trying to extend two episodes to a novel length that usually handles 4 or 5 episodes, and I bet some really long serials in later years had to be cut down a bit to fit the same book size. It’s not even the shortest arc in the series. It’s the serial that’s just one episode that I’m curious what Target Books did with. I may never know.
What I do know is that I’ve run out of ways to pad out the intros for the homepage, so this is ending at just the right time. So let’s get into the last chapter, and the epilogue, and finish this book.
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“My hand has this tingly feeling.”
Prototype #11
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (June, 1994)
“I’m On Fire”
WRITERS: Tom Mason & Len Strazewski
PENCILER: Roger Robinson
INKER: Scott Reed
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Susan Dome
EDITOR: Roland Mann
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Seemed appropriate as we end the Doctor Who novelisation of The Rescue over at Chapter By Chapter.
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Wait until you see the tiddlywinks movie.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen tiddlywinks.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week my project was half-finished and next weekend I’ll be reviewing our current Chapter By Chapter book, as Doctor Who: The Rescue finishes this week. So I just posted a video about using the GPS method of organizing to make your home match your flow, rather than altering how you do things to fit the house. No smashed walls required.
Besides finishing our novelization, we’re also finishing our next document of the CBS Transformers failed pitch. However, while we’re going over sample plots, there’s still a full sample script to examine and afterthoughts before I put that away. If I have time I might also get the first issue of Watchmen read, but that’s still a continuing series rather than another weekly one. There may be other things to talk about as the next big movie cycle is coming. Hope you all remembered to set your clocks ahead for Daylight Savings Time and have a great week.
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I forgot to do a Saturday Night Showcase last week. So this week it’s a two for one, which also clears out my waiting library a bit.
Mechagodzilla is my favorite Godzilla enemy. Space Godzilla barely shares anything with the King Of The Monsters besides looks and has had the least of the recurrences. Ghidorah is pretty much everyone’s threat, and they even made him a heroic monster once, mistake as that is. MechaG (to his homies) is the best anti-Godzilla, awesome as those other two are. Whether used by humans to protect the planet or aliens to destroy the planet, Mechagodzilla is just cool to me.
Tonight we look at both versions of the mechanical nightmare. I posted his first appearance, Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla once for a previous Saturday Night Showcase, but it’s no longer available. YouTube, via Shout Factory using the Janus Films dub, does have the sequel, Terror Of Mechagodzilla, as the mechanical menace returns thanks to a different group of alien invaders. For the human side, which has been how he’s been depicted ever since, we have, courtesy of YouTube’s licensed postings, the wrongly named Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla II. It’s a sequel to nothing and is the first time the bot was used to protect Earth rather than conquer it. Personally, I prefer the alien version but the franchise rarely uses alien invasion anymore, as it helps keeps Godzilla on the evil side rather than the Guardian Monster I grew up with. It’s sad. Whatever your preference, enjoy.
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Terrance Howard was a better James Rhodes than Don Cheadle. I’m not changing that opinion, and that’s not a swipe at Cheadle. He’s a good actor, just not the best Rhodey we’ve had. Admittedly the best Rhodey was the late James Avery but that’s if you include animation, which I usually do. For years the story we heard was that Howard wanted too much money to return for Iron Man 2 and that Ike Perlmutter figured any black man would do, a clear attempt to paint him as racist so Bob Iger looked better having bought Marvel and got rid of him and his people. You know, the ones that made Marvel Studios so profitable that Iger wanted it for his Disney.
Now comes a podcast appearance by Howard, chronicled by Geeks & Gamers contributor Alex Gherzo, that says the real problem might have been Howard’s ego when he has a verbal spar with one of another film’s producers…a movie also produced by Robert Downey, Jr.’s wife. No, he didn’t yell at her, but one of her other producers. Still, could the recast have been payback? Read the article (they also posted the podcast) and decide for yourself.
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